All to protect an EV sector that was dead on arrival.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
This is insane.
Can more people replicate this? pic.twitter.com/gz7KH95LVg
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 3, 2024
Yes, they could replicate it.
“If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven then Jesus is a f*ggot”
Tennessee Star has released The Nashville Manifesto;
On Tuesday, The Tennessee Star and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy released 90 pages of writings left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale. The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal, which was handwritten by Hale between January and March of 2023, can be downloaded here.
The journal was legally obtained by The Star from a source familiar with the investigation in June 2024. It was recovered from Hale’s vehicle by officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), along with a spiral notebook, after her March 27, 2023 attack on the Covenant School, where she murdered three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members before she was killed by MNPD officers.
Radically normal?
B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy, education in Dr, Jordan Peterson podcast appearance. He’s big on nuclear, which is radical thinking on the Left Coast. There’s a lot “radical” about him, from that perspective. Some might say “normal.”
How say you?
Showdown At Volkswagen
H/T to Melinda, “I think this is a really big deal. If you read between the lines, a tipping point of union power vs ongoing Corporate viability has been passed, and he’s doing something about it. Come hell or high water.”
Volkswagen boss Oliver Blume, already battling slowing demand for electric cars and Chinese rivals, must now put aside his mantle as team player to tackle yet another tough opponent, Germany’s powerful labour unions.
The pressure on Europe’s top carmaker was laid bare this week when Volkswagen disclosed it was not only planning to scrap a 30-year old job security scheme but weighing the closure of plants in Germany.
Moritz Kronenberger, portfolio manager at Volkswagen shareholder Union Investment, dubs these the company’s “two holy cows”.
By taking them on, Blume sets a collision course with one of Germany’s mightiest stakeholder groups, the IG Metall union, whose main goal is to protect jobs and sites and safeguard the favourable working conditions in Europe’s biggest economy.
VW works council head Daniela Cavallo said unions would “fiercely resist” the plans, ruling out any factory closures on her watch. She said a staff meeting on Wednesday, where management will face workers, would be “very uncomfortable”.
Volkswagen has not closed a plant since 1988 when it shut its Westmoreland site in Pennsylvania. In July it said it might close an Audi factory in Brussels citing a sharp drop in demand for high-end electric cars.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
The predatory priests of Catholicism have migrated to the classroom.
Julie began identifying privately as non-binary in 2021, he start of Grade 5. She came out to her class at the beginning of 2022.
With the help of a teacher in York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB), her parents were kept in the dark about her use of “they/them” pronouns and a new masculinized name in the classroom. Only in June 2022 did her parents learn what was quietly going on in school. When they objected and asked school leaders to include them in conversations about their daughter, the school called the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which investigated the family.
In December 2023, Julie detransitioned after realizing she’d been swept up in a social fad that overlooked her underlying mental health issues. Now, her family is raising the alarm about the power schools have to keep parents in the dark.
h/t Mike
Brazil Should Serve as a Warning, not a Playbook
People think Brazil-style censorship couldn't happen here, but it could. Indeed, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Barack Obama have all called for heavy-handed government censorship like that of Brazil and Europe, complete with banning disfavored individuals across platforms. pic.twitter.com/AImluaHjMi
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 2, 2024
Brazil is no longer a free democracy. This should frighten Americans.
More “Queering” Of Museums
From the world of the woke – specifically, Manchester Museum – I bring you problematic taxidermy.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Blackie’s Canada: The sensationalism surrounding residential schools. A denier narrative. Justin’s Senate.
Comrade Kamala’s America: The rules for radicals. Kamala Harris hates you.
Today In Islam: Geert Wilders for Breitbart. An American teen. Minority rights in Pakistan.
Killer Virus News: Another not very scary virus.
Your morning meme. A cartoon.
Program Notes
This happened. Podcast out tomorrow (Tue) at 1pm EDT. pic.twitter.com/yD8olnlk6Z
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) September 3, 2024
September 3, 2024: Reader Tips
Continuing on from yesterday, tonight we present episode 2 of New York State of Crime. This one is called An Affair to Remember.
Do share your best tips of late!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“This original article represents the opinions of a political personality but does not reflect the opinions of the publishers of ELLE Canada…”
Sorry “girls”, we didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
The New Economy
As is typical, the leftist corporate media is dancing around the real reason why automakers are looking to close plants: tapped out car buyers cannot afford to fund ruinously expensive EV mandates.
Volkswagen is weighing whether to close factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history as it moves to deepen cost cuts amid rising competition from China’s electric vehicle makers.
“The European automotive industry is in a very demanding and serious situation,” said Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume. “The economic environment became even tougher, and new competitors are entering the European market. Germany in particular as a manufacturing location is falling further behind in terms of competitiveness.
Mischief Is Important
Ask your doctor about INDEPENDENCE.
Climate claptrapping – climate alarm, but no alarm about a supertanker about to sink
The Houthis keep trying to blow up a loaded supertanker, and no one’s stopping them
The Houthis have, on multiple occasions now, set explosives on a fully loaded oil supertanker in the Red Sea. Their initial attack had the crew abandon ship, and since then they’ve repeatedly boarded it, set explosives, blew it up, while they filmed the whole thing and posted it online! And the production quality is really good – drone footage, onboard. You’d think it was a professional production!
For reference, the Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels of crude. The Sounion is carrying a million barrels.
Two podcasts for you on Labour Day:
Energy Realities Podcast: The Real Climate Claptrapping – Climate Alarm!
Irina Slav, Tammy Nemeth, and Stu Turley will be live talking about the most critical threat to our world, democracy, and our finances, “Climate Alarm.” or “Claptrapping”. Apparently if you question climate change, you’re no longer a denier, but producing climate claptrap.
Nemeth Report: Brad Hayes on energy literacy
Dr. Tammy Nemeth interviewed Dr. Brad Hayes, a sedimentary geologist, on energy literacy. I signed up for his course last year but simply didn’t have time to follow through on it. I will get to it one of these days.
It’s Probably Nothing
Turkey applies to join BRICS – Bloomberg
Ankara aims to move beyond its traditional Western alliances and strengthen its influence on the global stage. Erdoğan is convinced that the "geopolitical center of gravity is shifting away from Western economies." pic.twitter.com/fJx4dG0IbK
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) September 2, 2024
h/t Melinda
“On the clock of contemporary history, it’s showdown time…”
But something happened that Gramsci did not expect. As the march through the institutions progressed, the “progressives” — so confident of their intellectual superiority — did not sweep all before them. Rather they found the resistance stiffening unexpectedly. Unlikely coalitions rooted in the “Working Class” and even among formerly left-wing sympathizers began to multiply. The surprise setbacks of 2016, Trump and Brexit, grew rather than declined, as one might expect of the last-gasp resistance in the inevitable tide of history.
Today the Reagan castle the progressives captured by coup is in shambles. They are in possession of a ruin. The Global World has not only shattered but is breaking out in war. The only answer to inflation is price control. Worse, the political opposition to progressive ideas has become assertive and even respectable. Things have come to a head; that is what makes November 2024 so special.
In the future, J6 may be regarded as an echo of J5, 1968.
Fake Election 2024
Harris is not so much a flip-flopper as a padder, who supports anything, without any worry about framing each new position by renouncing her original and opposite one. – Victor Davis Hanson
And from the Bee.
Monday On Turtle Island
Comrade Kamala’s America: Cultural cleansing by communists. The empty pant suits. Gov. Walz’s legacy.
Blackie’s Canada: Justin’s secret trip to Sault Ste Marie.
Woke World: Paul Joseph Watson – I guess I was wrong. How free is Europe’s speech? A former Red Guard.
Today In Islam: The Islamic Caliphate of France. The death of the hostages.