Reader’s Links for March 18th, 2024 (Sorry its late)

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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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About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

17 Replies to “Reader’s Links for March 18th, 2024 (Sorry its late)”

  2. https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/
    Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by the US Border Patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas. While in custody, he was asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied, “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post. [Later, denies this and says that he is fleeing Hezbollah.]
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13207339/terrorist-caught-southern-border-Hazbollah-arrest-crossing.html
    https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/hezbollah-terrorist-caught-infiltrating-americas-open-southern-border/2024/03/18/ transcribes much of the memo from the NY Post https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/i-m-going-try-make-78436324.jpg?resize=943,1024&quality=75&strip=all [I find it interesting that the memo mentions that information was obtained “Post Miranda,” which–I assume–means that it is available to build a court case, in case this is a criminal act, not a military or terrorist action.]

    • The War on Terror Is Back

      The grisly success of Hamas’ offensive against Israel on Oct. 7 has breathed new life and vitality into an array of extremist Islamic factions.

      “Both al-Qaeda and ISIS, inspired by the Hamas attack against Israel, have directed their supporters to conduct attacks against Israeli and U.S. interests,” Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines informed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Feb. 5.

      Furthermore, Hamas’ actions are now “galvanizing individuals to leverage the Palestinian plight for recruitment and inspiration to conduct attacks.”

      Gen. Michael Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7 that regional threats like attacks on maritime commerce by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the targeting of U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria by Shia militias are part of a larger pattern, with the Islamic Republic at its center.

      Kurilla said the events of Oct. 7 “created the conditions for malign actors to sow instability throughout the region and beyond,” and Iran’s leaders have “exploited what they saw as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape the Middle East to their advantage.”

      All of this demands that Washington refocus in earnest on the counterterrorism fight without delay.

      https://nationalinterest.org/feature/war-terror-back-210029

    • Biden White House Is Funding Palestinian Security Forces

      The Palestinian Security Forces (PASF) were founded by the US, UN, and Russia in 1993. They have been funded and trained by the US on and off ever since. Now, the Biden White House wants to boost the PASF through the U.S. State Department. Allegedly, this will contribute to regional stability, as the PASF could coordinate with the Israel Defense Force (IDF). Furthermore, there is some discussion of deploying the PASF into Gaza to maintain order.

      Providing weapons, money, and training to the same authority that birthed Hamas and the PLO—what could possibly go wrong?

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/white-house-funding-palestinian-security-forces/

  3. If you don’t have the patience to follow the Dima’s analysis every 12 hours, you may enjoy tasty tidbits like these:
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ZBPM_-qbN4

    Transnistria is a tripwire. Like the Butterfly Effect or the Straw that broke the Camel’s back. Will NATO be at war with Russia by summer?

    Urgent Evacuation From Sumy | Russian Attack On Huliaipole

  5. U.S. Renews Iran Sanctions Waiver that Unlocks $10 Billion for Regime

    The Biden administration on Wednesday reapproved a sanctions waiver that unlocks upwards of $10 billion in frozen funds for the Iranian government. The sanctions waiver allows Iraq to transfer electricity payments to Iran via third-party countries.

    While the State Department maintains the funds can only be accessed by Iran to pay for humanitarian supplies, like food and medicine, critics of the sanctions waiver argue that money is fungible, and that the waiver frees up cash for Iran to spend on its global terrorism operations.

    Richard Goldberg, a former White House National Security Council member who worked on the Iran portfolio, said the latest version of the sanctions waiver is substantially different than the one issued during the previous administration.

    “This is not the same waiver for Iraqi electricity imports that has been issued since 2018. This is an Iran sanctions relief waiver that allows Tehran to access money and use it for budget support, including debt payments and import subsidies,” said Goldberg…

    https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-renews-iran-sanctions-waiver-that-unlocks-upwards-of-10-billion-for-regime/

  6. Peter Navarro
    https://peternavarro.com/category/china-films/

    Navaarro’s bid to stave off jail sentence denied at Supreme Court
    by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein – March 18, 2024
    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/18/peter-navarro-supreme-court-00147649

    Peter Navarro | “O pray that Peter’s Tuesday 3/19/24 imprisonment serves as the final walkup call that America needs to wake up, speak up and take more massive action to rally around Donald J. Trump to Make America Great Again.”
    Thrivetime Show – 1 day ago
    https://rumble.com/v4jsn8t-peter-navarro-i-pray-that-peters-tuesday-31924-imprisonment.html

  8. https://www.casarosada.gob.ar/international/latest-news/50405-17th-march-day-of-memory-and-solidarity-with-the-victims-of-the-israeli-embassy-bombing
    Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, an event that left a deep scar in the history of the country and in the collective memory.

    On March 17, 1992, at 2:45 p.m., a car bomb detonated at Arroyo and Suipacha, in front of the diplomatic headquarters in the heart of Buenos Aires. The impact of the explosion claimed the lives of 29 people, 22 of whom were identified, and injured more than 200, making it the first international terrorist attack perpetrated against Argentina.

    The attack, attributed to terrorist organizations, shocked Argentine society and generated deep consternation at international level. Two years later, a similar attack destroyed the headquarters of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (A.M.I.A.) in the same city on Monday, July 18, 1994, this time 85 people were killed and another 300 injured.

    https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/terrorist-bombings-in-argentina
    In 2022, Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei, one of the suspects in the AMIA bombing, appeared at the investiture of Nicaragua’s president. Argentina called Rezaei’s presence “an affront to Argentine justice and to the victims of the brutal terrorist attack.? Argentina later asked Qatar to arrest Rezaei, but he was not captured.

    In a dramatic change in policy, Argentina asked in June 2023 for international arrest warrants to be issued by Interpol for four Lebanese citizens – Hussein Mounir Mouzannar, Ali Hussein Abdallah, Farouk Abdul Hay Omairi and Abdallah Salman – suspected of being “employees or operational agents” of Hezbollah, and involved in the AMIA bombing. Their current whereabouts are unknown.