Your Sunday News Assembly, for 8-25-24!
Breaking news, video links, and contextual information to help peel those political onions!
Greetings, fellow Conspirators!
And salutations, as we fly through the last week of August!
This week we have 20 big 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 prefer, and please feel free to share the entire Assembly with friends and loved ones!
Be sure to head to Rumble or Rokfin at 6 PM eastern each M-F for the news, from Liberty Conspiracy LIVE! I try to supply as much big info to freedom fighters as I can!!
And feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the Assembly, and you also can donate to help the Liberty Conspiracy, itself! Just visit PayPal to help out!
And now, as Mario and Luigi would say, “Let’s-a GO!”
ONE!
On the heels of the Loper Bright SCOTUS case that saw the majority strike down "Chevron deference" to regulatory agencies just making up their own rules because the statutes that created the agencies might be termed "ambiguous," we have this, from the 5th Circuit. It reveals that the court has struck down a Labor Department mandate for higher hourly wages for wait-staff. I find it interesting that some folks are arguing about the "right" or "wrong" form/amount of compensation for other people and that the government should dictate that. How about they let the people actually participating in the hiring and work system decide for themselves – and the ultimate hire-er is the customer, and each customer can decide for himself how much to tip or not to tip. Should the government mandate TIP amounts, as well? The keys are that the hourly wage mandate on any level (state or federal) is immoral, unconstitutional, and anti-economic. Here's the story, complete with waitress who looks kind of like Chrissie Hynde!
US appeals court scraps Biden tipped wages rule
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a rule adopted by President Joe Biden's administration designed to raise pay for tipped workers, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that curtailed federal agencies' ability to issue regulations. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided unanimously with two restaurant industry
www.msn.com
TWO!
Here's one that can cause a lot of frayed nerves and inspire a great deal of fiery, rancorous, debate. These sixteen state AGs are suing to stop the Biden Admin plan to allow a fast process for the non-citizen spouses of Americans to be recognized as legal US "permanent residents." Without this, many couples and families could be split apart by the feds, but the AG petitioners note that the Biden plan undercuts many foreign people who have tried to endure the legal requirements for legal residency, have returned to their nations, and gotten in the proverbial "legal queue." Here's a quote:
“Federal statute prohibits illegal aliens from obtaining most immigration benefits, such as permanent resident status, without first leaving the country and being admitted to re-enter and reside in the country lawfully,” the coalition said. Instead of following current federal law, the program “effectively provides a new pathway to a green card and eventual citizenship,” the coalition added, because it allows “more than 1.3 million aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States to circumvent the processes established by Congress to apply for permanent residency – an opportunity that is not legally available to those present in the country unlawfully.”
16 state coalition sues Biden administration to block amnesty plan
(The Center Square) – A 16-state coalition led by Texas has sued the Biden administration to stop a widespread amnesty plan from going into effect. They did so two months after President Joe Biden announced the plan designed to fast track a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals who’ve been living in the country illegall...
www.msn.com
It's too bad that so few people acknowledge the fact that the word "immigration" isn't in the US Constitution, that the power is supposed to be in the hands of each state, and that the Chy Lung v. Freeman decision of 1875 simply invented out of nothing the federal control over immigration. Here's a link to the Justia info on the decidion...
Chy Lung v. Freeman, 92 U.S. 275 (1875)
Chy Lung v. Freeman
supreme.justia.com
THREE!
The French govt arresting Telegram messaging system (and key code-creator) CEO Pavel Durov stems, according to this Reuters report, from the govt claiming that Telegraph was not monitoring users enough to prevent possible criminal communications... Does that imply that the heads of Verizon, Sprint, and other phone companies also will be arrested unless they eavesdrop on all users and report "suspicious" activity? The big thing that hovers over this arrest is that Telegram is widely used to show what is happening in the Ukraine-Russia War, and the French government is highly supportive of Ukraine. Here's the link!
And more: Here
Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France, local reports say
Telegram is one of the most downloaded apps in the world, with its founder Pavel Durov saying in July it has close to one billion users.
news.sky.com
And here is more, via Tucker Carlson's interview with Durov.
FOUR!
Wow – I didn't know some of the other deceptive statements Tim Walz or people working for his campaigns have promulgated, including his false claim that he and his wife conceived through IVF. It was a different procedure that does not involve the creation of numerous other embryos that will be frozen. This is an excellent piece, and gets my blood close to boiling... Check it out...
For Tim Walz, a Pattern of Prevarications Stretches Back Almost Two Decades
When Tim Walz launched his 2006 campaign for Congress in rural Minnesota, he boasted in his public biography that in 1993, he "was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities." That was not true.
freebeacon.com
FIVE!
Is anyone surprised by this?
A Secret Service department that handles manpower requests urged agents not to ask for additional security ahead of the Trump shooting, a whistleblower said.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
SIX!
This is not encouraging... She wants to hike corporate taxes, wants to establish Liz Warren's pet "unrealized gains" tax, and wants to continue Biden's slow move to establish a "cost of carbon" tax... Here's some info on Kamala, the daughter of a hardcore leftist economist, and scion of a slaveholder. Her thirst to enslave people carries on the family tradition. This is an excellent piece, from Brietbart. Link!
Report: Kamala Harris Wants to Boost Taxes by $5 Trillion
Vice President Kamala Harris's economic plan would increase taxes by $5 trillion over ten years, according to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).
www.breitbart.com
But, lest we forget, Trump wants to establish a 10% tariff on all incoming foreign goods, and a 60% tariff on all incoming Chinese goods.
And his previous tariff mania imposed on the US $80 BILLION in increased taxes.
Tariff Tracker: Tracking the Economic Impact of Tariffs
The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades. The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place
taxfoundation.org
...and this caused a massive bleed of an estimated $3.3 TRILLION in US firm value
Trump’s Tariffs Were Much More Damaging Than Thought
Research on the impact of Donald Trump’s trade policy finds to the extent a president manages the economy, Trump managed it poorly.
www.forbes.com
Central planning, in any form, is aggressive and regressive. How about they NOT do it?
SEVEN!
Yes, it was Biden who imposed most of the jab mandates on the federal side, but since it was Trump's unconstitutional declaration of a "medical emergency" on March 13, 2020 that started all of the lockdown and jab-mandate nonsense in the first place, perhaps a personal apology would be in order? Certainly, the soldiers can't personally sue Trump, even though his "emergency" declaration was utterly unconstitutional, and, therefore, an act of malfeasance. Link!
Trump Promises to Rehire Every Unvaxxed Veteran Fired by Biden-Harris with an Apology and Back Pay.
Former President Donald J. Trump has vowed to rehire every military veteran fired for declining to comply with the Biden-Harris regime's COVID-19 vaccine
thenationalpulse.com
EIGHT!
Hmmm... I bet the pop media jump right on this story and correct for their problematic lassitude. LINK!
The Atlantic Ocean is now cooling at a record speed, leading climate alarmists absolutely baffled.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
NINE!
At about this time, last year, I wrote about the vast number of immigrant kids who have gone missing after the US immigration bureaucracy allowed them to go off with people who weren't their parents. Now, the number is even larger. LINK!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lost track of up to 291,000 unaccompanied minors over the last five years, according to a blistering new report released by the Department of Homeland…
amgreatness.com
TEN!
This is good to see. We got to cover her story a while back, as she was, again, arrested for silently praying outside a UK abortion clinic. She just got the equivalent of a $17K settlement from the govt. Link!
Pro-life activist arrested for praying outside UK abortion center receives big police payout
British pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce received a £13,000 payout from local law enforcement after filing a claim accusing them of false imprisonment and other offenses.
www.msn.com
ELEVEN!
"Little Britain" is one of the most famous comedy shows in UK history. Its creator is speaking up for free speech – while he still can... As we know, many people are facing legal problems due to their innocent and peaceful speech in the UK. Link!
Little Britain creator David Walliams slams cancel culture
Famed U.K. comedian David Walliams has slammed 'cancel culture'.
www.dailymail.co.uk
I thought collectivists thought drag was okay...
TWELVE!
Regardless of where one might stand on the UK immigration issues (there are numerous issues, obviously), how about NOT doxing people who want to express their views via protests? Here's the link to the story of the cops engaging in the doxxing...
Cops Dox Addresses of Anti-Immigration Protesters.
Police in the United Kingdom are now posting the home addresses of anti-immigration protesters on social media. On Friday, the force responsible for the
thenationalpulse.com
THIRTEEN!
Ahh, the Tragedy of the Commons. Government takes the cash, forcing together people with various opinions and ideas about pedagogy, and then a judge – holding a position in another Tragedy of the Commons, this one in the collectivist so-called "justice" system – rules in a way a lot of people will not like... Same as it ever was. The subject in dispute could be a book in the English Department, or a History class... It's always the same! LINK!
Judge Rules Transgender Male Can Join Girls' Tennis Team.
A federal judge has ruled that a Virginia school district cannot prevent a transgender male from playing on a girls’ middle school tennis team while his
thenationalpulse.com
FOURTEEN!
As the thumbnail notes, this is pretty interesting, as the author continues to investigate what is happening with the giant wind turbine blades that need discarding (and which haven't yet broken up near the Massachusetts coast, as we discovered over the last few weeks happened off of Martha's Vineyard) Check it out...
Where are all the expired and busted wind turbine blades going?
This is pretty interesting, because wind turbine blades are gargantuan pieces of equipment, some more than 400 feet in length, and on the low end, weighing 16 tons—but they’re apparently disappearing without a trace. Nobody seems to know ...
www.americanthinker.com
FIFTEEN!
Here's a dumb move from the UK... The GOVT takes people's money to create signs that say, "Hey, white men, pass the POWER"?!! Perhaps they might want to see what is wielding "power" here... LINK!
SIXTEEN!
And this, from PJW's site, and others, as the Commerce Sec is caught not knowing about the over-claimed jobs numbers of the Biden Admin from 2023 through the first half of 2024. She seems unaware of them, then claims she doesn't believe them, before she's told they are from her own Labor Dept.
Blames it on Trump.
modernity.news
Here's Greg Price's X Post of the vid.
SEVENTEEN!
This, also, is pretty funny... Ahh, CNN. This reporter actually fact-checked a clear joke that JD Vance told about the DNC scheduling their conference in Chicago so Walz could claim he was in a war zone... The Clown News Net does it again!
EIGHTEEN!
Many car lovers and freedom fans (often one and the same) applauded this move by Ford Motors to get away from their already burdensome and wasteful EV plans. The company announced even more drawbacks from its already reduced EV schemes, and they are going to shift some resources to hybrids.
As Reason reports, the EPA doesn't like that. Ahh, nothing like fascism... Perhaps all cars should be brown, in honor of the fascist theme? Link!
Ford wants to build hybrids instead of all-electric cars. The EPA hates that.
The Model e division recorded losses of $1.3 billion in the first quarter of this year, averaging out to a staggering $132,000 loss per vehicle.
reason.com
NINETEEN!
Jon Stewart did a great job skewering the hypocrites at the DNC... Here's a link to the X of it, but, while he points out the amazing hypocrisy of people talking about Trump as a sexual predator and then bringing Bill Clinton on stage, Stewart, himself, recently sat down with Bill Clinton's WIFE, who not only defended him, regardless of the clear evidence and settlements he made with Paula Jones, but who also was involved in massive international governmental overthrows and activities that, like her husband's could be prosecuted for War Crimes. Here's a bit of that fine, fine chat with Jon, Hillary C, and the nefarious Condo Rice.
TWENTY!
Northwestern University... They are requiring all students to undergo an anti-antisemitism training session.
Of course, even if they conflate criticism of Israeli state actions with "antisemitism" the university operators should be free to be wrong, and to suffer or benefit from students leaving or signing up for the school. But Northwestern, OF COURSE, receives our tax money via the US govt... Just like Israel does. Here is just one example of the federal welfarist tie to Northwestern.
New center to improve robot dexterity selected to receive up to $52 million
A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received $26 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new Engineering Research Center (ERC) dedicated to revolutionizing the ability of robots to amplify human labor.
news.northwestern.edu
That's it for the textual links! Now… Let’s check out the VIDEOS!
FIRST! This, from Kim Iversen. She does a great job digging into the RFK-Trump moves. IT’S OFFICIAL: RFK Jr Ends Campaign and Endorses Trump | Professor Loses Job For Criticizing Zionism (rumble.com)
SECOND! More excellent work, from The GrayZone! The Grayzone live: Won't you please come to Chicago (rumble.com)
And that’s it, comrades!! Please feel free to spread the word, offer your comments in chat, and help others learn about all the keys of freedom, from markets, to privacy, to speech, to parental control and education, and much MORE! :)
You can watch, listen, and join the chat as we broadcast M-F at 6 PM on ROKFIN and Rumble and you can find our other, recorded, material on Odysee, Bitchute, and YouTube. My work for MRCTV is on their YouTube and Rumble channels, and at MRCTV.org! Contact me at Twitter as @gardgoldsmith there and on GAB as “GardnerGoldsmith”!
Also! If you’d like to get some of my fiction, grab my current novellas at Amazon and Barnes and Noble!! As a rocking start, I recommend “Fishing” as a dark, well-composed crime tale with some very unusual turns (this contains some scenes of dark violence, so please, be warned)…
…Or feel free to get “Bite” for a different take on vampirism, and “Wall” for a cryptoarcheological adventure set in 1960s China. And I have three novels and two more novellas in their final editing phases, soon to be on the way!
Please spread the news that segments of Liberty Conspiracy LIVE are being rebroadcast on Free Talk Live! The good people of FTL asked me to provide six segments from the week for a Friday night radio and online broadcast that is carried at 7 PM, eastern! It’s a way for me to help them as their co-founder, Ian Freeman, works on his appeal after the feds unjustly punished him for dealing in cryptocurrencies, and Free Talk Live helps me get our audio segments to a larger audience! Go to this link at 7 pm on Fridays to listen to FTL! Of course, it means that for part of Friday nights, I’m doing my LIVE Liberty Conspiracy show and competing against myself!! :) Thank you for your positive reception to the ideas and the scholarship of freedom. God bless, all!
and that SCOTUS action reverses their actions from the 1930s, creating a "minimum wage"