Reader’s Links for December 15th, 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.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

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10 Replies to “Reader’s Links for December 15th, 2024”

  3. Report: Hamas Inflated Gaza Death Figures; Included Natural Deaths, Cancer Patients

    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/12/14/report-hamas-inflated-gaza-death-figures-included-natural-deaths-cancer-patients/

    Note: natural and cancer deaths are the least of the Hamas death inflations, as we all know since the UN death count mysteriously halved itself a while back. But, seeing ANY kind of evidence is better than nothing, provided it does not get spun. So, just putting it out there…

  6. The American left is purse-swinging mad over PT’s comments on Canadian statehood. Self-righteous voices on both sides of the border stand in stubborn indignation, ready to go to war on behalf of limp-wristed Canada and its limp-wristed, corrupt, Maoist, dialectically-driven simp leader. How about going to war with yourselves first, says I. You are the growth that needs to be cut out. I am sure PT knows the solution is to simply cauterize the Left’s sugar source–funding.

    The silver lining to Canada’s current commie fever is its geography. I just cannot imagine a modern Mao polity being left to fester just north of history’s greatest nation. Brave, smart men of the Trump administration will do what they must to fix the country. Being the meat in the Mexican-Canadian communist sandwich somehow doesn’t seem like it is part of this plan.

    In fact, as the world exhausts its financialization-of-everything phase, and turns to the commodities-are-all-that-matter phase, PT may be planting a little seed beyond merely trolling Canada’s lumpy-arsed, knee-clenching PM.

    I have written here numerous times over the years about the one asset within Yank reach that is its ticket to solvency. Forget about all this silly nonsense of Bitcoin, currency devaluation, Fort Knox audits–all of it smoke without fire. Further, the more politically degraded this northern asset becomes, the more statehood will serve to liberate its sleepwalking people.

    Shocking? Sure. We live in an age of shocking. Get over it so we can get on with it. Life isn’t a movie, ya know.

    https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/12/11/gladiator_ii_is_a_maga_metaphor_152071.html

  8. Israel Closes Embassy in Dublin Due to ‘Extreme Anti-Israel Policy of Irish Government’
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/israel-closes-embassy-dublin-due-extreme-anti-israel/
    Dec. 15, 2024 11:20 am

    On Sunday, Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Sa’ar, announced that Israel’s embassy in Ireland will close due to the “extreme anti-Israel policy of the Irish government.”

    In May, Israel recalled its ambassador after Ireland became one of three EU countries that said they would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state.

    The Times of Israel reports:

    Click through for the rest

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/israel-closes-embassy-dublin-due-extreme-anti-israel/

  9. Media Hit Piece on “Ghost Guns” Uses Scare Tactics
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on December 15, 2024 by Dean Weingarten
    3D Printed Ghost Guns
    Media Hit Piece on “Ghost Guns” Uses Scare Tactics

    On December 12, 2024, USA Today published a hit piece on “ghost guns” attempting to use the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as a reason to impose unconstitutional restrictions on homemade firearms.

    It appears Brian Thompson was assassinated with a homemade firearm. However, the manufacture of the firearm did not interfere with the investigation of his murder. The suspect was arrested without any assistance from gun tracing data, as is the case with virtually all violent crimes. Gun tracing has no measurable effect on solving violent crimes. It is difficult to find any violent crime that was solved with gun trace data. The USA Today article misleads from the first paragraph:

    For decades, America’s detectives have made breakthroughs in crime using gun traces. A homicide investigator typically uses ballistics and serial numbers of weapons checked via a vast network of gun shop records, manufacturer IDs and crime databases.

    The unstated conflation is from crimes of possession or illegal gun sales to homicide. Homicides that are solved by the use of trace data seem to be non-existent. It may have happened, but this correspondent has not found documented examples. If there were examples, they would be shouted out by the ATF and those who want a disarmed population. They are not. The USA Today article does not cite a single violent crime solved by using trace data.

    Canada has required all handguns to be registered since 1934. The Canadian handgun registration is far more effective and intrusive than the United States gun trace system. In 1995, when the Canadian handgun registry had been in use for over 60 years, the Canadian Department of Justice could not identify a single instance where handgun registration helped to solve a crime. From publicsafety.gc.ca:

    Department of Justice officials admitted that they could not identify a single instance where handgun registration helped solved a crime (Hansard, 1995, p. 12,259)

    Gun registration is not an effective way to solve violent crimes. Gun tracing in the USA is far less effective than gun registration.
    The USA Today article uses the scare tactic of citing increasing numbers of homemade guns found by law enforcement agencies. It is an irrelevant number. Most firearms in the United States are unregistered and untraceable. A few thousand, or a few million more, given the over 500 million firearms in private hands in the United States, is not going to make a significant difference.

    This is the scare tactic used to demand legislation no matter how minimum or irrational the actual threat is. A person who is shot with a manufactured gun is no more or less injured or killed than a person shot with a homemade gun. Manufactured guns will always outnumber homemade guns by thousands to one.
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    The article spends considerable time considering how people make illegal devices to circumvent federal and state laws. So… what is the point? The devices are already illegal to make. Making them double or triple illegal will not change anything.
    In the end, the article gives a realistic assessment, quoting a gun control advocate from the Giffords Law Center. More laws will not stop people from making their own guns.

    “The genie is out of the bottle,” he said.

    Analysis: This scare tactic is used to promote the idea of government control of firearms. Fortunately, most people realize this is an area where government will control law abiding people, but criminals, government agents, or criminal government agents will always be able to obtain firearms. The use of a few cases and bogus or non-existent statistics has been a favorite way of passing bad laws for much of American history. A good example is the ban on switchblade knives. Short barreled rifles were banned because of a stupid, ignorant, or Machiavellian representative from Minnesota in 1933.
    Laws restricting the freedom to have and carry (keep and bear) firearms do not reduce homicides or suicides. Gun registration does not reduce crime or suicides. Registration is gun confiscation stretched over time, perhaps generations. Homemade guns fall outside of gun registration schemes. Americans have always had the legal right to make their own guns. The courts should recognize this inalienable right.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2024/12/media-hit-piece-on-ghost-guns-uses-scare-tactics/

  10. (Richard: The illegals are doing what they were imported for, they are creating chaos and trying to make the US ungovernable, they are going to succeed but they will make the nation dangerous for a while.)

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    Unlimited L’s
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    NEW: Thugs terrorized Florida motorists, including one with a baby on board, during an illegal street takeover

    Video shows a fire set outside the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, with cars performing donuts and smoke filling the air

    Others attacked vehicles trying to escape the chaos

    One individual jumped on a car windshield as others filmed on their phones

    https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1868251506467647658