“I have nothing against solar power or for that matter electric vehicles. I think each of them fits into a genuine market niche, and if approached realistically they will play a role in the economy for the indefinite future.
For instance, I see solar as a useful tool for people who want to live off the grid. With a large enough energy storage system and access to emergency backup power, I think solar power could be great. A solar array on a roof with batteries could reduce one’s reliance on the grid and provide backup power during power outages, although I haven’t worked out the cost/benefits of solar vs. backup generators.
I’d love to have a luxury 5th-wheel RV loaded up with batteries and tons of solar panels to make short-term off-grid living comfy! I’ve even looked into what it would take to do it.
But the plunging price of solar panels is at least partly an illusion, although a useful one for opponents of fossil fuels. Solar panel production is highly dependent upon Chinese supply chains, and those Chinese supply chains are often using Uighur slave labor.”
People say that what reduced the cost of solar panels was tech innovation, but it wasn't. It was Chinese government subsidies, coal, and forced labor. This issue should transcend politics. It's immoral to import products made in such horrific conditionshttps://t.co/IaAM9gmq1cpic.twitter.com/JF8yaVC2Iw
“The economic benefits of solar have always been exaggerated, but it is undeniable that prices have in recent years dropped like a rock. The reliability is not great, and often the true cost of solar power is hidden by the cost of reliable backup generation, but the raw cost of each watt of electricity generated by a panel has been dropping.
Slave labor can do that for you.
Global supply chains for solar panels have begun shifting away from a heavy reliance on China, in part because of a recent ban on products from Xinjiang, a region where the U.S. government and United Nations accuse the Chinese government of committing human rights violations.
But a new report by experts in human rights and the solar industry found that the vast majority of solar panels made globally continue to have significant exposure to China and Xinjiang.
The report, released Tuesday, also faulted the solar industry for becoming less transparent about the origin of its products. That has made it more difficult for buyers to determine whether solar panels purchased to power homes and electricity grids were made without forced labor.
The analysis was done by Alan Crawford, a solar industry analyst, and Laura T. Murphy, a professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield Hallam University in England, along with researchers who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from the Chinese government. The London-based Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Center provided funding.
The largest solar panel manufacturers in the world are able to sell their inexpensive panels because of where they are located–and that is right where slave labor is made available to them by the Chinese government.”
Speaking of riots and American history, I also remember @TheRevAl deliberately inciting a massive pogrom against Jews in New York City that directly led to the brutal murder of Yankel Rosenbaum. Sharpton marched in solidarity with violent thugs who chanted “Death to the Jews!”
“According to a report from CBS News’ Catherine Herridge, Tim Parlatore, who is the attorney for former NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, provided records to Jack Smith on July 23. Parlatore thinks the Special Counsel may not have reviewed records before indicting Trump because he thinks those materials are exculpatory.
A source close to Kerik’s legal team said at the time that they believed the records, which include sworn affidavits from people raising concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest, show there was a genuine effort to investigate claims of voter fraud in the last election.
In an Aug. 2 email to Parlatore, reviewed by CBS News, a special counsel’s office prosecutor requested “responsive documents as to which the Trump campaign is no longer asserting a privilege,” referring to the Kerik records Parlatore said he previously provided.
Parlatore said he was “stunned” when, after the indictment came down, the prosecutor contacted him asking for the records he said he had already provided. Parlatore said the “records are absolutely exculpatory.”
“They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false,” Parlatore said. “Good- faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time.”
Parlatore used to work for Trump but left in May.
But if, indeed, those materials are exculpatory and Smith proceeded anyway, that doesn’t say a lot about his case or his process. If Trump is pursuing all these efforts to prove fraud, it does tend to show he has an honestly held belief. That puts a big hole in an indictment that was already flawed, and seemingly based on going after him for his beliefs. We’ve already seen legal experts like George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley and former prosecutor Andy McCarthy casting doubt on the flawed nature of this latest indictment. Not to mention how Republicans aren’t allowed to doubt election results. For them, now, it’s seemingly a crime. Yet Democrats can take all kinds of actions to question elections, and they will not be pursued with criminal action like this.
Some now believe after all the flurry of lawfare, that this isn’t so much about obtaining a conviction against Donald Trump as much as it is about taking up Trump’s time and money to defend the endless actions. That way you incapacitate him as a candidate even if you can’t convict him on the evidence, and Democrats get what they want — they hold onto power.
They’re in such a rush to take the heat off of Hunter and “The Big Guy” that they’re just half-assing it now. 🙂
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“ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Not only freedom of speech but freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances and freedom to challenge elections. In the indictment they acknowledge that there are these freedoms, but they claim that Donald — and this is the key point — that Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election. That everything he did was fraudulent. That he conspired with unnamed lawyers mostly, to affect the election outcome. You’re allowed to challenge elections. In fact, the best way to challenge an election is to come up with a slate of alternate electors. That’s what a court said in Hawaii in 1960, that’s been the case throughout our history.
So the government has the burden of proof beyond an unreasonable doubt that subjectively Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election and acted contrary to that belief.
I read the indictment carefully. There is no smoking gun. There is no one who is credibly prepared to testify that Donald Trump said to him, I know personally, I lost the election. There is a lot of evidence a lot of people told me he lost the election but you know Donald Trump and you know he will make up his own mind. And they’ll have a very hard time proving it. This is the District of Columbia, so 90 percent of the jury pool voted against him. So, they may actually get a conviction from a D.C. jury but will it survive appellate review and review in the Supreme Court? I do not think so.
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I think he may lose in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, but I think he will probably win in the United States Supreme Court, if they grant review and they should grant review. When you have the president of the United States and his people going after his opponent in a political election, it has to be beyond reproach. it has to be the strongest case in history. This doesn’t;t meet that standard.”
So when a country singer writes a song about “try that in a small town”, he’s a racist white nationalist. But when some black South Africans sing one about explicitly killing whitey, the NY Times says “meh”……
Forgive me, but as an outsider, I'm having trouble discerning the "symbolic" aspect of “kill the Boer (Whites), kill the White farmer.” Where is the metaphor here, exactly?
They listen to the song "Try that in a small town" and they screech like a soiled toddler.
But with "k*** The Boer" they go "Well ackshually, you need to understand the context, nuance, and historical hermeneutics associated within the framing of the lyrics."
“Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America.
Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers.
Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home.
So far, Joe Biden seems exempt from just such legal jeopardy.
But as a senator and vice president with no right, as does a president, to declassify files, Biden removed and, as a private citizen, kept for years classified files in unsecured locations.
Biden’s team strangely revealed the unlawful removals after years of silence.
It did so because the Biden administration found itself in the untenable position of prosecuting the former president for “crimes” that the current president committed as well — albeit far earlier and longer.
Impeachable phone calls?
Donald Trump was impeached by a Democratic House for delaying foreign aid until the Ukrainian government guaranteed that Hunter Biden and his family were no longer engaged in corrupt influence peddling in Kyiv.
In addition, the Left charged that Trump was targeting Joe Biden, his possible 2020 rival.
Yet Biden, with impunity, bragged that he had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor looking into his own son’s schemes by promising to cancel outright American foreign aid.
And the Biden administration’s Justice Department is now targeting Trump, currently the front-running challenger to Biden in 2024.
Election denialism?
Trump was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, in part for supposedly conspiratorially “unlawfully discounting legitimate votes.”
Will Smith then also indict Stacey Abrams? For years Abrams falsely claimed that she was the real governor of Georgia. She toured the country in hopes of “discounting” the state vote count.
Or maybe Smith was referring to the conspiracist and former president Jimmy Carter.
He alleged that Trump in 2016 “lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”
Will Smith charge Hillary Clinton?
She serially libeled Trump as an “illegitimate” president.
Clinton hatched the Russian collusion hoax, and bragged she joined the “Resistance” to continue her attacks on an elected president.
Or maybe Smith meant the Hollywood crowd.
Lots of actors cut commercials after the 2016 election — begging viewers to pressure the electors to ignore their constitutional duties to honor their states’ popular vote and instead swing their ballots to Hillary Clinton?
Was not that “insurrectionary?”
Or was Smith thinking of January 2005?
Then 32 Democratic House members and Sen. Barbara Boxer tried to nullify the legally certified vote in Ohio — to thereby elect the loser John Kerry.
How about destroying evidence?
Trump was also indicted for allegedly attempting to erase video material from his own security cameras in his own house.
Yet Hillary Clinton with impunity eliminated subpoenaed communication devices and thousands of emails.
Violations of security? Trump was indicted for supposedly loosely talking about classified material to visitors at his home.
So, will prosecutor Smith’s indictments also extend to Hillary Clinton? She sent classified documents illegally over her unsecured private server.
FBI Director James Comey memorialized a confidential president conversation.
Then he deliberately leaked what properly was a classified document to the media. It was all part of Comey’s Machiavellian gambit to prompt the appointment of a favorable special prosecutor.
What about subversion of the electoral process?
Donald Trump was indicted for supposedly undermining the election of 2020 by questioning the integrity of the balloting.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign illegally hired two foreign nationals Christopher Steele and Igor Danchenko to compile falsehoods about her opponent Trump.
Clinton hid her payments behind three paywalls.
Her team, along with the FBI, helped leak the counterfeit dossier to the media and high officials to undermine her opponent — and thus subvert the election itself.
Lying and perjury?
Two Trump aides and Trump himself are indicted for supposedly stonewalling federal investigators by claiming either amnesia or ignorance.
That tact is exactly what James Comey did 245 times while under oath before Congress.
What do former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and former interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe all have in common?
All three admitted they flagrantly lied either under oath to Congress or to federal investigators.
The three were never indicted for their false and perjurious testimonies.”
It amazes me that Trump is getting all this free campaign airtime to promote him as the picked on underdog which increases people’s sensitivity to someone being unmercifully bullied. Wow! Such a backfire.
Just commenting on the weirdness of it all and not commenting on who I am supporting in the primary.
The Jan 6 riots were staged to distract from the fraudulent election certification.
The election of 2020 was the most fraudulent election in American history. Big Tech & media censorship, and suppression of key stories (such as the H. Biden laptop story)… ballot tampering… USPS fraud… “broken water mains” where everyone was sent home, only for the Dems to return and count votes with absolutely no oversight… ‘glitch’ after ‘glitch’ voting machines… 110% turnout in several counties… dead people voting… single folks being sent six to eight absentee ballots… states violating their own Constitutions… laws and rules being changed at the last minute… the FBI ignoring all the anomalies that were seen and reported by poll workers… unconstitutional breaking of centuries old “Election Day”… judge after judge refusing to hear any case involving the election.
With these new charges, maybe, just maybe the truth will come out for all to see…
“Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company, Google, accusing them of engaging in a “censorship campaign” against his anti-vaccine remarks.
In the 27-page lawsuit filed on Aug. 2, Mr. Kennedy alleged that YouTube violated his First Amendment rights by removing videos of his speech at Saint Anselm College and interviews with clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson and conservative podcast host Joe Rogan.
“This complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear,” the suit reads.
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, underlines that Mr. Kennedy was not the only victim of the censorship campaign but also that he was “a high-profile victim” challenging against President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
“This censorship campaign prevents Mr. Kennedy’s message from reaching millions of voters. It also makes it harder for groups that are supporting his campaign to amplify his message through public sources,” the suit reads.
Mr. Kennedy claimed that YouTube used its “medical misinformation” policies to justify removing the videos, which he alleged was done in partnership with federal government officials, including “the Biden White House,” to silence critics.
In the suit, Mr. Kennedy said that while YouTube is a nongovernmental entity, “there is a sufficiently close nexus between YouTube and the federal government such that YouTube’s actions may be fairly treated as that of the government itself.”
“For example, although it cited its own COVID vaccine misinformation policies when censoring Mr. Kennedy, the policies rely entirely on government officials to decide what information gets censored,” the complaint reads.
“They say that YouTube does not allow people to say anything ‘that contradicts local health authorities’ (LHA) or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19.’”
“These policies are subject to change, but only ‘in response to changes to global or local health authorities’ guidance on the virus.’ In other words, the government provides the rules that guide YouTube’s enforcement of the medical misinformation policies,” the lawsuit added.
Mr. Kennedy requested injunctive relief “prohibiting YouTube from censoring him during his political,” along with a judicial declaration “that YouTube’s medical misinformation policies are unconstitutional on their face” for the reasons outlined in the suit.
“This partnership has targeted Mr. Kennedy from day one of the Biden administration but, on information and belief, it has increased since Kennedy challenged the president politically,” the complaint reads.”
Slave labour, debt labour, child labour and exploitative labour practises in China are fairly well know. Not sure how this can be attributed to Biden – we can go all the way back to Reagan whose trade policies helped hollow out American manufacturing and helped corporations move factories to China. Uyghur slave labour has been well documented for at least a decade.
Solar panels have decreased in cost in a similar manner as all tech declines in cost. Biden has been fairly supportive of solar manufacturing within the US (both parties have become far more protectionists than previously). The main problem is to obtain subsidies so they can compete with China and others. Most of the opposition of subsidies comes from energy companies who donate mostly to Republican candidates. Solar energy decentralises power creation and large utility companies fear being made redundant by technology.
There appears to be a million and one legal experts in the media lately. Surprisingly Bill Barr claims the latest indictment is as serious and valid as previous indictments. Speculation is rife with the idea that Giuliani and Pence will testify against Trump. Giuliani has already testified in a civil suit he knowingly lied about a mother and daughter cheating in Georgia.
Trump’s own lawyers are appearing on television stating Trump had been told by some people that the election was legit whereas he chose to listen to those who said it was fraud. Thus a case can be made that he knew it was legit but chose to listen to those who told him what he wanted to hear. It was his judgement call and he’s responsible.
The EPP is a fringe party in South Africa. Not sure what relevance it has for American domestic politics. Boer btw is Dutch for farmer; they are referring to Afrikaaner farmers who supported apartheid – not all white people.
Tychicus – if the upcoming Trump trials reveal the opposite of what you would expect; will you change your mind?
Youtube is a private company and can censor their site anyway they want. Anti-vaccine material is routinely censored on Youtube and Facebook; Kennedy isn’t special in that regard and isn’t being targeted. Twitter just turned down an anti-Republican ad about gov’t interference in the bedroom. It doesn’t square with their “free speech” proclamation but they are a private company.
The Rio Grande is an international border. Not sure why Abbott thinks he has jurisdiction. In any case, he was told to take the buoys down by Biden who does have jurisdiction. Since the obstacle has now killed two people, Abbott is responsible for their deaths. Personally I’d like Mexico to issue an arrest warrant for manslaughter or get the international court in the Hague involved…..it won’t happen but just making these moves might make Abbot think twice before more people die.
Arrest warrant for Abbott?? Oh please!!! Don’t let the current neglect of this administration get in the way of your appalled narrative! 😳
Evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that “the border is closed” when talking about the tragic June 27 deaths. With the tractor-trailer having been found in Texas, roughly 150 miles from the southern border, that’s patently false.
An open border and incentives for illegal immigration are not only detrimental to America’s security, but are also life-threatening to the illegal aliens who attempt the journey as a direct result of the Biden administration’s agenda and empowerment of the cartels.
The administration’s supposedly “safe, orderly, and humane” immigration process is anything but.
How many American lives need to be taken due to illegal-alien crime, and how many migrants themselves must die before the Biden administration enforces our laws and saves lives?
Wandering Views 
Liberals are always so kind to their fellow men and women. Just kidding. They care more about “saving” the Earth than they do their fellow man.
This is also why Biden, Democrats, and the UN never ride China too hard about those slave labor camps.
They’re complicit. We need to stop the importation of these devices made by slave labor.
“Slave labor is the secret to solar power’s “success””
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/08/04/slave-labor-is-the-secret-to-solar-powers-success-n569024
“I have nothing against solar power or for that matter electric vehicles. I think each of them fits into a genuine market niche, and if approached realistically they will play a role in the economy for the indefinite future.
For instance, I see solar as a useful tool for people who want to live off the grid. With a large enough energy storage system and access to emergency backup power, I think solar power could be great. A solar array on a roof with batteries could reduce one’s reliance on the grid and provide backup power during power outages, although I haven’t worked out the cost/benefits of solar vs. backup generators.
I’d love to have a luxury 5th-wheel RV loaded up with batteries and tons of solar panels to make short-term off-grid living comfy! I’ve even looked into what it would take to do it.
But the plunging price of solar panels is at least partly an illusion, although a useful one for opponents of fossil fuels. Solar panel production is highly dependent upon Chinese supply chains, and those Chinese supply chains are often using Uighur slave labor.”
“The economic benefits of solar have always been exaggerated, but it is undeniable that prices have in recent years dropped like a rock. The reliability is not great, and often the true cost of solar power is hidden by the cost of reliable backup generation, but the raw cost of each watt of electricity generated by a panel has been dropping.
Slave labor can do that for you.
Global supply chains for solar panels have begun shifting away from a heavy reliance on China, in part because of a recent ban on products from Xinjiang, a region where the U.S. government and United Nations accuse the Chinese government of committing human rights violations.
But a new report by experts in human rights and the solar industry found that the vast majority of solar panels made globally continue to have significant exposure to China and Xinjiang.
The report, released Tuesday, also faulted the solar industry for becoming less transparent about the origin of its products. That has made it more difficult for buyers to determine whether solar panels purchased to power homes and electricity grids were made without forced labor.
The analysis was done by Alan Crawford, a solar industry analyst, and Laura T. Murphy, a professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield Hallam University in England, along with researchers who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from the Chinese government. The London-based Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Center provided funding.
The largest solar panel manufacturers in the world are able to sell their inexpensive panels because of where they are located–and that is right where slave labor is made available to them by the Chinese government.”
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Uhhhhh….
They did overthrow the govt.
Who wants to break the news to Einstein here…..
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More weak sauce in the Get Trump game.
“Herridge: Attorney Points to Big Problem With Trump Indictment—Allegedly Exculpatory Evidence”
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/03/herridge-attorney-points-to-big-problem-with-trump-indictment-allegedly-exculpatory-evidence-n787205
“According to a report from CBS News’ Catherine Herridge, Tim Parlatore, who is the attorney for former NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, provided records to Jack Smith on July 23. Parlatore thinks the Special Counsel may not have reviewed records before indicting Trump because he thinks those materials are exculpatory.
A source close to Kerik’s legal team said at the time that they believed the records, which include sworn affidavits from people raising concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest, show there was a genuine effort to investigate claims of voter fraud in the last election.
In an Aug. 2 email to Parlatore, reviewed by CBS News, a special counsel’s office prosecutor requested “responsive documents as to which the Trump campaign is no longer asserting a privilege,” referring to the Kerik records Parlatore said he previously provided.
Parlatore said he was “stunned” when, after the indictment came down, the prosecutor contacted him asking for the records he said he had already provided. Parlatore said the “records are absolutely exculpatory.”
“They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false,” Parlatore said. “Good- faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time.”
Parlatore used to work for Trump but left in May.
But if, indeed, those materials are exculpatory and Smith proceeded anyway, that doesn’t say a lot about his case or his process. If Trump is pursuing all these efforts to prove fraud, it does tend to show he has an honestly held belief. That puts a big hole in an indictment that was already flawed, and seemingly based on going after him for his beliefs. We’ve already seen legal experts like George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley and former prosecutor Andy McCarthy casting doubt on the flawed nature of this latest indictment. Not to mention how Republicans aren’t allowed to doubt election results. For them, now, it’s seemingly a crime. Yet Democrats can take all kinds of actions to question elections, and they will not be pursued with criminal action like this.
Some now believe after all the flurry of lawfare, that this isn’t so much about obtaining a conviction against Donald Trump as much as it is about taking up Trump’s time and money to defend the endless actions. That way you incapacitate him as a candidate even if you can’t convict him on the evidence, and Democrats get what they want — they hold onto power.
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They’re in such a rush to take the heat off of Hunter and “The Big Guy” that they’re just half-assing it now. 🙂
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Where is the crime asks the prominent professor and legal scholar?
Another noted legal scholar says they may get a conviction from a questionable Democrat jury and a corrupt DC judge, but it won’t stand on appeal.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/03/dershowitz_conviction_of_trump_by_dc_jury_will_not_survive_review_by_supreme_court.html
“ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Not only freedom of speech but freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances and freedom to challenge elections. In the indictment they acknowledge that there are these freedoms, but they claim that Donald — and this is the key point — that Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election. That everything he did was fraudulent. That he conspired with unnamed lawyers mostly, to affect the election outcome. You’re allowed to challenge elections. In fact, the best way to challenge an election is to come up with a slate of alternate electors. That’s what a court said in Hawaii in 1960, that’s been the case throughout our history.
So the government has the burden of proof beyond an unreasonable doubt that subjectively Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election and acted contrary to that belief.
I read the indictment carefully. There is no smoking gun. There is no one who is credibly prepared to testify that Donald Trump said to him, I know personally, I lost the election. There is a lot of evidence a lot of people told me he lost the election but you know Donald Trump and you know he will make up his own mind. And they’ll have a very hard time proving it. This is the District of Columbia, so 90 percent of the jury pool voted against him. So, they may actually get a conviction from a D.C. jury but will it survive appellate review and review in the Supreme Court? I do not think so.
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I think he may lose in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, but I think he will probably win in the United States Supreme Court, if they grant review and they should grant review. When you have the president of the United States and his people going after his opponent in a political election, it has to be beyond reproach. it has to be the strongest case in history. This doesn’t;t meet that standard.”
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So when a country singer writes a song about “try that in a small town”, he’s a racist white nationalist. But when some black South Africans sing one about explicitly killing whitey, the NY Times says “meh”……
So predictable.
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1687111114046550016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1687111114046550016%7Ctwgr%5E7152d53b7ef676b358c9f6dd6c424548f5e795af%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Fnyt-south-african-song-calling-for-anti-white-violence-should-not-be-taken-literally-n2385972
Nuanced…… sure.
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“Two Sets of Laws for Two Americas”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/04/two_sets_of_laws_for_two_americas_149580.html?callback=in&code=NTBJMMZMNTETMZC4MY0ZOGY0LWIZMJYTNDFMYMQ4MWJHZTLI&state=158b18860b9c4980bf5152d077cf42c6
“Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America.
Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers.
Donald Trump may go to prison for removing contested White House files to his home.
So far, Joe Biden seems exempt from just such legal jeopardy.
But as a senator and vice president with no right, as does a president, to declassify files, Biden removed and, as a private citizen, kept for years classified files in unsecured locations.
Biden’s team strangely revealed the unlawful removals after years of silence.
It did so because the Biden administration found itself in the untenable position of prosecuting the former president for “crimes” that the current president committed as well — albeit far earlier and longer.
Impeachable phone calls?
Donald Trump was impeached by a Democratic House for delaying foreign aid until the Ukrainian government guaranteed that Hunter Biden and his family were no longer engaged in corrupt influence peddling in Kyiv.
In addition, the Left charged that Trump was targeting Joe Biden, his possible 2020 rival.
Yet Biden, with impunity, bragged that he had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor looking into his own son’s schemes by promising to cancel outright American foreign aid.
And the Biden administration’s Justice Department is now targeting Trump, currently the front-running challenger to Biden in 2024.
Election denialism?
Trump was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, in part for supposedly conspiratorially “unlawfully discounting legitimate votes.”
Will Smith then also indict Stacey Abrams? For years Abrams falsely claimed that she was the real governor of Georgia. She toured the country in hopes of “discounting” the state vote count.
Or maybe Smith was referring to the conspiracist and former president Jimmy Carter.
He alleged that Trump in 2016 “lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”
Will Smith charge Hillary Clinton?
She serially libeled Trump as an “illegitimate” president.
Clinton hatched the Russian collusion hoax, and bragged she joined the “Resistance” to continue her attacks on an elected president.
Or maybe Smith meant the Hollywood crowd.
Lots of actors cut commercials after the 2016 election — begging viewers to pressure the electors to ignore their constitutional duties to honor their states’ popular vote and instead swing their ballots to Hillary Clinton?
Was not that “insurrectionary?”
Or was Smith thinking of January 2005?
Then 32 Democratic House members and Sen. Barbara Boxer tried to nullify the legally certified vote in Ohio — to thereby elect the loser John Kerry.
How about destroying evidence?
Trump was also indicted for allegedly attempting to erase video material from his own security cameras in his own house.
Yet Hillary Clinton with impunity eliminated subpoenaed communication devices and thousands of emails.
Violations of security? Trump was indicted for supposedly loosely talking about classified material to visitors at his home.
So, will prosecutor Smith’s indictments also extend to Hillary Clinton? She sent classified documents illegally over her unsecured private server.
FBI Director James Comey memorialized a confidential president conversation.
Then he deliberately leaked what properly was a classified document to the media. It was all part of Comey’s Machiavellian gambit to prompt the appointment of a favorable special prosecutor.
What about subversion of the electoral process?
Donald Trump was indicted for supposedly undermining the election of 2020 by questioning the integrity of the balloting.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign illegally hired two foreign nationals Christopher Steele and Igor Danchenko to compile falsehoods about her opponent Trump.
Clinton hid her payments behind three paywalls.
Her team, along with the FBI, helped leak the counterfeit dossier to the media and high officials to undermine her opponent — and thus subvert the election itself.
Lying and perjury?
Two Trump aides and Trump himself are indicted for supposedly stonewalling federal investigators by claiming either amnesia or ignorance.
That tact is exactly what James Comey did 245 times while under oath before Congress.
What do former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and former interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe all have in common?
All three admitted they flagrantly lied either under oath to Congress or to federal investigators.
The three were never indicted for their false and perjurious testimonies.”
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It amazes me that Trump is getting all this free campaign airtime to promote him as the picked on underdog which increases people’s sensitivity to someone being unmercifully bullied. Wow! Such a backfire.
Just commenting on the weirdness of it all and not commenting on who I am supporting in the primary.
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The Jan 6 riots were staged to distract from the fraudulent election certification.
The election of 2020 was the most fraudulent election in American history. Big Tech & media censorship, and suppression of key stories (such as the H. Biden laptop story)… ballot tampering… USPS fraud… “broken water mains” where everyone was sent home, only for the Dems to return and count votes with absolutely no oversight… ‘glitch’ after ‘glitch’ voting machines… 110% turnout in several counties… dead people voting… single folks being sent six to eight absentee ballots… states violating their own Constitutions… laws and rules being changed at the last minute… the FBI ignoring all the anomalies that were seen and reported by poll workers… unconstitutional breaking of centuries old “Election Day”… judge after judge refusing to hear any case involving the election.
With these new charges, maybe, just maybe the truth will come out for all to see…
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They’re still at it…
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/rfk-jr-files-lawsuit-against-youtube-google-over-censorship-campaign-5444135
“Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company, Google, accusing them of engaging in a “censorship campaign” against his anti-vaccine remarks.
In the 27-page lawsuit filed on Aug. 2, Mr. Kennedy alleged that YouTube violated his First Amendment rights by removing videos of his speech at Saint Anselm College and interviews with clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson and conservative podcast host Joe Rogan.
“This complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear,” the suit reads.
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, underlines that Mr. Kennedy was not the only victim of the censorship campaign but also that he was “a high-profile victim” challenging against President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
“This censorship campaign prevents Mr. Kennedy’s message from reaching millions of voters. It also makes it harder for groups that are supporting his campaign to amplify his message through public sources,” the suit reads.
Mr. Kennedy claimed that YouTube used its “medical misinformation” policies to justify removing the videos, which he alleged was done in partnership with federal government officials, including “the Biden White House,” to silence critics.
In the suit, Mr. Kennedy said that while YouTube is a nongovernmental entity, “there is a sufficiently close nexus between YouTube and the federal government such that YouTube’s actions may be fairly treated as that of the government itself.”
“For example, although it cited its own COVID vaccine misinformation policies when censoring Mr. Kennedy, the policies rely entirely on government officials to decide what information gets censored,” the complaint reads.
“They say that YouTube does not allow people to say anything ‘that contradicts local health authorities’ (LHA) or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19.’”
“These policies are subject to change, but only ‘in response to changes to global or local health authorities’ guidance on the virus.’ In other words, the government provides the rules that guide YouTube’s enforcement of the medical misinformation policies,” the lawsuit added.
Mr. Kennedy requested injunctive relief “prohibiting YouTube from censoring him during his political,” along with a judicial declaration “that YouTube’s medical misinformation policies are unconstitutional on their face” for the reasons outlined in the suit.
“This partnership has targeted Mr. Kennedy from day one of the Biden administration but, on information and belief, it has increased since Kennedy challenged the president politically,” the complaint reads.”
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Slave labour, debt labour, child labour and exploitative labour practises in China are fairly well know. Not sure how this can be attributed to Biden – we can go all the way back to Reagan whose trade policies helped hollow out American manufacturing and helped corporations move factories to China. Uyghur slave labour has been well documented for at least a decade.
Solar panels have decreased in cost in a similar manner as all tech declines in cost. Biden has been fairly supportive of solar manufacturing within the US (both parties have become far more protectionists than previously). The main problem is to obtain subsidies so they can compete with China and others. Most of the opposition of subsidies comes from energy companies who donate mostly to Republican candidates. Solar energy decentralises power creation and large utility companies fear being made redundant by technology.
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There appears to be a million and one legal experts in the media lately. Surprisingly Bill Barr claims the latest indictment is as serious and valid as previous indictments. Speculation is rife with the idea that Giuliani and Pence will testify against Trump. Giuliani has already testified in a civil suit he knowingly lied about a mother and daughter cheating in Georgia.
Trump’s own lawyers are appearing on television stating Trump had been told by some people that the election was legit whereas he chose to listen to those who said it was fraud. Thus a case can be made that he knew it was legit but chose to listen to those who told him what he wanted to hear. It was his judgement call and he’s responsible.
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The EPP is a fringe party in South Africa. Not sure what relevance it has for American domestic politics. Boer btw is Dutch for farmer; they are referring to Afrikaaner farmers who supported apartheid – not all white people.
Tychicus – if the upcoming Trump trials reveal the opposite of what you would expect; will you change your mind?
Youtube is a private company and can censor their site anyway they want. Anti-vaccine material is routinely censored on Youtube and Facebook; Kennedy isn’t special in that regard and isn’t being targeted. Twitter just turned down an anti-Republican ad about gov’t interference in the bedroom. It doesn’t square with their “free speech” proclamation but they are a private company.
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The Rio Grande is an international border. Not sure why Abbott thinks he has jurisdiction. In any case, he was told to take the buoys down by Biden who does have jurisdiction. Since the obstacle has now killed two people, Abbott is responsible for their deaths. Personally I’d like Mexico to issue an arrest warrant for manslaughter or get the international court in the Hague involved…..it won’t happen but just making these moves might make Abbot think twice before more people die.
https://truthout.org/articles/2-dead-bodies-found-stuck-to-buoys-texas-officials-were-ordered-to-take-down/?fbclid=IwAR32k2ehLA44C1ZNdc03cclz0G73GHLz22ZS55kf33CBJM-tWMeeuPsX4aQ
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Arrest warrant for Abbott?? Oh please!!! Don’t let the current neglect of this administration get in the way of your appalled narrative! 😳
Evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that “the border is closed” when talking about the tragic June 27 deaths. With the tractor-trailer having been found in Texas, roughly 150 miles from the southern border, that’s patently false.
An open border and incentives for illegal immigration are not only detrimental to America’s security, but are also life-threatening to the illegal aliens who attempt the journey as a direct result of the Biden administration’s agenda and empowerment of the cartels.
The administration’s supposedly “safe, orderly, and humane” immigration process is anything but.
How many American lives need to be taken due to illegal-alien crime, and how many migrants themselves must die before the Biden administration enforces our laws and saves lives?
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hw: Nobody cares what Bill Barr claims.
No, a case cannot be made that Pres. Trump knew the election was legit.
Trump trials? It’s all so bogus that they may not even happen, but what do you mean by “reveal the opposite of what you would expect”?
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