Reader’s Links for September 18th, 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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47 Replies to “Reader’s Links for September 18th, 2023”

    • I just came here with the same concern. The Baron always lets readers know if he is traveling. The silence of several days is worrisome.

    • A few days ago, I checked in on GoV and Baron I recall, that he had a post up saying he would be away for a few days..
      And I thought it was good he was taking about 4-5 days off, which is a bit longer than he usually does.

      The strange thing in that on GoV I can not find that post now, even despite going back a few pages.
      Maybe some how it was misfiled, or somehow Baron from another place & on a different gadget, sort of mistakenly deleted it ???

      Trying to recall from memory, I vaguely think it was 19th September to return.
      So just another day or 2 & I hope he is safely home, & all refreshed.
      Simpleton1

      • There is a curious glitch on GoV and occasionally on my site, where recent posts don’t show up. The newest post can be quite old, or maybe from a day or two ago.

  6. 16 min Viva/Barnes on third-wave feminazis and their hidden supporters swingin’ that big ol’ “rape” bat while ignoring their own culpability, such as 80% of women chasing 10% of men, still. Full disclosure: I am in that 5% of men who secretly reside in this 10% of men except nobody knows it, particularly the women. Also, Brand’s possible role as a nudger of the gun barrel 1 mm to the right in order to miss the left target by six feet comes into question here, which means we are possibly capable of over thinking the face-value of possible assets.

  11. Many of us have avoided a proper revisit of 9/11 because of the vagaries and informational cesspool that that event wallowed in. Now with Diana West’s help we can find better definition of it. It was by no means an event that diminished Islam’s threat against Western values. It was, however, quite possibly an event that was enabled by domestic forces to occur in order to further the globalist agenda.

    https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/4702/From-the-Dust-of-9-11-The-Surveillance-State.aspx

  18. Oversight Committee Issues Statement Following Hunter Biden’s Lawsuit Against the IRS: “Witness Intimidation Is Just Another Dirty Tactic by the Hunter Biden Legal Team”
    By Jim H?ft Sep. 18, 2023 10:30 am45 Comments

    Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Monday. The lawsuit alleges that IRS agents unlawfully disclosed his tax information and failed to protect his private records. This legal action comes amidst several other legal challenges facing Hunter Biden, including an indictment on federal firearms charges and potential additional tax charges.

    Hunter Biden’s lawsuit accuses the IRS of unlawfully disclosing his tax return information.

    The lawsuit claims the disclosures made by IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who have been vocal about their concerns regarding handling investigations into Hunter Biden, “targeted and sought to embarrass Mr. Biden.”

    The lawsuit seeks damages of $1,000 for each unauthorized disclosure of his tax return information, among other things, according to AP News.

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    The IRS agents in question have claimed whistleblower status, arguing that their disclosures were authorized under whistleblower laws. However, Hunter Biden’s lawsuit argues that these protections do not apply in this case. This raises questions about whether the lawsuit is an attempt to intimidate current and future whistleblowers, as suggested by Shapley’s lawyer.

    “Biden has no fewer or lesser rights than any other American citizen, and no government agency or government agent has free reign to violate his rights simply because of who he is,” the lawsuit says, per Business Insider.

    “Two IRS agents—Mr. Gary Shapley and Mr. Joseph Ziegler—and their attorneys raised the stakes to unprecedented levels with their numerous public appearances and statements that blatantly violated Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code by engaging in a campaign to publicly smear Mr. Biden.”

    The Oversight Committee has released a statement defending the IRS whistleblowers.

    “Anyone who has read or listened to the two IRS whistleblowers’ testimony knows that they are upstanding, concerned citizens without a political agenda. Both have worked at the IRS for over a decade on some of the biggest tax crime cases in our country’s history. What they witnessed while working on the Hunter Biden criminal investigation was a ‘corrosion of ethical standards and the abuse of power that threaten our nation.’ They have brought forward serious allegations of politicization and misconduct by DOJ officials,” the post read.

    The statement further criticizes Hunter Biden, labeling him a “tax cheat” and accusing his legal team of waging a “smear campaign” against the whistleblowers. It concludes by saying, “Witness intimidation is just another dirty tactic by the Hunter Biden legal team. Despite their games, our investigation will continue.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/oversight-committee-issues-statement-following-hunter-bidens-lawsuit/

  19. BORDER INVASION UPDATE: Record Crowds of Illegal Migrants Flood Across Open Border in Eagle Pass, Texas as Thousands Stream Through Panama on Way to US (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft Sep. 18, 2023 10:15 am133 Comments

    Massive crowds pictured streaming across the US southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas on Sept. 18, 2023. (Bill Melugin video screengrab)
    The border invasion is worsening.

    Over 7 million illegals walked across the US southern border in Joe Biden’s first three years in office.

    The numbers are growing. Bill Melugin reported on Monday that he witnessed the largest mass crossings he had ever seen last night in Eagle Pass, Texas.

    Republicans are too weak to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or Joe Biden for their destruction of the US international border and the preventable invasion.

    FOX News border expert Bill Melugin reported: “One of the largest mass illegal crossings we have ever seen took place in Eagle Pass, TX this morning, w/ Border Patrol sources telling us over 2,200 people crossed there since midnight. It happened right next to the port of entry, as illegal immigrants continue to ignore Biden admin messaging of “do not come”, & do not fear the promised “consequences” for crossing illegally. Videos from source in MX & our FOX drone team on US side.”

    The videos in this tweet are shocking.

    This is a planned invasion and destruction of our country. All thanks to the Democrats and weak Republicans.

    Ben Bergquam published video from the Darien Pass in Panama last week. Over 4,000 people in one day passed through the area on their way to the open US border.

    Send them all to Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/border-invasion-update-record-crowds-illegal-migrants-flood/

  20. Attorneys For IRS Whistleblower Gary Shapley Respond to Hunter Biden Lawsuit Against IRS
    By Cristina Laila Sep. 18, 2023 12:10 pm26 Comments

    Hunter Biden on Monday sued the IRS after whistleblowers revealed he did not pay taxes on millions of dollars in international money schemes and was given a sweetheart deal from far-left investigators.

    Two IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley, and Joseph Ziegler, testified on the government prosecutors’ preferential treatment of Hunter Biden.

    Gary Shapley said Biden-appointed US Attorneys blocked charges against Hunter Biden.

    Shapley’s testimony lines up with what whistleblower X, identified as Joseph Ziegler, said during a hearing in July.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/attorneys-irs-whistleblower-gary-shapley-respond-hunter-biden/

  21. Lashes Out at MTG for Showing “Ding-a-Ling Pics” of Hunter Biden Engaged with Prostitutes in Dress Code Spat
    By Kristinn Taylor Sep. 18, 2023 11:45 am223 Comments

    Man-child Sen. John Fetterman D-PA) dunked on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday in a retort to her criticism of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ditching the Senate dress code to accommodate the 54-year-old Fetterman dressing like a teenage pothead. Fetterman criticized Greene for showing nude photos of Joe Biden’s son Hunter engaged with prostitutes at a House hearing earlier this year.

    Greene posted on Sunday, “The Senate no longer enforcing a dress code for Senators to appease Fetterman is disgraceful. Dress code is one of society’s standards that set etiquette and respect for our institutions. Stop lowering the bar!”

    Fetterman responded on Monday morning, “Thankfully, the nation’s lower chamber lives by a higher code of conduct: displaying ding-a-ling pics in public hearings.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/slob-fetterman-dunks-mtg-showing-ding-ling-pics/

  22. Pelosi Refused to Hand Over Communications Surrounding Jan. 6, Democrats Destroyed Evidence from Jan. 6 Committee, Refused to Call in National Guard, and Pelosi Hired Camera Crew to Follow Her That Day
    By Jim Hoft Sep. 18, 2023 11:30 am161 Comments

    Nancy Pelosi and her personal camera crew ready for filming on Jan. 6.
    On Sunday President Donald Trump sat for an interview with Kristen Welker from NBC’s Meet the Press.

    During the interview President Trump argued that “Nancy Pelosi is responsible for January 6th.”

    President Trump: “Nancy Pelosi was in charge of security. She turned down 10,000 soldiers. If she didn’t turn down the soldiers, you wouldn’t have had Jan. 6.”

    Of course, President Trump was right. And there is plenty of evidence to back him up.

    President Trump asked for the National Guard three days in advance of January 6. Pelosi turned him down.

    Pelosi refused to turn over information about her culpability in the security breakdown during the Jan. 6 riot for over a year to congressional investigators.

    Steven A. Sund, the Capitol Police chief on that fateful day, not only confirms her culpability along with the rest of the Democratic leadership. Sund reported that Pelosi utilized him as a scapegoat and forced him to step down as Police chief. We all know now she was just trying to obfuscate her own responsibility for the attack.

    House Republicans later found text and email evidence that Pelosi staffers secretly DECREASED security at the US Capitol on January 6.

    Pelosi hired her daughter to film her that day as she traveled through the US Capitol.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/pelosi-refused-hand-communications-surrounding-jan-6-democrats/

  23. Clinton Global Initiative launching network to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians
    Sarah Fortinsky
    Mon, September 18, 2023 at 7:59 AM CDT·2 min read

    The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is set to launch a network to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, one day after beginning its annual conference in New York on Monday.

    CGI Ukraine Action Network will be officially announced Tuesday, The Associated Press reported. The network is a product of a collaboration between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska.

    The AP reported that several financial pledges are also set to be announced in conjunction with Tuesday’s initiative launch.

    https://thehill.com/policy/international/4209624-clinton-global-initiative-launching-network-to-provide-humanitarian-aid-to-ukrainians/

  24. NEW YORK — Pope Francis urged all people to do their part to address the world’s problems, especially climate change and the care of children, to open The Clinton Global Initiative Monday in New York in a talk with former President Bill Clinton.

    “We are in need of a great and shared assumption of responsibility,” the pontiff said through a translator in a videoconference with Bill Clinton. “No challenge is too great if we meet it starting with personal conversion and the personal contribution that each of us can make to solve it… No challenge can be overcome alone — not alone, only together, sisters and brothers, children of God.”

    The need to “Keep Going” is the theme of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI, as Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton say they will convene political, business and philanthropic leaders to build on the momentum of the conference’s return last year after a six-year hiatus.

    “Giving up and giving in is a surefire guarantee that we will not make progress on the major challenges that face us,” Bill Clinton said in his opening statement. “Being distracted and majoring in the minors may be momentary good policy, but it’s a terrible way to run a railroad — or a country.”

    CGI announced numerous new programs Monday that it hopes will gather new monetary commitments and engagement, including gender equality and continued support for the people of Ukraine.

    Recent Stories from ABC News
    Hillary Clinton announced that gender equality will now be the fourth pillar of CGI’s activities, along with fighting climate change, economic inclusion and public health issues.

    “It is time to close the wage gap once and for all,” Hillary Clinton said. “It is time to protect and expand access to reproductive health care, abortion and quality maternity care once and for all. It is time to ensure that every girl everywhere can get the education she deserves.

    CGI plans to announce the launch of the CGI Ukraine Action Network, as well as numerous financial pledges, to support nonprofits working in the country.

    The CGI Ukraine Action Network is the result of a collaboration between Hillary Clinton and Olena Zelenska, first lady of Ukraine, that began last year. The new organization, which will be formally announced Tuesday, is designed to mobilize existing CGI partners, as well as new leaders from around the world, to create and finance new commitments for Ukrainians, according to CGI. Numerous monetary commitments for Ukraine are also set to be announced Tuesday,

    In 2022, CGI announced more than 140 commitments, including a $1 billion plan from Water.org, co-founded by actor Matt Damon, to help 100 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America get lasting access to water and sanitation. This year, leaders including World Bank President Ajay Banga, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres and Ford Foundation CEO Darren Walker, will attend and make their own commitments, which are required for attendance at the conference.

    However, for nonprofits working in Ukraine, the spotlight CGI is offering them, 18 months after Russia’s invasion of the country, may be just as important as the monetary commitments.

    The nonprofit Save Ukraine, which has opened community centers across the country to help families and especially children traumatized by the war and works to rescue Ukrainian children who have been detained in Russia, is set to receive commitments of support during CGI that it plans to use to open more centers, said Olga Yerokhina, spokeswoman for the charity.

    “We know that we have no choice — we must work hard and we are ready for that,” said Yerokhina, who is based in Kyiv. “But we also have this feeling of, ‘Guys, please don’t leave us because we want to be with you.’ If we are not with you, Russia is going to just erase us from the map of the world.”

    Actor Liev Schreiber, co-founder of BlueCheck Ukraine, which vets small Ukrainian nonprofits doing humanitarian work in their communities so that donors can learn about these smaller organizations and feel comfortable funding them, said reminding people about what Ukrainians are still going through may be the most important part of CGI.

    “The best possible outcome is keeping people aware that they are still an existential situation,” Schreiber told The

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/clinton-global-initiative-launch-network-provide-new-humanitarian-103270690

  25. How The Surgical Charging of Hunter Biden Ignores a Pattern of Concealment

    Below is my column in The Hill on the impeachment inquiry and one striking pattern among the alleged crimes facing Hunter Biden: they all served to conceal the influence peddling efforts to sell access or influence to his father. The investigation and charging of Hunter Biden has, thus far, been strikingly surgical in avoiding this pattern of concealment.

    New York Times columnist (and my former classmate at The University of Chicago) David Brooks said this week that the corruption scandal “merits an inquiry. It does not merit … an impeachment inquiry.” While I understand the distinction, I do not understand the basis for it in this situation. There are a variety of alleged crimes related to this corruption that may involve the President. There are also allegations like abuse of office that have been cited in past impeachments. We do not know if those connections exist but, if they do, they would clearly constitute impeachable offenses. Moreover, it is unlikely that we will get those answers without an impeachment inquiry. An impeachment inquiry does not inevitably lead to impeachment, but it does tend to lead to answers on whether impeachable conduct has occurred.

    Here is the column:

    In both the law and psychology, the concept of “willful blindness” is a long-recognized pattern of human conduct. It has been described as circumstances where “you could have known, and should have known, something that instead you strove not to see.”

    The indictment of Hunter Biden on three counts of federal gun violations illustrates the myopic view of many in the media and the Justice Department.

    Although there is a real possibility of additional charges against Hunter, the move to charge the gun violations reinforces a concern that the Justice Department continues to focus on charges that stay as far away from Hunter’s father, President Joe

    https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/18/how-the-surgical-charging-of-hunter-biden-ignores-a-pattern-of-concealment/

  26. Boldly Into the Chaos
    “When you give power over law to people who see law only as a weapon with which to get enemies, you destroy the rule of law. That’s what the dumbshit white liberals have done.” — Paul Craig Roberts
    Clusterfuck Nation

    Everybody I talk to feels a gnawing tingle of dread in their livers and lights as our world tilts into the season of darkness. The Party of Chaos rules solely on the basis of insults to its citizens. They are certainly trying to provoke something like civil war, something they can label “white supremacy,” as if that would justify declaring a state of siege — an emergency suspension of rights to speak, to move, to assemble, to resist the sticky pseudopods of the malevolent Blob that Washington has become.

    These insults are all obvious untruths, and behind them, you can be sure, lurk great crimes. Crimes, of course, call for adjudication and payment. That has been the American way. So, naturally, the Party of Chaos, stolidly based against the American way, has hijacked the law to prevent it from being applied to them. They have spoiled and dishonored every authority in this land and disgracing the law is their ultimate prize.

    It’s hard to say which of their insults is the worst, they are all so gross and arrant, but the untruths around the Covid-19 vaccine operation seem the most conspicuously sinister. CDC director Mandy K. Cohen is still pushing these shots for all Americans down to six-month-old babies, despite a freight train of evidence that they are useless for preventing the disease and blatantly harmful, especially for children. She is either very stupid, dangerously wicked, or insane. You decide:

    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/boldly-into-the-chaos/

  27. How Biden Will Circle the Wagons?
    2 Comments / September 18, 2023
    Victor Davis Hanson
    American Greatness

    The strategies of saving the Biden presidency from an impeachment and a Senate trial despite overwhelming evidence of his corruption are starting to emerge.

    The Family is confronted with damning evidence from the laptop, from the testimonies of Hunter’s business associates Bobulinksi and Archer, from Ukrainian oligarchs and Viktor Shokin, from IRS whistleblowers, from FBI writs, from a likely pseudonymous Biden trove of 4,000 emails to his son and associates, and from the absolute paranoia of a White House that must constantly change its narrative of denials to adjust to a growing portrait of utter corruption, bribery, and perhaps even the treason of warping U.S. policy to fit Biden family interests.

    The Defense in Depth

    One of their strategies is to deny, then hedge, then ignore, then grow silent—and repeat the wash/rinse/spin cycle of stonewalling as many times as necessary to evade the mounting truth.

    Insidiously Joe Biden has retreated from his once loud protestations that he supposedly had no idea of what Hunter and his associates were doing. Such a patently dishonest denial set the model that the President would have no compunction about lying to the American people until the evidence of his wrongdoing becomes overwhelming.

    But this first line of defense did not crumble for years—only to be replaced by a second line of denial: Biden may have known of Hunter’s shenanigans, but he had no business interests with him. That was another blatant untruth.

    And that additional stalling also allowed Biden to ignore the closing walls of incrimination for even more months. When these two forward lines of defense collapsed, as the Biden consortium knew they eventually would, a retreat to a third line of defense followed: yes, Joe knew, after all, of Hunter’s miscreant shakedowns; and, yes, Joe, after all, conceded that from time to time he did meet Hunter’s business associates, and upon requests made phone calls to Hunter’s clientele. But he did not profit from such knowledge and associations. Instead an upright old Joe from Scranton was playing along with the “illusion” of influence peddling: Scranton naiveté is not D.C. criminality.

    Biden’s tripartite lines of defense always got shorter and shallower as evidence mounted. But so far Biden has managed to consume 31 months of his presidency through these strategic retreats. His fourth and final line of defense will likely be that he was involved, that he had rather than feigned contact, but that he did nothing other than what scores of other high-ranking politicians do who rub shoulders with would-be miscreants, sycophants, and crooks—and so did not knowingly take “loans” and “gifts” that had strings attached.

    To breach this fourth defense line, House Republicans will have to break through the labyrinth of Biden paywalls and find how much money was rerouted into Biden coffers. And then they must additionally compare what came into the Biden hands with a) what the family reported on their respective income tax returns, and b) whether their various properties and lifestyles were remotely possible without such massive hidden income. And getting bank records from the Bidens will be near impossible.

    The Ukraine Factor

    Joe Biden has successfully profited by using American foreign aid to stop prosecutorial inquiries into his son’s and, indirectly per the laptop admissions, his own quid pro quo payments from corrupt Ukrainians.

    The firing of Viktor Shokin who knew of Hunter Biden’s corruption was one of the most blatantly corrupt and self-interested acts of a Vice President since the career of Spiro Agnew. Still, there is no reason why Biden would now give up such a proven successful strategy.

    Yet there are important issues for Biden at stake. One, Viktor Shokin is convinced that the Bidens were recipients of Ukrainian bribes intended to win U.S. foreign aid and influence over American foreign policy in Eastern Europe and vis a vis Russia.

    And two, an FBI confidential source has sworn that “a foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them — 17 such recordings.” And three, to corroborate testimonies from these Ukrainian players or to subpoena the purported 17 recordings would now translate into risking the wrath of Joe Biden the giver of massive Ukrainian military aid—now likely over $100 billion—and formerly on record of being perfectly willing to cancel Ukrainian aid unless Kyiv bent to his personal agenda.

    Now in an existential war, Ukrainians will likely not wish either Viktor Shokin or Mykola Zlochevsky, former head of Burisma and said to be in possession of the 17 recordings (including two that purportedly involve Joe Biden directly), to embarrass much less help to remove Biden by producing evidence confirming their charges.

    So we should assume the Ukrainian government will do its best to protect Biden from fellow Ukrainian accusers, mostly by silencing any Ukrainian who would dare endanger their stream of arms and money. For Kyiv, the ongoing Biden exemption from impeachment and conviction is likely seen as a matter of life and death.

    The Big Lie

    A third defense has been outright lying, the bolder and more absurd, all the better. Here Joe Biden has prepped the lying battlefield, whether deliberately or inadvertently, both through his pathological fabrications about his autobiography and the events of our time, and by the collapse of his cognitive facilities.

    Either way, his lies are contextualized by the media as “that’s just ole Joe spinning his tales.” In Biden’s fantasy world, he visited Ground Zero the day after the September 11 attacks, he taught a course on “political theory” at the University of Pennsylvania, his son Beau came home from Iraq in a coffin, and a catastrophic fire nearly consumed the Biden residence.

    All these were not only lies, but callous lies that played on the emotions of those in crisis and suffering—to the purported empathetic advantage of Joe Biden himself. So Biden has no compunction of lying ad infinitum.

    Remember, for years he lied that he fired Shokin because he was corrupt, that his government knew that, that the Europeans agreed, and that he did not leverage U.S. aid to ensure Shokin did not pursue Hunter’s Burisma nefariousness.

    All that was a total lie, but a media-protected lie nonetheless that served Biden well for at least five years.

    So we should expect the Left to embrace the full Biden lie and claim his serial contact with Hunter was the natural concern of a dutiful father, one who has suffered family tragedies and merely periodically called and emailed to cement family solidarity with other equally aggrieved Bidens.

    And when evidence mounts that Biden really did receive funds via Hunter’s dummy companies we will be told that these were loans, or Joe was gifting them to grandchildren—or, most likely, Joe was completely unaware that such funds eventually found their way into his bank accounts and were used to buy and rent his various sumptuous residences.

    Trump 24/7

    At each stage of the walls closing around Joe Biden, a commensurate “Trump did it” news bulletin emerged. Collate the indictments or the leaks about impending indictments from the supposedly uncoordinated work of Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis both with iconic primary election dates ahead, and periodic revelations about the depth of Biden family corruption—and the synchronized distraction is quite stunning.

    Expect in the next year for each new incriminating document released, each new witness that comes forward with a tale of Biden corruption, almost immediately the headlines will blare about a new Trump gag order, a new scheduled Trump court appearance, a new flipped witness cooperating with a prosecutor, and a new leak about a “certain” conviction and jail time. The new media war will make its old Russian collusion’s “all-star,” “hunter-killer team,” and “dream team” prosecutors and the “bombshell” and “walls are closing in” revelations seem like child’s play.

    A Hit-bottom Media

    After being utterly discredited by fixating for years on the Russian “collusion” hoax, and hyping the laptop Russian “disinformation” fable, any professional media would by now have apologized, conducted mass firings, and pledged to report the news rather than massage and invent it.

    But no sooner does one media embarrassment end than the media ventures onto another, on the theory that it is so discredited and has hit bottom that it no longer has any reputation to defend. So a now liberated but bankrupt media feels it matters nothing whether its mythologies have a grain of truth.

    The Biden family corruption and the exemptions given Hunter Biden by a corrupt Biden department of Justice have been contextualized by the media as a prelude to what we can expect of the impeachment inquiry.

    In the modern American media, a Trump phone call threatening to delay offensive military aid until the Ukraine government could guarantee that its operatives were not empowering the Biden quid pro quo clan was an impeachable offense. A self-confessed Biden effort to alter US policy to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor, dutifully investigating the Hunter Biden/Biden family corruption, by threatening to cancel all U.S. aid to Kyiv was mere “familial” concern. Where incidentally is the outrage from current vehement supporters of blank-check, on-to-Moscow support for Ukraine over Joe Biden’s prior threats to cut critical military aid to Ukraine in efforts to ensure uninterrupted money streams to his own family treasure chest

    In sum, the media is more tarnished than ever, and therefore more dangerous because it accepts it has no reputation left to defend and now is entirely unbound to invent, to fabricate, and to smear.

    The Deep State

    In 2017 under media and Democratic pressure, the Trump-appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions was bullied into recusing himself. He appointed in his place Robert Mueller as special counsel, empowered by an unlimited budget and a blank-check concerning time and resources to find “collusion.”

    In contrast, in 2023 the Biden-appointed AG Merrick Garland, under fierce criticism for delaying the Hunter Biden investigation in order to run out of the clock on the statute of limitations on tax fraud, appointed David Weiss as special counsel. He was the prior chief culprit in providing cover for Hunter from indictments. So the proverbial fox is now in charge of the hen house.

    In 2019 the “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella was considered a sacrosanct patriot, even though he had no firsthand knowledge of the supposed crimes he was accusing the president of committing. Instead, the whistleblower was selectively being spoon-fed information from Alexander Vindman, the expatriate U.S. Lt. Colonel, who, in the midst of his accusations, admitted he was offered the Ministry of Defense by the Ukrainian government. Vindman, currently in the second round of his careerist Ukrainian melodrama, is self-appointed CEO of his middleman company, seeking to profit from the war by facilitating the transfer and service of arms from the U.S. government to Ukraine.

    Note the difference: in 2023 whistle blowers are now considered rogues, whether they be honest IRS investigators sickened by the corruption of their own DOJ prosecutorial counterparts, or FBI agents tired of the warping of their agency to facilitate the Biden coverups.

    The net result will be a near impossible congressional task in forcing any federal agency to honor a congressional subpoena, as most will follow the Eric Holder model of a cocky snub of Congress with certainty of exemption.

    The “Do You Really Want President Harris?” Factor

    If the evidence trumps the Biden reliance on administrative state suppression, media bias and character assassination, there is one ace in the Biden hole—Kamala Harris. She is, as has been widely remarked upon, the Spiro Agnew of our age. (Yet the latter, in fact, on the stump was a Cicero in comparison to Harris’s 500-word vocabulary.)

    In other words, the country is more scared of a not corrupt Harris than it is a senile and crooked Biden. And Biden has done nothing to dispel those impressions given that such a Nixonian fear of his Vice President is his last ticket to finishing out his term.

    Not just Biden but millions in the country are anxious that the president is one fall, one new email disclosure from oblivion. His ensuing removal would not just give Harris the presidency in the next year and a half, but also the advantage of incumbency going into the 2024 election year and beyond.

    So expect that the more the proverbial noose tightens around Biden, all the more his West Wing will leak daily stories about Harris’s puerility, her lightness of being, and her abject incompetence, and the dangers she would pose to the republic.

    The DEFCON 1 Option

    There is a final nihilist gambit. If Biden is confronted with his own email evidence of corruption, tapes of his agreement to financial exchanges, bank accounts with large foreign deposits, and direct testimonies that he received cash, he has one last refuge: the “Hunter did it all!” ruse.

    Hunter is all too aware of his own danger. Collate his mischievous recent grifting artistic career, the Malibu-renting Hunter trying to plead poverty to reduce child-support payments, the mysterious cocaine that turns up in a West Wing cubicle, his laptop anger at his Mr. Big Guy’s and Mr. 10 Percent’s underappreciation of Hunter’s bagman role, and Hunter’s threat to call the President of the United States to testify that a now trapped Hunter is innocent of everything.

    The resulting picture that emerges is an out-of-control Hunter—who lost a laptop, a crack pipe, and an illegally registered handgun—now very worried that he will become Joe’s scapegoat.

    Hunter still believes he is a Samson that can pull down the Biden temple upon them all—if the alternative is that he is the only Biden to stew for years in jail.

    Remember, Hunter also knows his father all too well—Joe’s long resume of plagiarism, greed, arrogance, corruption, lying, and fantasies—and so rightly believes at some point Joe might easily shrug, and in one of his “senile” moments, utter, “Well, no Joke, man—it was all Hunter’s stuff, not mine

    https://victorhanson.com/how-biden-will-circle-the-wagons/

  28. Texas Church Holds a “Drag Sunday” Service to Bless the Satanic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Drag Queens (VIDEO)
    By Jim H?ft Sep. 18, 2023 2:30 pm0 Comments

    Cathedral of Hope in Dallas held a service blessing drag queens
    The Cathedral of Hope, the world’s largest LGBTQ-friendly church, hosted a “Drag Sunday” service honoring the satanic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. While the churches argue that their actions are a step towards inclusivity, many conservatives see this as a blatant disregard for the sanctity of religious spaces and the teachings of the Bible.

    The Cathedral of Hope in Dallas is a liberal Christian church that is part of the United Church of Christ (UCC). The UCC is a socially liberal Protestant Christian denomination with roots in the Congregational, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions.

    On Sunday morning, the Cathedral of Hope held a service to bestow blessings upon the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of queer and trans nuns known for their blasphemous acts mocking Catholicism.

    In a Facebook post, the church posted accompanying a video of the service, “The term “family values” has for so long been code language to support misogyny, homophobia, bigotry, and many other ways of hate and exclusion. However, values do have an important role in our lives. They inform our decisions and shape our relationships, and we build communities of faith around shared values. Take a journey as we explore values that move towards healthy families, meaningful connections, strong communities, and to see the good news of radical love and mercy embodied in us and our beloved Cathedral of Hope.”

    The attendees also recited the pledge of allegiance to the satanic group during the service blessing.

    WATCH:

    Priests wearing LGBT-inspired liturgical vestments
    By blessing drag queens and openly supporting LGBTQ+ lifestyles that are contrary to Biblical teachings, these churches are setting a dangerous precedent. Today it’s drag queens; tomorrow it could be other practices that are clearly against the teachings of the Bible. This slippery slope erodes the sanctity of the church and makes it difficult for congregants to distinguish between what is morally acceptable and what is not.

    Approximately 40 demonstrators assembled outside the Cathedral of Hope on Sunday morning to express their disapproval of the service dedicated to the “Anti-catholic” Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

    Roughly 40 protesters gathered at Cathedral of Hope on Sunday morning to voice their opposition to the service honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

    “Put down your sex toys and pick up your Bible, folks!” one protester could be heard saying through a megaphone.

    Cesar Franco of the nonprofit America Needs Fatima said, “Catholic nuns are something that’s very sacred, very beautiful.”

    “For them to mock the purity of nuns, to mock this beautiful institution of the Catholic faith, it’s abominable,” he told The Dallas Morning News.

    “We’re protesting against this abomination that’s occurring here,” said Jim Muller of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, per the DMN.

    A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence told The Dallas Express that it was important for him and his colleagues to come to Sunday’s service to “promulgate omniversal [sic] joy and expiate guilt” and show support for the LGBTQ and drag communities.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/texas-church-holds-drag-sunday-service-bless-satanic/

  29. Massive Win for Criminals: Illinois Sets Risky Precedent by Becoming First State to Abolish Cash Bail
    By Jim H?ft Sep. 18, 2023 3:20 pm19 Comments

    Illinois has become the first state in the U.S. to entirely abolish cash bail starting today, September 18, 2023, a massive win for criminals.

    The Gateway Pundit reported in July that the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the Pretrial Fairness Act provision of the Safety, Accountability, Equity, Transparency-today Act, meaning that cash bail will be eliminated in Illinois in 60 days.

    The elimination of cash bail in Illinois was set to go into effect on Sunday, January 1, 2023, but the state’s highest court halted the reform.

    Democrats in Illinois passed a new law to eliminate the cash bail system. The new law aimed at reforming the state’s criminal justice system.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/massive-win-criminals-illinois-sets-risky-precedent-becoming/

  31. Missing F-35 is found: Debris from $80M stealth fighter jet is recovered in a field two hours north of Charleston after pilot ejected on Sunday and plane continued in ‘zombie mode’ – sparking Pentagon to GROUND all models
    By Germania Rodriguez Poleo and Paul Ferrell For

    Yhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12532685/missing-fighter-jet-update.html

  33. Virginia Rep. Wexton will not seek reelection, citing new diagnosis
    by Kierra Frazier – September 18, 2023

    Excerpt:

    Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) announced on Monday that she will not seek reelection after receiving an updated, more serious diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy.

    Wexton revealed in April that she’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, saying at the time that she hoped to continue serving “for many years to come.” But she sought additional testing after she had not been making the progress “to manage my symptoms that I had hoped,” Wexton, 55, said in a statement, leading to the new diagnosis of PSP, which she called “a kind of Parkinson’s on steroids.” The two conditions are often confused when first diagnosing a patient because they have similar symptoms.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/18/jennifer-wexton-health-diagnosis-00116497

    Hey #VA10, still need to get your vaccine?
    Rep. Jennifer Wexton – May 24, 2021
    https://twitter.com/RepWexton/status/1396843402268917762

    Roundtable on Disinformation and COVID-19
    Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton – September 29, 2020

  36. M files: Ukraine

    Ramstein – Germany SEPT 19 2023

    ( 10 min )

    The Ukrainian military has liberated more than 54% of territory occupied by Russia, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=291GFRhbfm4

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    Associated Press -US defense chief urges nations to dig deep and give Ukraine more much-needed air defense systems

    https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-weapons-coalition-air-defense-54ac1774e92245601171e2bfd1d9bb42

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    Abrams tanks to enter Ukraine soon, Austin says at Ramstein meeting

    https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-09-19/austin-ukraine-war-russia-ramstein-11424102.html

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    Zelensky – UN

    ( 15 min )

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pae6nTHFKKU

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    US defence secretary Lloyd Austin delivers remarks ahead of Ukraine summit in Germany

    ( 25 min )