Reader’s Links for December 5, 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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27 Replies to “Reader’s Links for December 5, 2024”

  3. During the plandemic we were subjected to the Maoist line of effort that projected fear, hence control, into the population. Messaging rife with lies held water for 80% of the population at the start, but has leaked with truth badly and faster since.

    Of course, my prism is primarily the money one, but I am confident in by observation that the plandemic LoE was in the service of that which I point out here, given the very quiet emergency in the banking REPO market of autumn 2019, when inter-bank lending was beginning to seize up, portending yet another but larger economic disaster than in 2008.

    Then, contagion galloped to the rescue of the financial elite in a black hat, socializing enormous private debt.

    Now we see the fine lines of the next and most important deception coming into relief. With statistical lies flying winged support like fighters to a bomber, it is the von Mises crackup boom. This means that our currencies are devaluing at an increasing rate. This is an intentional strategy chosen from a binary problem: default or devalue. For the world reserve currency default is not an option.

    This time, however, understanding will come to the general population accompanied by the visceral pain in its pocket book. Inflation is reducing our purchasing power despite our government telling us this menace runs at only 3%.

    I see growing parallels between Trump and Churchill. Trump knowingly inherits a very difficult position. I have faith he is the man of the hour. I believe he believes he is a man of destiny, which is a prerequisite for the job.

    On the crack-up boom:

    • another but larger economic disaster than in 2008

      Some multiple of 2008.
      – Harvard lost a _third_ of its endowment. [But Mt. Auburn Cemetery actually did ok.]

      – So Harvard started paying outside finance experts *millions* of dollars and became more aggressive inside traders.

    • One of the things the left is trying to do is crash the worlds economy, they think they can use this against all of the populists movements around the world.

  6. The other day Dima described how commanders aren’t reporting most deserters or even all the dead. They pocket the pay and then fronts mysteriously collapse.

    Cold War II Ukrainian Army In Crisis: Breakthroughs Loom

  7. ‘Existential threat’: IDF thwarted Oct. 7-like Hezbollah raid on northern Israel, official reveals

    A surprise attack was planned on Israel’s northern border in the days following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks…. Such an attack is unlikely to occur at this stage due to the IDF’s efforts in neutralizing terror tunnels, clearing dense brushlands, and dismantling nature reserves that had been converted into terror strongholds.…

    3,000 terrorists were stationed across southern Lebanon within 3 km. of the Israeli border, ready to invade upon receiving orders. “Opposite every Israeli community, a Hizbullah company was waiting to infiltrate.

    “On October 6, Israel faced an existential threat without realizing it. The terrorists [in the north] were on full alert, ready to act.”

    What prevented a coordinated invasion was the IDF’s rapid deployment of four brigades to Israel’s northern border on Oct. 7…

    “The IDF’s deployment neutralized the surprise element in Hizbullah’s plan, and the terrorists realized their plan was no longer feasible since surprise was central to their strategy, just as it was in Gaza.”

    [A]reas of thick vegetation provided terrorists with almost complete cover, hiding firing positions, observation posts, movements, weapons, and underground infrastructure.

    “These areas have been turned into open fields, so any future attempts by Hizbullah to re-establish themselves will be immediately and effectively monitored.”

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-832120

    • Gil Troy, “Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University [Prof. emeritus]

      Despite a wary ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel has much to celebrate

      Let’s celebrate our heroic soldiers and resilient reservists, Israel’s unbelievable intelligence community, the IDF high command, and Netanyahu’s resolute leadership.

      https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-831876

      • More from Gil Troy’s article:

        We kept hearing that Hizbullah fighters were professional, their missiles plentiful, Tel Aviv’s towers were vulnerable, and weeks-long electrical outages were possible.

        Then Israel changed everything. And no, my delicate friends warning that violence begets more violence, you’re wrong.

        These attacks were as surgical as it gets in warfare against jihadi maniacs who cower behind civilians. Israel has degraded Hizbullah and demeaned its Iranian paymasters.

        I haven’t heard any Americans regret their advice to slow down, avoid conflict, and try to appease Hizbullah. Similarly, having seen the IDF overrun Hamas in Rafah with limited civilian casualties, few Americans admitted they were wrong for constantly trying to restrain Israel.

        Such stubbornness amuses me as an Israeli, because we won anyway. But it terrifies me as an American historian. The unwillingness of people in power to acknowledge mistakes prevents them from learning from them.

  8. 0biden’s team tries to snatch a little credit for Israel’s master class demonstration in Lebanon.

    (by “Stuart E. Eizenstat was President Jimmy Carter’s !! chief domestic policy adviser and served as U.S. Ambassador to the EU. Dennis Ross is a former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East.”
    – – In the Atlantic, Mrs. Steve Jobs’ blog.)

    How to End the War in Gaza

    Israel’s use of force set the stage for the ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah, brokered by the U.S. The Israel Defense Forces and Mossad acted decisively to decapitate Hizbullah’s leadership; disrupt its command, control, and communications; destroy 80% of its rocket forces; and dismantle its weapons stocks and infrastructure – below- and aboveground.

    Israel also retaliated against Iran after its Oct. 1 missile attack on Israel, destroying Iran’s strategic air and missile defense and 90% of its ballistic-missile-production capability.

    It reminded us once again of Henry Kissinger’s maxim that you can achieve at the negotiating table only what you have won on the battlefield.

    !!

    The Israelis understood that they could not eliminate Hizbullah; instead, they aimed to ensure that Hizbullah could have no forces south of the Litani River and could not easily rearm there.

    The U.S. will also provide intelligence to MONITOR implementation of the agreement, and will CHAIR the committee through which any violation will be immediately addressed. Israel has reportedly received assurances from the U.S. that, if violations are not reversed, it can act militarily.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/israel-gaza-war-lebanon-ceasefire/680846/

    Until the commanders of these forces are replaced, beware! These so-called allies of Israel are at best unreliable, likely enemy operatives. That’s NOT hyperbole.

    See Lee Smith, “What Happened to Robert Malley?”.

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-really-happened-to-robert-malley-lee-smith

  9. Sen. Joni Ernst Secretly Campaigns to Torpedo Pete Hegseth’s Defense Secretary Nomination – Even Calls Trump to Consider Her as Replacement: Report
    by Jim Hoft – December 5, 2024
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/sen-joni-ernst-secretly-campaigns-torpedo-pete-hegseths/

    Joni Ernst endorses transgender soldiers in the military.
    Are you starting to see who she truly is now?
    DC_Draino – December 5, 2024
    https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1864725438758817987

    “When Was the Last Time We Actually Went to War For Our Freedom?”
    Shawn Ryan Show – November 5, 2024

  12. JP Lindsley | Journalist@JPLindsley

    LVIV, UKRAINE—One of the biggest lies repeated by both the left and the right is that Burisma, the oil and gas firm linked to Hunter Biden, is a Ukrainian company. It’s trending now due to Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, so let’s set the record straight: Burisma is not Ukrainian—it’s pro-Kremlin Russian. Here’s some explosive stuff:

    https://x.com/JPLindsley/status/1863487732141506601

  13. Syria at War : Dissecting the Strategic Landscape

    The basic facts about Syria are as simple as the situation there is not. Syria borders Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. It is of major strategic importance for Russia. For the last 54 years the Syrian regime was held by the Assad family, but since 2011 the country has been torn apart by civil war, rebel groups of various affiliations and competing outside forces.

    Against this backdrop, the rapid collapse of Assad’s army – once the Northeast front was suddenly awakened last week in and around Aleppo – has once again showed the fragility of the Damascus regime and the impacts on other pieces in the regional puzzle, from Ankara to Beirut, and from Jerusalem to Tehran to Moscow.