A month before exiting the office, Joe Biden inserted a measure permitting California to ban gas-powered vehicles by 2035. Thankfully, the measure was overturned with bipartisan support in a 246 to 164 vote, with 35 Democrats breaking with party lines to overrule the ban.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., said, “There is no reason the radical climate policies of California should regulate the entire American population and rob every American of consumer choice.”

California’s Gavin Newsom fully supported the ban. The Advanced Clean Cars II rule would prohibit ALL gas car sales by 2035, at a time when the average American cannot afford an electric car or maintenance on an electric vehicle. Beginning in 2026, 35% of new autos sold in California would have been required to produce zero emissions. By 2027, 51% of all new cars would have been electric, and that amount would have risen to 68% in 2028, followed by an all-out ban on gas-powered cars in 2035.

California does not have the infrastructure to support such a measure. The California Independent System Operator has repeatedly called for for a “voluntary energy conservation” during holiday weekends as they are concerned the power grid cannot handle the volume. California may be in the spotlight, but countless Democrat-run states were on board with the ban. Washing state, for example, had a target to ban gas car sales by 2030. Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Rhode Island were also considering restrictions on fossil fuel car sales by 2035.

This is part of a broader globalist trend to restrict the freedom of movement, citing fossil fuels as the reason for enhanced government control. The World Economic Forum (WEF) blatantly said that private car ownership should follow the fossil fuel ban.

“Goodbye car ownership, hello clean air: welcome to the future of transport,” the WEF published on its website back in December 2016. The first step is to transition cars to electric under the guise of climate change. This will cause all vehicles to be dependent on the electrical grid, which the government controls. Yet, they never planned to stop at electric vehicles. They want full control over you and where you go. It was announced at the 2023 Summer Davos that the ultimate goal is to end 75% of ALL car ownership, including electric vehicles, by the year 2050.

Schwab claimed that eliminating private car ownership could slash CO2 emissions by 3.9 billion tons per year. As a reminder, everyone flew on private jets and was chauffeured in limousines to Davos – they do not care about the environment in the slightest. There is a much darker motive at play that the public needs to realize. Free transportation will be provided in these 15-minute cities where most of the population will reside. Everyone will have a digital ID and social credit score. This is NOT about climate change — the goal is to eliminate the freedom of movement.

Thankfully, politicians in the US are beginning to wake up to the realization that the climate change agenda will not benefit their constituents. America avoided being swept into the globalist vortex the moment Kamala Harris lost the presidential election. The Trump Administration has taken numerous measures to overturn Biden-era globalist measures, such as leaving the WHO, but make no mistake that the unelected elites who control governments are eager for the world’s leading superpower to join their ranks again, and the battle against them will be ongoing.

Democrats are continuing their plight to abolish the Second Amendment. “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass,” is a famous quote misattributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the last World War. Yet, our right to bear arms certainly keeps us safe from predators both foreign and domestic.

The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

In the 1886 case Presser v. Illinois, the Constitutional right applied only to the federal government, permitting state governments to implement harsh regulations on gun ownership. The 5-4 famous case of District of Columbia v. Heller enshrined American citizen’s rights to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. McDonald v. Chicago was brought to the Supreme Court two years later, also ending in a 5-4 decision, that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment extended to the Second Amendment right to bear arms at the state level for lawful self-defense. “Self-defense is a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present day, and in Heller, we held that individual self-defense is ‘the central component’ of the Second Amendment right,” Justice Samuel Alito declared.

Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California leads Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla of California, and Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, along with 37 other Democrat Senators are sponsoring a new bill that would outright ban semiautomatic weapons.  “This is not about the Second Amendment. This is about saving live,” Senator Padilla stated.

“Anti-gun lawmakers insist their push to ban ‘assault weapons’ isn’t about the Second Amendment. Let’s be honest — that’s exactly what it’s about. And it’s about disarming law-abiding Americans,” The National Rifle Association countered.

These laws are precisely intended to weaken the public. Law enforcement and military personnel may carry these weapons under the proposed legislation. This is indeed a slippery slope as once the government places a ban in effect, they will continue to strip away freedoms. The Democrats cite school and mass shootings, but others believe the nation is facing a mental health epidemic. Back in the day, boys would learn how to use rifles to hunt and shoot at the age of 12 if not younger. It was part of the American way of life.

Look at other nations that have banned guns in recent years. They face ongoing knife attacks, and then the government goes on to ban certain types of knives and blades. The people at large would be utterly defenseless if the government turned on them.

Joseph Stalin abolished all private firearm ownership in 1929. When the Great Purge happened in 1936, the people were completely defenseless. Disarmament led to the Soviets’ consolidation of power and outright genocide. Adolph Hitler followed suit in 1938 with the Weapons Act, barring Jews from owning any weapon, including a knife. There are countless examples throughout history that explain the course of events that follow disarmament, with each story ending in government tyranny and mass casualties.

Kaja Kallas is a NEOCON with such hatred of the Russian people that she should not be close to any position of authority. Our computer has NEVER been wrong. It projected that war would start in 2014, and in 2013, it targeted Crimea.

Kallas has no regard for human life. She just hates Russians for the days of the Communists, who oppressed the Russian people, and she now seeks to kill as many Russians as possible for the sins of previous generations. That is what led to World War II when the French insisted on oppressive reparation payments, and the people turned to Hitler, who then sought revenge for the oppression the German people were subjected to by their previous leaders.

She has said publicly that Russia should be conquered and split up. What would they say if Putin said the same about the Eurozone or the United States? This hatred of Russians will bring death and destruction to Europe. This time, they will NOT survive. The Eurozone will never survive.

I grew up in a small town in New Jersey. Next to my grandfather was a German family who saw the war coming and migrated. Down the street from my mother was another German family who had also migrated and fled Germany before the war. Those who thought the people who left were conspiracy theorists. They survived, while their critics did not.

COMMENT: Marty, I just had to write to express my gratitude. What I have learned just from the November WEC, my first attendance, has been more than my MBA. Erwin’s training session, your blog posts, and Socrates even got the change in unemployment this month that nobody picked up. It is like I was blind, but now I can see all the interconnections and the fallacy of random walk theory. I know you do not want a Nobel Prize. Yet, who will change the world? One day, they will open their eyes to cyclical trends. I have to say, once I looked, I now cannot see the world any other way.

I hope the movies they are making about your career become the spark to change society.

Thank you so much. I truly mean that.

LM

REPLY: Yes, once you see that there is a cycle, economics will change from trying to manipulate society to perhaps following the Biblical Story of Joseph, warning the Pharaoh that there will be 7 years of plenty, so save, and then 7 years of drought. Live with the cycle, understand it, and survive. We stop the insanity of Keynesian Economics, Climate Change that denies there is a cycle, and even war, which never comes when everyone is fat and happy.

Nothing exists without a cycle. Even our brain has a cycle to it. When there is no more brain waves, we are dead.

The White House released a press release detailing some of the fake news articles released during Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

100 DAYS OF HOAXES: Cutting Through the Fake News

In no particular order, here are some of the most egregious hoaxes peddled by the usual suspects so far in President Trump’s second term:

• HOAX: Fake News CNN attempted to “fact check” President Trump’s claim that the Biden Administration spent millions on “making mice transgender.”
• FACT: After their so-called “fact check” was thoroughly debunked, they were forced to update it in disgrace and admit the claim was, in fact, true.
• HOAX: The Fake News claimed the Department of Defense removed Gen. Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington Cemetery.
• FACT: No service members’ names were removed from that section — and Gen. Powell’s name remains among those listed.
• HOAX: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) claimed “no president” presided over more plane crashes during their first month in office as President Trump.
• FACT: “There were 55 aviation accidents in the U.S. between Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 21, 2021, and Feb. 17, 2021, compared to 35 during the same period for Trump,” Fox News reported.
• HOAX: Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) and Chicago Public Schools officials claimed, without bothering to verify, that ICE agents had conducted a “raid” at an elementary school — a false claim echoed by media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune.
• FACT: It was actually the U.S. Secret Service investigating a threat unrelated to immigration.
• HOAX: Far-left influencers and other leftist hacks falsely claimed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk were out to “cut Social Security.”
• FACT: They were referencing an interview in which Musk was clearly referring to the tremendous amount of waste, fraud, and abuse within entitlement programs.
• HOAX: The media smeared DOGE as “young, inexperienced engineers” engineering a “government takeover.”
• FACT: In reality, DOGE is led by seasoned industry professionals, including successful CEOs who paused their lives to aid in the effort of streamlining government and holding the bureaucracy accountable.
• HOAX: NBC’s Peter Alexander peddled the lie that “constituents in some traditionally red districts” were unhappy with President Trump’s effort to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
• FACT: The same “protests” cited by the Fake News were funded and organized by far-left special interest groups.
• HOAX: NPR claimed NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who were stuck on the International Space Station for more than nine months following problems with their spacecraft — were “not stranded.”
• FACT: NPR itself had described the astronauts as stranded in prior reporting, and only seemed to take issue with the description once President Trump and Elon Musk made it a priority to bring them home.
• HOAX: A foreign Fake News outlet reported that President Trump “shut down” the British prime minister during a news conference.
• FACT: In reality, President Trump was simply moving on from a reporter who was trying to goad the two leaders into division.
• HOAX: NPR falsely claimed the White House was actively searching for a new secretary of defense.
• FACT: This lie was immediately shut down by multiple Trump Administration officials, including President Trump himself.
• HOAX: The Fake News attempted to paint illegal immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an innocent “Maryland father” who was unjustly deported by the Trump Administration — and actively censored the truth about him.
• FACT: Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador and was deported to his home country amid overwhelming evidence of his gang affiliation.
• HOAX: Deranged “filmmaker” Michael Moore questioned whether deported illegal immigrants would go on to cure cancer or stop “that asteroid (sic) that’s gonna hit us.”
• FACT: Moore’s statement was a strong early contender for the dumbest, most ridiculous statement of the year considering those deported illegal immigrants were violent criminals.
• HOAX: The Fake News portrayed Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Hamas radical who led violent protests at Columbia, as an innocent graduate student with an absolute right to remain in the U.S.
• FACT: An immigration judge ruled Khalil — who is not a U.S. citizen — can be deported.
• HOAX: The Financial Times reported that Senior White House Counselor Peter Navarro wanted to remove Canada from the “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing network.
• FACT: Mr. Navarro immediately shut down this fake story.
• HOAX: A foreign Fake News reporter claimed President Trump referred to European nations as “parasites.”
• FACT: President Trump immediately pushed back on this ridiculous claim — as did the Italian prime minister.
• HOAX: Fake News CNN’s Brianna Keilar implied the Trump Administration was somehow wrong for stopping illegal immigrants from stealing taxpayer dollars in the form of welfare benefits.
• FACT: Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller summarily embarrassed her with the facts: “The federal government will find EVERY illegal alien who is stealing American taxpayer dollars — and that’s what Americans expect to happen. I don’t even fathom the premise of your question.”
• HOAX: A favorite refrain of the Fake News is that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is “anti-vaccine.”
• FACT: Kennedy debunked the lie in his confirmation hearings: “This has been repeatedly debunked … Bringing this up right now is dishonest.”
• HOAX: WIRED falsely claimed the Social Security Administration is “shifting its public communication exclusively to X” under President Trump.
• FACT: Not happening.
• HOAX: Reuters falsely reported that the Trump Administration “stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country’s drug cartels.”
• FACT: The Department of State is actually trying to expand the initiative.
• FACT: The Fake News frequently pushed the lie that as part of the Trump administration, Secretary Kennedy would implement a national abortion ban and “restrict or even ban medication abortion without a single act of Congress.”
• FACT: Secretary Kennedy consistently pledged to implement President Trump’s policies — which include leaving abortion to the states, ending barbaric late-term abortions, protecting conscientious objections, and ending federal funding for abortions.
• HOAX: Fake News savant Tara Palmeri falsely reported that President Trump’s proposal for Gaza was conceived by Jared Kushner.
• FACT: This lie was immediately and summarily debunked by the Trump Administration: “The worst reporter in America makes up fake news for clout because she has no real sources. Sit down, dummy.”
• HOAX: Sen. Chris Murphy, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and media outlets claimed President Trump’s directive to pause radical, wasteful government spending meant an end to Medicaid, food assistance, and other individual assistance programs.
• FACT: Individual assistance programs — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, etc. — were explicitly excluded, as was made clear by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the Office of Management and Budget. Only unnecessary spending — DEI, Green New Scam, NGOs that undermine the national interest — were included in the directive.
• HOAX: A “physicians advocacy group” was widely cited as opposing President Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
• FACT: The “advocacy group” was really an astroturfed partisan organization funded by prominent left-wing donors — and accepted fake signatures.
• HOAX: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and other Democrats pushed the lie that DOGE posted “classified information” on their website.
• FACT: That alleged “classified information” was really just an employment headcount — which has been publicly available for years.
• HOAX: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) claimed Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem called all Venezuelan immigrants “dirtbags.”
• FACT: Secretary Noem actually called illegal immigrant members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang “dirtbags,” which is true.
• HOAX: The New York Times wrote that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., wanted to “ban fluoride in drinking water” and “reverse … one of the most important public health practices in the country’s history.”
• FACT: New York Times made no mention of their own reporting that fluoride may be “linked to lower IQ scores in children.”
• HOAX: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) repeatedly lied about President Trump “going after” Social Security.
• FACT: President Trump has repeatedly pledged to protect Social Security and make it more robust for American citizens.
• HOAX: Sen. Mark Kelley (D-AZ) attempted to scare veterans by shamelessly claiming their care was in jeopardy due to “layoffs” at VA hospitals.
• FACT: The lie was debunked by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins: “What changes are you talking about? We’ve not had those layoffs… I put $360 million back into community care… It’s concerning to me that a veteran would actually tell stories to veterans that are not true.”
• HOAX: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) exploited the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport plane crash tragedy by claiming President Trump “froze the hiring” of air traffic controllers.
• FACT: Air traffic controllers were exempt from the federal hiring freeze.
• HOAX: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) implied that “cutting” members of an aviation advisory committee was somehow a cause of the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport plane crash tragedy.
• FACT: The advisory group hadn’t met since 2023 and was comprised of business and union leaders who gave “advice” to the TSA and had nothing to do with actual air travel.
• HOAX: A far-left writer claimed Elon Musk and DOGE staffers “illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories.”
• FACT: A top official confirmed “there’s nothing illegal and no server, just more made up tall tales from uninformed career bureaucrats.”
• HOAX: The Washington Post alleged the Trump Administration was setting “quotas” for immigration authorities — and gave the administration just four minutes to comment before publishing.
• FACT: As usual, this was a fake story.
• HOAX: Online liberal activists claimed President Trump “took down” President Obama’s portrait in the White House.
• FACT: Obama’s portrait was not taken down — it was simply moved only feet away from its previous location.
• HOAX: Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) claimed Attorney General Pam Bondi created a “weaponizing task force.”
• FACT: It was a task force to END weaponization at the Department of Justice.
• HOAX: CBS News reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a “makeup studio” be installed inside the Pentagon.
• FACT: It was a “totally fake story,” and the alleged studio was really an existing green room with no frills.
• HOAX: Politico reported the Trump Administration was debating lifting sanctions on Russian energy assets, including the Nord Stream pipeline.
• FACT: This was debunked by both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
• HOAX: An illegal immigrant in U.S. custody “simply disappeared,” The New York Times reported.
• FACT: The illegal immigrant was a confirmed member of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang. An immigration judge ordered his removal, and he was deported along with other threats to national security.
• HOAX: The Wall Street Journal alleged that Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was receiving sensitive information on a personal phone while in Moscow and that Russian Intelligence must’ve had access to the information.
• FACT: This was a total fabrication. Special Envoy Witkoff did not even have a personal phone with him in Russia. He had only a government phone; a secure line of communication.
• HOAX: The Wall Street Journal claimed the Trump Administration “sought to portray” deported criminal illegal immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia as “violent.”
• FACT: Abrego Garcia’s own wife filed an order of protection against him and testified that he brutally beat her.
• HOAX: An AP reporter claimed that FAA staff who worked on “radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others” were “harassed on Facebook” by DOGE.
• FACT: That was a total lie. DOGE doesn’t have a Facebook page and no professionals who perform critical safety functions were fired.
• HOAX: The Daily Beast claimed Vice President JD Vance “broke one of the most notorious Vatican rules during his Easter weekend visit” by being photographed in the Sistine Chapel.
• FACT: Buried all the way down in the 14th paragraph, The Daily Beast admitted the vice president was given special permission by the Vatican to have photographs taken inside the Sistine Chapel.
• HOAX: Left-wing social media accounts promoted fake, AI-generated audio of Vice President Vance “disparaging Elon Musk in private.”
• FACT: The audio was debunked as fake.
• HOAX: The New York Times reported that funding for the Women’s Health Initiative was being slashed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
• FACT: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., himself declared this Fake News and recognized the project is “mission critical.”
• HOAX: Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin gave legitimacy to a hoax from delusional Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth requested nearly $140,000 in “upgrades” to his government residence.
• FACT: This lie was debunked by Secretary Hegseth — and it was so outrageous, even the AP was forced to admit it was completely fake.
• HOAX: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) and many others claimed the Supreme Court ordered the return of illegal immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.
• FACT: Even CNN admitted that’s not what happened: “They did not order the administration to return him to the United States … they could’ve said ‘we order him returned,’ but they didn’t do that.”
• HOAX: Joe Biden accused the Trump Administration of “taking aim at Social Security.”
• FACT: As usual, he was lying — President Trump has repeatedly pledged to protect Social Security.
• HOAX: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) claimed the arrest of a Milwaukee judge who helped an illegal immigrant evade arrest was “unprecedented.”
• FACT: It wasn’t; it has happened before.
• HOAX: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) called the arrest of a Milwaukee judge who helped an illegal immigrant evade arrest a “gravely serious and drastic move.”
• FACT: The judge violated the law by obstructing an ICE arrest of an illegal immigrant.
• HOAX: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) claimed the arrest of the Milwaukee judge who obstructed an apprehension of a criminal illegal immigrant “threatens the rule of law.”
• FACT: It literally does the opposite because no one is above the law.
• HOAX: Politico claimed the Trump Administration “wipe[d] out firefighter health and safety programs.”
• FACT: The programs remain a top priority for the administration — and will remain intact.
• HOAX: Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed that President Trump’s policies make it so “no one wants to make investments in the United States.”
• FACT: President Trump has secured more than $5 trillion in investments since taking office, which is expected to create more than 451,000 new jobs — and the list is only expected to grow.
• HOAX: NBC’s Kristen Welker peddled a Fake News hoax that the Trump Administration was deporting children.
• FACT: Secretary of State Marco Rubio shut down her desperate attempt at a hoax by highlighting how the mother, who was in the country illegally, made that choice all on her own.
• HOAX: The New York Times implied President Trump was alone in wearing a blue suit to the funeral of Pope Francis.
• FACT: Photos show dozens of world leaders and other attendees — many situated near President Trump — also wearing blue clothing.
• HOAX: Teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten accused President Trump of taking teachers’ salaries and giving them to “billionaires” by cutting the Department of Education.
• FACT: President Trump has repeatedly called teachers “the most important people in this country” who should be paid more, not less. The federal government does not pay the salaries of teachers; state and local governments do.
• HOAX: The Fake News and their predictable allies ran with a story that claimed an American citizen was detained by authorities after he informed them he was, in fact, a citizen.
• FACT: That’s not what happened. The individual “approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully … A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.”
• HOAX: PBS News claimed “DOGE operatives attempted to gain access to secure spaces,” implying they attempted to access classified information without approval.
• FACT: This wasn’t even remotely true.
• HOAX: The AP falsely claimed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Trump is “very good friends” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• FACT: The AP was humiliatingly forced to retract its story, admitting they were wrong. Stephanie Ruhle also had to issue a correction. DNI Gabbard was referencing President Trump’s relationship with Indian PM Narendra Modi.
• HOAX: Student visa holders should have unfettered access to do whatever they want in the United States.
• FACT: Wrong. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest… If you tell us when you apply for a visa ‘I’m coming to the U.S. to participate in pro-Hamas events,’ that runs counter to the foreign policy interest of the United States… If you had told us you were going to do that, we never would have given you the visa.”

QUESTION: Do you agree with Trump imposing more sanctions on Russia to force peace?

VB

ANSWER: Absolutely no way. This is a stupid move, and it demonstrates to me that either Trump is not being fed the real intel, or he is being reckless. There is no way Putin should sign any peace deal with Ukraine when the EU is openly building an army and every word that comes out of their mouth is WAR, WAR, WAR. In Europe, Germany directed Zelensky not to sign any peace deal. They want war. On German TV, all you hear is war on talk shows and news. The EU is crumbling economically, and it needs war as a diversion.

Despite 450 million vs 330 million in the USA, GDP growth is a small fraction of that of the United States. They are clinging to Marxism and the social agenda, and they will ride that until the economy is completely destroyed.

If I were Putin, I would be preparing for outright war with NATO. If Trump does not wake up, he will drag the US into a third European War, which could even be by the fourth quarter of 2025. We have a Panic Cycle in 2026, and that is showing up as Panic Cycles in numerous markets. This is not going to be a walk in the park.

This is NOT my Personal Opinion!

I, too, am afraid for my family’s future!