Your Sunday News Assembly, for 7-28-24!
Breaking news, video links, and contextual information, to help peel those political onions out there!
Greetings, fellow Conspirators!
This week, we have 20 breaking stories and two video links for your perusal! As always, feel free to read them all, read a few, read a few and take notes, anything you like, and please feel free to share the entire Assembly with friends and loved ones!
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Now, as Mario and Luigi say, “Let’s-a-go!”
ONE!
This story, from the consistently great Eric Peters, reveals how US "CAFE Standards" prompt car-makers to do a lot of shifting in their lines in order to comply (the average, of course, so they need to keep certain heavier vehicles going while making others lighter, to maintain the "average" the feds dictate). Here, Eric sheds light on how Ford will continue to make its V-8 Mustang, buuuuuut, it will be a specialty car, at a high price (the only way customers can get a stick for the Mustang) while the other Mustangs will be 4 cylinder, and automatic. As Eric points out, this will allow Ford to continue to promote the Mustang as a muscle car (the V-8) but they will sell very few of those, because they can't allow a higher proportion of their lower-mileage cars to be sold, because, of course, that will put them afoul of the "average fuel economy" mandated by the feds. It's amazing to see the ways market participants will work to try to maintain a certain standard or reputation, while being coerced by political forces that drag them away from pleasing consumers.
The Mustang GT Tax - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk
Eric Peters is a Libertarian gearhead, columnist and author.
www.ericpetersautos.com
TWO!
AND! This story reflects a similar "secondary and tertiary effect" pattern! Here, we find that European govt (and UK govt) pushes against coal, and US subsidies for wood-pellet-for-stoves makers, artificially have increased demand for wood pellets, which, of course, brings us to the landowners near this pellet plant in the US. These are people who are interested in court action in response to their health problems that they ascribe to the wood pellet plant. And, get this, the Bidenistas subsidized wood-pellet burning in order to, OF COURSE, "curb carbon emissions". Yeah, they are trying to push people away from coal and to wood-burning so that the coal won't put their dreaded bogeyman CO2 into the air... Evidently, they don't understand that coal is just super-compressed wood-vegetation. And they don't seem to grasp that burning wood puts their dreaded CO2 into the air. It's clear: they just want to destroy coal plants and the coal exploration/recovery industry that remains in the US. By the way, in a traditional Common Law arrangement, the folks downwind from a polluter would be able to bring tortious claims, and the people accused of creating the pollution would not be granted "corporate" status by government. Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. But it's come at a cost for Blacks in the South (msn.com)
Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. But it's come at a cost for Blacks in the South
Wood pellets production boomed to feed EU demand. But it's come at a cost for Blacks in the South - Wood pellet production has skyrocketed across the U.S. South to feed the European Union’s push for renewable energy to replace fossil fuels
www.msn.com
THREE!
This report tells us that MA Governor Maura Healey is going to change her "emergency shelter" policy for migrants, offering them plane tickets to leave MA. The report does not tell us where the migrants can fly on taxpayer dimes, and if one actually clicks on the link to the Gov's press release, one sees no mention of that, and, in fact, one sees that the government actually is allowing people to stay, first, in "temporary respite centers/safety-net sites" for five days as the state readies to put them into what are called "Emergency Assistance" locations. The migrants can stay in those for nine months, then ask for a new cycle, to stay longer – on taxpayer dimes, of course. And get this, the Governor's press release shows us another neat sleight of hand, the MA govt is moving migrants out of the EA locations – looks appealing for those who want the government to stop housing migrants, right? But, in fact, the government then subsidizes RENT for those who move out of the Emergency Assistance centers! If you'd like to eventually move into an apartment and have your rent subsidized by others, just pretend you're a migrant, in MA.
‘We Do Not Have Room’: Sanctuary State To Offer Plane Tickets For Migrants To Leave
A New England state that has long been regarded as a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants is now dramatically scaling back its emergency migrant shelter services and offering plane rides for them to leave, according to a Tuesday announcement. Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced that the state will limit stays at overflow shelters to just five days for migrants beginning next month, and that it will offer to cover plane tickets and...
www.msn.com
FOUR!
Kit Knightly has a very good piece in the Off-Guardian focusing on the first big rollout of a social-credit-score-ESG data system, in Copenhagen. Right now, it's only for tourists, to "incentivize" them into the behavior the government prefers... But, I wonder if you're struck by the photo in the top of the story, a photo that reminds me of old-timey photos of Paris or Boston (etc) prior to the introduction of the automobile and other great developments that have helped mankind flourish. The neo-luddites are everywhere, and they have strong ties to some of the biggest international forces in world history, calling to force austerity on the rest of us.
“CopenPay” – Europe’s first Climate-centric Social Credit Scheme
The world’s first climate-related social rewards scheme came into being two weeks ago, when the city of Copenhagen officially launched it’s new “CopenPay” system. Through th…
off-guardian.org
FIVE!
It turns out that Kamala Harris not only was given the title "Border Czar" (regardless of the denials from pop media, of course, something the mighty MRC has shown with that great montage a few days ago), but she also was named to head up the unconstitutional push to give people "broadband" internet. Now, I know mentioning their Constitution is like uttering a curse word to them, but, dang, I juuuuust can't find that in their "rule book"! Here's the story:
Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris to serve as the rural broadband czar in 2021. Part of her task was overseeing the implementation of a $42 billion program
thenationalpulse.com
As the report notes, National Pulse already has reported on the wasteful black hole of this program.
Joe Biden's $42 Billion Broadband Plan Hasn't Connected A Single User To The Internet.
Three years ago, Joe Biden signed a sweeping $42 billion rural broadband proposal into law with the aim of bringing needed internet connections to
thenationalpulse.com
SIX!
Here's a little slice of the economy – pun intended. Dominos is noticing a big shift away from delivered pizzas – because, as they note, folks don't want to spend the extra to tip delivery people any more. What a great economy!
Domino's CEO said that its carryout business is booming -- and its shows why many consumers aren't interested in having pizza delivered.
www.msn.com
But Americans must be deranged, right?
Consumer Sentiment Hits Eight-Month Low Amid Inflation Woes
US consumer sentiment dropped in July to its lowest level in eight months as persistent high prices and stubbornly high inflation continued to erode | Economy
www.breitbart.com
And... Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Unexpectedly Jumped In June; Savings Rate Slumps | ZeroHedge
Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Unexpectedly Jumped In June; Savings Rate Slumps
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
SEVEN!
This was just sad... In France, heavily Catholic, the place that recently saw the Cathedral of Notre Dame burned to near oblivion, they chose to mock the last supper and push such absurd, weak, in-your-face cultural Marxism... Truly sad.
'What Was That?!': Paris Olympics Opens with Suggested Bisexual Threesome
From the moment that the 2024 Paris Olympics launched its opening ceremony with an elaborate street dance scene, it became clear that pushing the LGBTQ agenda was at the top of the program with a sequence that made the opening the "gayest opening ceremony ever."
www.breitbart.com
And, SURPRISE, the EU went after several people who posted clips of the absurd display – yep, copyright infringement, as enforced by the govt officials who steal from taxpayers every day.
Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Dancing Drag Queens And Bizarre Symbology
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
More on the copyright attacks, from ReclaimTheNet.
Here is Matt Walsh, on X, with a clip of the Smurfy madness
EIGHT!
After using the US military as an occupying force for years in Afghanistan, US government officials yanked them out and left a lot of equipment behind. The soldiers who were killed trying to manage that pullout were shuttled back to their families, and Joe Biden insulted them further by glancing at his watch. Now, we see that Jen Psaki tacitly admits that the lied in her book when she claimed Biden never did that.
Jen Psaki offers apology to Afghanistan Gold Star families - Washington Examiner
Jen Psaki offered an apology to the families of the 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan during testimony.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
NINE!
The recent problem of "wind-turbine" debris washing up on Nantucket beaches (inspiring govt cats to close them) inspired Just The News to look at the larger scope of Bidenista plans to run wind projects all along the US coasts. It's not only fascist and anti-constitutional, it's alarming, and of great concern to many naturalists (Michael Shellenberger recently participated in a documentary about that). Here is the Just the News story:
Documents show citizens' concerns ignored as Biden administration moves forward with offshore wind
Government knows what better for you? Multiple groups have voiced objections to Biden’s offshore wind energy plan regarding marine wildlife, historic sites, tourism and fishing. Many say the Department of the Interior has not factored in anything they have to say on these matters.
justthenews.com
Here is the fallout from Nantucket's problems: a potential lawsuit against the windfarm gang.
Nantucket Considers Suing Vineyard Wind as More Turbine Debris Washes Up on Its Shores
Debris from damaged blades is now washing up along the area around Cape Cod.
legalinsurrection.com
And here is some of Shellenberger discussing the issue of the windfarms harming marine and avian lifeforms.
Renewable Wind Turbines Linked To Whale Deaths: Michael Shellenberger
Journalist Michael Shellenberger discusses his new documentary on the demise of the whale species, and what could be behind it. #ocean #environment Originally aired Aug. 14, 2023;
About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers ...
www.youtube.com
TEN!
Here is a good piece by Jonathan Turley on what NewsGuard does to make people like us engage in busy work and threaten to reduce our reach.
The Hill's Headlines u2013 July 26, 2024
Apparently from where NewsGuard reviewers sit, I am a de facto conservative or libertarian who needs to wear a digital bell to warn others.
thehill.com
ELEVEN!
Ahh, consistency. Not only is the ban patently unconstitutional, but the Biden and now the Harris crews will use it through to the elections... Because it's so evil, of course.
Billionaire Frank McCourt, Jr.: We are dead serious about our TikTok bid
Billionaire Frank McCourt, Jr. unpacks the pursuit to buy the social media giant on 'The Claman Countdown.'
www.foxbusiness.com
TWELVE!
This is slightly promising. If one operates on their accepted "norm" without questioning the validity of the funds, overall, then it looks to be a mild positive. In one case, there are REAL year-to-year cuts of millions for the ESG welfare push of "environmental justice" and it blocks funding for the enforcement of EPA emissions mandates on heavy trucks... But the overall numbers remain a question to me. Are there real cuts in the EPA budget, or is it baseline budgeting, labeling as "cuts" increases that won't go as high as originally proposed?
Here is The Daily Caller on it:
House GOP Passes Bill That Takes Sledgehammer To Several Dem Climate Goals
House Republicans rolled back Biden administration regulatory efforts and slashed budgets for environmental agencies.
dailycaller.com
And here is a closer look at some of the numbers:
GOP notches win as Interior-EPA spending bill passes House
The $38.5 billion legislation would slash funding for clean energy and climate programs. EPA would be cut by 20 percent.
www.eenews.net
THIRTEEN!
Meanwhile, the government will continue operating...
State Officials Tell Californians to Stop Outdoor Grilling over Air Quality Concerns
More nanny-state madness: Officials also want people to minimize the use of candles, incense, pan-frying.
legalinsurrection.com
FOURTEEN!
The free speech case focusing on the actions of the University of Oregon will continue, with the likelihood that the plaintiff, a prof at the publicly-funded college, will prevail. The case is called Gilley v. Stabin and here is Jonathan Turley's take on an injunction against the university for blocking Gilley from commenting at the University Twitter acct., commenting about "all men" being created equal.
“All Men are Created Equal”: University of Oregon Loses Key Motion in Free Speech Case
We previously discussed the free speech lawsuit of Portland State University Professor Bruce Gilley who was blocked from the Twitter account of the University of Oregon’s Division of Equity and Inc…
jonathanturley.org
FIFTEEN!
Here's a really bad idea that indicates a complete lack of awareness about the US Constitution.
Trump calls for jailing flag burners
"Now, people will say, 'Oh, it's unconstitutional.' Those are stupid people," the former President said.
reason.com
SIXTEEN!
Similar to the strike-down of the Trump Bump-Stock Ban, this federal district judge has ruled that the ATF cannot ban certain types of triggers (forced-reset-triggers) on its own, without a new statute from Congress. Of course, such a statute would be unconstitutional, as is all of the ATF, but the judge disregards that, as do most commentators on this kind of issue. Here is the story
Federal Judge Tosses ATF’s “Unlawful” Ban on Rapid-firing Triggers
A federal judge ruled that the Biden administration “exceeded its statutory authority” by saying forced-reset triggers are machine guns.
thenewamerican.com
SEVENTEEN!
This is another example of the problems created by public-funding of anything, especially schools.
Coach Sues School for Firing Him for Opposing Transgenders in Girls’ Athletics
John Parks was fired for expressing the opinion that transgender athletes should compete against each other rather than against biological females.
thenewamerican.com
EIGHTEEN!
College Fix reports that two scholars have been removed from participation in an National Institutes of Health event – because the guys support actually recognizing people according to real biology.
NIH kicks out scholars critical of gender identity from ‘sex and gender’ event | The College Fix
Scholars ponder legal action against taxpayer-funded institute.
www.thecollegefix.com
NINETEEN!
How curious this is...
Two athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as “women” were previously disqualified from a women’s world championship for having “XY chromosomes.” Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women’s boxing next week despite past questions surrounding their biological sex. The Women’s World Boxing Championships took place in […]
reduxx.info
TWENTY!
The tax-subsidized University of Michigan (my dad's alma mater) is giving bonuses to profs who slide "DEI" ideology into math and the hard sciences (i.e. Science). This must be a delight for the students, not to mention the taxpayers who might not have learned until recently that the tax-thievery leads to even more insult.
Award is part of honorary ‘Diversity & Social Transformation Professorship.’…
www.thecollegefix.com
That's it for our textual links! Let’s check out some key video content!
First, the GrayZone, on Netanyahu’s lie-packed visit to the tax-fed Congress. I hope lots more folks get to see their excellent work.
Second, I would like to recommend Malcolm Guite’s excellent, morally-driven work discussing fiction, especially the great fantasists. He currently is completing his first volume of a new fictional-yet-historically-based take on Arthur, and this speech on the fantasy work of George MacDonald is exceptional. In this speech, Mr. Guite (who is a priest, musician, poet) discusses something I’ve been able to discuss with David Knight — the importance and value of fiction to allow the mind to transcend the material. Fiction is not merely a distraction from the day-to-day real world. It is a key to allowing each of us to exercise that essential power to imagine, and it is through this ability that we actually transform the physical things around us into new things, new inventions, breakthroughs for tools, and it is how we can see that, if one can imagine, create pictures, visit worlds inside our own minds, then one can see that God’s mind created us, that the physical world comes from the meta-physical, and it must be comprehended in the mind. Here is his speech on MacDonald, who inspired many to write high-fantasy and magical realism, and when it is written well, the lessons of God and our ability to comprehend the poetry of the world, are much more open to us. Here’s the link
And here is his channel, which is more focused on Tolkien, at YT! Wonderful stuff!
The link. And, perhaps you, too, might think that he reminds you of Dr. Zaius, from Planet of the Apes (without the tyranny, of course). :)
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Gard, well done as always, however, I'm going to focus here on your Number one and Number two stories. There is a nexus between them. You see, I've been a car guy for a long time. I was building bracket cars from 1978 through 1981. I've been fighting the standards for the same period. For example, the catalytic converter was just another crony capitalist handout. Air bags were as well. Carburetors were the reverse kind of handout for the unions. They held us up from widely adopting fuel injection for years. Follow the money?
Back when Big O took over from little W, the first beg re-jiggering of the the auto industry was on its way. One of the plants to close was Ford's Norfolk assembly plant. They mostly built import versions but had dealers in the Mid_Atlantic they were able to sell to. I can still remember seeing the last of the unfinished frames on flatbed trailers, headed West of I-64 towards an MO assembly plant.
The UAW told their employees that the plant would open back up again. Oops. The Big and the Blue Oval didn't see it that way.
But, let us back away from that picture for a second. Back in the late 1980's, the US furniture manufacturing started to be replaced (and I say replaced by unfair competition from Asia, which was allowed by Congress) by Imports. Rather than close the factories lock stock and barrel here and replaced them with cheaper labor over there, a facade must be created to make it appear that our companies were just not doing well enough to stay at full strength. Rather than close it all up and make things look like a crash dive that nobody could come out of, they closed the US furniture business slowly. What also closed off, was the extraction of the hardwoods from VA, WV, NC, TN and KY. By the late 80's, wood pellet stoves were all the rage. Cutting your own wood was made to look nasty and to laborious. The Pellet industry was born.
Bring on the Al Gore brigade and not only was Crony Capitalism expanded but had a new revenue stream created. The ability for Global politicians to invest in companies, which existed outside of the laws of ethics. This included the Carbon Credit exchange. It's the American version of "Belt and Road" more like "Oak and Road".
So let us bring the two stories together, and I can do this because I am life long Virginian who has family and friends who live in that part of the state. In fact, sitting in my carport as I speak, is 1984 F-150 with 80K miles on it. It has a small oval sticker on the passenger side of the rear window. It says it was built at the Norfolk, VA Assembly plant and it was purchased at Bowditch Ford in Newport News, VA. My father-law purchased it new when he retired from the Newport News Shipbuilding yard.
That plant was converted to a wood pellet plant, to make pellets to be used in UK Power Plants, who were earning "Carbon Credits", by making smoke from wood and the wood they were using, was the same wood we used to harvest to make furniture with here those previously mentioned states. With the exception that the amount of wood they were taking to make pellets, far out-stripped the ability of these great trees to grow. Who is really helping the environment? Not the Carbon Credit bastards.
They also are leaving nothing for us to revive our furniture industry with as well. OH and Guess what Biden was pushing? You got it! Cut-Baby-Cut down those trees!!!
Here are a few links for you check out if you get the time:
https://www.reliableplant.com/Read/7124/ford-ceases-production-at-norfolk-assembly-plant
and you can't find anything on the conversion today. You could find all over the web a few years ago, when the Republican lead Virginia government put the deals together to convert the old Paint Plant into a Bio-Fuels center.
oh look! "BIO" fuels are all the rage two years ago! They can "mitigate high risk wild fires". Oh, I guess they mean the forest land that the US Forest Service used to control and then stopped for some unexplained reason (I wonder where that executive order came from?)
https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/enviva-to-double-pellet-production-will-rank-fourth-among-us-wood-users/
and
OOPS! Times, they aren't as good as they once were. I wonder if they'll sell the old paint shop that's left in Norfolk back to Ford? I'd bet somebody at the UAW would throw it into the wind.
https://apnews.com/article/enviva-bankruptcy-wood-pellets-c07cee17ef6cd8a00e317a3f9a53d87b
and
https://www.southernenvironment.org/news/selc-95-other-orgs-warn-president-biden-about-dangers-of-biomass-energy/
Ain't that nice? They get to hid from bankruptcy and restructure. I wonder what they did at Ford and Lane, Pennsylvania House and Broyhill and so many more names and faces. Hundreds of Thousands of Americans from the coke pits and the forests and the mills, shops, plants, rail roads, wholesalers and retail stores and even banks and gas stations and hardware stores to support them.
The raping and pillaging of the South by Mr. Lincoln continues into the 21st Century with the Royal Families, leading the way.
Yours in Liberty,
Vince
ps. remember the ending of the movie Three Days of the Condor? The last story told it all. Crony Capitalism is the game and we are the pieces on the game board. Just like 1775. Think about it.