Reader’s Links for November 16th, 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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13 Replies to “Reader’s Links for November 16th, 2023”

    • Here’s the Viral TikTok Video of Influencers Praising Osama Bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’
      TheLibertyDaily – 4 hours ago
      https://rumble.com/v3w4dx2-heres-the-vital-tiktok-video-of-influencers-praising-osama-bin-ladens-lette.html

      If you type & click onto:
      “Biden Arms America’s Enemies – Trevor Loudon’s New Zeal Blog” dated August 2021
      or “The War Comes Home -Trevor Loudon’s NewZeal Blog
      dated November 2023

      You get this:

      THIS CONNECTION IS NOT PRIVATE
      This website may be impersonating bla, bla, bla…
      You should go back to the previous page.

      This is not the first time I experienced this “warning” from different websites.

  6. Should Israel Spare the Gazan “Innocents”?
    Madeline Brooks

    https://thesilentmajoritynomore.com/2023/11/15/should-israel-spare-the-gazan-innocents-madeline-brooks/

    As the world knows, or very tellingly, should know, the Israeli Defense Force goes to great lengths to spare the lives of Gazans presumed innocent. In the moral smog of war, this important fact is usually overlooked by the international crowd of Israel critics.…

    Just who is Israel sparing? The sixteen year old boy who at this moment does not have a rifle in his hand, although his school books teach him to hate Jews? Hordes of “civilian” young men, out of uniform, who nevertheless swarmed into southern Israel on October 7 after the uniformed jihadis to rape, behead and burn Jewish families? How about the mother who sings her child to sleep with lullabies about killing Israelis, or the young girl engaged to a jihadi, egging him on?

    Most horribly, a huge crowd of military age Gazan men were shown a movie of the massacres of Jews on October 7. This was the same video put together by the IDF from the cameras of the terrorists. Somehow the video got into the Gazans’ hands and was shown at al Shifa hospital. When Israeli journalists watched the video, many were so upset they vomited or sobbed uncontrollably. What did the Gazans do? They cheered. They roared their approval. Allahu Akbar.…

    Watch the reaction of the Gazans presumed innocent starting at the 18:05 minute mark, repeated at 32:36.

  7. Turkey’s Erdogan labels Israel a ‘terror state’, slams its backers in West

    ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Israel was a “terror state” committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza, sharpening his repeated criticism of Israeli leaders and their backers in the West.

    Speaking two days before a planned visit to Germany to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Erdogan said Israel’s military campaign against Palestinian militant group Hamas included “the most treacherous attacks in human history” with “unlimited” support from the West.

    He called for Israeli leaders to be tried for war crimes at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and repeated his view – and Turkey’s position – that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation but a political party that won past elections.

    Britain, the United States, European Union and some Arab sta

    https://news.yahoo.com/turkeys-erdogan-calls-israel-terror-133228924.html

  8. New marching orders: Marines on Okinawa shift from storming beaches to defending them

    Renamed regiment reflects larger shift to in tactics, battle plans as China’s navy beefs up

    SEOUL, South Korea — In a tactical U-turn, U.S. Marines in Japan are reversing their traditional mission — from assaulting beaches to defending them.

    Symbolizing a changing strategic environment, the Okinawa-based 12th Marine Regiment was re-christened the “12th Marine Littoral Regiment” in a Wednesday ceremony. The name change reflects a more profound shift away from the Corps’ customary role in the Indo-Pacific as a seaborne force that storms enemy coasts. The new 12th MLR, only the second created by the service, looks suspiciously like a Marine’s historic nemesis – a coastal artillery unit.

    The new name also reflects recent technological shifts in warfighting and littoral combat – and takes advantage of what U.S. strategists say is China’s Achilles heel in the superpower rivalry for friends and influence in East Asia.

    After decades of determined expansion, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy now approaches the U.S. Navy in muscle. The 2023 Global Naval Powers Ranking, which assesses multiple dynamics, rated the PLAN just behind the American fleet. But the U.S. Navy patrols a global beat, while China’s naval forces are heavily concentrated on the tense, heavily trafficked waters off the country’s coast.

    But the PLAN has its own challenges, particularly as Chinese admirals ponder their highest priority: the long-term fate of Taiwan, the island democracy the Communist regime of President Xi Jinping has vowed one day to bring under Beijing’s control. Any PLAN move to blockade Taiwan or prevent U.S. and allied forces from coming to Taipei’s aid in the event of an armed clash would mean leaving the safety of Chinese coastal bases and entering the open Pacific.

    However, the primary routes to the open sea are channels dominated by Japan’s Ryukyu archipelago and by the Philippines’ northern island of Luzon, part of what strategists collectively refer to as the “First Island Chain.”

    The U.S. has ground forces stationed in both areas, and Wednesday’s ceremony showed that American commanders are very much aware of the transformed regional dynamic.

    “We’re proud to be here in the First Island Chain, and a force prepared to respond to contingencies wherever and whenever required,” Marine Colonel Peter Eltringham, the regiment’s new commander, said at the ceremony at Okinawa’s Camp Hansen.

    Col. Eltringham’s command is actually the Marine Corps’s second littoral regiment. The first MLR was established in Hawaii last year, and the third is scheduled to deploy in the Indo-Pacific theater by 2030.

    And while littoral regiments will differ in mission from Marine units of the past, U.S. officials say they will also differ from the set-in-stone beach-defending forces of old, operating as a mobile, island-hopping force.

    According to the Corps’ website, a littoral regiment comprising between 1,800 and 2,000 Marines is designed to be an agile force that can forward-deploy multiple stealth infantry teams and anti-shipping missile bases. It boasts integral surveillance and air-defense assets.

    In a hypothetical clash with China, commanders envision that the littoral Marines could quietly move onto an island along the Pacific archipelago, scout out enemy forces and reveal their positions to nearby U.S. aircraft, ships or submarines. The Marines also have new capabilities to take out enemy assets themselves.

    Gen. Yasunori Morishita, chief of staff of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, was on hand for the Wednesday ceremony, a sign of the importance of the evolving mission of the Marine unit for the Tokyo government.

    New calculus

    For all their military value, the American forces in Okinawa also represent a political headache. U.S. troops on Okinawa are unpopular, and popular longtime Gov Denny Tamaki routinely complains of culture clashes, environmental damage and crimes committed by American servicemen. To ease the burden, the two countries agreed in 2012 that some 9,000 of the 19,000 Marines on Okinawa would relocate to Guam.

    But China’s expansive and aggressive regional stance under Mr. Xi is changing the calculus. This January, U.S. and Japanese senior ministers agreed that the 12th MLR would remain in Okinawa.

    The changing Marine mission comes as Japan’s own military is re-posturing. Formerly tasked with defending the northern island of Hokkaido against Russia, Japanese forces are now focused on fortifying islands south of Okinawa. Missile bases are rising, most notably on Yonaguni, the Japanese island closest to Taiwan, and Mikayo, which dominates the deep-water Miyako Strait.

    Japan converted an infantry regiment to marine duties in 2018. Recent exercises have focused on recapturing an island seized by enemy forces.

    The Marine Corps, under recently retired Commandant General David H. Berger, has undergone its own sea change in mission, reflecting the new strategic environment and the very different challenge China poses compared to past adversaries.

    The Marines earned a peerless reputation for amphibious combat across World War II’s Pacific theater — including an assault on Okinawa itself. It maintained its crack status on standard infantry operations in Korea and Vietnam, though some Army colleagues criticized the heavy casualties its missions often took.

    With China now asserting itself across the Indo-Pacific, the combat boot is on the other foot — as seen in U.S. Marines taking on far more preventive and defensive duties than in the past.

    An officer from Britain’s Royal Marines observed that modern surveillance and weapons systems make beach assaults today potentially even bloodier than in World War II. The ongoing war in Ukraine has only highlighted the importance of data-networked, satellite-guided, long-range artillery power.

    The conflict has also taught lessons about denying an adversary control of coastal areas. Moscow’s once-vaunted Black Sea fleet has retreated from Ukraine’s coast and is now shifting units from Crimea after taking heavy losses from Ukrainian missile strikes.

    “Ukraine’s success…is all the more remarkable as the country does not currently have a functioning navy,” noted the Atlantic Council in October. “Instead, Ukraine has relied on daring commando raids along with a combination of domestically produced drones and long-range cruise missiles provided by the country’s Western partners.”

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/16/new-marching-orders-marines-on-okinawa-shift-from-/

  9. Biden IRS Launches Audit Into Conservative Org That Helped Tank Nominees For Key Administration Posts
    By Daily Caller News Foundation November 16, 2023
    Biden IRS Launches Audit Into Conservative Org That Helped Tank Nominees For Key Administration Posts

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    By Jason Cohen

    The IRS is investigating the tax-exempt status of the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) following its reporting on President Joe Biden’s nominees, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    The IRS is requesting AAF submit internal financial data as well as communications, including meeting notes, publications and newsletters, according to the letter from the IRS to AAF obtained by the DCNF. The conservative nonprofit organization, which the IRS approved for tax-exempt status in August 2021, alleges the investigation is in retaliation for the AAF reporting on several recent Biden nominees who later withdrew their nominations. (RELATED: ‘They Must Have Been Cheating’: Watchdog Group Sues For Records Relating To Derogatory Comments Biden’s ATF Pick Allegedly Made Against Black Agents)

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/11/16/biden-irs-launches-audit-into-conservative-org-that-helped-tank-nominees-for-key-administration-posts/#google_vignette

  10. College ban on ‘verbal forms of aggression … harassment, ridicule or intimidation’ is unconstitutionally vague, magistrate judge says
    By LU Staff November 15, 2023

    Yesterday, a federal magistrate judge in Fresno, California, recommended that an injunction be issued against a community college policy banning “verbal forms of aggression …. harassment, ridicule or intimidation.” He concluded that the ban was unconstitutionally vague, in the Report and Recommendations he issued:

    BP 3050 serves as the [Kern Community College] District’s policy on “Institutional Code of Ethics.” BP 3050 provides that “all associates in the District, faculty, students, management, classified staff, and trustees, as well as volunteers and vendors, each bear personal responsibility for their own ethical behavior and for the ethical statute of our organization.” BP 3050 requires “that [the community] conduct [itself] with civility in all circumstances of [their] professional lives” and does “not participate in or accept, condone, or tolerate physical or verbal forms of aggression, threat, harassment, ridicule, or intimidation.” BP 3050 states it values a spirit of free inquiry and free speech and “encourages the expression of a range of points of view, but [expects] all

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/11/15/college-ban-on-verbal-forms-of-aggression-harassment-ridicule-or-intimidation-is-unconstitutionally-vague-magistrate-judge-says/