Reader’s Links for May 7th, 2024

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34 Replies to “Reader’s Links for May 7th, 2024”

  1. Hopefully we will one day commemorate our exodus from this black time. Maybe we will call it Passunder. The better original is taken.

    A wise man once said there can’t be peace without justice. The ocean of injustice we are drowning in has very salty water. So thick and dense is the salt, in fact, that you can float on it without moving, just like in the Dead Sea. I’ve never been there, but I’ve seen pictures.

    Lies so thick and dense that you can barely think anymore are everywhere we turn. Making it hard to think so that others can think for you is a great trick. From here we’re just a few subway stops to Hell.

    The biggest lies we’ve suffered are state sponsored because these are too big to lift off without state and institutional help. These need media infrastructure and compromised professionals to make it happen. Lawyers, mayors, journalists, diplomats, doctors, professors, cops, judges, accountants and every other biped under the sun, “…jus’ doin’ ma job, suh…” gets his get-out-of-jail-free card by passing the buck. And he will pass that buck even if it means giving himself a pronoun lobotomy with a wooden spoon. Voilá, you’ve got yourself a Maoist line of effort. It’s massive and it rolls right over you. Western societies are now so adept at creating these propaganda sand storms that they just can’t stop.

    Covid and it’s Mengele medicine, boiling climate, gender benders, communist central-planners posing as real economists, and every other sub-line of effort artfully inserted to promote the main line–such as how electric cars save us all, or how pedophiles are people too, or how your money is doing fine–most effectively serve the greater bad.

    This last weekend driving down from Parliament Hill I passed City Hall and a big, fat pro-Palestinian protest. There was an Arab standing in the middle of the road draped in his flag. He had a Chihuahua covered in a smaller flag–cute for common consumption. White female leftists along with there soyboys joined the orgy as they streamed in on Elgin Street.

    Who needs to think with salt this thick? Here I repost EW’s great UN speech because it’s good enough to desalinate:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mkrXO2Pxk8s&pp=ygUrcG93ZXJmdWwgc3BlZWNoIGJ5IElzcmFlbGkgYW1iYXNzYWRvciB0byB1bg%3D%3D

  8. An annual remembrance of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps was protested on Monday by Palestine flag-flying activists, who confronted and shouted at attendees.

    Thousands of people attended the 36th ‘March of the Living’ event on Monday, a normally silent march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the German death camps built in occupied Poland during the Second World War, key sites of the Holocaust. Among those at Auschwitz yesterday, Germany’s Die Welt broadsheet newspaper reports, were 55 survivors of the Holocaust, survivors of the October 7th Israel massacre, and relatives of those taken hostage by Hamas.

    The march was protested by Palestine activists, with slogans shouted and some marchers confronted. Organisers of the march say the counter protesters saw the event as a ‘perverse’ opportunity to “express their hatred against Israel and the Jewish people”. This serves as a “timely reminder of the importance of Holocaust eduction and remembrance”, they said.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/07/pictures-palestine-protesters-disrupt-memorial-ceremony-at-auschwitz/

    • importance of Holocaust eduction and remembrance
      {spit} Spare us the clichés.

      Prof. Ruth Wisse, 2020:
      The Dark Side of Holocaust Education

      [I]s there any evidence that Holocaust education decreases hatred of the Jews among those Americans who are susceptible to it?

      In fact the OPPOSITE is true.

      We are required to ask the more basic question of what Holocaust education was intended to do and whether it distorts by definition.

      • • Victim and Hero
      The change from that robust Exodus view of the Jews to the split between the bad Zionists of Israel and the good Jews of Auschwitz occurred in the same country?-?America?-?under the same system of government with more or less the same institutions. The change is part of a larger tectonic shift with certain specific features.

      • • Orientalism
      As the theoretical basis for socialism collapsed with the fall of the Soviet Union and its communist satellites, the theories of Orientalism and anti-Zionism replaced it, attacking capitalist democracy for perceived discrimination based on racial, gender, and minority status.

      • • Hating in the Abstract
      To put it bluntly: The [U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum] depoliticized, de-historicized, and universalized a political and historical process to prevent teaching anti-Semitism or the war against the Jews.

      • • Distortions of Holocaust Education
      – [T]he destruction of European Jewry was not about hate. The mass murder of 6 million Jews began as part of an electoral process in which a party came to power by organizing politics against the Jews.

      – Weaponizing the Holocaust against Nazism detracts attention from other ongoing anti-Jewish and anti-Western forces. It thus becomes an instrument of politics under the pretense of avoiding politics.…

      https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-dark-side-of-holocaust-education

  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5–mNIZhU – Shai Abramson – Chief IDF Cantor – The Prayer for the State of Israel!

    This incredibly beautiful prayer for the State of Israel is dedicated to the wellbeing of our precious IDF soldiers who just entered Rapha.
    May G-d protect them and ensure their safety.

  13. “Let 10 Million Cop Cars Burn!” – Radical Pro-Hamas Terror Group ‘Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade’ Admits to Torching 15 Portland Police Cars in ‘Preemptive Attack’
    by Jim Hoft May. 6, 2024 9:00 pm1241 Comments

    Fifteen police vehicles were torched at the Police training facility near the Portland Airport last week.

    The case was being investigated as arson.

    KGW reported:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/portland-terrorist-1024×1024.jpeg

    The terror group called on far left supporters to smash frat house windows if they came out to confront the Marxist- pro-Hamas groups.

    They called on supporters to attack the police.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/let-10-million-cop-cars-burn-radical-pro/

  14. Secret Service Investigates Man for Making Jokes About Bidens
    by Guest Contributor May. 7, 2024 10:30 am179 Comments

    Speculated about taking pictures of him in his ‘Depends’

    The evidence is becoming more and more clear as court cases against President Donald Trump progress: Democrats appear to have weaponized the judicial process to support their claims that Trump was guilty of “fraud” in a case where no one lost money, is guilty of a felony over misdemeanor business document violations, interfered with an election by having – and expressing – his opinions.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/secret-service-investigates-man-making-jokes-about-bidens/

  15. Andrew Weissmann, Mueller’s Corrupt Prosecutor Believes President Trump Must Prove His Innocence in Bogus Bragg Case
    by Jim Hoft May. 7, 2024 7:45 am406 Comments

    Andrew Weissmann led the Mueller sham investigation against President Trump. Now he’s a top Deep State player behind DA Bragg’s bogus Manhattan case against President Trump.

    Andrew Weissmann is the face of DOJ corruption. He has been overturned by the Supreme Court and he’s been behind most all the efforts to attack President Trump through lawfare.

    DA Bragg’s case against President Trump is a mess. There is no crime and yet the DA charged President Trump for 34 felonies that were all made up. The crimes aren’t even clear. It’s a total disaster which is why it is likely a plot by leftist mastermind Andrew Weissmann.

    In a tweet this pst weekend, Weissmann shares that he believes that a defendant in the US must prove their innocence. This is third world communist stuff.

    He was quickly outed as a moron for his ignorance of the law.

    Shipwreckedcrew tweeted: You are a moron. Trump doesn’t have to prove anything tor the jury to acquit. You repeatedly mis-state fundamental premises of the criminal justice system.

    read the rest and see the photos and X posts at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/andrew-weissmann-muellers-corrupt-prosecutor-believes-president-trump/

  16. China’s Interest in Gaza: Trading Israel for the Rest
    by Antonio Graceffo May. 7, 2024 8:45 am66 Comments

    The Chinese interest in the Middle East boils down to a single word: oil. China has investments in the Middle East and encourages countries to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as well as the expanded BRICS grouping. However, all of these economic and diplomatic efforts stem from a single source: China is the world’s largest consumer of oil, and Beijing wants to ensure an uninterrupted and cheap supply of energy.

    China has become the world’s largest consumer and importer of oil. At the same time, Xi Jinping’s vision for the People’s Republic is to surpass the US economically, militarily, and diplomatically by the year 2049. To do this, China needs unfettered access to cheap energy.

    Energy plays such an important role in China’s economic rise that oil and coal consumption, as well as emissions rates, are used by China analysts as proxy measures for the general health of the Chinese economy. When energy consumption or pollution increases, the factories are churning out products, exports are up, and Beijing is raking in the cash it needs to develop more advanced weapons.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/chinas-interest-gaza-trading-israel-rest/

  17. Abu Yehuda, Farrr Rrright Zzzionist Sssettler.

    Do We Have What it Takes to Live in the Middle East?

    [We must do what needs to be done] even if it means a break with the US. In order to do this and survive, Israel has to become a true “nonaligned nation,” maintaining friendly contact with China and Russia as well as the US.

    This is a difficult balancing act, but the current situation is not sustainable: as it stands, Israel is a punching bag for America’s enemies while receiving bear-hug “support” from the administration in the US that is detrimental to her long-term survival.

    Despite her dysfunctional political system and the elements within the country that are cooperating with truly antisemitic forces in the international arena to destabilize the nation, Israel nevertheless maintains a relatively high degree of social cohesion. The Jewish birthrate remains high and her young people still compete to join the elite units in the IDF…

    The invasion of homes and the kidnappings and torture of hostages has torn a hole in our heart that will not be easily mended. The attack encouraged all our enemies and triggered a worldwide explosion of Jew-hatred unprecedented since the Nazi era.

    In the short term, only a true Middle Eastern response will suffice: a massively disproportional one that leaves everyone who had a part in planning or executing 7 October dead, and which severely punishes the culture that gave rise to it. Only that will restore our deterrence in the region, and the perception outside of it that Jews are natural victims.

    And in the long term, Jewish settlement and full sovereignty between the river and the sea is absolutely necessary to provide physical and spiritual security to the Jewish people.

    Do we have what it takes to live in the Middle East? I believe that the people of Israel do. It’s only their leadership that has me worried.

    https://abuyehuda.com/2024/05/do-we-have-what-it-takes-to-live-in-the-middle-east/
    ………..
    Abu Yehuda knows what went on behind the scenes in the WH rapprochement with the Twisted Ragheads. From 2006 on.

    Islam threatens Russia as much as it does the West. Like it or not, we’ll be allies in the Reconquista that’s inevitable. (China will take advantage of both sides.)

    Israeli Jews from the USSR (and subsequently from the Russian Federation) know the Bear better than we do. They’re far more reliable ‘Kremlinologists’ than Nyqvist or Nuland.

    Rather than “stay the course”, I say “keep an open mind”.

  19. (Richard: This is like the various books that came out during the 60s telling the protesters how to make improvised weapons and explosives.)

    Protesters are being trained to take over buildings and assault cops, across the country
    By LU Staff May 4, 2024

    Students participating in the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at universities across the country are being trained to take over buildings and assault cops, reports The Free Press:

    Many of the [training] manuals, which are being shared via phone group chats with students across the country, encourage “militancy” and instruct protesters to break laws, seize buildings, vandalize them, and then use tactics to evade police detection and arrest. One guide, called “De-arrest Primer,” teaches protesters to physically resist arrest or, in some cases, assault police officers or throw projectiles at them to protect fellow “comrades” from arrest. “Each de-arrest,” the guide states, “is a micro-intifada which can spread and inspire others until we may finally shake off this noxious ruling order all together.”

    Another manual, called the “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” contains detailed diagrams on how to break into buildings using tools like crowbars, clamps, metal cables, chains, bolt cutters, and a miniature saw known as an angle grinder.

    The Guide explains: “Use an angle grinder to cut through locks, bolts and chains…Use bolt cutters to clip padlocks, lock boxes, of fencing…Use the straighter end of a crowbar to pry open windows and doors…” The Guide was shared by Columbia protesters who broke into Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall:

    Instructions show how to barricade doors with “heavy furniture,” create a “shield” against police using trash cans, ropes, sheets of cardboard, or a “corrugated metal banner,” and to pick locks using a “technique” developed by “firemen and criminals.” “If these less-destructive methods don’t work,” the guide states, “more aggressive options are abundant,” such as using a crowbar to “open a window.”

    Many of these techniques were employed by Columbia students on Tuesday night when they stormed Hamilton Hall, an administrative building at the heart of the university. Protesters smashed through the windows of the hall’s main door with hammers and used metal chains to lock them shut. After cops arrested 119 people on the Ivy League campus, they discovered multiple glass doors had been broken and barricaded using chairs, refrigerators, and vending machines, according to NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard.

    Three of the guides encourage college protesters to erase the distinction “between students and non-students.” Of the 282 people arrested on Tuesday night between Columbia and the City College of New York, 48 percent were not affiliated with either university, according to the NYPD.

    New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, called attention to this problem at a May 1 press conference. “There is a movement to radicalize young people. This is a global problem. And young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children,” he said.

    The Free Press story can be found at this link: https://www.thefp.com/p/student-protest-guides-violence-micro-intafada

    It’s titled “The ‘Micro-Intifada’: How American Protesters Are Being Trained in Militancy.”

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2024/05/04/protesters-are-being-trained-to-take-over-buildings-and-assault-cops-across-the-country/

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    The ‘Micro-Intifada’: American Protesters Are Being Trained in ‘Militancy’

    Guides created by radical groups are teaching pro-Palestinian students to use violence on campus.

    By Francesca Block

    May 3, 2024

    Students participating in the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at universities across the country are being taught to become militants, according to nine manuals obtained by The Free Press.

    Many of the manuals, which are being shared via phone group chats with students across the country, encourage “militancy” and instruct protesters to break laws, seize buildings, vandalize them, and then use tactics to evade police detection and arrest. One guide, called “De-arrest Primer,” teaches protesters to physically resist arrest or, in some cases, assault police officers or throw projectiles at them to protect fellow “comrades” from arrest. “Each de-arrest,” the guide states, “is a micro-intifada which can spread and inspire others until we may finally shake off this noxious ruling order all together.”

    Another manual, called the “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” contains detailed diagrams on how to break into buildings using tools like crowbars, clamps, metal cables, chains, bolt cutters, and a miniature saw known as an angle grinder.

    https://www.thefp.com/p/student-protest-guides-violence-micro-intafada

    =================================================================

    https://files.libcom.org/files/MarighellaManual.pdf

    google urban guerilla manual and check out the results.

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=urban+guerrilla+manual&t=ffab&ia=web

  21. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is accusing Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta of election interference, claiming the social media giant censored the film, Who Is Bobby Kennedy? on Facebook and Instagram.

    On Saturday, a political action committee (PAC) supporting Kennedy released a short biographical film about the candidate, narrated by actor Woody Harrelson, but viewers were unable to share the content on Facebook and Instagram, Kennedy’s team said.

    Some social media users were told the video was spam or that the link redirected them to a malicious website. Others were told the video contained “graphic and violent content,” while others received a message from Meta saying the content violated community standards, RFK’s campaign explained.

    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/05/07/rfk-jr-accuses-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-of-election-interference-for-censoring-who-is-bobby-kennedy-film/

  22. a good primer to show friends and relatives:

    Why The Middle East Won’t Accept Palestinian Refugees

  23. UPDATE: Porn Star Loses It in Court – Stormy Daniels Starts Yelling During Questioning
    by Jim Hoft May. 7, 2024 5:53 pm82 Comments

    Stormy Daniels lost it on Tuesday. The pressure was too much.

    The former stripper and porn star started yelling during questioning during the ongoing lawfare case against President Donald Trump.

    Stormy Daniels wrote in 2018, “Over the past few weeks I have been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago. The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 20011, 2016, 2017 and now again in 2018. 1 am not denying this affair because i was paid “hush money” as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. “I am denying this affair because it never happened.”

    “Judge Merchan agrees with Bragg and Biden’s attorneys saying that Stormy Daniels has “credibility” to testify about an alleged affair, even though she’s repeatedly denied any such affair over the years and even went on record by issuing an official statement denying such an affair.”

    read the rest at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/update-porn-star-loses-it-court-stormy-daniels/

  24. UK Ministry of Defense Allegedly Hacked by China – Personnel Payroll Information Was Targeted
    by Paul Serran May. 7, 2024 5:40 pm14 Comments

    The world is an increasingly conflicted place, with the geopolitical relations between East and West as tensioned as they’ve ever been in decades.

    In this dangerous panorama, a relentless game of cyber attacks and counterattacks seems to be afoot.

    At this point, it surfaces that the Chinese regime is now suspected to have hacked the British Ministry of Defense.

    MPs were briefed today of the massive data breach involving the MoD, targeting its service personnel.

    Sky News reported:

    “The government will not name the country involved, but Sky News understands this to be China. The Chinese state is to be accused of two or three attempts at hacking MoD employees – including personnel.”

    The cyberattack targeted a payroll system holding data of current service personnel and some veterans. Names and bank details may have been exposed.

    “China’s foreign ministry said it ‘firmly opposes and fights all forms of cyber attacks’ and ‘rejects the use of this issue politically to smear other countries’.

    read the rest at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/uk-ministry-defense-allegedly-hacked-china-personnel-payroll/

  25. Over 200,000 People on North Carolina Voter Rolls ‘Missing’ SSN Numbers, Likely Ineligible to Vote
    by Ben Kew May. 7, 2024 3:40 pm146 Comments

    More than 200,000 people in North Carolina are on the state’s voter rolls despite missing the full details of their social security number.

    According to a report from The Federalist, the records of approximately 224,000 people are simply “missing” the last four digits of their Social Security number (SSN) and their driver’s license identification number.

    The report states:

    The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) required states to verify certain “information of newly registered voters for Federal elections,” according to the Social Security Administration. “Each State must establish a computerized State-wide voter registration list and verify new voter information with the State’s Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).” These requirements went into effect on Jan. 1, 2004.

    States must verify the would-be voter’s driver’s license number against the MVA database, but if an individual lacks a driver’s license then states must use the last four digits of his SSN, name, and date of birth. Notably, verifying a registrant’s SSN or driver’s license does not necessarily confirm his citizenship, since foreign nationals can obtain either.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/200000-people-north-carolina-voter-rolls-missing-ssn/

  27. Illegal migrant accused of snatching young girl had been set loose by Feds
    Marvin Perez Lopez had been given a court date in 2027
    Adam Shaw By Adam Shaw Fox News
    Published May 7, 2024 1:30pm EDT

    A Guatemalan illegal immigrant who is now charged in Florida with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a child, had been freed into the U.S. with a court date for 2027, officials said this week.

    The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office announced that Marvin Perez Lopez, an illegal immigrant from Guatemela, was arrested on Saturday for kidnapping a minor under 13 and sexual assault.

    Detectives learned that he arrived in January after crossing into the U.S. via Mexico and turned himself into Border Patrol. Authorities say he was given a court date for some time in 2027 and released into the U.S.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegal-migrant-accused-snatching-young-girl-set-loose-feds?intcmp=tw_fnc

  28. REPORT: St. Louis Authorities Can’t Find Soros-Backed Prosecutor Kim Gardner Who’s Accused of Misusing Taxpayer Funds and Rights Abuses
    by Mike LaChance May. 7, 2024 10:00 pm0 Comments

    Kim Gardner, a former St. Louis prosecutor who was backed by George Soros, is missing. The list of allegations against Gardner is long.

    Authorities are trying to find her because of the ongoing investigation and also to serve her subpoenas, but she has vanished.

    Unless something has happened to her, she must be in hiding. How else can her disappearance be explained?

    From the Associated Press:

    A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed because auditors can’t find former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said Monday.

    Fitzpatrick said in a news release that auditors have tried for several months to contact Gardner, including trying to serve her with a subpoena. Her whereabouts remain unknown, he said.

    “This is a pattern of behavior with Kim Gardner, who hasn’t shown a willingness to be transparent or accountable,” Fitzpatrick, a Republican, said in a news release. “Without question, she knows our audit is ongoing and that we want to speak with her about her time in office, but she has made no effort to comply with our requests or respond to our inquiries.”

    Gardner, a Democrat first elected in 2016 to become the city’s first Black circuit attorney, resigned in May 2023. She was part of a movement of progressive prosecutors who sought diversion to mental health treatment or drug abuse treatment for low-level crimes, pledged to hold police more accountable, and sought to free inmates who were wrongfully convicted.

    Gardner, a Democrat first elected in 2016 to become the city’s first Black circuit attorney, resigned in May 2023. She was part of a movement of progressive prosecutors who sought diversion to mental health treatment or drug abuse treatment for low-level crimes, pledged to hold police more accountable, and sought to free inmates who were wrongfully convicted.

    read the rest and see the X post at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/report-st-louis-authorities-cant-find-soros-backed/

  29. Poll Finds Massive Majority of College Students Not Interested in Anti-Israel Protests – Want Protesters Held Accountable for Disruptions and Damages
    by Mike LaChance May. 7, 2024 9:45 pm15 Comments

    The vast majority of college students in the United States have absolutely no interest in the anti-Israel protests on campus, according to new polling.

    These students do care about political issues, but this is not one of them. They also want the protesters to be held accountable for all the trouble and damage they have caused.

    The people behind these protests represent a tiny minority of college students, yet they are constantly issuing demands and eating up tons of attention by being the loudest and most annoying people on campuses.

    read the rest at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/poll-finds-massive-majority-college-students-not-interested/

  31. Jonathan Turley: Trump’s judge has ‘lost control of his courtroom’

  32. The Trump campaign contemplates a jail sentence

    On Monday, the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s New York trial once again warned — this time face-to-face — that he could face jail time if he continues to violate a gag order. It’s a scenario that Trump’s presidential campaign has already been discussing.

    “Over the past couple of months, everybody has come to the realization that [it’s a possibility], and thought about what must be done,” one person close to the campaign noted. “These are all professionals.”

    Alternative punishments, like home confinement, have also been discussed by Trump’s team, given both the logistical questions that jail poses and the judge’s own admitted reluctance in issuing such a decision. Only one thing is clear: Trump would take the lead in messaging, just as he has throughout the trial.

    https://www.semafor.com/article/05/06/2024/the-trump-campaign-contemplates-a-jail-sentence