Reader’s Links for August 16th, 2023

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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.

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38 Replies to “Reader’s Links for August 16th, 2023”

    • When China crashes it will drag down the rest of the world. Central Planning and corruption always crash economies, the longer the time until the crash the deeper and wider the crash.

      Once the crash starts our home grown leftist Central Planning freaks will all do the wrong thing and make the ensuing recession worse.

      • The comment threads of the anti-American vlog/blog-sters use CHY-na as an example of win-win diplomacy.
        Helping the Global South de-colonize itself. (Forget about debt-trap diplomacy.)

        It’s a reflex. Just as they’re not really pro-Russia as it is today, they’re just comprehensively anti-America. It would be less transparent if they recognized Russia is neither the USSR nor the pathetic basket case of the ’90s decade.

        • They have changed, from what I have seen for the better. In many ways they are drifting towards the society I see forming in all nations.

  2. On Monday, Hawaiian governor Josh Green announced that his administration was considering acquiring properties in the seaside resort town of Lahaina that had been destroyed by the recent wildfires.

    https://thepostmillennial.com/hawaii-governor-says-state-is-looking-to-acquire-land-that-was-destroyed-in-fires

    According to this person, legislation was passed just last year to give the state the authority to purchase land destroyed by a “natural disaster”

    https://twitter.com/Candellight1745/status/1691600469880168554

    • He hasn’t committed any crimes, why should he confess and be punished for something ha hadn’t done?

        • The left is trying to bankrupt him with massive legal bills. They don’t have much time left to continue their war on freedom so they are going to in rease their attacks on Trump and his people.

    • On the plus side, BRICS are still garbage countries and some are always fighting with others. I wouldn’t go long on any of them.

      • In fact, ordinary Russians can’t see the point of going all kissy-face with Africa. Maybe back in the old Soviet days there was a geopolitical imperative, but that’s no longer the case.

        Maybe Putin can throw a wrench into France’s looting of Niger, stir things up a little via Wagner. He likes that sort of thing. But the recent Russia-Africa summit came down to bribes: multibillion debt write-offs and promises of free grain.

        “No mutually beneficial cooperation agreements and important political decisions were made at the summit, although some business issues were probably discussed on the sidelines of the event. This, in particular, is evidenced by the presence at the summit of the owner of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who, apparently, still retains his business empire in Africa, despite the recent events related to the rebellion.

        “Nevertheless, the question arises – what, in fact, Africa can offer Russia? Well, that is, gratuitous assistance to poor Africans is, of course, altruistic, and the benefit of individual businessmen is good for businessmen, but what is Moscow’s political advantage here? How important is good relations with African countries for Russia? ”

        https://en.topwar.ru/222730-nuzhna-li-rossii-afrika.html
        …..
        Comments are quite strongly opposed to gimme dats. Western imperial powers seek to discharge their moral debts? Fine. That’s their business. Russia itself needs infrastructure, development funding.

        Sub-Saharan Africa is corrupt and unreliable, has little value as a trading partner. South Africa (the “S” of BRICS) is no friend: Cyril Ramaphosa said he’d have to arrest Putin if he came to the BRICS meeting in person! He’ll have to address the group via video!

    • Africa wants out of the French.franc (CFA).
      When Gaddafi made moves against fiat, he got dead…

      Change Is in the Air in Africa

      This new revolt of the global south follows in the footsteps of previous movements, notably that of Gaddafi, who pushed for pan-Africanism and sought to replace the French Franc with an African currency based on the classical Libyan gold Dinar.

      https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/change-is-in-the-air-in-africa?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

  5. Open season on conservative politicians? Fernando Villavicencio of Ecuador who spoke up against drug cartels, Donald Trump, and here about the AfD Bavaria chief beaten to a pulp:

    https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/afd-bavaria-chief-beaten-up-in-organised-migrant-attack/

    It is very difficult to get a clear picture of the full scope of such attacks, however, because search results seem to regularly invert the question to how the “far right” attacks leftist politicians. Curious, this, considering the revolution is into the normalisation stage, which explains perfectly the captured media’s ability to invert and distort search results.

    • This is a very disturbing pattern, the globalists are working overtime to ensure a global economic collapse so they can seize power. People who support local sovereignty are a very real danger to their plan and have to be eliminated.

  9. Lawmaker: New Democrat Supreme Judge Could Face Impeachment
    By Guest Contributor Aug. 16, 2023 9:20 am0 Comments

    Guest by post by Bob Unruh

    This article originally appeared on WND.com

    Court member has complained state’s electoral maps are ‘rigged’

    A Democrat judge in Wisconsin, newly elected to the state Supreme Court, giving leftists the majority for the first time in years, could be facing impeachment if she refuses to recuse herself from election cases.

    That’s according to a statement from Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.

    “If there is any semblance of honor on the state Supreme Court left, you cannot have a person who runs for the court prejudging a case and being open about it, and then acting on the case as if you’re an impartial observer,” Vos said, according to a report from the Washington Examiner.

    WND recently reported how the chief justice of the court described as “shameful” the actions of the new liberal majority.

    Those four, without consulting the other three members of the court, fired the court administrator.

    “The court’s action today violates the Wisconsin Constitution which endows the chief justice with administrative authority. The authority of the chief justice is being undermined and eroded unlike any time in this court’s history. … This lack of respect for longstanding institutional process is reckless,” said Chief Justice Annette Ziegler in a statement after the four liberals voted, without consulting anyone else, to fire Randy Koschnick, the director of the state courts.

    “A vote of four may dictate decisions of our court, but those votes are taken during formally noticed court conferences scheduled by the chief justice; no such conference has occurred,” Ziegler said. “Apparently several of my colleagues do not think court conferences are necessary to conduct court business when there is a pre-ordained determination. Their actions today effectively silence those members of the court who have not been privy to these secret discussions.”

    The change in direction by the court came about because Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal, was sworn into office recently, replacing conservative Pat Roggensack, who retired.

    Now Vos is confirming that Protasiewicz, who has publicly commented on the legislative redistricting process, would need to stay out of any decision on that topic.

    If that doesn’t happen, Vos confirmed lawmakers might consider booting her from office.

    The Examiner reported, “The race between Kelly and Protasiewicz was the most expensive race for a state Supreme Court in history, with an estimated $45 million pumped into it from special interest groups, including liberal megadonor George Soros and Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, one of America’s wealthiest families who have two of the deepest pockets in conservative politics. ”

    Vox said he’ll wait to see if Protasiewicz recuses on cases that she’s prejudged.

    Not doing so, he said, would be a “serious offense.”

    Republicans have a majority in the assembly and a supermajority in the state senate, and could successfully impeach and remove a judge if they chose.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/lawmaker-new-democrat-supreme-judge-could-face-impeachment/

  10. Edward Luttwak puts things into perspective (Aug.10):
    Why Ukraine’s offensive has stalled: There is only one route forward

    Whenever Russian missiles strike a Ukrainian city, or Kyiv’s drones target a building in Moscow, the attacks are inevitably followed by the sort of media coverage worthy of a Blitz raid. Yet generating headlines is just about their only achievement: precision missiles cannot deliver much explosive, and drones even less…

    Against buildings, small missile warheads and puny drone charges can certainly inflict damage, but not of any real consequence. And this is a key aspect of the entire war, especially when compared to the last great conflict on the European continent.

    From March 1942, the RAF’s Bomber Command was flying Lancaster bombers with a typical individual bombload of 6,400kg, so that the first Lancaster raid to feature 400 bombers dropped 2,560 metric tons – more than the total tonnage dropped on Ukraine by Russian cruise missiles since the war started…

    All the military drones now operational across the globe cannot deliver as much explosive as the Bomber Command could drop in a couple of nights.

    Thus the first serious war of the third millennium must be fought on the ground – quite a comedown from the “post-kinetic” cyber and information warfare that had been confidently predicted by both Western and Russian generals. This is a war that must be fought by sheer, grinding, attrition, just like the First World War on the Western Front, with almost none of the “manoeuvre warfare” exploits…

    https://unherd.com/2023/08/why-ukraines-offensive-has-stalled/
    ……..
    Luttwak (July 7) -Terrific geopolitical analysis:
    Why no one can end the Ukraine war: Five hundred days in, both sides are caught in the same paradox

    https://unherd.com/2023/07/why-no-one-can-end-the-ukraine-war/

  11. CHRIS WRAY STRIKES AGAIN! Georgia Election Workers Caught Jamming Stacks of Ballots Through Machines Multiple Times After Observers Removed from Building – CLEARED BY FBI – Jamming Stacks of Selected Ballots Through Voting Machines Is Now Legal in the USA!
    By Jim Hoft Aug. 16, 2023 8:00 am716 Comments

    CHRIS WRAY AND BILL BARR DID IT AGAIN!

    A new report released in June by the FBI concluded that the female and male Georgia Poll Workers who jammed stacks of ballots through voting machines numerous times on election night 2020 after observers were sent home — did nothing wrong!

    According to the report that was recently released the “bulk of the investigation appears to have been conducted in December 2020 and January 2021, but both the State Election Board and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office was backed up reviewing claims.”

    Here again is video of the election workers pulling hidden suitcases out from under a draped table, jamming the ballots through the machines multiple times. It should be noted that this was not just happening at one table but according to The Gateway Pundit research the election workers were doing this at multiple tables.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/chris-wray-strikes-again-georgia-poll-workers-caught/

  12. The Muskegon Cover-Up: Gateway Pundit Investigators Visit Registration Fraud Epicenter and Find FBI Has Stalled Investigation and Silenced Officials, No Prosecutions in 3 Years
    By Ben Wetmore Aug. 15, 2023 8:00 am1158 Comments

    Critical information for investigating the Muskegon Michigan voter fraud in 2020 is being illegally withheld from public review. Investigating systemic voter fraud in the 2020 election in Muskegon requires examining the 8,000-12,000 likely-fraudulent voter applications submitted by Biden campaign-financed GBI Strategies in October 2020, but those files have been withheld from public review on the argument that they are part of an ‘ongoing investigation’ by law enforcement.

    This tactic for evading FOIA at the state and federal level is well-known, but its use here to deny access to public records by removing them and not including a duplicate, is unique.

    According to far-left Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, these admittedly false and fraudulent voter applications were never added to the voter rolls. But no one can know for sure because the files themselves, in violation of state law, have been sealed and have been ‘under investigation’ by Nessel’s office and the FBI for three years for a criminal

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/muskegon-cover-up-gateway-pundit-investigators-visit-michigan/

  14. Pox on Princeton!
    Legal Group Seeks Removal of ‘Blood Libel’ Book from Princeton University Course

    The International Legal Forum (ILF), a nonprofit organization based in Tel Aviv which advocates for equality in Israel and the Middle East, on Sunday asked Princeton University to remove from the syllabus of a Department of Near Eastern Studies course a book that accuses the Israeli Defense Forces of “maiming” Palestinians and harvesting their organs.

    Students in the class are assigned Rutgers University professor Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim for a course titled “The Healing Humanities: Decolonizing Trauma Studies from the Global South,” which will be taught by Professor Satyel Larson this fall.

    Right to Maim has been accused by academics of being “pseudo-scholarship” for trafficking in antisemitic blood libels rooted in medieval conspiracies charging that Jews murdered Christian children and drank their blood during Passover.

    Puar began making such claims in Feb. 2016, when she said at Vassar College that “young Palestinian men…were mined for organs for scientific research.” At the same event, she accused Israel of committing “genocide in slow motion.” Later that year, during a panel at Dartmouth College she said Israel uses “maiming as a deliberate biopolitical tactic” to enforce settler-colonialism.

    https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/09/legal-group-seeks-removal-of-allegedly-antisemitic-book-from-princeton-university-course/
    …………..
    Caroline Glick @CarolineGlick
    I guess it makes sense for Princeton to hire Rob Malley. They already have Saytel Larson brainwashing students to believe Israeli Jews steal organs. Why not make them believe giving Iran nukes to fry the Jews is the height of statesmanship?
    FWIW, Malley’s available to teach because he’s under FBI investigation on security offenses.
    https://spia.princeton.edu/news/senior-state-department-official-join-spia-faculty-visiting-professor-and-lecturer

    https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1691654217365114982
    ……….
    Lee Smith:
    What Happened to Robert Malley?
    The downfall of the White House’s favorite Iran whisperer is a mystery wrapped inside a cover-up

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-really-happened-to-robert-malley-lee-smith

  15. This is what kids in the Soviet Union learned about the run up to WW2, 1934-39. Probably the same in today’s RF. How much of it is true?

    AN ANNIVERSARY NOBODY REMEMBERS

    If you were Stalin, what would you do when your Plan A is dead? You know war is coming, you believe Hitler when he says his aim is to seize lebensraum to the east. Your potential allies don’t get it. What would you do?

    While London and Paris dither and Warsaw dreams dreams (what dreams? Hitler just tore up the non-aggression pact you were counting on: you’re next) Hitler strikes.

    How about a non-aggression pact? Stalin seizes the chance, the agreement is immediately signed. Stalin knows perfectly well that Hitler is going to attack the USSR and so he starts to grab as much territory to the west as he can and put off the day as long as possible.

    https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2023/08/12/an-anniversary-nobody-remembers/

    • There is a kernel of truth in the story, the question that will never be answered is how much?

  17. Newt Gingrich Issues Stark Warning on Trump Georgia Indictment (Video)
    By Kristinn Taylor Aug. 16, 2023 12:30 pm847 Comments

    Historian and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) gave a stark assessment of the indictment of President Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for challenging the 2020 presidential election in Georgia in an interview Monday night on the Fox News Channel show Hannity. Gingrich warned, “we are drifting towards the greatest Constitutional crisis since the 1850s, uh, and the rise of secession and the Civil War,”…that will “(establish) a moment of bitterness, which I think will last for a generation or more.”

    Newt Gingrich: “I think what you’re seeing tonight is one tree in a forest, and I think we are drifting towards the greatest Constitutional crisis since the 1850s, uh, and the rise of secession and the Civil War. I don’t mean that as hyperbole. Uh, if you read Andy McCarthy’s remarkable book, Ball of Collusion, which came out in 2019, he makes very clear that it is Barack Obama who corrupts the Justice Department, it is Hillary Clinton who routinely breaks the law and gets away with it. And now we have Joe Biden who’s learned, he’s learned from Obama that is doesn’t matter what you do, if you’re a liberal Democrat, you will not be prosecuted. He learned from Hillary that a person in high public office can get millions and millions of dollars. And they learned from watching Donald Trump that a true outsider, willing to take on the entire system, could destroy their entire machine. So what you’re seeing across the country, is a desperate, last-ditch effort by a corrupt machine to destroy their most dangerous opponent in a way which not only breaks the Constitution, destroys the rule of law, and establishes a moment of bitterness, uh, which I think will last for a generation or more. I think this is gonna be a horrendous period and we just need to understand: The people who want to control America and dictate to the rest of us will break any law, lie about any topic, and manipulate the system any way they can, and that includes a lot of the elite news media.”

    Transcribed by TGP.

    Gingrich also called on House Republicans to cut off funding for the Justice Department’s prosecution of Trump, “I think this is so dangerous to the very survival of the republic that it has to be stopped.” Gingrich predicted that millions of Americans will campaign in Trump’s stead next year if he is tied up in court trials.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/newt-gingrich-issues-stark-warning-trump-georgia-indictment/

  18. Capt. Seth Keshel Explains How the 2020 Election Was Stolen from President Trump in the Midwest States (Video)
    By Jim Hoft Aug. 16, 2023 6:00 pm195 Comments

    Seth Keshel and Emerald Robinson at the Election Crime Bureau Summit in Missouri, 2023.
    Captain Seth Keshel joined Emerald Robinson on the main stage at the Election Crime Summit sponsored by Mike Lindell in Springfield, Missouri.

    Seth Keshel is always interesting and always on target.

    Last week Seth Keshel commented on the viral Gateway Pundit reports on the Muskegon Registrations Scandal. The Gateway Pundit and our contributors Patty McMurray and Ben Wetmore broke the story on how 8,000-10,000 fraudulent ballot registrations were sent to the clerk’s office in Muskegon, Michigan before the 2020 election. The Democrat-funded GBI Strategies was behind this registration fraud in Michigan. The company is operating in 20 states.

    Via Seth Keshel Substack:

    Muskegon County, the state’s 12th largest county, was in the news this week, with The Gateway Pundit laying them out cold, highlighting a single activist seeking to dump off more than 8,000 fraudulent voter registrations on the same day. A review of the county’s voter rolls revealed 32,000 more registrations in the county than seem plausible based on a variety of factors. Keep in mind, these are the same voter rolls used to facilitate endless mail-in ballot requests, and which populate the electronic elections infrastructure. I had pegged Muskegon for an easy Trump flip, which would have been the first GOP presidential win there since 1988.

    Biden managed to eke out a “win” in Muskegon, aided by 12,643 fraudulent votes, minimum, in the county – according to my methodology. Muskegon saw its voter roll swell by 8,424 net new registrations in 2008, from 121,992 to 130,416, in anticipation of what I like to call Obama-mania. Of course, the state swung 13 points to the left from 2004, and Muskegon mimicked that movement. Once that buzz wore off, the roll shrank by 737 in 2012, and then by 880 more in 2016. The reason is obvious – because the non-college white voter stopped being loyal to Democrats in Obama’s reelection campaign, and even more so when Clinton topped the party ticket in 2016; yet, somehow, 11,837 net new registrations appeared ahead of the Trump-Biden matchup in 2020, joining the rest of the waste highlighted above.

    Read the rest here.

    Here is Seth at the Missouri Summit from earlier today.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/capt-seth-keshel-explains-how-2020-election-was/

  19. Report Shows GBI Strategies as Part of Massive Left-Wing Dark Money Voting Operation by Democrats in 2020 Election
    By Ben Wetmore Aug. 17, 2023 8:00 am77 Comments

    The firm at the center of a three-year long voter fraud investigation is also featured in a report this week from the Capital Research Center, identifying the massive ‘dark money’ used to prop up Joe Biden’s flailing 2020 campaign. The firm, GBI Strategies, was paid millions in non-profit money to ‘organize’ voters for purposes that appear to be thinly-veiled campaigning. Meaning that, left-wing billionaires routed money through non-profits to give to GBI Strategies, money that would be difficult to trace and would be spent affecting elections.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/report-shows-gbi-strategies-as-part-massive-left/#comments