Trump team wants to scrap car-crash reporting rule that Tesla opposes

The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon #Musk’s #Tesla according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with #automated-#driving systems.

Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping #Trump get elected president in November. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 – to federal safety regulators under the program.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-transition-recommends-scrapping-car-crash-reporting-requirement-opposed-by-2024-12-13/

#bribes #corruption #dictator #authoritarian #cars #automation #safety #crashes

The American Duma strikes again.

♲ DoomsdaysCW - 2024-11-11 01:18:01 GMT

Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism.
Noah Hurowitz
November 10 2024"Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for revenge.

"On the campaign trail, he joked about being a #dictator on 'day one' in office, pledged to jail #journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.
Now, just days after he secured a second term in the White House, Congress is already moving to hand a resurgent #Trump administration a powerful cudgel that it could wield against ideological opponents in #CivilSociety.

"Up for a fast-track vote next week in the House of representatives, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, also known as #HR9495, would grant the secretary of Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a 'terrorist supporting organization.'"

theintercept.com/2024/11/10/tr…

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DoomsdaysCW (@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social)

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Trump advisers propose bypassing FBI background checks for appointees

Donald #Trump could skip #FBI background checks to grant immediate security clearance to numerous appointees who might otherwise fail to pass traditional #vetting hurdles, according to a memorandum prepared by his closest advisers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/trump-fbi-security-clearance-check

#Election2024 #corruption #dictator #tyrant #authoritarian #Orwellian

#Election2024 #OnePlanet #humanity #America #fascism #racism #dictator #authoritarian #dystopian #Orwell

Let the bourgeoisie continue to keep the entire apparatus of state power in their hands, let a handful of exploiters continue to use the former, bourgeois, state machine! Elections held in such circumstances are lauded by the bourgeoisie, for very good reasons, as being "free", "equal", "democratic" and "universal". These words are designed to conceal the truth, to conceal the fact that the means of production and political power remain in the hands of the exploiters, and that therefore real freedom and real equality for the exploited, that is, for the vast majority of the population, are out of the question. It is profitable and indispensable for the bourgeoisie to conceal from the people the bourgeois character of modern democracy, to picture it as democracy in general or "pure democracy", and the Scheidemanns and Kautskys, repeating this, in practice abandon the standpoint of the proletariat and side with the bourgeoisie.
“Democracy” and Dictatorship (December 23, 1918)
V.I.Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/dec/23.htm
#democracy #dictator #lenin #marx #kautsky

#Canada

It may be said that #fascism comes on little cat feet. But in the 21st Century, #autocratic forms of governance are unfolding with a twist. Democratic norms of tolerance, debate, proportionate responses to any infractions by citizens, and more, are disappearing in Canada. We are not, strictly speaking, becoming a totalitarian state. At least not yet. We don’t have a #dictator.

12 steps to be watched out for

The End of Canada: The Shift from Democracy to Totalitarian Behaviour in the ‘Pandemic Era’

Ray McGinnis Introduction March 2024 marked the fourth anniversary of one of the most disastrous assaults on human rights in Canadian history. This assault was in synch with what unfolded in democr…

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#introduction #dictator #uranus #ruler #comicbook

Republican Dicks

#rebublican #dictator

'Straightforward dictatorship': CNN panel thrashes Trump's 'total immunity' claims

After reading Trump's Thursday Truth Social post where he said that he deserved complete immunity even if he "crossed the line" into illegal behavior, host Phil Mattingly suggested that Trump was telegraphing that he was "going to do some criming" if reelected.

He then turned to panelist Errol Louis, who outlined the dark implications of Trump's argument:

"It's a pretty straightforward statement of what dictatorship is, right? he said. "A president -- in his case he is talking about himself -- should be able to, must be able to legally do with legal impunity do whatever it is he or she wants."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dictator-2667004022/?utm_source=diaspora

#dictator #dictatorship #dystopian #Trump #dystopia #America #DemocracyInDanger #AmericaLost #criminal #illegal #crimes #FreedomLost #executions #lawless

'Straightforward dictatorship': CNN panel thrashes Trump's 'total immunity' claims

A CNN panel on Friday warned that former President Donald Trump's claims that presidents should get "total immunity" from criminal prosecution would inevitably result in a dictatorship.After reading Trump's Thursday Truth Social post where he said...

A quotation from Hand, Learned

And so when I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from the clouds, whom none have seen and none are ready to name, I lapse into a dream, as it were. I see children playing on the grass; their voices are shrill and discordant as children’s are; they are restive and quarrelsome; they cannot agree to any common plan; their play annoys them; it goes poorly. And one says, let us make Jack the master; Jack knows all about it; Jack will tell us what each is to do and we shall all agree. But Jack is like all the rest; Helen is discontented with her part and Henry with his, and soon they fall again into their old state. No, the children must learn to play by themselves; there is no Jack the master. And in the end slowly and with infinite disappointment they do learn a little; they learn to forbear, to reckon with anther, accept a little where they wanted much, to live and let live, to yield when they must yield; perhaps, we may hope, not to take all they can. But the condition is that they shall be willing at least to listen to one another, to get the habit of pooling their wishes. Somehow or other they must do this, if the play is to go on; maybe it will not, but there is no Jack, in or out of the box, who can come to straighten the game.

Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist
“Democracy: Its Presumptions and Realities,” speech, Federal Bar Association, Washington, DC (1932-03-08)

#quote #quotes #quotation #collaboration #consensus #cooperation #democracy #dictator #master #ruler #rules #society
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"Democracy: Its Presumptions and Realities," speech, Federal Bar Association, Washington, DC (1932-03-08) - Hand, Learned | WIST Quotations

And so when I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from the clouds, whom none have seen and none are ready to name, I lapse into a...

SHUT DOWN NOAH HARRARI!!!!! THEY’RE TRYING TO REPLACE THE HUMAN POPULATION !!!
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2023/12/elon-musk-warns-a-i-could-create-an-immortal-dictator-from-which-we-can-never-escape-2/
Elon Musk warns #AI could create an ‘immortal #dictator from which we can never escape’

Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an ‘immortal dictator from which we can never escape’

Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an ‘immortal dictator from which we can never escape’

Superintelligence — a form of artificial intelligence (AI) smarter than humans — could create an “immortal dictator,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk

Biden says he still considers China’s Xi a dictator | AJ #shorts

After meeting China’s president Xi Jinping in California, US president Joe Biden was asked if he would still call Xi a dictator – a term that angered Beijing...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #biden #ccp #dictator #latestnews #newsheadlines #xi
Biden says he still considers China’s Xi a dictator | AJ #shorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2hKuPWpJ48
#TheCortinas -- #Fascist #Dictator / #Television #Families - 7"

#punk #music

Dress up Lenin

#lenin for all the #dictator fans

#Brussels or #Washington can make a call to #Aliyev & order him to comply with international #humanitarian laws.

"Strongly supports" or "deeply concerned" statements mean nothing for sadistic #dictator, who is literally subjecting to starvation the entire population of #Artsakh.

#EU renews its call to #Azerbaijan to ensure unrestricted movement of people & goods via #Lachin corridor, in return Azerbaijan provokes & shells #Armenian positions wounding 2 soldiers.
#Armenia #Politics #Fascism

#diplomacy-death #theft #coal #northstream #ns1 #ns2 #dictator #sippenhaft
Death of European Diplomacy
Former Austrian FM Karin Kreissl, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
https://rumble.com/v2coz0e-death-of-european-diplomacy-former-austrian-fm-karin-kreissl-alexander-merc.html

Meanwhile, from "McFaul's World"

The Guessing Game about What Putin Will Do If He Begins to Lose Even More Badly in Ukraine

Here is the former U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, who had studied Putin and Russian thinking prior to his many meetings and discussions, up his departure in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea. He is correct in noting the rise of the Putinologists now gathered around worst-case or most-likely scenarios... and while mileage may vary, Michael McFaul not only knows better than most anybody, past thinking and behavior, he is also wise enough to know,

I don’t know exactly what Putin will do. But neither do you!

#StopPutin #Putin #Ukraine #TzarVladimirTheTerrible #genocide #history #dictator #Russian

The Guessing Game about What Putin Will Do If He Begins to Lose Even More Badly in Ukraine

I don’t know exactly what Putin will do. But neither do you!

Stefan Zweig en Michel de Montaigne zochten in afzondering naar individuele vrijheid in beestachtige tijden

Michel Krielaars (NRC)

Op 22 februari 1942 maakten de 60-jarige Oostenrijks-Joodse schrijver Stefan Zweig en zijn veel jongere, tweede vrouw Charlotte Altmann een einde aan hun leven. (...)

[I]n de nieuwe wereld kon Zweig niet wennen. Hij hoorde thuis in het oude Europa, dat, zoals hij beschrijft in zijn postuum verschenen autobiografie Die Welt von Gestern (1942), in de Eerste Wereldoorlog ten onder was gegaan en nu opnieuw in bestialiteit werd gedrenkt.

Opmerkelijk is dat Zweig in Zuid-Amerika zijn beste boeken heeft geschreven. (...) En nu is er ineens een ander werk uit die tijd in vertaling verschenen: Montaigne. (...)

Tekst loopt door onder de foto.)

Michel Krielaars

In Montaigne (1533-1592) had Zweig een zielsverwant gevonden. Zo zocht de Franse filosoof in zijn essays net als hij individuele vrijheid. (...)

Waar Zweig op de vlucht was voor Hitler en zijn oorlog, wendde Montaigne zich op zijn 38ste af van de bloedige godsdienststrijd tussen katholieken en hugenoten, die Zweig ‘het pandemonium van woede en haat dat de mensheid onteert en vernietigt’ noemt. De ‘terugval van het humanisme in beestachtigheid’ was hun beider tragedie. Dat gold ook voor hun afkeer van, zoals Zweig schrijft, ‘het fanatisme van de dictators van de geest, die met onbeschaamde arrogantie de wereld hun nouveautés als enige en onomstotelijke waarheid willen opdringen en die niet geven om het bloed van honderdduizenden, zolang ze maar gelijk krijgen.’ (...)

Op zoek naar persoonlijke vrijheid maakten beiden zich tot op zekere hoogte los van de ellende om hen heen. In feite kozen ze voor de Innere Emigration. (...)

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Tags: #nederlands #boeken #literatuur #montaigne #zweig #stefan_zweig #oorlog #godsdienststrijd #hitler #dictator #waarheid #propaganda #vrijheid #individuele_vrijheid

Column | Stefan Zweig en Michel de Montaigne zochten in afzondering naar individuele vrijheid in beestachtige tijden

Op 22 februari 1942 maakten de 60-jarige Oostenrijks-Joodse schrijver Stefan Zweig en zijn veel jongere, tweede vrouw Charlotte Altmann een einde aan hun leven. Anderhalf jaar eerder waren ze vanuit hun Engelse ballingschap naar Brazilië gevlucht,...

De macht van de dictator is óók de macht van de straat

Caroline de Gruyter (NRC)

(...) „Autoritaire regimes zijn onverslaanbaar, totdat ze dat ineens niet meer zijn. De geschiedenis is bezaaid met afgezette keizers en tsaren”, schreef oud-Financial Times-commentator Philip Stephens deze week in een blog onder de hoopvolle titel ‘Een slecht jaar voor autocraten. Xi en Poetin zijn de grote verliezers van 2022’.

Stephens heeft gelijk: we moeten de kop niet laten hangen. Toch moeten we ons evenmin illusies maken over volksprotesten en wat die anno 2022 kunnen uitrichten. Moderne autocraten laten zich minder makkelijk uit het pluche jagen dan de generaties voor hen. (...)

(Tekst loopt door onder de foto.)

Caroline de Gruyter

De dictators van nu zijn gelikter. Ze proberen populair te blijven onder de bevolking. Ze doen amper nog aan massamoorden en maaien demonstranten niet meer voor CNN-camera’s neer, maar lichten hen achteraf stilletjes van het bed of produceren ‘bewijs’ van een zedendelict. En ze houden referenda en opiniepeilingen, en chatten met burgers. Door die democratische façade rennen buitenlandse investeerders niet weg, waardoor de economie blijft draaien en burgers brood op de plank houden. (...)

Omdat dictators de meeste media dankzij moderne technologie compleet in hun zak hebben, bepalen ze goeddeels wat mensen lezen of zien. (...)

Volgens onderzoekers aan Harvard is de kans van slagen van straatopstanden onder dit nieuwe type machthebber zesmaal kleiner dan in 2000. Ook werd volksprotest vroeger langzaam, vanaf de grond, opgebouwd. Dat bevorderde cohesie en solidariteit. Nu worden demonstranten via sociale media gemobiliseerd. De clubgeest is zwakker. Straatprotest verpietert sneller. Bovendien gebruiken de autoriteiten tegenwoordig óók geavanceerde technologie voor propaganda, infiltratie en intimidatie. Niet alleen Polen en Hongarije bespioneren opponenten met Pegasus-software, maar zelfs Griekenland en Spanje – al zeggen ze stug dat ze van niets weten. We leven in een tijd van „digitaal autoritarisme”, aldus het Harvard-onderzoek. (...)

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Tags: #nederlands #protest #straatprotest #opstand #revolutie #dictator #staat #staatsmacht #sociale_media #social_media #media #propaganda #censuur #volksopstand #hongarije #orban #iran #china #polen #referendum #opiniepeiling #democratie #investeringen #buitenlandse_investeringen #electorale_autocratie #digitaal_autoritarisme #brazilie #bolsonaro #vs #verenigds_staten #trump #griekenland #spanje #pegasus #pegasus_software #spionagesoftware #repressie

Column | De macht van de dictator is óók de macht van de straat

In Europa: Caroline de Gruyter