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History for November 28

History for November 28 - On-This-Day.com
Berry Gordy, Jr. 1929 - Founder of Mowtown Records, Randy Newman 1943 - Singer, songwriter, Paul Shaffer 1949 - Bandleader ("Late Show With David Letterman")


Judd Nelson 1959 - Actor ("The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire," "Making the Grade"), Jon Stewart 1965 - Actor, comedian ("The Daily Show"), Anna Nicole Smith 1967 - Model, actress


1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.


1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to map out strategy concerning World War II.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is hiring: Might I suggest a historian? - Washington Times

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is hiring: Might I suggest a historian? - Washington Times:

Newly elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seeking to fill 13 slots in her soon-to-be congressional office and has sent out an ad for interested applicants to apply.
Might I suggest a historian?

The way we were-----The Mike Curb Congregation - Burning Bridges (with lyrics)

Boob-tube-----Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

General Motors And General Electric Were Both Victimized By The Same Ponzi Scheme, And They Are Both Telling Us The U.S. Economy Is In HUGE Trouble

General Motors And General Electric Were Both Victimized By The Same Ponzi Scheme, And They Are Both Telling Us The U.S. Economy Is In HUGE Trouble
"America’s twin economic “generals” are both in very deep trouble. 

• General Electric was founded in 1892, and it was once one of the most powerful corporations on the entire planet. But now it is drowning in so much debt that it may be forced into bankruptcy. 
• General Motors was founded in 1908, and at one time it was the largest automaker that the world had ever seen. But now it is closing a bunch of factories and laying off approximately 14,000 workers as it anticipates disappointing sales and a slowing economy.

If the U.S. economy really was “booming”, both of these companies would probably be thriving.

But as you will see below, both of them have been victimized by the exact same Ponzi scheme, and both firms are sending us very clear signals that the U.S. economy is heading for troubled waters.
Whenever you hear the word “restructuring”, that is always a sign that things are not going well for a company.
And it turns out that GM’s “restructuring” is actually going to cost the firm 3.8 billion dollars…

General Motors said Monday it plans to effectively halt production at a number of plants in the U.S. and Canada next year and cut more than 14,000 jobs in a massive restructuring that will cost up to $3.8 billion.

Of course GM doesn’t have 3.8 billion dollars just lying around, and so they are actually going to have to borrow money in order to close these plants and lay off these workers..."
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Destructive liberal lies-----The NYT must have evolved on the issue....

The NYT must have evolved on the issue....
"BACK IN JANUARY, THE NEW YORK TIMES AGREED WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT CALIFORNIA NEEDED TO IMPROVE ITS FORESTRY MANAGEMENT--Editorial by Kevin Ryan
"...But the media firestorm continues over President Trump’s assertion that poor forest management contributed to the disaster. 
After Trump tweeted that better forest management could have prevented, or at least mitigated, the damage caused by the devastating wildfires, the media and California politicians said his assertion was false.
A spokesman for California Governor Jerry Brown said that the president's assertion was “inane” and “uninformed.”
The New York Times wrote a piece entitled “Trump’s Misleading Claims About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’”
Yet just a few months back, both Governor Brown and The New York Times said basically the same thing as Trump..."
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Caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican food as fit 'for pigs' expects free U.S. health care

Caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican food as fit 'for pigs' expects free U.S. health care:

But for us in the U.S., the apology revealed even more undesirable things. She apologized because she said she was coming to the U.S. to get health care for her daughter, who had some expensive medical conditions? That's a rationale for ingratitude? Because it's important to make gringo pay instead? She wasn't looking to escape violence, she was coming for the free stuff.

Why China Can't Win

Why China Can't Winby Ed Duffy
"I’ve never bought into the hype that China would soon become the worlds global economic super power.
They don’t innovate, they steal. 
They inflate their numbers by building highways nobody drives on to cities nobody lives in.
It’s a sham designed to promote buy-in for statism. 
It’s a lie that western fans of big government are happy to repeat and promote.
However, reality is not on their side. 
Free markets work better than central control, every time. China (also N. Korea and Venezuela) have announced that they’ll soon begin using a new social credit system. 
Every citizen will be issued a card, or perhaps in the future an implanted chip or tattoo, that is linked to their profile. 
They will be rewarded for activities and choices the state likes and punished for those the state does not. 
Of course the state has a lot more punishment than it has reward, so i expect it will be a lot of stick and very little carrot. 
...This is a great experiment. 
China says they’ll have their system completely up and running by the end of 2020. 
One of two things will happen. 
China’s economy and individual quality of life will plummet faster than it is now, or I’m completely wrong and they’ll build the perfect society for the future that we’ll all happily adopt.
I hope the western press pays attention and honestly reports on what’s going on in China over the next several years. 
...Pundits tell you what people think they think. 
Cash flow shows you what they’re actually doing. 
Follow the money."
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Editor's Note: Detroit lawmaker ditches her constituents

Editor's Note: Detroit lawmaker ditches her constituents:
"If you or I decided to skip work repeatedly and without excuse, there’s little doubt what would happen.
We wouldn’t have a paycheck anymore.
But Michigan lawmakers get to play by different rules.
...Rep. Bettie Cook Scott...lost in the August primary for state Senate, she’s reportedly not been in Lansing doing her job at all.
...this summer, when she went around to primary polling locations, telling voters not to support the “ching chong” -- a racial slur in reference to her opponent Rep. Stephanie Chang, also of Detroit. Chang, who is Asian American, handily beat Cook Scott.
...Even before Cook Scott stopped coming to work, she wasn’t doing a stellar job. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy tracks the votes of all lawmakers, and found that over her three terms in the House, Cook Scott missed 584 votes -- and 197 votes this session alone.
This is another reason voters must choose their elected leaders carefully..."
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Lunch video-----China's TERRIFYING Social Credit System

Noon-toon

Sen-Elect Rick Scott Coming to Washington With 10-Point Plan to Reform Congress

Sen-Elect Rick Scott Coming to Washington With 10-Point Plan to Reform Congress:

"I've got a very specific plan, a 10-point plan, starts with term limits, raising the -- make it a super-majority to raise taxes, you shouldn't be getting paid if you don't pass a budget. Simple things like that to make sure this starts working for Florida citizens, and America's citizens," Scott told "Fox & Friends" on Monday.
Scott said he learned a lot as governor, including how to "get a return on every dollar spent."
Here's a summary of the 10-point plan, which Scott announced during his campaign:

Government for sale, and it's legal!-----Chuck Schumer's Facebook ties came donations and a job for his daughter

Chuck Schumer's Facebook ties came donations and a job for his daughter
"What does it take to friend a U.S. senator?
If you’re Facebook, all you need is about $50,000 in donations – and a cushy job for the politician’s daughter.
Facebook employees, including some at the top of its corporate pyramid, have helped fill Schumer’s campaign coffers – and he’s returned the favor by carrying water for the social media giant in Congress, according to a recent report.
And Alison Schumer, the senator’s youngest of two daughters, works as a Facebook product marketing manager – which pays an average of $160,000, according to Glassdoor.com.
“It sure looks hinky,” political strategist Susan Del Percio told The Post.
“This is an industry that’s been trying for years to fend off heavy government regulation by actively cultivating relationships with senators and House members.”
Last week, it emerged that Schumer has been a strong advocate of Facebook on Capitol Hill.
He pressured Sen. Mark Warner (D- Virginia), one of Facebook’s most aggressive challengers in Congress, to back off from investigating the company, according to The New York Times..."
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Trump: ‘I don’t believe it’ - Video - Ice Age Now

Trump: ‘I don’t believe it’ - Video - Ice Age Now
"Stick to your guns, President Trump. 
Right now, today, we are living through one of the coldest periods in geologic history.
Refusing to let the wool be pulled over his eyes, U.S President Donald Trump rejected the conclusion of a government climate report compiled by 13 federal agencies.

The study concluded – very mistakenly, I believe – that climate change was man-made, and would have devastating effects on the world’s economy unless addressed soon.

The study says “Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities.” (Italics added)

“At any point in the history of modern civilization.” 
What does that mean?

It means we’re supposed to ignore all of the rest of the millions upon millions of years of climate history.

It means we’re supposed to ignore the fact the the earth has been much warmer than today throughout the great preponderance of those millions of years, all without any help from humans.

But now, based on a report that covers only a minuscule window of time, we’re supposed to destroy civilization in order to “save” it?

The fact is that it is colder right now than throughout almost all of history.

Look at this chart. The blue line shows temperatures for the past 600 million years.

Look at the far right side of the chart (today), and you’ll see that blue line plunge to its lowest point in almost 250 million years.

There have been only two periods in the past 600 million years when it has been colder than today.

Right now, today, we are living through one of the coldest periods in geologic history. The last few year’s minor rise in temperature is too minuscule to even show up on the chart.

Anyone who says we’re enduring “unprecedented global warming” is either lying or woefully misinformed.

Stick to your guns, President Trump!

Graph from “Climate and the Carboniferous Period”
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

Fourth Annual Climate Assessment:
https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/

#1 This day 1971-----Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft (1971)

Pentagon Caught in a Perfect Political StormThe American Spectator

Pentagon Caught in a Perfect Political StormThe American Spectator
"The Democrat takeover of the House means ever further setbacks U.S. defense readiness.
...On the day before the election I warned that if the Democrats took control of either house of Congress, they’d immediately return to their old ways of slashing the Pentagon’s budget. 
That prediction is hardly profound: it’s merely a recognition of the Democrats’ ideology and their actions over the last sixty years.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) is slated to become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
...He’s said that he wants to fundamentally reset our policy on nuclear weapons and that the recapitalization of the nuke forces was too expensive and unnecessary.
Smith, like former president Obama and his first secretary of defense, Robert Gates, wants to cut military spending for the cuts’ own sake. 
...In 2017, Congress created and funded a commission to study Trump’s then-new National Defense Strategy.
The bipartisan commission was co-chaired by Amb. Eric Edelman and retired admiral Gary Roughead.
 Its report, “Providing for the Common Defense,” came out last week.
...The commission’s report reached the unnerving conclusion that, “The U.S. military could suffer unacceptably high casualties and loss of major capital assets in its next conflict. It might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia.”
The report went on to say that, “We are concerned that the NDS too often rests on questionable assumptions and weak analysis, and it leaves unanswered critical questions regarding how the United States will meet the challenges of a more dangerous world.”
The commission recommended that the DoD budget needs to grow in real terms (regardless of inflation) by about 3-5% annually..."
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Muslim rapes teen girl, acquitted due to 'cultural norms' - WND

Muslim rapes teen girl, acquitted due to 'cultural norms' - WND:

A French court acquitted a refugee from Bangladesh for the rape of a high-school girl after the defense argued the immigrant had “different cultural norms” that may have caused him to misinterpret his contact with the girl.

MUST READ!!-----Exposed: A Key Element of the Wind Energy Fraud | Power Line

Exposed: A Key Element of the Wind Energy Fraud | Power Line
"In Wisconsin, a wind turbine farm is being decommissioned and disassembled after only 20 years of operation. 
It turns out that this is typical. 
My colleague Isaac Orr explains at Center of the American Experiment’s web site:

What’s really surprising about these wind turbines being decommissioned after 20 years is the fact that people were surprised by it. You’d be astonished at how many people I talk to have no idea that wind turbines only last for 20 years, maybe 25. In fact, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says the useful life of a wind turbine is only 20 years.

This is the point: the federal government produces figures on the “levelized cost of energy,” comparing coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar and so on. 

Most people naively assume that the government’s numbers are authoritative. 

In fact, as usual when it comes to energy, the government’s thumb is firmly on the scale in favor of crony energy that funds politicians:

The short usable lifespan of a wind turbine is one of the most important, but least-talked about subjects in energy policy.

In contrast to wind, coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants can run for a very long time. Coal and natural gas plants can easily run for 50 years, and nuclear plants can be updated and retrofitted to run for 60 years. This has profound implications for the cost of electricity on a per megawatt hour basis that seemingly no one is talking about.

When the federal government puts out their cost projections for energy, the numbers they produce are called the Levelized Cost of Energy, or LCOE. These numbers are supposed to act as a measuring stick that allows policymakers to determine which energy sources will best serve their needs, but these numbers are wrong because they assume all power plants, whether they are wind, coal, natural gas, or nuclear will have a 30-year payback period.

This does two things. It 

• artificially reduces the cost of wind power by allowing them to spread their costs over 30 years, when 20 would be much more appropriate, and it
• artificially inflates the cost of coal, natural gas, and nuclear by not calculating the cost over the entirety of their reasonable lifetimes.

When it comes to energy, you cannot get reliable information from “mainstream” sources or from the government. 

“Green” energy investors like Tom Steyer have gamed the system, and whoever pays electric bills–i.e., everyone else–is the sucker in their game.

The best place I know for information on energy policy is AmericanExperiment.org.