Google’s carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand.
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Biden Plunges in Swing States in Leaked Post-Debate Poll
The memo was put together after the debate by OpenLabs, a progressive nonprofit that conducts polling and message-testing for a constellation of Democratic groups, including the 501(c)4 nonprofit associated with Future Forward, the preferred Super PAC for Biden’s reelection campaign. OpenLabs is something of a black box: Their website is mostly blank, they don’t seek publicity, and their client list is closely held. But their data-driven memos are trusted in Democratic circles, and typically passed around to a small group of clients and strategists. One of those Democrats forwarded me the OpenLabs document on Tuesday morning. […]
The poll found that Biden has dropped only slightly in the national horse race against Trump, by .08 points. That mostly squares with the public narrative from the Biden campaign in the wake of the debate, as their team has labored to calm Democratic panic over Biden’s ability to beat Trump in November. Geoff Garin, one of Biden’s top pollsters, tweeted over the weekend that the campaign’s internal polling showed that the national race was mostly unchanged. “The debate had no effect on the vote choice,” he said. “The election was extremely close and competitive before the debate, and it is still extremely close and competitive today.” Polls conducted immediately after the debate by CNN and FiveThirtyEight suggested similarly negligible gains for Trump nationally, with CNN reporting that “just 5 percent of respondents say it changed their minds about whom to vote for.”
But according to OpenLabs, that’s only part of the story. While the debate may have barely registered in national data, in their surveys of key Electoral College states where voters are paying closer attention to the campaign, Biden is doing noticeably worse. In a poll including third-party candidates, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the president has fallen by around 2 points in every single core battleground—and also in states that were not even on the 2024 map last week. In the tipping-point state of Pennsylvania, Biden now trails by 7 points, compared to 5 points before the debate. He has also dropped in Michigan, where he now trails Trump by 7. OpenLabs also found that he is now losing by roughly 10 points in Georgia and Arizona, and by almost 9 points in Nevada.
The most worrisome angle to all this is that Trump is now within striking distance in a variety of states that weren’t considered campaign battlegrounds last week. Biden is now only winning by a fraction of a point in Virginia, Maine, Minnesota, and New Mexico—and he’s now only winning Colorado by around 2 points.
The survey also found that Biden is now losing in New Hampshire, news that aligns with a Saint Anselm College poll released Monday showing Trump suddenly winning the Granite State
Speculation abounds: *BIDEN SPOKE WITH SCHUMER, CLYBURN TODAY, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
INSURRECTION: House Democrats Consider Demanding Biden Withdraw From Race
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Today In Islam
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Of Mice and Dems. An anarchist event at a library.
Blackie’s Canada: Only white people should be in prison. Blackie is burning jet fuel to Washington next week. The government wants you to correct your thinking. Is China in charge of security at Canadian embassies?
Woke World: Busybodies never sleep. Paul Joseph Watson on democracy in France.
Your morning meme. Bonus meme. Another meme.
July 3, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening we present an interesting 1956 film entitled Patterns. It was written by Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling, With a Rotten Tomatoes’ rating of 86%/84%, you may enjoy watching it.
Your most interesting tips so far this month are appreciated.
” This One Had A Full Nervous Breakdown.”
The Most Interesting Man In The World
Related. ‘We’ve all enabled the situation’
The Doctor Will Diversify You Now
As if Canada’s single payer system were not plagued by enough problems as it is, our medical schools are happily wasting their students’ time with every manner of woke propaganda.
“I always used to think that physicians are critical thinkers,” my source laments. “I now recognize we are not critical thinkers; we don’t train critical thinking. We like head-nodders and rule-followers.” It transpires that admissions interviews are now so peppered with the word “intersection” that it’s hard not to feel nauseous, but in fairness, eager students are simply box-checking and are not themselves to blame.
“Do we need three hours on decolonization?” But the professors were told this was a sacred subject, and the university forbade any discussion because, my source says, “It was outside our teaching expertise. … Nobody was allowed to question the invited speaker. Everything was racist.”
Ahh, Summer In Germany
Eugyppius- Man returning from his sister’s graduation party is beaten to death by Syrian migrant
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser blames Germany’s poor refugee accommodations and failed “social integration”
Update: A little closer to home…
Western Standard- Halifax lesbian couple beaten by throng of Syrian men
Speak Bitterness
In reading about Mao’s reign in China in the 1950s, I was particularly taken by a concept and phrase I hadn’t heard yet, one that the Communists used to absolutely devastate China and overthrow all resistance. They held meetings that were designed to “Speak Bitterness.”
What would happen is that the Communists would come into a region or village and immediately place cadres and set up a nightly meeting everyone had to attend on various pains if they refused. They used them at first essentially as data mining operations with the people.
They would gather extensive biographical information on virtually everyone they could, sometimes quite detailed and including various misdeeds, cheats, and intrigues. They’d also start to use this biographical data to classify people into one of a few class categories.
The Part I Like Best
About “Safe Supply” is the way it gets heroin-strength opioids off the street and allows police to return to addressing real crime.
Hydromorphone seizures in London, Ontario skyrocketed by 3,000% after access to safer supply was greatly expanded in 2020 – but the police failed to disclose this data despite the national debate about safer supply diversion.
And The Budget Will Balance Itself
Because we want rid of him, Blackface Boy-man will burn everything you’ve worked for to the ground.
Home prices are unsustainable and have normalized a “massive increase in value” for retirees, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He made the remarks at a private seminar with Canada’s leading advocates of a home equity tax: ‘It’s not like your grandparents saying, ‘Ah, bread used to cost me a nickel.’
Related: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board put more than $600 million in China’s electric vehicle sector accused by cabinet of unfair trade practices. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland blamed Chinese industry for job-killing schemes, telling Canadian workers: “We are going to protect you.”
Just An Idea
Eight convicted rioters were sentenced to varying prison and jail terms last week for their role in a So Cal Antifa attack in southern California in 2021.
The sentencing in San Diego Superior Court on June 28 brought the conclusion to more than three years of investigations, a secret indictment, plea deals, and a dramatic trial. This marks the first time in U.S. history that prosecutors have broken up an Antifa cell with a string of multiple convictions. In fact, all 12 defendants related to the case were convicted. […]
Judge Goldstein had originally expressed doubt if prosecutors could show that Antifa organize as a militant group but stated after seeing the evidence, “I don’t have any question that this organization exists.”
“Committed to building battery plant in Quebec”
Battery maker to review growth plan;
Northvolt is examining its long-term strategy “both from a capital allocation point of view” as well as working out “realistic time plans for these projects between the customers,” Carlsson said in an interview.
Slower-than-expected demand for electric cars has prompted automakers to tweak model rollout plans and walk back ambitious goals for electrification. The ripple effect from these changes is starting to spread, with battery projects being pushed out and material suppliers Umicore SA and BASF SE cancelling projects.
Additional hurdles have also gone up for Northvolt, Europe’s most advanced homegrown battery maker. Long-standing battery rivals in Asia, such as China’s BYD Co., have made strides on improving cheaper lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, broadening the types of vehicles they can be used for, undermining Europe’s own battery industry efforts.
Northvolt is also dealing with internal problems in the transition to full-scale production. Customers like Volkswagen AG’s Scania have complained of delivery delays, while BMW AG has backed out of a €2 billion (US$2.1 billion) battery order because of quality concerns, dealing a blow to the region’s efforts to establish an independent EV supply chain.
The manufacturer’s operating loss more than tripled to US$1.03 billion last year, Northvolt said, as the company dealt with “multiple challenges and setbacks” while seeking to scale up output at its Ett battery gigafactory, Carlsson said in a statement.
They probably just need more of our money.
Update: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board put more than $600 million in China’s electric vehicle sector accused by cabinet of unfair trade practices.
Nice Pension Plan You’ve Got There
Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
Blacklocks- CPP Invests In Chinese Ev’s
Other Pension Plan holdings include automakers BYD Co. ($116 million), Li Auto Inc. ($69 million) Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. ($26 million) and Nio Inc. ($19 million). Millions more were invested in battery manufacturers and suppliers including Tianqi Lithium Corp. ($13 million), Eve Energy Co. ($7 million) and Ganfeng Lithium Group ($6 million).
Minister Freeland on June 24 named the Chinese sector as predatory and announced a 30-day Customs Tariff review of trade practices in the electric auto market. “Workers and the auto sector currently face unfair competition from China,” said Freeland.
Guilbeault’s letter to Saskatchewan on Clean Electricity Regulations
Read the Government of Canada’s submission, written by Guilbeault
The proposed Clean Electricity Regulations are among the most significant policy moves in recent Canadian history. The fundamental thrust is to all but eliminate fossil fuel combustion from the Canadian electrical grid. On any given day, up to 88 per cent of Saskatchewan’s power comes from natural gas and coal.
If implemented in their current form, they will utterly remake Canada, its economy and society. The Government of Saskatchewan, on June 25, rejected these regulations, based on a report by the Economic Impact Assessment Tribunal, convened under the Saskatchewan First Act. That act, in turn, was brought into law to counter numerous onerous federal climate change initiatives.
Within the tribunals report are all the submissions made by numerous companies and agencies, several of which Pipeline Online is publishing verbatim in the coming days and weeks. But perhaps the most significant was the Feb. 15 submission by Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault, who, with Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson, is one of the leading figures from the federal government on this front. As such, his submission is the stance of the federal government. Notably, he does not explain how Saskatchewan is to replace all of its fossil fuel-based power in the 10 years, five months and 30 days remaining from today. Here it is, verbatim
Canada Day in Calgary
I’m back “home” in Canada for a few weeks. Yesterday, I took in all of the activities in Downtown Calgary. It was rather fun. I captured 434 photos and 21 videos. The only “Canada” shirt I have with me on my travels is a black one with this emblazoned on the back. I walked around with it proudly.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: A pandemic of fraudsters. The Trump trial. A Black jobs comment. Who’s running the country?
Blackie’s Canada: CBC thinks a man dressing as a woman is normal. The Chickens For KFC. Pro-Hamas activists block rail line. Pension plan invests in China. They knew millions were wasted.
Today In Islam: Diversity is our strength in Belgium. And diversity is our strength in Britain.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
Canadian Propagandists Hard at Work
I’m back in Canada for a few weeks, so am getting different feeds on my YouTube channel. Three different video headlines appeared this evening:
- City News: U.S. Supreme court rules that Trump has some immunity from prosecution
- CBC News – The National: Trump has partial immunity
- CBC News: U.S. Supreme Court rules Trump has ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president
They’re all talking about the same news story, right? Each headline was clearly crafted to spin a particular narrative. Given that many news consumers only read headlines, it’s really no wonder that Canadian “news” outlets find it so easy to spew effective propaganda into the unquestioning minds of many.