Rediscovering Heritage

 

Lack of attachment to culture, heritage, and tradition is the death of a nation.

As a child, I had very little in-depth knowledge of my family’s history. Most of my extended family had died from old age by the time of my birth except for my maternal grandfather, Nelson Pace and great aunt, Mary Paul Pittman Smyrl, both natives of Alabama and born in 1907 and 1899 respectfully. We were a rather small group and my attachments to my parents, siblings, grandfather, and great aunt were meaningful. These are the people who instilled in me the value of family, respect, and honor.

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Google Latest Company To Abandon China, Shifts Smartphone Production To Vietnam

Via The Daily Timewaster

 

Google has reportedly become the latest company to aggressively move production out of China and in to Vietnam as it hopes to create a "low-cos supply chain in Southeast Asia" that "will serve as a springboard for its growing hardware ambitions," according to Nikkei Asian Review.

Google, which is working with a partner to manufacture its smartphones, started work on converting an old Nokia factory in the North Vietnamese province of Bac Ninh where it will produce most of its Pixel phones, per two people familiar with the company's plans. The area has a special significance in the history of smartphone development: It is the same province where Samsung built its first smartphone supply chain roughly ten years ago.

All of this history means Google will have access to an army of workers experienced.

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NC: Hysteria over ‘assault weapons’

 

Liberals have again resurrected the call for banning modern sporting rifles (aka assault weapons). Of course true “assault weapons” are select fire (meaning full, semi, and/or burst fire) rifles. Typically, these use rifle class cartridges, as opposed to submachine guns that use pistol cartridges.

Semi-automatic means one round fired per trigger pull; full automatic means multiple rounds fired per single trigger pull. Burst fire means a preset number of cartridges fired per pull (usually three).

Full automatic and burst fire weapons are tightly regulated by the federal government, and none made after 1986 can be owned by private citizens. There is not a presence of full or burst fire legal arms involved in crime. Additionally, pre-1986 automatics, aka class III arms, are extremely expensive. Of course, criminals can alter or steal these arms as well.

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Cultural Enrichment

 

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"Maybe if your job and town are gone, the fight is worth it"

 

The trade war may not be worth it for Wall Street, but it is worth it to Americans who have lost their jobs and towns


If you Google Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump’s trade guru (he is actually called “assistant to the president and director of trade and manufacturing policy,”) you might read that he is considered a “heterodox” economist. We suppose this means out of sync with many or most professional and academic economists. They regard “free trade” or unregulated, un-negotiated trade, as an article of faith.

But shouldn’t economists, of all people, be the opposite of doctrinaire? Should economics not be utterly empirical?

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Americans’ View of the Current Economy Is the Highest in 19 Years

 

U.S. consumer confidence declined in August by less than forecast as Americans’ assessment of current conditions climbed to the highest level in almost 19 years, helped by a job market that remains robust.

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Evidence Suggests Epstein Was Murdered, Lawyers Say

Via Billy

There’s far more evidence indicating Jeffrey Epstein was murdered than clues supporting the ruling that he committed suicide, the alleged sex trafficker’s lawyers argued in court on Aug. 27.

Lawyers for the 66-year-old, who was found unresponsive in his prison cell on Aug. 10 and declared dead about an hour later, said they have evidence suggesting Epstein was killed.

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The C.S.A.

 

A review of The C.S.A. Trilogy (Independent, 2018) by Howard Ray White.

A beautiful thought experiment for Southerners. The year is 2011, the 150^th anniversary of the founding of the Confederate States of America.    Celebrants are gathering in the capital, Davis, located where Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee come together.

Confederates have every reason to celebrate. They have a free, prosperous, and flourishing society, or rather societies. Confederate success is the envy of the world.  Why? Because of a limited central government with genuine State sovereignty and a truly free economy.  And the Confederacy has played a constructive role in the world as an example and in effective countering of imperialist powers.

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Will the Federal Reserve Depose President Trump?

 

Trump Is Right, The Fed Is Crazy – 101 Reasons Why He Must End the Fed

A Bloomberg piece that posits undermining the President, written by the former head of the NY Federal Reserve:
HERE

Excerpt:

"There’s even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview. After all, Trump’s reelection arguably presents a threat to the U.S. and global economy, to the Fed’s independence and its ability to achieve its employment and inflation objectives."

Another perspective:
HERE

Excerpt:

"He's effectively calling for a coup, stating in almost so many words
that the Fed's mandate requires it to interfere in the Democratic
process — to help presidents it likes and to ruin the economy for the
ones it doesn't like."

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Just today I started reading Jason Chaffetz's book "Deep State" - he
wrote that the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) was Elizabeth
Warren's (aka Fauxcahontas) pet project and the CFPB was actually funded
not by Congressional appropriation, but directly by the Federal Reserve.
As such, Congress did not have the power of the purse strings to compel
the CFPB to disclose details of their operations and the CFPB could
obfuscate their doings with impunity, and they did.

Consider this: if the Federal Reserve wanted to put the screws to a
seated U.S. President, all they have to do is jack up interest rates and
destroy the economy. Imagine if interest rates hit the same level as
they did in the late 70's and early 80's. Imagine too, how much leverage
this provides to the Federal Reserve - one thing that Donald Trump
understands is leverage.

Rep. Massie of Kentucky introduced (re-introduced actually) a bill to
audit the Federal Reserve - so far he has 87 co-sponsors, including 4
Democrats - Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Kurt Schrader (D-OR), and Pete DeFazio
(D-OR)

HERE

--Terry

DOJ Takes a Stand: Sex Is Purely Biological, Civil Rights Act Doesn't Protect Transgenders

The Trump administration’s Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to rule that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination based on “sex,” does not include “gender identity.”

The DOJ’s brief filed Friday in the R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case contended it is the role of Congress, not the courts, to amend the law to include gender identity, if it chooses to do so.

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