Reader’s Links for November 4th, 2023

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18 Replies to “Reader’s Links for November 4th, 2023”

    • That woman (Australian) “Maria Zee” is a Jew Hater, and a very hypocritical one, she let’s her “followers” do her dirty work and hides behind her Christianity and her “God bless yous”

      I have observed her for a while on telegram etc, even confronted her about her Jew Hatred. Lots of empty virtue signalling ensued..

      I am not watching this one, but I bet it will be some Israel-Jew-bashing on one kind or another.

      While I have seen Jew Hatred increase over a few years, we are now drowning in it. That it is happening so fast after the 7th October massacre, really says it all.

  3. Depriving the human animal of all reasons to exist would be fairly depressing to this animal. On an epic scale, no endeavor would have meaning. If all mediums of expression including creative, physical and spiritual were taken away, it would shrivel and die. Even if the prospect were hypothetical, it would impose serious stress upon the beast. Such a hypothetical could resemble a Maoist line of effort, no? Whereupon the suggestion of the threat, such as an intangible virus, or any other lurking enemy was the goal, itself, accomplishing instilling more free-floating anxiety. Naturally, the animal would eventually turn its focus to the messenger of news of such scale.

    https://cointelegraph.com/news/uk-ai-safety-summit-musk-ai-magic-genie-says-no-jobs-needed-in-future

  4. Pediatrician Dr. Larry Palevsky, M.D. & Dr. Lee Merritt
    CriticallyThinking – November 3, 2023

    22:16-29:08 – Dr. Palevsky mentioned that he received an e-mail from
    Stand For Health Freedom.
    https://rumble.com/v3tijg4-critically-thinking-w-dr.-t-and-dr.-p-episode-166-nov-2-2023.html

    Stand For Health Freedom CDC October Meeting

    Excerpt:

    The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met October 25-26, 2023, for their annual review of the childhood and adult schedules, as well as updates on changes to come.
    Much of the discussion revolved around how complicated the schedule is because it’s growing so quickly. Chair Grace Lee made the comment, “I can see we’re going to need a bigger refrigerator for all the vaccines.” And Matt Daley observed, we’re “going to run into the situation where we can’t fit the schedule on one page.”
    Top takeaways:
    https://standforhealthfreedom.com/cdc-oct-meeting/

    October 2023 ACIP Meeting – Welcome & Meningococcal Vaccines
    CDC – Part 1 of 7

    Q&A – 24:11…27:06…larger and larger refrigerators to stock the vaccine products…

  6. Black People Are Committing Hate Crimes In America And It’s Time To Talk About It
    By Sharika Soal Nov. 4, 2023 7:30 am0 Comments

    Hate crimes have always been an uncomfortable topic to discuss. There is never an appropriate time to bring up these heinous acts. With all the talk of wars and genocide going on, along with the never-ending topic of trans-identified males demanding everyone call them fifteen different pronouns. There never seems to be any right time to talk about this topic without being labeled a “Nazi.”

    Regardless of that fact, it appears what America has come to know as a “hate crime” has transformed in the last ten years right before our eyes. Again, no one is allowed to mention this without some consequence due to the offenders being non-white, which is starting to become a dangerous pattern of overlooking violence and dysfunction in non-white communities for the sake of ending racism, including the black community.

    This is ridiculous, and it’s proving to be a fatal blind spot the longer it goes ignored. It could also be said that this pattern isn’t exclusive to just American states. If you look at the trend of “Kill the Boer,” we have witnessed on enormous platforms like YouTube, where a video was uploaded directly to the SABC News channel. a South African news organization with the video being titled “I won’t stop singing Kill The Boer.” This is odd when the content of the footage contains literal death threats to non-white farmers from an African political figure.

    The liberal media isn’t helping matters. You have to comb through hours and hours of links on Google to find any mention of Anti-white crimes that aren’t on a graph. Most articles omit the offender’s race, making it hard for the average reader to get a real-time picture of what’s happening in America. You would think hate crimes would be at the top of the list of priorities to eradicate, but for some reason, the masses seem to believe hate crimes against Whites and Asians aren’t pressing issues that affect the safety of everyone. Imagine the resentment that’s creating. Black Americans won’t have to worry about old 1860s-style racism when the ongoing hate crimes and 24/7 anti-white social media content are making what I would call a very justifiable new racism.

    Discrimination and prejudice, in my opinion, can be justified over long periods and documented offenses from one group towards another, especially when those offenses are self-videotaped by black Americans and happily posted to social media for likes and views. Just recently, a 19-year-old man named Alford Lewis from Houston, Texas, admitted to targeting white people in an attack “prank” for views and social media likes. His friend, who filmed the attacks and could be heard laughing behind the camera, was also charged with the crime.

    Per usual, only a few liberal media outlets accurately described the hate crime. When Ida B Wells set out to alert the world of lynchings, no one believed her. They demanded to see proof. So she went out again, this time with a camera, and got proof, and soon after that, a brutal truth was published in the paper. Now, here we are in 2023, and we have decades of filmed and audio-recorded footage of black American men and women attacking non-blacks in broad daylight. All while ghetto black America dismisses these crimes as “reparations” because, of course, anytime a black person gets into a physical altercation with anyone non-black, the only thing or people to blame is “white supremacy.” I say that with dripping sarcasm.

    What isn’t a joking matter is that here we are in 2023. Black people are committing hate crimes on camera and laughing about it in comment sections on TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), but unlike Ida B Wells, it doesn’t look like anti-hate crime America wants to do anything to stop the cancer from spreading, and It is spreading. I’ve said it before because I believe it needs to be said. Hating white people is a trend. Black violence is also a trend, and the two mixed will not have a happy ending in the history books of Americans. Being black is no excuse to be excluded from the list of races who torture and oppress other people based on race. It’s happening right now, whether we talk about it or not.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/black-people-are-committing-hate-crimes-america-its/

  8. Not a joke

    The UN Human Rights Council opens

    Chair Ali Bahraini, Iranian Ambassador will oversee the conference discussing the contribution of science, technology and innovation to the PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

  9. We Will Drink Your Blood and Eat Your Skull’: A Legacy of Islamic Savagery
    By Raymond Ibrahim

    What’s the deal with Muslim calls for, not just violence, but eating the flesh or drinking the blood of their infidel enemies?

    Consider the case of Ahed Tamimi, described by Wikipedia as

    a Palestinian activist… in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. She is best known for appearances in images and videos in which she confronts Israeli soldiers. Tamimi’s advocates consider her a freedom fighter for Palestine… In December 2017, she was detained by Israeli authorities for slapping a soldier. The incident was filmed and went viral, attracting international interest and debate. Tamimi was sentenced to eight months in prison after agreeing to a plea bargain and released on 29 July 2018… [I]n February 2018, the famous Israeli poet Yehonatan Geffen, the nephew of Moshe Dayan, posted a poem on his Instagram page that ended with the following lines: “You, Ahed Tamimi, The red-haired, Like David who slapped Goliath, Will be counted among the likes of Joan of Arc, Hannah Senesh and Anne Frank.”

    Well, this “heroine” recently wrote the following on her Instagram:

    We are waiting for you [Jewish settlers] in all the cities of the West Bank, from Hebron to Jenin. We will slaughter you and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke. We will drink your blood and eat your skull. Come on, we’re waiting for you.

    Much, as usual, can be said here, but of curious interest to me are the cannibalistic references, and the fact that they are common among Muslims — and, as can now be seen, not just of the so-called “radical” variety.

    The Islamic State, for instance, has repeatedly stated that “American blood is best, and we will taste it soon.” Nor was this just “picturesque” language. According to a 2017 report, “Islamic State terrorists are teaching their fighters to eat non-Muslims, it has emerged.” (I managed to save one picture, since likely expunged, of an Obama-sponsored Free Syrian Army “rebel” digging into the heart of a fallen Syrian soldier in 2013.)

    Where do these anthropophaginian tendencies come from?

    In fact, calls to devour “infidels,” especially as a terror tactic, are common throughout Islamic history. Some well-documented anecdotes come to mind, beginning with the source of inspiration for ISIS’s calls to drink American blood: During the earliest Muslim invasions of Christian Syria, one of Muhammad’s companions, ‘Ubadah bin al-Samat, told a Christian commander that “We have tasted blood and find none sweeter than the blood of Romans” (meaning Byzantines and/or Christians).

    Another example concerns that jihadist par excellence, Khalid bin al-Walid (d.642). Dubbed the “Sword of Allah” by Muhammad for his prowess, he holds a revered position among jihadist groups. During the Ridda — or “apostasy wars” on several Arab tribes that sought to break away from Islam following Muhammad’s death — Khalid falsely accused Malik bin Nuwayra, a well-liked Arab chieftain, of apostasy. After slaughtering him, Khalid raped — Muslim sources call it “married” — Malik’s wife.

    He [Khalid] ordered his [Malik’s] head and he combined it with two stones and cooked a pot over them. And Khalid ate from it that night to terrify the apostate Arab tribes and others. And it was said that Malik’s hair created such a blaze that the meat was so thoroughly cooked [from Muslim historian al-Tabari’s multi-volume chronicle, al-bidaya w’al nihaya (“the Beginning and the End”).

    Another anecdote concerns the Islamic conquest of Spain. According to Muslim chronicler Ibn Abdul Hakam, after capturing a group of Christian winemakers, the Islamic invaders

    made them prisoners. After that they took one of the vinedressers, slaughtered him, cut him in pieces, and boiled him, while the rest of his companions looked on. They had also boiled meat in other cauldrons. When the meat was cooked, they threw away the flesh of that man which they had boiled; no one knowing that it was thrown away: and they ate the meat which they had boiled, while the rest of the vinedressers were spectators. These did not doubt but that the Moslems ate the flesh of their companion; the rest being afterwards sent away informed the people of Andalus [Christian Spain] that the Moslems feed on human flesh, acquainting them with what had been done to the vinedresser.

    Tarek ibn Ziyad — another jihadist extraordinaire, revered for burning his boats on reaching Spain’s shores as proof of his commitment to jihad or “martyrdom” — also had Christian captives slaughtered, cooked up, and apparently eaten in front of their fellow hostages. Then, according to Muslim historian Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maqqari, the Muslim hero “allowed some of the captives to escape, that they might report to their countrymen what they had seen. And thus the stratagem produced the desired effect, since the report of the fugitives contributed in no small degree to increase the panic of the infidels” [The History of the Mohammedan Dynasty, p. 276].

    Note that, according to the above-cited Muslim chroniclers, the jihadists engaged in these cannibalistic practices to terrorize and create panic among infidels and apostates, that is, as a form of psychological warfare. This is further pronounced when, as they often do, the chroniclers quote or paraphrase Koran verses that call for “striking terror” into the hearts of nonbelievers (e.g., 3:151, 8:12, 8:60) in juxtaposition to the savage accounts they relay.

    (Years back, I watched and linked to a video of a modern-day Egyptian cleric also making it clear that Khalid’s actions were calculated to terrify the apostates. Although YouTube has, as usual, since taken down the video, here’s my original translation of the cleric’s remarks:

    People wonder how our lord Khalid could have eaten from such meat? Oh yes — he ate from it! Our lord Khalid had a very strong character, a great appetite, and everything! All to terrorize the desert Arabs [apostates]. The matter requires determination; these matters require strength — terrorism.

    Indeed, none other than Al Azhar — the Muslim world’s most prestigious university, which hosted Obama’s 2009 “New Beginning” speech — teaches these accounts of Muslims eating infidels.

    The reason is simple: such a heritage doesn’t belong to ISIS any more than it does to Al Azhar. It belongs to Islam — hence why a young Palestinian darling is telling Israelis that she will “drink your blood and eat your skull.”

    Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/we_will_drink_your_blood_and_eat_your_skull_a_legacy_of_islamic_savagery.html

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    In Australia, Green, Powerless, and Defenseless
    By Viv Forbes

    As net zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenseless.

    History holds lessons which we ignore at our peril.

    Here is some of it.

    Japan was opened to trade with the U.S. in the 1850s. The Japanese were daunted by the naval power of Britain and the U.S. but determined to catch up.

    In the 1930s, Japan attacked China, Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, and Hitler plotted how to avenge World War I in Europe. Britain’s prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, negotiated with Hitler and proclaimed he had achieved “Peace in our time.”

    But Churchill warned:

    Britain must arm. America must arm. We will surely do it in the end but how much greater the cost for each day’s delay.

    In November 1938, just after the signing of the Munich Pact, John Curtin (the leader of the Labor Party in the Australian Parliament), made this statement:

    .. . I say that any increase in defence expenditure appears to be an entirely unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda.

    Source: Hansard (British government report), page 1,095, Nov. 2, 1938.

    Just ten months later, in September 1939, Germany attacked Poland.

    On this side of the world, the Japanese built a large naval and air force.

    However American, British and Dutch interests controlled Asian oil supplies needed for trucks, tanks, ships and planes. With Britain preoccupied with Germany, and Italy in Europe, Japan decided on a huge grab for land and resources.

    In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria and by 1937 Japanese troops were attacking Chinese soldiers outside Beijing. Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940 and a large Japanese force threatened the Philippines where U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was based.

    On Monday, Dec. 8, 1941, Australian Prime Minister Curtin was told that Japanese aircraft had attacked the large U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, and U.S. bases in the Philippines.

    Three days later, two “invincible” British warships, “Repulse” and “Prince of Wales” were sunk by Japanese planes off what was then called Malaya. Soon Japanese armies were rampaging through Asia towards Australia. In December 1941 Hong Kong fell.

    By February 1942, the British fortress of Singapore surrendered and Japanese bombs were falling on Darwin. By September 1942, the Japanese army had slashed its way down the Kokoda Track across Papua New Guinea. They could see the lights of Port Moresby and were looking across Torres Strait to Australia.

    Further south, five Japanese submarines were snooping in the seas off Sydney harbor. Two midget submarines entered the harbor and one sub sank the HMAS Kuttabul. The Japanese navy later bombarded Sydney and Newcastle.

    By that time, most of Australia’s trained soldiers were fighting Rommel at Tobruk in North Africa or were in Japanese prison camps. Australian politicians discussed the infamous “Brisbane Line” – surrender of Australia north of Brisbane.

    Suddenly Australia was on its own and needed to defend itself with what we Australians had here.

    Armies need manpower, weapons, ammunition, vehicles, tanks, planes, ships, fuel and lubricants.

    Soldiers volunteered and others were conscripted. Australian conscripts formed part of the force that met the Japanese on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.

    Britain lost so many weapons at Dunkirk that Australian factories and American sportsmen were sending guns to them.

    Enfield Rifles, Bren Guns and Vickers Machine Guns were produced in large numbers at the Small Arms Factory at Lithgow in New South Wales supported by feeder factories in the area. Australians even designed and built the fabulous Owen Machine Gun, so loved by our young Nashos in the 1960s.

    Australian coking coal was used to produce steel and thermal coal provided reliable electricity and powered locomotives. However, coal production was often interrupted by bitter strikes in the early war years. But after Hitler invaded Soviet Russia in June 1941, the communists among the coal miners suddenly became more supportive of the war effort.

    Motor oil was produced in limited quantities from oil shale at Glen Davis in central NSW, but petrol was in serious short supply, and had been rationed since 1940.

    Image: Viv Forbes

    With the fall of Singapore, this fuel shortage became severe, and charcoal burners suddenly appeared to keep cars and trucks moving. The demand for charcoal was so great that firewood became scarce so it was also rationed. Kerosene was also scarce, so carbide lights were recovered from junk sheds and widely used.

    To conserve supplies for soldiers, rationing was also introduced for tea, clothing, butter, sugar, meat and cigarettes. Australian farmers were forbidden to kill their own animals for meat (but many of them did anyhow).

    Australian school kids got cards to be used to identify enemy planes overhead and fathers with picks and shovels were told to dig air raid pits in school grounds (even then I thought that our one-room Wheatvale school with 13 pupils was probably not a top priority target for Japanese bombers.)

    We saw no enemy planes at Wheatvale but a bomber from our side was forced to land in our neighbor’s wheat paddock and a big convoy of American Jeeps and trucks stopped at our farm to make their morning coffee (it was the first time we ever tasted coffee).

    A critical war time shortage was copper for cartridge cases and communications – Australia had mines producing lead, zinc, silver, gold and iron, but there was a critical shortage of copper.

    Fortuitously, just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an exploration drill hole at Mount Isa had struck rich copper ore.

    Mount Isa was then called on to avert a calamitous shortage of copper in Australia. With government encouragement, Mount Isa Mines made the brave decision to suspend their profitable silver/lead/zinc operations and convert all mining and treatment facilities to extracting copper.

    The lead concentrator could be converted to treat copper ore, but the biggest problem was how to smelt the copper concentrates. Luckily the company had skilled engineers and metallurgists in the lead smelter. In a miracle of improvisation, scrap steel and spare parts were purchased and
    scavenged from old mines and smelters from Cloncurry, Mt. Elliott, Mt. Cuthbert and Kuridala and cobbled into a workable copper smelter.

    In 1943, the first Mount Isa blister copper was produced. Production continued after the war when Mount Isa returned to extracting the then more profitable silver/lead/zinc. Later, new plant was built enabling both lead and copper to be produced from this fabulous mine.

    This story of the importance of self-reliance has lessons for today especially at a time when the final closure of the great Mt. Isa copper mines has just been announced.

    The war on carbon energy, net zero propaganda, the renewable energy targets, escalating electricity costs and the voices in Parliament calling for Emissions Trading Schemes have all unnerved our big users of carbon fuels and electricity.

    Smelting and refining have become threatened industries in Australia

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    Already six major metal smelting/refining operations have closed in Australia this century and more are likely. The closures have affected copper, lead, zinc, steel and aluminium – the sinews of modern industry. And car manufacturing, with all its skills and tools, has gone.

    Local production and refining of oil is also declining, while “lock-the-gate” picketers are trying to prevent domestic exploration and production of gas. More and more land and offshore waters are closed to exploration and mining, and heavy industry is scorned.

    Australia has lost over half of its oil refining capacity and most of our liquid fuel comes from foreign refineries. At normal rates of usage, national reserves of diesel would last about three weeks and ULP about four weeks. But in the event of a panic for fuel, city food shelves and fuel
    supplies would be cleaned out in days, maybe hours. Commercial aircraft would be grounded in a fortnight and our Air Force soon after.

    We are losing the resources, skills and machinery needed for our own security. And we fritter our declining resources on green energy white elephants like Snowy 2, green hydrogen, dream-time extension cables to transmit “green” electricity from Darwin to Singapore, hydrogen electrolyzer
    magic in Gladstone, a Pioneer Valley pumped hydro scheme (Snowy 3?), massive new power lines to collect piddling energy everywhere and many other green dreams with net consumption of energy and metals.

    Green admirals hope to run our destroyers on recycled cooking oil and green generals are wasting energy designing electric bushmasters (with long extension cords?). These foolish green energy policies and the suicidal war on carbon fuels are killing real industry leaving us unskilled and
    defenseless – like a fat toothless walrus basking on a warm sunny beach.

    And imagine the mental and physical capacity of the flabby woke recruits that an urgent conscription would produce today. And which toilet would they use? Hopefully a few bikie gangs would sign up? At least they know how to fight and could bring their own guns.

    Here is our pictorial comment on the subject by Steve Hunter:

    The Salt Bush Club gives permission to use this item. Feel free to publish or pass around with no alterations.

    Australia plans to spend heaps of money and decades of time on AUKUS nuclear submarine dreams – another Snowy 2? Imagine the chance of getting our no-nukes mobs to build a nuclear-powered submarine in Australia that works and is launched before the barbarians are again knocking at our gate. Former Australian Prime Minister Alexander Downer describes it “A political fantasy.”

    Now another Asian tiger — in Beijing — is currently gazing south at the resources locked up in Red-Black-Green Australia. Its advance guards are already installed in academia and the media.

    The next war may be very short with simultaneous attacks on U.S. military installations from South Korea and Guam to Pine Gap. And imagine when our power, radar, internet, social media and electric engines are suddenly disabled with an EMP attack from a well-placed neutron bomb. And the tankers carrying our fuel supplies from Asian refineries meet a guided torpedo or an armed drone.

    Our rainbow warriors with ill-chosen air and naval equipment, insufficient ammunition, rationed fuel and lubricants and half-built nuclear submarines will surrender quickly.

    Wake up, Australia.

    Viv Forbes is old enough to remember the end of WW2, was called up for National Service training in 1958 and also spent several years as a part-time soldier in Australia’s Citizen Military Forces. He was the founding Secretary of the Australia Defence Association in 1980 and lives in Australia.

    For those who would like to read more:

    “Mines in the Spinifex – the Story of Mount Isa Mines” by Geoffrey Blainey,
    Angus and Robertson, 1960

    “The Challenge of Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” by Collin Myers,
    Congress of the International Mining History Association, Charters Towers,
    2014.

    Living in the Latter Days

    Playing Green War Games

    “Hidden Hand” – how the Communist Party is reshaping the World by Clive
    Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg

    “Danger on our Doorstep” by Ex Major General and Senator Jim Molan.

    Warning: Some of the above sites may contain war-related material, including images which some of today’s wimps may find confronting and disturbing

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/in_australia_green_powerless_and_defenseless.html

  11. America’s Immigration Daydream Is Coming To An End
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    SATURDAY, NOV 04, 2023 – 02:45 PM
    Authored by Matthew Boose via American Greatness,

    The Atlantic, one of the most prestigious and reliably liberal publications in America, has a new article semi-frankly acknowledging the downsides of the last half century of unrestricted immigration.

    Author David Leonhardt, a regular columnist for the New York Times, confronts – or rather, politely circumambulates – the “unintended” consequences of the landmark 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which fundamentally remade America’s immigration process by opening the floodgates to the Third World.

    Leonhardt focuses chiefly on the economic impact of mass immigration on working class wages and rising inequality between the poor and the middle class. There is nothing groundbreaking here, as any disciple of Patrick Buchanan (or anyone with a working understanding of supply and demand) could tell you. But it is always a little surprising to see common sense in the pages of a magazine like The Atlantic, even if it comes in the usual milquetoast packaging. Leonhardt even takes apart the quietly elitist “jobs Americans won’t do” talking point that liberals love: “Immigrants typically work in jobs that native-born Americans do not want at the wages that employers are offering. One reason that employers can offer such wages….is the availability of so many immigrant workers.”

    But one can only expect a respectable liberal writer to take things so far. Leonhardt tempers “the hard truth about immigration” with the usual sentimental mush about its intangible benefits. To quote Mary Poppins, a “spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.”

    According to Leonhardt, the 1965 Act was flawed but nevertheless a “monumental achievement.” For who? For millions of newcomers, it undoubtedly changed life for the better.

    What about the American people? For them, it was a swindle of historic proportions.

    The 1965 immigration revolution was sold to the American people as a modest shift, as Leonhardt points out. But he omits a striking quote from famous liberal Ted Kennedy, who pledged the bill “will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.”

    In the end, the reform was a strike at the heart of democracy. The people were misled on the most political of questions – who gets to be part of our community? America entered the late 20th century as a prospering, majority-white country. In the span of a few generations, whites would become an untouchable minority. They now face the prospect of spending the remainder of their natural lives under hostile, one-party rule. The majority party, the Democrats, grows stronger, and more hostile to the nation’s historic majority, with each wave of foreigners. Under President Biden, this process of demographic replacement and marginalization has accelerated like never before.

    It was Kennedy’s brother John Kennedy who stamped the nation’s conscience with pablum about America being a “nation of immigrants.” President Johnson made that sappy vision into a reality. If the America of 1965 could see the effects that mass immigration would have in the ensuing decades, it is doubtful Johnson’s reform would have passed at all. At the time, a bare majority favored scrapping country quotas, and only 7 percent wanted immigration to increase, a preference that remains to this day (not that it appears to have influenced policymakers).

    Many Americans who grew up during the Kennedy years look back on the post-war boom as an idyllic dream. Their yearnings can’t be written off as mere nostalgia bias. Compared to the present, the early ‘60s must have been like paradise: the single breadwinner was the standard, the country had a real sense of identity, and people trusted their neighbors enough to leave doors unlocked. That’s all gone now. As a result of the monumental demographic change unleashed over the past half century, America is more divided than it has ever been since its greatest crisis in 1865. The country is Balkanizing, and politics have become radical and violent.

    Leonhardt is more concerned with how diversity can be exploited by the right than its actual disintegrating effects on society. To liberals, immigration can only be conceived as a problem (if ever) when framed in terms of class. But immigration is not only an economic question, as current events have shown. With the war in Israel, reality has come crashing into the daydream of multiracial utopia. America’s rapidly browning youth is sympathetic to Hamas. It is likely that some Atlantic readers are having doubts about immigration for the first time in their lives. The issue can be avoided for a while longer, but not forever.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/americas-immigration-daydream-coming-end

  12. More Terror Suspects Reaching The US: Here Are ‘Known Unknowns’ Of The Biden Border Crisis
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    SATURDAY, NOV 04, 2023 – 08:20 AM
    Authored by James Varney via RealClear Wire,

    Hundreds of people on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist have almost certainly slipped into the United States amid millions of other illegal immigrants during the last three years, according to former federal officials and experts.

    “You have to be extremely naïve to not be significantly concerned about this,” said Rodney Scott, former chief of U.S. Border Patrol from 2020 to 2021. “Regardless of what the Biden administration may claim, what it said during the campaign and the executive orders taken in January 2021 have been interpreted around the world as the border is open. You’re insane if you don’t think terrorists will use that to their advantage.”

    In the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, President Biden, without mentioning the border, told “60 Minutes” that the threat the U.S. could face from terrorists in the country had escalated.

    Although the terrorist threat linked to the border crisis is impossible to quantify, some experts find the available numbers alarming. During Biden’s first three years, a record-shattering 6.5 million-plus immigrants have been “encountered” by border authorities. That pace is increasing: The most recent monthly figures, September’s, showed another record number of monthly encounters – 269,735.

    At the same time, federal officials have seen an alarming increase in border crossers listed on the U.S. Terror Screening Dataset, the official name for what is commonly called the “terrorist watchlist.”

    In fiscal 2023, which ends this month, Border Patrol agents have apprehended 172 such people, all but three of them along the southwest border. When all U.S. places of entry are added – by land, sea and air – another 564 people on the watchlist were caught, bringing the total to 736.

    By way of comparison, between fiscal 2017 and 2019, Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 11 people on the terrorist watchlist. Scott sounded an alarm to Congress in the 2021 period when the total jumped to 16. “When a number doubles it gets your attention, and we’ve moved way beyond that,” he says now.

    Yet the “known unknowns,” to use Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s famous phrase, indicate the problem is even worse, according to experts. For one, the “terrorist watchlist” is only as good as the information that has been entered into it.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/more-terror-suspects-reaching-us-here-are-known-unknowns-biden-border-crisis