Reader’s Links for December 27th, 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.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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48 Replies to “Reader’s Links for December 27th, 2023”

  1. Despite all the doom mongering we see today, 2024 may become the year of leftist-driven failing pseudo realities. The covid injection scam is slowly taking hold in the wider demographic as is now the failure of green energy. Accelerating this implosion is the failure of the Keynesian-driven fiat currency experiment which, after 100 years of growing ponzi, is coming to an end with the seemingly omni-present debt trap.

    Clearing malinvestment in both the monetary and ideological realms can only be a good thing despite the pain such events will bring. Hopefully, the pseudo reality that Islam is the religion of peace will fall with the others.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/britains-net-zero-disaster-wind-power-scam

    • The People are slowly waking up to the lies the left has been spreading, when they do they are going to insist on crimes against humanity trials and quick execution of the guilty. We are fighting to preserve freedom and are slowly winning, as long as we keep fighting we can’t lose. it is only when we give up that the left can impose their neofeudal system on us.

  5. “…The center is not holding…,” Hanson says. Well, be more specific. The center has been intentionally erased by the left’s constant moving of the goalposts in an intentional effort to paint all non-revolutionaries as radically right. Again, an imposed pseudo reality enabled by corrupted legacy media:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihhI-5yMdts

    And here is the trailer. Given the Hollywood stars my guess is it is another production using fiction to portend, or even facilitate, our future:

        • Johnny, Do you suppose that Canada’s Justice Minister and Attorney General Arif Virani has ever been to Aga Khan’s 349 acre Island, Bell City, the Bahamas?
          They are both Shia, Ismaili Muslims?

          I wonder if they ever discussed who should be Canada’s Justice Minister.

          Justine has vacationed on the 100 million dollar island in December 2014, March and December 2016 and January 4, 2017. No conflict, don’t worry.

          I did read that Virani, a Muslin, Ugandan refugee swore on the Bible when he took his oath. Hmmmm

          They follow Allah’s law.

          Sometimes is very deceiving.

          • I don’t know if he’s ever been to the island, but I don’t think it matters. They all have their marching orders from foreign masters.

  8. Iran no longer hides behind proxies in war against Israel

    Analysis: Raisi says Israel will pay for assassination of high-ranking IRGC member in Syria but Iran’s direct involvement in attacks on Israeli interests does not go unnoticed in Jerusalem

    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bymtzm00dt
    ………
    Iran Speeds Up Uranium Enrichment to Near Weapons-Grade

    Iran has reversed a slowdown begun in June in the rate at which it is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.

    “The Agency confirms that, since the end of November 2023, the rate at which Iran has been producing uranium enriched up to 60% U-235 at these two facilities [Natanz and Fordow] combined has increased to approximately 9 kg. per month” from a rate of 3 kg. a month.

    Iran already has enough uranium enriched to up to 60%, if enriched further, to make three nuclear bombs.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-undoes-slowdown-enrichment-uranium-near-weapons-grade-iaea-2023-12-26/

  9. Tamer Masudin@TMasudin

    Palestinians deserve to starve according to #Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzouk.

    “The aid that comes to Gaza must be distributed to the resistance fighters, and what remains is done Distribute it to the people. The attempt of some citizens to seize aid, as happened today in Rafah, will be fought with all force, and the people must offer what is expensive and what is cheap for the sake of the resistance, not steal the food of the resistance.”

    According to #Hamas if you are a hungry #Palestinian, you deserve to be shot.
    https://twitter.com/TMasudin/status/1739284219400982896

  10. Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld
    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. “What will the world say?” are not words we should be uttering in a war. Enough with that already!

    Sure, if we can accomplish something without bad optics, great, but rounding up Hamas terrorists and stripping them down to their underwear is necessary for two reasons.

    First of all, by stripping them down, we know they have no explosives on them. And if you think that’s not something they would do, you’re seriously not paying attention to how sick and deranged Hamas is.

    The second reason we strip them down and maybe the most important one is to HUMILIATE THE HELL out of them! Yes, it’s about time we spoke their language after how they humiliated our daughters and mothers.

    Enough with the “What will the world say?” garbage already!

    We can give them all a bubble bath and feed them caviar and the world will still say we are committing genocide. The world will say what they say irrelevant of reality. We need to do what we need to do.

    And finally, I get it. We are a compassionate people. We don’t like war. We don’t like to humiliate. We don’t like to speak their language. Trust me. I get it.

    But sometimes you need to step out of your comfort zone and this is one of those times.

    We are dealing with a horribly cruel and barbaric enemy and compassion right now is highly inappropriate.

    Besides, while it is our nature to be compassionate, let’s not forget that in our Torah, the source for all morality in this world, we have multiple commandments to eliminate evil. We also have several instances of our nation celebrating when that evil was eliminated, the best known one was us singing by the sea after the Egyptians drowned.

    So enough with the old school mindset of Jews in the exile. It’s time we stood proud and declared to the world “Do NOT mess with the Jews again. We won’t take it like we used to. And if you don’t like it? Get over it!” [+pix]

    https://twitter.com/HilzFuld/status/1739641197646217506

  12. Rep. James Comer: Joe Biden Was Using at Least Three Fake Names on Govt. Emails to Communicate with Shady Business Associates (Video)
    by Jim Hoft Dec. 27, 2023 10:00 am0 Comments

    House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) joined FOX News to give an update on the impeachment probe of Joe Biden.

    Comer told the FOX News audience that Joe Biden was using at least three fake government emails to communicate with his shady business associates.

    Chairman James Comer: Right now, I think one of the most important amount of documentation that we need are those pseudonym emails. Remember, no one knew about these pseudonym emails until a few months ago. We found that Joe Biden was using at least three fake names on government emails. What we didn’t know until recently was that he was, in fact, using those pseudonym emails to communicate with not just his son, Hunter Biden, but also with his shady business associates…

    …And we also have questions for the national archives, which countries were involved in the documents that Joe Biden mishandled. That’s something that I think is very important of our investigation because we’ve identified, Jason, a couple of emails that Hunter sent to people in Ukraine, for example, that we believe may have been classified documents that Joe Biden mishandled that were in possibly the garage of Joe Biden’s house where his son was living.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/rep-james-comer-joe-biden-was-using-least/

  13. The EU is the largest donor of aid to Palestine, over 118 million pounds.

    The biggest donor to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is the USA, $343,937,718

    The Swiss cut funding to UNRWA stating the Agency lacked objectivity.

    Minister of Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, Harjit S. Sajjan stated “Palestinians are facing high rates of poverty, “food insecurity “ and unemployment. Canada continues to support for UNRWA.

  14. (Richard: There are several videos reporting high end robberies, all with 5 through 7 figure smash and grabs, the chaos has started in the big cities and will spread to smaller cities and towns over the next couple of years.)

    Video Shows Fire Extinguisher-Aided Robbery of High-End Store, Police Ask Public for Help
    by C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal Dec. 27, 2023 9:30 am50 Comments

    It’s would be beyond brazen — if it hadn’t already happened before.

    According to a news release from the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, Dec. 17 robbery at the Chanel store in the upscale DCCityCenter was carried out by a gang armed with a fire extinguisher.

    The release stated that “at approximately 5:30 p.m., five suspects entered a retail store” and set off the fire extinguisher as a distraction.

    “One of the suspects discharged a fire extinguisher multiple times with its contents striking a Special Police Officer while the other suspects took merchandise from the store,” the release stated.
    Big Pharma In Panic After Dr. Oz Drops Bombshell
    Elon: Cut Your Electric Bill By 90%

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/video-shows-fire-extinguisher-aided-robbery-high-end/

  15. IDF soldier dies after being infected by fungus in Gaza

    An Israeli soldier has died after being infected by a dangerous type of fungus found in the soil of the Gaza Strip, Kan reported on Tuesday.

    The soldier was transported to Assuta Ashdod Medical Center two weeks ago, suffering from serious limb wounds infected by the fungus. The medical staff attempted every treatment possible, including experimental treatments from abroad, and brought in experts, but the fungus proved resistant and eventually overtook his organs, resulting in his death.

    There are around 10 other soldiers who have been infected with the deadly strain in Gaza, according to professor Galia Rahab, chairperson of the Infectious Diseases Association and former director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at Sheba Hospital.

    Rabab told Kan that these fungi were not seen in previous wars in the Gaza Strip and that the source may have been soil contaminated by sewage. It is unknown whether there is a connection to Hamas’s tunnel network, and the matter is under investigation.

    The Infectious Diseases Association will hold an emergency discussion on the fungus along with Israel Defense Forces epidemiology experts.

    https://www.jns.org/idf-soldier-dies-after-being-infected-by-fungus-in-gaza/

    • there is a Lancet paper abour Gazan fungal infections that don’t respond to treatment. these predate the current conflict.

  16. Higher Education: Russian Textbooks Say Trump Lost 2020 in Rigged Election
    by Jim Hoft Dec. 27, 2023 7:30 am345 Comments

    A new Russian history book for 11th grade students claims former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election “as a result of obvious electoral fraud by the Democratic Party.”

    Even the Kremlin knows the 2020 elections were stolen!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/even-kremlin-knows-its-true-russian-textbooks-say/

  17. How Snatching American Citizens Turned Into a Tool of Hostile Governments
    Travelers in countries representing nearly a quarter of the world’s population face a heightened risk of arrest—and of becoming pawns in a geopolitical struggle with Washington
    By Drew Hinshaw
    , Joe Parkinson
    and Aruna Viswanatha
    Dec. 27, 2023 12:01 am ET
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    The problem was staring up from a deck of cards, handed from one presidency to the next.

    As the Trump administration exited the White House, its national security team left behind some 30 baseball-style cards for the incoming Biden staff, monuments to an ancient practice that had somehow become a grave 21st-century challenge. Each bore the photo of an American held hostage abroad.

    Since then, the problem has metastasized into what the Biden administration calls a national emergency. The risk of Americans being held on spurious charges by a foreign government is now so widespread that the State Department warns U.S. citizens against traveling to countries accounting for nearly a quarter of the world’s population. In diplomatic parlance, those nine nations are classified “D” for the risk of detention.

    Classification D is America’s gathering new reality: an increasingly piratical global system where the taking and trading of foreign citizens—once the preserve of guerrilla bands or fundamentalist insurgencies—has become a tactic deployed by nuclear states.

    The Biden administration has brought at least 45 Americans home—mostly via prisoner trades such as last week’s that returned 10 Americans from Venezuela. And yet it says around 30 U.S. citizens are still unjustly detained abroad, an estimate that doesn’t account for the eight still presumably held in Gaza after Hamas’s attack on Israel in October.

    The tally does encompass Americans grabbed in countries ranging from Syria and Afghanistan to China—and our colleague, Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia in March on an espionage charge that he, his government and employer all strongly deny.

    Shortly before he vanished into Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, Gershkovich had been

    https://www.wsj.com/world/american-hostages-hostile-governments-cc7343a8?mod=djemalertNEWS

  18. WHY ARE U.S. CAPITOL POLICE QUIETLY OPENING SATELLITE OFFICES AROUND THE COUNTRY?
    Five USCP satellite offices have recently opened up around the country.
    Breanna Morello
    Dec 23, 2023

    After January 6, 2021, United States Capitol Police opened 2 satellite offices outside of Washington D.C.. One of those offices was opened in former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s area and another was opened in Tampa, Florida.

    Although Congressman Matt Gaetz and former Florida Representative Anthony Sabatini attempted to block the Tampa office from opening, it opened anyway. In the months that followed its opening, dozens of Floridians were targeted by the Department of Justice and FBI. Many of those individuals were accused of nonviolent crimes. They had their homes illegally raided by the FBI.

    USCP claims they’re opening these offices because the threats against members of Congress have increased throughout the years. I personally reached out to USCP and asked them to supply me with the supporting data regarding these so-called threats and they refused to do so.

    Earlier this year, USCP announced their plans to open three more satellite offices. These offices are opening/opened in Texas, Milwaukee and Boston. USCP says they opened these satellite offices “due to the increased threat environment.” Again, they make these claims without showing any supporting evidence.

    HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:

    When a member of Congress or their staff are threatened, USCP gather all the information and evidence. Those details are then provided to the FBI. The FBI makes the arrests. So if the FBI is the agency responding to these threats, why would USCP need to open offices? Is the FBI so overwhelmed with work that they need additional assistance nearby? Well I asked the three Florida FBI field offices about that and this is what the Tampa field office told me:

    https://breannamorello.substack.com/p/why-are-us-capitol-police-quietly?publication_id=996221&r=1g8tya

  19. #BringItBack: The Campaign to Restore the Guillotine
    Ben Bartee
    Dec 26, 2023

    We need this.

    Let’s be clear upfront: this movement is a campaign for fully above-board legal reform. We do not condone or sanction vigilante justice.

    Join the #BringItBack movement today, in the best tradition of American resistance to tyranny, to revise criminal statutes at the federal, state, and local levels in order to legally send criminals convicted of public corruption to the People’s Razor.

    Draw the line in the sand. Restore the American principles of self-government and true liberty. Put your John Hancock on the #BringItBack Change.org petition.

    Here’s what we’re demanding, specifically, via Change.org:

    “· Adopt at all levels of governance (national, state, local), enshrined in law, the following definition of corruption, via the Legal Information Institute [LII]: “Public corruption involves a breach of public trust and/or abuse of position by federal, state, or local officials and their private sector accomplices. By broad definition, a government official, whether elected, appointed or hired, may violate federal law when he/she asks, demands, solicits, accepts, or agrees to receive anything of value in return for being influenced in the performance of their official duties.”

    · Make public corruption a crime punishable by death at all levels of governance, enshrined in law

    · Restore the guillotine as the preferred method of capital punishment for public corruption, enshrined in law

    · Allow for a maximum 6-month appeals process for public corruption convictions from sentencing to execution day, enshrined in law

    · Make executions via guillotine public, broadcasting/livestreaming them through official government media, including the White House YouTube channel, among others, enshrined in law

    · Mandate attendance by all elected and unelected government officials at these events as a condition for maintaining office, enshrined in law

    · Declare December 16, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a federal holiday, called Guillotine Day, enshrined in law”

    I have a hunch that Change.org will dispense with this petition at the behest of the state if it gets large enough, so here’s a web archive.

    If/when that happens, we’ll simply make a new one on that platform or another. This is a guerilla information war, and it requires persistence to circumvent the censorship regime.

    Also, follow #BringItBack on Twitter, where we’ll routinely post updates on the grassroots movement.
    A note on artistry

    The unique manner in which the guillotine snuffs out life lends itself particularly to spectacle, and therefore maximum deterrence, which is why it’s the method we are advancing in the #BringItBack movement.

    The blade hangs high in the air as the suspense builds. The audience sits in anticipatory silence on pins and needles, white-knuckling it until the blade is finally loosed.

    Gravity then commandeers the blade; it accrues velocity until the moment of impact. The head of the criminal is nicked clean off the neck, which then rolls dramatically into a waiting basket to be gathered.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

    Ben Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile, is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.

    Follow his stuff Substack if you are inclined to support independent journalism free of corporate slant. Also, keep tabs via Twitter.

    For hip Armageddon Prose t-shirts, hats, etc., peruse the merch store.

    https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/bringitback-the-campaign-to-restorehttps://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/bringitback-the-campaign-to-restore

  20. Mysterious Fireball Explosion Spotted in Iowa Has Left Authorities With No Answers (VIDEO)
    by Anthony Scott Dec. 27, 2023 11:20 am22 Comments

    Residents in Council Bluffs, Iowa, heard a loud explosion on December 22nd, and authorities have no answers about where the explosion stemmed from.

    Video footage of the explosion was obtained by WOWT 6 News and shows a fireball exploding in the sky.

    A resident who went by Roz told WOWT, “All of a sudden, I heard this explosion and this concussion…It rattled the house.”

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/mysterious-fireball-explosion-spotted-iowa-has-left-authorities/

  21. Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles… and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration
    by Guest Contributor Dec. 27, 2023 10:45 am84 Comments

    Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles … and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration
    By James Varney
    December 27, 2023
    Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles … and Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration
    Perdelsky at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons

    Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases. Polio, which paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, was wiped out by widespread vaccinations. In 1999 the nation’s last hospital for lepers closed its doors in Louisiana. A global campaign eradicated smallpox, while lethal tuberculosis, the “consumption” that stalked characters in decades of literature, seemed beaten by antibiotics. Measles outbreaks still occur from time to time, but they are small, local, and easily contained.

    Recently, however, some of these forgotten but still formidable infectious diseases have begun to reappear in the U.S. For two years running, polio has been detected in some New York water samples, and this fall, leprosy re-emerged in Florida, where cases of malaria have also been recorded.

    Health officials say they are not sure why these and other infectious diseases are resurfacing. One distinct possibility, which officials are loath to discuss, is that the millions of migrants who have crossed into the country in recent years could be bringing the scourges with them, since many are from countries where such rare diseases persist and vaccination programs are not robust.

    “The recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly imports to the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, one of the most outspoken critics of official COVID-19 narratives in the last pandemic that later proved flawed.

    And the Biden administration, an aggressive promoter of often mandatory vaccination last time, now is offering little public comment on the connection between disease and the porous borders with which its immigration policy has become widely identified.

    Neither the Centers for Disease Control nor the Department of Homeland Security would discuss the issue with RealClearInvestigations. Legal immigrants are required to receive vaccinations for a host of diseases, but the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged it does not have vaccination records for the millions who have entered the U.S. since the Biden administration relaxed border controls upon taking office in January 2021.

    “It’s not like there is some Typhoid Mary out there, but this is something people are seeing and thinking about, even if they don’t want to discuss it publicly,” said Art Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes the Biden administration’s border policies.

    The reticence of federal agencies has not stopped some local officials, however, from raising public health alarms over massive immigration. New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan warned in April that at least half of the migrants who have poured into the city had not been vaccinated against polio. The potentially paralyzing and life-threatening virus remains endemic in two countries in the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the World Health Organization. Since President Biden ordered what proved to be a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, an estimated 90,000 Afghans have come to the U.S. under the terms of Operation Allies Welcome.

    It is not clear if those migrants met the polio vaccination requirement. DHS did not respond to a question about whether medical histories were reviewed in the fast-tracked entry of Afghans who got out of their country before the Taliban reimposed its control.

    Vasan’s warning pointed directly to the southern border, which has seen record-shattering arrivals on the Biden administration’s watch.

    “More than 50,000 people have come to New York City in the past year shortly after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border,” he wrote in an 11-page letter. “I am writing now to underscore how critical it is that health care providers take a wide range of considerations into account when working with people who are seeking asylum.”

    Citing outbreaks of chickenpox in shelters for illegal immigrants, Vasan also noted the arrival of newcomers who either began their journey in a country where tuberculosis is present or passed through such countries en route to the U.S.

    The New York City Health Department did not respond to questions from RealClearInvestigations or to a request to speak with Dr. Vasan, but the numbers have only grown since he sent his letter. Since spring 2022, more than 100,000 migrants had arrived in the city, and more than 67,200 were living in taxpayer-funded housing at the end of November, according to the New York Times.

    Last year, the first recorded polio case in the U.S. since 2013 was diagnosed in New York State, with the victim described only as an “unvaccinated man.” Also in 2022, poliovirus was found in the water supply of four New York counties, including Long Island, and New York City. Another positive test result was recorded in Rockland County this year, according to the state.

    In the U.S., polio vaccinations remain part of “the routine childhood immunization process” under which the CDC recommends four doses. Adults who grew up in the U.S. are vaccinated, the agency said.

    The last occurrence prior to the New York diagnosis had been in 1979. Since November 2022, the CDC has begun wastewater testing for the poliovirus, so long extinct in the U.S., in selected areas, but the agency did not respond to questions about those investigations. It does provide information on COVID and monkeypox, the latter a disease that primarily afflicts the gay population.

    A thorough investigation, exploring all avenues of transmission and trying to source a virus to its root, is common among virus hunters, and the idea that millions of people coming to the U.S. could inadvertently carry with them some infectious disease is but one possibility. For example, thus far researchers have been unable to pinpoint where the infamous Ebola virus originates in equatorial Africa.
    ‘Historically Atypical Countries’

    The situation in the United States is further complicated by the fact that DHS officials don’t know where all of the more than 7.5 million migrants who’ve arrived since Biden took office are living. Those whom Border Patrol agents have encountered and processed have immigration court dates, but those dates are years in advance. Many people with uncertain immigration status lack health insurance and stay off the grid as much as possible, meaning even if the U.S. launched some kind of vaccination program it would not know where to concentrate its efforts.

    In addition, the historic flood of illegal immigration during the Biden administration has also featured a much more global population. DHS uses the term “historically atypical countries” to describe the panoply of countries outside of Mexico and Central America from which illegal immigration has soared. Between 2011 and 2022, the number of annual encounters involving immigrants from historically atypical countries soared from fewer than 8,000 to almost 1 million. The first six months of 2023 saw more than half of official encounters – these numbers do not include what Border Patrol calls “gotaways” for whom little information is available – from historically atypical countries. But infectious diseases largely forgotten in the U.S. remain public health issues in both hemispheres, and many of those nations have much less robust vaccination programs than most modern Western nations.

    In 1988, when the World Health Organization launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, wild poliovirus was evident in 125 countries, but the zone where it remains endemic has shrunk to Afghanistan and Pakistan, with most recent cases occurring along the countries’ nearly 1,600-mile border, according to the CDC. Vaccination campaigns have proved problematic under the militant Islamic fundamentalist Taliban, according to the CDC. Oral vaccines in “parts of the south and northeast regions” are “allowed only at health facilities, mosques, and polio vaccination sites.”

    In March, Al Jazeera reported that the Taliban would allow a polio vaccination program for children, but precise figures on the country’s overall vaccination rate remain unclear. The World Health Organization estimates that 76% of Afghanistan’s children have received a polio vaccine.

    But some countries have even lower vaccination rates. On Nov. 30, for instance, some 700 people, including many from Senegal and Nigeria, walked into the U.S. at the Texas border. Only 63% of Senegal’s children have been vaccinated for polio, and various fevers, hepatitis, and malaria are endemic there. Measles, which the U.S. declared eliminated here in 2000, are an issue, too. The WHO estimates 22 million children missed their first measles vaccine last year and more than half of them live in just 10 countries, all of which fall in the “historically atypical” immigration list.

    Measles cases have risen in the U.S., from 13 individual cases in 2020 to 121 in 2022, according to the CDC. Recent outbreaks in Ohio and Illinois have all occurred among unvaccinated children, according to state health officials. The age and nationality of victims is not made public, but the measles vaccination rate is below 70% in many countries that have sent immigrants to the U.S. recently.

    While few are publicly pushing the panic button, some public health officials worry that a creeping mistrust of vaccines in the wake of the pandemic may make more Americans vulnerable to dangerous and even deadly scourges. Syphilis, for example, has been on the rise for many years but rose sharply during the pandemic.

    COVID-19 has drawn the lion’s share of attention from the public health bureaucracy since 2020, leading to shortfalls in other areas, some experts said.

    “All of these diseases are more prevalent in part because of lockdown policies which diverted public health resources and attention worldwide away from its traditional priorities of controlling the spread of these deadly infectious conditions,” Dr. Bhattacharya said, referring to measles and other maladies.

    And just as there is no cure for polio, there is no vaccine for some infectious diseases. Malaria, for example, the mosquito-borne fever that killed more workers than yellow fever did when the Panama Canal was built, remains endemic in tropical zones, and its path to rare outbreaks in the U.S. usually follows either a trip made abroad or someone moving here, according to health officials in Florida.

    Department spokesman Jae Williams told RCI the exact sources of many infectious disease outbreaks in the Sunshine State remain unknown, but the huge increase in illegal immigrants could be a clue.

    “It’s always a possibility, and our most recent malaria cases appeared to be a strain from Central America,” he said. In other words, the malaria could have been brought by a newcomer or picked up by someone who traveled there and returned.

    Central Florida this summer saw leprosy return, although the exact source remains a mystery, Williams said. Information about the age, sex, and nationality of victims is not public, and most of those who contracted the infectious, skin-disfiguring disease were described only as “landscapers.” Various accounts have speculated armadillos are to blame, but armadillos are not newcomers to the region. The theory holds that somehow the leprosy bacteria, which generally requires prolonged contact and against which most humans have developed immunity over millennia, is in the dirt armadillos wallow in, and the cases that broke out among landscapers then would be linked to the animals they encounter.

    But leprosy is not endemic in Florida. It is most common in parts of southeast Asia, equatorial Africa, and Brazil.

    “The influx of people, sure it’s a problem and it’s always a possibility,” Williams said. “But we don’t really know.”

    Nevertheless, the questions are being asked with more frequency. On Dec. 19, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative commentator, set off a firestorm on X, formerly Twitter, that her Delta flight from Phoenix to New York was filled with people who had recently been processed, released, and brought to the airport by Border Patrol.

    “All the pilots, airline staff, and passengers want to know is: what medical screenings are being done?” she wrote.

    Delta did not respond to questions from RCI about what knowledge it had been provided about its passengers.

    https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2023/12/27/leprosy_polio_malaria_tb_measles__and_massive_unscreened_illegal_immigration_1000817.html

  22. In Memoriam: 14 Americans, Legal Immigrants Among Those Allegedly Killed by Illegal Aliens in 2023

    Every year, an estimated 2,000 Americans are killed by illegal aliens. In 2023, Breitbart News reported on several cases in which illegal aliens are accused of killing American citizens, as well as legal immigrants – many including young children.

    Below, Breitbart News details the cases of 14 Americans and legal immigrants who were allegedly killed by illegal aliens this year.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/26/in-memoriam-14-americans-legal-immigrants-among-those-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-aliens-in-2023/

  23. Arizona border rancher who saw MS-13 on his ranch has dire warning: ‘We have cartel scouts on our mountains’
    Arizona rancher says border crisis is ‘still outrageous’ as illegal migrant crossings surge
    Megan Myers By Megan Myers Fox News

    A fifth-generation Arizona rancher said an influx of illegal migrants crossing his land in recent years has increased his fear that terrorists are successfully sneaking into America.

    “It’s really a serious issue,” Jim Chilton, owner of the Chilton Ranch, told Fox News. “We have no security on our ranch nor in most places along the border anymore. It’s not good. It’s not better in any sense. It’s still outrageous.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-border-rancher-saw-ms-13-ranch-dire-warning-cartel-scouts-mountains

  24. London’s ‘Ultra Low Emission Zone’ Is Widely Hated, More Than 1,000 Cameras Have Been Vandalized – Mayor Khan Hires ‘Security’ Goons To Oppress Citizens
    by Paul Serran Dec. 27, 2023 11:40 am63 Comments

    Leave it to the British to take a potentially good idea and turn it into yet another tyrannical system against its own population.

    For instance, it is indeed a good idea to cut down pollution in urban centers – no one would dispute that. But how?

    So Britain created the ULEZ – an ‘Ultra Low Emission Zone’ in London, where ‘an emissions standard based charge’ is applied to ‘non-compliant road vehicles’.

    A network of cameras is checking traffic to make drivers pay every time they enter the zone with their ‘non-compliant’ cars.

    Over time it became an extremely unpopular solution, especially after leftist London Mayor Sadiq Khan greatly expanded the ULEZ.

    A phenomenon emerged in which disgruntled citizens started taking out their frustration on the ‘spying cameras’ – about a thousand cameras have been damaged or stolen over the last year alone.

    That should give the authorities pause and make them rethink the strategy – but have they? NO.

    It arises now that London Mayor Khan has hired a ‘goon squad of thugs – aggressive men dressed in black, with face tattoos and wearing skeleton balaclavas – to oppress the citizens in order to allegedly protect his hated ULEZ cameras while filming everything with body cameras.

    The Transit for London agency (TfL) claims that the guards are held to ‘high standards of professionalism’ and that they were necessary to protect ULEZ cameras from the so-called ‘Blade Runners’.

    Self-proclaimed ‘freedom fighters’, the ‘Blade Runners’ have channeled the widespread hatred for the expanded ULEZ, and have been successfully targeting the cameras, gaining something of a folk hero status by a sympathetic population.

    In the run-up to London’s mayoral election in May, the Conservative opposition leaders have slammed Khan’s goons as ‘intimidation,’ promising to scrap the ULEZ expansion if elected.

    Daily Mail reported:

    “Mother-of-five Claire Dyer, 47, from Biggin Hill in Bromley, claimed concerned residents lived in fear of the ULEZ protection gang. […] You have thuggish security – they don’t need to be behaving the way that they are. […] All you can see is their eyes. They are wearing masks and balaclavas – even that might have skeletons on them. […] They seem to be above the law.”

    Self-proclaimed ‘freedom fighters’, the ‘Blade Runners’ have channeled the widespread hatred for the expanded ULEZ, and have been successfully targeting the cameras, gaining something of a folk hero status by a sympathetic population.

    In the run-up to London’s mayoral election in May, the Conservative opposition leaders have slammed Khan’s goons as ‘intimidation,’ promising to scrap the ULEZ expansion if elected.

    Daily Mail reported:

    “Mother-of-five Claire Dyer, 47, from Biggin Hill in Bromley, claimed concerned residents lived in fear of the ULEZ protection gang. […] You have thuggish security – they don’t need to be behaving the way that they are. […] All you can see is their eyes. They are wearing masks and balaclavas – even that might have skeletons on them. […] They seem to be above the law.”

    The ‘gang’ presents itself as TfL representatives, but they are, in fact, outside contractors.

    “Why are they trying to harass people? We are not aggressive or violent, just every day people. We are not hardened criminals. […] It feels like there has been a direct order to get us accused of something we haven’t done. […] We are not inner city London. We have elderly [people] who live in the area who now can’t leave their homes.”

    “Conservative mayoral candidate [for London] Susan Hall said: ‘Sadiq Khan’s masked ULEZ enforcers intimidating and scaring locals is outrageous. Londoners deserve respect, not fear. I will put an end to this intimidation by scrapping the ULEZ expansion on day one if elected in May’.”

    The ‘gang’ presents itself as TfL representatives, but they are, in fact, outside contractors.

    “Why are they trying to harass people? We are not aggressive or violent, just every day people. We are not hardened criminals. […] It feels like there has been a direct order to get us accused of something we haven’t done. […] We are not inner city London. We have elderly [people] who live in the area who now can’t leave their homes.”

    “Conservative mayoral candidate [for London] Susan Hall said: ‘Sadiq Khan’s masked ULEZ enforcers intimidating and scaring locals is outrageous. Londoners deserve respect, not fear. I will put an end to this intimidation by scrapping the ULEZ expansion on day one if elected in May’.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/londons-ultra-low-emission-zone-is-widely-hated/

  25. Special counsel Jack Smith asks judge to not let Trump ‘inject politics’ into Jan. 6 case
    By Social Links for Josh Christenson
    Published Dec. 27, 2023, 1:09 p.m. ET

    Special counsel Jack Smith asked a Washington, DC, federal judge Wednesday to rule out former President Donald Trump’s attempts “to inject politics” into his Jan. 6 case, arguing in a court filing it will “ensure that the jury remains focused on its fact-finding duty and applies the law as instructed by the Court.”

    Smith said the 45th president has made “unsupported and politicized claims of selective and vindictive prosecution” and “investigative misconduct,” with Trump referring to his charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election result as one of several “Biden Indictments” by “his Injustice Department.”

    Trump, 77, has also “complained that the grand jury’s indictment and the Court’s trial date will interfere with his political activities,” the 20-page motion reads, adding that any arguments made on these grounds should be excluded from trial.

    “In addition to being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury’s determination of the defendant’s guilt or innocence, would be prejudicial if presented to the jury, and must be excluded,” the special counsel wrote.
    Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to members of the media at the US Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, on August 1, 2023.

    https://nypost.com/2023/12/27/news/special-counsel-asks-judge-to-not-let-trump-inject-politics-into-jan-6-case/

  27. Boston Mayor, Ohio Attorney General, Several Ohio and Georgia Elected Officials Swatted Over Christmas
    by Kristinn Taylor Dec. 27, 2023 3:40 pm17 Comments

    Boston’s Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu was swatted on Christmas Day in what turned out to be a nationwide swatting epidemic over the holiday weekend that largely targeted Republicans and conservative activists, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA), Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY), Jack Posobiec and “Catturd”. A Democrat former state senator in Nebraska was also swatted.

    Three Ohio Republican elected officials were swatted on Tuesday: Attorney General Dave Yost, state Rep. Kevin Miller, and state Senator Andrew Brenner.

    In Georgia, in addition to Greene, three Republican state senators, John Albers, Clint Dixon, and Kay Kirkpatrick, were swatted over on Monday and Tuesday. No one was reported injured in any of the incidents, which seek to provoke a deadly police response with hoax phone calls falsely claiming heinous crimes are taking place, usually at the target’s residence.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/boston-mayor-ohio-attorney-general-several-ohio-georgia/

  28. House Republicans Launch Investigation Into Whether Joe Biden Sought to Obstruct Son Hunter’s Cooperation with Impeachment Inquiry
    by Cristina Laila Dec. 27, 2023 4:00 pm0 Comments

    House Republicans launched an investigation into whether Joe Biden sought to obstruct or influence his son Hunter’s cooperation with the GOP’s impeachment inquiry.

    Hunter Biden earlier this month arrived in DC and gave a press conference on Capitol Hill where he revealed he will only answer questions under his own rules despite a congressional subpoena.

    Congressional Republicans subpoenaed Hunter Biden for a closed-door deposition related to his influence-peddling and family corruption.

    Hunter Biden said he will only testify “at a public hearing.”

    “My father was not financially involved in my business,” Hunter Biden said in the presser.

    Hunter tacitly admitted that his father Joe Biden was involved in his overseas businesses in other ways.

    On that same day House Oversight Chairman James Comer announced GOP lawmakers will initiate contempt of Congress proceedings after Hunter Biden brazenly defied a lawful subpoena.

    “Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings,” Comer said on December 13.

    “We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden,” Comer added.

    Comer and Jim Jordan wanted to know if and how Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s decision to defy a congressional subpoena.

    “Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings. We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden. As our committees were today prepared to depose Hunter Biden, he chose to make a public statement on Capitol Hill instead where he said his father, Joe Biden was not financially involved in his family’s business dealings. Exactly how was Joe Biden involved? Evidence shows Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden’s business associates and his name was at the center of the family business strategy,” a joint statement by House Oversight Chairman and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said a couple of weeks ago.

    White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later that day on December 13 stunned reporters when she admitted that Joe Biden was “certainly familiar with what his son was going to say” on the Capitol grounds.

    “Look, I don’t have anything else to add,” KJP said on December 13 of Hunter’s presser. “The president was familiar with what Hunter was going to say today. And, you know, look, he’s proud of his son. He and the first lady are proud of his son, how he’s rebuilding his life back. He’s going to focus on what is needed on the American people. Hunter, and I’ve said this many times, is a private citizen, and so certainly I would have to refer you to — to his representatives.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/house-republicans-launch-investigation-whether-joe-biden-sought/

  29. Ohio Lottery Disrupted by “Cybersecurity Incident” Over Christmas Weekend
    by Kristinn Taylor Dec. 27, 2023 2:20 pm39 Comments

    The Ohio Lottery announced Wednesday that the state lottery’s computer systems were disrupted by a “cyber security” incident Christmas Eve that is still affecting the lottery. Retail sales of draw games and scratch tickets were not affected, however cashing of winning tickets over $599 via mobile or at ‘super retailers’ has been affected. The lottery commission said it disconnected “key systems to contain the issue.”

    An investigation is taking place.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/ohio-lottery-disrupted-cybersecurity-incident-christmas-weekend/

  30. Texas Intensifies Strategy, Plans to Send More Flights of Illegal Immigrants to Chicago in Response to City’s Efforts to Slow the Arrival of Buses from Texas
    by Jim H?ft Dec. 27, 2023 1:40 pm325 Comments

    The State of Texas has announced plans to charter additional flights to transport illegal immigrants to Chicago.

    This move comes as a direct response to recent actions by Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has begun issuing citations to bus companies and putting ordinances in place aimed at slowing down the influx of buses carrying migrants from Texas.

    Earlier this month, Johnson sued the bus companies that are transporting the illegal immigrants.

    The far-left mayor cannot simply call out the Biden regime for their open border policy, so he is going after the people who are driving the illegals to his city. It’s a completely backward idea that essentially lets Biden off the hook.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/texas-intensifies-strategy-plans-send-more-flights-chicago/

  32. Friends & Enemies (12/25/23) Russian rightwing ruses – 4 hours
    Jeff Nyquist and Alex Benesch talk about the multi-decades long Russian influence on extreme rightwing ideology and revisionism.
    Candor Intelligence Network – December 25, 2023