December 18, 2024
Chinese Auto Makers Rule the World
Timothy Birdnow
China has become a top producer of cars, especially EV's, and until we get rid of these toy vehicles China will dominate the car market.
In the last 20 years China's grip on the auto market has risen from 1% to 39%.
Even Japan is suffering as the Chinese overtake their ev industry.
This is interesting in that In 2023, there were almost 294 million privately-owned motor vehicles registered in China, out of a population of 1.41 billion. So one out of four people own cars. But in the U.S., with a population of 339.4 million, there are 278,870,463 privately owned vehicles - So every 1.5 peoople own cars here. China's sales are predominantly based on exports.
Exports that may not survive the end of "green" dream cars.
Much of China's success stems from heavy subsidization by government, as well as government research and development. In short, it's artificial. Once Trump's tariffs kick in the Chinese grib on auto manufacturing will start to crumble.
China also enjoys the benefits of low-paid labor, and tax breaks. The labor costs are way belong American costs, which are driven by powerful union contracts. According to Reuters:
"A Reuters analysis of the estimated income included in recent job adverts from 30 auto firms showed hourly salaries of 14 yuan ($1.93) to 31 yuan."
So certainly auto workers there cannot afford to buy any of their own products.
By comparison the average U.S. auto worker earns
$49,095 per year with top pay averaging $62,500, according to Ziprecruiter. It takes 50 workers to build one car in the U.S. I was unable to find how many it takes in China, but it is probably more than that (it takes 100 in Japan) but who cares when you are paying them two bucks an hour and they are happy to get it?
I've said it before and I'll say it again; China is a paper tiger; it's success has been entirely built on the mistakes and assistance of the Western elites and it will fail spectacularly once the policies that provided China with what it needed are changed. If Trump squeezes China it will fold. Of course it might be most unpleasant in it's death throes.
China has become a top producer of cars, especially EV's, and until we get rid of these toy vehicles China will dominate the car market.
In the last 20 years China's grip on the auto market has risen from 1% to 39%.
Even Japan is suffering as the Chinese overtake their ev industry.
This is interesting in that In 2023, there were almost 294 million privately-owned motor vehicles registered in China, out of a population of 1.41 billion. So one out of four people own cars. But in the U.S., with a population of 339.4 million, there are 278,870,463 privately owned vehicles - So every 1.5 peoople own cars here. China's sales are predominantly based on exports.
Exports that may not survive the end of "green" dream cars.
Much of China's success stems from heavy subsidization by government, as well as government research and development. In short, it's artificial. Once Trump's tariffs kick in the Chinese grib on auto manufacturing will start to crumble.
China also enjoys the benefits of low-paid labor, and tax breaks. The labor costs are way belong American costs, which are driven by powerful union contracts. According to Reuters:
"A Reuters analysis of the estimated income included in recent job adverts from 30 auto firms showed hourly salaries of 14 yuan ($1.93) to 31 yuan."
So certainly auto workers there cannot afford to buy any of their own products.
By comparison the average U.S. auto worker earns
$49,095 per year with top pay averaging $62,500, according to Ziprecruiter. It takes 50 workers to build one car in the U.S. I was unable to find how many it takes in China, but it is probably more than that (it takes 100 in Japan) but who cares when you are paying them two bucks an hour and they are happy to get it?
I've said it before and I'll say it again; China is a paper tiger; it's success has been entirely built on the mistakes and assistance of the Western elites and it will fail spectacularly once the policies that provided China with what it needed are changed. If Trump squeezes China it will fold. Of course it might be most unpleasant in it's death throes.
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December 17, 2024
Myorkas Wants States to Lead on Drones
Timothy Birdnow
Al My-dorkass (Myorkas) head of DHS, says states should be given the authority to shoot down drones.
The disgraced,impeached My-dorkass apparently doesn't realize that firefighters and other emergency workers frequently shoot down drones interfering with their work. Firefighters often just hose the darned nosey things.
And the states have the authority under article-1 section-10 clause-3 of the U.S. constitution:
"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
What is this but "immanent danger" from a potential foreign power?
And if this is not a foreign power? Then it is a matter of policing and police have always had the authority to shoot at fleeing criminals.
Federal law allows governors to have control over airspaces around airports and other such facilities. They may not be legally allowed to shoot down a drone elsewhere,but when they impinge on airports they can take them out.
Myorkas is tossing out red herrings here to hide his own culpability in this matter.
Frankly, any governor who does shoot one of these down will be a hero and can look to win higher office. I am particularly thinking of Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro, who could hand himself the Democratic nomination by doing it. He would be unstoppable if he took one of these out (provided the Biden DOJ doesn't take HIM out first, that is).
You will notice most of the drone incidents have been in Democrat-controlled states like New York or Pennsylvania where the governors won't dare take such action. The drones in Florida seem to have stopped - before DeSantis could order them taken out. And Ohio is run by the appropriately named Mike Dewhine, er, Dewine, a RINO weenie. Only Virginia seems to be a Red state that is still experiencing a lot of drone visits while having a MAGA governor.
And don't tell me Myorkas doesn't know exactly who is sending these things and why! He's a fool but not THAT big a fool!
I'm sick to death of our government gaslighting us all the time. Trump is right; time to shoot these things down and tell the world what they are.
Al My-dorkass (Myorkas) head of DHS, says states should be given the authority to shoot down drones.
The disgraced,impeached My-dorkass apparently doesn't realize that firefighters and other emergency workers frequently shoot down drones interfering with their work. Firefighters often just hose the darned nosey things.
And the states have the authority under article-1 section-10 clause-3 of the U.S. constitution:
"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
What is this but "immanent danger" from a potential foreign power?
And if this is not a foreign power? Then it is a matter of policing and police have always had the authority to shoot at fleeing criminals.
Federal law allows governors to have control over airspaces around airports and other such facilities. They may not be legally allowed to shoot down a drone elsewhere,but when they impinge on airports they can take them out.
Myorkas is tossing out red herrings here to hide his own culpability in this matter.
Frankly, any governor who does shoot one of these down will be a hero and can look to win higher office. I am particularly thinking of Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro, who could hand himself the Democratic nomination by doing it. He would be unstoppable if he took one of these out (provided the Biden DOJ doesn't take HIM out first, that is).
You will notice most of the drone incidents have been in Democrat-controlled states like New York or Pennsylvania where the governors won't dare take such action. The drones in Florida seem to have stopped - before DeSantis could order them taken out. And Ohio is run by the appropriately named Mike Dewhine, er, Dewine, a RINO weenie. Only Virginia seems to be a Red state that is still experiencing a lot of drone visits while having a MAGA governor.
And don't tell me Myorkas doesn't know exactly who is sending these things and why! He's a fool but not THAT big a fool!
I'm sick to death of our government gaslighting us all the time. Trump is right; time to shoot these things down and tell the world what they are.
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Dominoes Falling in Germany
Timothy Birdnow
More of the Trump Effect. Germany's chancellor is being forced out after a vote of no-confidence in the Bundestag, the German parliament.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz allegedly hoped for this outcome as it will allow him to sack all of his coalition partners and run again free of them. BUt I would argue this is in fact a coefficient of the worldwide MAGA revolution, that Scholz was so weak he had to take drastic action. Establishment leaders are suffering worldwide these days.
Elections will be held in late February.
Scholz is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),a leftist party. His coalition partners were the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens - both left leaning parties themselves.
The coalition crack-up came over a dispute with his finance minister (from the SPD) over how to fix the lousy German economy.
His Finance Minister -Christian Lindner - was proposing tax cuts, something anathema to the more socialistic FDP.
Schulz has dreadful public opinion numbers yet believes he can win re-election come February.
I believe his declining popularity is as much tied to the invasion of Middle Eastern colonists as it is to the terrible economy his policies have produced. The German public has had enough.
A poll back in September showed 73% of respondents support increased border controls, while 71% favor deporting the invaders.
Couple that with the fact Germany is paying to support all of these military-aged men (As of 2019 the foreign residents of Germany numbers 26% of the total inhabitants of Germany. And Muslims account for six percent of the German population at least (probably more as there are many illegal aliens in the country not counted by official census records). Germany spends a whopping 30% of it's GDP on welfare programs, and the aliens are sucking a lot of that up. Half of all German Muslims are unemployed.
Immigration is an economic issue. Yet Schulz wants more, more, more aliens.
The German People are now saying mach Deutschland wieder gross - MDWG. (That means Make Germany Great Again in Deutsch.)
The big lie has always been that the West needs more immigrants to cover for population decline, to "do the jobs westerners just won't do" and to pay into the generous social safety net so native born folks can enjoy a life of leisure. But it hasn't worked out that way at all. Instead we've made the immigrants the top of the food chain and the native born have increasingly been pushed into the shadows.
And whose idea were at work that required these immigrants in the first place? Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome created the population control movement that led to the western World's decline in population growth while at the same time the generous welfare and retirement benefits made for a lazy working class that required new people to come in and fill those jobs. Socialism made us all soft and then we have to pay for that by being erased from our own lands. In fact our leadership tells us to shut up and go away and die already so this new nation, an alien nation, may take over.
The Progressives did this to us, then blame us for resisting them over our own demise.
I think the German People are waking up, realizing their nation is in peril. Everyone needs to remember who and what they were before the Anschluss of Europe and this whole utopian idea of international socialism and world government took hold of our nations, like a nasty infection.
Milei in Argentina started the ball rolling, and Trump has driven it forward. Now the dominoes are starting to drop all over the world.
Is this the end of the oppression of the radical left? Perhaps. If it is the Will of God. But it will still require a big, big fight. It's hard for people to turn down free stuff and stand on their own two feet. Ask any trust fund kid.
But this is a good start. Well begun is half done, the saying goes. Maybe we've started something that cannot be stopped. At least we must hope as much.
More of the Trump Effect. Germany's chancellor is being forced out after a vote of no-confidence in the Bundestag, the German parliament.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz allegedly hoped for this outcome as it will allow him to sack all of his coalition partners and run again free of them. BUt I would argue this is in fact a coefficient of the worldwide MAGA revolution, that Scholz was so weak he had to take drastic action. Establishment leaders are suffering worldwide these days.
Elections will be held in late February.
Scholz is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),a leftist party. His coalition partners were the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens - both left leaning parties themselves.
The coalition crack-up came over a dispute with his finance minister (from the SPD) over how to fix the lousy German economy.
His Finance Minister -Christian Lindner - was proposing tax cuts, something anathema to the more socialistic FDP.
Schulz has dreadful public opinion numbers yet believes he can win re-election come February.
I believe his declining popularity is as much tied to the invasion of Middle Eastern colonists as it is to the terrible economy his policies have produced. The German public has had enough.
A poll back in September showed 73% of respondents support increased border controls, while 71% favor deporting the invaders.
Couple that with the fact Germany is paying to support all of these military-aged men (As of 2019 the foreign residents of Germany numbers 26% of the total inhabitants of Germany. And Muslims account for six percent of the German population at least (probably more as there are many illegal aliens in the country not counted by official census records). Germany spends a whopping 30% of it's GDP on welfare programs, and the aliens are sucking a lot of that up. Half of all German Muslims are unemployed.
Immigration is an economic issue. Yet Schulz wants more, more, more aliens.
The German People are now saying mach Deutschland wieder gross - MDWG. (That means Make Germany Great Again in Deutsch.)
The big lie has always been that the West needs more immigrants to cover for population decline, to "do the jobs westerners just won't do" and to pay into the generous social safety net so native born folks can enjoy a life of leisure. But it hasn't worked out that way at all. Instead we've made the immigrants the top of the food chain and the native born have increasingly been pushed into the shadows.
And whose idea were at work that required these immigrants in the first place? Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome created the population control movement that led to the western World's decline in population growth while at the same time the generous welfare and retirement benefits made for a lazy working class that required new people to come in and fill those jobs. Socialism made us all soft and then we have to pay for that by being erased from our own lands. In fact our leadership tells us to shut up and go away and die already so this new nation, an alien nation, may take over.
The Progressives did this to us, then blame us for resisting them over our own demise.
I think the German People are waking up, realizing their nation is in peril. Everyone needs to remember who and what they were before the Anschluss of Europe and this whole utopian idea of international socialism and world government took hold of our nations, like a nasty infection.
Milei in Argentina started the ball rolling, and Trump has driven it forward. Now the dominoes are starting to drop all over the world.
Is this the end of the oppression of the radical left? Perhaps. If it is the Will of God. But it will still require a big, big fight. It's hard for people to turn down free stuff and stand on their own two feet. Ask any trust fund kid.
But this is a good start. Well begun is half done, the saying goes. Maybe we've started something that cannot be stopped. At least we must hope as much.
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Dem Judge Refuses to Toss Trump Conviction
Timothy Birdnow
Proof tthis was always about politics and not about justice or the law.
Breaking — Judge Merchan refuses to throw out Trump conviction based on ‘presidential immunity.’
Merchan keeps foot-dragging, knowing full well Trump would win on appeal. He doesn't want to appeal; he wants Trump stuck in limbo, with this hanging over him. He hopes that the political climate will become more favorable in a few years then he can throw the book at Trump as soon as he leaves office. Oh, and they can continue to call him a convicted felon.
So Trump has to keep wasting time and money on this thing while Merchan wastes taxpayer dollars. It's not costing Him anything!
I hope there are private investigators looking into this judge's own affairs. He needs to be taken to the woodshed one way or another.
Merchan knows full well this was intimately intertwined with Trump's duties as President of the United States and that he has no authority over this matter any longer. (Who would doubt that the "hush money" aka NdE was about protecting the dignity of the office of the President?) He also knows that Alvin Bragg created several new legal theories to turn what was at most a misdemeanor and a FEDERAL crime into a state violation. But Merchan refuses to drop this despite the fact he's undoubtedly facing a major spanking when this gets to a higher court. That is at least part of the reason he won't let it go to a higher court; he wants control of this.
In a sane state this man would be removed from office. We need to find proof of collusion with the Democrats, or corruption from him (something I'm sure is there - almost every Democrat has some dirt under their fingernails).
To quote Tony Montana in Scarface "if you want to play rough, say hello to my little friend!"
Proof tthis was always about politics and not about justice or the law.
Breaking — Judge Merchan refuses to throw out Trump conviction based on ‘presidential immunity.’
Merchan keeps foot-dragging, knowing full well Trump would win on appeal. He doesn't want to appeal; he wants Trump stuck in limbo, with this hanging over him. He hopes that the political climate will become more favorable in a few years then he can throw the book at Trump as soon as he leaves office. Oh, and they can continue to call him a convicted felon.
So Trump has to keep wasting time and money on this thing while Merchan wastes taxpayer dollars. It's not costing Him anything!
I hope there are private investigators looking into this judge's own affairs. He needs to be taken to the woodshed one way or another.
Merchan knows full well this was intimately intertwined with Trump's duties as President of the United States and that he has no authority over this matter any longer. (Who would doubt that the "hush money" aka NdE was about protecting the dignity of the office of the President?) He also knows that Alvin Bragg created several new legal theories to turn what was at most a misdemeanor and a FEDERAL crime into a state violation. But Merchan refuses to drop this despite the fact he's undoubtedly facing a major spanking when this gets to a higher court. That is at least part of the reason he won't let it go to a higher court; he wants control of this.
In a sane state this man would be removed from office. We need to find proof of collusion with the Democrats, or corruption from him (something I'm sure is there - almost every Democrat has some dirt under their fingernails).
To quote Tony Montana in Scarface "if you want to play rough, say hello to my little friend!"
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Trudeau Falling Down
Timothy Birdnow
Justin "Baby Doc" Trudeau is about to resign his post as his government is facing complete collapse after the Trump revolution in the U.S.
It's well past time the Trudeau's left the political scene in Canada.
This would not have happened had Trump not won last month. Trump has been the grain of sand around which the pearl of wisdom has formed inside the oyster of political life here and it is reverberating around the world. Just as the American revolution led to the fall of the monarchy in France and eventually most of the western world, so too is the election of Trump leading to the fall of the wokeocracy around the globe.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out of the igloo chum!
Justin "Baby Doc" Trudeau is about to resign his post as his government is facing complete collapse after the Trump revolution in the U.S.
It's well past time the Trudeau's left the political scene in Canada.
This would not have happened had Trump not won last month. Trump has been the grain of sand around which the pearl of wisdom has formed inside the oyster of political life here and it is reverberating around the world. Just as the American revolution led to the fall of the monarchy in France and eventually most of the western world, so too is the election of Trump leading to the fall of the wokeocracy around the globe.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out of the igloo chum!
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Cheney Referred for Prosecution
Timothy Birdnow
Liz Shady, er, Cheney has been referred for criminal prosecution for witness tampering!
While Merrick Garland will no doubt try to dismiss this, he won't be able to before Pam Bondi takes the reins.
It has come to light Cheney was texting with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson behind her lawyer's back (and the backs of the Trump attorneys) and likely suborning perjury.
No wonder the Dems were floating the idea of Biden issuing a pre-emptive pardon for the rabid ex-congresswoman.
I wonder who she will throw under the bus if she's facing jail time?
The whole J6 committee belongs behind bars; it was nothing but a frame up of Trump from the very beginning and that is now coming to light.
Liz Shady, er, Cheney has been referred for criminal prosecution for witness tampering!
While Merrick Garland will no doubt try to dismiss this, he won't be able to before Pam Bondi takes the reins.
It has come to light Cheney was texting with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson behind her lawyer's back (and the backs of the Trump attorneys) and likely suborning perjury.
No wonder the Dems were floating the idea of Biden issuing a pre-emptive pardon for the rabid ex-congresswoman.
I wonder who she will throw under the bus if she's facing jail time?
The whole J6 committee belongs behind bars; it was nothing but a frame up of Trump from the very beginning and that is now coming to light.
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Drones Shut Down USAF Base
Timothy Birdnow
So now an Air Force base in Ohio had to close due to drone activities in restricted space.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was closed briefly according to the Dayton Daily News.
Still the old troll under the bridge in Washington does nothing.
We deserve answers, nay, we demand them!
Methinks China Joe got his orders from the Forbidden City.
So now an Air Force base in Ohio had to close due to drone activities in restricted space.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was closed briefly according to the Dayton Daily News.
Still the old troll under the bridge in Washington does nothing.
We deserve answers, nay, we demand them!
Methinks China Joe got his orders from the Forbidden City.
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Biden Pardon's Son's Gun Crime, Calls for Stricter Gun Laws
Timothy Birdnow
Can you say "hypocrisy"? I knew you could.
Biden Calls for Stronger Gun Control After Pardoning Son's Gun Offense
Can you say "hypocrisy"? I knew you could.
Biden Calls for Stronger Gun Control After Pardoning Son's Gun Offense
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Dems Pushing Popular Vote (Again)
Timothy Birdnow
Here they go again!
Senate Democrats introduce bill to end the Electoral College
Apparently they do not understand this is a Constitutional issue and can only be undone with a Constitutional amendment; Congress cannot legislate it.
No doubt this is just grandstanding,but it shows how undemocratic the "Democratic Party" really is.
The Founding Fathers set it up this way to maintain Federalism; the small colonies would never have joined the union had they been subject to a system that made them of no relevance in the election of the presidents. So the EC system was put in place. It was a good balance between empowering the small states but not giving them special powers.
Now,of course, Democrats own all the big cities and thus own whole states (like Illinois, which would be a purple state were it not for the behemoth of Chicago) and through them can simply manufacture votes as needed. If we had such a system Democrats would never, ever lose elections. They know that which is why they keep pushing for it.
Direct popular vote would give us one party rule. It is exactly what was meant by Ben Franklin when he said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"; Neither he nor any of the Founders wanted pure Democracy. They chose a republican form of government because it restricted the passions and appetites of the voters, tempering them with the "saucer" of representational government. There were many other examples of that; the indirect election of the Senate as well as the President, for instance (Senators were appointed by their state governments until the 17th Amendment) as well as the appointment of the Supreme Court by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Do notice it did not fall to the whole Congress as the House was seen as too volatile, being directly elected.) Also, voting was originally restricted to white male landholders only - no minorities, no women, no wage-earners. You had to have a stake in society, they believed, and the intelligence and education to make informed choices.
America has become increasingly intrusive into the affairs of its citizenry in an asymptotic relationship with the rise of participatory democracy here. That should come as no surprise. As is attributed to Alexander Fraser Tyler, Lord Woodhouselee:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."
This echoed Aristotle, who warned that democracy inevitably degenerated into a "tyranny of special interests" or Plato who warned democracy was the final stage before a dictatorship.
Why? Because justice dies, property rights die, all restraints on government power and on corruption die as it becomes possible to reach into the pockets of your neighbors. Then it's every man for himself.
Promoting "democracy" in America is un-American and always has been. It was the Progressives who pushed for it because they saw a handy tool to creating the strongly interventionist government they wanted and saw that democracy would allow them to buy votes to build the new world order system they dreamed of creating.
And so the Democrats are again pushing this, and sadly many, if not most, people will accept the flawed arguments they make about "fairness" when it is grossly unfair and is a fundamental shift in the way our nation is supposed to work, a nation based on federalism, where the states are the primary political authority.
If we have a popular vote, by the way, we should have those votes counted by a federal bureaucracy, right? A UNIONIZED bureaucracy at that!
Complaints about cheating in the count in some places will lead to the establishment of a federal agency to count the vote, mark my words. And once the wolves have complete control of the sheep fold they will dine at their leisure.
Fortunately this isn't going to pass, and if it does it will be struck down by SCOTUS. Or so we would hope (you can never tell with those jokers).
Here they go again!
Senate Democrats introduce bill to end the Electoral College
Apparently they do not understand this is a Constitutional issue and can only be undone with a Constitutional amendment; Congress cannot legislate it.
No doubt this is just grandstanding,but it shows how undemocratic the "Democratic Party" really is.
The Founding Fathers set it up this way to maintain Federalism; the small colonies would never have joined the union had they been subject to a system that made them of no relevance in the election of the presidents. So the EC system was put in place. It was a good balance between empowering the small states but not giving them special powers.
Now,of course, Democrats own all the big cities and thus own whole states (like Illinois, which would be a purple state were it not for the behemoth of Chicago) and through them can simply manufacture votes as needed. If we had such a system Democrats would never, ever lose elections. They know that which is why they keep pushing for it.
Direct popular vote would give us one party rule. It is exactly what was meant by Ben Franklin when he said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"; Neither he nor any of the Founders wanted pure Democracy. They chose a republican form of government because it restricted the passions and appetites of the voters, tempering them with the "saucer" of representational government. There were many other examples of that; the indirect election of the Senate as well as the President, for instance (Senators were appointed by their state governments until the 17th Amendment) as well as the appointment of the Supreme Court by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Do notice it did not fall to the whole Congress as the House was seen as too volatile, being directly elected.) Also, voting was originally restricted to white male landholders only - no minorities, no women, no wage-earners. You had to have a stake in society, they believed, and the intelligence and education to make informed choices.
America has become increasingly intrusive into the affairs of its citizenry in an asymptotic relationship with the rise of participatory democracy here. That should come as no surprise. As is attributed to Alexander Fraser Tyler, Lord Woodhouselee:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."
This echoed Aristotle, who warned that democracy inevitably degenerated into a "tyranny of special interests" or Plato who warned democracy was the final stage before a dictatorship.
Why? Because justice dies, property rights die, all restraints on government power and on corruption die as it becomes possible to reach into the pockets of your neighbors. Then it's every man for himself.
Promoting "democracy" in America is un-American and always has been. It was the Progressives who pushed for it because they saw a handy tool to creating the strongly interventionist government they wanted and saw that democracy would allow them to buy votes to build the new world order system they dreamed of creating.
And so the Democrats are again pushing this, and sadly many, if not most, people will accept the flawed arguments they make about "fairness" when it is grossly unfair and is a fundamental shift in the way our nation is supposed to work, a nation based on federalism, where the states are the primary political authority.
If we have a popular vote, by the way, we should have those votes counted by a federal bureaucracy, right? A UNIONIZED bureaucracy at that!
Complaints about cheating in the count in some places will lead to the establishment of a federal agency to count the vote, mark my words. And once the wolves have complete control of the sheep fold they will dine at their leisure.
Fortunately this isn't going to pass, and if it does it will be struck down by SCOTUS. Or so we would hope (you can never tell with those jokers).
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The Winter Comes
Timothy Birdnow
The Winter Comes
And while the clown just cries and lies
the enemy flies the friendly skies
a crown and robe is his disguise
the ship of state will soon capsize
the bore he moans, eats ice cream cones
the drones above just pick the bones
a chore well done, the Chinese phone
the old man's heart is hard as stone
but the winter has come the leaves have dropped
he now sits dumb, his scheme has popped
stopped by the drum who couldn't be topped
the reconning come, his time at a stop
now in the end has it been worth the cost?
can he defend all the virtues he lost?
his soul did he rend, carelessly tossed
now contend with the Devil, in his book be embossed
Wandering aimless, alone, sad, and lost.
The Winter Comes
And while the clown just cries and lies
the enemy flies the friendly skies
a crown and robe is his disguise
the ship of state will soon capsize
the bore he moans, eats ice cream cones
the drones above just pick the bones
a chore well done, the Chinese phone
the old man's heart is hard as stone
but the winter has come the leaves have dropped
he now sits dumb, his scheme has popped
stopped by the drum who couldn't be topped
the reconning come, his time at a stop
now in the end has it been worth the cost?
can he defend all the virtues he lost?
his soul did he rend, carelessly tossed
now contend with the Devil, in his book be embossed
Wandering aimless, alone, sad, and lost.
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December 16, 2024
Election Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
This from Powerline:
HOW MUCH VOTER FRAUD IN 2020?
There is no doubt that improprieties impacted the 2020 presidential election. Suppression of free speech by social media platforms, Zuckbucks, and above all the concealment of definitive evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption by the Dirty 51 and the press, very likely swung the election to Biden.
But how about outright voter fraud? We will never know how extensive the fraud was, since the essence of a successful fraud is that it is not detected, or at least not proved. But a look at the gross numbers can provide a meaningful context for the question.
Shortly after the election, someone created a graphic that got wide circulation on the internet and on social media. It showed the number of votes cast for the Democratic presidential nominee in recent cycles, and indicated a remarkable upsurge in votes in 2020, followed by a steep decline in 2024. Unfortunately, that chart was created while vote counting was still going on, so it was not accurate as to 2024. I decided to carry out a similar exercise, using the final numbers for 2024.
This chart shows the result of that analysis. It shows the total popular vote in each presidential election from 2004 through 2024. Votes for the Democratic candidate are in blue, for the Republican candidate are in red. I used FEC numbers for all the cycles before 2024; the FEC has not yet published data for this year’s race.
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This from Powerline:
HOW MUCH VOTER FRAUD IN 2020?
There is no doubt that improprieties impacted the 2020 presidential election. Suppression of free speech by social media platforms, Zuckbucks, and above all the concealment of definitive evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption by the Dirty 51 and the press, very likely swung the election to Biden.
But how about outright voter fraud? We will never know how extensive the fraud was, since the essence of a successful fraud is that it is not detected, or at least not proved. But a look at the gross numbers can provide a meaningful context for the question.
Shortly after the election, someone created a graphic that got wide circulation on the internet and on social media. It showed the number of votes cast for the Democratic presidential nominee in recent cycles, and indicated a remarkable upsurge in votes in 2020, followed by a steep decline in 2024. Unfortunately, that chart was created while vote counting was still going on, so it was not accurate as to 2024. I decided to carry out a similar exercise, using the final numbers for 2024.
This chart shows the result of that analysis. It shows the total popular vote in each presidential election from 2004 through 2024. Votes for the Democratic candidate are in blue, for the Republican candidate are in red. I used FEC numbers for all the cycles before 2024; the FEC has not yet published data for this year’s race.
Read the rest.
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Drone Patriot Act?
Timothy Birdnow
Is the drone activity an effort to impose a Patriot Act for drones on America?
Pastorius at Infidel Blogger's Alliance thinks so.
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Is the drone activity an effort to impose a Patriot Act for drones on America?
Pastorius at Infidel Blogger's Alliance thinks so.
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ABC 7 News New Yorkreportedon Thursday that an airport in the Stewart International Airport in Orange County, New York was shut down Friday night. This airport is located roughly 60 miles north of New York City.
Officials at the airport revealed that the runways were closed entirely for an hour after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alerted them that a drone was spotted in the area around 9:30 p.m.According toABC 7 News, air traffic control recordings from the airport during that time also included a pilot reporting drone sightings in the area.
The agencyclaimedno aircraft were impacted, and flight operations also continued. But disgraced New York Governor Kathy Hochul was less than pleased that her state was being invaded, saying in a statement, "This has gone too far.”
Hochul demanded Congress pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act. Thelegislationis designed to strengthen the FAA’s oversight of drones, reform legal authorities to counter UAS activities and extend authority to state and local law enforcement agencies to investigate the activity.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S THE PATRIOT ACT OF DRONE TECHNOLOGY.
THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT ONLY THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO SURVEILLANCE FROM THE SKIES.
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Little Lost Nuclear Material
Timothy Birdnow
Recently I mentioned a theory I had heard about the drones in New Jersey looking for nuclear material. Well, guess what?
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Releases Report Confirming Radioactive Material Lost in Transit — Shipping Container Arrives Damaged and Empty in New Jersey
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That would explain a lot.
Ge-68 pin source is a radioactive material used in medical scaning equipment. It could be used for a radiological bomb, methinks. OR the whole thing could be a red herring to hide a far more dangerous thing being actively covered up by our government.
Recently I mentioned a theory I had heard about the drones in New Jersey looking for nuclear material. Well, guess what?
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Releases Report Confirming Radioactive Material Lost in Transit — Shipping Container Arrives Damaged and Empty in New Jersey
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has confirmed that radioactive material was lost in transit earlier this month, heightening fears about public safety and sparking theories about mysterious drone activity in New Jersey.
Officer Lew, a prominent political commentator, highlighted the NRC’s event report during a review of regulatory alerts.
"While looking at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Alerts. I can confirm that there is radioactive material that has gone missing on Dec 2nd, 2024 out of New Jersey. This might be the reason for the drones… just speculation at this point,” he wrote.
The missing material, identified as a Ge-68 pin source manufactured by Eckert & Ziegler, was reported lost by its licensee on December 3, 2024. Shipped for disposal, the container arrived at its destination severely damaged and empty.
Officer Lew, a prominent political commentator, highlighted the NRC’s event report during a review of regulatory alerts.
"While looking at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Alerts. I can confirm that there is radioactive material that has gone missing on Dec 2nd, 2024 out of New Jersey. This might be the reason for the drones… just speculation at this point,” he wrote.
The missing material, identified as a Ge-68 pin source manufactured by Eckert & Ziegler, was reported lost by its licensee on December 3, 2024. Shipped for disposal, the container arrived at its destination severely damaged and empty.
That would explain a lot.
Ge-68 pin source is a radioactive material used in medical scaning equipment. It could be used for a radiological bomb, methinks. OR the whole thing could be a red herring to hide a far more dangerous thing being actively covered up by our government.
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Israel Pulls Embassy from Ireland
Timothy Birdnow
Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland in displeasure at the Emerald Isle's enthusiastic support for Palestinian terrorists.
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The Irish Republic seems to see Israel as the equivalent of England - oppressors. But in reality they are more like the Irish than the Irish seem to grasp; both victims of an oppressive neighbor. Ireland was subjugated by England/Great Britain and Israel is subjugated by the Arab nations who tried to "drive Israel into the sea".
Oh, and the two had their own diaspora - the Jews were scattered all over the world after the Romans took them as slaves, the Irish after the potato famine. And both groups were disliked by locals where they settled at first.
Irish deputy Prime Minister Michael Martin said:
"Ireland's position on the conflict in the Middle East has always been guided by the principles of international law and the obligation on all states to adhere to international humanitarian law."
And yet Ireland fought a most nasty war of independence against Britain when the British occupied the country. Now that they are secure they want to deny that right to Israel to fight for it's own independence. What do the Irish think "from the river to the sea, all of Palestine will be free" means? It means "death to Israel". This war is qualitatively no different than the war waged by Ireland to attain independence.
He continues:
How many innocent lives were lost during Irelands rebellion against Britain? Quite a few even if not as many as in Palestine during this war (and we know the numbers of Palestinian dead are provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health are unquestionably grossly inflated). And if you include military deaths that number grows quite a bit.
This doesn't include the death toll in the north during the "time of troubles".
It seems the Irish and Palestinians share one key thing in common; both are and did support terrorism.
So Ireland now hates Israel as a "colonial power". They need to take a closer look.
Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland in displeasure at the Emerald Isle's enthusiastic support for Palestinian terrorists.
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Israel will close its embassy in Dublin over "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government", its foreign minister has said.
Gideon Saar said the Republic of Ireland had crossed "every red line".
In a statement, he said Israel's ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland's "unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state".
He added that the decision followed Ireland's announcement of its support for South Africa's legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of "genocide".
Mr Saar said: "The actions and anti-Semitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the de-legitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, along with double standards.
"Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel.
Gideon Saar said the Republic of Ireland had crossed "every red line".
In a statement, he said Israel's ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland's "unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state".
He added that the decision followed Ireland's announcement of its support for South Africa's legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of "genocide".
Mr Saar said: "The actions and anti-Semitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the de-legitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, along with double standards.
"Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel.
The Irish Republic seems to see Israel as the equivalent of England - oppressors. But in reality they are more like the Irish than the Irish seem to grasp; both victims of an oppressive neighbor. Ireland was subjugated by England/Great Britain and Israel is subjugated by the Arab nations who tried to "drive Israel into the sea".
Oh, and the two had their own diaspora - the Jews were scattered all over the world after the Romans took them as slaves, the Irish after the potato famine. And both groups were disliked by locals where they settled at first.
Irish deputy Prime Minister Michael Martin said:
"Ireland's position on the conflict in the Middle East has always been guided by the principles of international law and the obligation on all states to adhere to international humanitarian law."
And yet Ireland fought a most nasty war of independence against Britain when the British occupied the country. Now that they are secure they want to deny that right to Israel to fight for it's own independence. What do the Irish think "from the river to the sea, all of Palestine will be free" means? It means "death to Israel". This war is qualitatively no different than the war waged by Ireland to attain independence.
He continues:
"loss of innocent lives is simply unacceptable and contravenes international law.
It represents the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza."
It represents the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza."
How many innocent lives were lost during Irelands rebellion against Britain? Quite a few even if not as many as in Palestine during this war (and we know the numbers of Palestinian dead are provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health are unquestionably grossly inflated). And if you include military deaths that number grows quite a bit.
This doesn't include the death toll in the north during the "time of troubles".
It seems the Irish and Palestinians share one key thing in common; both are and did support terrorism.
So Ireland now hates Israel as a "colonial power". They need to take a closer look.
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Newsom Hires Harris Staffer
Timothy Birdnow
Smooth move Ex-lax!
Newsom lost a top aide. Former Harris adviser will take her place
That's the way to do it! Hire the person who presided over the huge campaign failure this year!
Rush Limbaugh alays said failure was a resume' enhancement for Democrats and he was right.
It's well known Newsom hopes to upsize his office to one closer to the Atlantic, and this is not the way you do it. If he needs people he should find winners, not the recycled losers coming from the failure that was Kamala Harris.
I don't think any Democrats learned a thing from the last election.
Smooth move Ex-lax!
Newsom lost a top aide. Former Harris adviser will take her place
That's the way to do it! Hire the person who presided over the huge campaign failure this year!
Rush Limbaugh alays said failure was a resume' enhancement for Democrats and he was right.
It's well known Newsom hopes to upsize his office to one closer to the Atlantic, and this is not the way you do it. If he needs people he should find winners, not the recycled losers coming from the failure that was Kamala Harris.
I don't think any Democrats learned a thing from the last election.
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Turkey Moving into Syria
Timothy Birdnow
Just as I predicted.
Turkey Prepared to Provide Military Training to Syria
There is a power vacuum and it gets filled by either the Turks or the Iranians. Since it is primarily Islamists who aren't going to ally with the likes of us.
Before this is over we may wish Assad was still in power.
Just as I predicted.
Turkey Prepared to Provide Military Training to Syria
There is a power vacuum and it gets filled by either the Turks or the Iranians. Since it is primarily Islamists who aren't going to ally with the likes of us.
Before this is over we may wish Assad was still in power.
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More Droning
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting analysis of the drone situation:
Here is an interesting analysis of the drone situation:
(Alt-Market)—The term "False Flag” gets thrown around rather haphazardly these days and it’s important to recognize that a real false flag requires a particular end result – The public blaming the wrong culprit for an event that someone else (usually our own government) perpetrated. When it comes to the increasing fervor over major drone activity across the US, I have very little doubt that what we are witnessing is a false flag scenario.
First, let’s outline what has happened so far: Drone sightings have exploded across the country involving a wide variety of devices – but the incidents that concern me the most are those involving the SUV-sized UAVs in places like New Jersey. The sightings have been happening for months. US government agenciesincluding the FBI, DHS and national security officials claim they have no idea who is behind this activity, even though drones have been seen operating over highly protected areas like US military bases.
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The Drones of Hell
Timothy Birdnow
I recently suggested the drones flying America's skies might be biological weapons delivery systems sowing the next pandemic to allow the Globalist Left to seize more power. Well....
Mike Adams argues that there is another pandemic coming and it will be entirely a hoax, caused by chemicals.
If so, then they will need a way to distribute it over a wide area. A drone would do that nicely.
The WHO, whose failures metastasized the Covid outbreak, is promoting a pandemic accord which is a sneaky way to backdoor world government.
And Bill Gates warns of another pandemic as well. We know Gates predicted Covid the very year it happened by some "strange" coincidence.
Then there is Peter Hotez who said multiple viruses will emerge during Trump's Presidency. What makes him think that? Well, they've been creating them after all in a lab.
So if another pandemic should emerge one is sorely tempted to beleive it is intended to wreck the Trump Presidency as was the last.
Anyway, Adams doesn't believe they will even bother with a virus but rather just use chemicals and claim it is a virus - a full blownn lie. A psy-op. Contact poisons which they will claim is a virus and shut the whole world down again.
Perhaps. But I do wonder at these drones and suspect they are a delivery system for - something. What remains to be seen.
I recently suggested the drones flying America's skies might be biological weapons delivery systems sowing the next pandemic to allow the Globalist Left to seize more power. Well....
Mike Adams argues that there is another pandemic coming and it will be entirely a hoax, caused by chemicals.
If so, then they will need a way to distribute it over a wide area. A drone would do that nicely.
The WHO, whose failures metastasized the Covid outbreak, is promoting a pandemic accord which is a sneaky way to backdoor world government.
And Bill Gates warns of another pandemic as well. We know Gates predicted Covid the very year it happened by some "strange" coincidence.
Then there is Peter Hotez who said multiple viruses will emerge during Trump's Presidency. What makes him think that? Well, they've been creating them after all in a lab.
So if another pandemic should emerge one is sorely tempted to beleive it is intended to wreck the Trump Presidency as was the last.
Anyway, Adams doesn't believe they will even bother with a virus but rather just use chemicals and claim it is a virus - a full blownn lie. A psy-op. Contact poisons which they will claim is a virus and shut the whole world down again.
Perhaps. But I do wonder at these drones and suspect they are a delivery system for - something. What remains to be seen.
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December 15, 2024
Are Drones Looking for Nukes?
Timothy Birdnow
I just came across a rather disturbing theory about the drones; they may be looking for nuclear material.
High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors can spot nuclear material much better than the older types of nuclear detectors. They can be mounted on drones too.
That would explain why the government is so closed-lipped about this, and why they prefer frightened speculation to leveling with the American People.
Do we have a nuclear device in New Jersey? Or does someone have a radiological bomb?
For the record a radiological bomb is no real threat; the radiation is dispersed quickly and only contaminates a small area if it all. The threat is more psychological than anything else; getb people to panic.
The Iranians have an atomic bomb, of that I am sure. We keep saying "they almost have it" but they have enriched up to 20% which is most of the way there for making nukes. The first 3-5% is the hardest part.
According to Arms Control Center:
" The simple answer is that enriching uranium to 20% represents about 90% of the effort needed to produce weapons grade fissile material."
And that is correct. Once there it's a matter of days to enrich over 95%, which is the threshold for weapons grade uranium. They can have enough fissile material for a bomb in under one week.
Did the Iranians finish running their centrifuges?
While they've been working on implosion devices (much harder to build than gun-style triggers) so they can mount them on ICBM's they could ship a device by stealth and once they are in position Kaboom!
It's just a theory but something sinister is going on with those drones, no question.
And if it'snot the U.S. government looking for fissile material, is it perhaps Iran scouting the area for the best way to smuggle in a weapon?
BTW In nature drones are sexless; maybe it's a way to draw attention to the LGBTQ movement? Nonconforming gender rolls for aircraft!
I just came across a rather disturbing theory about the drones; they may be looking for nuclear material.
High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors can spot nuclear material much better than the older types of nuclear detectors. They can be mounted on drones too.
That would explain why the government is so closed-lipped about this, and why they prefer frightened speculation to leveling with the American People.
Do we have a nuclear device in New Jersey? Or does someone have a radiological bomb?
For the record a radiological bomb is no real threat; the radiation is dispersed quickly and only contaminates a small area if it all. The threat is more psychological than anything else; getb people to panic.
The Iranians have an atomic bomb, of that I am sure. We keep saying "they almost have it" but they have enriched up to 20% which is most of the way there for making nukes. The first 3-5% is the hardest part.
According to Arms Control Center:
" The simple answer is that enriching uranium to 20% represents about 90% of the effort needed to produce weapons grade fissile material."
And that is correct. Once there it's a matter of days to enrich over 95%, which is the threshold for weapons grade uranium. They can have enough fissile material for a bomb in under one week.
Did the Iranians finish running their centrifuges?
While they've been working on implosion devices (much harder to build than gun-style triggers) so they can mount them on ICBM's they could ship a device by stealth and once they are in position Kaboom!
It's just a theory but something sinister is going on with those drones, no question.
And if it'snot the U.S. government looking for fissile material, is it perhaps Iran scouting the area for the best way to smuggle in a weapon?
BTW In nature drones are sexless; maybe it's a way to draw attention to the LGBTQ movement? Nonconforming gender rolls for aircraft!
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The OIly Bird Catches the Worm
Timothy Birdnow
How can they tell? The thing is it's the BLACK sea!
Major oil spill in Black Sea.
Was this a spill or did it get a little help?
How can they tell? The thing is it's the BLACK sea!
Major oil spill in Black Sea.
Was this a spill or did it get a little help?
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