Reader’s Links for May 17th, 2026

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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.

**New intelligence suggests a specific course of action concerning use of Substack. For a variety of reasons, who owns it, and who owns the ONLY company that monetizes authors on Substack, the question for us has always been, ‘Why is Substack allowed to exist?” I believe the answer is now known to us. It collects data on you and who you are connected to. Substack does have the best writers out there for counter-narrative views, and does allow the authors to make money at it. Which is suspicious already. But the reasons were made known to us by a Cyber-security professional. The solution seems to be to use a dedicated browser, ONLY for substack. There are many good ones out there now. So downloading another browser is easy. Get the DuckduckGo go one, or Brave or one of many others and use it ONLY for substack and clear cookies after use. Like washing your plate after you eat.

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. But use it safely.

ADDENDUM: 

This site operates more at the philosophical level of the communist/Islamic revolution which is obliterating Western Civilization. Politics, culture, law are all down stream from philosophy. Understanding the philosophy of the attack is to understand what is an attack and develop tactics, both individually and collectively against them. The attack comes entirely (so far) in the form of Dialectics. To understand dialectics, watch and read everything you can by Maj. (Ret.) Stephen Coughlin.

Here is a repost of the simplest explanation, or at least the shortest one, we have been able to think of so far (Placed here by request)

We as humans communicate mostly via conventions. In other words, we decide what a word means by what we, as a culture want it to mean, then fix the term as a convention via a dictionary

or other means so we can express what we want to each other and be understood. It’s a group process more or less but based on what we want expressions, words, concepts and taxonomy to mean.

Dialectics is the imposition of meaning on existing terms for a political outcome which is destructive to what we all consider meaning. It is a complete hijacking of Meaning.

This also applies to taxonomy. The most underrated aspect of epistemology. Of how we see ourselves. Of how we understand the world, via categories. Via labels.

Dialectical taxonomy is what forces us to change everything we think about sexuality and accept political sexuality such as the Trans-movement.

Or somehow convincing everyone that the German National Socialist Worker’s Party is somehow “far right wing”, which may be the most masterful dialectical con of the 20th century.

This deserves a proper essay. But I just want to get the thought out there.

Imposing, forcing meaning on us. Changing terms to mean what a group of tyrants what us to think they mean as opposed to what they do mean and more or less always have meant.

Making words mean something other than what we meant them to mean, then banning or criminalizing them because of their imputed meaning, even though they were good, useful terms that helped hold our culture together.

Attacking us for using perfectly good words with important meanings, then telling us what we meant by what we said, then cancelling us for it in the pre-revolutionary stage, and now in the UK outright arrest you now that the revolution is all but complete.

That is dialectics.

 

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15 Replies to “Reader’s Links for May 17th, 2026”

    • The WHO’s transformation under WEF influence is the most worrying single development of our time.
      The WHO’s leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first non-doctor to be appointed remarks at WEF January 21,2026 praised The Pandemic Agreement as a “generational achievement”.

      The agreement would override national laws, have control over what the “little useless eaters” MUST put in your body (vaccines), where you are allowed to travel, who you may associate with, and WHAT YOU MAY SAY IN PUBLIC.

      Makes one wonder how did this man get elected by a group of non-elected elites and why. Ask Bill Gates. Time to say goodbye to the corrupt WHO.

      • I think you answered your own question, ET–elected by non-elected elites.

    • @Johnny,
      You might like this site: Vatnik Soup

      “Vatnik Soup is a series of social media threads, podcasts, articles and books about pro-Russian propagandists (“vatniks”) from around the world, be they so-called “independent journalists”, politicians (from all sides of the spectrum) or military personnel, whether they’re naive fools or cynical grifters.

      “We also offer deeper insights into how online propaganda works and is spread, such as social media manipulation through troll farms, Kremlin-crafted memes and their coordinated fake news campaigns.

      “We also debunk their narratives (our Debunk of the Day series), and cover their allied pro-Chinese and pro-Iranian regimes propagandists (“Wumao Soup” and “Basiji Soup”).”

      https://vatniksoup.com

      • Thanks Yucki I’ll check it out. I wear hip waders now before I enter swamps.

  2. Saudis loathe us, of course. We’re merely mercenaries, not allies. Their new publication, House of Saud, is a vehicle that makes this posture explicit to the English-language world.

    The problem is, the servant has gotten too cocky, has overstepped bounds of even notional equality. That has to be rectified. The Kingdom can’t dismiss the servant in real time with war raging on its borders, but such an insulting relationship will be terminated in time.

    PT could bully Bibi[*] and dismiss decisive Israeli military salience in striking Iran[**] because he’s the reincarnation of Cyrus the Great in the popular Israeli imagination.
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    [*]Crudely in private, in the person of his mafia-style fixer Witkoff.
    [**]Brazenly in public, taking credit for Israel’s Iron Dome technology.
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    But that won’t wash in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

    Trump Humiliates MBS on a Saudi Stage and Exposes the Alliance

    https://houseofsaud.com/trump-humiliates-mbs-fii-miami-us-saudi-alliance/

    • WWII brought power to the oil patch in the Middle East and they thought this would last forever. Now the opening rounds of WWIII (yes this looks like either the opening round or the opening of the second round of regional wars that will mimic a major world war.) Nothing last forever especially political or economic power. The House of Saud thought that their control of the flow of oil would keep them as a major power broker rather then changing as the worlds economic centers shift the power from one region of the world to another.

      WWII destroyed the European Colony system and shifted power to the US, the left worked hard to destroy the US by using Keynesian economics to drive all manufacturing off shore and allow China to take over as the worlds manufacturing center. The left in their arrogance ignored the US Constitution and the power if gives to the ordinary voters, all it took was for enough people to get scared by the power grab of the left and a leader to arise and the left discovers that they don’t control as much of the US and they thought. They are losing and are going to force a kinetic civil war on the US, during the time it takes us to fight the civil war other regional wars will arise and the US Government giving aid to our allies around the world will lengthen the civil war and increase the time the left has to try and destroy what is left of Western Civilization.

      Things are going to get scary all around the world and will get scarier, we must all hold onto our faith and continue to do everything we can to ensure that the idea of individual rights and one law for everyone is kept alive. Remember we can always build another civilization but if the idea of individual rights and one law for everyone is destroyed it will take several centuries for us to recover to the point we can once again establish a nation run by those ideas.

  3. The End of “Oil for Security” — How the Iran War Is Rewriting the US-Gulf Bargain:
    The 1945 oil-for-security compact between Washington and Riyadh has collapsed. One month of war exposed 8 structural failures in the 81-year-old bargain.

    The foundational bargain that has governed US-Gulf relations since 1945 – America guarantees security, the Gulf guarantees oil – has stopped functioning. One month into the Iran war, the United States cannot defend Saudi territory without turning the Kingdom into a belligerent, and Saudi Arabia cannot supply oil because every major export route is either blockaded or operating at emergency capacity.

    This is not a renegotiation. The compact forged between Franklin Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud aboard the USS Quincy on February 14, 1945 has not been updated with new terms. It has simply ceased to describe reality.

    Gulf oil exports have dropped at least 60% since February 28, according to Chatham House. At least 15 American troops have been wounded on Saudi soil at Prince Sultan Air Base, according to Al Jazeera. The arrangement that kept oil flowing and kept the peace for eight decades now produces neither oil nor peace.

    https://houseofsaud.com/end-of-oil-for-security-iran-war-us-gulf-bargain/

    • The new paradigm will see barrels of oil pegged to the gold ounce. 50-150 barrels per ounce.

  4. Saudi Arabia Grounded American Air Power – and Washington Accepted It:
    Saudi Arabia denied US airspace and Prince Sultan Air Base for Operation Project Freedom, grounding American air power and forcing Trump to pause the Hormuz reopening.

    …President Trump called Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman directly. The call failed. The operation paused. Trump told cameras the halt reflected “great progress” in Pakistan-mediated peace talks; two US officials told NBC News the real reason was that Saudi Arabia had pulled the floor out from under American air power in the Gulf.

    A second presidential phone call was required before Riyadh and Kuwait restored access on May 7 – by which point the operational window had closed, the force posture had degraded, and Iran’s parliament was advancing a twelve-article Hormuz sovereignty law with the confidence of a government that had just watched its primary adversary get grounded by its own ally.

    https://houseofsaud.com/saudi-veto-project-freedom/

  7. VIDEO Modena attack from different angle:
    https://www.dumpert.nl/item/100152192_1a3b3ea5

    Terror not ruled out as 8 injured after suspect plows car into crowd, stabs man who tried to stop him from fleeing scene in Italy
    https://www.aol.com/news/terror-not-ruled-8-injured-164227020.html
    At least eight people were injured Saturday in Modena, Italy when a crazed driver rammed his car into a crowd at full speed — and then knifed a hero who stopped him when he tried to flee following his cowardly act.
    The man has been identified by authorities as Salim el Koudri, a 31-year-old Italian citizen of Moroccan origin.
    The motive is not yet known, but a terrorist attack is not being ruled out, Italian newspaper La Pressa reported.
    [..]

    Terrorism scenario excluded by investigators following car attack in Italy’s Modena
    https://www.aol.com/articles/terrorism-scenario-excluded-investigators-following-155321000.html
    Investigators have ruled out that terrorism was at play after a man drove a car into crowd in the Italian city of Modena on Saturday, injuring eight people.
    The driver, a 31-year-old Italian man of Moroccan heritage, hit several people before crashing into a shop window, colliding head-on with a woman. Four people were in critical condition following the incident, authorities said.
    The driver, an economics graduate born in 1995 who was not known to the police, went through a spell of “psychological disturbance” in 2022, city prefect Fabrizia Triolo said at a news conference on Saturday.
    “He was under treatment in our mental health centres in 2022 because he had problems with schizoid illness, after which he disappeared from the radar and unfortunately reappeared in this form today in a dramatic and unfortunate way,” said the mayor of Modena, Massimo Mezzetti.
    His home near Modena has been searched but sources quoted in Italian media said the investigation so far has shown no sign of the man’s radicalisation.
    [..]

  8. Who is Salim El Koudri, second generation Italian and graduate
    The young man is 31 years old and lives in Ravarino. He was reportedly under psychiatric care. Full investigation into the reasons for the gesture
    https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/who-is-salim-el-koudri-second-generation-italian-graduate-AIZvjL7C?refresh_ce=1
    He was born in the province of Bergamo 31 years ago, but lives in Ravarino, near Modena, Salim el Koudri, the man who, driving a Citroen C3, plunged onto the pavement murdering at least eight people in the centre of Modena. Investigations into his past are under way to try to establish the reasons for his act and to give more definite contours to an affair that seems to have no reason. The investigators are working to understand: the anti-terrorism nucleus of the DDA of Bologna is also investigating.
    In the early hours of the morning, at around 1.30 a.m., the man, who is accused of murder and injury, was placed in the ‘I Care’ section, the area of the city correctional institution intended for inmates considered to be at risk of suicide and located near the infirmary. The 31-year-old shares a cell with another inmate.
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