Reader’s links for February 21, 2024

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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34 Replies to “Reader’s links for February 21, 2024”

  1. Update on my lung cancer saga:

    I met my chosen – and the best – surgeon today. All patient reviews, and there are loads, are glowing in praise.

    The first doctor in the list of five that I’ve dealt with, from my family physician to end-product, that isn’t angry-looking. And he’s into experimental treatments.

    He quickly understood that I was not the run-of-the-mill patient as I was already aware of everything he was explaining to me, and he cut it short because it was obvious I had done and understood my research homework.

    But best, I told him toward the end of the visit that I was taking Ivermectin and Fenbendazole. And, very reassuringly, he nodded and said “I have no problem with that”.

    He also nodded in agreement that we are referred to too many in-between doctors, such as pulmonologist etc.that have no cancer expertise and they often refer us to the wrong specialist for the type of cancer we have.

    Conclusion: Surgery in 8 weeks, one or two day max hospitalization, and I’ll be fine.

    So, if this happens to you, and it might, take the three weeks of intense web searches necessary to solve your problem.

    MEANWHILE, I’m still here as a loyal daily reader, Vlad posts and reader comments. We are in deep s*it with the WHO problem. BEDTIME.

    • Do you have someone to be with you while you’re in the hospital?
      I don’t want to be alone in dangerous and dirty places. Too many BAD experiences.

      See if you can get a “healthcare advocate”. Maybe you’ll find a volunteer or someone you can afford.

      • Good on you, Sassy, doing your homework before you go to the hospital. Best of, well, everything. I know this sounds hollow, but I do mean it.

        • Xanthippa: They now know they made a terrible mistake by referring me to a pulmonologist. It was a provincial healthcare referral.

          Today, they’re so cooperative, truly amazing. They’re terrified of a request to investigate. It sounds like it was a nurse who misdirected me. I have all the emails.

          I appreciate your reply. And always do your research work when diagnosed with a serious issue. You never know, they might be wrong. – Cheers.

      • It’s a renowned hospital, Yucki.
        And I don’t want anybody with me. I’m used to being alone.

        I have a friend who will be driving me there and picking me up, and that is more than enough. And two people who will drop by my house twice a day to care for my two male budgies.

        I truly appreciate your reply. Thank you.

  2. Sassy,

    Nothing but a mongrel Magyar am I. We are but clever savages, capable of ripping the proverbial bellies from any beast with our bare teeth. Even the men.

    So it is that I suppressed every base instinct this morning in what is likely a futile attempt to bring you a fleeting smile. A larking laugh. A giggle without vulgarity, lewdness, profanity–all the things I love. Why? Because you are a proper lady, and you deserve more.

    https://youtu.be/g7Z9doCquns?si=XobDtEiT9svB9Gdl

    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/20125529577883449/

  3. A British-launched nuclear missile test in January in the presence of the head of the Royal Navy and the Minister of Defence failed and splashed back into the sea.

    A Trident missile launched off the East Coast of the United States in January from British ‘bomber’ submarine HMS Vanguard “crashed into the ocean” after launch. The missile had a ‘dummy’ warhead and no nuclear material onboard.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/21/trident-nuclear-missile-crashed-into-sea-during-failed-test-firing/

  4. When the news is not the news – but the absence of news is…

    Worldwide, the Assange story is leading – even al Jazeera…except, that it, in North America. Unless you do a deep dice to the back pages for little brlurbs, you would not even know that one of the most momentous trials of journalism itself is taking place…

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/21/us-government-lawyers-deny-charges-against-julian-assange-politically-motivated

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/julian-assange-wikileaks-extradition-chelsea-manning-live-b2499723.html

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/21/julian-assange-live-news-wikileaks-founders-bid-to-avoid-us-extradition

    https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/20/why-is-wikileaks-founder-and-hacker-julian-assange-facing-extradition-to-the-us


  5. Here is where they expose themselves as hypocrites when they suddenly talk about “shutting down” the southern border: Biden has thrown the “third border” wide open between the U.S. and the Caribbean. Not only does his Administration have no intention of closing it, but they’re showering crony Caribbean nations with political gifts and taxpayer dollars. In turn, those islands are now bustling transfer stations for illegal migrants, gangs, drugs and human trafficking heading back to our country.

    https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/02/21/exclusive-homan-white-house-has-thrown-the-third-border-wide-open/

    Yeah, Abbot: let’s see you put up a wire fence around the Carribean!

  6. The Fix Is In: New York Judge Merchan in Upcoming NY Trump Criminal Case Is Rabid Leftist Who Donated to Democrats and Sent Trump’s 75-yr-old Former CFO to Prison
    by Jim Hoft Feb. 21, 2024 8:00 am446 Comments

    Leftist judge Juan Manuel Merchan, who will oversee President Trump’s junk criminal case in New York City that is scheduled to start next month on March 25, made political contributions to a nonprofit fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and progressive groups.

    This latest election interference case by the radical Democrats involves a payment Trump made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges brought by far left Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

    Judge Merchan sent President Trump’s former 75-year-old CFO to prison for five months last year in a made-up tax fraud scheme targeting President Trump, his family, and his business.

    This is the latest case against Trump by New York Democrats, who are hoping their lawfare cases keep President Trump out of the White House.

    According to FEC data, Judge Juan Merchan from New York donated to Act Blue earmarked “Stop The Republicans” and “Biden For President.”

    Democratic fundraiser Act Blue is the payment processor for the majority of Democrats’ political contributions in the 2020 campaign cycle, DC Patriot reported.

    “Although the dollar amounts were what some would be considered small, this proves impartiality towards Donald Trump. Donating to both the former and future expected counterpart on the presidential ballot is a huge deal, and something that cannot go unnoticed,” the outlet reported.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/fix-is-new-york-judge-merchan-upcoming-ny/

  7. 17-Year-Old High School Student Dies at Hospital After Collapsing During Fishing Tournament Weigh-In
    by Jim H?ft Feb. 21, 2024 9:45 am246 Comments

    The small town of Winnsboro, Texas, is mourning the loss of a beloved high school student and avid fisherman, Kale Robinson, who tragically passed away following a fishing tournament over the weekend.

    The 17-year-old junior at Winnsboro High School and member of the Winnsboro Fishing Team was competing at a tournament hosted by the Texas High School Bass Association (THSBA) at Lake Cypress Springs when he suddenly passed out during the weigh-in on Saturday.

    Despite being rushed to the hospital, Robinson could not be revived. No details have been released on the cause of death.

    The Texas High School Bass Association released a heartfelt statement in a Facebook post, expressing deep sorrow over Robinson’s untimely death.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/17-year-old-high-school-student-dies-hospital/

  8. Michigan Tries to Convince Residents to Pick Up Immigrants at Airport, Help Them Find Housing and Jobs
    by Allison Anton, The Western Journal Feb. 21, 2024 9:30 am501 Comments

    Leave it to the Biden administration to let the American people clean up the mess created by its terrible policies.

    The mess in question today is one of many resulting from unchecked illegal immigration — specifically, where to house the deluge of illegal immigrants pouring over the border every day.

    The state of Michigan has decided that the best option is to ask citizens to figure it out.

    Seriously.

    On Feb. 12, the Office of Global Michigan — part of the state Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity — released a statement encouraging residents to volunteer to “sponsor” refugees.

    “Sponsors are expected to provide support to newly arrived refugees for 90 days through acts such as greeting refugee newcomers at the airport, securing and preparing initial housing, enrolling children in school and helping adults find employment,” the statement said.

    Now, Michigan isn’t outright asking people to take in illegal aliens, just to “secure and prepare initial housing.” But other blue states have been more direct.

    Last year, Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll came right out with it, asking residents, “If you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family. Housing and shelter is our most pressing need.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/michigan-tries-convince-residents-pick-immigrants-up-airport/

    • Michigan – migrants storming the lower peninsula?
      I still have family there, know both lower and upper peninsula very well. A relative held high office there a century ago.

      NOW I say: Michigan’s plight is richly deserved. Pity the decent folks in the Upper Peninsula. (And all the fish in the Great Lakes).

      Hamtramck was Little Poland. Now it’s “Asia West”.
      http://www.thehamtramckreview.com/hamtramck%e2%80%99s-census-shows-an-ever-changing-face/

      Dearborn was the “most Northern Town of the South”. No blacks, no Jews, KKK in the heartland. Now it’s Moslem. Aggressively so. Shitte self-flagellation parades, FGM covered by health insurance.

      A few miles down Michigan Ave. is Ann Arbor, the U of Michigan. Enormous, superlative state school, some departments rate higher than the Ivies. Cousins of mine who did undergrad at Harvard and MIT chose U of M for Med School.

      But it always had glaring red sores. That’s where Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was founded in 1960. Guitar music, antiwar “teach-ins”, commie-logo paraphernalia.

      Then it got more radical, spread throughout the country. The focus turned to the civil rights movement, linked up with the “Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” (SNCC).
      "Nonviolent" like Islam is the "religion of peace".

      SNCC split, got bigger and badder => Black Panthers, Weathermen (aka Weather Underground). An outright terrorist org: Communist, anarchist, Black Power. Chicago, 1969 “Days of Rage”.
      https://new-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io

      The U of M has been as bad for the last few decades as Harvard strives to become now. Vile racist, radical jooo-hating. MB/IRAN. The surrounding community is run by enemy operatives like Rashida Tlaib.

  9. EXCLUSIVE: Mercer County, NJ Residents File Lawsuit Against Election Officials Over Voter Disenfranchisement — Dominion Voting Systems Error Rendered All Tabulators Inoperable on Election Day
    by Jim H?ft Feb. 21, 2024 8:30 am108 Comments

    Ten residents of Mercer County, New Jersey, have taken their grievances to the Superior Court, alleging severe voter disenfranchisement due to a series of errors linked to Dominion Voting Systems and the handling of the 2022 and 2023 elections.

    On February 14th, the group lodged a hefty 360-page complaint, laden with evidence, detailing the systematic failures that stripped them of their fundamental voting rights.

    The complaint, accessible at Wefer Law Offices, exposes the extent of the mishaps that occurred during the recent elections.

    The lawsuit highlights that in 2022, a crucial technical error by Dominion Voting Systems rendered all tabulators inoperable when they failed to update ballot IDs after the County made changes to the ballot layout. This significant oversight was initially kept from the public by County officials and only surfaced following public insistence on an explanatory hearing.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/exclusive-mercer-county-nj-residents-file-lawsuit-against/

  10. Black Voters From Harlem in NYC Express Anger and Betrayal at Democrats Over Illegal Immigrant Crisis: ‘It’s Time for Action’ (VIDEO)
    by Mike LaChance Feb. 20, 2024 9:40 pm754 Comments

    A group of black voters from Harlem in New York City recently appeared on FOX News and expressed anger over the illegal immigrant crisis.

    A luxury building in the neighborhood recently became the center of controversy when locals noticed workers loading sets of bunkbeds into the empty building, prompting many to think illegal border crossers were being moved in without any notification or discussion.

    Mayor Eric Adams assured people that illegals were not being moved in, but it looked like the city had gotten caught and was backtracking.

    FOX News reports:

    Harlem residents express anger, betrayal over migrant crisis: ‘They snuck them in with no transparency’

    Harlem residents criticized New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday after plans were revealed to convert an abandoned luxury apartment complex into a migrant shelter.

    Adams turned up unannounced at a community meeting in the Upper Manhattan neighborhood Thursday where locals were gathering to discuss rumors that the building on the corner of 130th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. was quietly being prepared for immigrants, according to CBS News.

    During the meeting, Adams told residents that he did not agree with moving the migrants into a building when the local residents have needs that have not been met.

    “I told the team, ‘Find out what’s going on here,’” Adams said. “We’re not moving folks into a brand-new building when you have long-term needs in a community. That’s not going to happen.”

    “You will not have migrants and asylum seekers in that property,” he said.

    “They snuck them in here with no transparency,” Tiffany, a Harlem resident, told Fox News, of the city administration’s efforts to place migrants in the city.

    “We see bunk beds being moved in. What’s going on? And no one was aware that this was happening. No one,” she said.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/black-voters-harlem-nyc-express-anger-betrayal-democrats/

  11. State Supreme Court Rules Embryos ARE Children!
    by Guest Contributor Feb. 20, 2024 7:40 pm226 Comments

    ‘Constitutional provision tilts the scales of the law in favor of protecting the unborn’

    A ruling from the Supreme Court in the state of Alabama has released a stunning verdict: That embryos are “children” under state law and protected by the same laws that apply who children already born.

    The decision essentially determined that unborn children are a person. The question posed was whether a state law protecting children excluded those unborn.

    “Under existing black-letter law, the answer to that question is no: the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location,.” the court said. “[T]he relevant statutory text is clear: the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies on its face to all unborn children, without limitation.”

    The decision reversed a lower court ruling that tossed a case brought by three couples over the destruction of their embryos at a clinic.

    “Thee Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location,” the court said.

    A Fox report explained, “The couples who filed the lawsuit claim a wandering patient gained access to the cryogenic storage area, removed embryos from the freezer, and dropped the embryos on the floor, destroying them.”

    The ruling sends the case back down to the Mobile Circuit Court for further proceedings. The couples are seeking damages.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/state-supreme-court-rules-embryos-are-children/

  12. WATCH: Male Student Who Identifies as Transgender Injures THREE Girls During Basketball Game — Causing Opposing Team to Forfeit
    by Cassandra MacDonald Feb. 20, 2024 7:00 pm917 Comments

    A male student in Massachusetts, who identifies as transgender, injured multiple girls during a basketball game on February 8.

    The girls’ team from the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell ended up forfeiting the game against KIPP Academy after the biological male injured three female students.

    The team’s coach made the decision to forfeit the game during halftime, according to a report from The Blaze.

    “The bench was already depleted going into the game with the 12-player roster having four players unable to play,” the school said in a press release. “When the coach saw three more girls go down in the first half, leaving him with five players, he made the call to end the game early.”

    The team was worried that additional injuries would impact their ability to compete in the playoffs.

    “Once the third was injured, the remaining five expressed concern to him about continuing to play,” the press release continued. “The players feared getting injured and not being able to compete in the playoffs.”

    Despite pulling the plug early, the school said it values “inclusivity and safety for all students.”

    “We take the standards set by the [Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association] and our Board of Trustees seriously and strive to uphold them on and off the court,” the school continued. “We also follow the guidance from the MIAA and state laws regarding equity and access for all student-athletes.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-male-student-who-identifies-as-transgender-injures/

  13. FASCISM: Leftist Tyrant Letitia James Threatens to Seize President Trump’s Assets if He Can’t Pay Outrageous Court Fine Ordered by Judge Engoron In New York Civil Fraud Trial
    by Cullen Linebarger Feb. 20, 2024 6:40 pm1707 Comments

    Tyrannical leftist New York Attorney General Letitia James has revealed she is prepared to seize (steal) President Trump’s assets if he cannot pay the outrageous court fine as ordered by compromised Judge Arthur Engoron.

    “If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James told ABC News.

    As the Gateway Pundit reported, Engoron fined Trump $355 million and banned him from doing business in New York City for the next three years. Engoron claimed Trump “participated in aiding and abetting the conspiracy to commit insurance fraud by their individual acts in falsifying business records and valuations, causing materially fraudulent SFCs to be intentionally submitted to insurance companies.”

    This is nothing but garbage, however. As Jim Hoft notes, the banks did their due diligence before they loaned Trump the money and testified they would gladly do it again.

    Trump is vowing to appeal the charges and has accused Engoron of conspiring with James.

    James went on to tell the network that she is “very confident” with the strength of her case on appeal and she would willingly seize at least one of Trump’s buildings, specifically listing Trump’s 40 Wall Street skyscraper.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/fascism-leftist-tyrant-letitia-james-threatens-seize-president/

  14. “No One’s Got To Me… I Ain’t Scared Of Sh!t” – NYC Trucker Boycott Leader ‘Chicago Ray’ Steps Down
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    by Tyler Durden
    Wednesday, Feb 21, 2024 – 09:00 AM

    Authored by Chet Nagle via “Chet Nagle’s Now Hear This” on Substack,

    Chicago Ray, the trucker who ignited the righteous anger of his fellow truckers and of millions of other Americans, has stepped down from his boycott leadership. Does that mean the end of the trucker boycott of New York City?

    Chicago Ray was angry about the astounding $350 million fine that New York Judge Engoron levied against former President Trump in the recent fraud case. But what Chicago Ray, the truckers, and so many Americans were really angry about was our corrupt judicial system and the evil overlords who created it.
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    We the people know what happened to Chicago Ray. Despite his denials, the enforcers of the Deep State made a phone call or left a message under the windscreen wipers of his truck like, “Boycott Boy, you gonna have a bad accident before your haul is over.” Or they made a call to his cell phone like, “If you don’t end this boycott bullshit your family and home will be gone when you get back home.”

    You can almost see and hear those threats when Chicago Ray posted, “I took that video down from Friday because it went viral and my Grandson seen it on Tik Tok.”

    Newsweek reported Chicago Ray took down his original post and posted a new one on Monday “in which he distanced himself from the boycott calls and stressed that he was not encouraging anyone to do anything.” That post was also later deleted, but a screen grab of it was shared (with Newsweek) by the progressive MeidasTouch in which he said, “Just to be clear… I’m no figurehead of any movement…”

    Newsweek also reported Chicago Ray said, “I’m not leading, nor have I encouraged, or am I encouraging anyone to do anything other than what they were doing prior to the ruling on Friday in New York City.”

    Does that sound like the way trucker Chicago Ray talks, or does it sound like someone dictating a statement to him?

    Chicago Ray also posted, “No one’s got to me … I heard what drivers were saying and I’m hearing some of that today, I ain’t scared of s–t. I grew up in Chicago. I stand with Trump 100%. Truckers for Trump drivers can make their own decisions based on their families and their careers.” But then he took down that post too.

    As of noon Monday, the Freightwaves SONAR platform that tracks inbound and outbound truckload freight tender rejections into and out of New York City shows no reductions in truck traffic. Nevertheless, I am getting some confirmations of truckers and trucking companies that are refusing loads for the city. If those refusals amount to as much as 10% of the usual daily traffic, New Yorkers will experience a massive surge in prices for food, fuel, and other essentials. Chaos will reign in the Big Apple.

    So the boycott is not dead yet, unless the Deep State enforcers reach beyond threatening Chicago Ray and begin to threaten individual truckers and trucking companies – and you better believe they will try to do just that.

    In 2022 the Canadian government froze the bank accounts of truckers in the Freedom Convoy who were protesting Canada’s Covid vaccine mandates by using their trucks to block the streets of their capital, Ottawa.

    But freezing the bank accounts of truckers boycotting New York City would be difficult because the Deep State henchmen and bureaucrats might have difficulty in quickly identifying specific truckers who quietly refuse to take loads into the city. Instead, the Deep State could menace trucking companies with one regulation or another and threaten to suspend their licenses.

    The corrupt federal and state regulators and bureaucrats and courts will think of something. But they will be racing against the clock to avert the chaos in New York City. What could they do to truly end the boycott? Could the New York Governor step in as did the governor of Colorado in 2021? Could Judge Engoron be persuaded to revise his fine?

    Or could we the people, we who are the many against the few, finally make our voices heard?

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-ones-got-me-i-aint-scared-sht-nyc-trucker-boycott-leader-chicago-ray-steps-down

  15. Illegal Alien Steals State-Owned Tow Truck and Leads Police on Wild, Hour-Long Chase While Slamming into Several Cars – Two Officers and Suspect Hospitalized (VIDEO)
    by Cullen Linebarger Feb. 21, 2024 2:00 pm137 Comments

    An illegal alien was caught on video leading cops on a wild high-speed chase from Prince George’s County to Montgomery County after stealing a Maryland State Highway Administration tow truck Friday around 5:15 P.M.

    Police identified the perpetrator as Cesar Flavio Lanuza from Nicaragua. Fox 5 DC reported that Lanuza led authorities on the hour-long chase in which he hit several cars before stopping in Silver Spring, Maryland.

    Footage captured from the incident shows Lanuza barging through cars on busy streets and driving through electrical wires in a field.

    At one point during the chase, the stolen vehicle collided with several police cruisers near southbound Route 29 in the area of Prelude Drive.

    He was eventually captured and placed into custody at roughly 6:30 P.M. after pulling over in a neighborhood. Federal officials have lodged a detainer for him to be transferred to the Montgomery County detention center.

  16. WATCH: O’Keefe Strikes Again – IRS Official Tells O’Keefe Media Group Reporter That the IRS uses AI to Spy on Americans’ Bank Accounts: Is It Constitutional? “I doubt it,” says IRS Official Alex Mena
    by Jordan Conradson Feb. 21, 2024 4:40 pm180 Comments

    O’Keefe Media Group has infiltrated the IRS!

    According to Alex Mena, an IRS official with the criminal investigations unit in New York, who met with O’Keefe Media Group’s undercover journalist, the IRS uses artificial intelligence technology to spy on American citizens and company bank accounts without a warrant or evidence to uncover what they consider fraud.

    According to the source, the IRS is “going after the small people” and “destroying people’s lives.” All of the agents are “like robots,” said Mena.

    This is quite ironic, as The Gateway Pundit recently reported that O’Keefe Media Group exposed the No Mas Muertes (No More Deaths) organization, a nonprofit and ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, for smuggling illegal immigrants from the border in Arizona.

    This 501(c)(3) organization holds a tax-exempt status for hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, but the IRS is targeting innocent Americans!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-okeefe-strikes-again-irs-official-tells-okeefe/

  17. Israeli Rape-Crisis Group Report Finds ‘Systematic’ Sexual Violence on and After Oct. 7

    Israeli activists and their allies have expressed frustration at international organizations like the United Nations for slow responses to such reports.

    An Israeli organization that supports survivors of sexual abuse released a report on Wednesday concluding that acts of sexual violence against Israelis during and after the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 were “systematic and widespread.”

    “The report finds that the Hamas attack included brutal acts of violent rape, often involving threats with weapons, specifically directed towards injured women,” said the group, The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, an umbrella organization of nine such organizations in Israel. The report added that many incidents involved gang rape.

    “Often, the rape was perpetrated in front of an audience — partners, family or friends — in a manner intended to increase the pain and humiliation of all present,” the report said.

    The attackers also “cut and mutilated sexual organs and other body parts with knives,” the report said.

    The report asserted that its information and analysis “clearly demonstrates that sexual abuse was not an isolated incident or sporadic cases but rather a clear operational strategy.”

    Based on analysis of the information collected by the organization, the report concluded that sex crimes were committed against people at a rave site, in kibbutzim and at military bases and against hostages held in Gaza.

    The report was based on testimonies, interviews with emergency medical workers and articles, including a monthslong investigation published by The New York Times in late December, which documented a pattern of gender-based violence in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack.

    https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Fworld%2Fmiddleeast%2Fisrael-hamas-sexual-violence-report.html

  18. Israel submits report to UN on Hamas’s mass weaponization of rape
    Written by umbrella organization of rape crisis centers, grim document reviews Palestinian terror group’s strategic use of sexual violence, as deniers abound
    By ToI Staff

    Israel submits report to UN on Hamas’s mass weaponization of rape
    Written by umbrella organization of rape crisis centers, grim document reviews Palestinian terror group’s strategic use of sexual violence, as deniers abound
    By ToI Staff

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-report-submitted-to-un-on-hamass-mass-scale-weaponization-of-rape/

  19. WATCH: Mike Benz Explains the Dirty Tricks the Deep State is Using by Framing Trump as a ‘Threat to Democracy’ (VIDEO)
    by Mike LaChance Feb. 21, 2024 8:40 pm95 Comments

    Mike Benz recently did an interview with Tucker Carlson where he did a deep dive into the history of the Deep State and how it affected the 2020 election.

    Now he has put out a new video where he explains how the Deep State is being used against Trump in 2024.

    It’s disturbing how extensive this network is and how much power they wield.

    He starts out with a history of the CIA and how they interfered in elections, then brings that into the context of today.

    Real Clear Politics posted a transcript. This is the key part:

    Now we saw this happen in 2020. For example, the Transition Integrity Project, which was this, you know, 65-person, hugely influential group of people. This included Donna Brazile, the former head of the DNC, Michael Steele, the former head of the RNC. So the two most recent heads of both major political parties, as well as about 60-some officials from the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Intelligence community, and then other cluster networks around everything from journalism to champions of industry.

    And they had a role-play simulation about how to overturn the 2020 election. This is in June 2020, five months before the election happened, about how they could overturn the election if Trump won to save democracy and make sure that he would not be able to have a second term.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/watch-mike-benz-explains-dirty-tricks-deep-state/

  20. Al-Qaida Training Camps That Produced 9/11 Are Back in Business!
    by Guest Contributor Feb. 21, 2024 8:00 pm228 Comments

    Back before 9/11, the Islamist terrorists in al-Qaida used training camps across the Middle East and Afghanistan to prepare men for those suicide missions that ultimately cost nearly 3,000 innocent lives.

    Those camps often were eliminated when the U.S. military went to that underdeveloped region of the world and stamped out terrorists on sight.

    Now, however, under Joe Biden’s policies, they’re back in business.

    It’s not the only blame that Biden is given for terror there. When he abruptly jerked American soldiers out of Afghanistan, the move cost dozens of American lives, an unknown number of lives of allies who had been working with the U.S., and an estimated $80 billion in military goods that went directly to the Taliban, an al-Qaida ally that took over Afghanistan by eliminating the elected government right away.

    Some of those weapons have been tracked now to other terror groups that target the U.S. and its military personnel.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/al-qaida-training-camps-that-produced-9-11/

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    Victor Davis Hanson
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    What the Left Has Bequeathed Us

    The Left has created new rules for national politics. Here are 20 some precedents they now have established for America in the future:

    1) When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t.

    2) Call for the end of the Electoral College–but only if it appears to recently favor the candidate of the opposition.

    3) In an election year, change any state balloting laws deemed unhelpful through administrative fiat or court order to favor your political candidate.

    4) Seek to flip electors from voting in accordance with the popular vote count in their states; indict as an insurrectionist any of the opposition who dare do the same.

    5) Raid the home of any opposition ex-president who removed classified files; exempt any sitting president of your party who did the same.

    6) Swarm the private homes of, and then bully and intimidate any, Supreme Court officials, politicians, or citizens you oppose.

    7) Appoint two special counsels: one to go after the current chief presidential opponent in an election year; the other to exempt and excuse the sitting president for the very crimes charged against his rival.

    8) Lobby to remove any oppositional president through the 25th Amendment; smear any one as ageist who suggests a cognitively challenged sitting resident of your party should be subject to similar invocations of the 25th Amendment.

    9) Exempt thousands of arrested rioters from charges of 120 days of arson, looting, injuring 1,500 law enforcement officers, and assault—but only if they are radical supporters of your party.

    10) Excuse any demonstrator or rioter for desecrating public monuments and cemeteries or shutting down bridges and freeways, or swarming and disrupting the Capitol Rotunda—but only if they agree with you and/or are pro-Hamas. Otherwise, ensure the charged face lengthy prison sentences.

    11) Try to pack the Supreme Court—but only if justices you don’t like are in a majority.

    12) Seek in an election year to remove a presidential opponent off state ballots for crimes for which he has never been charged, much less convicted of.

    13) First target a presidential opponent, and then change, warp, or redefine laws to convict him. Weaponized prosecutors should always indict their political opponents in jurisdictions where they are guaranteed like-minded justices and jury pools.

    14) Violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (the prohibition of “excessive fines”) by having sympathetic judges level multimillion-dollar fines to bankrupt the opposition candidate during a presidential campaign. The more there is no victim of a crime, the higher fines should be leveled for “damages”.

    15) Open the border by destroying all the protocols and executive orders of a predecessor president. Then welcome 8-million illegal aliens to “surge” into America on the premise a new constituency might support agendas that American citizens do not. Then call the nonexistent border “secure,” while blaming a predecessor president for having left it secure.

    16) Have local prosecutors invent criminal acts of an opposition national presidential candidate in efforts to make it impossible for him to campaign for the presidency.

    17) Use the FBI to hire out social media auditors to censor any news deemed problematic for the correct presidential candidate.

    18) Hire a foreign national to concoct a smear dossier about one’s opposition political nominee. Ensure the FBI also uses and pays the foreign national to spread untruths among the media and administrative state.

    19) On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president drains the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices.

    20) On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president promises to cancel billions of dollars in contracted federal student loans.

    https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1760356957968638442