Reader’s Links for September 21st, 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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40 Replies to “Reader’s Links for September 21st, 2023”

  1. If this doesn’t have the optics of Zelensky’s demise I don’t know what does. And this Uke war hasn’t exactly been Poland’s finest hour, with it refusing to think for itself until–miraculously–it hears through channels the U.S. may turn off the taps. Sad. How about instead of being so afraid to tell Zelensky there’s no more money, they tell him he’s going to prison for corruption and for enabling the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men? I know, I’m saying ridiculous things. But he is a compound character constructed with various parts by various people.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-fractures-u-turn-poland-announces-will-no-longer-arm-ukraine

  4. Dinesh D’ Souza to Release New Film “Police State” Next Month, a Chilling Account of America’s Political Persecution – Watch Teaser Trailer and Buy Your Tickets Here (VIDEO)
    By Cullen Linebarger Sep. 21, 2023 7:15 am0 Comments

    As Jim Hoft previously reported, the Biden regime’s political persecution of ordinary Americans is coming to the big screen next month.

    Filmmaker and conservative activist Dinesh D’ Souza has collaborated with Dan Bongino on a chilling new film called “Police State.” The movie will hit theaters on October 23rd and 25th.

    The Gateway Pundit previously wrote multiple stories about his previous film “2,000 Mules,” which D’Souza says presents conclusive proof that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Trump.

    Conservative actor Nick Searcy, who is best know for playing Sheriff Art Mullen in “Justified,” plays a villainous role in the movie as the face of federal law enforcement enforcing the two-tiered justice system in America.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/dinesh-d-souza-release-new-film-police-state/

  5. Texas AG Ken Paxton Tells Tucker He Was Delivered from Impeachment Trial Through Jesus Christ (VIDEO)
    By Anthony Scott Sep. 21, 2023 7:45 am20 Comments

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sat down with Tucker Carlson in his first interview since being acquitted.

    As The Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday, AG Paxton was acquitted of all 16 articles of impeachment against him.

    Tucker Carlson opened the exclusive interview by saying, “I’m fascinated by the fact you were impeached in the first place. How did this happen?”

    Paxton replied, “First of all let me just say, as you read through this it’s very complicated, it’s crazy, I truly believe it became very political.”

    He continued, “I am sitting here because my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and I was delivered.”

    WATCH:

    Later in the interview, Paxton teased a possible run for U.S. Senate.

    The recently acquitted AG entertained the idea of running after he called out Republican U.S. Senator of Texas John Cornyn for being a “puppet of the Bush family.”

    Paxton told Tucker: “Everything is on the table for me…I think it’s time for somebody to step up and run against this guy.”

    Watch the full interview:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/texas-ag-ken-paxton-tells-tucker-he-was/

  6. The Clinton Foundation is back, and it’s headed to Ukraine.

    Founded by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the foundation put its annual “Clinton Global Initiative” on a hiatus for a few years when their relevance ebbed and fundraising dried up, but their scandal-plagued charity has returned with a plan to provide humanitarian relief to warn-torn Ukraine, complete with a benediction from Pope Francis.

    The Clinton Foundation’s shady dealings were exposed in 2015 by Peter Schweizer in the bestselling book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. On the most recent podcast of The Drill Down, Schweizer commented on the return of the Clintons and their historical gift for grift.

    “The problem is that the Clintons have turned [disaster relief] into disaster capitalism,” Schweizer said. “What we found is that the Clintons were doing a lot of relief work and then working with major corporations that wanted deals in countries that were having a war.”

    Clinton Cash documented examples of this in countries around the world, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, and Haiti, where the Clinton Foundation operated various disaster relief and reconstruction activities. Very often, the companies receiving the government contracts to perform those activities were major donors to the Clinton Foundation, not to mention relatives of the Clintons themselves.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/21/peter-schweizer-the-clintons-are-masters-of-disaster-capitalism-and-ukraine-is-their-next-big-project/

  12. Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” in the pattern of the Eisenhower model, making the vow during a speech in Dubuque, Iowa.

    Trump delivered remarks on securing the border and stopping illegal immigration in the country.

    “One of the most important issues in this campaign is ending the nation-wrecking catastrophe on our southern border,” Trump’s prepared remarks read.

    “Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in U.S. history. Now, we have the worst border in the history of the world,” they continue, deeming the current immigration crisis as an “invasion.” With that, Trump will identify himself as the “only candidate in this race who will stop it cold on DAY ONE.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/20/donald-trump-promises-the-largest-domestic-deportation-operation-in-american-history/

  16. Now that building restrictions and immigration have created a housing shortage, driving up prices of modest two-bedroom homes north of $600K ,
    the state aims to revise its property tax assessment to maximize its take.

    https://www.kusi.com/carl-demaio-california-democrats-passed-two-bills-to-gut-prop-13-and-make-it-easier-to-raise-taxes/
    Proposition 13 is a landmark tax reform measure passed in 1978 that has made it harder for politicians to raise your taxes. The California Constitution requires a two-thirds vote at the local level for both general obligation bonds and special taxes.

    Chairman of Reform California, Carl DeMaio, says the new bills, ACA-1 & ACA-13, are about to change that.

  17. Critics Aren’t Buying Story Of Why Pilot Ejected From $100 Million F-35 Fighter Jet Before It Crashed—Here’s What They’re Saying
    By Patty McMurray Sep. 21, 2023 9:45 am515 Comments

    On Sunday afternoon, it was announced an F-35 fighter jet valued at an estimated $100 million was missing.

    The US Marine Corps announced that the pilot of the F-35 had safely ejected from the jet but asked for the public’s help in locating the missing $100 million aircraft.

    Collin Rugg of Trending Politics shared a video showing the location of the crash. Along with the video, he wrote:

    “The debris field of the F-35 jet has been released after it was located in a field in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/critics-arent-buying-story-why-pilot-ejected-100/

  18. Chinese Journalist Said to Have Given Birth to a Love Child From Ousted Foreign Minister Qin Gang Has Disappeared – Mentions of Fu Xiaotian Are Being Censored From Chinese Social Media
    By Paul Serran Sep. 21, 2023 10:00 am51 Comments

    A rumored affair has shaken the Chinese Communist Party’s highest echelons, leading to the disappearance from the public eye the ousted Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang, and his alleged lover, TV presenter Fu Xiaotian.

    Neither of the two have been heard from since April — and mentions of the journalist have been suppressed on China’s top social media platform.

    The New York Post reported:

    “The married Qin was removed from his position as Beijing’s top diplomat after a probe by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revealed he had carried on an affair during an 18-month stint as ambassador to Washington.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/chinese-journalist-said-have-given-birth-love-child/

  19. Border Crisis: Another Dead Body Pulled Out of Rio Grande Days After 2 Migrant Children Drowned in Same Area (VIDEO)
    By David Greyson Sep. 21, 2023 12:40 pm33 Comments

    The border crisis is a never-ending tragedy for our nation.

    Illegal aliens are dying as they cross the Rio Grande. The body of a middle-aged man who drowned was pulled from the Rio Grande on Thursday morning. To make things even worse, a 3-year-old boy drowned Wednesday, and a 10-year-old last week in the same area. This is a common occurrence thanks to the Biden Regime’s border policies.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/border-crisis-another-dead-body-pulled-rio-grande/

  20. Experts, Media Wrong! COVID Vaccine mRNA Ends up in Mothers’ Milk
    By Guest Contributor Sep. 21, 2023 12:20 pm142 Comments

    CDC, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ‘fact-checkers’ all said vax wouldn’t reach breast tissue

    A new study of lactating women who took the COVID vaccine finds “trace mRNA amounts were detected” up to 45 hours after vaccination in the breast milk of 10 the women – contradicting the government’s and vaccine enthusiasts’ official narrative that mRNA was safe for breastfeeding moms and their infants because it did not travel throughout the body.

    Our findings suggest that the COVID-19 vaccine mRNA administered to lactating mothers can spread systematically to breast milk in the first two days after maternal vaccination,” states the study, “Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in human breast milk,” published in the October 2023 edition of the British medical journal Lancet.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/experts-media-wrong-covid-vaccine-mrna-ends-up/

  23. Donald Trump Promises the ‘Largest Domestic Deportation Operation in American History’

    Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” in the pattern of the Eisenhower model, making the vow during a speech in Dubuque, Iowa.

    Trump delivered remarks on securing the border and stopping illegal immigration in the country.

    “One of the most important issues in this campaign is ending the nation-wrecking catastrophe on our southern border,” Trump’s prepared remarks read.

    “Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in U.S. history. Now, we have the worst border in the history of the world,” they continue, deeming the current immigration crisis as an “invasion.” With that, Trump will identify himself as the “only candidate in this race who will stop it cold on DAY ONE.”

    “A vote for President Trump means Joe Biden’s horror show at the southern border ends at high noon on Inauguration Day, 2025,” the remarks read, as Trump touts how he did more to secure the border in his first term than “any president in history.”

    “Upon my inauguration, I will immediately terminate every Open Borders policy of the Biden administration,” Trump continues, adding, “Following the Eisenhower Model, we will carry

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F09%2F20%2Fdonald-trump-promises-the-largest-domestic-deportation-operation-in-american-history%2F

  24. The Return of Paganism
    The spiritual crisis afflicting contemporary America has ancient and enduring roots—and so does the cure
    by Liel Leibovitz
    When a 28-year-old person identifying as transgender shot up a Tennessee school in March, killing three children and three adults, the usual grim afterlife of tragedy was underlined by an odd note: One by one, media outlets rushed to apologize for “misgendering” the shooter, who, they explained, had been born female but had recently begun identifying as male.

    How to make sense of such a statement? And what to do when a newspaper headline tells you about a “trans woman left sobbing in JFK Airport after TSA agent hit her testicles”? Appealing to reason hardly helps, as J.K. Rowling and others learned the hard way when trying to ask simple questions such as how one might define sex if not according to the chromosomes rooted in literally every cell of our bodies. Instead, anyone wishing to find his way through the thicket of American public discourse these days should start by embracing one simple and terrifying idea: The barbarians are at the gates.

    I mean this almost literally. Everywhere you turn these days, pagans are afoot, busily hacking away at the Christian and Jewish foundations of American life and replacing them with a cosmology that would have been absolutely coherent to followers of, say, Voltumna, the Etruscan earth god, or to those who worshipped the Celt tribal protector Toutatis.

    If you think the above paragraph is a little bit overblown, consider the numbers. In 1990, scholars from Trinity College set out to learn just how many of their fellow Americans practiced some form of pagan religion. The numbers were unsurprisingly small: about 8,000, or enough to pack your average Journey reunion concert. But the researchers asked again in 2008, and this time, 340,000 Americans said yes to paganism. A decade later, the Pew survey posed the same question, and, if it is to believed, there are now about 1.5 million Americans professing an array of pagan persuasions, from Wicca to the Viking lore, making paganism one of the nation’s fastest-growing persuasions. So fast-growing, in fact, that my colleague Maggie Phillips recently reported in Tablet magazine about the thriving, and officially recognized, pagan faith groups within the U.S. Army. “What’s important now,” one of its leaders, Sergeant Drake Sholar, told Phillips, “is showing religious respect and understanding across the board as Norse Pagans, or Heathens, return to a distinguishable religious practice.”

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    Amen, selah. But as we respect and understand those who profess paganism outright and sincerely, we should worry about those—many more of them—who go by other names and profess different affinities yet whose worldview is consistently, coherently, and crushingly pagan. There are millions more heathens who would shudder to be called such, yet who offer a vision of a perfectly pagan American future. It behooves us, then, to reckon with the paganism in our midst.

    And that, it turns out, is not an easy task, mainly because “pagan” is somewhat of a loaded term. If you have an appetite for good origin stories, you might as well place the birth of the notion with St. Augustine in the fifth century C.E. Pressed to explain to his readers why Rome had been sacked by the Visigoths so shortly after embracing Christianity, Augustine wrote his famous treatise, The City of God. Its full title? De civitate Dei contra paganos, or The City of God Against the Pagans. The latter, he opined elsewhere, had delivered unto mankind nothing but a “hissing cauldron of lusts” that have so spoiled our souls and driven us so far from God that the downfall was imminent. The moral stain of Augustine’s description stuck, and it often colors both our historical vision and the observation that “pagan” describes a dizzying array of peoples and beliefs—from the Slavic tribes who believed that the sky god Perun had beget all other deities that control nature to the Germanic peoples and their complex mythology of giants, dwarves, elves, and dragons, familiar to us from Wagner’s operas.

    Leaving permutations and particularities to the pedants, though, it’s quite possible to observe paganism as one sweeping vista and find common themes and threads that haunt us still. Let us begin: Just what do pagans believe?

    _____________

    The answer, while wonderfully complex, may be distilled to the following principle: Nothing is true, everything is permitted. These were the last words, allegedly, of Hasan i-Sabbah—the ninth-century Arab warlord whose group, the Hash’shashin, gave us the English word “assassins.” And his dictum perfectly captures the soul of paganism, illuminated by the idea that no fixed system of belief or set of solid convictions ought to constrain us as we stumble our way through life.

    To the pagans, change is the only real constant. Just consider the heathens of old: Believing, as they did, in the radical duality of body and spirit, they enjoyed watching their gods breathe the latter into a wide array of incarnations. To please himself or trick his followers, a god could become a swan or a stone, manife

    https://www.commentary.org/articles/liel-leibovitz/paganism-afflicts-america/

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    Backpackers Abandon Seriously Injured Friend in Grand Canyon After Calling Sheriff
    In torts, we discuss the “no duty to rescue” doctrine in torts. Under the common law, you are not legally required to assist a person in peril if you had no responsibility for their injury. A recent incident in the Grand Canyon National Park raised some of the underlying issues that we debate in our discussion of this doctrine. A 63-year-old hiker was rescued after he was injured in a fall and his friends left him behind to continue their “backpacking adventure.”

    The five friends were backpacking on the North Rim of the park when the man fell and seriously injured his shoulder. They were on their third or fourth day out and had another three or four days planned. One of the backpackers called the sheriff’s office. They then left the seriously injured man.

    The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue brought out a chopper but could not land in the immediate area due to the dark. Rescuers, therefore, had to land a quarter of a mile away and hike into the location where they found the man near a creek. Due to the rough terrain, the rescuers said that they were very fortunate to find the man.

    The man was stabilized and carried back to the helicopter. The sheriff’s office was clearly not pleased that the backpackers not only “continued on their backpacking adventures – leaving the injured hiker behind alone,” but also took the Apple device used to contact rescuers. They could not reach the injured person.

    We have previously discussed the failure to rescue or assist others. These cases often shock the conscience for many of us. Even transit workers have been excused of a duty to rescue.

    The no duty rule was the basis for the famous ruling in Yania v. Bigan, 397 Pa. 316, 155 A.2d 343 (1959) where a man watched another man drown without taking any efforts to assist him. Even though Bigan dared Yania to jump into the hole full of water, the court found that this made no difference since these taunts were “directed to an adult in full possession of all his mental faculties.”

    On the rule itself, the Court wrote:

    Lastly, it is urged that Bigan failed to take the necessary steps to rescue Yania from the water. The mere fact that Bigan saw Yania in a position of peril in the water imposed upon him no legal, although a moral,

    https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/20/backpackers-abandon-seriously-injured-friend-in-grand-canyon-after-calling-sheriff/

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  28. Doctor Censored by Biden Administration Calls Out Scheme of Threats and ‘Coercion’
    By Guest Contributor Sep. 21, 2023 5:20 pm11 Comments

    Social media allows exchange of opinions and ‘very powerful people’ find that threatening

    It was Francis Collins, who was Joe Biden’s director of the National Institutes of Health, who demanded a “swift and devastating takedown” when experts in the field of medicine suggested that the Biden administration’s lockdowns, shutdowns, social distancing and masking demands weren’t really needed to deal with COVID-19.

    Collins falsely characterized those physicians as “fringe epidemiologists.”

    And he worked with Anthony Fauci, then Biden’s medical adviser on COVID, and others, to accomplish his goals

    “The government had a vast censorship enterprise,” explained Dr. Jay Bhattacharya explained in a report in the New York Post.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/doctor-censored-biden-administration-calls-scheme-threats-coercion/

  29. Cheech & Chong’s Cruise Chews
    Governor Greg Abbott Officially Declares INVASION at Southern Border by the Mexican Drug Cartels
    By Jim H?ft Sep. 21, 2023 6:45 pm44 Comments

    Photo: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images
    Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared an “invasion” at the southern border, attributing it to the Mexican drug cartels. This declaration comes as Governor Abbott takes a firm stance against the escalating security crisis and the influx of criminal activities from across the border.

    “I officially declared an invasion at our border because of Biden’s policies. We deployed the Texas National Guard, DPS & local law enforcement. We are building a border wall, razor wire & marine barriers. We are also repelling migrants,” Governor Abbott announced in a post on Thursday.

    “Texas will continue to install more razor wire and fortify the border against illegal crossings. We will not back down,” said Abbott in another X post after the Biden regime cut the razor wires installed.

    On Wednesday, the Biden regime cut the razor wires installed, “opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants.”

    According to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border has surged since President Joe Biden took office on January 20, 2021. In fiscal year 2021, CBP apprehended 1.73 million people at the southwest border, the highest number since 2006. Even more alarmingly, in fiscal year 2022, CBP apprehended 2.38 million people at the southwest border, marking the highest number since 1993. For the year 2023, CBP apprehended 1.97 million so far.

    Governor Abbott didn’t just make a public declaration; he backed it up with a strongly-worded letter sent to Joe Biden, U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on November 16, 2022.

    The letter pulls no punches, accusing the Biden regime of violating the U.S. Constitution by failing to protect the States against invasion, as promised in Article IV, § 4.

    The Governor’s letter states, “The federal government’s failure has forced me to invoke Article I, § 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, thereby enabling the State of Texas to protect its own territory against invasion by the Mexican drug cartels.”

    Abbott’s letter paints a grim picture of the situation in Texas, highlighting the devastating impact of the border crisis on local communities.

    “Ranches are being ripped apart, and homes are vulnerable to intrusion. Our border communities are regularly disrupted by human traffickers and bailouts. Deadly fentanyl is crossing the porous border to such a degree that it is now the leading cause of death for citizens between the ages of 18 and 45,” the letter reads.

    The Governor’s letter also serves as a legal manifesto, outlining the constitutional basis for Texas to take matters into its own hands. Citing Article I, § 10, Clause 3, Abbott declares that Texas will “escalate our efforts to repel and turn back any immigrant who seeks to enter our State at a border crossing that Congress has designated as illegal; to return to the border those who do cross illegally; and to arrest criminals who violate Texas law.”

    “We are refusing to let them in and sending them back,” said Abbott.

    The Governor’s letter concludes with a scathing critique of the Biden regime’s inaction, stating, “Your open-border policies, which have catalyzed an unprecedented crisis of illegal immigration, are the sole cause of Texas having to invoke our constitutional authority to defend ourselves.”

    Elon Musk applauded the decision by Abbott to declare an invasion of Texas, saying, “No other choice. The influx is so gigantic that it is overwhelming even major cities like New York.”

    These illegal immigrants are invading our country and benefiting from our taxpayers’ money.

    Todd Bensman, the Center’s Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow, has reported that the Biden regime is allocating a staggering $2,200 “per month” to illegal immigrant families (1 parent & 1 child) through phony asylum for the cost of living expenses. This comes at a time when the average American on Social Security receives just $1,400 per month and Maui survivors with only $700.

    Bensman said that it appears these illegal immigrants may not be subjected to asylum interviews anymore. They are being released to the United States.

    According to a video interview with an anonymous Border Patrol Agent, illegal immigrants are “double dipping” the system. One parent and one child receive $2,200 per month, and then a separate parent and child—often from the same family—receive another $2,200 per month. This amounts to a whopping $4,400 per month for some immigrant families, a figure that exceeds what many working Americans earn.

    This information supports the claims made by the legal immigration group ‘ALIPAC.’

    “The Biden-Harris administration is giving more money to illegal immigrant invaders, than to our own U.S. citizens” William Gheen, president of ALIPAC told KTRH, “Once a person understands that, then that person will always be on our side of the illegal immigration debate, which is very simple. Keep them all out, send them all home.”

    It doesn’t stop at checks. These illegal immigrants are also given housing, food, free medical services, and even a ticket to a destination of their choice within the United States, according to the Border Patrol Agent.

    He continued, “They used to do the monitors on the ankles, and those were being cut off. So now they give them phones.”

    The Border Patrol Agent further added that cartels play a significant role in prepping the illegal immigrants before they cross the border.

    “Cartel tells them everything. Word of mouth. These guys know everything that we do. It’s just the way it is,” the agent revealed.

    This information suggests that illegal immigrants are incredibly well-informed about U.S. immigration procedures, including what to say when seeking asylum.

    Not only are these individuals being coached on what to say to claim asylum, but they’re also arriving with all necessary documents, like birth certificates pre-printed by their home governments, according to Bensman.

    Under the Biden regime, homeless veterans and Americans were left on the street. Senior citizens only received $1,400/month in Social Security payments, and Maui survivors only got $700. This should piss every American off.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/governor-greg-abbott-officially-declares-invasion-southern-border/