[News On Line] Ten states — and counting — have passed a bill called the "2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act," seeking to nullify a gun control oversight system in practice and impact.
More about that good news soon. First some background.
Would it surprise you to learn that this gun control program has its roots in the IRS?
The same. We neither. "We neither"?
In 2004, the IRS launched the use of something called a "Merchant Category Code," or an MCC, as a way to classify different types of businesses and identify the types of goods or services a business sells.
Businesses that accept credit card payments are categorized with an MCC for their business type.
It was, of course, sold as an improvement for better tax reporting, and is still touted, as CNBC put it, as a tool to "prevent things ranging from fraud to human trafficking."
But never forget. When the government and its supporters tell you "it’s for your safety," it usually means "so we can control you."
Soon, gun grabbers discovered that a special MCC could be created for a company that sold firearms, thus creating another de facto gun registry that the government could easily access. Some of the worst proposals call for using these codes to ban purchases.
As NRA-ILA notes, the people promoting this are gun control advocates, so we shouldn’t be surprised at how they end up using it in the future:
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RedStar] The goals of Nazi Germany included the destruction of statehood, culture, and the physical extermination of the Russian and other peoples of the USSR.
by Oleg Falichev
The goals of the Stalinist USSR included the eradication of the statehood and culture of the non-Russian peoples of the USSR and beyond, and the eradication of certain economic classes independent of national or cultural identity.
On March 28, 2024, the International Military-Historical Conference "Not subject to oblivion: the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War" (on the 81st anniversary of the tragedy of the village of Khatyn) was held at the Military University named after Prince Alexander Nevsky. It was attended by representatives of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the RF Armed Forces, the Military University of the RF Ministry of Defense, cadets and members of the military-patriotic club "Noviki" of Moscow secondary school No. 1374, and other public and youth patriotic associations.
The head of the Military University, Lieutenant General Igor Mishutkin, addressed the participants with an opening speech. He recalled that, while developing the Barbarossa plan - a vile, treacherous attack on the USSR,
“How evil they did to us what we planned to do to them, just because they were quicker off the mark!”
the leadership of Nazi Germany also prepared other monstrous documents that in advance justified crimes and atrocities against civilians and prisoners of war. Thus, all responsibility was removed from the Wehrmacht military personnel and punitive units for their atrocities. And the economic robbery of the occupied territories was elevated to the rank of state policy.
The Khatyn tragedy stands out in particular. On March 22, 1943, a company of a special SS battalion and punitive forces of the 118th Ukrainian police battalion, formed from Ukrainian nationalists, destroyed the Belarusian village of Khatyn. A total of 149 of its inhabitants were burned alive or shot. Among them are 75 children. Khatyn went down in the history of World War II as one of its most tragic pages, as a monstrous crime of the Nazis against humanity.
The tragic fate of Khatyn was shared by the villages of Khatsun in the Bryansk region, Stega in the Pskov region and thousands of other villages in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union, said Colonel Andrei Kolyasnikov, head of the department (military-political propaganda and agitation) of the Main Military Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, in his speech.
The conference at the Military University became a stage of preparation for the III International Anti-Fascist Congress, which will be held at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center in August 2024
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Deputy Head of the Military University, Major General Viktor Shulyak, noted that the topic of the conference in modern conditions is extremely relevant. This is due to the fact that in the collective West the civilizational and ideological background of Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union is being eroded, and its crimes in the occupied territories are also being neutralized. Plans for economic enslavement, "racial cleansing" of the population of the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and the use of slave labor were developed in detail even before the attack on the USSR and in conjunction with the operational and strategic planning of the war.
Such policy documents of Nazi Germany, which determined the preparation and outbreak of war, such as the Barbarossa plan and the Ost plan directive, clearly show that Germany’s goals went far beyond the struggle of ideologies. They primarily included the destruction of statehood, culture, and the physical extermination of the Russian and other peoples of the USSR. The Control Council of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, in Law No. 10 of December 20, 1945, qualified these plans as crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Nazis intended to win back "living space" for the German people in the East and end the "eternal confrontation" between the Germans and Slavs through the direct and indirect destruction of the Russian people.
Wehrmacht personnel were given a memo that directly stated: "... kill every Russian, Soviet, do not stop, if in front of you is an old man or a woman, a girl or a boy - kill, by this you will save yourself from death, ensure the future of your family and become famous forever."
The Wehrmacht, SD, SS and other punitive forces began mass extermination of civilians and prisoners of war from the first days of the invasion of German troops into the territory of the Soviet Union. They were immediately joined by satellite troops - Romania, Finland, Hungary, Italy and volunteer formations and units of virtually all countries of Western Europe, as well as from among local collaborators.
The cleansing of populated areas began with the erection of gallows in central squares. Death camps became an integral part of the "new order" and were divided according to their purpose: for prisoners of war, civilians, women’s camps, transit camps, penal camps, and children’s camps. The main reasons for the death of prisoners are illness, cold, hunger, and overwork. In the concentration camps, medical experiments, blood removal, and deliberate infection with infectious diseases, usually with fatal consequences, were practiced.
The prisoner of war camps were under the control of the military command, the rest were under the authority of the SS. There were several hundred such camps. Several hundred death factories.
Numerous Jewish ghettos were created in the occupied territories. The Nazis and their accomplices exterminated people en masse in the tragically famous Babi Yar, in the Ninth Fort, Salaspils, and in the Yanovsky camp.
The worst tragedy is the murder of children and their use for slave labor. Murder and abuse of minors was practiced by the Nazis everywhere. From September to May 1942, in the areas of Brest, Pinsk, Kobrin, Divin, Malorita and Bereza-Kartuzskaya, the occupiers executed about 400 children. In just two months, the Germans killed 8,000 children in the Yanovsky camp (Lvov). At the Teberda resort they exterminated 500 children suffering from bone tuberculosis.
The Kurtenhof labor education camp was located near the village of Salaspils (Latvian SSR). Hence its unofficial name. It operated from October 1941 to August 1944. The camp was the site of savage medical experiments on children. Children from Belarus, Pskov, Kalinin, and Leningrad regions were kept there. Their age ranges from infants to 10 years. In total, three and a half thousand liters of blood were pumped out of them. Often she was taken away until the baby died. Of the 12 thousand Soviet child donors, more than half died.
IT WAS A REAL GENOCIDE.
Let's look at the structure of the well-known 118th Ukrainian police battalion mentioned above, which destroyed Khatyn. In it, as in other similar structures, there was a double subordination. Under the Ukrainian battalion commander and company commanders there were so-called chiefs - German officers. The battalion was commanded by former Petliurist K. Smovsky, and Major E. Kerner acted as the "chief". The battalion had two headquarters - German and Ukrainian.
One of the goals of the special military operation carried out in Ukraine is denazification, that is, the eradication of the revived ideology and practice of fascism.
Today in science the generally accepted number is 13 million 685 thousand civilians who died during the Great Patriotic War. It includes seven million people deliberately exterminated by punitive forces, more than two million who died in forced labor in Germany, and about four million who died from hunger and lack of medical care in the occupied territories. Some historians, giving arguments, prove that there were more civilian casualties.
The defense attache at the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation, Colonel A. Ershov, the director of the Khatyn State Memorial Complex A. Zelsky, representatives of the Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus and local authorities of the Republic of Belarus spoke to the conference participants via video conference. And also an honorary guest of the conference, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Alexey Kravchenko, who played the main role in Elem Klimov’s film "Come and See."
The conference at the Military University became a stage of preparation for the III International Anti-Fascist Congress, which will be held at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center in August 2024 as part of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army".
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The goals of Nazi Germany included the destruction of statehood, culture, and the physical extermination of the Russian and other peoples of the USSR.
It's a good thing that Russians remember this. It's a bad thing that Russians don't understand that the real enemy is Globalism - not USA as a country.
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I dont know about that Grom, I dont see it. Putin often says, I think tongue in cheek, BRICS works for the Global Majority. And with Russias embrace of traditional families and traditional genders while championing White Culture, I see Putin positioning Russia as an alternative to Globalism.
[IsraelTimesj Sunday’s withdrawal of IDF ground forces from Khan Younis marks the end of so-called high-intensity conflict, though Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", is still standing, and still holding 129 Oct. 7 hostages
Is this how the war ends? Not with a bang, or even a whimper, but with the IDF pulling its ground forces out of Khan Younis, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserting, in defiance of reality, that Hamas has "stopped functioning as a military organization throughout the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip," contradicting himself in the next breath, and clarifying a few hours later?
As Israel on Sunday marked six months since the October 7 massacre, the two prime declared goals of the war — destroying Hamas’s military capabilities and bringing home the remaining 129 hostages kidnapped that day — are patently unfulfilled.
As Gallant went on to acknowledge immediately after making his "Hamas has stopped functioning" claim on Sunday afternoon, Hamas has yet to be tackled in Rafah, where its leaders are believed to be hiding, surrounded by hostages and protected by four battalions. For that matter, two other battalions in central Gaza are still thought to be functional.
And while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, as he has several times of late, that Israel is "a step away" from complete victory, his third declared goal of the war, ensuring that neither Hamas nor any other terror threat to Israel will rise again in Gaza, is also far from achieved.
As retired general Israel Ziv — a former IDF operations chief who plunged back into battle on October 7, driving down south to see what he could do to help turn back the Hamas terror onslaught — told a Channel 12 interviewer soon after Gallant spoke, "in these very hours" Khan Younis is going "back into Hamas hands." And in the absence of any kind of alternate leadership, "Hamas’s control in the Strip continues."
The way Ziv described it, "the war in Gaza is over," but "the state of war is not." Sunday’s IDF-announced withdrawal of ground forces from southern Gaza, signaling the end of major ground operations, risks "frittering away the IDF’s hard-fought achievements," he added. "So we’re nowhere right now."
Channel 12 TV’s military correspondent Nir Dvori, reading from his notes during the primetime evening news, presumably after a military briefing, echoed the assessment: "We have moved from war to fighting. The high-intensity [ground] maneuver is finished everywhere in Gaza. The operation in Khan Younis is done. [The IDF] is moving to the system of [more narrowly focused] raids." Such raids were already being implemented in the north of Gaza, and now they would become the modus operandi in the south as well, he assessed.
Making no effort to conceal his own dismay at the material he was conveying, Dvori declared that "the hunt for [Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya] Sinwar now moves essentially to the realm of intel. And Israel, as we see, has given up on [its] two major points of leverage: both military pressure and humanitarian [aid]."
"After half a year," Dvori unhappily summed up, "Israel remains with three big problems: how to return the hostages; how to bring the residents back home in the south and north [of the country]; and how to set up an alternative to Hamas" to administer the Strip.
"If Israel cannot achieve a framework for this, and I don’t know of one, then we are entering a very big problem for Israel," he concluded.
The IDF’s Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, also speaking Sunday, was adamant that the withdrawal of ground forces from southern Gaza did not signal the end of the war. "We are far from stopping," he insisted. But "we are fighting this war differently... Senior Hamas officials are still in hiding. We will get to them sooner or later. We are making progress, continuing to kill more holy warriors and commanders and destroy more terror infrastructures.
"We will not leave Hamas brigades active in any part of the Strip," Halevi promised. "We have plans and we will act when we decide."
It could be that, after months of negotiations on a hostage deal, thwarted by Hamas’s demand for an Israeli commitment to ending the war and withdrawing its forces, the incoherence on Sunday night’s six-month anniversary obscures a bigger picture, in which a truce-hostage deal is finally taking shape.
For all of Netanyahu’s talk about imminent and "complete victory," it may also be that he has recognized that Israel cannot wage war against Hamas without the diplomatic and practical support of its main ally and weapons supplier. And US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... and his key officials have made crystal clear in recent weeks that they don’t believe the IDF has a viable plan to target Hamas while protecting the million-plus Gazooks sheltering in the Rafah area, and thus will not support a major offensive there.
The American administration is deeply mistrustful of Netanyahu, alienated by his coalition, furious at his protracted reluctance to ensure adequate humanitarian aid to Gaza, and beyond frustrated by his refusal to work on the non-Hamas governance of the Strip that Israel needs.
And the dwindling reservoir of US support is close to running dry after the military’s deadly mistaken strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy last Monday night.
Hours after he had spoken, Gallant’s office asserted that he had actually only meant Hamas has stopped functioning as a military organization "in the Khan Younis area and other parts of the Strip where the military had operated, and not all of Gaza."
For official Israel then, six months after October 7, the war is not at an end. Which makes sense, since its goals have not been achieved. Israel certainly still faces those "three big problems" cited by Dvori — how to return the hostages; how to bring the residents back home in the south and north; and how to set up an alternative to Hamas. And it needs to deal with all of this amid global hostility, diminishing US support, and rising internal division.
Israel’s major ground war in Gaza is over. The state of war into which Israel was plunged by Hamas on October 7 is anything but.
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Intel, special ops and air assaults is what is going to be the protocol for the immediate future.
Probably that will be enough to keep Hamas penned in but not enough to seriously degrade the remaining Hamas units.
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^You really think these who're blocking Rafah ground operation will be satisfied with winning instead of being encouraged to make further demands?
Remember what their ultimate goal.
We'll see. The intel/special ops/airpower option was what Sec of Def Austin proposed a week or so ago. As you imply, there are a lot of Democrats who want the IDF to cease fire and leave Gaza but so far they aren't a majority of the Dems.
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Anybody who claims that IDF doesn't need to control Egypt/Gazaa border is either a moron or an enemy of Israel. In case of the current USG ...
May not be the majority of Democrats, but they are almost the entirety of Joe Biden and his administration’s leadership cadre. And as the Democratic Party has demonstrated in the current presidential campaign, the party leadership is uninterested in the opinions of the party’s voters, whom they expect to shut up and do as they’re told.
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Biden thinks this will quiet the Jihad crowd. I expect that he will be disappointed. It is just the same communist punks that change the signs to reflect Soros instructions.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
