Reader’s Links for August 4th, 2023

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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.

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27 Replies to “Reader’s Links for August 4th, 2023”

  1. “NHS managers are told not to offer sympathy to female colleagues worried about sharing toilets with biological men in woke handbook….
    It forbids team leaders using ‘I understand your concerns’ to those who complain.”
    MailOnline

    • Wild otter attack leads to woman being airlifted to hospital, 2 others treated for injuries
      “While attacks from otters are rare, otters can be protective of themselves.”

      ByJon Haworth
      August 4, 2023, 2:00 AM

      Three women were injured, with one woman needing to be airlifted to hospital, after an otter attacked them while they floated down a river on inner tubes.

      The incident occurred on Wednesday evening at approximately 8:15 p.m. when the three friends were floating on inner tubes about three miles upstream from the Sappington Bridge in Montana, some 75 miles south of the state capital city of Helena, according to a statement released by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks on Thursday afternoon.

      MORE: Father drowns while saving his 3 kids from river
      The women say they observed one or two otters while they floated down the river when one of them suddenly approached and attacked, causing the women to flee the water and the otter to swim away, authorities said.

      “The women then called 911, and several

      https://abcnews.go.com/US/wild-otter-attack-leads-woman-airlifted-hospital-2/story?id=102009744

  6. 11:19 True North on the Dear Kneeler’s broken marriage. My two cents is that since this bastard decided that MY OWN BODY was not off limits during the pandemic and injections, then who gives a flying *%ck about his privacy?

  7. The war is all about Crimea and the Black Sea.

    Destroyed Ship | Powerful EW Equipment | New Doctrine | Africa.

    • Since June 4, the beginning of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, the UAF has lost 43,000 KIA. How many wounded? No idea.

      Summer Operations | 61 Days Of Complete And Bloody Failure.

      • Maybe Wagner can bring some soldiers from client states Niger, Mali, Chad, etc. to Belarus for training.

        We’re now paying Latin American mercenaries to fight for Ukraine. The UAE found Colombian mercs to be among the best anywhere. The trouble here is that Ukraine is exceptionally abusive to them. Horrible video in Spanish, these nazis better not turn their backs.

      • “Russian MoD gave the number of VSU [Ukraine forces] losses (without foreign mercenaries and “advisers”) and, WITHOUT VSU losses in the rear… since the start of “counteroffensive”–43,000 (in Russian).

        “MoD’s data is extremely conservative and ONLY about what MoD can visually confirm. Many thousands of VSU personnel annihilated in the rear, such as bases, depots, barracks, command posts et al are not even counted in MoD losses reports. Now recall those hundreds of rear positions hit by Russian Army and you will get the idea on the scale of losses of VSU.

        “Here is one out of very many examples from 6th July this year–the destruction of VSU academy in Lvov (in Russian). 8 3M14 Kalibrs visited the facility which could house up to 800 personnel and parked some tanks. Those inevitable losses are NOT counted until they are confirmed (corroborated). There could have been 100 KIAs, could have been 400 KIAs. Everyone in Lvov reported huge number of ambulances.

        “In related example–how many personnel was KIA during obliteration of Patriots? Exactly. So, this explains the count. Russia reports only what she can reasonably count and confirm and that means immediate frontline with visual identification of corpses. Plus, we don’t know how many actually die in the rear after evacuation. Reports suggest a huge number and with 404 medical facilities being overwhelmed. Make your own conclusions.”

        https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/08/this-and-that.html

  9. WAYNE ROOT: Donald Trump is “the Chosen One.”
    By Assistant Editor Aug. 4, 2023 11:25 am80 Comments

    By Wayne Allyn Root

    I don’t mean to say, “I told you so.” But I told you so. I started all of this in July 2019.

    At that moment in time, my television show, “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” was holding down the primetime slot at 8 PM EST on Newsmax TV. That was the old time slot of Fox News legend Bill O’Reilly- who held the title as the #1 host on cable news for 16 straight years. Bill O’Reilly even chose to join my Newsmax show three times a week to discuss the biggest news topics of the day.

    With that high profile time slot, I chose to take live calls on television- something rarely ever done. I wanted to hear from the American people. One day I took a live call from a viewer who said, “Wayne, we love you. We appreciate you for being a Jewish conservative and the strongest defender of President Trump. But please explain to us why so many Jews hate President Trump.”

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    I responded…live, off the top of my head…that President Trump was the greatest leader in world history for the Jewish people. He had done more for Israel than anyone in history. And because of that, he was beloved by the Jewish people of Israel. I reported how Jews in Israel had named towns, railway stations, and a soccer team after Trump. Then I said…live, off the top of my head… “In Israel, Trump is loved like the King of the Jews.”

    The next day, Trump tweeted out three times how appreciative he was of my words. Then he walked outside of the White House, in front of a mob of media, looked up at the sky and said, “I am the chosen one.”

    The media firestorm that followed was stunning. There were thousands of hysterical headlines all over the globe. In Israel there was even public debate over whether I was really a Jew or not.

    For the record, I was born Jewish. I had two Jewish parents, four Jewish grandparents. I was Bar Mitzvah. Ancestry.com analyzed my DNA and reported I am “99.9% Eastern European Jew.” How’s that for Jewish?

    But 32 years ago, I took Jesus Christ as my savior. So, I am a Messianic Jew. And I am a student of history…American history, world history, and Biblical history.

    More and more, it appears likely this somewhat comical firestorm that I started way back in 2019 is true…

    Donald J. Trump is “the chosen one.”

    The attacks on him are literally biblical. He is being persecuted like no one since Jesus. His trials and tribulations are followed by the entire world. Whether loved or hated, his name is on the lips of everyone in the world. He is being supported through tribulation like no human being in history. His popularity grows after each criminal indictment. He remains positive and steadfast despite facing over 500 years in prison. He is the living embodiment of “whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” Trump cannot be defeated.

    Trump is literally both a man of destiny and a walking miracle.

    Think of this man’s life. Hollywood would laugh the screenplay out of town. They’d call it “ridiculous and unbelievable.”

    Trump built the world’s greatest skyscraper in the toughest city in the world. He became the biggest celebrity in the world. He put his brand name on every product known to man- from hotels to airlines to casinos. He became the creator and star of one of the most successful shows ever on TV- “Celebrity Apprentice.”

    Next, without any background or experience in politics at any level, he beat the greatest array of Republican politicians ever assembled to win the GOP presidential nomination. Then he survived the biggest political controversy ever (the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape) …and pulled off one of the biggest upsets ever, over the most famous female political figure in history…to become the 45th President of the United States.

    After four years of the most intense hatred, personal attacks and media demonization ever experienced by anyone…and multiple impeachments…against all odds, the man gained 12 million new voters and got the most votes of any president in history. The election was rigged and stolen from him…he was unafraid to say so…and kept saying it…and now he’s been indicted for saying it, in a free speech country. Now he faces life in prison for his beliefs.

    Talk about biblical drama. Trump either wins the presidency again and produces the greatest comeback story ever, or he may wind up dying in a prison cell.

    And through it all…the defeat, nonstop controversy, unrelenting attacks, never-ending criminal indictments…Trump goes up in the polls. He’s leading the GOP presidential primary by 40 points or more. He’s leading President Biden by a wide margin in most credible polls. Each indictment makes him stronger.

    Folks, that’s biblical. That’s destiny.

    The last act has yet to be written. But I believe it’s now clear, this man has been chosen by God, to save America, American exceptionalism, and the American Dream.

    He is the man chosen to expose the corruption of our government…the weaponization of our government…the criminal silencing of dissent by our government. He is the man chosen to stop evil China from dominating the world. He is the man chosen to stop the communist, fascist, globalist takeover of our country. He is the man chosen to take the slings and arrows and protect the great American middle class. Trump is the only thing standing between us and the end of America.

    This is all biblical. The last act hasn’t been written yet. But it’s now clear…

    Trump is the chosen one.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/wayne-root-donald-trump-is-chosen-one/

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    On Days Like Today, Never Forget: The Hermit of Loreto Predicted Trump Presidency in 1980s – The President Who Would Return America to God
    By Jim Hoft Aug. 3, 2023 4:30 pm684 Comments

    In 2016 God did not desert America.

    On February 18, 2017, First Lady Melania Trump led the audience in the Lord’s Prayer at a rally in Florida.

    The following day Father Giacomo Capoverdi shared a fascinating story about the Hermit of Loreto who predicted the Donald Trump presidency back in the 1980s.

    God help this president.

    The holy man shared a premonition that President Donald Trump would help bring America back to God.
    The Roman Catholic Man reported:

    Father Giacomo Capoverdi shared a fascinating story of his encounter with the Hermit of Loreto (the author of the Pieta Prayer Book), at the site of the Holy House of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

    In this video, Father Capoverdi shares an amazing premonition this Hermit of Loreto had all the way back in the 1980s about Donald J. Trump. Please watch as Father shares this incredible story.

    In the 1980s the Hermit of Loreto donated a brick to be put in the Holy Door of the Vatican that said “Donald J. Trump” because he knew this man would bring America back to God.

    Hat Tip Fred

    Today remember to pray for our country, for President Trump, for his family, and for all of the political prisoners in America today.

    Never give up hope. God is always there.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/days-like-today-never-forget-hermit-loreto-predicted/

    • Judge Warns Trump Against Witness Tampering, Threatens to Issue Arrest Warrant
      By Cristina Laila Aug. 4, 2023 11:45 am589 Comments

      US Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya warned Trump against witness tampering as part of his release conditions.

      President Trump entered the Elijah Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in DC on Thursday on a new set of garbage charges.

      Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

      Jack Smith’s latest indictment is a retread J6 committee garbage, free speech violations by the Biden DOJ who should know better, and ESP-like assumptions and mind-reading nonsense.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/judge-warns-trump-against-witness-tampering-threatens-issue/

    • West Virginia AG to DOJ: Move Trump’s Case Here; He Will Not Receive Fair Trial in D.C. ‘Swamp’

      West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to move the “politicized case” against former President Donald Trump in connection to the January 6 Capitol riot to West Virginia, arguing he will not receive a fair trial in Washington, DC.

      “Donald Trump is not going to get a fair shake in DC, the home of the Swamp,” Morrisey, who is running for governor in West Virginia, wrote Thursday morning on the social media platform “X,” formerly Twitter.

      Donald Trump is not going to get a fair shake in DC, the home of the Swamp. If prosecutors insist on proceeding with this politicized case, they should move the venue to West Virginia. West Virginians believe in upholding the rule of law and don’t support a double-standard of…

      — Patrick Morrisey (@MorriseyWV) August 3, 2023

      “If prosecutors insist on proceeding with this politicized case, they should move the venue to West Virginia,” he added. “West Virginians believe in upholding the rule of law and don’t support a double-standard of justice.”

      Trump is set to be arraigned Thursday afternoon at the Elijah Barret Prettyman Federal Courthouse in

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  10. BOMBSHELL: Spokesperson Admits During Australian Senate Hearing that Pfizer Employees Were Given Special Batch of Vaccine, Different from What was Distributed to Public (VIDEO)
    By Jim H?ft Aug. 4, 2023 12:35 pm292 Comments

    In a shocking revelation during a Senate hearing in Australia, a Pfizer spokesperson revealed that the pharmaceutical giant had imported a special batch of COVID-19 vaccines solely for their employee vaccination program.

    The admission came during a rigorous questioning session on Wednesday, in which Pfizer Australia’s Country Medical Director, Dr. Krishan Thiru, and Head of Regulatory Sciences, Dr. Brian Hewitt, spoke before the Australian Senate’s ‘Education and Employment Legislation Committee’ about the experimental COVID-19 vaccines.

    Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts led the interrogation with forceful inquiries regarding Pfizer’s potential involvement in the introduction of vaccine mandates for employment in Australia.

    Senator Roberts, in his questioning, alleged a significant transfer of wealth from the Australian people to Big Pharma via the government’s Covid-19 mismanagement.

    He sought clarity on Pfizer’s role in implementing vaccine mandates for employment and their participation in potential government bans on alternative treatments such as Ivermectin.

    “Pfizer has no involvement, had no involvement in the imposition of vaccine mandates… Pfizer has had no involvement in relation to Ivermectin,” said Dr. Thiru.

    The inquiry took a contentious turn when Roberts probed into Pfizer’s confidential indemnity agreements with the Australian government, suggesting that the taxpayers who funded the vaccine have the right to see the details of what they bought.

    “Does the indemnity you have with the government extend to providing you with indemnity in the situation where an employee is forced by their employer to undergo vaccination and then experiences harm? And if you do have indemnity, I want the proof,” Roberts asked.

    Dr. Thiru maintained that the specifics of these agreements remain confidential, per standard practice for contractual arrangements between the government and private organizations.

    “Senator, any indemnity agreements between Pfizer and the Australian government are confidential and we are not able to discuss that in this forum,” said Thiru.

    “Why are they confidential? Because as a taxpayer, I paid for those injections even though I didn’t take any. Why are they confidential? From taxpayers, 26 million Australians. What are you hiding?” Roberts asked.

    Roberts also queried about Pfizer’s own employee vaccination program, which Dr. Thiru confirmed was active and conducted in alignment with public health guidance, allowing accommodations or exemptions for those with specific medical or religious reasons for not being vaccinated. He did, however, acknowledge that a small number of colleagues departed the company in light of this program.

    Roberts then questioned Pfizer’s use of a specific batch of vaccine for their employees that was not tested by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), to which Dr. Hewitt CLAIMED that this was done to ensure that no vaccine would be taken from government stocks.

    “We’ve read that your vaccine mandate was using your own batch of vaccine, especially imported for Pfizer, which was not tested by the TGA. Is that correct?” Roberts asked.

    Dr. Hewitt then responded, “So Pfizer undertook to import a batch of vaccine specifically for the employee vaccination programme, and that was so that no vaccine would be taken from government stocks that was being delivered to clinics as needed.”

    WATCH:

    Roberts then asked, “Does your contract with the government for supply of COVID injections include a clause that negates your indemnity in the event of Pfizer committing a crime such as fraudulent treatment of trial data? The question is simple. What is the answer? Yes or no?”

    Dr. Thiru was unable to provide a definitive response when questioned about whether Pfizer’s contract with the Australian government included clauses that would nullify their indemnity in the event of “fraudulent treatment of trial data.”

    “Senator Roberts, as I had mentioned previously, the contents of Pfizer’s contract with the Australian government remains confidential, and I don’t have any information that I can provide to the Committee in relation to that,” Thiru said.

    Roberts’ suspicion extended to the origins of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, questioning whether it was initially developed as a countermeasure for the American Department of Defence. Dr. Thiru responded, emphasizing the vaccine’s development was solely aimed at combating the global public health emergency resulting from the pandemic.

    In a Twitter post, Roberts wrote:

    Watch as I question Pfizer representatives last night in a Senate Hearing.

    The company was very reluctant to attend the committee hearing and also reluctant to supply a straight answer, automatically falling back on their ‘safe and effective’ mantra to dodge answering the question.

    Already, this Senate Hearing revealed that Pfizer is rewriting history on transmission of infection. We’re supposed to conveniently forget they said “get it to protect others, to save grandma” and “when you’re vaccinated the virus stops with you”.

    They’re hiding behind their indemnity contract with our government and dodging responsibility.

    ATAGI and the Australian governments must stop pushing these unsafe and ineffective shots and drop the destructive mandates now.

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/bombshell-pfizer-spokesperson-admits-during-australian-senate-hearing/

  11. VIDEO: Woman Goes On Unhinged Tirade and Threatens to BLOW UP Home After Accusing Man of Being a Republican and Trump Supporter
    By Cullen Linebarger Aug. 4, 2023 3:52 pm188 Comments
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    Moore, Oklahoma – When the radical left tells you they want you dead, believe them.

    The Daily Mail reported Friday that a mystery woman was so triggered at the sight of Fourth of July decorations on a man’s lawn that she accused him of being a Republican. The incident reportedly occurred on July 8th.

    Camera footage from the Ring Doorbell shows the woman sauntering up to Pascal Quintero’s home and ringing his doorbell. After he answers the door, she asks if he is a Republican and starts whining about his beautiful independence-themed decorations which include an American flag and patriotic banners.

    She then blames him for the reason she is not able to get an abortion and can be heard demanding that he shoot her.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/video-woman-goes-unhinged-tirade-threatens-blow-up/

  12. Washington Post Fact Checker Rewinds Clock to Slam Biden with 4 Pinocchios for Hunter Claim from 3 Years Ago
    By Johnathan Jones, The Western Journal Aug. 4, 2023 3:35 pm54 Comments

    The Washington Post has retroactively dinged President Joe Biden for making the false claim that his son Hunter Biden never earned any money from Chinese business deals during a presidential debate in 2020.

    Biden has claimed throughout the past several years that his family did not profit from overseas business deals and that he never discussed business at all with his son.

    Republicans in the House and Senate are currently investigating an alleged Biden family influence-peddling scheme with the president at the top.

    There are credible claims the Biden name has been used for years for the family to cash in on its power.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/washington-post-fact-checker-rewinds-clock-slam-biden/

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    YouTube and Facebook Censored Viktor Shokin Video Responding to Joe Biden’s Lies and Details of His Dismissal… Was US Government Behind This?
    By Jim Hoft Aug. 4, 2023 2:30 pm64 Comments

    On Friday morning, The Gateway Pundit published an explosive explosive video of Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor who was removed from office under pressure from then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

    In the detailed and extensive interview, Shokin responded to allegations from the Biden regime, laying out his side of the story regarding the investigations into Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that once employed Hunter.

    Shokin’s video addressed a variety of points, from accusations that the investigation into Burisma was dormant to allegations of his corruption and his eventual removal as prosecutor.

    In a lengthy, detailed response, Shokin refuted the notion that his investigations were “dormant” and explained how they were active, even leading to seizures of assets from Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/youtube-facebook-censored-viktor-shokin-video-responding-joe/

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    EXPLOSIVE VIDEO: Former Ukrainian Prosecutor Viktor Shokin Responds to Biden’s Corruption Accusations and Reveals Shocking Details about His Dismissal and Burisma Investigation
    By Jim H?ft Aug. 4, 2023 8:00 am

    An old video of Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor who was removed from office under pressure from then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, is making the rounds online again following the damning testimony of Devon Archer. This video was removed on Youtube.

    In a detailed and extensive interview, Shokin has responded to allegations from the Biden regime, laying out his side of the story regarding the investigations into Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that once employed Hunter.

    It is unclear when this video was recorded or published but includes his reaction to Biden’s accusations.

    At the time of Hunter Biden’s appointment, Viktor Shokin was Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, and there were investigations into Burisma’s owner.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/explosive-video-ukrainian-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-responds-bidens/

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    Biden Heads to Wilmington after Spending Week at Beach House – Biden Has Spent a FULL YEAR – 365 Days of His Presidency – On Vacation (VIDEO)
    By Cristina Laila Aug. 4, 2023 12:55 pm253 Comments

    Joe Biden is heading to his Wilmington, Delaware residence after hiding out at his Rehoboth Beach compound all week.

    Biden has spent a FULL YEAR – 365 days of his presidency – on vacation with no visitor logs.

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/joe-biden-heads-straight-wilmington-after-spending-week/

  13. HUGE: “I Think There’s Coordinated Efforts to Make Sure That Certain People Get Elected” – Joe Rogan Says There Was “Real Fraud” in Kari Lake’s Election (VIDEO)
    By Jordan Conradson Aug. 4, 2023 1:15 pm171 Comments

    Joe Rogan spoke out on the stolen election in Arizona yesterday, saying that Kari Lake’s lawsuit is not invalid and that there was “real fraud” in her election.

    As The Gateway Pundit reported, new evidence that was dismissed before Kari Lake’s recent trial shows Maricopa County employees engaging in the secret and illegal reconfiguration and testing of voting machines after they were certified and before the election. This likely caused voting machines and ballot printers to fail at 59% of voting locations targeting Republicans on Election Day.

    This illegal testing occurred with no documentation or logging of tamper-evident seals in violation of the Elections Procedures Manual and the law. It was also conducted after the statutorily required October 11th testing, and the legally required public notice was not given. In the video from October 14, the reprogrammed ballot tabulators can be seen jamming as employees test them, just as they did on Election Day.

    According to the Elections Procedures Manual, “If the electronic voting system has not successfully passed the Secretary of State’s L&A test, the Secretary of State may schedule a re-test for a later date. Re-testing may continue during the early voting period and through the day prior to the election. However, the officer in charge of elections may not deploy any electronic voting equipment in a federal, statewide, or legislative election that has not successfully passed the Secretary of State’s L&A test.” Counties are also required to “publish notice of the time and place of each L&A test at least 48 hours in advance of the test,” in accordance with ARS 16-449(A) and the Elections Procedures Manual.

    “The Secretary of State’s Office must conduct its L&A tests after the officer in charge of elections has conducted county-level tests whenever practicable,” the Manual also states.

    Lake attorney Kurt Olsen told the Judge, prior to the claim being dismissed, the evidence of “clear misconduct and intent” shows that “this election was rigged.”

    The Gateway Pundit also reported on Kari Lake’s recent signature verification trial, which revealed that approximately 274,000 ballot signatures were compared and verified in less than three seconds. Kari Lake’s attorney, Kurt Olsen, told the Court that “eleven of the signature verification workers approved 170k signatures at a rate of less than 0 and 2.99 seconds with a 99.97% approval rating.” This data is proven by Maricopa County’s own log file data.

    When we were allowed to inspect and reproduce images of the ballot affidavits and compare them to voter registration records, it became extremely clear that Maricopa County did not review or verify signatures in any fashion.

    See some examples of the fraudulent 2022 mail-in ballot signatures here:

    Joe Rogan spoke about these “coordinated efforts” against Kari Lake yesterday on his hit podcast.

    Rogan: I don’t think it’s zero. It’s not zero. I think we could all agree it’s not zero. And we know that these voting machines can be f*cked with, and we know that there are some irregularities. All that Kari Lake stuff in Arizona that they’re trying to dismiss, it doesn’t look like that’s invalid. It looks like there’s real fraud there. It looks like there’s some real shenanigans there. At the very least, there was voting machines that weren’t working properly, and it seems very suspicious that a lot of them were in Republican areas. There’s a lot of shenanigans, and I think there’s coordinated efforts to make sure that certain people get elected. I don’t know how far they go, but I know it’s not zero.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/huge-i-think-theres-coordinated-efforts-make-sure/

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  15. Energy Secretary Granholm Consulted Top Chinese Energy Official Before Draining U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve

    The Biden administration’s top energy official held multiple talks with China National Energy Administration chairman Zhang Jianhua days before the United States moved to release oil from its strategic reserve in 2021.

    According to internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Fox News, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm spoke with Zhang one-on-one multiple times in meetings that had not previously been made known to the public. Granholm and Zhang met on November 19 and November 21, 2021, just days prior to the administration’s announcement that they would be releasing oil from the strategic reserve on November 23. The timing of Granholm’s meetings has critics questioning China’s level of influence over the Biden administration’s energy policy.

    “Secretary Granholm’s multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raise serious questions about the level
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  17. WOW: Award-Winning Barack Obama Biographer Drops Several “Eyebrow-Raising” Claims About Ex-President in Interview Including that Obama FREQUENTLY Fantasized about Gay Sex to Former Girlfriend
    By Cullen Linebarger Aug. 4, 2023 8:06 pm182 Comments

    A media outlet is raising eyebrows across the country regarding a 16,000-plus word interview it conducted with former President Barack Obama’s award-winning biographer. In the interview, the biographer drops what Fox News describes as several “eyebrow-raising” claims including one that raises a question regarding Obama’s sexuality.

    As Fox News reported, Tablet’s David Samuels sat down lengthy Q&A with historian David Garrow, who wrote the 2017 biography “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.” The book was widely praised by corporate media outlets including the Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Politico.

    Garrow previously won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for the book “Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.”

    The interview starts with Garrow sharing the story about how Obama’s relationship with Sheila Miyoshi Jager, his girlfriend in the 1980s, ended. Garrow says their relationship fell apart after Obama refused to condemn antisemitism.

    As Samuels notes, the former president’s version of the breakup was far different in his infamous memoir “Dreams of my Father.” Obama wrote that the relationship ended because he wanted to embrace his “Black racial consciousness,” which conflicted with his Caucasian girlfriend.

    Whose version of the story is correct? Who knows. The bridge between the two accounts is Obama’s emerging attachment to Blackness, which required him to fall in love with and marry a Black woman. In Obama’s account, his attachment to Blackness is truthful and noble. In Jager’s account, his claims are instrumental and selfish; he grants particularism to the experience and suffering of his own tribe while denying it to others.

    But the claim that is getting the most buzz is the part where Garrow discusses Obama’s girlfriend at Occidental College, Alex McNair. He revealed that when McNair showed him letters from Barack, she redacted one paragraph in one of them and just claimed that “It’s about homosexuality.”

    Moreover, a man named Harvey Klehr was assigned curating the letters, which are located at Emory University and they would not let him take a single photo.

    This begs the question: could Obama be gay or bisexual?

    He’s spent his whole life at Emory, but they won’t let him take pictures. So Harvey has to sit there with a pencil and copy out the graph where Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.

    There’s even more, though. Garrow also said that Obama completely fabricated “Dreams of my Father.” When he confronted the former president about this, he was livid.

    It’s so inaccurate, whether about the dynamics among the guys in Hawaii or what’s going on in the community group on the far South Side of Chicago. And it completely omits women. I’ve always thought that there’d eventually be a feminist critique of Obama because his mother and all the girlfriends — they’re not there. They don’t exist.

    He wants people to believe his story. For me to conclude that “Dreams from My Father” was historical fiction — oh God, did that infuriate him. He doesn’t want it challenged. It’s my story and I’m sticking to it. The book is so fictionalized.

    Democrats in the past have fantasized about putting Obama on the Supreme Court because he could not serve another term in office and they fancy him a constitutional expert. But Garrow has some bad news for them.

    He says Obama would be absolutely horrible on the Supreme Court because he’s too lazy. Obama even reportedly admitted his slothful side.

    He’d be terrible because he’s too lazy. This is in the book. It goes back to him being Hawaiian. At one point, he says, ‘I’m fundamentally lazy and it’s because I’m from Hawaii.’ That’s close to the actual quote.

    Garrow goes on to tell a story about Obama’s lawyer warning him not to ask about Obama’s father. He describes this as a textbook example of Obama’s “not normal” personality and calls him “a creature from another planet” when discussing his wife Michelle Obama being raised by a close-knit family.

    During his discussion with Garrow, Samuels also seemingly comes to the conclusion that Obama is running the country behind the scenes.

    He lives in a large brick mansion in Kalorama. Doesn’t it strike you as weird that he’s an ex-president, he’s comparatively young, and he’s living in the center of Washington, D.C.? The original excuse was that Sasha had to finish school. Then you could say, ‘Well, the opposition to Trump needs a figure to rally around.’ But now Sasha has graduated from USC, Trump is gone, Joe Biden was elected present, but he’s still there.

    “Doesn’t that strike you as odd? I mean, I have heard from more than one source that there are regular meetings at Obama’s house in Kalorama involving top figures in the current White House, with Secret Service and cars outside. I don’t write about it because it’s not my lane. There are over a thousand reporters in Washington, and yet there are zero stakeouts of Obama’s mansion, if only to tell us who is coming and going. But he clearly has his oar in.

    Social media users in America, especially conservatives marveled at the shocking claims revealed in the discussion. National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke summed it up best when he called it an “extraordinary interview.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/wow-award-winning-barack-obama-biographer-drops-several/