Reader’s Links for August 8th, 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.

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  3. 13:17 September 20, million-man march organized by a Canadian muslim to protest Dear Leader’s government targeting children for sexual deviancy. Interesting setup for a thesis, counter-thesis, synthesis opportunity for Canadian dialecticians. How will the regime try to use the event to move the country still more left? Is the muslim leader in league with the regime? Will the regime evoke Islamic terrorism to cancel Islamic conservatives, and thereby promote Woke communism? Will the regime conflate Islam and native religious participants into a single cancelable group, accenting protestants and catholics, etc, in order to elevate the Islamic element into a comparably virtuous demographic? Lots of questions here.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPPeMwPUzr8

    (Not long ago Canadians pined for their backwater’s attention on the world stage. They wanted recognition from Americans and basked in the glory when they got it. How does it feel now?)

    • The Freedom Convoy was a major event. But as the communist polity of Canada has total control of the media, there are two distinctly different views of the event itself, such that it had no effect and if anything, removed more people from the stable of potential resistors of communist tyranny.

      If you talk to even Ottawan’s who where not there at the protest, they will talk about how awful it was, and how important it was that Trudeau stopped it. They literally live in a different semantic universe. This is not an accident of course. The narrative of the Truckers and freedom minded people being nazis of one kind or another was crafter and incepted.

      It worked better than any of us want to admit, because we don’t want to believe that we are that stupid or vulnerable.

      Personally I think the common denominator amongst the other side is broadcast media. Something about TV and maybe radio that creates an impression, and holds you in it. The James Woods, Deborah Harry film, Videodrome” is an exaggeration of the truth like so many myths and fables are. It seems that the people who still have a foot in reality are the ones who read and otherwise observe media they can control in terms of delivery and so on.

      Personally I first noticed this when I rented a VHS video tape of Micheal Moore’s movie, Bowling for Columbine. I had to keep hitting pause every minute or two to think about what I saw as it was so full of inherent logical fallacies.

      I even invited friends over to watch it in that manner. It occurred to me that had you seen it on TV or a theatre, you would have walked away with a totally false impression of all of these events and causes because your critical faculties could not engage. Both from the speed of the deceptions and the hypnotic effect of the medium, which isn’t as present in a video you control.

      There are likely other factors as well, but IQ isn’t really one of them. I know a lot of the freedom fighters and they range from the top quint of the IQ bell curve to the bottom. And I know a lot of people sucked in to the vaxx narrative who are brilliant. So its about process of thought more than the raw power to generate thought. Look at the arc of Dr. John Campbell for example. He started out being very insulting towards mRNA vaxx skeptics and now is leading that parade.

      Same is likely true of Dr. Chris Shoemaker and many other brilliant or at least very far above average IQ people, even scientists and doctors. Granted, they are now at least sheepish about their former views and very quiet about them, or have the courage to do acts of contrition by trying to warn any last people who haven’t had the shots yet not to get them. Not that they would of course. Maybe it will help convince people who have had some, not to get more.

      I know personally a couple of people who have had 6 shots. They put their life where their faith is. They hate Trump and love Fauci. And somehow feel that taking Trump’s vaccine is an act of fealty to their hatred of him and all things conservative, even if they use another name for whatever it is they rebel against.

      Of course most of us who refused the vaxx love Trump. Mostly because we know he would not have imposed a mandate for the vaxx and also he did his level best to make treatment that actually are safe and effective, available to all.

      It doesn’t hurt to see the Revolutionary Government of the US treat Trump exactly like the revolutionary Government of the book, 1984 treat Emmanuel Goldstein. The public must do acts of public hate against Trump whenever a spotlight on the horrors of the revolutionary government might get noticed. Trump is the principle symbol of the counter-revolution, not just in the US but in the entire world. We saw and continue to see Trump flags at freedom rallies in Canada, and we did in France and Brazil and elsewhere.

      OK I have drifted far afield from your comment Johnny, and this has become an essay. The short answer is that they may treat it like the freedom convoy and command the narrative through the media, both by ignoring it like they did with the THREE Muslim protests I personally witnessed in Ottawa already, and making sure there was no counter-protest as well, or they will transform its meaning to suit the revolution. They will make it about islamophobia via dialectic transformations of the event such that it works for them.

      We have already seen that at work as Trudeau tries to claim that it isn’t really Islam that objects to cutting the breasts and testicles off of their children, it is really that they were sucked in by racist white Americans. Therefore, the Muslims protesting COGI (I think that is the intitials) are really protesting against conservative white Americans of whom, these poor misguided Muslims are actually the victims.

      Please note: All the examples are of the same strategy, All of them are examples of the dialectic transformation of reality into a narrative that suits the all powerful state. Even if they contain total contradictions. Actually especially if they do. Trump invented the vaxx so we must show hatred of him by taking it. Islam actually doesn’t believe what Islam believes about LGBTQETC so when they express ideas counter to revolutionary ones, they are in reality, victims of white supremacy, itself a dialectic code for counter-revolutionary.

      • Very good. As I said an opportunity to try out the predictive capabilities of fluency in dialectics from counter-revolutionary “linguists”.

        “…The dialectic transformation of reality into a narrative that suits the all powerful state…”

  6. 10:22 U.S. debt crisis compelling countries to repatriate bullion stored in U.S.:

  7. Anheuser-Busch Heir Says His Ancestors Would be ‘Rolling Over in Their Graves’ Over Dylan Mulvaney Campaign (VIDEO)
    By Mike LaChance Aug. 7, 2023 9:10 pm215 Comments

    Billy Busch, the heir to Anheuser-Busch, was recently asked in an interview about the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco and said that his ancestors would be ‘rolling over in their graves’ over this.

    He made a point to say that they weren’t against gay people but viewed that as a personal matter.

    He also repeatedly says that they loved this country because it was a free country.

    Townhall reports:

    Anheuser-Busch Heir Weighs in on Dylan Mulvaney Ad

    Billy Busch, the heir of Anheuser-Busch, said in an interview that his ancestors would be “rolling over in their graves” over the company’s partnership with “transgender” influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

    Busch made the remarks in an interview with TMZ host Harvey Levin on Friday. According to Fox2Now, Busch has been on a publicity tour for his new book, Family Reigns: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty. During the conversation, Levin asked Busch for his thoughts on Bud Light’s controversy with “transgender” influencer Mulvaney.

    “I think my family, my ancestors, would be rolling over in their graves. They were very patriotic. They loved this country and what it stood for. They believed that transgender, gays, that sort of thing, was all a very personal issue. They loved this country because it is a free country and people are allowed to do what they want. But it was never meant to be on a beer can and never meant to be pushed into people’s faces,” Busch said in the interview. “So, they would have never marketed their brands that way.”

    See the video below:

    The brand has been destroyed.

    This is what just one or two woke employees can do to a once great company.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/anheuser-busch-heir-says-his-ancestors-would-be/

  8. Bannon: President Trump’s Indictment Is The Establishment’s Threat That “They Will Destroy You”

    Bannon: President Trump’s Indictment Is The Establishment’s Threat That “They Will Destroy You”

  9. NYC immigrants ticked off about migrants crammed into neighborhood rec center: ‘What the hell!’
    By Haley Brown and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
    August 6, 2023 8:05pm Updated

    The thousands of migrants recently flooding into the Big Apple are facing a new round of pushback — from New York City immigrants.

    First-generation Brooklyn immigrants were up in arms Sunday over City Hall jamming dozens of newly arrived male asylum-seekers into the Sunset Park Recreation Center, saying the facility has long been a beloved community staple — until now.

    https://nypost.com/2023/08/06/nyc-immigrants-ticked-off-about-migrants-crammed-into-neighborhood-rec-center-what-the-hell/

      • There were no arrests?

        Arrest Video: “BREAKING: Young man arrested for sharing the Bible on a public sidewalk
        Blatant violation of the 1st amendment of The Constitution. Every one of those cops should be fired and sued.”
        TONYxTWO – July 31, 2023
        https://twitter.com/TONYxTWO/status/1686184152754724864

        “Teen Arrested While Preaching the Gospel During Drag Queen Event” CBN News – August 7, 2023

      • Young Man Who Was Arrested For Reading The Bible At A Drag Queen Event, Spoke To The City Council
        The Grassroots Army – August 4, 2023

        Marcus Schroeder, The Young Man Arrested For Reading The Bible At A Drag Queen Event In Wisconsin, Spoke To The City Council

  14. “We Know Where You F***ing Live! – Rabid Pro-Trans Protesters in Texas Assault, Threaten, and Spit on Riley Gaines and Other Women’s Right’s Activists – Kids as Young as Five Were Also Targeted (VIDEO)
    By Cullen Linebarger Aug. 8, 2023 9:30 am164 Comments

    Credit: Michelle Evans Twitter
    Denton, Texas – Riley Gaines and other women’s rights activists were yelled at and assaulted by radical pro-trans protesters who gathered to scream their opposition to the “Save Women’s Sports Act.” Innocent children were also targeted by the deranged scumbags.

    As Fox News reported, the activists joined Texas Governor Greg Abbott at the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame at Texas Woman’s University in Denton for a ceremonial signing of the bill. The law was previously signed into law by Texas back in June.

    The protesters during the ceremony made the decision to throw items, hit, and even spat on the brave women who are leading the charge to protect female sports.

    One such activist, Independent Women’s Network’s Austin chapter leader Michelle Evans described her experience in detail with Fox News after the event ended. She revealed that she was assaulted after she left the building to take a look at the protesters who she described as rabid.

    It was, I guess the best word to describe them was they were rabid.

    When I turned around to go back inside of the building, that’s when somebody threw water on me. Somebody told me they know where I f***ing live. There was somebody that got in front of me to try to physically block me from going back inside and pushed her body up against mine. Somebody hit my arm, and then someone, a woman in a pink ski mask and sunglasses, spit into my open eye.

    The video below confirms her account. You can also hear members of the crowd shout “Trans rights are human rights! We know where you f***ing live!, and holding up signs such as “Get outta my panties.”

    Here is who hit her. Evans says she will be pressing charges.

    The Independent Women’s Voice also shared footage showing kids as young as five years old getting harassed and cursed at by the unhinged protesters. Here is how Evans described the sick behavior.

    As they were being walked out by their mothers, and there was a police officer in front and in back of them, the protesters were getting in the kids’ faces and screaming and harassing them, frightening them. It was out of control.

    WATCH:

    Lee University volleyball player Macy Petty, who was also in attendance, also said she and other activists were spat on.

    Gaines confirmed the vile assaults by the so-called “kindness” crowd in an interview with Fox News while also celebrating the bill’s signing.

    Even in the great state of Texas, protestors have tried to find a way to smear the celebration of Governor Abbott signing SB 15 which protects female collegiate athletics. But they can’t.

    Today is a huge win and Gov. Abbott’s leadership is foundational and I’m hopeful more states will follow suit.

    Bottles are being thrown, protestors are spitting in people’s faces, profanity is being yelled at children. Law enforcement has stepped in and provided protection.

    Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan said she and her family were prevented from leaving while the crowd spat and yelled.

    Governor Abbott responded to the crowd’s behavior to reporters following the event’s conclusion.

    I wish that they could have peacefully heard what Paula and Riley had to say. Any reasonable person would agree. They should not have had to have gone through what they went through. Our goal is to make sure that what they went through is not going to be repeated again.

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  15. Attempted Assassination Plot Against Ukrainian President Zelensky – Woman Arrrested
    By Jim Hoft Aug. 8, 2023 8:00 am140 Comments

    There was an attempted assassination attempt against Ukrainian President Zelensky on Monday.

    A Ukrainian woman was detained by the Ukrainian Security Service on Monday in connection with a planned assassination attempt on Volodymyr Zelensky.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/attempted-assassination-plot-against-ukrainian-president-zelensky-woman/

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    The MSM Suddenly Has Started To Discuss Replacing Zelensky
    By Paul Serran Aug. 8, 2023 7:45 am161 Comments

    From February 24th 2022 until today, 529 days have passed, and most probably in every one of those days we had to deal with some opinion, criticism or recrimination by Ukrainian nanopresident Volodymyr Zelensky.

    Hero to some, globalist pawn to others, Zelensky has become an almost obligatory feature in all political summits and even award shows – always asking for more and more military and financial help for his war-torn country.

    Lately, cracks have started to show in the formidable support shown to the former comedian.

    Authorities in the US, UK, and even Poland have started to air their complaints about his perceived ungratefulness and arrogance. And other countries, such as Brazil or South Africa, have felt at ease to deny his requests, and debate his ideas without the need to automatic agreement.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/msm-suddenly-has-started-discuss-replacing-zelensky/

  16. Zakharova Calls State Department “Liars”: “They Know Perfectly Well They Told Zelensky to Stop Peace Talks”
    By Richard Abelson Aug. 8, 2023 7:00 am142 Comments

    Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova took issue with claims by State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller that Russia “has refused to engage in meaningful peace negotiations,“ saying instead that the West “know perfectly well that they told Zelensky to halt negotiations.”

    Answering a question about the Ukraine conference taking place in Saudi Arabia without Russian delegates, State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said on August 7 that “There are no peace negotiations going on with Russia right now, because Russia has refused to engage in meaningful peace negotiations. Should there ever be peace negotiations, it’s Ukraine that will be in the lead from the non-Russian side. The United States is happy to play any role that is productive to stand with our Ukrainian partners, and we would welcome any other country that wants to play a productive role as well.”

    Kremlin Foreign Ministry spokeswoman

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/zakharova-calls-state-department-liars-they-know-perfectly/

  17. Is The West Losing Faith In Zelensky And Ukraine? A Discussion With Judge Napolitano
    By Larry Johnson Aug. 8, 2023 6:45 am106 Comments

    Judge Napolitano kindly highlighted my recent piece discussing indications that the United States and NATO are preparing to jettison Ukraine and Volodomyr Zelensky. Here it is:

    Joe Biden and is team of national security hacks continue to double down in public on supporting Ukraine’s fight with Russia, but the Washington leak machine is up and running and the usual suspects in mainstream media outlets — New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal — are putting out more articles describing the failings and shortcomings of the Afghan officials — oops, I mean the Ukrainians. The United States has an established, long track record of dumping troublesome allies when success is no longer on the

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/is-west-losing-faith-zelensky-ukraine-discussion-judge/

  18. The Remaking of America
    43 Comments / August 7, 2023
    Victor Davis Hanson
    American Greatness

    We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.

    The Revolution began under the Obama administration that sought to divide Americans into oppressed and oppressors, and then substitute race for class victimization. It was empowered by the bicoastal wealth accrued from globalization, and honed during the COVID lockdown, quarantine-fed economic downturn, and the George Floyd riots and their aftermath. The Revolution was boosted by fanatic opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump. And the result is an America that is unrecognizable from what it was a mere decade ago.

    Here are 10 upheavals that the Left has successfully wrought.

    Free expression. In large swatches of American society—particularly the corporation, the media, the government, the public schools, and the university—it is suddenly dangerous to speak freely. At a DEI workshop, politely object that “whiteness” does not account for all the challenges of “marginalized peoples,” and you will become either ostracized, reprimanded, or perhaps fired.

    Suggest to a class that man-made climate change and the state remedies for it, are still under debate—and your career and livelihood are endangered. In 2020, state that Covid lockdowns would do more eventual damage than the virus—and your career was through. Express doubt that there are more than two biological sexes, and if an athlete or high school principal you will be shunned or rendered professionally inert.

    The government, in league with social media, censors the news. “Liberal” universities often first require McCarthy-era type “diversity” statements for one to be hired. Commissars review syllabi to spot incorrect or improper speech or insufficient DEI zeal.

    The Left now seeks to modify the First Amendment, and its empowerment of “hate speech,” defined as most anything impeding the progressive project. The state and the universities properly issue word lists of approved vocabularies.

    The old ACLU or Sen. Church Committee would now probably be deemed rightwing. The methodologies of Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover are the preferred models, once they were rebooted to the right cause.

    The Weaponization of Justice. Administrations and their efforts to stock the justice department with supporters come and go. But in the last decade the Left has viewed the Department of Justice as a political extension of the party—whose unchecked power must properly be directed to hurt enemies and help friends. Nomili wonder Eric Holder described himself as Obama’s “wingman” and became the first Attorney General to be held in contempt for ignoring a congressional subpoena.

    Never in U.S. history have the Department of Justice and sympathetic state and local prosecutors indicted a leading opposition candidate and likely nominee of one of the two major parties, and at the beginning of a presidential campaign. Donald Trump is currently charged with nearly 100 felonies by at least two prosecutors. He likely eventually will be hit with more than- 500 indictments, from four prosecutors, every one of the latter with a long record of either leftwing associations or Democratic service.

    The mass murderer Charles Manson faced less legal exposure. No one believes Trump would have been indicted on such counts—most of them involving allegations from years past—were he not running for President.

    One count that Donald Trump is not charged with is bribery, or taking money while in office, a crime cited as impeachable in the Constitution and germane to the accusations that Joe Biden and his family raked in millions from foreign governments due to the improper use of his prior Vice Presidency. For what reason did Joe Biden lie that he never discussed his son’s business? Why did Hunter complain to his daughter that Joe demanded half of his own grifting income? Why would a Vice President serially call disreputable Ame1rican grifters and foreign corrupt oligarchs? Can Joe’s lifestyle ever be reconciled with his reported income?

    Given such asymmetry in the application of the laws, conservative or even apolitical Americans are apprehensive that any political prominence will draw the attention of government in effort to either indict or bankrupt them with legal expenses.

    The last four FBI Directors have either admitted they lied under oath, or preposterously under oath claimed ignorance or amnesia about events directly under their control. Or they simply stonewalled subpoenas and testimonies about alleged FBI crimes.

    The former CIA Director admitted to lying twice under oath. The FBI hired social media corporations to suppress election-cycle news deemed unhelpful to the Left. The agency, along with Democratic operatives, helped hatch the election-cycle conspiracy of the 2015-2016 Russian-Collusion hoax, and the 2020 Russian disinformation laptop hoax. The FBI played a central role in many of the 2024 indictments. In other words, the FBI along with the DOJ, has sought to warp three presidential elections in a row.

    On the prompt of a Joe Biden campaign official (and now Secretary of State) and a former interim CIA director, 50 former intelligence officials lied to the electorate that an authentic but incriminating Biden computer was a likely Russian plant—a fact known to be lie but not disclosed as such by the FBI.

    The Attack on the Supreme Court. Once the Court achieved a more or less predictable conservative majority, the Left sought to diminish it in a variety of ways. It has called for packing the Court with leftist jurists to create a new 15-justice bench. Leftist law professors in the Ivy League, in neo-Confederate nullification and insurrectionary style, call for the nation to ignore Court rulings on abortion and affirmative action.

    The Senate minority leader led a throng to the doors of the court, threatening justices by name: “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

    Protestors now mob the homes of individual justices hoping to intimidate them and alter their upcoming opinions—confident that the Department of Justice will exempt them from any legal consequences of such felonious behavior.

    The media routinely accuses conservative justices of improper or illegal behavior, without worry about the emptiness of the charges. A traditionalist justice now accepts that a controversial ruling can result in media charges that he is corrupt, in shrieking protestors mobbing his home, in a mob assembling at the doors of the Court, in disruptions during Court hearings, in politicians issuing threats to his person, in congressional calls to alter the century-and-a-half make-up of the Court, and in Ivy League law professors urging the country to ignore majority decisions.

    In sum, conservative jurist must be careful where and when he goes out in public.

    The Media-Democratic Fusion. If one were to listen during the last few years to NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, or CNN, or read the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, or the Los Angeles Times, then one would have believed the following:

    A) Donald Trump worked with the Russians to throw and win the 2016 election. As part of that skullduggery, frolicking amid prostitutes he urinated on a Moscow hotel bed to spite Barack Obama. B) He was mentally incapacitated as president and should have been removed under the 25th C) In 2020, his campaign once more worked with the Russians to create an exact replica of Hunter Biden’s laptop, replete with dozens of lurid fake photos and hundreds of cleverly doctored emails to smear the Biden family and aid his own reelection effort. D) Trump as chief conspirator preplanned a violent and armed insurrection that sought to storm and permanently occupy the government, violently hijacking the balloting and seizing the presidency—resulting in the murder of a Capitol police officer and the subsequent deaths of other traumatized officers.
    E) For the last eight years, none of Trump’s political opponents have ever destroyed subpoenaed evidence, conspired to hire foreign nationals to compile false and lurid files on him to subvert his political campaigns, or used their political offices to help solicit foreign money for family lobbyists. F) Trump is the first major candidate and politician who allegedly overvalued his real assets to obtain a loan that he repaid; the first to have concluded non-disclosure agreements with potential embarrassing liaisons; the first ex-president to remove sensitive files to his personal residence; and the first to phone a state official to whine about the integrity of the vote count. G) He is the first losing presidential candidate or major politician to question an election result or to seek redress through government agencies to rectify the purported corruption of the balloting.
    In sum, for the first time in American history, nearly all the major communication and journalistic networks have been fused with a political party. They believe the new role of the media is to advance a shared progressive cause, oppose and even defame common opponents, and feed their audiences things that are not, and cannot possibly be, true.

    The Destruction of Common Law. By defunding the police in major cities, and by showering leftwing district attorney candidates with millions of dollars in campaign funding, the Left systematically eroded the law as we know it in our major cities.

    As a result, downtowns are after-dark, no-go zones, as once great metropolises resemble veritable combat theaters. Cities are becoming depopulated as consumers and businesses no longer find it safe to conduct commerce. Criminals and homeless now routinely break the law with impunity. Public violence, defecation, urination, fornication, and injection do not even rate as misdemeanors.

    The Left has redefined violent crime to such an extent that shoplifting is no longer actionable. Flash mobs that take over streets and swarm to loot stores are rarely if ever arrested. Security officers who apprehend thieves or intervene to stop violence are more likely to be prosecuted than criminals themselves. There is no longer any immigration law; it has been utterly destroyed by Joe Biden. Seven-million illegal entrants flood into the U.S. and, along with the Mexican government, make demands on their hosts to accommodate their illegality.

    In sum, in blue states and at the federal level, leftwing prosecutors and justices decide to enforce or ignore statutes, pile up or reduce indictments, increase or decrease punishments not on what the law entails, or evidence directs, but on the race, class, or ideology of the perpetrator, usually in connection with the particular status of his victims. If asymmetry in race, class, or ideology is suggested, then the law must modulate in redistributive fashion to contextualize the crime and criminal as a victim rather than a victimizer. The result is the veritable destruction of law and order as we once knew it.

    The Erosion of the Military. Rarely has the American people polled so little confidence in the U.S. military. It perceives the Pentagon mission largely one to greenlight social change through the rapidity of the chain of command, not necessarily to maintain deterrence, much less to win all its wars.

    The Left has ensured that our armed forces are underfunded, short on munitions and weapons, and military officers are used to promote progressive social agendas. Officers expect to be promoted or stalled on the basis of their views on race and gender.

    Those who traditionally died at twice their numbers in the general population in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan are ostracized and in near record numbers leaving, while their friends and relatives are no longer enlisting in the military.

    Former Pentagon four-star officers violated the Code of Uniform Military Justice in attacking a sitting president with the harshest invective, invoking comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini, again predictably from a leftwing point of view.

    The public expects the Joint Chiefs to be both appointed on ideological considerations, and from time to time even to free-lance to contact enemy counterparts should they feel a conservative president is dangerous to world peace.

    There is no longer any social stigma or legal jeopardy for retired officers in working as defense contractor lobbyists or board members, after revolving from or soon back to the Pentagon.

    Sexes. The heterosexual male and female, marriage, and the nuclear family are all to be suspect. There are three sexes or perhaps still more. English language pronouns are inadequate to reflect sexual diversity.

    So adherence to such ossified languages is career endangering. An epidemic of childlessness, singlehood, and collapsing fertility rates are either of no national importance or illustrate the preferred non-nuclear family model. Powerful hormonal drug regimens and permanent radical sex-change surgery should be the choices of minors alone who know best when they choose to transition to another sex. Graphic sex manuals and drag queen shows with simulated sex acts can perhaps acculturate preteens to the dangers of growing up in an oppressive “normative” binary society.

    Sex, but not race, is constructed, and thus a matter not of biology but of individual choice.

    Race, Not Class. Racial inequality and lack of parity are due to “whiteness.” Racial quotas, segregated dorms, graduations, workshops, and safe spaces are exempt from civil rights statutes given they are necessary to achieve equity. Integration and assimilation are the opiates of the masses. Apartheid and segregation are misunderstood modalities, and thus, if enlightened, sometimes necessary corrective measures.

    Reparations are to supersede ineffective affirmative action. Wokeness liberates us to see how race explains everything in America, past and present. At universities and in popular culture “proportional representation” of various ethnicities and races is no longer sufficient remedy.

    Instead reparatory hiring and admissions are required to atone for prior generations of discrimination. It is taboo to suggest that cultural conditions not just race accounts for inequality. Everything from meritocracy to promptness to physical fitness is racist in nature, requiring DEI experts to expose and inform about the systemic nature of American racism.

    Debt is a Construct. Modern monetary theory proved that annual deficits and national debt are just a state accounting challenge. So printing more money is an act that properly diminishes the value of existing capital improperly horded by parasitic profiteers. Spreading the ensuing cash wealth to the more deserving and victimized is long overdue social justice.

    At any time, the national “debt” can be deconstructed by renouncing usurious bond obligations, appropriating private retirement accounts, or further inflating the currency—if governments are committed enough to social justice.

    Universities. It is now heresy that universities should be places of disinterested inquiry and inductive investigation. They can properly instead become a valuable tool in ridding society of racist and sexist forces, platitudes about free speech and equality under the law, and the tyranny of private property, capitalist profiteering, and white, male heterosexual Christian oppression.

    So the role of a university is to create a brief safe space in which graduates can leave with proper training about the terrible history of the United States and the ways in which it must be dismantled and then be rebuilt by the properly trained experts from the ground up. Counterrevolutionaries or deluded liberals and their quaint adherence to a racist and archaic Bill of Rights have no place on these islands of progressive resistance.

    None of the above was true at the millennium; all are now—with more still to come.

    https://victorhanson.com/the-remaking-of-america/

    • PT in a second term means civil war.
      Remember Schumer with “they’ll get you six ways from Sunday”? Well, blimey, crystal ball.

      Pelosi is a criminal witch. Her daddy was mafia. This prediction is a promise.

      • While I think you may be right about PT, I fear it may happen no matter what because of this:

        “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
        ? G.K. Chesterton

        • Yep, war’s gonna happen.

          I’m hearing people talk about where to go. Those who have traces of Magyar DNA are looking very seriously at Hungary.

  20. REVEALED: Hunter Biden’s Business Partner Visited the White House 36 Times During Obama Years
    By Cristina Laila Aug. 8, 2023 11:30 am17 Comments

    Hunter Biden’s business partner and president at Rosemont Seneca Partners Eric Schwerin visited the White House at least 36 times during the Obama years according to a new Fox News report.

    It had been previously reported that Eric Schwerin visited the White House 27 times.

    Eric Schwerin also had a sit-down meeting with Joe Biden.

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/revealed-hunter-bidens-business-partner-visited-white-house/

  21. You Can’t Make This Up: Obama-Appointed Judge Tanya Chutkan and Hunter Biden Shared Professional Ties at Boies Schiller Flexner, Firm that Worked for Burisma
    By Jim H?ft Aug. 8, 2023 10:45 am123 Comments

    When Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith’s BS case against President Trump came out last week, we soon learned that the case was assigned to an Obama-appointee judge.

    The Gateway Pundit previously reported that President Donald Trump has requested an immediate recusal of far-left and anti-Trump U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who has been appointed to preside over his ongoing “January 6th” case in Washington D.C. Trump characterizes the judge as a “biased” judge.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/you-cant-make-this-up-obama-appointed-judge/

  22. LendGo
    College Professor to Riley Gaines: ‘Normalize’ Exposing Kids to Adult Genitalia to Prepare Them for Trans Athletes
    By Johnathan Jones, The Western Journal Aug. 8, 2023 11:00 am142 Comments

    A Canadian journalism professor locked down her X account, previously known as Twitter, recently and also faced the wrath of former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines after she claimed parents should expose their children to the genitals of adults.

    Gaines, an outspoken advocate for women’s sports and against the transgender agenda, was among numerous people to jump on the far-left university teacher.

    According to social media post viewed by the U.K.’s Daily Mail, a University of British Columbia professor named Katja Thieme offered a disgusting retort to a video of Gaines advocating for spaces for women.

    Last month, Thieme shared a clip on Twitter of Gaines defending sports from an influx of transgender-identifying athletes.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/college-professor-riley-gaines-normalize-exposing-kids-adult/

  23. Healey declares state of emergency in Massachusetts as shelter for migrants fills up
    Gov. Healey says state will use ‘all means necessary’ to house people

    Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts Tuesday as local emergency shelters fill up with the high number of migrants arriving in the state and surging housing costs displace families.

    Healey is the latest governor to turn to emergency action to respond to an ever-increasing number of displaced and newly-arrived migrant families. And the Massachusetts Democrat paired the declaration with a full-throated appeal to the Biden administration for help with funding and expediting work authorizations for migrants.

    At a press conference inside the State House with shelter providers and other advocates, Healey said the emergency declaration directs local officials to utilize “all means necessary” to secure housing, shelter, and health and human services to address the “humanitarian crisis.”

    “The increased level of demand is not slowing down,” Healey said. “We are unable to move people from housing and shelter into permanent housing.”

    A steady stream of migrant families arriving in Massachusetts over the past year has put a strain on

    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:guChHKxX3s0J:https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/08/08/gov-healey-to-announce-action-on-massachusetts-emergency-shelter-system/&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

    • We’re flooded with Haitians, one of the largest concentrations in the USA. But unlike migrants from elsewhere, they’ll soon be absorbed in their own communities.

      The Haitians I know are a net asset. A couple are my employees and I’ve gotten to know the community somewhat. They’re really hard workers, have strong family values, and are enthusiastic Christians.

      I know families where both parents work two jobs, leave the babies with grandma or great-auntie so they can put their kids in Catholic schools. They’re terrified of what they hear about public education here: voodoo, drugs, perversion.

  25. BIDEN AND THE CARTELS: PART FIVE
    GENERAL KELLY AND THE CARTEL PRESIDENT

    MIKE MCCORMICK
    AUG 8, 2023
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    The ugly human rights/national security crisis along our Southern Border, being that it is now overrun by drug smugglers and human traffickers, can be traced directly back to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, General John F. Kelly, and Honduran Presidents Porfirio Lobo and Orlando Hernandez.

    Of that group, Kelly’s role in this dark chapter of our history is most baffling. As the general officer leading the Department of Defense’s Southern Command from 2012 through 2016, his job was to protect Americans and American interests.

    Full stop.

    But instead, he spent most of those years partnering with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a man he knew was enabling cartels to smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States.

    And what happened to this general officer who looked the other way for the ObamaBiden administration’s cartel pals? He was promoted into the job of secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in President Trump’s administration.

    All I can say is if the Deep State wanted to dump Trump, persuading him to hire Kelly as his secretary of Homeland Security and then shortly afterwards as his White House chief of staff was one of many ways they tried to do it.

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    After a distinguished career in the Marine Corps, General John F. Kelly assumed command in November 2012 of Southern Command (SOUTHCOM.) That put him in charge of military operations not only of Guantanamo Bay, but also of Central and South America, a region rife with drug trafficking and transnational crime.

    Kelly’s promotion came at a sensitive time. Months earlier Joe Biden had a secretive meeting with the Vice President of Honduras during a 90-minute limousine ride from Soto Cano Air Base to the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. Following that, Biden had another well publicized meeting with the President of Honduras, whom Biden knew was collaborating with cartel drug smugglers. I reported this in detail in a previous Substack.

    One month after Joe’s Honduran visit, Operation Anvil was launched. It was an immediate, bloody mess in which U.S. government agents and corrupt Honduran special police killed Honduran civilians with attack helicopters and automatic weapons. The Honduran civilian outcry made it into mainstream media outlets around the world. So of course, there was a coverup managed by Deep State elements in the State Department, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA,) Central Intelligence Agency, and SOUTHCOM. That coverup lasted until just after Kelly left his command and retired from the military in 2016.

    Joe and Barack never had to answer for the Operation Anvil scandal. Having Kelly leading SOUTHCOM was partly why.

    But with thirsty Joe Biden in the White House, there was much more to come for Kelly and Honduras.

    As I wrote in my last Substack, shortly after Kelly took over SOUTHCOM, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2013 began an investigation into a cartel cocaine smuggling operation that involved the son of the sitting president of Honduras and numerous senior officials in the Honduran National Police.

    Fabio Porfirio Lobo, former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s son, is now serving a 24-year prison sentence as a result of that investigation. Porfirio Lobo, the guy Joe Biden met with on his secretive trip, is now banned from traveling to the United States for his smuggling activities. His wife is awaiting trial in Honduras on corruption charges. Another son, Said, was murdered in July 2022 by cartel killers dressed as police. Obviously, this guy was and is bad news.

    But it was Porfirio Lobo’s successor, Juan Orlando Hernández, who became the regional leader that Kelly and Biden worked with most. And all that while, they both knew Hernández was first and foremost a cartel president.

    How did they know? Because in February 2014, so just about a year into Kelly’s SOUTHCOM tour, DEA electronic surveillance of another corrupt Honduran government official revealed that Orlando Hernández, through his brother Tony Hernández, was collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cachiros crime syndicate.

    Below is a screenshot of a portion of a press release from the DEA announcing the November 2018 arrest of Tony Hernández. The timing is significant — it’s mere weeks after the Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives, in part by attacking President Trump’s stance on immigration. It was also just about a week before Trump publicly stated his dissatisfaction with General Kelly as his chief of staff. This investigation had begun in the Obama years, but it was Trump who pulled the trigger on the arrest.

    Back to Kelly. Information that Tony Hernández and President Hernández were partnering with the cartels would have been passed immediately up the chain — especially to General Kelly who was then interacting closely with President Hernández. Apparently when he was given the warning, which inevitably he was, he ignored it.

    Why would he do that? Because he’s a general officer, and the ObamaBiden White House told/ordered him to.

    Why would they want that investigation ignored? Wouldn’t they want to keep their word to the American public and “combat criminal networks?” Or was there something else in the works?

    Here’s a possibility. A few months after Tony Hernández popped up in the DEA’s surveillance, thousands upon thousands of unaccompanied minors were streaming across America’s Southern Border as illegal entrants. And a lot of them originated in Honduras.

    As Steve Bannon says, there are no conspiracies, but there are also no coincidences.

    By August of that year, as the kids kept arriving, the ObamaBiden administration had put out an information sheet filled with facts and statistics that seemed to address the crisis with a hint that they were about to throw money at the problem — a lot of money, American taxpayer money.

    By the way, this is when they built the cages for the kids — long before Trump even ran for president.

    Then in November 2014, days after the Dems lost the Senate, Joe Biden announced the ObamaBiden administration’s support for funding the Alliance for Prosperity. The initial outlay was $300 million in 2014, which ramped up to $500 million in 2015 and $700 million in 2016 — so $1.5 billion of U.S. taxpayer money flooding into a region of approximately 32 million inhabitants over three years.

    I am not aware of any accounting of where that money actually went or what it was used for. Nor am I aware anyone has ever asked for such information — certainly not the legacy media.

    And here’s what General Kelly said about the “encouraging” situation in Honduras during his testimony to Congress in March 2015, so only a few months after Joe Biden announced Alliance for Prosperity. And remember, this is the same General Kelly who already knew Honduran President Orlando Hernández was working for the cartels.

    Kelly’s close ties to Honduras’ cartel president synchronized perfectly with Joe Biden’s Alliance for Prosperity, and then the General went even further by asking Congress to send Orlando Hernández hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. Clearly, Kelly was in on the ask — though again, probably under orders.

    Basically Kelly during his SOUTHCOM days was a world-wise, unassuming four-star who operated below the radar and followed ObamaBiden orders to enrich cartels. Just the kind of general the legacy media could ignore.

    But then he started working for Trump.

    A 2018 Associated Press article on Kelly, apparently trying to use him to discredit Trump, indicates, during his SOUTHCOM days, Kelly tied in with Orlando Hernández while cognizant of his cartel drug smuggling. In other words, once Kelly was on Team Trump, he had to be “revealed.” Here’s a telling quote:

    “From late 2012 to early 2016, Kelly forged close ties with Honduran military and security chiefs, even as colleagues elsewhere in the Obama administration raised concerns about links between drug trafficking and high-ranking officials in the Honduran government, according to interviews with more than 20 former State Department, Defense Department, Drug Enforcement Administration and national security officials who worked closely with Kelly, as well as human rights activists, former Honduran officials and academics.”

    Note this article was published months before the DEA arrested Tony Hernández. And here’s a screenshot of more AP reporting on the “truth” about Kelly’s close association with Orlando Hernández. Note how often the AP explains Obama or Biden’s role in pushing Kelly into close collaboration with the Honduran. As in never! The entire article reads like Deep State Media taking down a Deep State Industrial-Military Operative — supposedly one of their own — simply because he worked for Trump.

    But was Kelly really ever working for Trump? Because even as Secretary of Homeland Security, he continued his close contact with Orlando Hernández — and all the while the drug smuggling continued. Here’s a screenshot of a DHS press release proclaiming the enduring Kelly-Hernández relationship.

    And in the screenshot below — again of the AP article linked above — is the eventual message, which by my reading was more about Trump than Kelly. But I think as White House chief of staff, Kelly would have been THE White House insider pushing for his cartel buddy’s sketchy reelection, so to me, this was more about Kelly.

    The way I see it, the Kelly-Hernández collaboration ended with the run-up to the 2018 midterms when Hernández allowed/organized highly publicized caravans of migrants (paid for by Alliance for Prosperity money?) to travel to the Southern Border to leverage the Democrats’ wedge issue of Trump’s hardline immigration policies.

    Here’s more AP reporting on that. Notice there’s no mention of how the massive spending during Biden’s Alliance for Prosperity did nothing for the “crisis.”

    And it was Trump’s DEA who finally arrested Tony Hernández. Not that the media reported that with any critical thinking. As I wrote in Joe Biden Unauthorized and the 2020 Crackup of the Democratic Party, President Orlando Hernández was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in his brother’s case. He had since been arrested by the Biden Department of Justice. I’ll have more on that in my next Substack.

    Since leaving the White House, General Kelly has made several critical comments about President Trump. Yet I’ve never heard him talk about his friendship with former Honduran President Orlando Hernández. Funny that.

    President Trump recently responded to Kelly with this on Truth Social:

    “John Kelly pretended to be a ‘tough guy,’ but was actually weak and ineffective, born with a VERY small ‘brain.’ He had a hard time functioning in a political world, and was truly an exhausted and beaten man when I fired him. In the end he was a ‘mummy’ who sat in his office and stared at the ceiling – he was ‘shot.’ I’ll never forget how his very nice wife told me that ‘John loves you, and respects you more than anyone, he will always say the BEST things about you.’ Oh well, so much for that!”

    Perhaps the best way to conclude this is with President Trump’s remarks at the Wall from January 2017, days before he left the White House, in which he explains how he handled not only the cartel president but the entire region.

    * * * * *

    Still nothing from the FBI about my tip identifying Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan as co-conspirators in a Burisma kickback scheme. Nor has U.S.Attorney David Weiss contacted me. The evidence accompanying the IRS whistleblowers and Devon Archer’s testimony is damning. More on the way. It’s going to be a long, ugly year for the Democrats.

    I’m on Fox Nation’s documentary “Who is Hunter Biden? Part 4.” I said it, now it’s proven: Joe Biden is a criminal!

    And yet another documentary on my views of Biden crimes is due out soon with independent filmmaker @BrokenAnthem. Stay tuned.

    https://mmccormick.substack.com/p/biden-and-the-cartels-part-five

    • Personnel is policy.
      Flashy friends who turn out to be trash. And some of them turn out to be enemy operatives.

      PTrump will be as bad or worse this time around. His arrogance is off the charts.

      He’ll waste our time with unforced errors that’ll compound the jihad the Swamp wages against him. A lame duck has little leverage anyway, but THIS lame duck takes it down to negative.

      If I wasn’t voting AGAINST Demonrats, I’d vote for anyone else who could win. Anyway the election will be another farce.

      We can’t vote our way out of this.
      PT guarantees civil war.

  26. Anheuser-Busch Selling Off Eight Craft Beer Brands as Bud Light Boycott Continues
    By Cassandra MacDonald Aug. 8, 2023 5:00 pm81 Comments

    Anheuser-Busch is selling off eight craft beer brands as the Bud Light boycott continues to tank the company.
    Tilray Brands, the largest cannabis company in the world, will be purchasing the beer brands, which include Red Hook, Shock Top, Breckenridge Brewery, Blue Point Brewing Company, 10 Barrel Brewing Company, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Square Mile Cider Company, and HiBall Energy.

    The company is reportedly paying Anheuser-Busch $85 million in cash.

    The purchase will make the marijuana company the fifth-largest craft brewer and the fifteenth-largest overall brewer in the United States, according to a report from Forbes. The transactions will include the brand’s associated breweries, brewpubs, and current employees.

    “With this transaction, our beer business is expected to triple in size from 4 million cases to 12 million cases

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/anheuser-busch-selling-eight-craft-beer-brands-as/

  27. (Richard: Pay ose attention to how the knifeman keeps his head down and casually walks off. That isn’t a street punk.)

    Video Shows Sen. Rand Paul’s Staffer Being Brutally Stabbed In D.C.

    Video footage of Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s staffer being brutally stabbed in Washington, D.C., in March was released on Tuesday.

    The Washington Post released footage of the staffer, Phillip Todd, being attacked. A suspect was identified as Glynn Neal. He had apparently just been released from federal prison before allegedly stabbing Todd, and reportedly has a long history of serious crimes, according to Virginians 4 Safe Communities.

    Todd’s parents said he was “randomly and brutally attacked” and that the man tried to kill him. After the attack, they mentioned a friend of his son, who can be seen in the video, prevented the wounds from being fatal and that Todd has a fracture on his skull after

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/08/video-shows-sen-rand-paul-staffer-stabbed-dc/

  28. M files:

    Belgian’ Leopard 1 tanks on their way to Ukraine

    […]The military vehicles were not delivered by the Federal Government but came from a private arms dealer –

    […]”The tanks will first stop in Germany and Italy, where they will be overhauled and given modern weapon systems.

    […]Which country that is and how much money the 50 tanks were sold for are confidential.

    https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/636119/first-belgian-leopard-1-tanks-on-their-way-to-ukraine

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    Belgium’s 50 Leopard tanks en route to Ukraine – EU

    […]The arms dealer bought the Leopard 1 tanks about 10 years ago, when the Belgian army took them out of service and replaced them with lighter tanks.

    […]Then he found a buyer who purchased and donated the entire batch to Kiev. Versluis could not say which country this country was or for what amount the tanks were sold

    […] the market value of these tanks has increased to at least 500,000 euros for each of them.

    https://www.txtreport.com/news/2023-08-08-belgium-s-50-leopard-tanks-en-route-to-ukraine—eu.B1zV_na1nn.html

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    Unnamed Country Buys 50 Leopard 1 Tanks from Belgium for Ukraine

    […]the tanks were not included in the list of equipment Belgium supplies to Ukraine. According to Defence Minister, Ludivine Dedonder, they are too expensive to be put into operation.

    […]Belgium sold the tanks to the OIP Systems company for only 15,000 euros each, effectively treating them as scrap metal. The army lacked hangars to store the decommissioned equipment, so they sold it at dumping prices.

    https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/8/7167212/

    • Letter from grandfather “Tiger” to his grandson “Leopard” to Ukraine

      Guten morgen, main liber grandson! I am infinitely glad that you decided to continue Drang nah Osten. Russians have a lot of good fertile land. But for some reason they clung to it strongly…

      There are nuances
      At first, take care of your health. And especially the transmission. She breaks first. I remember that near Leningrad, because of this damn transmission in August 1942, three of our four T-VIs broke down. They were repaired for a month…

      It’s hard in winter. The transmission caught a cold right away, the oil froze there. And between the rollers there was so much dirt that it was possible to pick it out from there only by removing the wheels. What a pleasure it is in a 20-degree frost, you can imagine.

      Secondly, we Germans are healthy and big. We eat a lot, especially when it’s cold or we drive through mud. For example, I ate like hell, 270 liters per 100 kilometers, and off-road – 480, although it happened when I was completely hungry, I ate 6 liters per kilometer. So what to do?

      You, Maine Liber granddaughter, also have a good appetite – 720 liters per 100 kilometers. And in general, who knows exactly how much you will need in Russian mud? Keep in mind that Russian diesel fuel, like gasoline, I know very well, is not suitable for us at all…

      Thirdly, get ready for the fact that you will have to travel a lot on car transporters. Be careful when you move in or out…

      For our transportation by rail, special six-axle platforms were designed. They could carry 80 tons and followed with each battalion to the combat area. Also, due to the heavy load, the weight distribution was monitored so that the bridges on the railway could withstand such a load.

      You, Maine Liber grandson, have an even wider width – 3,75 meters. And more weight too. I don’t know how they will take you … I say, only on an automobile transporter or you will have to stomp on your own. And many bridges in this land of barbarians won’t hold you at all.

      Fourthly. Get ready to sit in the mud for a long time and wait to be pulled out. At this time, you will be a good target for Russian attack aircraft, helicopters and artillery too. Eh, I remember how Russian Schwarzen tod Il-2 tormented us when they poured cumulative aviation bombs…

      In my time, I had an excellent 88-mm cannon, which allowed me to hit Russian “thirty-fours” from a kilometer and a half…. But they managed to quickly go on board or, even worse, to the rear, and then a complete “das ende” would come. In other words, kaput.

      And now Russian tanks are lighter and faster. So, main liber grandson, take care of your ass.

      Now the Russians have guided missiles with which they can kill you from a distance of five kilometers, and you can hit them from three and a half kilometers. And the armor, apparently, is better for the Russians. So take care of yourself…

      And the last.

      If the Russians pin down the Abrams or Challengers somewhere, don’t get into a fight. Try to hide. They are heavier and more visible on the battlefield than you. You have a chance to be the last to die.

      Better not to go there at all. And then they will melt you into Russian nuclear icebreakers and send you to the Arctic.

      In a word, main liber grandson, me and your grandmother “Panther” kiss you, and wish you all the best. But we expect the worst. If you die, we will definitely erect a monument to you on our family plot.

      https://en.topwar.ru/209168-pismo-dedushki-tigra-svoemu-vnuku-leopardu-na-ukrainu.html
      …………
      That German Iron Cross on a tank rolling in to fight Russians? Red cape to charging bull. Exceptional bounty for those who take them out.
      …………
      Leopards get spayed.

      https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4206d5c9-7f50-4268-b9e4-b37dc037c50f_1024x1280.jpeg

  29. M files:

    APRIL 2020 – Porton Down labs test insect repellent as a coronavirus treatment

    … defence scientists at Porton Down have been asked to test an insect repellent as a treatment of COVID-19.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFcPU-Lzv4

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    JUNE 2020 – Special Access Inside The Defence Laboratories At Porton Down

    We’ve been given special access inside the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) in Wiltshire to learn more about the work of scientists there during the coronavirus crisis.

    The facility at Porton Down on Salisbury Plain carries out some of the most highly classified work to safeguard Britain’s security interests, and is one of the UK’s biggest capabilities for handling dangerous pathogens.

    Research has been conducted there for more than 100 years, although DSTL was not officially formed until 2001.

    The Ministry of Defence and Home Office are among its customers, spending more than £600 million last year.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfrkhXXXb3A

    ==========================
    AUGUST 2016 – Inside Porton Down: Preparing For Gas Attacks

    …scientists work to protect us from the threat of a chemical weapons attack.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E23KBPd6iHY

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    JUNE 2023 – The Future of Policing | Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire Visits Dstl