[Stark Realities] Secessionist inclinations are on the rise in the United States, and are sure to intensify after Nov. 5 regardless of which party prevails. When that happens, you can expect the accompanying discourse will be peppered with assertions that states have no right to secede, with many declaring the question was "settled" by the Civil War.
The embedded contention that legal and moral questions are rightly and permanently settled by the outcome of a mass-murder contest is absurd on its face. However, the notion is so widely and casually embraced that it invites an emphatic response. It also serves as a starting point to address other flawed forms of secession skepticism.
Written by a socialist in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance attempts to program Americans into internalizing a falsehood: that the United States is "one nation, indivisible." On that score at least, the deeply-flawed pledge isn’t working on a large number of citizens.
A YouGov poll taken earlier this year found substantial slices of both major parties would support their state’s departure from the union: 29% of Republicans and 21% of Democrats. Similarly, the five states in which secessionist yearning is highest represent a mixed bag of red and blue: Alaska (36%), Texas (31%), California (29%), New York (28%) and Oklahoma (28%). While 23% of all Americans want their state to secede, 28% would be content if other states did so.
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If you read the base constitution it is a contract of union among 13 sovereign states. The amending process allows to alter that union. When 3/4ths of the smaller states are fed up with being run by a dozen major metro areas, they can call for a convention and a amendment to dissolve it.
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Contrarian view: The United States is MY country. I'm not giving up any part of it. If the gov't and/or governance doesn't meet my standards I'll change it as the Declaration of Independence has indicated.
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A different perspective as well. Other than the original 13 states, iirc only Texas and Hawaii entered as separate sovereign territories. All others were derived from federal territory. Those original 13 states gave up a priori claims to what was known as the Northwest Territory and gave it to the pre-Constitutional government to administer. Treaties between the national government and foreign claimants brought in the rest of the lands to the American domain.
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Looks like the Burg's resident pious and self-righteous asshole hasn't lost his touch, regardless of what he's calling himself this or next month. Two commenters having a nice discussion on state's rights and along comes Grom The Dickhead with yet another 'Noooo - Americans are really stoopid!' post or comment. You were an aggravating, thoughtless SOB a few years ago and it didn't take all that long for you to revert to form.
[GatewayPundit] United Sovereign Americans Filing Election Integrity Lawsuits in Multiple States – Group Finds 29 Million Voter Registrations That Need to Be Removed, Explained or Adjudicated
United Sovereign Americans is filing election integrity lawsuits in multiple states.
United Sovereign Americans, a nonpartisan, all-volunteer organization dedicated to honest elections, has just released a report detailing millions of errors discovered in state voter databases in twenty states that account for 338 electoral votes.
** The report can be found at https://unite4freedom.com/progress/
Their team of data analysts has over 700 years of big-data and auditing experience. They have acquired multiple copies of actual state voter databases for 2022, and their peer-reviewed analyses have discovered 29 million apparently ineligible voter registrations, 10 million votes cast by those ineligible registrations, and 2 million more votes counted than voters who voted, leading to a 13% vote error rate, where the legally allowed error rate is 0.0008% (1/125,000).
Every entry in a state voter database is a potential vote, and this level of error means bad actors can inject votes into an election that appear to be completely valid.
“Our auditors found 29 million voter registrations that need to be removed, explained or adjudicated and repaired,” says Marly Hornik, CEO of United Sovereign Americans, “Is this malice, arrogance, or incompetence? We demand comprehensive investigations on how these illegal records got into our voting systems. It appears that our election officials are derelict in their duties to follow existing election laws. Until these errors are fixed, every reported election result in the country is, tragically, unreliable.”
Harry Haury, Chairman of USA, an expert in elections and cybersecurity, was involved with the authoring of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. He says “This is not simply verifying accuracy. This is a wholesale abdication of duty. Are we looking at fraud? Congress and the courts thought so in the 1800’s, but now with opaque, unprovable systems we seem to have forgotten our lessons from over a century ago.”
The organization has filed two federal lawsuits, one in Maryland, which is on appeal, and another in Pennsylvania which cites 3,192,069 apparent errors in the registration records resulting in 1,089,750 uncertain votes, as well as a discrepancy of over 9,000 more votes tabulated than voters who voted. Nevertheless, Commonwealth officials certified the 2022 election.
The organization is preparing legal action in 18 more states and expects to be heard before the Supreme Court in time to impact the 2024 election.
Marly Hornik joined the WarRoom to discuss American Sovereign Americans and their efforts to bring integrity back to elections.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] There are 19 states where if you see purple paint on trees or fence posts while out hiking, you should leave immediately.
That's because purple paint denotes private property in these areas, which means you are trespassing and could open yourself up to criminal prosecution.
What's more, in a country where citizens have a constitutional right to own guns, disregarding these markings could put your life in serious danger.
Those violent Americans are ever so quaint, my dear, with their odd ideas about private property. And of course, the guns they use to enforce them.
States that have purple paint laws include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
However, it's important to note that in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, purple paint is not for dissuading criminal trespassers. It's solely used to notify people that they are not allowed to hunt or fish in the marked area.
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Per Article," However, it's important to note that in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, purple paint is not for dissuading criminal trespassers. It's solely used to notify people that they are not allowed to hunt or fish in the marked area" < Which is why I leave several "spent" shot gun shells and a few (more than a few) badly painted a 'la Jackson Pollock crimson quartz rocks laying around the boundary of my Virginia estate - with the "No Trespassing signs" so Pollock-esqued <👀😮🙂✅💯🌞😂
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My purple paint just means it's not public land, stay off. (However) I won't do anything unless you set up camp or look like you are hunting. (And even then I will just call the authorities... won't shoot you for a first violation...)
[Daily Mail, etc., etc] Charming east coast idyll where fed-up residents have had enough - and now want their state to divorce the US.
For decades, Live Free or Die has been the motto in New Hampshire.
But for a group of disgruntled residents seeking independence, the slogan is more than just a philosophy.
The NHEXIT movement, which launched earlier this month, is pushing for New Hampshire to secede from the US.
Members say they are fed up with the bloated central government and resent paying more in tax dollars than they get back.
'There are 2.5 million unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. and they are responsible for dragging the nation to the brink of bankruptcy,' movement leader Carla Gericke explained.
[GWP] Faced with the refusal to publish the final minutes of the last elections, Maduro argued that he cannot show the electoral result because Elon Musk had hacked the system of the National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by Chavismo, which proclaimed him the winner with 52% of the votes, while González Urrutia supposedly obtained 43%.
[Breitbart] Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni told Breitbart News Saturday most of the job growth under the Biden-Harris regime went to “foreign-born workers.”
Antoni spoke to Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle as the the unemployment rate jumped to 4.3 percent and employers added 114,000 workers to their payrolls in July, a significant miss from economists’ 180,000 expected jobs estimate.
Antoni has compiled some data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) about the dismal state of the economy under the Biden-Harris administration, including that most of the recent job growth has gone to foreign-born workers, which includes illegal aliens.
He explained to Breitbart News Saturday, “We’ve lost 1.2 million jobs among native born Americans. So, all of the job gains, 1.3 million, have gone to foreign-born workers. In fact today, this is astonishing, but there are fewer native born Americans working now than before five years, before the pandemic.”
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[Regnum] After the downgrade of Ukraine's credit rating, the European Union faces catastrophic costs, said MEP Thierry Mariani.
"Europeans realize that the colossal aid provided to Ukraine in the form of loans will never be repaid. The financial costs will be catastrophic," the parliamentarian wrote on the social network X (former Twitter).
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the international agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has lowered Ukraine's credit rating to the level of "selective default".
The leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, said that Kiev will be forced to ask the West for increased financial support after the downgrade of Ukraine's credit rating.
The politician noted that a rating downgrade could become one of the reasons to stop financial assistance to the Kyiv regime and begin negotiations with Moscow.
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They thought they were loaning money to Ukraine? That’s like loaning crack to Hunter Biden. Actually, that’s sort of what they were really doing in part.
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[BBC] On a crisp September night in 1943, a woman boarded a warplane ready to return to Poland to fight the Nazis, a parachute strapped to her back and a blue dress beneath her flight suit.
Elżbieta Zawacka had arrived in the UK in May following a perilous journey lasting several months across 1,000 miles of occupied territory.
Branded "the captain in a skirt" and "a militant female dictator" as she confronted those in charge in London, her efforts would transform the status of women in the Polish Home Army, helping to save thousands of lives.
On her return to her homeland, and having played a major role in the largest organised insurrection against Germany in World War Two, her "reward" was to be captured, tortured and jailed by her own government.
So who was the woman who went by the name of Zo, and what inspired her to acts of such defiance and bravery?
Elżbieta Zawacka was born in 1909 in the city of Toruń, a part of Poland which had been under the control of Prussia, then later Germany, for nearly a century.
At the end of World War One, the area was reclaimed by Poland. When both Germany and the Soviet Union invaded the country in September 1939, Zawacka joined the underground resistance, taking the code name Zo and building an intelligence network made up nearly entirely of women that covered the size of Wales.
Her blonde hair and perfect German made her an ideal candidate to act as its main courier, smuggling microfilms packed with military information hidden in objects such as toothpaste tins, keys and cigarette lighters - often into Berlin where the illicit cargo would be handed to another agent to be passed on to the West.
"It's really ironic," says Clare Mulley, historian and author of a new book, Agent Zo. "She has to bring information from Nazi-occupied Poland right into the heart of the Third Reich as that's the fastest way they can get it to London."
University professor, Scouting instructor, freedom fighter during World War II
Elżbieta Zawacka, known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent and a freedom fighter during World War II. She was promoted to brigadier general of the Polish Army by President Lech Kaczyński on 3 May 2006. Wikipedia
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[REGNUM] The Finnish economy faces a very specific problem. The country is rich in forests, where blueberries and other wild berries ripen in huge quantities. The Finns do not pick them themselves, but invite guest workers from Thailand to do this. However, a scandal has recently erupted in the country: it has emerged that Finnish companies are keeping Thai berry pickers in virtual slavery - they take away their documents, feed them poorly, and torture them with backbreaking labor for which they receive almost no pay. The revelations of abuse have resulted in a high-profile trial, and Thailand is now refusing to allow its citizens to work in the distant northern country.
[Breitbart] The International Boxing Association has pledged to award prize money to Italy’s Angela Carini, whose 46-second Olympics defeat to an Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender eligibility row has left the sport on the ropes.
Carini stopped her fight against Algeria’s Imane Khelif after receiving two strong punches to the face, refused to shake hands with her opponent and then collapsed to the canvas sobbing.
But the bout sparked controversy as Khelif had been disqualified by the IBA during last year’s world championship after failing unspecified gender eligibility tests.
There is no suggestion that Khelif, who has fought on the women’s circuit for years, including in the Tokyo Olympics, identifies as anything other than a woman.
Sure, she’s one of those girls born genetically XY, but at least she doesn’t use illegal steroids….
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) cleared her to fight at the Paris Games as they use the gender stated on the passport as their criterion for eligibility.
Perhaps she was always told she was a girl and so she doesn’t identify as transgender or transsexual, but the poor thing is nonetheless all boy. This is not the first time that an international-level athlete has been cut from competition because blood tests revealed unnoticed genetic anomalies. It’s always heartbreaking.
Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting appear to be caught in the crossfire of a row between the IBA and the IOC, which ejected the boxing body from the Olympic movement after financial and ethical irregularities.
Referring to Carini’s reaction at the end of the bout, IBA President Umar Kremlev said: “I couldn’t look at her tears.”
“I am not indifferent to such situations, and I can assure that we will protect each boxer. I do not understand why they kill women’s boxing,” added Kremlev.
“Only eligible athletes should compete in the ring for the sake of safety.”
The IBA said it would reward Carini prize money “as if she were an Olympic champion.”
The association said it was awarding all gold medallists $100,000, of which $25,000 will go to the national federation and $25,000 to the coach.
It was not immediately clear how much Carini would be offered and the IBA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Carini has since apologised for not congratulating her opponent.
“All the controversy made me sad and I’m sorry for my opponent too. It’s nothing to do with her. She was here like me to fight,” she told the Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I was angry because my Olympics had just gone up in smoke but I’ve nothing against Imane Khelif. On the contrary, if I saw her again, I’d give her a hug,” she added.
Khelif fights later Saturday in the women’s 66kg quarter-final against Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori, with victory guaranteeing her medal, as all semi-finalists get at least bronze.
'SHAME ON THE IOC': @Caitlyn_Jenner explains why the International Olympic Committee was "absolutely" wrong to allow Imane Khelif to compete against women, even after the Algerian boxer failed a gender test. pic.twitter.com/qZiU7c0Cy1
[FoxBusinessNews] Months after the federal government gave Intel $8.5 billion in grants to help bring back chipmaking to the U.S., the company said it is cutting 15% of its workforce, which translates to around 17,000 jobs.
The tech company announced the job cuts as part of a massive cost-cutting and restructuring plan.
"This is an incredibly hard day for Intel as we are making some of the most consequential changes in our company’s history," Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a note to employees this week. "Simply put, we must align our cost structure with our new operating model and fundamentally change the way we operate."
Gelsinger added that revenues hadn’t "grown as expected."
"Our costs are too high, our margins are too low," he wrote. "We need bolder actions to address both — particularly given our financial results and outlook for the second half of 2024, which is tougher than previously expected. These decisions have challenged me to my core, and this is the hardest thing I’ve done in my career. My pledge to you is that we will prioritize a culture of honesty, transparency and respect in the weeks and months to come."
The company's stock fell 26% Friday after the announcement.
The decision to cut jobs after the influx of federal funds has raised some eyebrows.
"Someone help me understand how this is smart or fair," "Making Money" host Charles Payne wrote on X Saturday. "The Biden-Harris administration has handed billions of dollars to the richest corporations ever, including many foreign companies."
Intel has around 116,500 workers.
The semiconductor giant received federal subsidies under the Biden administration's CHIPS and Science Act that was signed into law in 2022 to advance semiconductor manufacturing projects in four U.S. states.
The bipartisan legislation aims to improve competition with China by strengthening U.S. manufacturing, supply chains and national security and investing in research and development, science and technology.
The CHIPS and Science Act allocated more than $52 billion for U.S. semiconductor research, development, manufacturing and workforce development.
Demand for AI chips from the likes of Nvidia has shifted away from non-AI products, cutting Intel’s sales by 1% to $12.8 billion. The company lost $1.6 billion compared to a profit of $1.5 billion in the prior quarter.
Intel and the White House did not immediately respond to FOX Business' request for comment.
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The Biden Admin will continue to claim the CHIPS Act as a great success. That’s what they do.
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In back of all this is, Intel has been turning out flawed product recently. 14th gen processors are crap, they'll tell you so, and it's your problem.
Call it the Boeing effect. AMD did it too, but at least backed up and fixed it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[GWP] Faced with the refusal to publish the final minutes of the last elections, Maduro argued that he cannot show the electoral result because Elon Musk had hacked the system of the National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by Chavismo, which proclaimed him the winner with 52% of the votes, while González Urrutia supposedly obtained 43%.
