Reader’s Links for July 14th, 2025

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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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  2. Meanwhile…Spanish multicultural policies rage with success, with police help, of course:

  4. Meanwhile…Ottawa’s primary tourist area enjoys its own version of Spanish success!

  6. Silver’s undervaluation under historical scrutiny remains dramatic. It would have to be $200 per ounce to match its 1980 high in terms of purchasing power. This must be better articulated, however, by saying it is really about the fall in purchasing power of the U.S. dollar due to excessive money printing by the Central Bank:

  7. PT is supposed to make a big announcement today on this war. Military Summary:

  8. On the failing Canadian real estate market. Banks fear lending. Prices are dropping. Sellers are becoming nervous. Buyers are having more trouble getting financing. The cliff is approaching:

  9. Far-Right Groups And Migrants Clash In Spanish Town
    One of Spain’s worst such flare-ups in recent times saw dozens of youths from far-right groups hurling bottles and objects at riot police in Torre Pacheco, Murcia.
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/torre-pacheco-clashes-spain_n_6874f7d4e4b00af0c5f25c58
    Spanish police have arrested eight people after three nights of clashes between far-right groups and North African migrants in a town in southeastern Spain, the government said on Monday.
    [..]
    The trouble stemmed from an attack last week by unidentified assailants on an elderly man that left him injured and recovering at home.
    Authorities said two of those arrested were involved in that assault though they were still looking for the main perpetrator.
    The other six ? five Spaniards and one person of North African origin ? were arrested for assault, public disorder, hate crimes or damage to property, the Interior Ministry said.
    Migrants, many of them second-generation, make up about a third of Torre Pacheco’s population of about 40,000. The area around the town also hosts large numbers of migrants who work as day labourers in agriculture, one of the pillars of the economy in the Murcia region.
    [..]
    Police intercepted more than 20 vehicles attempting to enter the town, with some occupants carrying sticks and extendable batons, he said.
    [..]
    In 2000, violent anti-immigration protests broke out in the Almeria town of El Ejido in southern Spain after three Spanish citizens were killed by Moroccan migrants.

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    Democrats’ ‘Violent Rhetoric’ Is Precisely The Point
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on July 14, 2025 by Paul Valone

    Opinion
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    North Carolina – What’s a spurned leftist to do when the lawfare fails? When Donald Trump is riding high on victories both international and domestic?

    When identity politics is on the ropes, gender pronouns are all but dead, SCOTUS ends judge-shopping for nationwide injunctions, ICE is deporting the invaders intended to transform America (into chaos), and USAID is no longer funding The Resistance? When Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her ilk insist that a “Nazi” and “fascist” administration presents an “existential threat to democracy?”

    He starts shooting, of course. First, it was loner whack jobs like Ryan Wesley Routh trying to assassinate Trump. (We can’t be sure about Thomas Matthew Crooks’ motives because, oddly enough, we don’t seem to know much about them even one year later.)
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    Then the body count starts increasing:

    Luigi Mangione murders the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
    Elias Rodriguez murders two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum event in D.C.
    Mohamed Sabry Soliman tries to incinerate seven Jews with a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, killing an 82-year-old woman. (Oops. I’m supposed to say “allegedly” for all of those.)

    Our ‘Burgeoning Color Revolution’: Not Just For Lone Whackos Anymore

    But those are all just “lone wolf” attacks, right?

    Alas, not anymore. What Mike Shelby of Gray Zone Research and Forward Observer describes as our “burgeoning Color Revolution” is now expanding to include leftist group violence. Shelby defines a Color Revolution as “a type of irregular warfare that uses predominantly non-violent action to topple an existing government, usually through mass protests, demonstrations, civil disobedience, and public displays of mass political defiance.”

    Ostensibly, “non-violent” protest was the point of “No Kings” nationwide riots, which did a fine job of rebuilding morale for neo-Marxists bent on hijacking American society. Arguably, it was also the point of attempts to stymy ICE detentions via bullhorn warnings into illegal aliens’ neighborhoods, and even the masked mob that accosted ICE agents outside a San Francisco immigration court.

    Somewhat less “non-violent” was the rock-throwing, tear-gassed battle with ICE agents at Glass House Farms, the California marijuana farm where ICE agents discovered no fewer than nine “unaccompanied” illegal migrant children, demonstrating yet again that neo-Marxists are fine with child trafficking if it suits their ends.

    As for the left’s “inside strategy,” Trump was spot-on in “DOGEing” thousands of deep state bureaucrats whose mass firing was just approved by SCOTUS. Shelby describes one group of leftists shorn of their means to foment socialism from inside government by saying: “Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and State Department employees are hosting recruitment and training sessions for current federal employees to resist the Trump administration from the inside, according to a report from nonprofit media outlet NOTUS.”

    Viva la résistance!

    ‘Non-Violent’? Not So Much …

    But as became evident over the July 4th weekend, when we witnessed three probably coordinated attacks on border patrol and ICE facilities, those “mostly peaceful protestors” of the quaint George Floyd riots have stepped up their game.

    Two were ambush attacks: At the Prairieland Detention Center, 12 people dressed in tactical gear, including body armor, radios, and AR-style firearms drew out officers using fireworks and by spray painting cars with sobriquets like “ICE PIG!” and “F@ck you pigs!” and then fired 20-30 rounds at responding police, striking one in the neck.

    A subsequent search of their vehicles found fliers that should make AOC and Bernie Sanders proud: “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!” A flag was found that read, “RESIST FASCISM – FIGHT OLIGARCHY.” One perp had burner phones in a Faraday bag to prevent being tracked.

    One of them, Antifa member Benjamin Hamil Song, is still at-large and very much wanted by the FBI.

    Next contestant was 27-year-old Michigan resident Ryan Louis Mosqueda who, dressed in tactical gear and armed with a rifle, fired dozens of rounds at federal agents at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. It didn’t work out well for him, and he ended up what John Farnam of Defense Training International likes to call “DRT” as in “dead right there.” (Fortunately, at least for now, leftists can’t shoot worth a damn.)

    And then we had the Portland mob, which, also on the weekend of the 4th, attacked the local ICE facility with fireworks … and “a large knife,” which one offender threw at police. (Somehow, I envision him screeching “You beast!” as he threw it.)

    But hey, I’m sure it’s all just coincidence.

    What The Attacks Have In Common

    Hearing commentators tell Democrats to “tone down the violent rhetoric” becomes laughable when you understand that violence-inspiring rhetoric is exactly what is intended by radical Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez, Jasmine Crocket, and Zohran Mamdani, among others. (Also Chuck Schumer, of course, who panders to them in a desperate bid for relevance).

    Shelby notes that revolutions rarely spring from the unwashed proletariat, but instead from intra-elite conflict. If Democrats can incite enough violence at ICE raids and beyond, they just might be able to neuter or even depose Donald Trump.

    How is such a thing possible, you ask? In college, I took a fascinating course entitled “Revolt and Political Change” from a professor who looked like a cross between Che Guevara and the Frito Bandito. What he taught was that revolutionaries aspire to provoke ruling elites into over-reacting to their insurrections, thereby alienating the population and losing the popular mandate – something that looks a lot like National Guard and Marines accompanying ICE on paramilitary operations to nab illegal aliens.

    Consequently, we have would-be president Gavin Newsom lying that “Trump tear-gasses children, rips them from their parents, and deports farm workers” after a marijuana farm raid that produced nine unaccompanied illegal migrant children likely being trafficked for child labor.

    The more frenzy that radical Democrats can whip up, the more likely it becomes that they can do exactly what they accuse Donald Trump of: seize power, permanently. They, not Trump, represent the “existential threat to Democracy” which they project upon Trump.

    Of the Fourth Estate media running interference for radical Democrats, Border Czar Tom Homan put it bluntly: “Ninety percent of the stories are just fake. They’re lies … They’re lying about what President Trump is doing. They’re lying about what the men and women of ICE are doing.”

    The unemployed anarchists at Antifa (or “Freedom for Palestine,” or whatever false front cause they’re exploiting today); the misfit toys of transgenderism; and others among society’s rejects – all are just cannon fodder for radical Democrats who think of themselves as “the elite” and therefore entitled to power.

    Hence, the occasional rape-murder by an illegal alien, tens of thousands of children trafficked, and 48,422 fentanyl deaths are acceptable tools in pursuit of the only thing a leftist truly wants: absolute power.

    As an aside, Democrats should be careful what they wish for. Axios quoted an unidentified Democrat lawmaker as saying: “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot … Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.” Party supporters would do well to recall the Bernie Sanders staffer who, when secretly videoed by Project Veritas, promised that “Liberals get the f^cking wall first.”

    So, while you are celebrating Trump’s makeover of America, they are fomenting revolution. Hopefully, the new, more serious Donald Trump will carefully avoid giving the left a cause célèbre. Because the alternative could be election whip-sawing the likes of which we have never before seen – a sea change that could place the left in permanent power.

    As the debacle of 2020 through 2024 demonstrated so clearly, we are, at any given point, only – One. Election. Away. – from losing our freedom.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2025/07/democrats-violent-rhetoric-is-precisely-the-point/

  11. Inspire and frighten
    Leaked document opens with blunt political calculations: Kennedy’s candidacy threatens investors confidence, regulatory predictability, and long-term viability of the vaccine business.
    BIO leadership leaked document states plainly “It is time to go The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr. to go.

  12. Elder:
    A challenge to – and a redemption of – modern philosophy’s love of abstraction

    Modern philosophy, for all its brilliance and rigor, often suffers from a foundational flaw: it tends to treat abstraction as an end in itself. In its pursuit of purity, it frequently drifts into a mode of intellectualism that detaches thought from responsibility, treating moral dilemmas as puzzles, and ethical obligations as thought experiments.

    In this sense, modern philosophy can be seen as engaged in a quiet but profound flight from responsibility. [emphasis in the original]

    Think about philosophy’s concept of “mind–body dualism,” the idea that the mind and the body are separate entities. This can lead to profoundly unethical results, where actions are divorced from the mind, and responsibility for actions evaporates.

    Or the idea of skeptical solipsism – the view that only one’s own mind is knowable, casting doubt on the reality of others’ minds or the external world This can be used to avoid any relationships, any interaction with one’s community and family, all in the name of philosophy…

    Solving theoretical problems is only meaningful when they can be leveraged to solve real problems, but too often philosophy elevates these questions as if finding the answers are themselves moral imperatives.

    https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-challenge-to-and-redemption-of-modern.html
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    I thought our revered Elder was describing his own flights into abstraction. Or at least offering us a respite from his adventures in abstract AI development. This article manages to combine both.

    sigh

    Still, it does touch an objection I have to the – perhaps – excessive reliance on perfecting the dialectics model. Reason to discern the myriad facets of the enemy force field is vital. The 30,000-foot perspective, the analytic skills are invaluable.

    Though diagnosis is necessary, it’s not sufficient: FIRST, get out of the blast zone!

    Obviously. But that needs to be elucidated. How do I determine the timing? Where’s the escape hatch? Where should I go? Are there reliable signposts? What should I take with me…?

    Without tackling practical strategies to answer questions like these, there IS NO SECOND. It’s curling up in the fetal position with the comfort of brilliant abstraction.