Above: Jacinda Ardern, Chief Executive Officer of Idiocracy.
THE GATEWAY PUNDIT: New Zealand went into a nationwide lockdown on Tuesday after ONE PERSON tested positive for Covid-19. Far-left Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also told New Zealanders not to talk to each other, after the country’s first Covid case in 6 months was reported.
In 1842 all but one British soldier, out of a force of 5,000, survived a perilous retreat from Afghanistan.
Joe Biden, the illegitimate resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, may have brought about the worst humiliation in American foreign policy in history: he stranded 10,000 Americans in Kabul, in an unnecessarily hasty retreat from Afghanistan. The Taliban retook control of the country in less than 10 days, as Afghan Army soldiers simply threw down their weapons. The Taliban now occupy Kabul and may enter the airport at any time; in fact, they are in a position to prevent flights in and out of Kabul. The American Military needs to plan for the possibility that Muslim extremists will not allow a peaceful withdrawal of the US and its Allies from the country. If air travel out of Kabul is closed, the US will have no choice but to withdraw overland. Unlike the British retreat from Afghanistan in 1842, an American-led Anabasis has the tools and ingredients for a successful outcome.
In 1841-1842, the British had no means of protecting the front, flanks, or rear of their retreating column of soldiers and dependents. The United States, however, has the best Air Force of the modern age, both land and carrier-based, with the means to deliver precision weapons strikes, with the help of spotters on the ground. An American-Allied convoy withdrawing overland, accompanied by Special Forces teams equipped with precision laser targeting devices, can guide U.S. munitions onto hostile tribesmen with pinpoint accuracy. American military satellites, combined with ground spotters, might be able to guide a volume of firepower so locally tremendous, that it will not be possible for Taliban fighters to come close enough to aim at the US Column, down the sights of a rifle.
It will of course be necessary to secure Pakistan’s cooperation, for the US to make a successful retreat from Kabul, otherwise the Column would be on a road to nowhere. The traditional carrot and stick approach – the former in the shape of American aid packages, the latter being the spectre of a military threat from India, could make for a safe arrival of the US Column from Kabul. Like the combat retreat of a Greek army across Persia, over 2,500 years ago, such a feat would truly be worthy of Xenophon’s “March of the Ten Thousand”.
Panicky Afghan civilians scramble to board a plane out of Kabul, as Biden pulls the rug out from under long-time client state of Afghanistan.
Although all eyes are on Afghanistan and the hasty U.S. withdrawal from its 20-year protectorate, some minds may be on Taiwan.
The Pacific island nation of Taiwan has been a vital U.S. ally since 1950, when Chinese Nationalist forces under Chaing Kai Shek consolidated control there, following their defeat on the mainland by the Communists, in the Chinese Civil War. There can be no doubt that today’s Communist Chinese take comfort in the fact that Biden abandoned a U.S. client of 2 decades, in little more than 2 weeks. Beijing, which constantly threatens to use military force to reunite democratic Taiwan with the Communist mainland, may now feel confident enough to invade the island, without interference from the craven Joe Biden, whose son Hunter is firmly under their control, through honey-traps, a crack addiction, and an appetite for the money he earns from Chinese patrons of his junk art.
Taiwan should brace itself for an inevitable betrayal of American security guarantees, by puppet-president Joe Biden.
Above: potential staging areas and landing zones, for a ChiCom amphibious invasion of Taiwan.
Amy Coney Barrett: the face that says, ‘Yes, I said I would protect conservative principles, but it’s o.k. when I betray them, because I smile like this.’
THE GATEWAY PUNDIT: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday turned down a request from students at Indiana University to block its vaccine mandate. The application was submitted to Amy Coney Barrett because she oversees emergency appeals from the 7th Circuit, which includes Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, did not refer the matter to the full Court or give a reason for her decision, Reuters reported.
Above: the Court House of Judge Roy Bean, an icon of Texas Old West justice.
THE GATEWAY PUNDIT:The Texas Senate passed a Republican election integrity bill after an unsuccessful Democrat filibuster ended after 15 hours. The vote passed by an 18-11 margin.
Mike Lindell: the tip of the American spear. Here he is seen after a briefing with Trump.
Watch the final day of Mike Lindell’s explosive Cyber Symposium, which has exposed the Chinese effort to flip America’s Election 2020 to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The Symposium demonstrated that when the Chinese effort failed, their Democrat collaborators resorted to the old school methods of stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent votes.
THE GATEWAY PUNDIT: Late on Tuesday night, the US Senate passed an amendment that prohibits federal funds from going to pre-K programs and K-12 schools that teach Critical Race Theory. Every Democrat – except West Virginia senator Joe Manchin – voted against the legislation, which passed 50-49. The measure was sponsored by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton. Its passage effectively bans CRT from being taught in schools until after 12th grade, when students are free to pay for the indoctrination themselves.
Wikepedia: “‘Enclosure’ or ‘Inclosure’[a] is a term used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of “waste[b]” or “common land[c]” enclosing it and by doing so, depriving commoners of their ancient rights of access and privilege.”
Above: In Medieval Europe, peasants and common-folk were deprived of their ancient rights to access and use community lands, by increasingly powerful landowners and nobles.
I recently viewed a feature from the popular Kings and Generals channel on YouTube, titled: “Enclosure and How the English Lost their Lands.” From it, one might see that depriving commoners of their ancient rights to use common areas, through land enclosures, has its counterpart in modern times, when citizens are deprived of their ancient liberties, through “Vaccine Enclosure”; we might also speak of “Mask Enclosures”.
Since early 2020, much of the world has experienced ‘Covid-restrictions’, usually in the form of so-called mask mandates. Without the superfluous mask on one’s face, one was forbidden to enter grocery stores, pharmacies, schools, the workplace, houses of worship, et cetera. Many American, Canadian, and European officials have revelled in their ability to impose “lockdowns”, which violate civil liberties on so vast a scale, that such measures would once have been considered Stalinist. State and local governments even forbade people from gathering in churches, or their homes, for holidays. And now the Australian capital of Sydney is in a new ‘lockdown’, over the death of one elderly man – a lock down which is being enforced by the Australian Army. The national army is thus transformed into the National Police.
Governments persuaded their citizens to take the so-called vaccines, with assurances that masks would no longer be necessary. Then came the talk of new Covid strains and that promise went by the wayside. And now comes talk of Vaccine Passports – not just for foreign travel, but for permission to enter nearby restaurants, and according to YouTuber Red Pill Germany, just to walk into a grocery store and purchase the necessities of life.
Like the super-states of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia in George Orwell’s “1984”, national governments, social media, and news outlets around the world have censored “badthink” references to Covid-19, masks, vaccines, and lockdowns; YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are among the most powerful offenders. It seems their desired goal is a global peasant population that is prohibited from exercising freedom of speech, freedom to travel, and freedom to choose the paths, both sundry and grand, to walk in one’s, unless a government official first gives his or her approval; they themselves may come and go as they please, do as they please, and speak as they please. Just like Old Times. Just like the master on the plantation, or the lord of the manor. And it doesn’t matter if the slave is black, or the serf is white: in their eyes, all working people are negroes, who may be traded, or worked to death.
Above: most towns in Connecticut appear to have supported Joe Biden in Election 2020, so the emergence of a strong anti-CRT movement in Blue towns, may come as a surprise.
THE LIBERTY LOFT: Republicans rallied against Critical Race Theory in three apparently solid blue towns, that is, Glastonbury, Guilford, and New Canaan. In School Board primaries that were held in those towns, grass roots Republicans, a number of whom had never held public office, became motivated to run for School Board positions, when do-nothing Republicans and Soviet Republicans, showed signs that they would not resist plans to teach the racially divisive doctrine in local schools. It remains to be seen, if they can win at the ballot box in November – and in this blog’s opinion, since the State of Connecticut is a client of Scytl, a foreign-based voting machine firm, GOP voters may want to consider the write-in option for those candidates. See the Liberty Loft story at this link. .
Above: Sky News. Real news, honest views. YouTube wasn’t having it.
THE GATEWAY PUNDIT has featured about 40 minutes of the news that YouTube tried to suppress for a 7-day period. It is presented in 2 segments, one of about 30 minutes, and another of about 6 minutes, featuring Nigel Farage. You may find both news features at this link. Remember your friends down under.