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Freedomist Intel Daily – Premium Edition

Monday, September 19th, 2022

Introduction:  In this installment of FID, we explore the death-embracing pathology of leftism, the social media justice ruling, the Chi-Rus currency, the border battle sinking the left, and more.

EDITOR’S CHOICE 

The Left’s Unholy Need for Abortion Exposes Their Human-Hating Ideology

The Left’s Unholy Need for Abortion Exposes Their Human-Hating IdeologyThe Minnesota Abortion Action Coalition (MNAAC) is now demanding that the state not fund pregnancy crisis centers that don’t murder unborn children.  In other words, to abortionists, the only proper medical procedure for pregnancy is abortion.  If that sounds genocidal, you would be correct.

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TOP STORY 

5th Circuit Ruling Undermines DNC’s Social Media Machine

5th Circuit Ruling Undermines DNC’s Social Media Machine

The Texas law that allows its citizens to sue social media platforms for deleting them for belief alone was upheld by a Federal Appeals court that ruled 3-0 in favor of the Texas Law.  “Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” U.S. 5th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Oldham in justifying the ruling.

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FEATURES

China-Russia Gas Deal Rejects US Dollar

China-Russia Gas Deal Rejects US Dollar

The Russian-state-owned energy company Gazprom is making a deal to sell natural to China using their own currencies, the ruble and the yuan.  The move is a bid to create a world-currency counter to the current world currency, the American dollar.

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DNC Losing to Border Town Turmoil

DNC Losing to Border Town Turmoil

As the DNC continues to subvert American sovereignty by interfering with Americans being able to protect their property from the influx of non-Americans pouring over our DNC-opened borders, the consequences of them ignoring Americans is causing even former die-hard Democrats to leave the party and choose the RNC.

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TOP HEADLINES 

Democrats Hope to Pass Government Journalism Licencing Bill

Democrats Hope to Pass Government Journalism Licensing Bill

The former DNC Presidential candidate, Amy Klobuchar, has introduced a bill called Journalism Competition and Preservation Act which would de-facto create a government-defined local journalism licensing program created to ostensibly protect local journalism from being cannibalized by the DNC’s social media platforms.

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Authoritarian Laws Forcing EV Use Defy Reality of Lithium

The resource most needed for electric vehicles to become the main source of travel for humans is lithium.  Extracting lithium from the earth produces climate disasters wherever it occurs. Not only does lithium extraction destroy the climate, there’s not enough to meet the ‘needs’ tyrannical leftist states are creating through their edicts mandating ev purchases.

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Chairman Xi is Killing His Own Copper Industry

China’s Copper Tycoon is facing the consequences of being under the rulership of an increasingly authoritarian leader such as Chairman Xi.  The once darling of the Chinese economic miracle, He Jinbi, faces a cash flow problem that could bankrupt the massive copper trading Empire he created through Maike Metals International LTD

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HEADLINES

Non-Hetero, Non-White Homeless Get San Fran Welcome in Form of Cash – Freedomist.com

The City of San Francisco is once again living up to its reputation of being a bastion for the worst of leftist tyranny.  The latest iteration of leftist hate comes in the form of a homeless aid bill that sets aside $2 million to dole out to any homeless person that doesn’t have the audacity to be white, heterosexual, or cis-gendered. The orthodox norm of humanity is anathema to the party of hate, the party of anti-humanity, the DNC.

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Biden’s Red Speech Concealing Massive American Wave in 2022 Election? – Freedomist.com

An independent polling company, Trafalgar Group, has recently suggested that the vitriolic rhetoric of the left, specifically the red speech of anti-Maga hate by President Joe Biden, is producing a phenomenon seen both in 2016 and 2020, the shy Trump voter.  The theory is that social shaming of MAGA is making Trump supporters answer falsely in polls to hide their shameful support of Trump.  This election cycle appears far worse even than 2016 and 2020 the pollsters warn.

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Biden Puts US Energy Security at Risk to Temporarily Lower Gas Prices for 2022 Election?

After causing gas prices to spike soon taking over the country through a mass mailer election, President Joe Biden appears to be sapping the country of its energy reserves for the sole purpose of temporarily lowering gas prices ahead of the 2022 election.  The plan seems to be to cripple American energy security while lowering gas prices below Biden’s highs, but not lower than Trump’s highs.  The DNC gets to have its cake and eat it too.

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China’s Rwanda Road-Buidling Coloniziation Goes Ahead – Freedomist.com

China is building roads in Rwanda, and it’s helping them make the struggling third world country another African colony to colonize.  A nearly 8 mile stretch of road between the capital of Rwanda, Kigali, and the Bugesara International Airport serves Chinese colonizers better than it does Rwandans.

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NEWSWATCH REPORT

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US NEWS

President Biden: ‘The Pandemic Is Over’ www.breitbart.com

Federal investigation of Hunter Biden reaches critical juncture, sources say www.cnn.com

Justice Department files motion for partial stay to appeals court in Mar-a-Lago documents case abcnews.go.com

Schools hit with fake shooting threats across US; FBI probes possible link usatoday.com

Policing in Democrat cities: Don’t say we didn’t warn youwww.americanthinker.com

 

US POLITICS

Joe Biden Delivers a Mess of a 60 Minutes Interview, Leaves His Handlers Scramblingredstate.com

University of Utah scrubs info on doctoral program open only to black students www.thecollegefix.com

Trump’s PAC faces scrutiny amid intensifying legal probesapnews.com

Seattle educators: Vote “no” on the sellout tentative agreement!www.wsws.org

Trump’s approval rating drops to 18-month low: Poll www.washingtonexaminer.com

Kurtz Highlights Leftist Media Double Standard on Don Lemon Demotionwww.newsbusters.org

Biden Admits to Lie He Repeatedly Told During 2020 Campaign, Promptly Tells Another About Same Incidente redstate.com

 

CULTURE

African nations stand alone against abortion rights, gender ideology at the UN www.catholicworldreport.com

Youngkin administration overhauls Virginia transgender student policies www.virginiamercury.com

Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ Curricula in Schools Will Drive People to Vote for Trump legalinsurrection.com

Michigan supreme court puts abortion rights on the november ballotboingboing.net

GOP Guest Schools ABC Panel on Migrant Crisis: This Didn’t Happen In Trump Adminwww.newsbusters.org

Professor: Sports responsible for the ‘belief’ that men are stronger and gender is binarywww.thecollegefix.com

WORLD

Thousands march in Turkey to demand ban on LGBTQ groups abcnews.go.com

Russia-Ukraine war: unclear if Russian forces have ‘reserves or morale’ to defend Luhansk, says UK – live | Ukraine www.theguardian.com

Russia targets another nuclear power plant in Ukrainewww.independent.co.uk

Russia Sets Up 90-Mile Defensive Line In East As Ukrainians Advance legalinsurrection.com

CHINA WATCH

China’s Xi urges Russia and other countries to work at preventing ‘colour revolutions’ www.aol.com

Joe Biden Pledges US Troops Will Defend Taiwan, Much to the Surprise of Everyone Listening redstate.com

European Parliament members urges Int’l criminal court to open investigation on China’s Uyghurs genocide www.devdiscourse.com

Beijing Is Number One Source of Cyberespionage Against Canada, Targeting Dissidents, Diasporaswww.theepochtimes.com

 

RIGHTS

NJ Congressman Is Taking On Credit Card Companies On Gun Saleswpgtalkradio.com

Wisconsin seeks to indoctrinate preschoolers into LGBTQ+ www.louderwithcrowder.com

Left-wing rioters shut down conservative pundit’s talk at U. New Mexicowww.thecollegefix.com

:EFTIST EXTREMISM – Virginia will block students from accommodating transgender students www.washingtonpost.com

 

ECONOMY

Environment groups attack EU’s green label for gas, nuclear www.news4jax.com

Amazon’s air freight workers document hot conditions inside warehousewww.sbsun.com

Haiti unrest worsens misery as residents face water shortages  www.aljazeera.com

 

DEFENSE

Hunter Biden folds up US biological labs in Ukraine www.voltairenet.org

Iran Unveils Drone Designed For ‘Attacking Haifa, Tel Aviv’ freebeacon.com

 

SCI-TECH

White House releases first-ever plan for regulating crypto www.theblaze.com

Legal Influencer exposes liberal group paying TikTokers www.louderwithcrowder.com

 

ODDS & ENDS

Battle of The CRT Mapping Projects – Legal Insurrection versus UCLA Law School legalinsurrection.com

Oregon Apologizes for ‘F*ck the Mormons’ Chant During BYU Gamewww.breitbart.com

Arkansas man said he was Jesus, amputated leg in front of daughter www.theblaze.com

Retaining election records from the 2020 electionwww.americanthinker.com

Democrats Hope to Pass Government Journalism Licensing Bill

The former DNC Presidential candidate, Amy Klobuchar, has introduced a bill called Journalism Competition and Preservation Act which would de-facto create a government-defined local journalism licensing program created to ostensibly protect local journalism from being cannibalized by the DNC’s social media platforms.

The DNC is attempting to fix a problem caused by their authoritarian, local news cannibalizing social media platforms by creating a special carve out for what would only be DNC-approved local news outlets.  Any individual journalist would not be offered such protections, as the DNC press and the DNC Social media companies work out a compromise to assure each party can coexist with one another as they continue to do the seditious work of the DNC, to undermine American liberty through fear and hate, intimidation and market assassinations.

Let’s see if the token opposition has enough Americans in it to do what must be done at the state level to assure such violently anti-American bills, even should they pass, have no authority over an American constitutional land.

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Senators May Eradicate Local Journalism | American Enterprise Institute www.aei.org
Excerpt:

The second feature of the bill that holds publishers in yesteryear is that, to be eligible for these antitrust exemptions, beneficiaries have to meet specific definitions, all of which are tied to traditional journalism business models. For example, the legislation defines the types of employees the businesses must have and how often the businesses must update content, along with their use of editorial processes, their range of topics, and their delivery methods. More innovative systems using smart contracts for managing independent content and social media sites for organizing people’s observations on local city council and school board meetings; newsmaker websites such as local schools and governments need not apply.

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DNC Losing to Border Town Turmoil

As the DNC continues to subvert American sovereignty by interfering with Americans being able to protect their property from the influx of non-Americans pouring over our DNC-opened borders, the consequences of them ignoring Americans is causing even former die-hard Democrats to leave the party and choose the RNC.

One border county in Texas, Terrel County, went from 12 percent registered GOP voters in 2014 to 31% in 2022, a figure expected to keep growing so long as the DNC continues to use our borders to dilute American citizenship to the point that the mobocracy will finally not only support but DEMAND a soviet state to protect them from the white devil or heteronormativity or other favorite scapegoats of the DNC.

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Along the Texas-Mexico border, GOP enthusiasm mounts as Democrats defect over immigration concerns www.kwtx.com
Excerpt:

In 2014, the percentage of registered voters casting ballots in the Republican primary in Terrell County was 12%. By 2022, that percentage had more than doubled — with 31% of the county’s registered voters casting ballots in the GOP primary compared to 10% in the Democratic primary. It was the first time in at least eight years that Republicans voting in the Terrell County primary outnumbered Democrats.

The shift in allegiance is being replicated across the Texas-Mexico border and is encouraging for Republicans who are campaigning on border security and making a big push to win over Hispanic voters. It is also concerning for Democrats who have long held sway in these border and South Texas communities.

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More on DNC Border Texas Arizona

Sep 9, 2022 For the past few months, the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have been sending voluntary busloads of newly arrived migrants to Democrat-run self-proclaimed “sanctuary cities” like New York and Washington D.C. in order to relieve the pressure on long-overwhelmed border communities.
Sep 9, 2022 Liberal DC official roasted for claiming TexasArizona governors created border crisis: ‘Not even close’ Thiessen accuses Dems of not having to ‘bear the burden’ of their policies on ‘Faulkner Focus’
Sep 8, 2022Subscribe to. As the Mayor of D.C. Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency this morning over the influx of migrants into the city, a council member decried that the U.S. Capital was now a …
Sep 8, 2022 A councilwoman who had touted D.C.’s status as a “sanctuary city” complained about migrants bussed from Texas and Arizona during a Thursday press conference. News … D.C., said during a press event where Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser declared the event a … the governors of Texas and Arizona have turned us into a border town. …
Aug 22, 2022 Border cities such as San Diego have long wrestled with influxes of asylum-seekers and created well-oiled machines to respond, but the nation’s largest city and its capital were caught flat-footed. That created an opening for Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona to exploit what they consider failed Democratic leadership.
China-Russia Gas Deal Rejects US Dollar

The Russian-state-owned energy company Gazprom is making a deal to sell natural to China using their own currencies, the ruble and the yuan.  The move is a bid to create a world-currency counter to the current world currency, the American dollar.

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Gazprom says it has signed deal for China to pay for Russian gas in national currencies www.businesstoday.in
Excerpt:

Russia’s Gazprom said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement to start switching payments for gas supplies to China to yuan and roubles instead of dollars.

The shift is part of a push by Russia to reduce its reliance on the U.S. dollar, euro and other hard currencies in its banking system and for trade – a drive that Moscow has accelerated since it was hit with Western sanctions in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

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More on Russia-China World Currency

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Aug 10, 2022President Joe Biden is China’s and Russia’s biggest ally in “dedollarizing” the worldRussia’s ruble, although showing surprising strength of late, is tied to a country in long-term—and …
Jul 25, 2022 “The issue of creating an international reserve currency based on a basket of currencies of our countries is being worked out,” Vladimir Putin said at the BRICS business forum last month. And of course, as Russia has been cut off from the SWIFT system, it is also pairing with China and the BRIC nations to develop “reliable alternative mechanisms for international payments” in order to …
Jun 24, 2022 Russia is ready to develop a new global reserve currency alongside China and other BRICS nations, in a potential challenge to the dominance of the US dollar. President Vladimir Putin signaled the …
In 2019, Russia and China signed a treaty to use national currencies in mutual trading. This added to the gradual reduction in the dollar’s traffic – from 90 percent in 2015 to only 46 percent …
Aug 1, 2022 THE RUSSIA-CHINA CASHLESS CURRENCY At the same time, Russia and China are planning their own financial system after NATO weaponized ours. Russia and China have confirmed that they are creating a new world reserve currency based on a basket of currencies at BRICS. Countless nations are buying into it. The new currency system – built out of a …
5th Circuit Ruling Undermines DNC’s Social Media Machine

The Texas law that allows its citizens to sue social media platforms for deleting them for belief alone was upheld by a Federal Appeals court that ruled 3-0 in favor of the Texas Law.  “Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” U.S. 5th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Oldham in justifying the ruling.

A statement by one of the anti-American orgs supporting the continued oppression of free expression by the DNC-led anti-American social media platforms reveals the perverse nature of the leftist ideology these groups serve.

“We remain convinced that when the U.S. Supreme Court hears one of our cases, it will uphold the First Amendment rights of websites, platforms, and apps,” Carl Szabo, NetChoice’s vice president and general counsel.

The websites do not need a first amendment protection if they are not publishers.  The statement exposes the fact these social media platforms are de facto publishers, which opens them up to lawsuits far more pervasive and onerous to their world-colonizing plans than the Texas law this anti-American group rejects.

These “websites” are public communications hubs, and as such must honor the free speech, free expression rights of its users, otherwise they should lose their special protections from criminal and civil legal proceedings.

The ruling puts the Texas law on a collision course with the Supreme Court, who is now dealing with two appeals court judgments that oppose one another.  The test for the continued spirit of America is coming through SCOTUS once again, as we Americans are about to learn if our judiciary recognizes we are a republic, not a democracy, and not a leftist genocidal soviet.

The Left’s Unholy Need for Abortion Exposes Their Human-Hating Ideology

The Minnesota Abortion Action Coalition (MNAAC) is now demanding that the state not fund pregnancy crisis centers that don’t murder unborn children.  In other words, to abortionists, the only proper medical procedure for pregnancy is abortion.  If that sounds genocidal, you would be correct.

Here is the blurb from one of these genocide-supporting websites, now larping as the social and cultural voice of humanity, while also singularly working to exterminate the human race.

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Minnesota Abortion Action Coalition demands no state funding for ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ www.fightbacknews.org
Excerpt:

 

On September 16, the newly formed Minnesota Abortion Action Coalition (MNAAC) held its second action outside of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s residence. MNAAC demanded that state officials put an end to state funding for crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) and other manipulative, anti-abortion organizations throughout the state. Since 2005, the state of Minnesota has spent $3.4 million per year on CPCs.

CPCs are “clinics” that claim to offer medical services for pregnant individuals, yet they rarely have any trained medical professionals on staff. CPCs offer misleading or simply false medical information regarding birth control, sexual health and abortion – while using religiously-charged propaganda to manipulate vulnerable individuals out of having an abortion. In Minnesota, crisis pregnancy centers…

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Note the phrase in the blurb “that claim to offer medical services for pregnant individuals” and the phrase “while using religiously-charged propaganda to manipulate vulnerable individuals out of having an abortion.”

The first phrase exposes their pathology, that abortion is a medical necessity for pregnancy treatment.  They don’t want children to be created for they challenge their hold on the now, the only part of our experience that matters (though they justify their anti-human prescriptions for society based wholly on diluted, untrue, out-of-context history claims).  The left is an idol maker where everyone gets to be part of the one true god, the social, the type of social that prevents the future from happening and wipes out the past lest you realize how false the claims of the left truly are.

The second phrase exposes their hypocrisy.  On one hand, they claim neutrality, that godlessness is the starting and ending assumption of godlessness.  They reject morality based on God, which means they reject morality entirely, something you must do to convince people it’s ok to exterminate their own species.

In my personal journey to discern the reality of the world around me, I explored the canon of leftism, as I have done with the canon of rightism (which has its own flaws, though not as critically unhuman as the flaws of the left).  As many might imagine, there are ‘good’ things to be found in leftist canon (mostly stolen Christian values subverted by godless ones), but abortion is most assuredly the necessary underlying morality that must be perpetuated if you are to believe the lie of leftism, that individuals only exist in the social, that the social is more real than the individual.

If the unborn child is sacred, then individuals are sacred, without the “proper” social vehicle to live that sacredness out.  This undermines their murder authority, the authority to pronounce death to those that interfere with their dark fantasy of creating a self-consuming society.

I am naturally an open person willing to explore diverse worldviews, so naturally I considered leftist thought on its face, and not according to the polemics of its opponents.  While I never considered myself a leftist, I was more than willing to understand them in an attempt to ‘negotiate’ peaceful living with them.

I discovered in my studies that no such peace is possible with an ideology that has as its core a bloodthirsty need to exterminate the human race in the name of ‘equality.’  That truth was laid out in how the left responded to the rise of rightfully anti-abortionist laws created by states such as Texas and Florida.

While some of the laws have constitutional issues in how they are enforced (at least in my opinion, and specifically the Texas law), the land that rejects sub humanizing the most vulnerable among us is a healthy land, the land that embraces the shedding of innocent blood to pay for the sins of the mothers and fathers that contributed to their creation (all life is created by God).

The reaction to the left was to use the power of its tech assassins, especially Twitter, to destroy human beings that are against murdering unborn children.  In the mind of the leftist, abortion is love and being opposed to murdering unborn babies is hate.  Why, to the leftist it’s worst to oppose abortion than it is to be attracted to them sexually.  To the leftist the MAP (minor-attracted-person) is to be protected from “persecution” by self-righteous religious purists while their own religious purity requires daily blood sacrifices from the most innocent among us.

Seeing the reaction of the left to the undoing of child sacrifices to their social god, Moloch, convinced me finally to close the door on the leftist canon and close the door on attempting to live in a society that tolerates such violent genocidal maniacs from having ANY significant power in our lands.

Unless and until America repents of her murderous Moloch ways and wholly rejects the criminal ideology of leftism, her days are numbered.  She will be a stench to her own people and a stench to the people around her.  America cannot be a republic and support murdering our most vulnerable citizens so that other citizens can keep on sinning, unrepentant, believing falsely they can be sexually promiscuous, having sex outside of marriage, and yet suffer no consequences for the whoring the land not only allows, but endorses, not only allows, but coercively forces its citizens to celebrate.

May God have mercy on our reprobate souls.

Product Analysis: The Retirement-Age Tank

 

Chieftain. M1 Abrams. Leopard 2. Leclerc. Challenger. To anyone with a passing familiarity in the world of modern armored warfare, these names are well known, and rightly feared, should one come up in opposition to them. These vehicles all occupy the top tier of main battle tanks in the world of 2022.

However, even given the impressive combat record of all the vehicles listed above, none of them – combined – match the battle history, breadth of deployment nor numbers produced of the most numerous battle tank in history: the near-immortal T54/55.

Polish T-55A’s on the streets during Martial law in Poland, December, 1981. Public Domain.

As of this writing (September, 2022), an estimated 100,000 units – or more – are in current service, around the world, counting variants made in China.

The first prototype rolled out of the assembly bays at Nizhny Tagil, in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, near the end of 1945. Design work had begun in 1943, at the Morozov Design Bureau, in the desperate days of the Soviet Union’s battle against the juggernaut of Nazi Germany. With the end of the war, immediate pressure to crank out a new tank lessened, and the Soviets took their time to get the vehicle right.

The result was a vehicle that rivaled the legendary T-34 tank, as it had almost the same cross country performance as its predecessor, but had far better armor, running gear and much more powerful D10-T 100mm main gun. Going into production in 1948, a small initial batch of just under 1,500 vehicles were built, and – as usual with new designs – issues began to show up. Over time, enough of these corrections and redirections (including a focus on surviving nearby nuclear detonations) accumulated to give birth to the T55.

A T-55, one of several Somali National Army tanks (ca. 1981). US Army photo.

By then, the T54 had seen some of its first real combat actions, in both the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary in 1956, and in some of the very early stages of the Second Indochina War. But that was only the beginning.

As the production lines ramped up, and more units rolled off the lines, users around the world suddenly discovered that they had a relatively cheap, yet very effective, battle tank. While the T54/55 was quickly surpassed by newer and more advanced designs, in both its home country and in the West, it continued in production. The reason was simple: while the T54/55’s replacements (such as the T-62 and T-72, among others) might have been technically more capable and effective, the T54/55 was more effective than all of them, when it was the only tank on the field, and its enemies had either inferior tanks (or no tanks at all) to face it.

MTU-20 bridgelayer in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel, 2006.

As it was simple to service in the field, and comparatively cheap (at c.US$200,000 in 1972), it became a favorite of Third World armies, in many cases, being the first battle tank of any sort that those countries had ever deployed. The D10-T main gun turned the tank – with certain limitations – into an effective mobile artillery piece. The platform also quickly proved highly adaptable, with multiple variants quickly appearing on the horizon, variants that further expanded the tank parks of many small countries. For many nations, the T54/55 became a pillar of their armed forces. Many firms around the world offer various types of upgrade packages for the design, as of this writing.

T-55AM2 Main Battle Tank of the Sri Lankan Army, 2012

Of course, as with all poorly handled equipment, if an operator just bought tanks for show, and then tried to use them for real, the results were…less than spectacular. Although suffering repeated drubbings at the hands of top-tier armies like the Israeli IDF and the US military (and, embarrassingly, the Chadians), many other armies – like India, Vietnam, Tanzania and Sri Lanka – showed that when properly handled, the tank designed at the end of World War 2, was a highly dangerous combatant on the battlefield.

This remains the case. Around the world of 2022, this guttural steel monster continues to fight. There are better tanks, now, but that doesn’t matter, unless those tanks show up to oppose the ancient beast…and even then, it might surprise its younger cousin’s, depending on who is crewing it.

 

Tank driver, Lance Corporal Mudondo Zabina of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces, manoeuvres her tank under the watch of her commanding tank officer, Lieutenant colonel Fred Kakaire. Zabina was a tank driver in Gulu befoe she was deployed to Somalia. AU/UN IST PHOTO / David Mutua

 

Product Analysis: The HP-35 – The “Other” Browning Pistol

 

It has long been acknowledged that John Browning is one of – if not the – greatest American firearms designer of all time. Indeed, his Winchester 1894 – the venerable “.30-30” – with over six million units produced, is the most numerous sporting rifle ever made. Browning’s designs have lasted well over one hundred years; in fact, variations of his M1911A1 pistol and M2HB heavy machine gun are still in service in the United States Armed Forces, at least in some capacity, despite both being over a century old.

John M. Browning, c.1920.

At the end of World War One, however, Browning did not rest on his laurels after a sixty-year career of designing weapons for both civilians and military forces. As he was no longer offering his designs exclusively to Winchester, after the war was over, Browning began working with the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale (FN). One of the final designs Browning was working on, a French military requirement for a new service pistol, the “Grand Rendement” (French for “high efficiency“), would never be completed, as Browning would die suddenly of heart failure, on the floor of his son and co-designer’s shop November 26, 1926, at the age of 71.

The service pistol design, while not complete, had advanced far enough that it could be completed by Browning’s assistant, designer Dieudonné Saive, a tremendously talented designer in his own right, who would go on to design many legendary firearms, including the FAL (Fusil Automatique Leger or Light Automatic Rifle), which would become known as the “Right Arm of the Free World.”

An FN Browning High Power, belonging to Indonesia’s Marinir (Marine Corps).

The pistol for the French contract was a “game-changer” design. Browning had been one of the first designers of practical and reliable semi-automatic pistols, as far back as 1899, and the French pistol built on from everything he had learned to that point. The task, however, was not simple, as Browning had to compete with himself — he had previously sold his patent on the M1911 to Colt Manufacturing; as a result, Browning was unable to directly copy that design. The new pistol used a 13-round, detachable box magazine (designed by Saive), the first true ‘staggered-stack’ design that allowed a near-doubling of ammunition capacity, without overly-enlarging the grip.

Due to the French commission’s wandering requirements (something all to common in the weapons design world, being one of the chief reasons for mindless cost overruns in defense products), the design was unable to mature until 1931, when the Belgian Army ordered 1,000 units of the early design, and was finally completed in 1934…Which was, of course, when the French chose another pistol, that went on to become barely a footnote in history.

Weapons used by Swedish Volunteer Corps. Inglis of Canada HP-35 in upper-right corner (#4).

The Belgian Army, however, had been following the pistol’s development, and were highly impressed with the small sample that they had purchased three years earlier. The French competition was barely over, when the Belgians formally adopted the pistol, as the “HP-35“, as their national sidearm, which would become known as the “High Power“.

World War 2 saw Nazi Germany swallow Belgium whole, and with it, the FN factories. When it became clear that Belgium would fall, Saive and other FN engineers fled to England, and carried the designs of many weapons, including the High Power, with them. The High Power’s plans were handed over to John Inglis and Company, of Toronto, Canada, who rapidly tooled up lines to produce two versions of the design: the standard model with fixed sights, and a version with an adjustable rear sight and a detachable shoulder stock (primarily for a Nationalist Chinese contract). From there, the High Power took off to became the primary sidearm of the armies of 93 nations, as well as many special operations forces, most famously, Great Britain’s SAS, and remains in service with many of those militaries to this day.

Canadian soldiers inspect their weapons, Camp Blanding, Fla., April 18, 2009, in support of Partnership of the Americas 2009. USMC photo.

Unfortunately, all good things come to an end – or seem to. After 82 years of continuous production, FN Herstal announced that the production of the Hi-Power would end, and it was discontinued in early 2018 by Browning Arms. From 2019 to 2022, with no new Belgian Hi-Powers being built, clones were designed by various firearm companies around the world, including Springfield Armory, as the “SA-35.” These new Hi-Power clones began competing with each other by offering new finishes, enhanced sights, redesigned hammers, beveled magazine wells, improved trigger, and increased magazine capacity.

However, in 2022, presumably to compete with the sudden surge in Hi-Power popularity, FN announced they would resume production of the Browning Hi-Power. The 2022 “FN High Power” incorporated a number of entirely new features such as a fully ambidextrous slide lock, simplified takedown method, enlarged ejection port, reversible magazine release, wider slide serrations, different colored finish offerings, and 17-round magazines.

As of the end of 2022, the eighty-seven year old design has suddenly found new life, and will likely continue in service well past its 100-year design mark…

…Like many other models of its designer.

DNC INC Sponsors Drag Queen Shows for Kids

The DNC’s Woketarian Corporations are proudly sponsoring LGBTQPQRSTYVWXYZ festivals that include Drag Shows targeted for children.  These are the people willing to use their market power to force their “morality” on the rest of America, the same Americans that gave them that market power in the first place.  Companies include Target and Walmart, two virtue-signalling firms fully embracing the woketarianism of the DNC.

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Credit Card Companies to Assist Government Tracking Gun Purchases

Credit card companies are now openly working with the government to circumnavigate the Constitution by implementing a sales code for gun retailers to assure gun purchases can be tracked.  All this is done in the name of preventing mass shootings.

The credit card companies allege they are just doing normal business, even as they also acknowledge their doing it to stop mass shootings.

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Credit card companies will adopt new sales code for gun transactions www.wmur.com
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‘U.S. credit card giants said they will implement a new merchant category code for the nation’s gun retailers, which gun control activists say will help flag potential mass shooters and gun traffickers.The International Organization for Standardization, based in Geneva, approved the code on Friday. The system will separately categorize sales at gun and ammunition stores, which advocates say can help track suspicious transactions of firearms and ammunition.Visa, the world’s largest payment network, will “proceed with next steps” the company said in a statement Sunday, “while ensuring we protect all legal commerce on the Visa network in accordance with our long-standing rules.” American Express said it will follow its usual business practices and work with third-party processors and partners to implement the code.”We are focused on ensuring that we have the right controls in place to meet our regulatory and fiduciary responsibilities, as well as prevent illegal activity on our network,” the company said in a statement Sunday.

A statement Saturday from Mastercard noted that recent bipartisan action in Congress is a positive step in “meaningfully” addressing gun violence. Now that the ISO approved the new merchant category code, Mastercard said it is turning its focus to how the system will be implemented by merchants and their banks.”We continue to support lawful purchases on our network while protecting the privacy and decisions of individual cardholders,” Mastercard said in a statement. “This is exactly how we would manage the process for any other appropriate MCC, like a bicycle shop or sporting goods store.”Nearly every retail item has a merchant category code — prior to Friday’s decision by the ISO, gun store sales were classified under a general merchandise or sporting goods category.Merchant codes track where a consumer used a credit card, but won’t flag what…

 

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