Reader’s Links for March 27th, 2024

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  2. The Baltimore bridge collapse looks like it was an accident. Depending on the source one anchor was dropped, a Mayday signal broadcast, power lost, etc. My first thought was how many big ships have exited this port without incident over so many years?

    Given our times and multifaceted forms of warfare we have been subjected to, however, I, like others wonder if it was an attack, and if it was what does it mean?

    It would mean it was a stealthy, asymmetrical action in keeping with Chinese warfare tactics (but not necessarily Chinese). The target was chosen for maximal damage to infrastructure and supply chains. If it was meant to send a message, the message was intentionally not sent to the American public, but to intelligence in-the-know. We know this because great care was taken to make it look accidental so as to keep the public unaware of the enemy inside the gates. Timing of the message closely follows the Russia auditorium attack (we are assuming for argument there are no coincidences). The message was, “See? You’re vulnerable, too!” After all, it was not so long ago when a meaningful message was sent by Putin, if memory serves, shutting down northeast U.S. pipeline infrastructure. Another line of this conversation is, “Whatever you can do, we can do bigger!”

    I have trouble assuming it was a Russian attack because of the embedded meanings of such an assumption. One of these meanings is that Russia has enough intelligence to know that the auditorium attack was carried out by U.S. tard proxy, likely with Ukraine (and Iran?) help. Russia was so certain of this that it retaliated with an act of war constituting escalation across the ocean on American home turf. See, island America means a lot less now, doesn’t it.

    The next question in my mind is where does this “conversation” between spooks go from here? Tit-for-tat and all of that…

    I don’t mind going out on a limb to write my amateur analysis, even if it makes me look stupid. We are forced, like mushrooms, to speculate.

    We may never know if it really was an accident. The Biden regime was a little too quick out of the gate to downplay the possibility of a terror attack, wasn’t it? Data point terrorism, says my suspicious mind, but ok. We will have to wait and see if there is a volley back in some other asymmetrical counter move. One wonders if the looming election, the strength of PT, and the desperation of the Dems to thwart the election and subsequent march to accountability over their crimes against humanity has anything to do with anything.

    Another question is the conspicuous frequency of monumental intelligence failures of late. October 7th and Mossad, the auditorium and the FSB, and too much rot in U.S. agencies to count. I know, I know, everything can be explained. But that’s what I’m worried about.

  3. Black Swan events will build up to white noise event. Sheer madness. This is not a bar scene where words escalate to …….the elites have built their bunkers.

  5. Widow Of Islamic State (ISIS) Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi: ISIS Is A Black Stain In History; Al-Baghdadi Kept Multiple Yazidi Slave Girls; All The ISIS Emirs Did, They Were Obsessed With Women; They Dreamed Of Conquering Rome
    https://www.memri.org/tv/Asmaa-mohamed-widow-isis-leader-abu-bakr-baghdadi-stain-history-yazidi-slave-girls-obsessed-conquer-rome
    Widow Of Islamic State (ISIS) Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi: ISIS Is A Black Stain In History; Al-Baghdadi Kept Multiple Yazidi Slave Girls; All The ISIS Emirs Did, They Were Obsessed With Women; They Dreamed Of Conquering Rome
    [..]

    • Thank-you!
      I know MEMRI can be painful reading, so I don’t keep up. But it’s rock solid. It was founded by luminaries like Bernard Lewis.

      In the Middle East only what’s said or written in the local language counts. Anything we claim about agreements of one sort or another is valid only if it appears translated into Arabic, Farsi, or Turk.

  7. My Comment : The following is an article which would make Niccolò Machiavelli blush. The British have a long hatred of Russia dating back to the Czarist period where they were concerned Russia might threaten the British Empire. The author (below) also believes the British are responsible for the Moscow attack and explains why USA warned Russia , but not through official channels. The author believes there is a major rift brewing between the US and UK as a result of the attack
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/west-desperately-deflects-as-ukraines

    ———————————————————————————————————
    As a final item, for those interested in more indepth information about the ‘ISIS’ connections and the possible British MI6 hand in the Moscow attacks, here’s a highly informed writeup from Russian frontline correspondent and journalist Marat Khairulin:
    Terrorist attack in Moscow:
    Tajik trail leads to the British London took out the old skeletons from the closet By Marat Khairulin
    The monstrous tragedy at Crocus City Hall has very deep roots and far-reaching consequences. We will return to them more than once. But today, let’s talk about where the attack came from this time. And let’s try to trace its genesis at least approximately and understand what the main enemy is throwing against us, if not the last forces, then certainly playing the cards that it held until the last moment.
    Two days after the bloody attack, there was such a general opinion in the Russian political and intelligence community that the United Kingdom, or rather Mi6, was behind the terrorist attack. It’s a very similar handwriting for this organization. It is an indisputable fact that all the major terrorist attacks in Russia of the post-Soviet period from Beslan to Dubrovka had a British trace in one way or another. The terrorist leaders who directed the militants were recruited by Mi6. And in some cases (like Basayev and Khattab) they openly collaborated with Mi6.
    In contrast to this opinion, Britain has thrown out an obvious blank in its top media: a certain organization Vilayat Khorosan (a branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan) is behind the terrorist attack. For experts, this approach clearly speaks in favor of the version that in this particular case it has the english trace too. Here we must immediately say that the story is not easy, and it is very difficult to understand it, so today we will outline only some of the features. In its heyday, ISIS was a collection of tribal gangs united primarily on the basis of funding from the United Kingdom. Both the bandit ash-Shishani (a native of Georgia, Batirashvili) and his replacement, Tajik Khalimov, were direct Mi6 mercenaries.
    The scope of ISIS’s activities, as a proxy for the British, eventually became so serious that it began to interfere with US influence in the Middle East and Central Asia, and the UK had to partially scale back its operations in order not to anger the hegemon. And for a while, all these terrorists in the service of Mi6 went into the shadows, some were even declared dead.
    They have started to surface again since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. That’s when the ISIS from Khorosan appeared on the scene. But in fact, a number of Pashtun tribal leaders who were supported by the British. They are the only ones who agreed to fight the Taliban. This is the key point. Here we are entering the difficult geopolitics of Central Asia.
    Most countries in the region support the Taliban’s efforts to pacify Afghanistan, hoping to ensure their security in this way. All except Tajikistan. Who cannot find a common language with the Taliban due to the fact that a number of organizations operate under their wing, which are considered terrorist in Tajikistan. It was on this split that Britain played all these years after the Americans left the region, trying with all its might to prevent the establishment of peace in Asia.
    To do this, immediately after the US withdrawal, the recruitment of ethnic Afghan Tajiks began in the Vilayat Khorosan gangs. That is, President Rahmon, who is very sensitive to this issue and considers the Tajiks to be one of the largest divided nations in the world, began to show that ISIS Khorosan is like its own. And by joining the support of the Taliban, he is betraying the interests of the Tajiks. In other words, by pointing a finger at ISIS Khorosan, which, I emphasize, at the moment practically does not exist as an organization (there is only a certain community of tribal gangs), Britain is trying to openly drag us into Asia. This is another attempt by the British to impose problems on us in the rear after Kazakhstan. But this is only part of the game. The second one is no less interesting and more explicit. The political support of the very leader of ISIS, Tajik Khalimov, has always been the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan. It has been declared a terrorist organization in its homeland, and since the early 2000s, guess where its headquarters are located? You guessed it – in London.
    The scope of ISIS’s activities, as a proxy for the British, eventually became so serious that it began to interfere with US influence in the Middle East and Central Asia, and the UK had to partially scale back its operations in order not to anger the hegemon. And for a while, all these terrorists in the service of Mi6 went into the shadows, some were even declared dead. They have started to surface again since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. That’s when the ISIS from Khorosan appeared on the scene. But in fact, a number of Pashtun tribal leaders who were supported by the British. They are the only ones who agreed to fight the Taliban. This is the key point. Here we are entering the difficult geopolitics of Central Asia. Most countries in the region support the Taliban’s efforts to pacify Afghanistan, hoping to ensure their security in this way. All except Tajikistan. Who cannot find a common language with the Taliban due to the fact that a number of organizations operate under their wing, which are considered terrorist in Tajikistan. It was on this split that Britain played all these years after the Americans left the region, trying with all its might to prevent the establishment of peace in Asia.
    On the eve of the Americans running away from Afghanistan, the British fussed over the Tajiks and in 2018 created the National Alliance of Tajikistan in Warsaw on the basis of this party, where they tried to cram the remnants of all Tajik thugs who survived after the defeat of ISIS. The alliance was headed by such a figure Kabirov, who walked beside with Khalimov all his life. The point of creating a new organization was simple: The West was losing the war in Syria, and it was necessary to establish the traffic of militants from Tajikistan.
    NAT served as a single window where Britain contributed money, and Kabirov and Halimov were engaged in the export of Tajik “meat”. It must be said here that Khalimov has been nominally considered dead since 2017, but there is also a second opinion that he was simply “removed” into the shadows after the Americans turned on ISIS. However, what does all this have to do with the events at Crocus City Hall? Patience, dear readers. We’re almost to the point.
    In 2022, with the beginning of the SMO, the so-called Jabhat Al-Shamiya brigade appeared as part of the mercenary corps in Ukraine. Or rather, one of her detachments operating in the Aleppo area. This detachment is led by a field commander (Tajik by nationality), Khalimov’s right-hand man. All that is known about him is that his nickname is Shusha, and he is a history teacher by education. There is a version that this is one of the many relatives and cousins of Khalimov. I will not talk about the combat path of these Tajik Basmachi in Ukraine now, there is also something to talk about there.
    Jabhat Al-Shamiya was one of the main recipients of British money allocated through the National Alliance of Tajikistan. And here (attention!) a month after the failure of the AFU counteroffensive (perhaps a little later at the turn of October and November), Ilya Ponomarev, the political leader of the new “Vlasovites”(Russian Volunteer Corps), and the political leader of the Tajik terrorists Kabirov met in London. After that, a number of other meetings were recorded in Warsaw. Already at the level of functionaries. There are some interesting details of these meetings, in particular, who supervised them. But more on that next time.
    And now we see a coordinated attack in Belgorod by new “Vlasovites”(Russian Volunteer Corps), and in Moscow by Tajik militants. I think the affiliation of the arrested terrorists to the National Alliance of Tajikistan will be confirmed one way or another soon. Why go to NAT? It is known for certain that recruitment (on the terms of payment for roads and lifting) in Russia is carried out by the National Union of Migrants of Tajikistan, a member of the alliance, which is also considered an extremist organization at home and in Russia. This very Alliance ensures the existence of a network of sleeper agents from Tajikistan in Russia. Agents are primarily in the hands of Mi6, because needless to say, this Alliance was created in the 2000s under the direct leadership of the British. In other words, the UK began to put together a united terrorist front against Russia as soon as it became clear that the counteroffensive had failed, and Ukraine was doomed. And, moreover, in its traditional manner, the UK tried to frame or incarcerate the hegemon.
    Obviously, the hegemon did not like this, and he tried to warn Moscow. At the same time, trying not to give up your closest ally. Although, to be honest, even from this story it is clear that with such allies, the United States does not need any enemies. But that’s not all. There is also an opinion in our political and intelligence community, which is not widely spoken about, but it is there: the British showed blatant amateur activity, and now everyone is frozen in anticipation of a showdown between the allies. And Russia’s first serious reaction to the terrorist attack has already followed (although perhaps this is a coincidence): Our representative at the UN, Nebenzia, said that Russia would not recognize Zelensky as legitimate after the expiration of his term of office. And since you are nobody in our eyes, it is possible that immediately after that day, Hitler Zelensky will be demonstratively denationalized. Unless, of course, he is taken out by his british friends before that. In anticipation of this glorious event, let’s hope that Budanov (a direct Mi6 agent) and Ponomarev (an even more direct agent) will soon go to the judgment of God. It’s time, it’s time, the devil is clearly waiting for them in hell.

    • I saw videos of [former?] ISIS soldiers fighting for the Kiev regime…
      …and some Chechens fighting for the RF.

      Russian-language popular media is clear: most people hate the Moslem invasion, both legal and illegal. Terrorist attacks, drugs, brazen rudeness to ethnic Slavs, playing both sides, etc. Illegal aliens provoke outrage FAR greater than any foreign enemy.

      The demographics are irreversible. One Chechen said it straight out: Sure, we fight for Russia. We will constitute the majority within a decade or two. It’s ours.

      In the USSR religions were supplanted by the cult of the Defense of the Communist Patria. After the collapse, the Saudis (mainly), sent droves of radical imams, massive funds to raise the Islamic consciousness of Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

      From 2011 through 2013 there were reports of Prince Turki al Faisal openly threatening Putin. The articles have gone missing, but maybe you can find these highly credible sources:

      • AFTERMATH OF THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
      http://www.saudinf.com/main/x002.htm

      • RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, SAUDI SPY CHIEF DISCUSSED SYRIA, EGYPT
      https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2013/08/saudi-russia-putin-bandar-meeting-syria-egypt.html

      If you can’t and want them, I’ll copy and paste.

  8. Today Epoch Times has a great article on Covid featuring Mike Yeadon. I do not know how to post the article to the comments, so I spent some time typing it. The final result was Forbidden and I do not exist.

    I still am a firm believer in what goes around comes around. My Irish, red headed ancestors knew about genes. GRRRRRRRR. I am forbidden and do not exist—-we shall see.

  10. Fairfax Democrats Choose Easter Sunday as ‘Transgender Visibility Day’

    Fairfax County Virginia has named Easter Sunday 2024 as “Transgender Visibility Day,” in what many Christians see as a hijack of their most sacred holiday.

    The Fairfax County School Board has added Transgender Visibility Day to its prior designations of June as LGBT Pride Month and October as LGBT History Month for a remarkable 62 days of LGBT celebration in the district’s schools.

    The Rev. Emma Chattin, executive director of Transgender Education Association, praised the board’s decision, asserting that visibility can be “a heroic thing, especially for our trans women of color in our community, who face additional intersectional obstacles of prejudice regarding safety, housing, employment and health care.”

    Writing for the Washington Examiner, however, Fairfax local Stephanie Lundquist-Arora said the board members are telling Christians they do not matter by turning “one of their holiest days into a celebration of an ideology that undermines the church’s core convictions.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/03/26/fairfax-democrats-choose-easter-sunday-as-transgender-visibility-day/

  11. California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Trump 2.0

    California officials are dusting off the playbook that made them a bulwark against former President Donald Trump from 2016-2020.

    SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom is readying an army of bureaucrats to defend the state’s nation-leading climate policies against a potential second Trump administration.

    Newsom administration officials are keenly aware that deep-blue California is a prime target for former President Donald Trump’s political diatribes and policy rollbacks — and they fully expect he’ll resume his attacks on the Golden State if he wins in November.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/26/california-trump-climate-policies-00149225

  12. HORROR: New York City Police Officer Shot and Killed in Broad Daylight by Career Criminal with 21 Prior Arrests – Shooter and Accomplice Identified (VIDEO)
    by Cullen Linebarger Mar. 27, 2024 1:20 pm0 Comments

    A young NYPD officer was killed in broad daylight by a career criminal who had no business living free thanks to the city’s lawless crime policies.

    As the New York Post reported, 31-year-old Jonathan Diller was fatally shot in the stomach after police tried to remove a suspect from the passenger’s side of a vehicle late Monday afternoon.

    The senseless shooting happened around 5:50 p.m. in Queens after cops approached a dark gray Kia Soul that was illegally parked in front of a metered zone. Diller screamed he had been “hit” after the suspect opened fire.

    Diller was then rushed in critical condition to Jamaica Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. He leaves behind his wife and one-year-old son.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/horror-new-york-city-police-officer-shot-killed/

  13. Biden Secretly Considering Granting Amnesty and Giving Green Cards to Millions of Illegals
    by Cristina Laila Mar. 27, 2024 1:00 pm96 Comments

    Joe Biden is considering granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens who have lived in the US for over 10 years or have citizen relatives who would “suffer” if they were deported.

    According to Politico, similar to Obama’s DACA program, Biden is deciding whether to give the massive group of illegals green cards.

    The Democrats are losing the black and Latino voters so they are fiercely working to lock in a new voting bloc.

    “Like the Obama administration did in 2012 with the launch of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Biden administration officials are also examining whether there’s an action they could take for a different group of undocumented people who have long resided in the United States, according to the three people familiar with the administration’s planning. One idea that has been floated among administration officials is opening access to the cancellation of removal program for people who have lived in the U.S. for over 10 years and have citizen or resident relatives who would “suffer” if they were deported. If specific requirements are met and an immigration judge approves cancellation of removal, a migrant is able to obtain a green card.” – Politico reported.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/biden-secretly-considering-granting-amnesty-giving-green-cards/

    • in the past (1985?), the potential immigrants had to prove residence with yearly paid tax returns filed using a TIN rather than an SSN

  14. They’re Going To Let Trump Win
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    There’s a common fear on the right that despite Trump’s current lead in the polls, the Democrats are going to find a way to pull the rug out from under him in November.
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    As our friend Kevin Dolan points out in the post he was kind enough to let us share below though, there are a number of reasons why the 2024 election is not going to be a repeat of the 2024 one.

    Authored by Kevin Dolan at EXIT
    They’re Going To Let Trump Win

    We’re all bracing for craziness during the 2024 election. Nobody’s quite ready to give it a shape or a name to their expectations, but we have all agreed it will be “crazy”.

    So let’s nail it down. Are you expecting a civil war? A “color revolution”? Another steal?

    I suspect the reason we are all gesturing vaguely at “things getting spicy” is that none of the concrete theories for exactly how it will get spicy make much sense.

    We’re just absolutely sure that he’s going to win the election fair-and-square, but “they’re not going to let him win”, so it must inevitably get “spicy” and “froggy” and “kinetic”, somehow.

    But I actually think they’ll probably just let him win.
    Civil War?

    The Russian Civil War was preceded by fifty years of bombings, assassinations, repression, famine, and two consecutive military defeats.

    “Weimar solutions” only came after fifteen years of Weimar problems, including street battles between hardened WWI veterans that left dozens dead every few months.

    It’s true that we are headed for hyperinflation — but in Germany, hyperinflation had come and gone by 1923. Millions were wiped out, and the Weimar government limped along for another decade thereafter.

    The American Civil War didn’t start at Fort Sumter; it was the culmination of a decade of paramilitary violence with a death toll in the hundreds.

    Here in 2024, the last leftist who suggested that his comrades arm themselves to prepare for physical violence got shouted down for being ableist by hundreds of mentally ill commies who said they would immediately off themselves if they had access to a gun. (Post the link if you have it, it was priceless and I can’t find it.)

    Fantasy / Reality

    Even when they aren’t morbidly obese and hormonally incapacitated, people don’t just form death squads from a cold start. There is simply no political development, no revelation, no economic catastrophe that gets us from our present comfortable state to a shooting war in the next eight months.
    Color Revolution?

    People often suggest that “the CIA” will simply “do a color revolution” on Trump. But the playbook for a color revolution involves accusing the existing regime of rigging the election and stoking popular anger against government abuses and corruption.

    Then, you storm the hall of parliament or congress and “nonviolently” demand the resignation of the illegitimate government, or a repeat of the vote.

    Which is to say: January 6 was a textbook color revolution, and it failed.

    But Trump isn’t in control of the government, and never was — and the actual government has spent the last 4 years banging the drum that American elections are unriggable.

    “People like that re-form… say, maybe we should get us some”

    There can be no situation in which Trump assumes control of the government under questionable circumstances, because unlike Yanukovich or Shevardnadze, he has no access to the practical levers of power that would permit him to do that. He will either win unambiguously, or not at all.

    Biden was a weak candidate in 2020, but it was easy to connect the chaos of the Floyd riots and COVID to Trump’s chaotic and disruptive personal style in ordinary voters’ minds.

    By comparison, Biden looked like “a return to normalcy”, which appealed even to many conservatives. But that promise evaporated — we got a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, new wars in Gaza and Ukraine, a blockade in the Red Sea, and double-digit inflation.

    The US intelligence services do not actually have infinite reality-warping narrative control. You can’t run re-form when you’re the damn incumbent.
    Another Steal?

    The 2020 election is another domain of folk political science where our guys are simply unwilling to admit any limitations whatsoever on the enemy’s power.

    Most of the sane takes on the 2020 election don’t imply total control of the voting system. The election was “stolen” in the following ways:

    Changing rules governing mail-in ballots and expansion of deadlines made fraud harder to prove

    Democrat campaign workers went through nursing homes and housing projects gathering ballots and illegally filling them out for Biden

    News outlets and social media companies colluded with US intelligence services to suppress damaging stories about the Bidens and fabricate accusations against Trump

    Many of you point to the brazenness of the intervention in 2020, and the stupidity of the justifications for it, as evidence of a kind of supreme Nietzschean self-confidence among our enemies.

    I see the opposite:

    If they could just add a zero to Biden’s vote count on the Dominion machine, all this scrambling and wriggling and lying would be unnecessary. They are showing you that their power has limits. There is a “margin of fraud”.

    In the meantime, confidence in mass media is falling:

    TV news viewership is falling:

    The CIA and FBI no longer have a back channel to demand the censorship of politically inconvenient content on Twitter/X. Fox News has lost its monopoly on the boomercon viewer after firing Tucker Carlson.

    The main lever of “the steal” in 2020 was not outright fraud — it was censorship and narrative manipulation. We live in a “media-managed democracy”, and the state has lost control of the media.
    Ragequitting across the board

    The weakness of our enemies’ position can be seen in all sorts of domains.

    Instead of drumming up mobs and getting people fired on Twitter, they’re whining about how unfair it is and running off to ideological cul-de-sacs like right-wingers did in 2018.

    In 2014, commies rampaged through the gaming industry and made everything hideous and boring; now they’re fuming impotently about how no one is buying, and threatening (?) to go back to prostitution.

    They’re realizing they have no way of threatening naughty crypto gorillionaires, so they’re histrionically taking their ball and going home.

    Again, these aren’t self-assured, battle-hardened Bolshevik gangsters and killers we’re dealing with. They’re targeting state enemies in performative, haphazard and counterproductive ways for personal career reasons — and it sucks for the person thus targeted, but it isn’t actually making the regime more powerful or demoralizing their enemies.

    In the wake of Elon and Jamie Dimon’s public “coming out” in favor of Trump, it has become normal for famous faces in tech and finance to say on mainstream news that maybe Trump isn’t so bad and it would probably be OK to let him be president.
    So what’s actually going to happen?

    All of this talk about preparing for political violence and race riots is another case of conservatives gearing up to fight the last war. The enemy is good at creating chaos, but that won’t help them — their guy is in charge.

    So they probably can’t beat Trump, and it doesn’t seem like they have the juice to try that hard.

    The smart thing to do — which also happens to be the easiest thing for a massive faceless managerial state to do — is nothing.

    Let Trump back in, and fight him on home turf — in the maze of the executive bureaucracy. Some of his backers have announced their intention to become politically competent in the event that he wins — but compared to the alternatives, that’s a very manageable risk.

    More importantly: let Trump hold the bag for the all-but-guaranteed economic calamity of the next four years. The regime could skate for another decade if they succeed in pinning the collapse on a dangerous, erratic right-wing upstart.
    How should we prepare?

    If there is any uptick in violence to prepare for, it’s likely to be the low-grade violence of crime and immiseration, so the way to prepare is to secure assets that can’t be inflated away or digitally expropriated, and avoid jurisdictions where your rights to property and self-defense are unlikely to be respected.

    Now is the time to get physically close to friends and family in a stable, politically-reliable jurisdiction, and trade your funny money and fake/subsidized/ZIRP income streams for productive assets in the real world.

    Get started with us at exitgroup.us.
    EXIT News:

    Our scouting trip in Texas has been a success — EXIT HQ is going up in the hill country between San Antonio and Austin.

    Tonight on our weekly full-group call we’re going to discuss various techbro experiments in getting likeminded people from distributed digital networks to come together in the real world.

    Last week on the full-group call, we did a brainstorm on how we might update the country-club model to connect values-aligned families. Goals:

    Strong interest in co-working, with investments in shared capital equipment (local servers and GPUs, CNC machines, power tools, etc.)

    Greater emphasis on fitness and nutrition, with a gym, clean food, saunas and plunge pools, etc.

    Digital-free spaces with Faraday cages

    A library of actual banned books

    We are looking for EXIT members to participate in a hot seat call. You bring your EXIT plan, and we select a panel of members with relevant experience to talk you through it in a private call. DM if interested.

    Seattle meetup (3/29) is this Friday. Cocktail hour meetup link is below the fold for subscribers, along with Austin (4/26), and Boston (5/24).; members-only invites coming via email.

    • Sorry, here is the URL https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-03-26/theyre-going-let-trump-win

      The author is both right and wrong, the left has the ANTIFA people that went to the Middle East and got their training on the battlefield, they are hardened killers. But he is right that the Left will have a lot more credibility if they let Trump win and then start an urban guerilla war against the effort to restore Democracy.

      He is also right about the decade long border war on the Missouri Kansas border leading up to the Civil War, by the time the Civil War started the people in the Trans Mississippi theater of operations were veterans who had already learned that they could move and fight while under fire. This is a major advantage when your troops are “blooded” and the enemies aren’t, until the current administration set out to destroy the US military we had a military that was majority “blooded” troops.

      The theory is that the guerillas/terrorists commit enough evil attacks to turn the government totalitarian which in turn turns the vast majority of the population against the government. The only time this has actually worked was in Nicaragua during the 1980’s the rest of the time the governments either resisted turning totalitarian or were so controlling they prevented the people from joining the terrorists. If this is their plan we can look for major riots during the Trump Second Term ending with random terror attacks similar to the Nashville bombing along with attacks modeled on the Las Vegas shooting and targeted murders like the Portland murder of the MAGA cap man. What our side has to do is to remain calm and resist the urge to carry our tit for tat attacks, we have to obey the law until the left manages to collapse all state and local law.

      • He’s suggesting the opposition will tolerate a PDJT win, but they’ll make sure he accomplishes little. They’ll pin the USA basket-case 0biden legacy on him.

        A lame duck never has the leverage that matters in foreign policy – unless there’s a clear replacement in the wings who will follow the incumbent’s policy positions. PT would have to mentor the next generation, refrain from trashing all those he sees as personal competition.

        The campaign for 2028 gives him about three years or so. How much time will be wasted by serial personal vendettas and responses to them?

        Will he continue to buddy-up with unsuitable people? He’s attracted to certain types, never admits a poor decision, hesitates before firing enemies within.

        Just caveats. We have no choice.
        If PT choses a running mate I consider unacceptable, I just won’t vote.

  16. FLYING BLIND: 1,600 Airplanes Have Been Affected by GPS Jamming Over the Baltic Sea Just in the Last Four Days!
    by Paul Serran Mar. 27, 2024 3:20 pm95 Comments

    There’s an escalation on the dangerous skies above us.

    Back in November, I wrote here in TGP that electronic warfare is now endangering unsuspecting civilians, with no remedy in sight.

    You can check out on: Terror in the Skies: Civilian Airplanes Are Getting Their GPS Hacked Over the Middle East – Experts Have No Idea How to Deal With It.

    The scary cyberattacks are altering civilian planes’ in-flight GPS, causing ‘critical navigation failures’ onboard the aircraft, attacks that aviation leaders and experts guaranteed was ‘impossible’.

    Also, we learn that the professionals tasked with countering it have no idea how to fix this new alarming security failure.

    The world has become a much more dangerous place, lately. On the seas, on land – and certainly in the air.

    Earlier this month we returned to this subject of malicious activity around the planet, where aircraft have their GPS are spoofed or jammed, and now, the problem is starting to impact even the untouchable state leaders, as it arose that Russia has jammed the satellite signal on an aircraft used by defense minister Grant Shapps.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/flying-blind-1600-airplanes-have-been-affected-gps/

  17. We must protect the free expression of the past as much as for ourselves and our inheritors.

    A disturbing new trend emerged recently of publishers altering and modifying various literary works to make them more consistent with contemporary attitudes. Puffin Books, the publisher of Roald Dahl’s works, decided that his description of a character in Matilda as “fat” and “ugly” was offensive, and replaced them with terms deemed to be more sensitive. References to Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad were replaced with John Steinbeck and Jane Austen. The adoption of such practices has led to the creation of a new career field—like community organizers and social media influencers—of “sensitivity readers,” who examine manuscripts in search of words and phrases which need to be changed to avoid offending modern sensibilities. The works of Agatha Christie have also been subject to this mutilation, and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels are about to undergo the same treatment. This type of thing appears to be a growing trend in the U.K., but U.S. editions of Roald Dahl’s books have not yet been changed.

    The authors of these books are dead, and there is no way to ask if they approve of any of these changes to their work. But there is a way to ensure that authors and other artists are not subject to post-mortem censorship. Legislation should be passed to amend copyright laws to extend authorship protection after the death of the author, even after the work has passed into the public domain. While there is already a statutory provision, the Visual Artists Rights Act (17 U.S. Code § 106A) which does protect the right of an author to prevent the “intentional distortion, mutilation, or modification” of that author’s work, such protection is limited to “works of visual art,” and this protection will generally end upon the death of the artist.

    Most literary works will eventually pass into the public domain. For example, everything first published in the United States prior to 1928 is now common property. For anything published after that date, there are widely varying rules which are dependent on the exact date of first publication and compliance with copyright formalities. The applicable rules are rather complex. However, the copyright on most things published in the U.S. after 2002 will expire 70 years after the death of the author.

    Copyright law in the United States derives from Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 (the Copyright Clause) of the Constitution, which defines one of the enumerated powers of Congress to enact statutes which provide for the granting of patents and copyrights for “limited times.” This means that there is no provision for perpetual copyright. There have been instances when Congress passed legislation extending copyright protection, notably the Copyright Term Extension Act (also known as the Sonny Bono Act and the Mickey Mouse Protection Act) which provided for several significant retroactive extensions of copyright periods. This case became the subject of litigation and was ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court in Eldridge v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003). Essentially this decision meant that while Congress can grant extensions, these must be for a finite period due to the “limited time” provision of the Constitution and that U.S. law does not allow for perpetual copyright.

    The entrance of publications to the public domain is primarily a commercial matter. However, today’s “cancel culture” environment, combined with the prevalence of electronic publishing, has created a situation straight out of 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 and is clearly something that the Founding Fathers would never have expected to happen. The popularity of e-books has created a condition whereby publishers can perpetually edit books without informing anyone about it, a practice which only became widely known after having been reported by The Times of London and The Telegraph. While users can turn off automatic updates in their Amazon preferences, Google Play automatically “updates” e-books with no option to opt out. Little, Brown and Company, whose authors include James Patterson, Evelyn Waugh, and Donna Tartt, has publicly acknowledged that it regularly makes “corrections” to e-books at “editors’ and authors’ discretion, fixing factual errors, and typos, rewording phrases, and adding new passages.” Terry Adams, a vice president who runs paperback and digital publishing, has stated that such changes are not recorded publicly and are “in line with industry standards.”

    This is all eerily similar to the work of the Ministry of Truth in 1984. Previously published materials which were no longer consistent with the current Party

    https://americanmind.org/salvo/memory-holed/

  18. Dutch police arrest PEGIDA leader Edwin Wagensfeld in Arnhem court
    https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/dutch-police-arrest-pegida-leader-edwin-wagensfeld-in-arnhem-court/

    Electronic Science – Hassan Al-Rikaz
    Arrests in Arnhem court today sparked public attention, as PEGIDA leader Edwin Wagensfeld was arrested after orders issued by the city’s mayor, Ahmed Markush, banning him from entering Arnhem for six months.
    The reason for this arrest is due to Wagensfeld’s racist and anti-Islamic actions, which provoked Muslims, as he tied the Holy Qur’an to a dog’s leash, which led to its desecration. His previous actions, such as trying to burn the Qur’an, led to his entry into the city to be banned.
    [..]

  19. Woman who announced to tear up Quran arrested in Arnhem
    https://nltimes.nl/2024/03/24/woman-announced-tear-quran-arrested-arnhem
    A 38-year-old woman was arrested in Arnhem on Saturday because she announced that she wanted to tear up a Quran. The woman from Vorden in Gelderland was released after a short time. However, she was banned from the building, as was Pegida leader Edwin Wagensveld, who received a six-month ban from the mayor of Arnhem last Thursday. In response to his announcement that he wanted to burn another copy of the Quran on Jansplein in the city, a large police force was on the scene. In the end, Wagensveld decided not to come, NU.nl reported.

    Mayor Ahmed Marcouch feared a repeat of the events of January when a similar action by Wagensveld led to serious riots. According to the municipality, there were also signs of a terrorist threat. Wagensveld has already announced that he still intends to return to Arnhem in the next few days.

    The police explained that the woman who was arrested was detained based on the local rule that it is forbidden to “cause disorder through provocative behavior.”

    Otherwise, the day in the capital of the province of Gelderland was very calm. In a statement, Marcouch thanked “the people of Arnhem for their understanding, the police from all over the country for their efforts, and the entrepreneurs for their composure.”

    • Gee, I just read an editorial he wrote about the administration’s failures post 10/7. Excellent piece. Maybe last week?

  21. not sure and I ppste re dath of former Sen Lieberman earlier today.

    My neighbor reminds me that he wrote a book on the Sabbath. You can also find articles of his on the subject.

    https://oupress.org/product/gift-rest-sc/
    Description
    by Senator Joe Lieberman
    Softcover, ISBN 978-1-4516-0617-1,