Your Sunday News Assembly, for 9-22-24!
Breaking news, video links, and contextual information to help peel those political onions out there!
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This week, we feature 20 new, breaking stories and two video links that pertain to the battle for freedom! As always, please feel free to read the entire Assembly, read parts, leave for a bit, and return, and to share the whole Assembly or the separate stories inside!
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ONE!
Let's start with Lloyd Austin making two big errors when trying to protest the plea deal one of his underlings made with a judge when it comes to accused 911 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The accused accepted the life-in-prison deal to avoid the death penalty, and the judge signed off. But now, Austin wants to revoke the agreement his "team" already accepted! This is unbelievable, and it gets even worse, because Austin claims he has sole discretion to prosecute this — based on the now 18-year-old "Military Commissions Act." But that act, itself, is toweringly unconstitutional. A man accused of "terrorism" on a federal level is supposed to be tried according to US Criminal Code, not an invented "Military Commission" that is operating despite NO Declaration of War! Here is the piece.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to revoke a plea deal for 9/11 defendants likely came too late, military law experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two alleged accomplices faced prompt backlash from families of victims and lawmakers when it was announced July 31....
www.msn.com
And here is an excellent analysis by Judge Napolitano, as a guest with Gerald Celente.
And this, which I wrote for Mises in 2007, spells out the unconstitutional route to their "Military Commissions" tyranny.
Guantanamo: A Long Train of Congressional, Executive, and Now, Judicial Abuses | Mises Institute
American citizens can now be arrested by the federal government, held indefinitely without trial, questioned under standards we would not allow for our own
mises.org
TWO!
The second shoe to drop — or to be dropped by concerned members of Congress. How concerned? That remains to be seen. But Matt Taibbi is one of the few outside of the MRCTV circles whom I see writing about this in media. I mentioned the Global Engagement Center, derived from money the feds slotted in the Portman-Murphy Countering Foreign Propaganda Act, in my piece on The WaPo, and Taibbi has done an excellent job covering the new House Small Business Committee report on it! Here's his piece:
House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship
The House Committee on Small Business prints a blistering report on the Global Engagement Center, a State Department "counter-messaging" entity at the center of the Twitter Files
www.racket.news
Here's the piece I got to write last week that mentions the GEC...
Washington Post Walks With Hillary, Using Free Speech To Express Hatred Of Free Speech
What a surprise! The mindset is authoritarian, and the irony that they use freedom of speech to call for censorship is lost on them.
www.mrctv.org
THREE!
As I suspected, it looks like Harris's "small business tax break" plan actually is a forward-shifted subsidy to hand up to $50,000 to small businesses prior to them owing the taxes. Without overtly acknowledging the "the feds will pay you before you pay the taxes" set-up, this Forbes story reveals the way the Harris camp is calling a subsidy a "tax break"... Here is the pertinent quote: "New small businesses could allocate the tax deduction across multiple years or claim the full $50,000 deduction once they turn a profit."
There is nothing in the report (and the Harris camp still has not released full details) that indicates whether the companies that can claim (along the way or "once they turn a profit") the full "deduction" will have paid that much in taxes.
Harris Proposes $50,000 Small Business Tax Deduction For Startup Expenses: Here’s What To Know
Harris announced the new proposal during a campaign event Wednesday.
www.forbes.com
FOUR!
The maker of the Harris parody campaign ad that used AI is suing Newsom and his CA gang for the ban on such that Newsom just signed. And it was one heck of a funny parody, too! Here's the story! !
“Parody is legal in America.”
thepostmillennial.com
And here is background on the three bills Newsom signed that pertain to AI-generated parody material on social media.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Tuesday banning the distribution of “election communications that contain materially deceptive content,” including obvious parodies.
amgreatness.com
FIVE!
Here's something that some folks might want to know...
NFL Voting Initiative Partners With Democrat Activist Groups
The NFL’s teammates include some of the most left-wing activist organizations on the election field today.
thefederalist.com
SIX!
Is it a money-grab from government gangsters? Is it a climate cult push against car ownership? Is it both? Here's the story, from Quebec, where the government just raised the cost of auto registration three-fold.
Leftist Quebec City mayor carries out 'War on Cars' with 'green' policies
www.rebelnews.com
SEVEN!
Elon Musk did nothing wrong here, and the SEC exists in a dimension that is far, far, from the US Constitution.
Nigel Farage, Elon Musk on the UK's alleged threat to free speech
Musk shares the same view as Farage that the U.K.'s police commissioner is a significant threat to free speech.
www.foxbusiness.com
This SEC attack appears after many days of folks like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton seeming to pave the way, via their rhetoric and claims that X has to be "reined-in" and has no "right" to operate without the federal mafia telling it what speech to allow or not allow.
EIGHT!
Here's another sign of "inclusiveness" in woke society. Remember this controversy at the Olympics? The shoes are dropping all over the news. Here's the latest, thanks to Jonathan Turley's coverage!
Fall from Grace: Olympian Suspended for Making Sign of the Cross
International Judo Federation (IJF) has suspended a Serbian judo champion for five months from any international competitions for making the sign of the cross after his match in the Paris Olympic g…
jonathanturley.org
Nine!
More and more people are waking up to the dangers of vaccines and the FDA. Will they also recognize the immoral and unconstitutional nature of the FDA existing, in the first place? Here's the new story, on the federal bureaucracy pretending it's protecting people.
Late last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a monkeypox vaccine that is known to “shed from the vaccination site” and cause heart inflammation in about 1 in every 175 persons.
amgreatness.com
TEN!
On the subject of the state-pushers claims to protect you, as they forcibly take your money and tell you to accept the forms of "protection" they perpetuate, here's a sign of quality. DEI in the Airforce. To "reduce the white male population" in its ranks. Link!
US Air Force has DEI ‘goal’ to reduce ‘white male population’ in officer ranks: report
“White male population will decline as other demographics increase.”
thepostmillennial.com
ELEVEN!
On the heels of Meta banning RT (clearly, noooo politics involved - wink) we see TikTok blocking content from Russia. The TikTok brass say that the "block" comes in response to Russia enacting a statute similar to the CA "deep fake" statute mentioned above. But some wonder if it also stems from the potential TikTok sale, allowing potential buyers to not worry about US government attacks over "Russian Disinformation" as the DC political class likes to call virtually anything its members don't like — be it true or untrue. Here's the story, from RT, I also grabbed some good video from RT's livestream on it, today...
TikTok blocks content from Russia
TikTok has banned livestreaming and posting new content in Russia, claiming the country’s ‘fake news law’ risks users’ safety
www.rt.com
Here's the reminder about our great, spines-like-iron META friends... 😉 LINK!
Meta to ban RT, other Russian state-run media outlets globally
Meta said on Tuesday that it was banning some of Russia's largest state media networks from its platforms, including Facebook, for using deception to run an influence campaign and to hide its efforts.
www.msn.com
TWELVE!
I wonder if the Cuban govt thugs are frustrated because England beat them to this tyrannical attack on free speech.
Cuba Sentences Man to 2.5 Years in Prison for Sharing Memes
Cuba sentenced dissident José Manuel Barreiro Rouco to two and a half years in prison for sharing anti-regime memes on WhatsApp.
www.breitbart.com
THIRTEEN!
Rumble just won a big victory for discovery in a defamation suit against leftist "media watchdog" groups that heretofore would not reveal funding sources. Media Matters is one of the defendants... Link!
Rumble To Get Discovery In Suit Against 'Check My Ads' Founders
Rumble scored a victory when a judge held it could proceed with discovery in its defamation suit against the co-founders of Check My Ads.
thefederalist.com
Here is a pertinent section of the Federalist article: "The complaint further alleged that 'John Does 1–10 are Check My Ads, Media Matters, and/or Dewey Square Group employees,' with Media Matters being David Brock’s organization that targets conservative media outlets. The Dewey Square Group is a Democrat consulting group which, according to the complaint, provided an analysis of advertisements displayed on Rumble, allegedly paid for by Media Matters and then used in a 2022 article Check My Ads published."
Specifically, the Rumble suit accuses the defendants of falsely claiming that Rumble relied on Google Ad Sense to survive.
FOURTEEN!
The House has voted to override the Biden EPA emissions mandates that would have pushed car makers to put out EVs as the vast bulk of their releases by 2032. Here's Just the News on it.
House votes to block Biden-Harris admistration EV mandate
justthenews.com
And here is the AP on it:
House backs measure to overturn Biden auto emissions rule that Republicans say would force EV sales
WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say would force Americans to buy unaffordable electric vehicles they don't want. The rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in March would impose the most ambitious standards ever in the United States to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles. The actions...
www.msn.com
FIFTEEN!
Tim Pool is suing the Harris campaign for defamation. Funny that he takes the approach of actually citing the lies and suing, rather than calling for complete censorship of people, the way Harris does. I wish Tim would apply some more critical thought to Trump's policies such as the jab rollout, and that he would be more open to voluntaryist arguments, but this is something some folks might want to know... Here's the link!
Tim Pool Sues Harris Campaign for Defamation; Leftists Cry "Russian Asset!"
Prominent podcaster Tim Pool has sued Kamala Harris' campaign for accusing him of advocating the execution of non-Trump supporters.
thenewamerican.com
SIXTEEN!
Seriously? Just amazing. Reason covers the story of numerous academics and writers praising Brazil's attack on free speech!
Writers and academics applaud Brazil’s censorship in open letter
An open letter supporting Brazil's X ban accuses tech companies of undermining Brazil's plans for "digital independence."
reason.com
Seventeen!
Here is the Pope, again engaging in dumb, thoughtless, anti-Christian posturing. "Choose the lesser of two EVILS" he says...?
Pope: U.S. presidential election a choice between ‘the lesser evil’
Speaking aboard the papal plane, Pope Francis encouraged U.S. Catholics to vote with their conscience in the upcoming Nov. 5 election.
www.catholicnewsagency.com
EIGHTEEN!
Here's a small pull-back in Ireland, a pyrrhic victory that still leaves the idea of "hate crimes" standing, even as it cuts out the "hate speech" portion of the legislation. LINK!
In a victory for free speech, the 'hate speech' clauses in Ireland's Hate Crime Bill, which would have seen people jailed for mere possession of 'hateful' material, have been scrapped.
dailysceptic.org
Nineteen!
The woman who currently occupies the tax-funded position of Chancellor of the Exchequer wants paintings of men, by men, taken down from Number 11 Downing Street. Link!
Rachel Reeves Demands Pictures of Men Removed From Downing Street State Room – The Daily Sceptic
Rachel Reeves has demanded that pictures of men by male artists are removed from the state room in No 11 Downing Street in the latest misandrist move from a so-called 'progressive' Government.
dailysceptic.org
TWENTY!
This is jaw-dropping. Seriously?
Superintendent: bands were ‘threatening, harassing, intimidating.’…
www.thecollegefix.com
And that's it for text news links!
Let’s dig into valuable videos!
First, we have this key conversation between Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges, as hedges predicts big Israeli escalations in Lebanon — something that new reports about new IDF bombings in Lebanon have borne out. Check out the link…
SECOND… Here is a big, valuable video presentation from Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, at The GrayZone, as they explore the storm of war approaching… Here’s the link!
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