Reader’s Links for July 5th, 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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31 Replies to “Reader’s Links for July 5th, 2024”

    • Dima specializes in analysis of military tactics, not geopolitics. But sometimes he can’t resist retailing gossip from regional Telegram and government propaganda. (Carefully. Lukashenko monitors everything in Belarus.)

      First few minutes here are about Mr. Orban’s visit to Moscow. (Somebody else writes the clickbait titles for his YT channel.)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikJ2v-9pFxg

      Putin’s Last Ultimatum To Zelensky. Complete Defeat In Toretsk.

  11. Israel haters claim they need to wear masks because of immunocompromised members who want to protest. Yeah, right.

    Jewish Voice for Peace rails against proposed laws against people engaged in criminal activity wearing masks – because, they claim, “These laws threaten immunocompromised individuals, particularly immunocompromised people of color….”

    Masking is a fundamental part of the modern antisemites’ strategy to avoid being prosecuted. The pro-Hamas Within Our Lifetime group says this explicitly in their Rally Toolkit, putting masking along other rules to avoid being identified:

    • Journalists and photographers should check in with organizers prior to posting any pictures online
    • Do Not Talk to the Police!
    • Avoid talking about, recording, or posting anything that could get anyone in legal trouble. If you’re unsure, air on the side of caution and don’t post it.
    • Wear a mask at all times.

    Their Rally Toolkit adds, “Cover your face if you do not want to be identified.”

    The Nation gives another reason for masking:
    Masks Are a Symbol of Solidarity. Don’t Let Democrats Take Them Away
    https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/masks-are-a-symbol-of-solidarity-dont-let-democrats-take-them-away/

    https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/07/israel-haters-claim-they-need-to-wear.html

  12. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/07/gun-control-groups-say-the-bad-part-out-loud-screw-public-safety/#ixzz8f8C4Frr4
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    Gun Control Groups Say the Bad Part Out Loud: ‘Screw Public Safety’ ~ VIDEO
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on July 5, 2024 by Tred Law

    Opinion

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    In the growingly tiresome debate by the freedom-hating groups for more gun control, one would assume that organizations advocating for stricter gun laws would also support harsher penalties for violent criminals.

    Come on! If you were still that naive, you would be very wrong.

    Yet, a recent hearing in the Virginia State Senate reveals a startling contradiction. When faced with a bill proposing longer prison sentences for repeat offenders who commit violent crimes using firearms, several national gun control groups opposed it.
    This raises a critical question: Do these groups truly care about public safety, or is their agenda primarily about disarming law-abiding citizens?

    The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) has long argued that gun control advocates use crime as a pretext to push for stricter gun laws, rather than genuinely aiming to reduce crime. The testimony presented by these groups at the hearing seems to support this claim. Representatives from organizations like Mom’s Demand Action and Brady opposed the bill, arguing that mandatory minimum sentences do not effectively reduce crime and disproportionately affect minority communities. While these concerns are not completely without merit, they overlook a fundamental reality:

    …repeat violent offenders pose a significant threat to public safety, and keeping them behind bars protects innocent people.

    One of the most baffling arguments presented was the notion that the certainty of punishment is more effective than the length of the sentence. Essentially, they suggested that knowing they will be punished, even lightly, is enough to deter criminals. However, this logic is flawed when applied to violent repeat offenders. Individuals who have already committed serious crimes and reoffended are clearly undeterred by existing penalties. For such hardened criminals, the prospect of a mere slap on the wrist is unlikely to discourage further violence.

    It’s essential to understand that mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes committed with firearms serve a dual purpose: deterrence and incapacitation. While the deterrent effect may vary, the incapacitation effect is undeniable. A violent offender who is incarcerated cannot harm the public. This simple fact underscores the necessity of keeping dangerous criminals off the streets for extended periods.
    The opposition from gun control groups to this bill reveals a deeper hypocrisy.

    These organizations consistently support measures that target law-abiding gun owners, advocating for stricter regulations and restrictions. Yet, when it comes to holding violent criminals accountable, they balk. This inconsistency reveals that their ultimate goal is NOT crime reduction but rather the disarmament of the general populace.

    As law-abiding gun owners, we must recognize the importance of law and order in ensuring public safety. Stricter penalties for violent offenders are not about punishing individuals unfairly; they are about protecting society from those who have shown a blatant disregard for the law and human life. I, for one, appreciate that the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s stance on this issue is clear and rational: violent criminals who repeatedly harm others should face serious consequences. This is not only a matter of justice but also of common sense.
    Stay Armed & Very Dangerous

    The opposition by gun control groups to longer prison sentences for repeat violent offenders highlights a critical disconnect between their stated goals and their actions. While they claim to champion public safety, their reluctance to support measures that would keep dangerous individuals off the streets suggests otherwise. As informed and responsible citizens, we must advocate for policies that genuinely enhance public safety, including tougher penalties for violent criminals. It is time to call out the hypocrisy and demand a balanced approach that prioritizes the protection of innocent lives over political agendas.

    Meanwhile, make sure you and your family are heavily armed, trained, and prepared to deal with the VCA that the antis have let loose on your communities.

  13. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/07/what-scotus-chevron-deference-decision-means-for-gun-owners-and-the-atf/#ixzz8f8DhoaoB
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    What SCOTUS’ Chevron Deference Decision Means for Gun Owners and the ATF
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on July 4, 2024 by Lee Williams
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    Much of the coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the Chevron Deference doctrine suffers from one of two problems: Either it’s written by lawyers for lawyers and is therefore unintelligible for anyone without a juris doctor, or it’s written by the corporate media and is chock-full of errors, omissions, and untruths.

    Bill Sack, director of legal operations for the Second Amendment Foundation, agreed to help clarify this landmark Supreme Court decision, which it turns out is good for gun owners and bad for the ATF.
    Q: What is the Chevron Deference doctrine?
    A: “By a vote of 6-3, the justices overruled their landmark 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which gave rise to the doctrine known as Chevron Deference. Under that doctrine, if Congress has not directly addressed the question at the center of a dispute, a court was required to uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it was reasonable.

    What the Chevron Deference doctrine did was when administrative agencies write regulations, they often will have their own administrative courts that interpret the regulations the agency has drawn up. For example, if the EPA makes a regulation that says a factory can only put out so much pollution, and there is a question as to whether a specific factory violated the regulation, the first place the factory has to go is the EPA’s administrative court, where an EPA administrative judge will interpret the EPA’s regulations. If the factory is unsatisfied with the EPA judge’s decision, they can appeal to federal court. What Chevron Deference did was this: If the administrative court’s decision was appealed, the federal court was then supposed to be heavily deferential to the findings of that administrative court.
    Basically, the doctrine put a thumb on the scale in favor of the administrative agency.

    The federal court was supposed to give a lot of deference to what the administrative agency found. From a liberty perspective, this is a separation of powers problem. The administrative agency, as an executive agency, is supposed to enforce the law. It’s not supposed to write the law. It’s not supposed to interpret the law. These alphabet agencies were writing regulations, which is a legislative function. They were enforcing the regulations, an executive function, and then they were interpreting the regulations, which is a judicial function.

    The ATF and the alphabet agencies were doing the jobs of all three branches of government and if challenged, the federal courts were supposed to defer to what their administrative courts found. Even if the federal court thought the agency’s administrative court got it wrong, they didn’t always overrule the decision. They believed that these agencies were the experts, who were best at administering and interpreting the own regulations. For example, the courts acted like since the EPA found that the EPA did nothing wrong, we’ll defer to them since they’re the experts.”
    Bill Sack, director of legal operations for the Second Amendment Foundation. (Photo courtesy Bill Sack.)
    Q: What specifically did the U.S. Supreme Court decide?
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    A: “Chevron was overturned formally based on the Administrative Procedures Act, which sets out the procedures that federal agencies must follow as well as instructions for the courts to review actions by those agencies. The Supreme Court decided that this deference was unlawful. The Supreme Court said federal courts should start from scratch, rather than showing deference to the alphabet agencies. The High Court removed their thumb from the scale.”
    Q: How will this decision affect the ATF?

    A: “Hopefully, it tones down all of the administrative agencies because it returns power to the judiciary. It should tone down the ATF just like the rest. They can no longer adjudicate their own rules and say, ‘we’re right because we said we’re right.’

    The writing has been on the wall for some time that Chevron would get knocked down. In a few of the (Administrative Procedure Act) challenges, the ATF has said they are not relying on Chevron to make their point. I suspect they didn’t want to hang their hat on Chevron. During the pistol brace and bump-stock cases, the ATF specifically said they were not relying on Chevron Deference.

    If Chevron Deference were still alive, the ATF could write a rule like pistol braces. If someone was prosecuted for it and believed they shouldn’t have been found guilty in an ATF court, the ATF could rely on Chevron Deference during the appeal.

    It was a big tool that every administrative agency had in their quiver.”
    Q: How will the Supreme Court’s decision affect cases already in litigation, such as bump-stocks, pistol braces, frame and receiver and who needs an FFL?

    A: “I don’t believe it will affect any of the current cases against ATF because the ATF has already disclaimed using Chevron.”
    Q: Will this decision have any impact on the hundreds of gun dealers who have had their Federal Firearm Licenses revoked by the ATF for minor clerical reasons? (This question was posed to Adam Kraut, the Second Amendment Foundation’s executive director.)

    A: “No. Revocation is entirely within the administrative process. The ATF only has to show a single willful violation. It’s not ambiguous where it would be difficult to ascertain what Congress meant. The courts have defined what willful is – they did something the law said they can’t do. Whether it was intentional, or they transposed some numbers, it’s still willful. There’s no deference in that regard. They don’t have to defer to the ATF to interpret anything,” Kraut said.
    Q: Do gun owners still need to go through the ATF’s administrative process or can they now go straight to federal court?

    A: “They still have administrative courts. They will still adjudicate violations of their own regulations, but if you want to appeal, the federal court has much greater leeway to overturn the administrative agencies with Chevron gone. The courts should be much better equipped to keep the administrative state in check,” Sack said.
    Q: How will the Supreme Court’s decision affect gun owners?
    A: “Big picture – for ATF and all of the other administrative agencies – it will hold their feet to the fire to interpret their own regulations fairly.”

  14. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/07/scotus-rulings-show-how-an-unaccountable-federal-government-hurts-ordinary-people/#ixzz8f8Ez1s6f
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    SCOTUS Rulings Show How an Unaccountable Federal Government Hurts ‘Ordinary People’
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on July 3, 2024 by F Riehl, Editor in Chief

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed the powers of federal agencies in two cases last week, progressive critics predictably complained that the decisions favored “big business,” “corporate interests” and “the wealthy and powerful.” That gloss overlooked the reality that people with little wealth or power frequently are forced to contend with overweening bureaucrats who invent their own authority and play by their own rules.

    In the more consequential case, the court repudiated the Chevron Doctrine, which required that judges defer to a federal agency’s “permissible” interpretation of an “ambiguous” statute. The majority said that rule, which the court established in 1984, was unworkable, creating “an eternal fog of uncertainty” about what the law allows or requires, and fundamentally misguided, allowing the executive branch to usurp a judicial function.

    Although People for the American Way perceived a win for “the corporate interests that have been itching to gut the power of federal agencies to protect our health and welfare,” the dispute at the center of the case complicates that picture.

    Two family-owned fishing operations objected to onerous regulatory fees they said had never been authorized by Congress.

    In a concurring opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch noted other examples of vulnerable supplicants who suffer when agencies are free to rewrite the laws under which they operate. He cited cases involving a veteran seeking disability benefits and an immigrant fighting to remain in the country.
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    Because of an arbitrary rule the Department of Veterans Affairs invented for its own convenience, Thomas Buffington lost three years of disability benefits the government owed him. Alfonzo De Niz Robles faced deportation and separation from his American wife and children after the Board of Immigration Appeals overturned a judicial precedent on which he and many other immigrants had relied for relief.

    “Sophisticated entities and their lawyers may be able to keep pace with rule changes affecting their rights and responsibilities,” Gorsuch noted. They can lobby for “reasonable” agency interpretations and “even capture the agencies that issue them.”

    By contrast, Gorsuch added, “ordinary people can do none of those things. They are the ones who suffer the worst kind of regulatory whiplash” when the law changes according to bureaucratic whims.

    In another case, the court ruled that the Seventh Amendment requires jury trials for people accused of securities fraud. The majority said the Securities and Exchange Commission had violated that right by imposing civil penalties via internal proceedings in which the agency itself served as investigator, prosecutor, and judge, with only minimal independent review after the fact.

    The petitioner in that case was a hedge fund manager accused of lying to clients and inflating his fees. The progressive outlet Common Dreams decried a “victory for the wealthy and powerful.” But the SEC’s rigged process, in which the agency almost always prevailed, also affected people of modest means facing more dubious allegations.

    Consider accountant Michelle Cochran, a single mother of two who was hit with a $22,500 fine and a five-year ban on practicing before the SEC after in-house proceedings in which she represented herself. When the agency investigated her former employer, it concluded that she had “failed to complete auditing checklists,” leaving some sections blank, although there was “no evidence” that the incomplete paperwork had caused “monetary harm to clients or investors.”

    The SEC, Gorsuch noted, sought to “penalize citizens without a jury, without an independent judge, and under procedures foreign to our courts.” That approach, he said, violated constitutional constraints that “ensure even the least popular among us has an independent judge and a jury of his peers resolve his case under procedures designed to ensure a fair trial in a fair forum.”

    Defenders of the administrative state seem to assume that federal agencies inerrantly target greedy villains who bilk the unwary, undermine public safety, or threaten the environment. But “while incursions on old rights may begin in cases against the unpopular,” Gorsuch observed, “they rarely end there.”

  15. Here are a number of blogs and citizen video channels that may be of interest to readers of this site.

    I haven’t watched TV in over 3 years as the content is either garbage or lies. Far more entertainment and knowledge is available on citizen TV. Here are a few …

    Retired Russian Naval Officer and author. His books are on Amazon.
    https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/

    One man diesel mechanic : western truck and tractor repair https://www.youtube.com/@westerntruckandtractorrepa1353

    C&C Equipment https://www.youtube.com/@C_CEQUIPMENT/

    Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom
    https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom

    Alex Krainer’s TrendCompass
    Inflation, commodities, geopolitics and more.
    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/

    Inside China Business
    https://www.youtube.com/@Inside_China_Business

    Dialogue Works
    https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01

  16. Moment police arrest terrorist carrying 10kg bomb at Leeds hospital
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMgLEO-0ttE
    A “self-radicalised lone wolf terrorist” who took a bomb to the hospital where he worked intending to “kill as many nurses as possible” has been found guilty of preparing terrorist acts.
    Mohammad Farooq, 28, was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds with a pressure cooker bomb designed to be twice as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
    Sheffield Crown Court heard Farooq had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist attack”.
    Features footage of Farooq’s arrest, him making a bomb threat via a voice note and his call to the emergency services.

  17. ‘She-Hulk’ Actress Says New Law Requiring Parental Approval On Students Preferred Pronouns Are ‘Absurd,’ “That Isn’t a Parent’s Place” (Video)
    by Margaret Flavin Jul. 5, 2024 5:20 pm112 Comments

    There is no need to parent your own children because actors know what is best for them.

    Tatiana Maslany, star of the She-Hulk series, which streams on Disney+, lashed out against the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan’s Parent’s Bill of Rights, which requires parental approval to address students by preferred pronouns, calling it “absurd” and an “overreach.”

    The legislation requires parental consent for students under 16 to change their names or pronouns in school.

    Maslany told local reporters, “It should not be in the control of parents how a child identifies. How a child knows them self to be. That isn’t a parent’s place – it’s an overreach.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/she-hulk-actress-says-new-law-requiring-parental/

  18. DEVELOPING: Democrat Senators Form Coalition to Oust Joe Biden From 2024 Race
    by Cristina Laila Jul. 5, 2024 5:00 pm128 Comments

    First the Democrat Reps, now the Democrat Senators.

    Senator Mark Warner of Virginia is assembling a coalition of Democrat Senators to ask Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race following his disastrous debate performance.

    Biden totally bombed at last week’s debate. He froze, stammered and had to be led off the stage by Nurse Jill.

    Left-wing media outlets immediately called for Joe Biden to drop out of the race after his poor performance at the debate.

    read more at

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/here-we-go-coalition-democrat-senators-form-oust/

  19. WAYNE ROOT: Democrats are Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Here are Their Only Desperate, Hysterical, Panicked Options for Presidential Ticket 2024
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/wayne-root-democrats-are-between-rock-hard-place/
    Jul. 5, 2024 3:40 pm
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    By Wayne Allyn Root

    Have you watched the Democrats froth at the mouth over the holiday?

    Did you see Joe Biden call himself “the first black female Vice President?”

    Did you see the nonstop articles in the media about Biden’s cognitive decline?

    Did you see the nonstop articles about Democrat leaders demanding Biden step aside?

    Did you see the nonstop articles about Democrat mega-donors saying they are cutting off all funding until Biden steps aside?

    It’s all over for poor, feeble, braindead Joe Biden.

    There are only two things that matter in politics…and even more so in Democrat politics…money and the mainstream media. Biden has lost them both. He’s finished.

    Exhibit A is Biden’s supposed election in 2020.

    Although I believe the election was rigged and stolen…by Zuckerberg’s bucks…Google’s obscene election bias…the media’s coverup of Hunter’s laptop scandal…Covid pandemic election rule changes…mail-in ballots with no voter ID…and by the biggest criminal enterprise in world history- ballot harvesting. All that was part of an elaborate voter fraud scam.

    Nonetheless, Biden did have the two most important things in politics going for him- he raised the most money and he had the mainstream media covering up his cognitive issues and scandals. With those two, any Democrat can win- no matter how politically extreme, mentally challenged, or incompetent they are.

    But now Joe Biden has lost both the donors and the media. So, he’s finished. Gone. Kaput. Adios.

    In the next few days…maybe as soon as Monday…Joe Biden will announce he’s stepping aside.

    So, what do Democrats do next? Here are their options…

    First, of course, they could elect to stay with Biden, only because he won’t agree to step aside, or they can’t figure out how to get his name off the ballot.

    Pray for this one to happen. If Democrats are stuck with Biden, President Trump could win in a Reagan-Mondale-like landslide with 40+ states and over 350 electoral votes.

    The second option is “the Kamala option.” Biden could either step aside, or be forced out with the 25th Amendment. Then Kamala becomes President of the United States. That may be even worse for America than leaving Biden in office.

    Many are calling for Biden to take a cognitive test, but Kamala should be forced to take an IQ test!

    Okay, I’m just gonna say it (I always do): Kamala is the dumbest person to ever get near a seat of power in world history. She is quite simply dumb as a doorknob. She’s as dumb as a tree stump. She’s as dumb as a wooden dummy. Joe Biden has dementia. What’s Kamala’s excuse?

    Trending: Joe Biden Goes Rogue at 4th of July BBQ, Grabs the Mic and Starts Rambling About Traffic Congestion and ‘Losing All the Votes’ (VIDEO)

    And while Trump is suspected of an affair (but no one has yet proved it ever happened), and that’s true of 99% of world leaders and US Presidents (See JFK and Bill Clinton), it’s now “fair game” to mention Kamala screwed her way to the top. She is where she is, based only on screwing Willie Brown, California’s most powerful politician at the time.

    FACT: Kamala got her start playing “Free Willy.”

    If you think it’s bad that politicians have affairs, what do you think of the females who screw older married politicians for money or power? Electing Kamala would be like electing Stormy Daniels.

    She isn’t the powerful screw-er, Kamala is the screw-ee.

    And unlike with Trump, Kamala’s affair is proven. Even Willie Brown admits it. In history, has ANY country ever even considered electing the woman who screwed the married politician as the presidential candidate? This would be a new low in world history.

    So, if there ever was a flawed, sacrificial-lamb candidate, Kamala is Exhibit A. Good luck to Democrats.

    If they pick Kamala, then I think Democrats actually want Trump to win.

    Perhaps they know an economic collapse is coming (because of their policies of taxes, spending, debt, green energy and DEI). Perhaps they know WW3 is unavoidable (because of their actions in Ukraine). So, at this point, they figure, “We can’t win with either Joe, or Kamala, so we might as well let Trump win, blame the impending twin disasters on him, ruin his presidency, and then we finish the job in 2028.”

    But if Democrats want any chance to win, then my gut says these are their only viable options…

    *Give the nomination to Michele Obama- as I’ve predicted and warned for two years now. How would they get rid of Kamala? Either promise her a Supreme Court nomination if they win, or pull the 25th amendment chord, get rid of Biden, and install Kamala as “interim lame duck president.” Kamala gets the resume and legacy as first female President of the USA, but agrees not to run. Michelle gets the nomination.

    *Install Gavin Newsom as Michelle’s VP- to be the prolific fundraiser among California’s wealthy liberals.

    *If Michelle really doesn’t want it, then perhaps they keep Biden at the top, and install Barack Obama as VP (assuming that passes Constitutional muster). That stabilizes the ticket- giving liberals hope that if Biden dies in office, Obama could take over (without being elected). Crazy risk, and destructive to “the rule of law” in America, but I’d put nothing past desperate, power-hungry, Democrats.

    *If Michelle doesn’t want it, and the Barack Obama idea isn’t legal, install Gavin as presidential nominee, but I don’t see Democrats passing over a black woman for a white man.

    That leaves only two more possibilities…

    If none of that works, move Kamala up to presidential candidate and name another women to the ticket- perhaps Gretchen Whitmer as VP- which could give Democrats at least some chance of victory (although I think very slim), by winning an overwhelming percentage of female votes, and a better chance of winning battleground state Michigan.

    Lastly, there’s always Hillary waiting in the wings for a second shot at President Trump.

    At this point, I think Trump wins an electoral landslide versus any combination. So, for Democrats, the only real option is rigging, cheating and stealing the election like never before in world history.

    Bullseye.

    My gut says in the end, that’s Democrats’ only real plan and shot at victory.

    HOT OFF THE PRESSES: Watch Wayne’s brand new TV Show, “The ROOT Reaction” weeknights at 10 PM ET/7 PM Pacific on Real America’s Voice TV, and Wayne’s weekend “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Saturdays at Noon ET/9 AM PT on Real America’s Voice TV. Watch at RealAmericasVoice.com, or at Rumble, Roku, Pluto, Apple, Dish TV Ch 219, or go to RootforAmerica.com to watch.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/wayne-root-democrats-are-between-rock-hard-place/

    • The Biden – Harris reelection campaign fund has $200 + million dollars, if Joe is removed from the ticket Kamala is the only person that can disperse the funds, does anyone want to try and get some of the money if Kamala isn’t the person chosen to replace Joe?

  20. Jerome Corsi on Theories Surrounding Archbishop Viganò’s Excommunication
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/jerome-corsi-theories-surrounding-archbishop-viganos-excommunication/
    Jul. 5, 2024 1:00 pm

    Yesterday, on July 4th, the day we celebrate American independence, the Vatican excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò for his refusal to submit to the authority of Pope Francis [aka, Jorge Mario Bergoglio]. The move opens the door for the left’s radical sexual theories to displace the traditional Catholic Church view that marriage is a sacrament for one man to marry one woman to procreate children raised by both parents through a traditionally moral Christian education.

    Archbishop Viganò, a strong defender of the traditional Catholic Church liturgy and theology, had refused to appear before the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to defend himself against charges that he was guilty of heresy because he refused to accept the dictates of Vatican II, a Catholic Church council that in 1962 eliminated the Latin mass and introduced progressive values into what then Pope John XXIII considered a “modernized” Catholic Church.

    In a bold statement entitled “J’Accuse,” [“I Accuse”], named after the famous open letter that author Émile Zola published in the 1898 in the newspaper L’Aurore accusing the president of France of antisemitism in wrongly convicting Alfred Dreyfus, Viganò turned the tables on the leftist Argentinian pope Bergoglio, accusing him of bringing LGBTQ+ queer critical gender theory into Catholic orthodoxy.

    Archbishop Viganò statement made clear his conviction that Vatican II and Bergolio are the forces of the “Deep Church,” intentionally causing a schism in the Catholic Church by implementing the agenda of the globalist elite. In “J’Accuse,” Archbishop Viganò wrote:

    “Because the true project of the New World Order—to which Bergoglio is enslaved and from which he draws his legitimacy from the powerful of the world—is an essentially Satanic project, in which the work of the Creation of the Father, the Redemption of the Son, and the Santification of the Holy Spirit is hated, erased and counterfeited by the simia Dei [in English, “Monkey God”] and his servants.”

    Archbishop Viganò stressed that the true Catholic Church “does not dialogue with Satan: She fights him.”

    Specifically, Archbishop Viganò attacked Pope Francis’s “Synodal Process” through which Bergoglio is trying to wedge the LGBTQ+ gender dystopia into Catholic Church theology. Synods are meetings groups of Catholic Bishops hold with Catholics. Bergoglio has charged the Synods to “listen” to the Catholic faithful to advance Vatican II’s modernization of the Catholic Church. Synods aim to listen to “marginalized minorities” to “include” neo-Marxist views, emulating the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) movement in the USA. The ultimate goal is to establish “a more meaningful dialogue, reducing the tensions between belonging to the Church and their own loving relationships, such as: remarried divorcees, single parents, people living in polygamous marriage, LGBTQ people, etc.”

    Bergolio’s decision to excommunicate Archbishop Viganó will likely reignite the controversy whether as pope he has been vigilant to expel Catholic clerics guilty of homosexual relations with seminarians and pedophilia with altar boys. Archbishop Viganó has been a harsh critic of the Vatican for many years regarding the severity and consequences of priest sexual abuses within the Catholic Church.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/jerome-corsi-theories-surrounding-archbishop-viganos-excommunication/

  21. ‘HARMS ALL AMERICANS’: Missouri AG sues New York over Trump conviction

  22. Crypto World
    Over $170 billion wiped off cryptocurrencies as market tanks on Mt. Gox bitcoin payout

    Cryptocurrencies plunged Friday as investors focused on the payout of nearly $9 billion to users of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox.

    Bitcoin’s price was last lower by nearly 3% to $56,571.00, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier in the day, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency had slumped as low as $53,513.55, marking its first time trading below the $55,000 level since Feb. 27.

    Rival token ether, meanwhile, sank around 5% to $2,971.68.

    At one point in time, the entire cryptocurrency market had shed more than $170 billion in combined market capitalization in a 24-hour period, according to CoinGecko data.

    On Friday, the trustee for the Mt. Gox bankruptcy estate, Nobuaki Kobayashi, said in a statement that it had begun making repayments in bitcoin and bitcoin cash to some of the creditors through a number of designated crypto exchanges.

    Mt. Gox’s trustee didn’t specify how much money had been transferred to these exchanges.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/05/crypto-market-bloodbath-as-mt-gox-bitcoin-btc-payout-approaches.html

  23. After We Fought the British for Independence, We Fought the Left
    We won then, but can we win now?

    July 5, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield 10 Comments
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    For July 4th, a Washington Times article by Kerry Picket took note of my book, “Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left”.

    Mr. Greenfield calls it a “200-plus year war” against the left’s takeover of America which he said dates back to when the French Revolution went in a more violent and politically wayward direction than the earlier American Revolution.

    “It’s something that you see in the correspondence of some of the Founding Fathers. As the French Revolution exposes what it is. It’s a radical movement. It’s a violent movement,” Mr. Greenfield said.

    He continues, “John Adams would later write to [Thomas] Jefferson, ‘You certainly never felt the Terrorism, excited by Genet, in 1793. when ten thousand People in the Streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his House, and effect a Revolution in the Government.’”

    Not long before we won our independence from the British, we were forced to fight the Left.

    George Washington becomes the only sitting president to command troops in the field in order to stop the wave of anarchy and terror that American leftists had begun to spread around the country.

    Washington warns that if the Left triumphs, “we may bid adieu to all government in this Country, except Mob and Club Govt.”

    It’s not hard to see that we’ve been run by Mob and Club Govt for some time now. And this is a theme that I also picked up in today’s article, “July 4th Marks Our Struggle Against the Left”.

    Where the American Revolution had emphasized the independence of the individual from the state, the French Revolution focused on building up the state as the guarantor of freedom.

    It was this distinction that confined most of the ugliness between key figures in the American Founding to nasty letters while the streets of Paris ran with the blood of political opponents. The new regime was so busy enforcing equality against everyone accused of aristocratic and reactionary tendencies that no one had any rights left against state or mob violence.

    “If the progress of Jacobinism is to be arrested at all, it is by fighting it,” a letter from Abigail Adams quoted. ”And if there be a Nation on Earth capable of going the necessary lengths, and making the proper Sacrifices to stop its course,—it must be one that is already possesed of substantial Liberty, that knows how to appreciate it, & how to distinguish between it, and that Sort of Liberty which France is trying to propogate throughout the World. To every other Nation & people, the french liberty is perhaps equal, if not superiour to their own.”

    That was what America could uniquely offer. Individual freedom over a massive program of state-dominated social transformation.

    To most countries, the French Revolution might seem no worse in its abuses and better in its liberties, but America offered an opposing model. And yet we’ve had the leftist model, the French Revolution model, imposed on us anyway, as I wrote a while back in a classic Independence Day article.

    To the Democrat voters of the welfare state, this is Fireworks Day. Every country has its fireworks days and this is the day that this one chooses to light up the night sky. The day means nothing to them because though they are surrounded by free things, they aren’t free. The difference between freedom and free things has been progressively erased so that many think that the American Revolution was fought because the British were racists or weren’t providing free transgender surgery to the colonies.

    There is a big difference between a free country and a country of free things. You can have one or the other, but you can’t have both.

    The American Revolution was not a struggle for another nation, one of many, but for a free nation. It was not split off to accommodate the national strivings of an ethnic group or their historical destiny. Its guiding idea, like its national holiday, was independence, but independence means very little unless it reaches the individual.

    This is not Fireworks Day. It’s Independence Day and unless independence reaches the individual as freedom of action, not subjugation to an ideal society, we’re not living the American Revolution, but the French one.

    After the American Revolution against monarchy, we fought the French and the Left in the Quasi-War to secure our freedom from the totalitarian programs of the Left. We won then, but can we win now?

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/after-we-fought-the-british-for-independence-we-fought-the-left/

  25. Officers Find Alleged Burglar Lying On Sidewalk Bleeding After Store Employee Opens Fire
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    Tulsa Police Department Facebook
    AWR Hawkins5 Jul 202435
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    Tulsa police officers found an alleged burglar lying on the sidewalk bleeding after an employee in a dispensary opened fire around 3:47 a.m. Friday.

    The Broken Arrow Sentinel reported that the store employee was sleeping in the business when he was awoken by the sound of shattering glass. Upon investigating the noise, the employee saw the suspect allegedly trying to reach inside and open the front door.

    The employee grabbed his gun and opened fire.

    According to the Sentinel, “Officers arrived to find an unidentified white male lying on the sidewalk directly in front of the business wearing a ski mask and a hoodie pulled over his head. He had been shot several times.”

    The Tulsa Police Department noted that the employee who shot the alleged burglar indicated “the business had been burglarized the previous night so he and his girlfriend came to sleep there overnight.”

    The alleged burglar is expected to survive.

    https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/07/05/officers-find-alleged-burglar-lying-sidewalk-bleeding-after-store-employee-opens-fire/

  26. Russia is mass producing new war memorials that glorify death for the motherland
    Like the many hundreds of memorials currently erected all over Russia, the new soldier statue in the far northern town of Lovozero embodies aggression and continued war.
    By
    Atle Staalesen

    Lovozero is center for the indigenous Sámi people in the Kola Peninsula and the new monument is reportedly funded by Ivan Golovin, a member of the region’s so-called Council of indigenous peoples.

    It shows a soldier with a raised machine gun pointing straight against the local village. On an arch surrounding the warrior are written the names of all regional capitals of Russia, including the partly occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, a local information site reports.

    https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2024/07/russia-mass-producing-new-war-memorials-and-they-are-set-all-across-country

  27. This Is Democracy and This is What It Looks Like

    by Lawrence Kadish
    July 4, 2024 at 5:00 am
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    Democracy and American politics are chaotic, unpredictable, and a mystery to our enemies.

    In response to the Biden-Trump presidential faceoff, the Russian media is having a field day, believing that our national conversation over the recent debate reflects democracy’s dry rot. Consider this quote….

    The result “is good for us,” stated Dmitri Novikov, a Russian legislator, when being interviewed on state television. “Destabilization inside an adversary is always a good thing.”

    To paraphrase a line from a Warner Brothers character, “He doesn’t know us very well… do he…”

    He certainly doesn’t know his history.

    The Japanese looked at a raucous Congress in 1940 and discerned a democracy in disarray. And then the vote to institute the draft was by a razor-thin majority, and the Japanese knew for sure this was a weak, indecisive nation incapable of responding to the might of their fierce Imperial military. They would be forced to rethink that position as their delegation made its way to the USS Missouri to sign the instruments of surrender in Tokyo Harbor.

    Hitler also viewed the United States as incapable of excelling at anything other than automobiles. In declaring war on America in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack, he viewed our nation as morally corrupt, riven by racial unrest, and fielding an army smaller than 17 other nations. Contempt would be the least of his views about a nation that would ultimately accept the Third Reich’s unconditional surrender.

    So now the Russians – and likely the Chinese – are looking at our chaotic presidential politics and the vociferous remarks made by political partisans on both sides, and making the same historic mistake committed by our earlier enemies. They believe we are a nation that is slowly unraveling, making room for their despotic regimes to dominate the globe.

    Not a chance. This is democracy and this is what it looks like. Raucous, gruff, and even divisive, something unimaginable in countries where freedom is punished with prison. Or worse. And then, as we celebrate the Fourth of July, our nation comes together as Americans to celebrate not just our independence, but the role freedom has played in celebrating the spirit of mankind. Enjoy the Fourth, my fellow Americans, for it will confound our enemies and give comfort to all those around the world currently enslaved and who cherish our nation as a beacon of hope.

    Lawrence Kadish serves on the Board of Governors of Gatestone Institute.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20744/democracy-american-politics