Reader’s Links for July 2nd, 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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About Eeyore

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

27 Replies to “Reader’s Links for July 2nd, 2024”

  4. “Liars, Cheats, and Crooks”
    by Five Times August (Official Lyric Video) 2024
    FiveTimesAugust – June 27, 2024

  6. It was the perfect metaphor, really.

    My son and I decided yesterday to go to Parliament Hill to experience Dominion Day in Canada’s capital. I haven’t done this in some years, having as I do an allergy to crowds, but we really wanted to see the air show at one o’clock, and he wanted to make a video on symbols.

    At noon the sky was cloudless. Perfect for such a day. He asks a lot of questions about what the country was like when I was his age–demographic changes mostly–and he is a bit in awe of our lost homogeneity. As we walked up Wellington from Lebreton Flats we heard some funky chanting. I said it sounded like Hare Krishnas getting down, and I was right. The best part of this side show was watching the bad rhythm of a white woman trying to keep the beat. She looked like Elaine dancing in Seinfeld.

    I admired every plane that passed over our heads. There was a Lancaster bomber, a Twin Otter, a bunch of other very cool fighter jets, and rescue and transport planes. Also impressive were the hawks, herons and turkey vultures we saw hunting over the great Ottawa river. I wonder what they thought about the planes. One brave young guy walked by us wearing a kippah.

    We saw a sniper perched atop the Senate building. He looked out over the crowd, like the birds, with his binoculars trying, perhaps, to catch sight of a single Trudeau supporter.

    After the last airplane passed over our heads we started walking back to the car parked a half-mile away. It was hot now. As we descended to the flats the crowd became more dense, until finally we found ourselves stuck in the middle of hundreds of people standing still. We were kettled in by those linked steel crowd control barriers. People started getting impatient. We were lucky to make our way forward, getting through after twenty minutes.

    I asked a young man working for the National Capital Commission why they were trapping people like this? He said it was in case there was an emergency, and vehicles needed to get through the intersection. Later I wonder what they would have done if there had been an emergency inside our condensed throng. It made no sense at all.

    Walking on we discovered more barriers barring our escape. I asked a cop how to get out. We were now standing at the War museum. He shrugged his shoulders saying he had no idea. Now the crowd controls were clearly working to thicken the density of the revelers. It was more dangerous than if they just let people move freely. There was more than enough space.

    Like I say, it was the perfect metaphor to Canada on this Dominion Day. Control freaks in control.

    Finally I nudged one of the barriers and found I could open it up. People streamed through behind us, all wanting to get out of the area. I looked back and saw the two policemen I had spoken to had walked up and were closing the gap again.

    • Mr. Orban visits Prez Z.
      NO buddy-buddy photo ops.
      + + +
      And what’s with NATO amassing forces on the Belarus borders? Who teases a Soviet relic like Lukashenko?

      Comment from a Russian military blog:[machine translation]
      Imagine yourself in the place of Lukashenko. The country is under pressure on all fronts, including internal.

      The opposition is not numerous, but it has a huge boost from the West. Polish intrigues on the western border. Dogs barking from the Baltic. Fighting near the southern border.

      Better hope Putin controls the tactical nukes poised there.

      Social guarantees for the population at the level of the USSR require incredible costs. And you have to live.

      Dima, from Belarus, first couple minutes:

    • At my grocery retailer checkout counter, right in front of me, is a woman in her fifties with a sizeable clear plastic facial mask, tight black hooks around her nose and all.

      She said everybody was looking at her, and that’s because she stopped wearing the blue fabric masks because they’re dangerous.

      How dumb can people be? – That dumb.

  10. Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court has sentenced young Christian Ehsan Shan to death for allegedly reposting a blasphemous image of a desecrated Quran on social media.

    Shan was accused of sharing “blasphemous content” on the social media site TikTok, which was considered to be a provocation of the anti-Christian mob violence that took place in Jaranwala in August 2023.

    On that occasion, following accusations of desecration of the Quran, a mob of some 10,000 Muslim militants went on a rampage, destroying and burning as many as 500 Christian homes and about 26 churches in the Christian quarter of the city of Punjab.

    The arresting officer, Amir Farooq, said Shan had shared “hateful content at a sensitive time when authorities were already struggling to contain the violence.”

    According to the police, the young man did not produce and package the blasphemous content himself, but simply reposted it, after which it went viral.

    https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/07/02/pakistan-sentences-christian-to-death-for-blasphemous-tiktok-post/

  11. The Chinese Communist regime in Beijing announced new regulations on Monday that will empower its officials to inspect smartphones and other personal electronics at will, including those belonging to foreign visitors.

    If the officials decide an “emergency” exists, they can perform these intrusive searches without obtaining a warrant.

    China’s rubber-stamp legislature approved a new “anti-espionage” law in July 2023 that dramatically increased the already vast surveillance powers of its police state. The new law was even more opaque and vaguely-worded than China’s previous security laws, leaving even more surveillance power at the discretion of individual officials.

    The new law greatly expanded Communist China’s definition of “spying” to include merely “relaying on espionage organizations and their agents” – in other words, guilt by association – or possessing any data Chinese officials decide is “related to national security interests” without obtaining whatever they decide is proper “authorization.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/07/02/china-launches-anti-espionage-smartphone-inspections/

    • Violence is the next move in their playbook, the question is how much violence will they use?

    • Palki !!
      Hungary’s Orban goes to Kyiv & tells Zelensky to take Ceasefire

  14. U.S. Struggles to Deter Houthi Threat to Global Trade

    After half a year of conflict, the U.S. has failed to deter the Houthi rebels from attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea as the Yemeni fighters continue to sink commercial boats and disrupt global trade. Repeated U.S. bombardments on Houthi positions have done little to stop the Iran-backed group that has made more than 190 drone and missile attacks since late October.

    The Yemeni fighters have sunk or heavily damaged at least four commercial vessels, along with hijacking one, and have killed four commercial sailors. The Houthis have also kidnapped dozens of UN relief workers in the past few months.

    White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Wednesday that “We’re doing everything we can to try to degrade their capabilities, but they’re still getting supplied. They’re still getting resourced by Iran.”

    Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at Hudson Institute, said the U.S. could take out assembly and distribution centers rather than the main strategy of counterattacking at launch sites, but that raises the risk of hitting civilians. “What it means is the threat never really goes away, and you’re just constantly in this game of defense.” The Navy is also typically firing a $4 million surface-to-air missile to take down far cheaper Houthi drones.

    https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4746885-us-struggles-to-deter-houthi-threat-as-crisis-spirals/

  15. Houthi Ship Attacks Pose a Longer-Term Challenge to Regional Security

    The Houthi threat to commercial shipping in the Red Sea is still escalating considerably in quantity and quality, and neither the U.S.-led coalition nor the recently launched EU Naval Force Aspides have been able to curtail Houthi attacks. Yet despite the focus on the immediate maritime and trade effects of these attacks, more attention needs to be paid to how well-entrenched the Houthi threat has become, and how it might use its newfound leverage to serve different political agendas in the future.

    Since May 16, the group has expanded its target list: if a company has ships that call on Israeli ports, all of its vessels may now be targeted, even those that are not sailing to Israel. The Houthis appear to feel empowered rather than weakened.

    https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/houthi-ship-attacks-pose-longer-term-challenge-regional-security-and-trade-plans

  16. Egypt pushes for cease-fire, but Gallant undeterred: ‘We will choke Hamas’ lifeline’

    Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday, “We are effectively closing off Hamas’s air supply, including the Rafah crossing and the tunnels. The result is clear: they have no way to arm themselves, no way to resupply, no way to bring in reinforcements, and no way to treat their casualties.”

    “Their fighting spirit is breaking, and time is working against them, not for them. Contrary to the stories circulating from those in the tunnels or hotels in Qatar and the media noise they create, in practice, Hamas is being worn down by the actions we are taking here. We are destroying the tunnels, the weapons, and reaching places they never dreamed we would, deep underground and above ground. This is very important.”

    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hk1lnm1da#autoplay
    …….
    Who knows?
    Gallant’s instincts proved fatal 10/7. And he’s responsible for much of the bumbling in the war ever since.

    He’s taking orders from military luminaries like Blinken, Snake Sullivan and that fat black guy from Boeing – what’s his name? – playing the role of Sec. Defense.

    Undermining the current Israeli government on behalf of the 0biden administration. Sees his personal future – and that of his country – as a satellite of the USA. Stupidity doesn’t preclude ambition.

    Disloyal swine. But no matter what, Bibi bears the ultimate responsibility.