The proposed duties on EVs built in China of up to 45% would cost carmakers billions of extra dollars to bring cars into the bloc and are set to be imposed from next month for five years.

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“About every five years, we need to reorganize and streamline the company for the next phase of growth,” CEO Elon Musk commented in a post on X. Two senior leaders, battery development chief Drew Baglino and vice president for public policy Rohan Patel, also announced their departures, drawing posts of thanks from Musk although some investors were concerned.

Musk last announced a round of job cuts in 2022, after telling executives he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy. Still, Tesla headcount has risen from around 100,000 in late 2021 to over 140,000 in late 2023, according to filings with U.S. regulators.

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Can you imagine the absolute panic as Trump’s tormentors encounter one setback after another?

We’re not going to follow every twist and turn of the legal cases, but none are looking too promising for those that fear what will happen if he should win the next presidential election.  Not that he didn’t win the last one, but maybe it’s for the best.  After all, the whole country has seen gas prices double as the pandering continues.  We’ve got to save the planet?  What about China and India?  Aren’t they on the same planet?  Trump is out talking about what he’ll do if re-elected, and you can bet those currently running the show aren’t listening.

Electric cars aren’t catching on.  They have to give rebates and special deals to sell them at all.  Not that some of them aren’t nice, it’s just not there yet. Maybe someday, but not today.  Meanwhile, gas prices have doubled and you don’t need me to tell you about inflation.

It seems as if the vaunted departments with which we’re all familiar are running interference.  Jail time for the lady who sold the diary?  Does that mean it will never come out?  The January 6, defendants are still rotting in jail, waiting for justice if there is such a thing on this Earth.  

We’ve got conflagrations that should never have happened, but could get worse. Iran, now able to finance terrorist organizations, is riding high. War has overtaken the Middle East, and our leaders are pandering to the supporters of the guilty parties. They’re screaming “Death to America” in Dearborn, Michigan, and none dares denounce it.  What, and deprive the pretender of a segment of his support?

Zelensky still has hat in hand, warning that without more assistance Ukraine will lose the war.

French President Macron has made statements indicating that he’s willing to commit troops.  It’s like they’re in a race to get another worldwide war started, and they don’t have any time to waste.  

But the dominoes are not in place, yet.  These events could lead to further developments that would be ominous, but the main players of Bible prophecy are not yet visible.  Not that they couldn’t show up at any time, and if the U. S. keeps going down this road things may come together sooner than we think.

It seems like our leadership doesn’t have our best interest at heart.  We’re being invaded along the Southern border, and all we get is rhetoric.  The “newcomers” are sleeping on the streets, under bridges, you name it. They’ve turned over whole hotels, with bills being paid by the government.  That means us.  All they can do is throw up their hands and pass out debit cards and court dates that we might not live to see.  You mean, we have no right to secure our sovereign border?  Who ever heard of such a thing?  

The eclipse passed directly overhead in Tyler, the moon all but obscuring the sun.  It was an incredible sight that we’d never seen before and probably won’t again.  There was a partial eclipse when I was in grade school, but nothing like this.  As the moon came directly between earth and the sun you could actually see the flames licking out beyond the perimeter.  They said animals would freak out, but there are horses in the pasture below the office, and they just kept grazing.  We were amazed as it got dark, and all the security lights came on.  What an eerie sensation to have it get dark in the middle of the day, and then it was a regular afternoon.  It puts things in perspective. 

Mark

2024 Solar Eclipse courtesy Matt Covey

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The news of the day is the release of hostages from Gaza back to Israel.  They’ll all have stories to tell.  What, are we supposed to have respect for the terrorists now?  No doubt, people who are getting their loved ones back are ecstatic.  People who are being released are full of joy.  But the terrorists aren’t releasing everybody.  They’re still hiding behind most of the hostages.  Now they’ll try to wring concessions out of Israel.  

Qatar is being used as the middleman.  It kind of makes you sick, realizing that terrorists are being negotiated with at all, but they took hostages.  And they’re always bragging about how brave they are.  Give me a break!

Geert Wilders is a name we’ve known for some time in Dutch politics.  He’s been, let’s say unimpressed with the importation of Muslims into Holland.  He was actually banned from travel to England.  What he’s said was too incendiary, and the Brits were afraid there would be trouble if he came to England.  A member of the House of Lords invited him to screen his film entitled Fitna, which calls the Koran a fascist book and links scenes of terrorist attacks with “scripture.”  It drives the Muslims berserk.  But now he has a chance to form a government in Holland, and it will mean having to deal with former political enemies.  The EU is mighty concerned.  It could upend their whole agenda, saving the planet and importing Muslims into Europe.  

That’s not the only concern for the worldwide woke agenda.  In Argentina Javier Milei has won the election and is threatening to shake things up. Inflation is running at 150%, and he has big plans to fix it. According to Reuters, “His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, slashing spending…”  He supports the United States and is routinely called the Donald Trump of Argentina. Maybe he’s going to put his country on the U. S. dollar.

As you know, North Korea successfully put a spy satellite in orbit with the help of the Russians.  Kim Jong Un has apparently made friends with Putin, so North Korean rockets don’t blow up on the launch pad.  

All in all, everything’s not going according to plan. Saving the planet has taken a backseat to the Middle East war. People who don’t believe in their master plan to crack down on westerners who don’t have time for their machinations have been elected in Holland and Argentina. Uh oh.

How this hasn’t yet fallen apart under its own weight is a mystery. After years of indoctrination, the theory is getting old. They’re having to discount battery cars, and they’re still not selling. Global warming or otherwise, people like to get where they’re going.  

Things are falling apart for the current administration too. Let me count the ways. Joe is in a lot of trouble. Whether he knows or not is unclear. But there’s evidence piling up and subpoenas being handed out.  We just might get another respite.  

It’s hard to watch the news. We’ve just observed Thanksgiving here in America, and God has blessed this nation beyond comprehension thanks to Abraham. The Middle East?  Europe? We’ll just have to watch it play out. Luckily we have the outline.

Mark Armstrong

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We wish we didn’t, but we live in historic times.  Look at who’s leading this nation at a time when our enemies are consolidating and our presumptive president needs sleep.  It’s starting to feel like the worm is turning.  The gaffs, the mumbling, the pratfalls, and now something really important. There’s something we haven’t been told.

The usual suspects are out in force, doing interviews and telling us that the impeachment inquiry is nothing but a conspiracy theory with no facts to back it up.  Those three or four pesky loudmouths are playing rough with no evidence, they claim.  But things are falling apart on every front.

Can you stand to see what’s going on at the border?  It’s a stomach turning exercise, particularly after the play by play manhunt that went on this week ending in the capture of an illegal, wanted for murder in Brazil, convicted of murdering his girlfriend gruesomely.  He was just another sad sack who’d made his way to the land of opportunity.  How much did the manhunt cost?  How much is the incursion at the border costing?   What on earth is going on?

At no time in human history has anything like this taken place. The details are too idiotic to go into. Our national debt is admittedly out of hand, and we act like the well will never go dry. The truth of many untenable situations is obvious to anyone paying attention, but the networks tell us otherwise.

That may be about to change, insurance policy for the ages or not.  

We’re having electric cars waved in front of our faces day and night.  Why?  Has a panel discussion taken place somewhere that convinces us that electric cars are the future?  The news today is that auto workers are on strike at several factories.  They’re worried that electric cars will be built in such a way that they’re no longer needed.  They also want a big raise.  Where does the power that charges electric vehicles come from?  

Do you remember the news worrying whether the power grid would hold up during inclement weather?  Maybe the demands are greater, but we never worried that there wouldn’t be sufficient wind to generate what we needed.  Texas is on board with saving the planet.  Well, we’ve got windmills anyway, the life expectancy and power generated is a taboo subject.  Things are being done on the basis of feelings rather than brass tacks.  You’d think this would all be explained logically, but that’s not the case when it comes to saving the planet.  China and India think it’s nuts.

Word has it that we’re about to be legally bound by W.H.O. regulations. 

They’ve got to convict Donald Trump of something!  Otherwise the destruction might be turned around, and no self-respecting liberal can stand for that.  How dare we love the United States?  We hate seeing what is being done, and even worse, why.  The idea of the nation being saved, being turned back to the traditions we were founded upon, is reprehensible to the “new” values that we’re being spoon-fed on a daily basis.  

The values this nation was founded upon were enduring. These buffoons have tried everything and they’re almost there! If they could just stamp out those of us who remember that God’s blessings are beyond anything these do-gooders can come up with. We’d like to preserve them. The Feast of Trumpets falls tomorrow, and pictures the return of Jesus Christ to this earth. We celebrate it every year as the Bible dictates. Some things we’re never going to stop doing, no matter what.

Mark

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Sure hope the pretender doesn’t get in more trouble.  Every time he or his reprobate son gets bad news, they indict Trump for something else.  Except this isn’t something else.  Don’t hold me to it, but chances are the powers that be are going to be sorry they ever dreamed this up.  Having heard the logic behind the latest indictment, it’s the same ole, same ole.  The brilliant legal strategy the “special council” has come up with ends up with Trump denying voters their rightful vote.  What?

It’s very inventive the way they’ve structured the argument.  Whether it dies a very public and embarrassing death remains to be seen.  Laurence Tribe (respected lawyer) said it was brilliant the way Jack Smith had tailored the charges.  When I heard the upshot, I almost laughed out loud.  So, Trump “conspired” to make people’s lawful votes not count?  This is going to be great!

A risky peek at CNN, and they’re back to a panel that fills the screen.  The pretender (big guy) is in more trouble than ever, but they’re full of dark suspicions on the panels.  Why, Trump tried to overthrow the elections!  TV time is burnt like it’s worthless, speculations about how Trump committed treason.  They better be careful what they ask for, they’re liable to find themselves in the spotlight.  Trump says he’s only one indictment away from winning the next election.  At least he’s got a sense of humor, unlike all the talking heads.  

American policies have been sold.  We know the parameters, but the media is still in the dark.  They pretend not to understand what the rest of us know.  If the pretender was smart, he’d resign.  Due to medical complications, of course.  But Dr. Jill probably won’t give up the perks.  So we’ll all have to suffer more of this.  

The war in Ukraine better have nothing to do with Biden shenanigans.  Why is it that the U. S. is spending many times what the Europeans are, and it’s on their doorstep.  Meanwhile, the Ukranian prosecutor that Biden got fired says there was an attempt on his life.  They’re calling him names on the liberal sites, and saying his claim is preposterous.  We may never know.  You can read about it, the liberal outlets said he’s just in bad health and had an episode.  But there are medical claims that he was suffering from mercury poisoning.  Seems like this happened once-

You probably heard, the ratings agencies have downgraded U. S. debt, again.  Now we’re two stages below optimum.  Is our paper currency going to become worth less?  It already is, especially at the gas station.  The question is whether or not the value of the dollar will crash, hard.  So, who is purchasing U. S. debt?  The Federal Reserve, and…  

America is spending money on foolishness, and adding it to the national debt.  Surely the next couple of generations will understand.  We get the global warming nonsense from every car maker, as if we’re all going to buy battery cars.  They’ve lost millions for the manufacturers, and ships carrying electric cars keep burning down with high-end cars on board.  Gas burners.  The car companies may have to be bailed out again, but this time on account of doing the government’s bidding.  No doubt everyone will be made whole.  Just add it to the debt. 

I guess we’ve learned the hard way, they’ll tell us anything.  Nothing is off limits.  It’s hard to say whether the U. S. will survive in the long run.  The people who have circled the wagons around the pretender hate this country.  Can the United States succeed and prosper when we have leaders that hate everything we stand for?  Or are we being punished for all the nonsense by rotten individuals that have been allowed to take us down?  The Lord works in mysterious ways.         

Mark

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Smoke is pouring off the Panamanian-registered Fremantle Highway while water is being poured onto it by rescue ships. The incident is happening 17 miles west of the Dutch island of Ameland.

Reuters reports the 652-foot ship was carrying 2857 cars from Germany to Egypt, 25 of them electric. An electric car was the suspected source of the blaze, according to a Dutch Coast Guard spokesperson.

“The fire is most definitely still not controlled. It’s a very hard fire to extinguish, possibly because of the cargo the ship was transporting,” said Edwin Versteeg, a spokesperson for the Dutch Department of Waterways and Public Works.

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