Reader’s Links for June 21st, 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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8 Replies to “Reader’s Links for June 21st, 2024”

  1. The U.S. treasury bill market is the lifeblood of the country. The government borrows money from the world by selling these certificates. The 10-year duration T-Bill is the gold standard of credit in the universe. Even Argyle on Mars owns a few. The value of almost everything on the planet is derived from referencing this one thing.

    The problem is that if the universe becomes less interested in financing the U.S. government by choosing to not buy these certificates of saving, the government will have to make a tough decision. If there aren’t enough (foreign) buyers for this debt, it must print the dollars to buy its own debt. If this sounds a little counter-intuitive it’s because it is. Another term for this is fiscal dominance:
    https://simplicable.com/economics/fiscal-dominance

    The dollar and the bond market cannot both be saved. Gotta choose.

    I’m not sure if this is Keynesian jargon or not, but it describes what happens once the levers of Keynesianism stop working–these being money supply and interest rates.

    Now, if the U S. Government raises interest rates to control inflation it will mean paying even more astronomical interest on its own debt. Since foreigners are now choosing to save in gold rather than in these U.S. debt instruments, the Federal Reserve will be forced to buy up its own T-Bills.

    Interest payments have now reached one trillion dollars every hundred days. Compounding interest is an exponential function. Printing the money to pay this will dilute the money supply, leading to hyperinflation. It is the very definition of the expression being caught between a rock and a hard place.

    This is also why I care little for the noise surrounding the BRICS movement. The fact that many participating countries are treacherous shitholes matters not one iota. Their primary opposition to us is based not on ideology (noise) but on this mechanism of USD failure, against which they are preparing to defend themselves.

    Historically, transitions between world reserve currencies include big wars. I guess this is because the major players know that diplomacy cannot properly rearrange the furniture when the house must be demolished and rebuilt.

    This basic understanding of the exponential function of debt has been understood by central bankers around the world for a long time. The distinction between them has been which of them were inside the U.S. sphere of influence? Because each of these vassal states were also charged with defending the USD, or else. (Think Japan.) Why else, for example, did Justin Trudeau choose to virtue signal his fealty to the USD, and Barack Obama, by selling off Canada’s miniscule gold reserve as soon as he entered office?

    Solutions? Be your own central bank. Buy physical gold and silver while you still can.

    https://youtu.be/irb3T_pZNZo?si=1pNUOIyGjFUN-vR4

    • By the way, bitcoin is a derivative of the USD in that it is denominated in USD. Therefore you may, indeed, become a millionaire investing in this tulip, but the dollars you get for it won’t be worth much.

      Bitcoin is a diversionary snare used to distract from the real issue.

  3. THERE IS NOTHING GREATER THAN FREEDOM. Be vigilant, speak out to defend your rights and the rights of others.

  4. Leftists Cry ‘Separation of Church and State’ Over New Ten Commandments Law – Here’s a History Lesson for Them
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/leftists-cry-separation-church-state-new-ten-commandments/
    Jun. 21, 2024 8:30 am
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    Rarely have seven innocuous words, misinterpreted and then amplified, caused so much mischief.

    On Wednesday, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana ignited leftist outrage by signing a bill that requires all the state’s public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.

    Predictably, opponents of the bill cited a paraphrased version of a line that appeared in an 1802 letter written by President Thomas Jefferson: “wall of separation between church and state.”

    As we shall see, the use of that “separation” phrase to attack Louisiana’s law amounts to an act of sophistry.

    No doubt anticipating such objections, Louisiana earmarked no state money for the mandate’s implementation, relying instead on private funds.

    Likewise, to affirm that the mandated display constitutes an acknowledgement of the Ten Commandments’ historical significance, not an endorsement of a particular religious creed, the law also requires a four-paragraph context statement tying the Ten Commandments to American foundational documents.

    That, of course, did not satisfy the bill’s opponents.

    “BREAKING: We’re suing Louisiana for requiring all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Public schools are not Sunday schools,” the American Civil Liberties Union tweeted.

    BREAKING: We’re suing Louisiana for requiring all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

    Public schools are not Sunday schools.

    — ACLU (@ACLU) June 19, 2024

    Displaying the Ten Commandments, a cornerstone of the Judeo-Christian tradition that undergirds all of Western civilization, would transform public schools into Sunday schools? Where might the confused and litigious folks at the ACLU get such an idea?

    They got it from Jefferson’s “separation” phrase, of course, but not from any real understanding of what Jefferson meant.

    “Here’s the deal: We stop pretending there is any kind of separation of church and state here. Tax them. Tax them hard,” one person wrote Wednesday on the social media platform X.

    Here’s the deal: We stop pretending there is any kind of separation of church and state here. Tax them. Tax them hard.

    — Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) June 19, 2024

    “Separate church and state,” the organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State tweeted.

    Separate church and state.https://t.co/jy5OdknWUO pic.twitter.com/X4bR4eUy1Y

    — Americans United (@americansunited) June 19, 2024

    In other words, leftist objections to the Louisiana law rest on the phrase “separation of church and state.”

    Alas, that famous phrase’s historical context does not support the leftist interpretation.

    Sometime after Oct. 7, 1801 — the precise date remains unknown — a three-man committee representing the Danbury Baptist Association, a group of 26 Baptist churches in western Connecticut and eastern New York, wrote a letter congratulating their “beloved” Jefferson on his election to the presidency and laying out principles with which they knew he would agree.

    “Sir, we are sensible that the President of the united States, is not the national Legislator, & also sensible that the national goverment cannot destroy the Laws of each State; but our hopes are strong that the sentiments of our beloved President, which have had such genial Effect already, like the radiant beams of the Sun, will shine & prevail through all these States and all the world till Hierarchy and tyranny be destroyed from the Earth,” the letter read.

    The authors even suggested to the president that “America’s God has raised you up to fill the chair of State out of that good will which he bears to the Millions which you preside over.”

    “And may the Lord preserve you safe from every evil and bring you at last to his Heavenly Kingdom throug Jesus Christ our Glorious Mediator,” the letter concluded.

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    Jefferson did not receive this remarkable letter until Dec. 30. Nor did it reach him without fanfare. In fact, the same itinerant preacher who carried the letter also delivered a now-legendary giant wheel of cheese made by the citizens of Cheshire, Massachusetts, another Baptist stronghold in a state that did not disestablish its Congregational Church until 1833.

    In other words, Jefferson had New England Baptists on the mind as the New Year approached. It might even have been the reason he invited Republican Rep. William Eustis of Massachusetts to dine with him.

    Over the next two days, the president’s reply to the Danbury Baptist Association went through two drafts.

    In the first draft, he explained why, as president, he had avoided proclaiming religious fast days. But another New England Republican who reviewed the draft encouraged the president to excise that passage, so he did.

    The second and final draft preserved the remainder of the original nearly verbatim.

    “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State,” Jefferson’s famous second paragraph began.

    Why take readers so deep into the weeds with this Jefferson letter? What could all this historical context possibly tell us? And what difference does it make?

    For one thing, it reminds us that in 1802 those New England states had long-established (i.e. tax-supported) churches.

    Likewise, while Jefferson did not approve of established churches, he made no effort to influence state laws. Indeed, he could not have done so had he wished. As the Danbury Baptists noted, the president “is not the national Legislator,” nor could the federal government — and that includes every branch of the federal government — “destroy the Laws of each State.”

    Furthermore, the president’s consultation with several New England Republicans suggests that he intended his letter, once published, primarily for an audience of New England Republicans, in this case Baptists who shared the president’s views on religious freedom. And that suggests a political act, not a statement meant to clarify, alter or forever enshrine First Amendment’s meaning.

    Finally, note Jefferson’s use of the word “whole,” as well as his italicization of the word “their.” The “whole American people” had declared that “their legislature” would make no laws establishing religion or inhibiting its exercise.

    Why would Jefferson italicize “their” unless he meant to refer to the legislature of the “whole American people” only? That tells us that Jefferson recognized the First Amendment as binding on Congress but not on state legislatures.

    In sum, could a seven-word phrase from a 222-year-old letter — written for a special purpose, expressing principles that denied the First Amendment’s applicability to the states and responding to a letter that did the same — really keep a cornerstone of Western civilization out of public schools?

    Leftists believe that it can. And they believe it because, as the ACLU tweet illustrated, they have relied on courts to ensure that it does.

    In fact, in a brilliant 2006 essay, Daniel Dreisbach of the Heritage Foundation, author of the book, “Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State,” explained how federal courts spent decades twisting Jefferson’s casual “wall” metaphor into a “high and impregnable” barrier.

    Ironically, the very mechanism on which “separation of church and state” advocates depend for the enforcement of the Jeffersonian phrase they have misinterpreted happens to be the very mechanism Jefferson himself most feared.

    In an 1819 letter, Jefferson denounced the activist federal judiciary of his day. Courts, he argued, could not “usurp” the power to interpret the Constitution’s meaning. If they did, it would make the entire Constitution a “felo de se” — an act of suicide.

    “For intending to establish three departments, coordinate and independant, that they might check and balance one another, it has given, according to this opinion, to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others; and to that one too which is unelected by, and independent of, the nation,” he wrote.

    Thus, outraged leftists who hope to invalidate Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law based on their own misunderstanding or distortion of Jefferson’s famous phrase will find that Jefferson himself refutes them at every turn.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/leftists-cry-separation-church-state-new-ten-commandments/

  5. (I don’t know this website so you decide)

    The Threat of Terrorism in America Has Returned
    What the warning signs say, and what the Biden administration should do.
    Will Selber
    Jun 20, 2024
    Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

    FROM THE SLUMS OF BAGHDAD to the deserts of Kandahar, I’ve hunted Islamist terrorists my entire adult life. I lived among them, studied their languages, and immersed myself in their cultures.

    I’ve also seen the carnage that these jihadists leave in their wake. In Baghdad, a Shia group, Jaysh al-Mahdi, would rape children in front of their parents. In Afghanistan, the Taliban executed my brother-in-arms, Gen. Surab Azimi, after his men surrendered—and filmed the entire thing. That wasn’t new for me. Jubha, the Islamic Army of Iraq’s deadliest sniper, killed my turret gunner, and filmed the kill shot, releasing it along with others in propaganda videos.

    As a strategic-level terrorism analyst, I read vast amounts of intelligence from tens of thousands of sources. At United States Central Command, I led teams of analysts who were experts on hundreds of insurgent groups, each with its own ideological nuances, modi operandi, leadership, structures, and style.

    With all that experience, my mental warning lights have been blinking red recently: There is increasing reason to believe that there could be a terrorist attack on the United States in the months ahead.

    This is an unpleasant subject—no one wants to think about sudden violent acts of death and destruction and the chaos they can unleash.

    It is also an inherently uncertain subject—it requires studying the conditions for an attack and making judgments based on incomplete information.

    So I want to explain to you some of the reasons why I am concerned that a deadly act of terrorism seems increasingly likely in the short term—perhaps an ISIS-style attack similar to the Moscow attack, or a lone wolf-style attack similar to a January 2023 machete attack on an NYPD officer—and also why, looking further ahead, the possibility of more complex 9/11-style attacks is growing ominously plausible again.

    read the rest at

    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/threat-terrorism-america-returned-afghanistan

  6. CHILLING: Biden Regime Declares Trump Supporters Domestic Terror Threats in Newly Released Internal Documents, Sought to Set Up DHS Intel Unit to Target Them
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/chilling-biden-regime-declares-trump-supporters-domestic-terror/
    Jun. 21, 2024 1:20 pm
    Tell us again that Trump is a danger.

    Jim Hoft reported yesterday that America First Legal (AFL) released documents demonstrating how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put together a since-disbanded DHS intel group that included Deep State goons John Brennan and James Clapper to reclassify political dissent under the guise of “public health” so that ordinary Americans felt empowered to rat on their neighbors.

    Now, AFL has released an even more infuriating batch of documents that should send chills straight up your spine because Trump supporters are on the menu.

    These newly released internal files by AFL show the Biden regime classifies someone as a person likely to commit “domestic violent extremist” attacks. But instead of focusing on actual threats like Antifa and pro-Hamas supporters, they have declared Trump supporters as enemies of the state instead.

    /1EXCLUSIVE

    Internal docs from Biden’s DHS show their plans to target Trump supports as domestic extremists.

    The Brennan-Clapper intel group discussed how “most of the domestic terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president.” #DeepStateDiaries PART 2: pic.twitter.com/q2HcoAe2Kd

    — America First Legal (@America1stLegal) June 21, 2024

    From AFL:

    America First Legal (AFL) is releasing the second tranche of internal files from the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group,” obtained exclusively through AFL’s litigation with Ambassador Ric Grenell against the Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is the second installment of #DeepStateDiaries, a multi-part series of releases including newly obtained documents.

    Today’s installment exposes how the Biden Administration classifies someone as a person likely to commit “domestic violent extremist” attacks, particularly those who support President Trump, are “in the military,” or are “religious.”

    AFL has shared a snippet showing precisely what Brennan-Clapper’s attitude toward national security is. The default position of the DHS is to use “in the military” and religious” to target individuals and then tag them as having “indicators of extremists and terrorism” so the DHS can snoop on them.

    “We should be more worried about these,” the Group concludes.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/chilling-biden-regime-declares-trump-supporters-domestic-terror/