Reader’s Links for August 15th, 2022

Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

71 Replies to “Reader’s Links for August 15th, 2022”

  1. “Lateral thinkers”, or those who protested the enormity of establishment lies over Covid, are being held responsible for protests which have not yet occurred. Setting the stage for draconian, violent government response to people literally freezing in the dark resembles a tutelage from last winter’s Dystopia fiasco. When survival is labelled “extreme” you know the labeler is a bad actor.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-officials-warn-draconian-energy-regulations-extremists-fueling-mass-protests

  2. Mothers on maternity leave who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 working in the BC Public Service are not only at risk of losing their jobs but repaying the entirety of their maternity leave top-up benefit as well.

    Their stories all share similar key points:

    For these women, maternity leave started before October 2021, and before provincial vaccine mandates were announced for BC Public Service workers.
    They all decided to accept the government’s top-up benefit, which pays about 80% of the usual salary in a given position, expecting to go back to their job on their pre-determined return to work date. This is agreed to with the knowledge that if you quit, find another job, or otherwise miss your return to work date, you will be liable to pay back that amount. This return to work date cannot be postponed.
    The province instituted its vaccination policy for employees on November 8th, 2021, requiring employees to be vaccinated in order to be hired, or continue to work.
    If a mother on maternity leave is unvaccinated and is denied an exemption, they are in a position to miss their return to work date and be liable to have to pay back the entirety of the top-up benefit, from $20,000 all the way up to $50,000 in some cases. Or, they can prove vaccination and return to work without a problem.

    https://www.myprincegeorgenow.com/164551/news/unvaccinated-mothers-facing-up-to-50000-in-maternity-leave-repayment-to-bc-government/

  3. There were chaotic scenes at an Ikea store in Shanghai on Saturday, with shoppers trying to escape as authorities tried to quarantine them.

    Health officials were attempting to lock the store in Xuhui district down as a customer had been in close contact with a positive Covid case.

    Videos show the guards closing the doors at one point, but a crowd forced them open and made their escape.

    Shanghai endured a severe two-month lockdown earlier this year.

    Since then, in line with the country’s strict “zero-Covid” strategy, the city of 20 million people has ordered flash lockdowns of areas where positive cases or their close contacts have been detected.

    Many have been locked down in unusual locations – including hot pot restaurants, gyms and offices.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62547503

  4. Cash-strapped Britons give up pets as living costs soar

    https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/cash-strapped-britons-give-up-pets-living-costs-soar-2022-08-14/

    Note: in the 1970’s Czechoslovakia, pets (in particular, dogs) were declared a luxury and the tax on dogs was raised to be about the same as my family paid in rent for 3 months for what was considered a large, modern apartment (the building had an elevator and everything – and it was assigned to us before my dad became a political dissident, so the bureaucracy found it difficult to kick us out afterwards). It would have been well over a year’s worth of rent that my great-grand-parents were paying annually for their kitchen/sitting room, a bedroom across the common hall (their only access to running water was in that hall and shared with all the tenants on that floor) and a shared toilet…

    And the cruelty people were capable of towards their pet dogs when they suddenly became expensive to keep was, for me, unimaginable, incomprehensible…

    Taking the dog out to a forest, tying it to a tree (out of sight of anyone who might report it – or save the dog) and leaving it there. Even Hansel and Gretel had a better fighting chance… And this was just an example of ‘passive cruelty’, not the more active types.

    This was useful to the regime because it sowed discord and hate into nuclear families: typically, one spouse and/or the kids were pro-pet and willing to do anything for them, and the other spouse resented the cost (and political stigma attached to owning a Western-style luxury pet) and that would be the one ‘getting rid’ of the pet. It broke the trust between spouses, parents/children and so on.

    Destruction of the nuclear family at its most fundamental.

    The kicker was that because of the housing shortage, even broken families often had to live together for quite some time after the marriage failed, so, no privacy and spite-spying on one’s spouse was easily accomplished.

    Bonus: becoming callous to the plight/fate of the beloved family pet dehumanized the ones doing it/witnessing it, making it that much easier to behave inhumanly to others, including, well, everyone… much like taking in an animal, making the kids become attached to it and then sacrificing it to Allah for Eid does. Different ideology, same methodology for dehumanization.

    OK, so the ‘tax’ here is based on food/vet bills, but, while the means are a different shade of green, the effect is the same. By giving up their pet, because the cost outweighs their love, people are becoming less humane, more ruthless and feeling more justified in doing whatever it takes to make their life easier, regardless of the cost to anyone else, even their loved ones.

    Of course, not all people will fall into this trap. But those who do become useful tools for the tyranny machine.

    • I have to agree with the ‘dehumanize’, Zanthippa.
      But I’m sure they all pay for their hand-held mobile device services.

    • DAILY MAIL – Moderna’s Omicron super-jab will be rolled out to 26million Brits over 50 starting from next MONTH to shield against winter Covid wave, health chiefs confirm

      UK drug regulators said the approval gave the country a new tool to fight Covid

      New jab will be included in the autumn booster campaign starting in a few weeks

      Trial data suggests new jab is effective against Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5

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      The new Omicron booster jab will be included in the autumn Covid vaccine rollout health chiefs confirmed today.

      Government vaccine experts said the booster will be included in the campaign which aims to dish out the shots to 26million Britons ahead of this winter.

      The decision followed the UK becoming the first country in the world to approve an Omicron-specific Covid jab earlier today.

      Made by Moderna, the new vaccine differs from the current generation of jabs that are based on the original Wuhan strain and are less effective against newer variants.

      Trial results showed it boosted antibody levels against Omicron eightfold.

      This should mean people who are vulnerable are even less likely to get seriously ill or die from the already-mild variant.

      UK regulators said the jab was another ‘tool in the armoury’ against the ‘continually-evolving’ virus.

      The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then confirmed the new vaccine would be included in the autumn rollout.

      However, they said other boosters also be available for use and urge Britons to take-up any vaccine they are offered as they still offer good protection.

      From next month 26million eligible Britons will be called for their autumn booster with the group including all over-50s and vulnerable Brits from next month.

      Health bosses are bracing for one of the harshest winters on record for the NHS, with a triple-whammy of Covid, flu and the cost of living crisis expected to cause a sharp rise in excess admissions.

      MORE :

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11112637/UK-country-world-approve-Modernas-Omicron-specific-Covid-jab.html

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      sky news – UK first country to get new jab targeting Omicron

    • AUSTRALIA – Moderna MRNA Vaccine Plant In Melbourne

      Monash University will be home to the Southern Hemisphere’s first MRNA vaccine manufacturing plant, thanks to a landmark deal with pharmaceutical giant, Moderna.

    • the hill – Pfizer CEO Tests POSITIVE For Covid, Tweets He’s GRATEFUL For Quadruple Vax & Paxlovid Treatment

      + comments on the YT page

    • disclosetv

      JUST IN – Quadruple vaccinated U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin infected with COVID for the second time this year.

      https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1559222119690633217
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      Defense secretary Austin positive for COVID for second time

      WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms and will quarantine at home. It’s the second time Austin has gotten the coronavirus.

      In a statement, Austin, 69, said his is fully vaccinated and has received two boosters. He said he’ll quarantine for the next five days in accordance with CDC guidelines and “will retain all authorities and plan to maintain my normal work schedule virtually from home.”

      Austin said his last in-person contact with President Joe Biden was on July 29.

      In January, Austin also contracted COVID and had received a booster in October.

      “Now, as in January, my doctor told me that my fully vaccinated status, including two booster shots, is why my symptoms are less severe than would otherwise be the case,” Austin said. “I will continue to consult closely with my doctor in the coming days.”

      He added, “Vaccinations continue to both slow the spread of COVID-19 and to make its health effects less severe. Vaccination remains a medical requirement for our workforce, and I continue to encourage everyone to get fully vaccinated and boosted.”

      https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ts/news/world/us/2022/08/15/defense-secretary-austin-positive-for-covid-for-second-time.html
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      U.S. Department of Defense

      Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on His COVID Status

      “This morning, I tested positive for COVID-19. I am experiencing mild symptoms, and will quarantine at home for the next five days in accordance with CDC guidelines. I will retain all authorities and plan to maintain my normal work schedule virtually from home.

      My last in-person contact with the President was on July 29.

      Now, as in January, my doctor told me that my fully vaccinated status, including two booster shots, is why my symptoms are less severe than would otherwise be the case. I will continue to consult closely with my doctor in the coming days.

      Vaccinations continue to both slow the spread of COVID-19 and to make its health effects less severe. Vaccination remains a medical requirement for our workforce, and I continue to encourage everyone to get fully vaccinated and boosted.”

      https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3127969/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-on-his-covid-status/

      • Does he want the vaccines suspended? The Swine flu shot was suspended after 41 deaths and hundreds of reported cases of Guillian Barre Syndrome.

        He never got vaccinated. He knows what it does to healthy people.

    • I call BS. Ameliorating advancing worldwide exposure of vaxx damage by posing as a patient being “helped” by more company product. Or something.

    • the gateway pundit – 26-Year-Old Neurosurgeon Dies in July, Making Seven Canadian Doctors to Die in Two Weeks

      As time goes by, the death toll among Canada’s medical professionals rises.

      Another Canadian doctor, Dr. Ryan Buyting, a neurosurgery resident at Alberta Health Services (AHS) who was only 26 years old, passed away on July 27, 2022, according to his family.

      […]His death has not been officially attributed to a specific reason, however, there have been speculations circulating online that he was fully vaccinated.

      […]Dr. William Makis MD has tracked thirteen Canadian doctors that have died.

      “I’ve now tracked 13 Canadian doctors “sudden deaths” (thank you to everyone who contributed info). This is the most complete data set I’ve seen anywhere by far. Three doctors died while exercising (two swimming, one running), two of them were very high-level athletes. Three doctors died “in their sleep” unexpectedly. Two doctors also had aggressive cancer that had arisen within the past year. All of them were at least triple vaccinated due to illegal vaccine mandates. Remember: these are YOUNG healthy individuals who are always first in line to get jabbed. Vast majority of doctors will get their 4th and 5th jabs this summer and fall. Sadly, I expect many more deaths to come,” he wrote.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/26-year-old-neurosurgeon-dies-july-making-seven-canadian-doctors-die-two-weeks/

  5. Hello Vlad,
    I really enjoy reading your articles and getting relevant videos about the tyranny that is rapidly taking over our country. I wanted to offer to write a little review of my experience that happened a year ago (about the inhumane and barbaric way I was treated by a medical staff while in labour, in the name of “Covid safetism religion”).
    All the blessings to you and the work you are doing!
    Anna

  6. Dr. Meryl Nass

    The lesion on your upper arm from the smallpox vaccine A SCAM-2000 can last up to 6 weeks. It must be covered as live virus grows in the lesion and frequently spread to spouses and children of soldiers receiving it. If they are immune compromised they can get generalized vaccinia, which can be life-threatening. There is a hyper immune serum available too save life-threatening cases.

    Jynneos is different. It is supposed to be non-replicating. Allegedly it doesn’t shed. I guess we will find out whether it can shed, when it is used in the US.

  7. Ignatieff: ‘FANATICISM a danger to free expression everywhere’

    The former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada discusses the impact of Salman Rushdie’s attack on the fight for free speech.

    • GoV – Beheading: It’s All in the Family

      A family dispute in the French city of Lyon took an unfortunate turn today when a young man decapitated his father in a parking lot.

      It was an “Allahu Akhbar” moment for the youngster, but French citizens were reassured by the police that the youth was not thought to have been radicalized.

      The suspect, of Moroccan nationality, was arrested while walking around with his father’s head in one hand and a knife in the other.

      […]
      more :
      https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/08/beheading-its-all-in-the-family/#comments

    • sky news australia – Media reluctant to report truth of Rushdie attack: Chris Kenny

      “We know that there’s been a call for 30 years for an Islamist extremist to take him out any way they can, whenever they can,” he said.

      “Why did so much of the media try and act like they didn’t know what was going on here?”

    • Mark Steyn: ‘Want to gloat & glory at the stabbing of Salman Rushdie? Twitter’s all cool with that’

      Mark Steyn: ‘Twitter is more than ready to label you as “fake news” or “disinformation” – and even cancel you, permanently.

      But, if you want to gloat and glory at the stabbing of a novelist and hail it as a great day for Islam and all believers, Twitter’s all cool with that.’

    • DEUTSCHE PRAVDA – Salman Rushdie – Writing under death threats

      In 1988, Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” was published. A year later, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a “fatwah,” or death sentence, against the British-Indian author. Now, Rushdie was critically injured after being attacked at a reading.

      For more than a decade, the author was a fugitive. He had to go into hiding, was under police protection, and had constantly changing identities and homes.

      The reason was the order to kill Rushdie by Ayatollah Khomeini that came after the publication of his novel, The Satanic Verses. Khomeini declared the work blasphemous, and Rushdie a heretic.

      At the time, Islamic fundamentalism and its violent and deadly consequences were not on the agenda yet. Rushdie lived in constant fear and survived 20 attempts on his life.

      The film is a portrait of a man who uses calmness and humor as weapons of resistance.

      The portrait includes interviews with Rushdie and also features archive footage that show the violent reaction and mood after The Satanic Verses was published. T

      They show how pop singer Cat Stevens called for Rushdie’s execution – which Cat Stevens would later deny.

      The film also draws attention to those who should have protected Rushdie, but abandoned him – from Jimmy Carter to Prince Charles.

      But there are examples of instant support too, like Isabelle Adjani, who read from The Satanic Verses at the César award ceremony.

      In New York, the author looks back on his life and his most famous novel, which has lost none of its importance. He speaks about his life, his childhood in Mumbai, Donald Trump and literature, of course.

    • “By insulting the sacred matters of Islam and crossing the red lines of more than one and a half billion Muslims and all followers of the divine religions, Salman Rushdie has exposed himself to the anger and rage of the people”, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani told a news briefing in Tehran.

  8. DEUSTSCHE PRAVDA – ‘The West has the means to help Ukraine finish the war’ | Lithuanian FM Landsbergis

    ( 27 min )

    Positioned on the Baltic Sea between Belarus, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and the EU, Lithuania has had security concerns ever since Russia invaded Ukraine.

    DW’s Konstantin Eggert sat with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis to talk about the war, sanctions against Russia and Lithuania’s role as a NATO and EU member.

    • The persistently high rate of suicide in Lithuania

      Historically, Lithuania has had very high suicide rates, especially among its male population. This column aims to shed light on possible factors linked to the high suicide rates in the Baltic states and specifically in Lithuania.

      Factors with the strongest links to suicide rates in the region include GDP growth, demographics, alcohol consumption, psychological factors and climate temperature. For Lithuania specifically, other macroeconomic variables (especially linked to the labour market) may also matter. The percentage of rural population is not a key robust factor.

      https://voxeu.org/article/persistently-high-rate-suicide-lithuania

  9. WHO IS JOHN DOE?… Mysterious, Anonymous Power Broker is Attempting to Block Gateway Pundit from Accessing Epstein Client List
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 15, 2022 at 8:00am
    1216 Comments

    At the end of July, The Gateway Pundit reported on our legal efforts to unseal the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex clients – the men and women with whom Epstein traded sex with minors for favors or money or both.

    TGP Lead Counsel Marc Randazza of the Randazza Legal Group and TGP General Counsel John Burns moved to intervene in the Ghislaine Maxwell case in the Southern District of New York.

    However,

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/john-doe-mysterious-anonymous-power-broker-trying-block-gateway-pundit-epstein-client-list/

  10. The Republican Party of Texas has declared an invasion at the southern border. Its chair, Matt Rinaldi, is calling on Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, and on all Texas counties to do the same.

    Nine counties and one mayor already have declared an invasion, with more expected to follow in Texas’ 254 counties.

    Two judges who declared an invasion, life-long Democrats and Hispanic women, are now running for reelection as Republicans in November.

    “Arizona will declare an invasion in January, Texas should today,” Rinaldi wrote in a column published by Newsweek. He’s referring to Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who after she won her party’s nomination vowed to declare an invasion. Rinaldi, who thinks Lake will be elected as Arizona’s next governor, has called on Abbott to declare an invasion

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/texas-gop-declares-invasion-southern-border

  11. Confirmed: At Least 20 Undercover FBI and ATF Were Embedded at Capitol on Jan. 6 Along with Several Undercover Capitol Police Agents
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 15, 2022 at 11:49am
    295 Comments
    As GP reported months ago, Jeremy Brown refused to be an informant for the FBI on January 6 — They wanted him to be one of their operatives at the Jan. 6 Trump rallies.

    According to an earlier TGP report:

    The FBI called Jeremy’s cellphone and asked for a meeting after trying to contact him at his house. Jeremy then met with the FBI agents at a restaurant in Ybor City in December. He told Brandon Gray that 38 seconds into the interview the FBI attempted to recruit him to spy on the Oath Keepers.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/confirmed-least-20-undercover-fbi-atf-embedded-capitol-jan-6-along-several-undercover-capitol-police-agents/

  12. Trudeau – Two Billion Trees

    … a part of Canada’s plan to fight climate change and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

    … the process behind creating healthier forest ecosystems for a greener future.

  13. BREAKING: FBI Erects Barricades Around Headquarters Building in DC
    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 15, 2022 at 10:54am
    1293 Comments
    The crooks running the FBI are either scared that they have gone too far or are trying to build another BS narrative that President Trump and the bulk of America that support him are violent radicals.

    American Military News reports:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/breaking-fbi-erects-baracades-around-headquarters-building-dc/

  14. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/kachelman-totalitarian-politicians-use-evil-tactic-political-intimidation-control/Kachelman: Totalitarian Politicians Use the Evil Tactic of Political Intimidation to Control
    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 15, 2022 at 9:15am
    260 Comments
    Political intimidation is the one control restricting personal liberties and bolstering totalitarianism. It was once the theme of spy thrillers. No longer is this tactic fiction. Fiction has become fact. There is now a daily serving of an operational tactic once restricted to the Communist Overlords. This totalitarianism was framed on 8 August 2022 when over 30 plain clothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and the FBI’s Washington Field Office took control of President Trump’s home.

    The operational tactic of political intimidation is documented. Threats, persecutions, and even murder are visible. Jackbooted thuggery marches in our streets. And, there seems to be little remorse as political intimidation threatens our Republic

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/kachelman-totalitarian-politicians-use-evil-tactic-political-intimidation-control/

  15. BREAKING: President Trump Says FBI Seized His Three Passports in Mar-a-Lago Raid
    By Cristina Laila
    Published August 15, 2022 at 1:18pm
    105 Comments
    President Trump on Monday said the FBI seized his three passports in its raid of his Mar-a-Lago residence.

    “Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else. This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!” Trump said on his Truth Social page on Monday.

    Advertisement – story continues below

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/breaking-president-trump-says-fbi-seized-three-passports-mar-lago-raid/

    • Because raising the cost of living is their aim.

      Same reason as energy poverty is being engineered.

      The lesson came is that peoples who spend all their time and energy just trying to provide food and shelter for themselves and their families do not have time to engage in politics or question the policies being imposed on them.

      When food and energy are expensive, government can regulate access to them, giving them the tools of ultimate control over the population.

  16. Don Surber

    When President Trump changed his residence from New York City to Florida, all us smart fellows said that it was to avoid state income taxes.

    As usual, Trump had something up his sleeve besides his arm.

    In March, he filed a RICO lawsuit that says Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee form a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization. They created the Russiagate Hoax to discredit and undermine his presidency. This really was an attempted coup and sedition.
    He filed it in federal court.

    In Florida.

    The media tried to discredit the lawsuit.

    CNBC said, “During the campaign in 2016, Trump had said at a press conference, ‘Russia, if you’re listening — I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,’ referring to electronic communications that had been deleted from a private email server Clinton used while she was secretary of state.”

    That’s an astonishing way of framing Hillary’s national security violations. Jim Comey said the only reason he did not recommend prosecution was she was running for president.

    https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/08/rico-suave.html

  17. NYC Teachers Accused of Using Bogus Vaccination Cards Have Been Ordered Back on Payroll
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 15, 2022 at 4:25pm
    Comment
    The New York City Department of Education (DOE) has agreed to allow 82 teachers suspected of submitting fake COVID-19 vaccination cards back on the payroll pending an internal review.

    It can be recalled that dozens of New York City public school teachers were placed on unpaid leave last April for allegedly using a fake Covid-19 vaccine card.

    Advertisement – story continues below

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/82-nyc-teachers-accused-using-bogus-vaccination-cards-ordered-back-payroll/

  18. CIA Director Burns Was Surrounded by Communists in His Prior Job, Joins Prior CIA Directors and Obama Lackeys with Ties to Communists
    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 15, 2022 at 4:10pm
    24 Comments
    Biden’s current Director of the CIA surrounded himself with CCP members in his last position at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Then again, Obama’s CIA Director had connections to communism so what could go wrong?

    Newsmax reports that Biden’s Head of the CIA surrounded himself with Chinese Party members in his position before taking over the CIA:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/cia-director-burns-surrounded-communists-prior-job-joins-prior-cia-directors-obama-lackeys-admittedly-communist/

  19. DOJ asks court to keep Trump Mar-a-Lago search affidavit sealed

    In a court filing on Monday, the Department of Justice said that the government will not object to the release of other documents related to the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, but asked to keep the affidavit sealed “to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security.”

    https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/08/15/house-senate-lawmakers-request-information-donald-trump-fbi-doj-search

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    DOJ opposes news media request to unseal Trump search affidavit, calls it ‘roadmap’ to investigation
    News organizations argue unsealing the document is in the public interest.

    […]In a footnote, department officials write that they “carefully considered” whether they could release the affidavit with redactions, but the redactions necessary to “mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content, and the release of such a redacted version would not serve any public interest.”

    However, if the magistrate judge were to order the partial unsealing of the affidavit, “the government respectfully requests an opportunity to provide the Court with proposed redactions.”

    […]

    They briefly detail some of the information in the affidavit that has been reviewed by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, noting that, “it contains, among other critically important and detailed investigative facts: highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government; specific investigative techniques; and information required by law to be kept under seal” under grand jury rules.

    […]The unsealing could also impact the civil liberties of those whose actions are detailed in the underlying affidavit, prosecutors said.

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    https://www.scribd.com/publisher/293420350/ABC-News-Politics#from_embed
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    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-opposes-news-media-request-unseal-trump-search/story

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    DOJ Opposes Release of Affidavit in Trump Search, Citing Probe

    Justice asks judge to keep filing sealed due to investigation
    Investigation ‘implicates national security,’ DOJ says

    […]

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-15/doj-opposes-court-release-of-fbi-trump-search-warrant-affidavit

  20. County That “Found” 2600 Votes for Trump in Nov. 2020 is **MISSING** Election Day Log Files
    By Brian Lupo
    Published August 15, 2022 at 4:08pm
    24 Comments
    During the Georgia recount in the November 2020 election, The Gateway Pundit reported that Floyd County came under tremendous scrutiny from the state’s voting system manager, Gabriel Sterling when they allegedly “found” approximately 2600 votes. The error was immediately written off as a failure to upload a machine’s memory cards. According to Sterling, “it’s not an equipment issue. It’s a person not executing their job properly. This is the kind of situation that requires a change at the top of their management side.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/county-found-2600-votes-trump-nov-2020-missing-election-day-log-files/

    • In Canada when someone dies, supposedly their name is taken off the Federal voters lists. So why is it when the revised voter lists are sent out to the returning offices there are so many dead people name’s still on the lists? They can track your every move in life and in death.

      How many of the, vote from the grave?

  21. A Red Army of Private Ryans: What Wargaming Says about Chinese Willingness to Strike First and Stay Long

    By Major Jesse R. Humpal Ph.D.

    A recent strategic wargame that pitted the People’s Republic of China against a U.S. backed Taiwan, resulted in the trading of intercontinental ballistic missiles, a 25-percent drop in the global economy, 10s of thousands of Chinese, Taiwanese, and Americans dead…and a protracted guerilla conflict on the small island. During the adjudication, leaders from both sides–who were played by some of U.S.’s most prominent academics, military leaders, politicians, and statesmen (they were all men)–concluded that their side behaved with restraint while the other acted as provocateur. Absent from their rationale, was an acknowledgment that in global conflict seeking manifest destiny, if just one of the sides actually acted with restraint, they would be steamrolled

    Theresulting stalemate should act as a prophetic reminder that wars are not meant to be just, wars are meant to be won divisively. Countries owe it to their populations not to enter into fair fights. When countries enter into global combat with anything other than total victory as their intent, the conflict is already lost. Scholars have argued for a more humane way of fighting wars. Often with the caveat that if the survival of one’s own nation state is at risk, then the rules of just war can be abandoned. Comparable in nature retaliatory strikes or messaging before firing missiles does not make wars less deadly, they make wars protracted and unwinnable.

    Wars are getting less violent but more frequent, and more protracted. Wars prior to 1945 almost always ended with regime change or removal of the occupying force. These wars were infrequent, costly, and short comparative to modern protracted conflict. Wars were brutal and lacked the rules that many argue make war more civilized today. This changed in the 1970s when U.S. President Jimmy Carter began willing into existence the idea of global human rights Carter was the first world leader to articulate human rights as a prerequisite for partnership and part of global order. These words shifted the global threat context from one of decisive victory to one of conditional war.

    https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/red-army-private-ryans-what-wargaming-says-about-chinese-willingness-strike-first-and-stay

    (Richard: This man is right, you fight wars to win. If you aren’t going to do that you shouldn’t fight wars. The restrained humane wars last longer cost mory human lives and treasure.

    Macarthur said it best in war there is no substitute for victory.)

    • In February 1862 just before the surrender of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, Union General Ulysses S. Grant told Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner: “No terms except an immediate and unconditional surrender can be accepted.”

      Grant added: “I propose to move immediately upon your works.” Grant’s words became a Union battle cry, but they had first had been uttered by General Charles F. Smith, who earlier had barked:

      ““I’ll make no terms with rebels with arms in their hands — my terms are unconditional and immediate surrender!”
      …..
      Nearly eighty-one years later on January 24, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt concluded a press conference at the end of the Casablanca Conference with his British allies:

      “Some of you Britishers know the old story – we had a General called U.S. Grant. His name was Ulysses Simpson Grant, but in my and the Prime Minister’s early days he was called ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Grant.

      The elimination of German, Japanese and Italian war power means the unconditional surrender by Germany, Japan and Italy. This means a reasonable assurance of future world peace.

      It does not mean the destruction of the population of Germany, Italy or Japan, but it does mean the destruction of the philosophies in those countries which are based on conquest and the subjugation of other peoples….”

      In a June 22, 1941 BBC broadcast, Churchill said: “We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. From this nothing will turn us – nothing. From this nothing will turn us – nothing.

      “We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until with God’s help we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke.

      Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any nation or state who marches with Hitler is our foe….”

      http://lincolnandchurchill.org/peace-unconditional-surrender/

  22. Two pings on the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago: Classification kerfuffle and Trump’s RICO suit
    Knowing much that isn’t so, and other adventures

    There is a whole lot else to say, so my apologies up front for not saying it. I just want to keep this short (well, shorter than it would otherwise be). Consider this an open invitation to say whatever seems to live loud within you and demand saying.

    Ideally, the comments on classification of documents, presidential authority, and Trump’s holding of documents out of office would be even shorter than they’re going to be.

    The bottom line on everything is that Trump was the president until 20 January 2021, and in most cases the president isn’t subject to the same agency regulations and procedures everyone else is.

    That doesn’t make a clean single-color area for the president to operate in, however. Rather, it generates a gray area largely governed by negation. It’s not actually simple – except from the standpoint that trying to find an enforceable provision of statute law that constrains the president to do things only in a certain way is a

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/two-pings-on-the-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago-classification-kerfuffle-and-trumps-rico-suit/

  23. JUST IN: Gascón Dodges Recall After Los Angeles County Bans Observers From Monitoring Recall Vote Count
    By Cristina Laila
    Published August 15, 2022 at 5:07pm
    106 Comments
    Radical Marxist Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón dodged recall efforts after Los Angeles County banned observers from monitoring the recall vote count.

    Observers were not allowed to monitor the vote counting in the effort to recall George Gascón.

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    The Gascón recall petition was approved in January after the residents of Los Angeles had enough of the Soros DA’s soft-on-crime policies.

    But there was a catch…

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/just-gascon-dodges-recall-los-angeles-county-bans-observers-monitoring-recall-vote-count/

  24. These People Are Lawless — Biden’s DOJ Asks Judge to Refuse Release of Affidavit for Raid on Mar-a-Lago
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 15, 2022 at 4:56pm
    240 Comments
    A week ago on Monday the Stasi-FBI and Joe Biden’s Department of Justice raided President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in a 9-and-a-half hour siege on his historic compound.

    TGP reported on Tuesday that the judge who signed off on the warrant allowing the FBI to raid President Trump’s home, Mar-a-Lago, previously worked for pedophile and Clinton associate Jeffrey Epstein.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/people-lawless-bidens-doj-asks-judge-refuse-release-affidavit-raid-mar-lago/

  25. Quit Pretending
    August 15, 2022 | Sundance | 287 Comments
    Given the events of the last six years as the baseline…. If you cannot recognize the events over the past 75 days as coordinated, including:

    …. The FBI raid on August 8

    ….. Joe Biden “vacation”

    ….. Ron DeSantis presented as the palatable illusion of choice.

    Then you have not been paying attention, or you are in denial

    What is the great offense?

    Answer: The people elected someone who was not approved.

    There is one permanent, political and administrative deep state running the United States Government.

    It does not matter which color flag rests atop the congressional spire, republican or democrat, it does not change the behavior of the participants.

    https://youtu.be/tHsZxJlxHYw

    [ Transcript ] […] Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense.

    The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.

    The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal they’d like to pass, involves trillions of dollars controlled by many countries, corporations and lobbyists

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/15/quit-pretending/#more-236596

  26. This Will Be Fixed In 2024, You Say?
    America crossed the Rubicon.

    Mon Aug 15, 2022

    With the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home Monday, America crossed the Rubicon. American history is full of bitter rivalries and even hatreds between individuals and groups, but never before has one faction used the agencies of the U.S. government to hound, persecute, discredit, and destroy the other. On Tuesday morning, however, numerous patriots were expressing hope: Twitter is full of people saying things on the order of “This assures Trump’s nomination” and even “This assures Trump’s victory in 2024.”

    But we have just received new evidence that a principal law enforcement arm of the United States government is deeply corrupt and thoroughly politicized, and apparently willing to do anything to find some crime to pin on Donald Trump so as to prevent him from ever becoming

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/all-will-be-fixed-2024-you-say-robert-spencer/

  27. Gates Foundation Awards 1.4 million for Vaccine Standardization

    January 17, 2020 The International Vaccine Institute has announced a 1.4 million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its efforts to develop international standards for the manufacture and release of low-cost oral Cholera vaccines.

    July 11, 2022, Wuhan University finds a Cholera case – sparking fears of spread.