Reader’s Links for December 19th, 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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15 Replies to “Reader’s Links for December 19th, 2025”

  1. Sam Altman recently expressed his epiphany that, unless AI gains “general intelligence” (true cognizance), it will crash for a few years as did the Dot-Com bubble, leaving miles of “dark cable” awaiting the world to play catch up. Here is a short article reporting the financing pull-out of a main player in this space. The big race for AI supremacy between the U.S. and China is fraught with dubious narratives and even more circular financing. This does not disqualify AI as possibly the most meaningful existential issue facing the major power competition, but it does increase the obfuscation around it. As for those who believe AI is already a sentient entity I offer this: “I think therefore I am” is a far cry from I am therefore I think.

    https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-shit

    • The police are suppose to have found license plate readers hitting on the shooters plates at both locations.

  7. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation Thursday that would allow private entities to stop drug cartel smuggling and violence.

    The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Donald Trump to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea outside the United States.

    Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

    Lee gave a nod to history in calling for the enabling of private citizens to take the fight against pirates, noting that Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution authorizes Congress to “grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.”

    “The Constitution provides for Letters of Marque and Reprisal as a tool against the enemies of the United States,” Lee said. “Cartels have replaced corsairs in the modern era, but we can still give private American citizens and their businesses a stake in the fight against these murderous foreign criminals. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization act will revive this historic practice to defend our shores and seize cartel assets.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/18/exclusive-patriots-of-the-caribbean-sen-mike-lee-bill-authorizes-privateers-to-combat-cartels-outside-u-s-borders/

    Would be very interesting to see if they would go after the cartel’s fentanyl operations in Canada and how the various governments up here would react.

    • I doubt that the bill will make it through Congress but if it does things are going to get real interesting.