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VW CEO Under Pressure as Labor Unions Torpedo Turnaround Plan https://archive.ph/Z1UUe#selection-1183.0-1183.61 Labor union representatives hold the *majority* of Volkswagen's board seats, and a state government is the second-largest shareholder, which routinely throws its two votes in with the labor unions' ten for a solid bargaining bloc against any plan management wants. https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/13/new-vw-ceo-taking-some-vicious-lumps-on-his-fahrvergnoggen-n3816896

America did not brainwash me. America unbrainwashed me. America gave me back something I did not even know I had lost. The belief that my life still can become bigger. https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=72369

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered a remarkably important speech on June 23 at the Economic Club of New York. Yet neither Wall Street nor most of the economic profession seems to have paid it enough attention. https://archive.ph/oKBdw#selection-4137.0-4141.145

https://archive.ph/UAOuh

Sorry to hear that.

Some, sure. But there's enough others that seem very genuinely shocked at American suburban and rural affluence to make it seem more reflective of the whole than not. And knowing what we know of the actual disparity, that's only to be expected.

They're more than a bit poorer. Because: If they did understand, they might be less content.

https://archive.ph/j6kgr

Nice.

You shoot/hunt, Parsad?

Well, China also the First Sino-Japan War, the Boxer Rebellion, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Civil War, and Mao's Great Leap Forward. Lots of externalities and bad decisions by a authoritarian. Europe has none of those excuses since the end of the Cold War. Losing your best men in World Wars and War Guilt has an effect, sure. But Europe's response (over-regulating bureaucracy) has been *their* choice.

During the 17 years between 2008 and 2025?

No, no external (Opium Wars) or internal (Taiping Rebellion) excuses. No excuse at all.