Saturday Report 9/21/24 - Norway does what we could’ve done if we’d listened to scientists instead of the lies from the fossil fuel industry and the politicians it purchased...
Saturday Report 9/21/24 - Norway does what we could’ve done if we’d listened to scientists instead of the lies from the fossil fuel industry and the politicians it purchased...
I would love a network of EV charging stations like Norway. Why is it that the Scandinavian countries are usually ahead of the game in terms of societal development and design! If nationality were a free agency game, I think I’d choose one of them. But also committed to staying here and supporting this nation with equal and sometimes greater potential for human achievement and development!
Cool article on the lucid dreaming. I’ve also taken to more intentionally sleeping on my side after learning about the brain’s washing machine called the glymphatic system. Naturally find myself waking up on my right side, so there is probably some unconscious beneficial reason for that:
2. EV. I'm ready and willing but unable to go EV because in my condo I'd have to build a charging station. Other condo developer offer charging stations........
Batteries are coming, Daniel, where people will be able to charge elsewhere.....much quicker. Maybe a few years, so I hope as an "oldster" myself that my LAST car will be one of those.
1996 - 99 ? We had a jump on electric vehicles at the time . Then , with little explanation, they were all recalled outside of a few that went to
a museum or something like that. Many who
leased the vehicles ( I believe ownership was forbidden) didn’t want to give them up - but GM refused and sent them to be crushed ( the cars not the lease holders ) .
Some say it just wasn’t profitable for GM because they couldn’t make as much money on parts - others believe GM self-sabotaged the EV1 due to pressure from the oil industry and others .
My point is that the USA was very un Norwegian like . This set us back . We should have taken the lead in this and now look what has happened to the temperature of the planet .
“ The fault , Dear Brutus , is not in the stars , but with ourselves “ .
So right! Got my chuckle over lease holders clarification. Because of the greed, we lost the cleaner air health benefits as well. They don't give a damn about kids with asthma, old people, or anyone trying to get a breath of fresh air.
Car companies and gas/oil companies collude---they called it "cooperating" in front of Congress. The CAFE standard raises are the only reason people are getting ANY mileage for SUV/trucks. Electric cars are used as a tool to meet the figure they are ordered to reach, so they don't have to improve the gas hogs.
Congress and the President needs to make them do the right thing. Al Gore would have been such a good leader instead of that oil guy, and Norway would be driving OUR cars. In all fairness they are buying Tesla's and Mustangs.
Hello Daniel , I have a new still in box Clipper Creek level 2 charging station. Clipper Creek has been a long standing name in Charging and now partnering with the larger EV systems of Enphase. This unit can hang on a wall and comes with 25-30 chord with receptacle ready plug on end. Just need 40-50 amp breaker installed just as you might use for 240 watts electric stove setup and wire running from breaker panel to this unit. If you or anyone here has an interest. Lets talk Cliff K
Maybe some of your neighbors might be interested in sharing the cost of a small shed for use as the battery station. I have a new inbox level two Clipper Creek CHARGER
If you are interested ,lets talk...get your neighbors on board if possible. I can sell you a ready to go level two new charger that just needs a wall to hang on.
What? Sounds like crap to me. So you have No breaker panel in your apartment that controls just your place? If you do not then ok but if you have a 100 amp 240 volt servicereaker panel you should be able to do this just with an electrician
The units have nothing to do with the garage. Can't even get generators for individual units, which would be my first priority.
We have a bad situation vis a vis the condo. We used to own one where most of the residents had solar vehicles. But I don't live there. Here, they are verboten for political purposes. Miami has a code set up equivalent to the Soviet Union. Bribes are required. FPL is not friendly. Our reserves are low, we are facing special assessments of maybe tens of thousands of dollars. Can't even agree on which law firm to use to sue.
Yes I can understand your situation in FL. Particularly the governor there is in competition with Putin. And the political machinery is crooked as it comes. I wonder about just how many states are being held captive by the fossil fuel industry claws
Me too. In terms of cardiovascular considerations, lying on one’s left side to sleep lets gravity aid venous return to the heart via the slightly right sided inferior and superior vena cava… during pregnancy this is especially noticeable, and is a position employed during labor. Left side also better for gastroesophageal reflux. But I almost always wake up on my right side… so I’m guessing there is something beneficial to the position change besides just redistributing pressure to one side of the body all night. Maybe it’s the glymphatic system’s turn.
The magical, still largely mystery machinations of sleep!
Hartmann Saturday Report is the BEST weekly there is. If I could only read one, this would absolutely be it. Hoping more people share and spread the news - we need it now more than ever.
What's next? The threats of violence "if he loses" will only become more intense. Hasn't Trump already gone after Hispanics? Maybe his claims of the "millions and millions" of "illegals" crossing the border and taking "Black" jobs isn't clear enough - he'll likely become more overt in his intentions. When he talks about "rounding up ten million illegals" is that not, at a minimum, a dog whistle about Hispanics? I would recommend to anyone - watch Rachel Maddow's "To Russia with Lev" to get what seemed to me a BETTER close up of Trump and how he operates than I've seen elsewhere.
Obviously any Hispanics voting for trump, don't believe him and know he will keep them, because they work cheap. He will send the unproductive ones back though or build extermination camps.
After Trump acted like Musk's union-busting bitch, NO union member should vote for him. The interview was Aug.12th and it would be interesting to know when Teamster poll was taken.
The Teamsters play a major role in the construction industry. I don't want to put words into his mouth so I won't mention a name, but another major pod-caster pointed out the traditional bribery system involved in getting anything built. Over the years, it was a given in New York, and who would know better than Trump how that works. He would also know how to "get to" people.
Sean O'Brien, is fourth generation Teamster. He is in deep doo-doo with the other nepo-baby clan. Jim Hoffa removed O'Brien as the head of the Teamster Package Division and as the union's lead contract negotiator at UPS and UPS Freight.
I hope the old bribery system is gone and O'Brien is just a MAGA cult member, but bribery isn't always about money.
Electric cars and health care---you could blend those subjects. Recently Texas has been asking people to not drive their cars due to pollution levels. We are getting half the care for double the price and choking on it in the mean time.
Yet Texans keep voting against their own self interests. I do think that it is because the culture war thing created and exploited by the fascist racist among us, have them by the short and curlies.
"Texas leads the nation in clean and renewable energy production, and it's largely due to its geography, federal energy subsidies, deregulated energy market and state-run energy grid. Jan 1, 2024"---Google
That state may not be Blue, but it certainly is turning Green. Bless their hearts!
You would think it is a conundrum, but Whole Foods (aka whole Paycheck) was founded by libertarians, that wanted organic foods
And come to think of it, Hitler was a vegetarian and even an environmentalist.
Only in America has healthy living and the environment become a left right thing, thanks to the propaganda bought by the petro chemical complex.
I'll wager that they don't eat processed foods, with the exception of Trump and his MAGAts. I will wager that they also have their own solar arrays, if only for back up.
Narcissists are more inclined to love their bodies as well as their mind. They could actually care less about all the people they hate, like the poor.....too long a list.
The Teamsters Union is the most diversified union in the country: they represent bakers, warehouse workers, brewers, clerks and secretaries, public defenders, state police, railroad engineers and trainmen, cafeteria workers, and all the different occupations in the airline industry. You name it, they probably organize it. This fact upsets the truckers/right wing radio hypothesis. Of the 2 million over-the-road drivers only 15% are organized. Even in trucking, the biggest employer is UPS, whose drivers surely don't have time to listen to any radio.
As a former member of several unions (UMWA, IAM, UTU, BLE), I can say with certainty that the leadership is always much more conservative on social, economic and political issues, way behind the majority of the rank-and-file. This is most notable in strike considerations (the UMWA used to be the exception here). This conservatism is, I think, what accounts for the lack of endorsement of the Harris campaign. This is borne out by local and regional subdivisions breaking rank with the International and endorsing the Democratic ticket.
“Why didn’t the Teamsters union endorse Kamala?…………”
Thom, as usual you are on to a very specific reason. I think you are spot on.
There are approximately 3.5 million truckers in the U.S. Less than 20% are union members. That still about 500,00-650,000 truckers in the Teamsters Union. The union has 1.3 million members.
Thom is right “many teamsters are truckers (their original cohort) — listen to a lot of talk radio while they’re driving and in most parts of America, without SiriusXM, the only talk radio fare is hate talk radio. There’s virtually no place in America where you can’t easily find a strong signal with hate talk on it;”
That means they listen to Mark Levine, Sebastian Gorka, Dan Bongino, Dennis Praeger among many, many other conservative radio hosts. Those I listed are just who I get in the LA area. And as I still listen to them, to hear the latest propaganda, they are spewing hate, false information and bigotry. Below is the interesting history of the teamsters Union.
Originally the term teamster meant a person who drove a team, usually of oxen, horses, or mules, pulling a wagon, replacing the earlier teamer. This term was common by the time of the Mexican–American War (1848) and the Indian Wars throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries on the American frontier.
Neither party has represented the American worker since ray gun. Maybe this will put a spur in her dairyaire to start representing blue collar male jobs? I know trump won't!
Republicans opposed virtually every safety measure. The Trump tax "cuts" precluded many of them from taking the full extent of their business deductions. Republicans have undermined their collective bargaining rights.
But there is a culture. As people said the other day, they have peer pressure to be MAGATs. They have their own language, their own music. On the road in middle America they are exposed to only right wing radio stations. They know that they can be replaced by robots.
The big companies monitor drivers like the postal service monitors mail carriers and I had many "postal" like cases. Years over the road can cause physical damage that can be debilitating. Knowing this some states, like the Fascist state of Florida have limited the ability of drivers to file "repetitive trauma" cases.
IMHO this is a group that supported Trump as a whole despite union endorsement in 2016 and 2020.
I, think with a the hate and ugliness about Blacks and Jews and anybody other than white, keeps giving me all the prove of the no bottom these people have. I am sick of all of it and find it to be insidious.When you don’t have anything but hate then you really don’t have a massage or point only hate all the time. I can’t and don’t live my life that way. Thom it never stops. Nice to know somebody somewhere else knows the importance of doing something about the climate disaster in their mist. Thanks Thom.
The hatred against Jews goes back to its use by Constatine to replace Judaism with his design of Roman Catholic [Universal] Catholism. He had to blame the Jews for killing Jesus, when it was the Roman Empire that killed Jesus because he was getting a large following that might challenge Roman ambitions in the Middle East. Herod managed to persuade get one Jewish leader to get Judas to betray Him so that the Roman Empire could crush the real religious/political movement and replace it with their own version. It worked until the western provinces of Europe had kings who resented the interference of the RC Pope.
As usual, Hartmann's reports are excellent and on the mark. I note one possible clarification in this report on the elections in Georgia:
Re: "The Georgia state elections board just authorized a hand-count of every ballot in the state"
If the reporting is correct, this hand-count is just to count the number of ballots, and not the votes on the ballots. Presumably, then the count of the number of ballots cast is compared to the number of voters. This is something that should be done. We in New Mexico have been doing it at every voting location for a long time, and I suspect that many states do that.
"The new rule requires that the number of ballots — not the number of votes — be counted at each polling place by three separate poll workers until all three counts are the same. If a scanner has more than 750 ballots inside at the end of voting, the poll manager can decide to begin the count the following day.
Proponents say the rule is needed to make sure the number of paper ballots matches the electronic tallies on scanners, check-in computers and voting machines. The three workers will have to count the ballots in piles of 50, and the poll manager needs to explain and fix, if possible, any discrepancies, as well as document them."
I would love a network of EV charging stations like Norway. Why is it that the Scandinavian countries are usually ahead of the game in terms of societal development and design! If nationality were a free agency game, I think I’d choose one of them. But also committed to staying here and supporting this nation with equal and sometimes greater potential for human achievement and development!
Cool article on the lucid dreaming. I’ve also taken to more intentionally sleeping on my side after learning about the brain’s washing machine called the glymphatic system. Naturally find myself waking up on my right side, so there is probably some unconscious beneficial reason for that:
https://mccormickmd.substack.com/p/is-there-a-better-head-position-for
2. EV. I'm ready and willing but unable to go EV because in my condo I'd have to build a charging station. Other condo developer offer charging stations........
Batteries are coming, Daniel, where people will be able to charge elsewhere.....much quicker. Maybe a few years, so I hope as an "oldster" myself that my LAST car will be one of those.
Alis ,
Remember GM’s EV1 , produced from about
1996 - 99 ? We had a jump on electric vehicles at the time . Then , with little explanation, they were all recalled outside of a few that went to
a museum or something like that. Many who
leased the vehicles ( I believe ownership was forbidden) didn’t want to give them up - but GM refused and sent them to be crushed ( the cars not the lease holders ) .
Some say it just wasn’t profitable for GM because they couldn’t make as much money on parts - others believe GM self-sabotaged the EV1 due to pressure from the oil industry and others .
My point is that the USA was very un Norwegian like . This set us back . We should have taken the lead in this and now look what has happened to the temperature of the planet .
“ The fault , Dear Brutus , is not in the stars , but with ourselves “ .
and ( I would add ) greedy swine that worship
$ $ over the general welfare of humanity.
So right! Got my chuckle over lease holders clarification. Because of the greed, we lost the cleaner air health benefits as well. They don't give a damn about kids with asthma, old people, or anyone trying to get a breath of fresh air.
Car companies and gas/oil companies collude---they called it "cooperating" in front of Congress. The CAFE standard raises are the only reason people are getting ANY mileage for SUV/trucks. Electric cars are used as a tool to meet the figure they are ordered to reach, so they don't have to improve the gas hogs.
Congress and the President needs to make them do the right thing. Al Gore would have been such a good leader instead of that oil guy, and Norway would be driving OUR cars. In all fairness they are buying Tesla's and Mustangs.
Hello Daniel , I have a new still in box Clipper Creek level 2 charging station. Clipper Creek has been a long standing name in Charging and now partnering with the larger EV systems of Enphase. This unit can hang on a wall and comes with 25-30 chord with receptacle ready plug on end. Just need 40-50 amp breaker installed just as you might use for 240 watts electric stove setup and wire running from breaker panel to this unit. If you or anyone here has an interest. Lets talk Cliff K
Maybe some of your neighbors might be interested in sharing the cost of a small shed for use as the battery station. I have a new inbox level two Clipper Creek CHARGER
If you are interested ,lets talk...get your neighbors on board if possible. I can sell you a ready to go level two new charger that just needs a wall to hang on.
Sorry but FPL has to run a line into the garage.
What? Sounds like crap to me. So you have No breaker panel in your apartment that controls just your place? If you do not then ok but if you have a 100 amp 240 volt servicereaker panel you should be able to do this just with an electrician
The units have nothing to do with the garage. Can't even get generators for individual units, which would be my first priority.
We have a bad situation vis a vis the condo. We used to own one where most of the residents had solar vehicles. But I don't live there. Here, they are verboten for political purposes. Miami has a code set up equivalent to the Soviet Union. Bribes are required. FPL is not friendly. Our reserves are low, we are facing special assessments of maybe tens of thousands of dollars. Can't even agree on which law firm to use to sue.
Yes I can understand your situation in FL. Particularly the governor there is in competition with Putin. And the political machinery is crooked as it comes. I wonder about just how many states are being held captive by the fossil fuel industry claws
I have always gone to sleep on my left side.
Me too. In terms of cardiovascular considerations, lying on one’s left side to sleep lets gravity aid venous return to the heart via the slightly right sided inferior and superior vena cava… during pregnancy this is especially noticeable, and is a position employed during labor. Left side also better for gastroesophageal reflux. But I almost always wake up on my right side… so I’m guessing there is something beneficial to the position change besides just redistributing pressure to one side of the body all night. Maybe it’s the glymphatic system’s turn.
The magical, still largely mystery machinations of sleep!
Hartmann Saturday Report is the BEST weekly there is. If I could only read one, this would absolutely be it. Hoping more people share and spread the news - we need it now more than ever.
What's next? The threats of violence "if he loses" will only become more intense. Hasn't Trump already gone after Hispanics? Maybe his claims of the "millions and millions" of "illegals" crossing the border and taking "Black" jobs isn't clear enough - he'll likely become more overt in his intentions. When he talks about "rounding up ten million illegals" is that not, at a minimum, a dog whistle about Hispanics? I would recommend to anyone - watch Rachel Maddow's "To Russia with Lev" to get what seemed to me a BETTER close up of Trump and how he operates than I've seen elsewhere.
Obviously any Hispanics voting for trump, don't believe him and know he will keep them, because they work cheap. He will send the unproductive ones back though or build extermination camps.
After Trump acted like Musk's union-busting bitch, NO union member should vote for him. The interview was Aug.12th and it would be interesting to know when Teamster poll was taken.
The Teamsters play a major role in the construction industry. I don't want to put words into his mouth so I won't mention a name, but another major pod-caster pointed out the traditional bribery system involved in getting anything built. Over the years, it was a given in New York, and who would know better than Trump how that works. He would also know how to "get to" people.
Sean O'Brien, is fourth generation Teamster. He is in deep doo-doo with the other nepo-baby clan. Jim Hoffa removed O'Brien as the head of the Teamster Package Division and as the union's lead contract negotiator at UPS and UPS Freight.
I hope the old bribery system is gone and O'Brien is just a MAGA cult member, but bribery isn't always about money.
Electric cars and health care---you could blend those subjects. Recently Texas has been asking people to not drive their cars due to pollution levels. We are getting half the care for double the price and choking on it in the mean time.
Yet Texans keep voting against their own self interests. I do think that it is because the culture war thing created and exploited by the fascist racist among us, have them by the short and curlies.
"Texas leads the nation in clean and renewable energy production, and it's largely due to its geography, federal energy subsidies, deregulated energy market and state-run energy grid. Jan 1, 2024"---Google
That state may not be Blue, but it certainly is turning Green. Bless their hearts!
You would think it is a conundrum, but Whole Foods (aka whole Paycheck) was founded by libertarians, that wanted organic foods
And come to think of it, Hitler was a vegetarian and even an environmentalist.
Only in America has healthy living and the environment become a left right thing, thanks to the propaganda bought by the petro chemical complex.
I'll wager that they don't eat processed foods, with the exception of Trump and his MAGAts. I will wager that they also have their own solar arrays, if only for back up.
Narcissists are more inclined to love their bodies as well as their mind. They could actually care less about all the people they hate, like the poor.....too long a list.
Norway is leading in another electric vehicle way.
https://sustainableskies.org/two-electric-approaches-to-coastal-waterways/
Their electric flying boat is just one of many larger electric aircraft ready to fly. The US needs to pay attention and build more EV infrastructure.
Teamster locals across the country are endorsing the Harris/Walz ticket. I saw a video on Twitter from a Teamster who said that without Biden/Harris their pensions would have literally disappeared. Many "tweets" give Biden/Harris credit for saving their pensions and their union. And they are furious at their President for his announcement of no endorsement. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/local-teamsters-groups-announce-harris-endorsements-national-union-dec-rcna171984
DeAnn Rathbun
The Teamsters Union is the most diversified union in the country: they represent bakers, warehouse workers, brewers, clerks and secretaries, public defenders, state police, railroad engineers and trainmen, cafeteria workers, and all the different occupations in the airline industry. You name it, they probably organize it. This fact upsets the truckers/right wing radio hypothesis. Of the 2 million over-the-road drivers only 15% are organized. Even in trucking, the biggest employer is UPS, whose drivers surely don't have time to listen to any radio.
As a former member of several unions (UMWA, IAM, UTU, BLE), I can say with certainty that the leadership is always much more conservative on social, economic and political issues, way behind the majority of the rank-and-file. This is most notable in strike considerations (the UMWA used to be the exception here). This conservatism is, I think, what accounts for the lack of endorsement of the Harris campaign. This is borne out by local and regional subdivisions breaking rank with the International and endorsing the Democratic ticket.
Thanks Thom. I look forward to these Saturday Reports.
I can't help wondering though,. how Boris will manage to turn this into a rant about "genocide Joe" and poor Putin.
What’s next and who’s next? WELL, unless you're ALL of these,
-White
-Christian
-Male
-Straight
-Cisgender
-Married
it might be YOU.
Even if you are all those but think trumps is a grifter, you can make that list!
“Why didn’t the Teamsters union endorse Kamala?…………”
Thom, as usual you are on to a very specific reason. I think you are spot on.
There are approximately 3.5 million truckers in the U.S. Less than 20% are union members. That still about 500,00-650,000 truckers in the Teamsters Union. The union has 1.3 million members.
Thom is right “many teamsters are truckers (their original cohort) — listen to a lot of talk radio while they’re driving and in most parts of America, without SiriusXM, the only talk radio fare is hate talk radio. There’s virtually no place in America where you can’t easily find a strong signal with hate talk on it;”
That means they listen to Mark Levine, Sebastian Gorka, Dan Bongino, Dennis Praeger among many, many other conservative radio hosts. Those I listed are just who I get in the LA area. And as I still listen to them, to hear the latest propaganda, they are spewing hate, false information and bigotry. Below is the interesting history of the teamsters Union.
Originally the term teamster meant a person who drove a team, usually of oxen, horses, or mules, pulling a wagon, replacing the earlier teamer. This term was common by the time of the Mexican–American War (1848) and the Indian Wars throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries on the American frontier.
Neither party has represented the American worker since ray gun. Maybe this will put a spur in her dairyaire to start representing blue collar male jobs? I know trump won't!
3. North Carolina and Georgia.
Massive texting this afternoon on FT 6.
https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/
1. Truckers. I heard Surface Transportation Assistance Act cases.... https://www.whistleblowers.gov/statutes/staa
Republicans opposed virtually every safety measure. The Trump tax "cuts" precluded many of them from taking the full extent of their business deductions. Republicans have undermined their collective bargaining rights.
But there is a culture. As people said the other day, they have peer pressure to be MAGATs. They have their own language, their own music. On the road in middle America they are exposed to only right wing radio stations. They know that they can be replaced by robots.
The big companies monitor drivers like the postal service monitors mail carriers and I had many "postal" like cases. Years over the road can cause physical damage that can be debilitating. Knowing this some states, like the Fascist state of Florida have limited the ability of drivers to file "repetitive trauma" cases.
IMHO this is a group that supported Trump as a whole despite union endorsement in 2016 and 2020.
That said, many of the MAGATs can be flipped.
Here's my favorite trucker songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBzyosxDKzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BoyEHeID8U
I, think with a the hate and ugliness about Blacks and Jews and anybody other than white, keeps giving me all the prove of the no bottom these people have. I am sick of all of it and find it to be insidious.When you don’t have anything but hate then you really don’t have a massage or point only hate all the time. I can’t and don’t live my life that way. Thom it never stops. Nice to know somebody somewhere else knows the importance of doing something about the climate disaster in their mist. Thanks Thom.
The hatred against Jews goes back to its use by Constatine to replace Judaism with his design of Roman Catholic [Universal] Catholism. He had to blame the Jews for killing Jesus, when it was the Roman Empire that killed Jesus because he was getting a large following that might challenge Roman ambitions in the Middle East. Herod managed to persuade get one Jewish leader to get Judas to betray Him so that the Roman Empire could crush the real religious/political movement and replace it with their own version. It worked until the western provinces of Europe had kings who resented the interference of the RC Pope.
As usual, Hartmann's reports are excellent and on the mark. I note one possible clarification in this report on the elections in Georgia:
Re: "The Georgia state elections board just authorized a hand-count of every ballot in the state"
If the reporting is correct, this hand-count is just to count the number of ballots, and not the votes on the ballots. Presumably, then the count of the number of ballots cast is compared to the number of voters. This is something that should be done. We in New Mexico have been doing it at every voting location for a long time, and I suspect that many states do that.
Thanks Paul. From PBS article:
"The new rule requires that the number of ballots — not the number of votes — be counted at each polling place by three separate poll workers until all three counts are the same. If a scanner has more than 750 ballots inside at the end of voting, the poll manager can decide to begin the count the following day.
Proponents say the rule is needed to make sure the number of paper ballots matches the electronic tallies on scanners, check-in computers and voting machines. The three workers will have to count the ballots in piles of 50, and the poll manager needs to explain and fix, if possible, any discrepancies, as well as document them."