Reader’s Links for March 1st, 2024

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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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24 Replies to “Reader’s Links for March 1st, 2024”

  4. My favorite car guy is a riot. The only thing he gets wrong here, as do commenters, is that it was Warren Buffet who told Oblama to cancel the southern pipeline because he had just bought up another western rail company so wanted to protect his monopoly on oil freight.

  6. “So We Get No Say?” – Wealthy Elites from Affluent Neighborhood in Sanctuary City Boston Outraged Over Local Migrant Shelter Plans (VIDEO)
    by Jim Hoft Mar. 1, 2024 7:30 am639 Comments

    These leftist elites are all alike.

    Residents from Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood gathered this week to complain about a planned migrant facility that is opening soon in their affluent community.

    When these elites approved of the Boston’s sanctuary status they sure didn’t agree to this!

    The local residents complained to city officials, “So we have no say?” After the plans were announced for the shelter in their area.

    It’s just not right.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/so-we-get-no-say-wealthy-elites-affluent/

  7. President Joe Biden’s White House has begun referring to border crossers and illegal aliens as “newcomers and “people who are in the country” — a terminology distinction that conflicts with federal immigration law.

    On Thursday — while promoting a Senate bill to preserve his catch and release network at the United States-Mexico border — Biden’s White House made a passing reference to border crossers and illegal aliens, calling them “newcomers” to the U.S.

    The White House fact sheet on the Senate bill reads:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/29/joe-bidens-white-house-begins-referring-to-illegal-aliens-as-newcomers/

  9. St. Louis Officials Condemn South City Swahili-Speaking Church that Caters to African Migrants After Woman Is Found Beaten, Bloody, and Tied with Ropes
    by Jim Hoft Mar. 1, 2024 8:30 am163 Comments

    A South St. Louis Church that caters to African refugees and migrants was shut down this week. City officials closed the church after a young woman was found beaten, bloody, and tied up with ropes. The victim said she was kidnapped by church officials.

    The church caters to Africans who have resettled in St. Louis. Many of the congregants do not speak English but still speak Swahili.

    As reported earlier – Three men were arrested this past weekend in St. Louis City after after a woman was found bound by ropes and bleeding from the head. The incident took place at Mount of Olives Ministry on Minnesota Avenue in the city.

    The woman said she was held captive and was beaten by the men at the church. Inside the room police found a bottle of water and a bucket that had been used as a toilet.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/st-louis-officials-condemn-south-city-swahili-speaking/

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    Charlie Kirk
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    Unbelievable! Two MSNBC guests claim that white rural voters are a threat to American democracy. Their message:

    We’re not replacing you.
    We’re not trying to imprison our political rivals.
    We’re not using the federal government for Democrat get out the vote operations.
    We’re not allowing crime to destroy cities.
    We’re not indoctrinating your kids with LGBTQ and DEI race Marxism.

    Those are just conspiracy theories!
    Sit down and shut up, bigots!

    https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1763330264493891927

  12. As Chevy Camaro thefts skyrocket more than 1000% in L.A., police unlock a secret of car thieves
    Richard Winton
    Thu, February 29, 2024 at 9:36 PM CST·3 min read
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    The Chevy Camaro muscle car sitting abandoned at a South L.A. intersection looked suspicious enough.

    But then LAPD gang detail investigators spotted two teenagers running from the scene near Slauson Avenue and Broadway and were able to stop them.

    One of the youths was carrying an electronic device that police said provides a window into why thefts of the popular Camaros have shot up by more than 1000% in L.A. this year, with 90 vehicles stolen since the beginning of the year. Police said the spike comes at a time when there are increasing numbers of the high-powered vehicles turning up at street takeovers.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/chevy-camaro-thefts-skyrocket-more-033626959.html

  15. A 59-year-old New York City subway conductor was slashed in the neck early Thursday as violent incidents plague residents in the Democrat-run city.

    ABC 7 reported the incident happened in Brooklyn at the Rockaway Avenue and Fulton Street station on a southbound A train at approximately 3:40 a.m., authorities explained.

    The victim, identified as Alton Scott, was on the train as it was pulling into the station. The moment he stuck his head out of the train’s window he was slashed in the neck.

    https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/02/29/enough-is-enough-nyc-subway-conductor-slashed-neck-gets-34-stitches/

  16. Cable outages in Red Sea highlight hazards of hybrid warfare (even if Houthis didn’t do it)

    Internet cable outages make for interesting times.

    On Monday 26 February 2024, it was reported that the Seacom/Tata TGN telecom cable, an undersea cable running from Egypt to India and down Africa’s East coast to South Africa, was suffering an outage that started on Saturday 24 February. Other international undersea cables were also reportedly down.

    Within hours, four cables had been identified as experiencing outages in the Red Sea. It’s not clear how long the cables’ connections have been lost; some reports allude to outages “in recent months,” and none has offered specifics. However, it does appear correct to state that four separate cables are down, with the interruptions in data transmission tracing to the Red Sea.

    Media are linking the outages to the Houthis in Yemen, due to a clue from 1 February 2024 when the Yemeni rebels posted a map of international cables running through the Red Sea on Instagram. A Yemeni telecom company took it seriously, issuing a warning statement about the threat on 4 Feb. The Houthis’ map was accompanied by brief comments in vaguely threatening language. Iran-backed militias in Iraq also posted threats to the cables on social media, proclaiming that “the global internet cables that pass through Bab al-Mandab are in our hands.”

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/cable-outages-in-red-sea-highlight-hazards-of-hybrid-warfare-even-if-houthis-didnt-do-it/

  17. Testimony in Rust Armorer’s Trial Not Great for Baldwin
    By Cam Edwards | 10:01 AM | March 01, 2024
    AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

    Alec Baldwin won’t stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges until July at the earliest, but given that he was the one holding the gun when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the set of the movie “Rust”, his actions have featured prominently in the trial of the movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed.
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    Reed is also facing an involuntary manslaughter charge, and prosecutors have been painting a picture of lackadaisical safety on the set, where actors and crew members were using the movie’s guns for plinking and target practice. It’s still not known how a live round made it into the revolver used by Baldwin, but in testimony on Thursday assistant director David Halls recalled that Gutierrez Reed had emptied the revolver and refilled it with what were believed to be dummy rounds before handing the gun to Baldwin.

    “I did not see Ms. Gutierrez take the gun from Mr. Baldwin,” Halls said during questioning by the prosecution, “but she appeared back on my left-hand side and she said that she had put dummy rounds into the revolver.”

    The testimony of Halls, who pleaded no contest last year to negligent use of a firearm and completed six months of unsupervised parole, may weigh significantly as prosecutors reconstruct the chain of events and custody of ammunition that led to the shooting.

    He described a rudimentary safety check in which Gutierrez-Reed opened a latch on the revolver and he could see three or four dummy rounds inside that he recognized.

    “She took a few steps to Mr. Baldwin and gave … Baldwin the gun,” Halls testified.

    Gutierrez-Reed hasn’t testified but told investigators in the aftermath of the shooting that she left the loaded gun in the hands of Halls and walked out of a makeshift church on the set beforehand. She has pleaded not guilty.

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    Prosecutors allege that there were multiple points of failure that lead to Hutchins death, including Baldwin’s own actions. On Thursday, jurors saw footage from the “Rust” set that showed the actor violating one of the most basic rules of gun safety.

    The director called “action,” and Alec Baldwin emerged from a wooden shed and advanced toward the camera, firing shots from an old pistol. As soon as he heard “cut,” the actor wanted to do the take again.“One more! One more! One more! Right away!” Baldwin shouted. “Let’s reload!”

    Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the film’s 24-year-old armorer, hurried to put more blanks into his gun. Baldwin was visibly impatient. “Here we go! C’mon,” he said. “We should have two guns and both we’re reloading.”

    … In other scenes, Gutierrez Reed could be seen holding a shotgun upright by the barrel. Carpenter also said that when Baldwin was trying to speed up the reloading of the pistol, she should have slowed things down.

    “Rushing with firearms and telling someone to rush with firearms is not normal nor accepted,” Carpenter testified. “In a situation like that, when you’re getting rushed to that extent, that’s when safety starts to fall by the wayside.”

    In another take, Baldwin could be seen lying on his back on the ground, while holding a pistol. He gestured with the gun, explaining to the crew how he was going to get up and fire.

    “I don’t want to shoot toward you,” Baldwin said. “I’m going to shoot close to you.”

    Asked if he saw anything wrong with the clip, Carpenter said: “He’s using the weapon as a pointing stick.”

    At one point, Gutierrez Reed could be heard off-screen warning the crew: “Everyone in the path of the gun please move.”

    Carpenter said it appeared that Gutierrez Reed was avoiding addressing the issue with Baldwin.

    “She was attempting to not correct Mr. Baldwin, but to try to make the crew move in a more safe position,” Carpenter said.

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    Gutierrez Reed has yet to testify herself, but it would not be unreasonable to believe that a 24-year-old who was just starting out in the movie business would have been too intimidated to chastise Baldwin for unsafe gun handling, especially given the actor’s track record of angry outbursts and his role as the film’s producer as well as the star.

    Carpenter told jurors that regardless of the circumstances, Gutierrez Reed still had a job to perform, and if “that is not something you feel capable of doing, you should never step into the position of doing it. You have to be prepared to go home.”

    Given the time constraints of the film and the fact that other crew members had already walked away, allegedly in part because of unsafe working conditions, Gutierrez Reed may have felt pressure to stay on the job or was worried what would happen to her future as an armorer if she went home. That might not justify her actions (or inactions, as the case may be), but it does help to explain them.

    Baldwin, on the other hand, is an industry veteran who has worked with guns on set throughout his career. He should have known better than to use the barrel of a revolver to point with. You should always treat a gun as if it’s loaded, and that means never pointing it at anything you’re not willing to destroy. Baldwin’s on camera blatantly ignoring those fundamental gun safety rules, and with other witnesses adamant that the revolver could not have been fired unless the trigger was pulled, Gutierrez Reed’s trial has already been damaging to Baldwin’s defense. Though the footage on Thursday was meant to establish that Gutierrez Reed wasn’t doing her job properly, I suspect that jurors in Baldwin’s trial will also be reviewing the video… at least if Baldwin doesn’t take a plea deal between now and July.

    https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/03/01/testimony-in-rust-armorers-trial-not-great-for-baldwin-n1224038#google_vignette

  21. First a quick note to tell my friends that I will be off line for a few days, I’m not sick I’m going to visit and old girl friend.

  22. Woman Who Sent Photo of Young Girl’s Mutilated Body To 2020 GOP Election Official and Threatened The Life of Her 14-Yr-Old Daughter, FINALLY Receives Sentence—And It’s SHOCKING!
    by Patty McMurray Mar. 1, 2024 3:20 pm262 Comments

    On November 17, 2020, the lives of former Wayne County, MI Chair of the Board of Canvassers Monica Palmer and her family were forever changed after she refused to certify the Detroit election that was, once again, out of balance. What unfolded next is unimaginable. The hatred by Democrats for anyone who challenges the legitimacy or dares to scrutinize elections they’ve won is unmatched.

    As retribution for her decision to refuse to certify the election results, a newly elected Democrat State lawmaker and a prominent Wayne State University official publicly threatened and doxxed Ms. Palmer and her family. The Left wasn’t finished punishing her for daring to demand free and fair elections in the city of Detroit. After she was doxxed by two prominent Democrats, Ms. Palmer began to receive shocking death threats from a 22-year-old woman living in New Hampshire who threatened Monica and her husband and graphic death threats directed at her teenage daughter (see below).

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/woman-who-sent-photo-young-girls-mutilated-body/

  23. After Targeting Beef Producer, Radical New York Attorney General Letitia James Urges Colorado Supreme Court to Stop Christian Bakery
    by Jordan Conradson Mar. 1, 2024 4:00 pm236 Comments

    Radical left New York Attorney General Letitia James tweeted this morning, calling on the Colorado Supreme Court to stop what she calls “transphobic discrimination” by a Christian baker who previously won a Supreme court case in 2018 over his refusal to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

    This time, the baker is going to the Colorado Supreme Court after he didn’t feel it appropriate to bake a transgender-themed cake to celebrate a “gender transition.”

    Why should he be forced to make art that goes against his moral and religious values?

    The Marxist woman is absolutely unhinged coming off of winning a $355 million judgment against President Trump.

    The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday that Letitia James is seeking to punish the world’s largest producer of beef products “for misleading the public about its environmental impact” and having “no viable plan” to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Leittia doesn’t care if this raises the cost of food for families either, claiming, “Families [are] willing to spend more of their hard-earned money on products from brands that are better for the environment.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/after-targeting-beef-producer-radical-new-york-attorney/

  24. WATCH: Leftist Activists and Illegals Storm Seattle City Council Meeting Demanding MORE Free Housing, Chanting “No More Money for The Police,” “We Need Housing Now” and “Shame on You” – Taxpayers Already Funding Hotels for Illegals
    by Jordan Conradson Mar. 1, 2024 1:00 pm413 Comments

    Illegal immigrants and leftwing activists stormed a Seattle City Council meeting on Wednesday, angrily demanding free housing for illegals and calling to defund the police.

    This is a bad combination with soaring violent crime by the people Joe Biden and these leftists have invited into communities across the nation. The Gateway Pundit reported last week that a talented college student named Laken Riley was brutally murdered in Athens, Georgia, by a criminal illegal alien while going on a campus jog in the sanctuary city of Athens, Georgia.

    An angry Hispanic woman is heard shouting at Seattle City Councilmembers, “No more money for the police,” and “If you have extra money, then use that for the refugees and asylum seekers,” before leading a “We need housing now!” chant.

    WATCH from Jackie Kent on X:

    Komo News reports,

    SEATTLE — A group of protesters disrupted a Seattle City Council meeting Tuesday afternoon demanding the city fund temporary housing for refugees who are once again facing eviction.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/watch-leftist-activists-illegals-storm-seattle-city-council/