Reader’s links for December 24th, 2023

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22 Replies to “Reader’s links for December 24th, 2023”

  4. Perfume jihad in Stockholm, Sweden!

    Afghan Migrant Forced Entry into 75-year-old Swedish Woman’s Home, Brutally Beat and Repeatedly Stabbed Her in the Head, Resulting in Death
    https://rairfoundation.com/afghan-migrant-forced-entry-75-year-old-swedish/
    Since then, Mohammad has spent his time in Sweden, committing crimes and wandering around under the influence of narcotics in Uppsala and Stockholm.
    This was also the case on October 8th in Stockholm when he entered the woman’s residence on Kungsholmen. In police interrogation, Mohammad Jaghob himself stated that he attacked the woman when they encountered each other in her home.
    The Afghan also said that the woman screamed loudly and had difficulty breathing during the attack.
    [..]
    In the interrogation, Mohammad Jaghob stated that he was under the influence of narcotics and also felt pursued by enemies. The Afghan defended his actions by perceiving the woman as one of the enemies.
    He then fetched a kitchen knife and stabbed the woman to death as she lay shaking with fear on her floor.
    [..]
    After murdering the pensioner, he then took her belongings that he deemed necessary – including an Armani perfume, a handbag, and clothes. He then left the residence via the stairs.
    After the murder, the police were able to track Mohammad Jaghob as he used the woman’s bank card. Among other things, the Afghan paid for a taxi ride with her card. A camera in the taxi captured Jaghob with a mask over his face.

  5. 1634-1637 saw the famous Dutch tulip bubble. In a few years we will likely be seeing blockchain money in a similar light if it is not backed by something physical.

    Blockchain money, whether it is a central bank digital currency or one of the many cryptos out there, has no value. Also significant is that it is a derivative of the USD, which is a fact lost to this video. In fact it is the dollar that is a derivative of gold whether it likes it, or not.

    There will no doubt be much talk on this subject in the coming year. As our current system falters it is clearly an opportunity that governments and bankers have planned, and plan to exploit with predetermined outcomes. Don’t fall for it. We will be blitzed by a line-effort narrative vilifying anything that doesn’t fit their model. This will be helpful, as is usual, to know what is real. If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it.

    https://youtu.be/8H7ytxqcjvI?si=kjiP1kimqSUkFQ6i

    • This is REALLY good! Also, Bitcoin is likely anything but anonymous since blockchain is verified by scads of databases. And Coinbank has more info on you than a real bank does so, forget buying anonymously with it.

  10. Luke ll
    And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
    2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenaic’s was governor of Syria.)
    3 And all went to be taxed, everyone into their own city.
    4. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David).
    5. To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
    6. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
    7 And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
    8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
    9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.
    10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
    11. For onto you is borne this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

  11. General Milley Knew Chinese Spy Balloon Was Collecting Data Over US but Lied About It to American Public
    by Jim Hoft Dec. 24, 2023 7:30 am564 Comments

    Last January the Biden administration knew about the Chinese spy balloon traversing across the continental United States, from Alaska to the Carolinas, but sought to conceal this from the American public.

    A newspaper photographer first spotted the balloon over Montana.

    The Chinese spy balloon first entered US airspace over Alaska in late January.

    Joe Biden and Mark Milley knew the surveillance balloon was over the US, yet Biden chose to stand down.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/general-milley-lied-knew-chinese-spy-balloon-was/

  12. CE Arrests 26 Illegal Alien Sex Offenders, Including Pedophiles, in California
    by Cassandra MacDonald Dec. 24, 2023 9:00 am175 Comments

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 26 illegal immigrant sex offenders, some of whom are pedophiles, in a two-day sting operation in California.

    The operation was conducted by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Los Angeles from Monday through Wednesday.

    ERO said in a press release:

    In Los Angeles, a 19-year-old citizen of El Salvador was convicted by the Superior Court of California of felony sexual forcible oral copulation of a minor over 14-years-old and battery by restraint.
    In Los Angeles, a 40-year-old citizen of Mexico was convicted by the Superior Court of California of felony lewd acts with a child and continuous sexual abuse.
    In Los Angeles, a 35-year-old citizen of Guatemala was convicted by the Superior Court of California of felony child molestation in an inhabited dwelling.

    “The outcome of this operation exemplifies the professionalism, dedication and commitment of ERO Los Angeles officers to public safety,” Field Office Director Thomas Giles said in a statement. “Removing these individuals and the threats they represent from our communities is our mission, and we will continue to safely and effectively enforce the immigration laws of our nation.”

    ERO arrested 46,496 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions in FY 22. Of those, 8,164 were sex and sexual assault offenses.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/ice-arrests-26-illegal-alien-sex-offenders-including/

  13. talian Church Nativity Scene Features Baby Jesus With Two Mothers — ‘Saint Joseph, Sacrificed on the Altar of Political Correctness’
    by Cassandra MacDonald Dec. 24, 2023 10:20 am134 Comments

    An Italian church is facing accusations of blasphemy over a nativity scene featuring baby Jesus with two mothers.

    Pro-Vita & Famiglia (Pro-Life and Family), a pro-life group, has launched a petition asking the Bishop of Avellino to intervene. The organization has already collected over 23,000 signatures.

    The offensive nativity is on display at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, in Capocastello di Mercogliano, in the province of Avellino.

    “I wanted to show with this scene that families are no longer just the traditional ones,” Father Vitaliano Della Sala told Reuters. “In our parishes we see more and more children from the new types of families that exist and are part of our society, children of separated and divorced people, gay couples, single people, young mothers.”

    According to the report, Father Della Sala is known for supporting the LGBT community and far-left causes.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/italian-church-nativity-scene-features-baby-jesus-two/

  15. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2023/12/incompetent-contagious-disease-diagnosis-for-guns-a-prescription-for-tyranny/#ixzz8MpnUm8gP
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    Incompetent ‘Contagious Disease’ Diagnosis for Guns a Prescription for Tyranny
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on December 24, 2023 by David Codrea
    Michelle Lujan Grisham consults on a treatment plan with colleagues… and not an infectious disease specialist in the bunch… (Moms Demand Action – NM/Facebook)

    “New Mexico Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham held a recent press conference to praise herself for implementing dubious gun control measures,” the National Shooting Sports Foundation reported. “‘I won’t rest until we don’t have to talk about (gun violence) as an epidemic and a public health emergency,’ the governor said.”

    If a prominent politician declares an epidemic and imposes edicts and orders to enforce them, it’s fair to ask, “Where’s the science?”

    “Lujan Grisham was born in Los Alamos and graduated from St. Michael’s High School in Santa Fe before earning undergraduate and law degrees from the University of New Mexico,” the governor’s official biography states. Neither her education nor her claimed career highlights show her qualified to make such a proclamation on her own, which makes it fair to ask, “Who’s advising her?”

    That would be Patrick M. Allen, her New Mexico Health Department Secretary.

    “In simple terms, violence, especially gun violence, behaves like a contagious disease,” Allen pontificates in his op-ed, “Tackling Gun Violence: A Public Health Challenge — DOH secretary says rapidly-spreading violence behaves like a contagious disease.”

    “Imagine treating violence as if it were an infectious disease. Just as we study diseases’ origins to combat them effectively, we can apply the same approach to violence,” Allen proclaims. “How do we address gun violence as the contagious disease it is? Gun violence is a public health emergency.”

    He sounds like he knows what he’s talking about, doesn’t he? The thing is, like the governor, the secretary in charge of the Land of Enchantment’s public health doesn’t have a qualified medical background, either.

    True, his LinkedIn profile shows he’s been an administrator and a bureaucratic policy wonk, but when it comes to “Education,” he’s only claiming a B.S. in Economics from Oregon State University. So, when it comes to diagnosis and treatment, we haven’t even established a proficiency at changing bed pans, emphasized by the requirements for his degree: Essentially, get a “C” average on 51 credits.

    We’re still not seeing much to justify declaring a public health emergency, are we?

    OK, so where does Allen get his parroted talking points from? That’s assuming his concurrence with them is relevant, competent, and material. And talking points they are, as a cursory Google search shows. The media’s all over it.
    The big gun there appears to be one Gary Slutkin, M.D., of “The University of Illinois at Chicago, and Cure Violence (formerly CeaseFire).” No “agenda science” bias there, right?

    “VIOLENCE IS A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE,” Slutkin’s headline screams in his National Library of Medicine “Contagion of Violence” workshop summary.

    “We begin by reminding ourselves that the great infectious diseases and violence have each killed tens to hundreds of millions of persons throughout history. Nothing else has caused this level of human fatalities,” Slutkin recalls for us. “Violence has all of the historical, population, and individual characteristics of an infectious disease. It has routes of transmission, incubation periods, and different clinical syndromes and outcomes. There are definable biological processes underlying the pathogenesis.”

    So, if someone else does it you can catch it? What’s the agent of transmission, and how does it enter the body? Can we vaccinate against it? With the estimated “more than 494 million firearms [that] have been produced for the U.S. market since 1899, includ[ing] imports from foreign gunmakers, but exclud[ing] exports by domestic gunmakers,” shouldn’t we all be in our beds or wearing face diapers or something? And the “solution” is citizen disarmament enforced by a government monopoly of violence?
    So, we’re to accept that governments – the historic perpetrators of genocides against unarmed populations, carry some kind of natural immunity? That’s our healthy choice…?

    But Slutkin’s a doctor, some may counter. He did better than a bachelor’s degree with a 2.0. Who are we mere mortals (and being gun owners, probably deplorable knuckle-draggers, Trumptards, and white supremacists to boot) to argue with him?

    We don’t have to. Aside from common sense and life experience that tells us the gun quacks are selling Professor Bloomberg’s Miracle Cure snake oil, we have our resources to consult, too. Some of my proven reliable go-tos are Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, and a personal favorite, “The Perversion of Science and Medicine” by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D., “a consultant neurosurgeon, Adjunct Professor of Medical History (1993-1996) at Mercer University School of Medicine… [who served] as Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Sentinel, the official journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).”

    Now is a good time to recall that Grisham, with Allen’s “corroboration,” justified her totalitarian impulses by classifying “gun violence as an epidemic.” It’s also a good time to ask, “What is an epidemic?” which the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health does, both for us and for their medical postal carriers [just seeing who’s still awake], by citing the Centers for Disease Control:

    “(CDC) describes an epidemic as an unexpected increase in the number of disease cases in a specific geographical area… Epidemics can refer to a disease or other specific health-related behavior … with rates that are clearly above the expected occurrence in a community or region [emphasis added].

    That actually comports nicely with the findings of Dr. John Lott (a real economist, Patrick), and president of the Crime Preventios Research Center, who documents:

    “Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas, and even in those counties, murders are concentrated in small areas inside them…”

    Disarming you and me will not affect those concentrated areas. It will, however, make us more vulnerable to criminals, predators, violent lunatics, and assorted control freaks and evil aberrations who come into ours.

    If the estimated four-in-10 U.S. households that own a gun were susceptible to the “disease” the freedom prohibitionists insist we’re all at risk of being infected with, they’d know it with all their in-your-face provocations that would have had the Founders who ratified the Second Amendment responding with “every terrible imnplement of the soldier.”

    The evil, collectivist morons are pushing worse than junk science. It’s clown science.
    But when tyrant wannabes try to impose it on American gun owners under force of arms, they’d do well to notice we’re not laughing

  16. Exclusive: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied Secret Service protection for 3rd time
    According to a letter obtained by the Deseret News, the independent presidential candidate will not receive USSS protection during his campaign
    By Samuel Be***********@*********ws.com
    Dec 22, 2023, 8:43pm CST

    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s third request for Secret Service protection has been denied, according to a letter obtained by the Deseret News.

    The letter, signed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, says that USSS protection for Kennedy is “not warranted.” The letter’s veracity was confirmed Friday night by the Kennedy campaign.

    “I have consulted with an advisory committee composed of the Speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, the Senate Majority Leader, the Senate Minority Leader, and the Senate Sergeant at Arms,” Mayorkas wrote. “Based on the facts and the recommendation of the advisory committee, I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not warranted at this time.”

    The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.

    Kennedy has submitted three requests for Secret Service protection since launching his campaign in April, each with the same result.

    Federal law authorizes Secret Service protection for “major” presidential and vice presidential candidates. The DHS secretary is given authority to determine who qualifies as a “major” candidate, in consultation with the top congressional leaders in the House and Senate.

    In 2017, criteria were established to help guide the DHS’ decision making, including a threat assessment conducted by the Secret Service to determine whether the candidate is in danger, and whether the candidate meets specific polling thresholds. For independent candidates, the threshold is “polling at 20% or more of the Real Clear Politics National Average for 30 consecutive days.”

    Historically, Secret Service protection has been reserved for the two major-party nominees and their vice presidents, though others — like Herman Cain in 2012 and Ben Carson in 2016 — received protection just under one year before Election Day.

    The Kennedy campaign has argued that Kennedy meets the criteria to receive protection. When it submitted its second request, Kennedy said he provided a 67-page report from Gavin de Becker and Associates, the security firm Kennedy hired, “detailing unique and well-established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.”

    https://www.deseret.com/2023/12/22/24012984/exclusive-robert-f-kennedy-jr-denied-secret-service-protection-for-third-time

  17. Massachusetts Assault Weapon Ban Ruled Constitutional by Judge

    Gun Rights Battles Brew in Massachusetts in Supreme Court’s Wake
    July 18, 2023, 4:02 AM CDT
    Topics

    National Association for Gun Rights challenge lacks merit
    Judge refuses to freeze law while litigation unfolds

    Massachusetts’ law prohibiting the possession and sale of some semiautomatic weapons commonly used in mass shootings is acceptable under a recent change to Second Amendment precedent from the US Supreme Court, a federal judge said Thursday.

    The National Association for Gun Rights asked the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts to prevent the state from being able to enforce its law, claiming the weapons are protected under the Second Amendment because they were in common use at the time the Second Amendment was adopted.

    The banned weapons “are unreasonably dangerous for ordinary purposes of self-defense due to their extreme lethality and high potential for collateral harm,” Chief Judge Dennis Saylor wrote in an order denying the gun rights group’s request to halt enforcement of the law.

    The US Supreme Court held last year in New York State Rifles & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen that state governments must prove a regulation would have been consistent with the nation’s historical regulation of firearms.

    Saylor’s decision helps build the jurisprudence for the types of state regulations that remain acceptable under the Second Amendment post-Bruen as many states grapple with challenges to their weapon laws. States like Illinois, California, and Connecticut have also been allowed to move forward enforcing their assault weapon bans.

    “The relevant history affirms the principle that in 1791, as now, there was a tradition of regulating ‘dangerous and unusual’ weapons—specifically, those that are not reasonably necessary for self-defense,” the order said, and the current restrictions “pose a minimal burden on the right to self-defense and are comparably justified to historical regulation.”

    Saylor was not convinced that assault weapons are commonly used for self-defense, finding them “generally unsuitable” for that purpose because of their weight, size, and firepower.

    “The features of modern assault weapons—particularly the AR-15’s radical increases in muzzle velocity, range, accuracy, and functionality—along with the types of injuries they can inflict are so different from colonial firearms that the two are not reasonably comparable,” the order said.

    https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/massachusetts-assault-weapon-ban-meets-second-amendment-scrutiny

  18. Satanic Terrorist Cult Makes 2024 Endorsement: ‘Only Biden-Harris Can Bring About End of History’
    by Jack Gist, The Western Journal Dec. 24, 2023 3:00 pm16 Comments

    Most individuals and organizations endorse presidential candidates because they think the country will improve in some way if the candidate is elected, right?

    What happens when a group endorses a candidate because its members believe the candidate will herald in a new Dark Age filled with fear, trembling and gnashing of teeth?

    The Order of Nine Angles, a Satanic cult founded in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, according to a BBC report from 2020, has endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket for the 2024 presidential election. Not surprisingly, when Satanists endorse political candidates, they do it for all the wrong reasons.

    In what could be written off as a brazen attempt at gaining some cheap notoriety, O9A manages to paint itself as the kind of fools who utter a prophetic phrase or two before falling into the abyss of eternal fire.

    On Wednesday, O9A stated on its website that “democracy is failing; worldwide nations are going broke, preparing for war, inundated with refugees, beset by internal refugees, ruled by careerist psychopaths, and perhaps most ominously, electing leaders who are associated with foreign powers.”

    There’s more than a little truth in O9A’s observation. The world does appear to be on the brink.

    Any Americans in their right mind would presumably want a president who protected democracy, thwarted corruption, avoided war by a show of strength, and controlled the country’s orders. In other words, they would back a presidential ticket that put America first.

    Not O9A.

    “We want to rush into the abyss so that the ‘end of history‘ can come to its natural terminus and a new Dark Age will be visited upon the Earth.”

    “In this new era,” the endorsement continued “might will make right, the claw and tooth will always be red, and blood will cross the land like an ever-flowing stream. The strong will oppress the weak, the weak will die, and natural selection will resume.”

    “This can only happen through weak humanist leadership that will stumble its way into war, famine, recession, terrorism, corruption, and human misery. The suicides will leave before the battles commence …

    “Only Biden-Harris can bring about this advancement of history, and therefore, we endorse the Biden-Harris campaign in 2024.”

    The way things are going, there’s a chance the O9A could be right. The world is on edge, wars are brewing, the worldwide immigrant/refugee crisis is at a boiling point and it would appear we have a president in bed with foreign powers like China. Electing Biden to a second term would be like courting the mother of all disasters.

    Electing a Republican president in 2024 might screw up O9A’s plan.

    “The last thing we want right now is one of these Christian band-aid do-gooders like Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswarmy, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, and Ron DeSantis to take over and fix things.”

    Ramaswamy’s not Christian. He’s Hindu. The fact that O9A fudged it makes the group look like comic book villains more at home on “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” than on the world stage.

    On the other hand, the group has surfaced in disturbing news reports involving pedophilia and terrorism. In 2020, a U.S. Army Pvt. Ethan Melzer was indicted by the Justice Department on charges of sending details about his unit’s movement to the group, which was planning to attack the American soldiers. Melzer was sentenced in March to 45 years in prison, ABC News reported.

    Should O9A get its wish for the end of history, its members and all unhinged evil-doers will get free tickets on a fast train to hell.

    In the meantime, Christians would like to go on living, preferably in a working representative republic with the traditional American values of God, family and country.

    here are a lot more Christians than Satanists in America. There’s still hope if they vote Old Joe right out of office.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/satanic-terrorist-cult-makes-2024-endorsement-biden-harris/

  19. Parents of Conservative Reporter Jack Posobiec Swatted

    “My parents were just Swatted,” Jack Posobiec said in a post on X on Saturday afternoon. “Everyone is fine.”

    “Law enforcement are fully involved and tracking down the perpetrator,” Posobiec said.

    “They told police that I had shot my parents and was threatening to shoot my family,” Posobiec said.

    As The Post Millennial noted, Mediaite published a hit piece on Posobiec and Tim Pool before the swatting incident.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/parents-conservative-reporter-jack-posobiec-swatted/