[ZeroHedge] The World Economic Forum is becoming a little concerned. Unapproved opinions are becoming more popular, and online censors cannot keep up with millions of people becoming more aware and more vocal. The censorship engines employed by Internet platforms, turned out to be quite stupid and incapable. People are even daring to complain about the World Economic Forum, which is obviously completely unacceptable.
So, WEF author Inbal Goldberger came up with a solution: she proposes to collect off-platform intelligence from “millions of sources” to spy on people and new ideas, and then merge this information together for “content removal decisions” sent down to “Internet platforms”.
Zero Hedge is becoming hysterical again. If this totalitarian proposal does indeed come to pass, that just will hurry the migration from the old platforms, like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, to new/less restrictive platforms like Telegram, Donald Trump’s Truth Social, MeWe, Rumble, and BitChute.
[BitChute] Globalist utopians demand that we fall in line with their "cure" for climate change. Dr Jordan B Peterson explains why the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 is absolutely preposterous.
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Keep remembering all the predictions of doom and worldwide destruction you have heard or read about during each of your lives so far. How many came true?
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/\ Keep remembering all the predictions of doom and worldwide destruction you have heard or read about during each of your lives so far. How many came true?
[American Thinker] If I can hear voter fraud alarm bells, why are there crickets from Republicans? Have they not learned their lesson? Democrats are also strangely silent about securing the vote, which means we should pay attention. God alone knows what fresh hell they will unleash to prevent a Red Wave in November and a Trump win in 2024.
It seems that Republicans have little stomach for solutions that might actually ensure a fraud-free election. In fact, they seem to be ignoring the fraud issue as though 2020 never happened. Worse, they seem to utterly lack a cohesive conservative strategy for winning and governing. This is unforgivable. What do these people think they got elected for?
The vote fraud issue cannot wait. Republicans, if they even have it in them, must stop being reactive instead of proactive. The genius king of proactivity, Governor Ron DeSantis, anticipates problems and their solutions before they get out of hand. Republicans need to take a page from his book and act today, not tomorrow when it's too late.
Our vote is all we have left. If the November Red Wave is to happen without chaos, some things must happen now. Here is the 8-point short version of what must be done. (To see the long version, see the articles linked above.)
One voting day: No votes counted after midnight.
1. One voting day.
2. Back to paper ballots.
3. No stopping or slowing of the vote count. To that end, there will be monitors at every polling station and enough counters to make it happen.
4. No mail-in ballots except for those who apply in advance, in writing, to get one.
5. Voter ID.
6. By personnel must mail their ballots three weeks before voting day to ensure that they are counted on time.
7. Polling places must be secured by law enforcement against violence or disruption.
8. Military personnel must mail their ballots three weeks before voting day to ensure that they are counted on time.
There is a cultural aspect to why the left is so active regarding the vote and the right isn't.
Just yesterday, Dan Bongino played an audio clip of a naïve young American Marxist saying he shouldn't have to work, that he should just be given stuff. Gimme stuff is the progressives' rallying cry, so they have no investment in getting that stuff by making their own lives better through purpose — e.g., raising families and working. They have nothing to preserve and protect, so they find their callow meaning in protesting, violence, and being part of a socialist movement.
Working for the American dream is not in the progressive calculus. Progressives are successful at being unsuccessful, but that worldview makes them throw caution to the wind. This holds true with elections: the unemployed and unemployable left, never risk-averse, have infiltrated the vote-counting process, which is where elections matter.
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It does amaze me that the Republicans didn't push an election integrity act saying exactly this. they could have gotten bipartisan support by saying it was to remove any questions and doubts to prevent conspiracy theories, riots, as well as election fraud.
If you can't do it Federally because the way elections work put the same law into every statehouse in the nation. Get folks on the record voting against it and you have something, if it passes you actually have done a lot of good.
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It does amaze me that the Republicans didn't push an election integrity act saying exactly this.
It’s happening, stepwise, at the state level in those states that are Republican-controlled. And as, in each election since 2000, ever more states and communities within states have become less Democrat and more Republican, and of the Republicans more strongly Trump/TEA Party/conservative/populist Republican, the necessary changes are spreading ever more broadly across the country.
It started before the conservatization, if you will, of the federal judiciary at all levels as a result of the partnership between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, but accelerated thereafter.
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The proposed changes are very easy to write out, not at all easy to accomplish in reality. Any small movement toward one of these changes would be fought every inch of the way, by the DOJ to some low level federal judge issuing nationwide injunctions.
At the very least, every Republican candidate should be asked where s/he stands on this strategy. I don't expect they would answer clearly even then.
[RealClear Politics] Nothing symbolizes the decline of the American republic better than the weaponization of justice that we saw last week when the FBI raided the home of former President Trump.
And nothing better represents the divide that now exists between Democrats and Republicans than the fact that some people still have faith in the FBI.
Aren’t they paying attention? Heck, that's like a citizen of the old Soviet Union saying they had faith in the KGB — yeah, to crush dissent and lock up opponents of the regime in a Siberian gulag.
The evidence is overwhelming. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. Or more appropriately, the Federal Intimidation Bureau, whose acronym would spell out FIB, as in the Big Lie. Face it, nothing the FBI has said for the last six years since they joined with the Democratic Party to invent the Russia collusion hoax can be taken seriously.
Is there any need to go through the whole laundry list of lies and fabrications that the FBI, with the aid and comfort of the Justice Department, has foisted on the American public?
You can start with the extraordinary 2016 press conference when FBI Director James Comey detailed crimes committed by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton related to her improper use of a private email account to store classified material. Moments after saying she had broken the law, Comey announced with a straight face that "no reasonable prosecutor" would ever bring a case against her. Yeah, because she was a Democrat!
A couple months later, Comey set up President Trump’s National Security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, by sending agents to interview him about his supposed contacts with Russians.
"What's our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?" wrote Bill Priestap in a memo before the interview. Priestap was counterintelligence director at the FBI, and it became evident later that the agency’s goal was indeed to get him fired — and more importantly to get Trump impeached, fired, humiliated, you name it.
Comey himself admitted that the FBI targeted Flynn and chose not to approach him through the White House legal counsel, but informally with a direct phone call to arrange an interview. As Comey later told a reporter, it was "something I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more ... organized administration."
Because the price of energy always falls when economic activity falls off a cliff.
When the factories are working partial hours, and the trucks are shipping fewer shipments, yeah, the demand for energy is going to fall.
This is not the way you want to cause the price of energy to fall, though.
New York Empire State factory gauge plunges in August deep into contraction territory
General conditions index drops 42 points to negative 31.3 -- the second largest decline on record
The numbers: The New York Fed's Empire State business conditions index, a gauge of manufacturing activity in the state, plummeted 42.4 points to negative 31.3 in August, the regional Fed bank said Monday.
This is the second largest monthly decline on record and among the lowest levels in the survey's history, the regional Fed bank said.
Economists had expected a reading of 5.0, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal.
Unexpectedly!
They expected it to fall to positive 5.0. Instead if plummeted to negative 31.3.
Any reading below zero indicates deteriorating conditions.
Key details: The index for new orders dropped 35.8 points to negative 29.6 in August.
The shipments index fell 49.4 points to negative 24.1.
Unfilled orders fell for the third straight month.
Labor market conditions weakened. The prices-paid index fell 9 points to 55.5, its lowest level in over a year.
In addition, manufacturers were not optimistic about the six-month outlook.
Big picture: Economists were expecting a small retreat in the factory index, not a rout. The U.S. manufacturing sector, which was a strength during the recovery from the pandemic, is facing a steep drop-off in new business.
The New York data, and a similar reading from the Philadelphia Fed, are seen as early indicators for the health of the factory sector in August.
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Across this country. Major consumer cutback on expenditures. Many reasons. Fear of winter fuel costs for homes or transportation. Video toll rolls popping up. Back to school and so on. Increased taxes on everything. Soon you will prepay your death taxes.
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I am a bit surprised by all of this. The Fed has only raised short-term interest rates to (gasp!) 2 1/2 percent; and the long-term mortgage rate is hovering around 5 percent. These are very, very low rates by comparison to any era except the immediately preceding few years.
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[Redstate] Fox News host Tucker Carlson returned to "Tucker Carlson Tonight," and he had his first chance to sound off on the FBI/Department of Justice raid of Mar-a-Lago, and it’s clear that Carlson might be even more effective having been gone all last week as the story developed. Tucker began his monologue by speaking about law enforcement and that the raid on Mar-a-Lago was a "power grab."
Carlson said:
"For the sake of argument ... we’re going to say that it is in fact true, that Donald Trump did in fact get classified boxes of documents sitting in his cellar. Let’s say that’s true. What would it mean? Well, what it means depends in part on what the documents were. Did those documents contain meaningful information? Should they have been classified in the first place? ... You never hear those questions asked in public, but anyone who lives in Washington knows perfectly well, they should be asked in public..."
Here is the entire opening monologue, which is a must-watch:
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