MUST-READ Selection(s):
FACTS Are NEVER 'Harassment'
On Incentives And Ridiculous Tropes
The content on this site is provided without any warranty, express or implied. All opinions expressed on this site are those of the author and may contain errors or omissions. For investment, legal or other professional advice specific to your situation contact a licensed professional in your jurisdiction.
NO MATERIAL HERE CONSTITUTES "INVESTMENT ADVICE" NOR IS IT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO STOCKS, OPTIONS, BONDS OR FUTURES.
Actions you undertake as a consequence of any analysis, opinion or advertisement on this site are your sole responsibility; author(s) may have positions in any firm or security discussed here, and have no duty to disclose same.
The Market Ticker content may be sent unmodified to lawmakers via print or electronic means or excerpted online for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given and the original article source is linked to. Please contact Karl Denninger for reprint permission in other media, to republish full articles, or for any commercial use (which includes any site where advertising is displayed.)
Submissions or tips on matters of economic or political interest may be sent "over the transom" to The Editor at any time. To be considered for publication your submission must be complete (NOT a "pitch"), include full and correct contact information and be related to an economic or political matter of the day. Pitch emails missing the above will be silently deleted. All submissions become the property of The Market Ticker.
Considering sending spam? Read this first.
The police at all levels, DHS, every judge, prosecutor and other government employee, agent, harboring entity and others who in any way assisted these two brothers, were instrumental in their release or looked the other way must be held personally accountable for this murder. 8 USC 1324 makes clear that every single one of them is liable for life in prison as a result of Laken Riley's death.
Argenis and Diego first entered the United States on April 3, 2023, near Eagle Pass, Texas, and were deported the same day. They were arrested again on April 30 after crossing illegally into the U.S. near El Paso, Texas. They were later released and eventually traveled to Athens.
Re-entry into the US unlawfully after being deported is a felony offense.
Who released them? Names.
Who harbored, rented to, or otherwise enabled them? Names.
Any who had knowledge of and assisted them in any way is liable for life in prison under 8 USC 1324.
ARREST THEM NOW and charge them ALL.
Enough of this bull****.
Every person engaged in "occupying" or otherwise obstructing lawful access to a university must be identified and blackballed from all future employment consideration until and unless they serve time and make restitution in full, at a 300% penalty rate, for any disruption they were involved in and go five full years without so much as a traffic ticket.
This is perfectly legal and it must be made known to everyone.
I don't care if the employer is McDoanlds.
If you don't do it then you deserve to be held financially responsible when you hire one of these people and they do something illegal while in your employ because they have a demonstrated willingness to break the law without remorse.
Enough of this bull****.
Make violent protestors, those committing breaking and entering and those committing felony assault and mob action both jobless and homeless.
There's an allegation running around that Tesla vehicles deliberately overstate mileage driven by an enormous amount -- as much as 30%.
If true this is yet more evidence of the utter insanity of not demanding -- and enforcing by whatever means are necessary -- that laws be actually enforced evenly and against all no matter who it might be.
Federal Statute in the form of 49 USC Chapter 327 governs this and is uniform throughout the United States. There is also a regulation regarding the allowable deviation ("error") in said odometers, which is reasonable because tire size can differ somewhat and (particularly mechanically) ratios may not be exact -- the standard, set by SAE, allows a 4% error although this is actually not codified anywhere I can find in either statute or the CFRs. Thus anything less is going to be considered reasonable and allowable error -- five to seven times that much is not.
Some small degree of error is expected over time; a new tire, for example, typically has 11/32" of tread and at 2/32" its legally worn out (to the bars) although I almost-always replace them at about double that as handling, especially when wet, gets squirrely around there. So there's roughly 1/2" of diameter difference between "new" and "worn out"; a typical "car" tire might have a diameter of ~32" so there's a roughly 1-1/2% difference in the odometer reading between "new" and "fully worn out" tires of that size. However, either mechanical coupling or an optical encoder as is typically used in modern vehicles is extremely repeatable.
A car rental company was, a number of years ago (20ish) was convicted of fraud for putting one-size smaller tires on their fleet resulting in overstatement of mileage driven by about 4%. They got hammered for doing that so I would presume an intentional error wildly greater than this could be serious trouble.
Designing and selling vehicles that intentionally overstate miles driven would be a wild-eyed intentional act.
I find it difficult to believe that Tesla and Musk would have put millions of vehicles onto the road with inaccurate odometers, all biased one way (which means its not a mistake) on purpose and all of which will screw a lessor as they will be charged for miles not actually driven, also screw customers on warranty coverage as mileage is part of the limitation on warranties and at the same time produce an overstatement of driving range on a charge.
I will note that the maximum civil penalty for odometer fraud is $1 million, which is peanuts in any large corporation's pocketbook. However, that same statute provides for felony criminal penalties and that would not be the limit of it either because fraud is not limited in that fashion and anyone who got screwed on a lease (mileage overage charges), had a warranty repair denied due to mileage that was somewhat over the limit and anyone living in a locale that charges EV owners a mileage-based tax (because they do not pay fuel taxes since they buy no fuel) all have claims and all of them would potentially be subject to treble damages as actually designing to this standard isn't an "accident" or "optional"; it is in fact required to sell cars in the United States. I would bet that any "standard" arbitration clause would be tossed instantly by a court on a fraud allegation -- that should be able to toss it because if the contract was entered into under fraudulent pretense then it never occurred and the clause is invalid. This will be interesting if someone litigates that and Tesla tries to have it tossed back into arbitration.
In addition this makes any such vehicle where the seller has reason to know the mileage is not actual must check the "mileage not actual" box on the title when the car is sold. This would be very likely to have severe impacts on the market value of such a vehicle -- it sure does for any other car!
Again I find it difficult to believe that Tesla would have done this -- but there are in fact reports of it being an issue going back several years. I'd be happy to clock anyone who has one near me (NE Tennessee); I've got my Mazda which reads the trip meter in tenths and I also have a GPS, of course, which can record trip distance in my phone.
How about a nice test across oh, say, 10 miles up the highway, we measure from actual mile markers on the road and then we pull off and compare notes, take photos of each other's odometers and trip meters (if its only in one of them rather than both) and present the evidence?
I can go pace out such a run that ends in a Rest Area right near here -- which makes the "pull off the road" part easy, and the start then would be from a freeway entry ramp, allowing easy zeroing and recording of the starting mileage. Further, I can pace it with at least two (and maybe four or five!) different vehicles prior to the public and imaged test, all with vehicles that read to the closest tenth, so qualifying it as repeatable will be easy.
Let's test this and put the question to bed quite publicly; if the allegation is false then what's circulating around is bull****, but if its true then it needs extremely wide exposure and Tesla must be forced to both fix it and compensate everyone who got ****ed.
News: Zelinskyy no longer insists on joining NATO.
The actual news: Russia won.
Now the terms of surrender are under discussion.
I'll make a prediction: They'll be exactly the same terms Russia offered before, with another few additions, and Ukraine will take them.
That's it.
We'll see whether I'm right.
Don't be even slightly surprised if the "breathless analysts" at CNN and elsewhere continue to insist Russia is losing right up until pen meets paper, which will take a bit of time.
My bet is that as of right here and now it's over.
Oh darn, there goes Veritas again releasing well...... not just a smoking gun, but a rank indictment of both actors abroad (including China) and right here in the United States.
So the "work" (gain of function) was rejected by DARPA but NIH, including Fauci who personally signed off on it, did it anyway.
And he did not just do it in China the work included was in part done here.
We now have a plausible explanation, for example, why agreements related to the spike were executed by at least one US University prior to Covid-19 being "known." What institutions were involved and how involved were they? When was the first such agreement executed?
But... it gets better.
We knew the vaccines would not work and were harmful. We didn't think so, we knew so, and further we knew that someone who had been infected was at least in part protected from said harm by the mechanism infection uses.
I pointed all this out without having what Veritas has now published merely by deduction.
We knew in September of 2020 there was a risk issue with the spike in the circulation that was not in most cases present from natural infection and we knew by December of 2020 it was singularly dangerous. It is now confirmed that THE GOVERNMENT knew this and proceeded to purchase and deploy the shots anyway.
We also knew that there were other fingers in the pie including American ones before Covid-19 was announced to exist because the transfer agreement with a US University was known to exist more than a year ago and it was executed in 2019 before Covid-19 was claimed to have "emerged" in China. How can you do something that requires a thing before the second thing happens? You can't, ergo, the government and the private organizations knew damned well Covid existed before the agreement was signed.
So now have what I've maintained all along is in in official government-documented form:
So why all the histrionics ginned up worldwide continuing to this day?
The experiment went bad and if the public knew why it went bad and who was involved in it the people might reasonably conclude there really is a valid reason to get rid of every single government agency and individual involved. Unlike "conspiracy theories" that are flat-out crap its not crazy to contemplate doing that either, especially given the death toll. It was evident within weeks that medically frail people were going to get buttraped by this thing and thus if the government told the truth the pitchforks might well come out since they actually created this ****ing monster and it wasn't just China - it was also the United States Government that did it and several institutions within this nation were intimately involved as well.
Oh by the way the same documents also contain evidence that the Government knew both HCQ and Ivermectin were effective against the virus by April of 2020. How many people died that were denied access to safe drugs that our government had every reason to believe worked?
Still sitting on your ass America?
May I point out that these *******s have killed roughly twice as many people in the United States over the last two years, by their claims, as did both Nazi Germany and Japan in all of WWII and that these are all people and businesses within the United States?
Gonna take another jab or allow the USSC and Biden administration to tell you that you should or indeed must, never mind private employers, when the government factually knows its dangerous and has known for well over a year both that it is the case and why?
Still want to consider Trump a "savior" eh, when he pushed and continues to push these known dangerous jabs?
How many people did they they intentionally let die again? Twice the toll of WWII with every single death chargeable directly against not a foreign adversary but rather agencies of our own government and publicly-funded "educational" institutions?
Want to argue with all this?
Argue with the source material; its either real or it isn't, and if it is its the best argument I've seen in over 100 years for a national divorce with prejudice.
PS: There are people claiming that what Veritas released is a forgery. If it is then O'Keefe needs to go to prison forever and break rocks until he dies. This is the sort of information that can legitimately be the reason for a government to be discarded by its population. To participate in a forgery is equally as bad as to undertake the actions in the first place. If someone has evidence that this is indeed false -- let's see it. While you're at it make sure you account for the verified by FOIA release of this email from Peter Daszak himself....