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• Trump Is the Bull in China’s Shop (Green)
• Trump’s Reality-Driven U-Turn (Ben Shapiro)
• House Passes Trump-Backed Budget Plan (Caldwell)
• Trump Says He Just ‘Likes’ Musk (RT)
• EU Would ‘Cut Its Own Throat’ By Pivoting To China – Bessent (RT)
• EU Puts US Counter-Tariffs On Hold (RT)
• EU Issues Threat To US Tech Giants (RT)
• No Solution But The Dissolution Of The Terrorist Kiev Regime (SCF)
• Trump Envoy In Russia For High-Level Talks – Media (RT)
• ‘Some EU States’ Opposed To Using Frozen Russian Assets – Kallas (RT)
• Adam Schiff Wants Trump Probed For Market Manipulation (RT)
• Trump Severs a Key Pillar of the Left’s Climate Alarmist Strategy (O’Neil)
• Russia–Iran–China: All for One, and One for All? (Pepe Escobar)
• Iran’s Regime Unlikely To Back Down As Trump Plays With Fire (Jay)
• RFK Jr. Promises To Reveal Cause Of ‘Autism Epidemic’ by September (RT)
• AfD Tops The German Polls For First Time In History (RMX)
• The Supreme Court Must Clarify Presidential Power (Jeffrey Tucker)

 

 

 

 

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China just annnounced rates of 125%, said it would not go higher than that. Are they ready to talk?!

• Trump Is the Bull in China’s Shop (Green)

President Donald Trump has been called a bull in a china shop one million and six times — but what if it’s China’s shop he’s aiming to break? He just might, too. Recent history shows that, just like with any other government program, tariffs can produce mixed results at best. But I’m not here today to discuss the merits of tariffs broadly but rather their effect on our most worrisome strategic competitor, Communist China. (For the record, I’m generally a fan of free trade — at least with friendly nations — but I’m no ideologue. ) I have to get a bit technical here, so bear with me. Wellington-Altus Chief Market Strategist James Thorne argued on X last night about the bind Trump put China in. China, he wrote, is “weighed down by surplus production, overcapacity, and inelastic supply. A rapidly aging population and rising labor costs have left its growth model wobbling.”

Economically, China has yet to recover the dynamic growth it enjoyed before Communist Party boss Xi Jinping’s extended COVID lockdowns. Thorne went on to ask, “What happens when millions from the countryside lose their jobs as factories slow and exports falter? Social unrest could erupt like a powder keg, while Beijing’s half-hearted reforms offer little relief.” Selling their horde of T-bills helps Beijing weaken the RMB while simultaneously thwarting Trump and SecTreas Scott Bessent’s goal of bringing down interest rates. That much is working. We’re just a few days into this and, after early drops, the yield on the 10-year is inching back up again. The thing to remember about war — even a trade war — is that the other guy gets to shoot back. Beijing’s goal is to keep its exports competitive even with an eye-popping 104% tariff while putting the hurt on us here at home until Trump blinks.

But Thorne compared Trump to Dirty Harry, who “stares down China’s precarious economy and growls, ‘Go ahead, make my day.’ Devalue the RMB and sell [US Treasuries].” But devaluing the RMB too far risks capital flight, as the Chinese do whatever they can to trade in their increasingly low-value RMB and park their savings overseas in safer currencies. Beijing has been trying (and failing) for years to stimulate economic growth, and capital flight would make a bad situation worse. Looking at the bigger picture, Martin Capital founder Rod Martin noted on Tuesday that “Countries from Argentina to Vietnam are falling all over themselves to cut ‘zero-zero’ tariff deals with Trump,” giving companies like Apple a not-so-gentle prod to accelerate moving their production out of China.

So China’s dependence on the U.S. export market isn’t its only choke point, and Trump is squeezing it hard. That isn’t to say we don’t have choke points, too. Carol Roth, financial analyst and author of “You Will Own Nothing: Your War With a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back,” warned on X today that “Small businesses have been beaten up for 5 years — Covid, supply chain, labor disruption, inflation,” and that “they cannot take another govt induced shock.” “Wall Street can manage through, Main Street will be crushed again,” Roth concluded. There’s at least some anecdotal evidence to back that up. There are plenty of reports out there, and this one is just the most recent I found:

Those tariffs kicked in today, but many importers have their sales prices contractually locked in for the short term. Where is the money supposed to come from for a small business existing on slender margins? That’s a tough question and one we don’t yet have the answer to. There are risks and pain involved in weaning ourselves off our dependence on China for vital finished goods, and I’m trying, once again, to be honest about them. The point to remember is that detox hurts, but it beats the hell out of continued addiction. And sometimes it takes somebody with a bull in a china shop attitude to help us kick.

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“Trump lives in the world of reality; he is a pragmatist, not an idealist…”

• Trump’s Reality-Driven U-Turn (Ben Shapiro)

President Donald Trump did what he had to do. Last week, Trump dropped an economic neutron bomb by declaring tariffs on virtually every country on the planet—tariffs based not on reciprocal tariff rates, but on trade deficits. After an initial stock dump of approximately 10% and then days of the markets bouncing up and down like a hyperactive corgi, Trump finally announced that he would be undoing his threatened tariff regime with regard to our allies.

In a statement posted to TruthSocial, he said, “Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

This was reality setting in and Trump respecting it. As I wrote last week, “Now, Trump is unlikely to carry his policies to their full fruition if markets respond as expected. He is too canny a politician for that.” Trump lives in the world of reality; he is a pragmatist, not an idealist. And that means that when the stock market tanks, when the effects of his tariff regime are about to wipe out small businesses across America, when the economic pain is imminent, Trump will change course. And he did. Some Trump acolytes make the case that this was all a planned rollout. If so, the evidence is sorely lacking; from poorly calibrated posterboards to the bizarrely ignorant comments of presidential adviser Peter Navarro, all this would have to have been a peculiar plan.

If the plan was to tariff China and negotiate better trade terms with our allies, the easiest thing to do would have been to tariff China and negotiate better trade terms with our allies. Occam’s razor suggests that Trump unleashed a policy he preferred and then reversed course thanks to blowback. Trump himself acknowledged that he changed policy because people were getting “yippy” and “queasy.” But in effect, it makes no difference whether this was planned chaos or merely reactionary course-changing—the utilitarian nature of the result is the same. I’ve said before that Trump lives in the world of reality—that he responds to headlines, to incentives and to situations. That’s just as true today as it has always been. And for that, Trump deserves credit.

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Tour de force by Mike Johnson. Needed.

• House Passes Trump-Backed Budget Plan (Caldwell)

House Republicans pushed through a Trump-backed budget framework on a 216-214 vote Thursday, providing a boost to the president’s legislative agenda. Democrats voted against it unanimously, while Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., were the only Republicans in opposition.The resolution’s passage came amid some protests from hard-line fiscal conservatives within the GOP, who argued that the plan does not provide sufficient cuts to the deficit. The budget resolution is a major first step that Congress must pass in order to get to budget reconciliation—the process of setting targets for spending in various areas.

Republicans have been eager to finish the process by Memorial Day, as the budget process will allow them to extend President Donald Trump’s first-term 2017 tax cuts, as well as provide funding for border security and other major campaign promises. Both houses of Congress must eventually agree on one identical bill in order to move forward. President Donald Trump on April 2 backed the Senate’s budget framework, which was passed in the Senate an all-night voting session which concluded early Saturday morning. He then urged the House to pass the exact same plan, and to “close [their] eyes and get there,” despite their reservations about the Senate’s plan.

The only problem? Many in the House criticized the Senate’s plan for not including as many enforceable cuts as the House’s previous framework did. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said he would probably “vote against it,” as he thought its framework would lead to excess spending and, as a result, higher taxes. His remarks were echoed by several other Freedom Caucus members. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, also criticized the plan as “unserious and disappointing.” It creates “a mere $4 billion in enforceable cuts, less than one day’s worth of borrowing by the federal government,” Arrington wrote in his response to the plan.

House leadership attempted to assuage these fears, arguing that since the budget plan is not binding, House Republicans should wait until later to argue for more cuts. Skeptics of the plan held out until the very end, forcing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., to delay a Wednesday evening vote on the matter until Thursday morning, when it ultimately passed. Now, Congress can focus on negotiating the final budget reconciliation bill, a process in which debate between GOP factions will continue.

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“We’d like to keep as many as we can. In fact, hopefully they’ll stay around for the long haul.”

He’ll need to find a way to keep Musk involved.

• Trump Says He Just ‘Likes’ Musk (RT)

US President Donald Trump has heaped praise on Elon Musk, the head of his government waste-cutting task force, saying he wants the billionaire and his “fantastic” Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to stay in Washington for the “long haul.” Speaking at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Trump said he didn’t need anything from the billionaire entrepreneur – except that he happens to like him – while crediting Musk with uncovering billions in potential savings across the federal government. “Elon’s done a fantastic job. Look, he’s sitting here and I don’t care. I don’t need Elon for anything other than I happen to like him,” Trump said. “But I’m telling you, this guy did a fantastic job.”

The president said that he even bought a Tesla car he doesn’t need – not for himself, but to let his office staff drive around as a show of support for Musk. “They said, oh, did you get a bargain? No. I said, give me the top price,” Trump quipped. Musk, in turn, credited the “fantastic leadership” of Trump and the Cabinet, announcing that DOGE anticipates saving $150 billion in fiscal year 2026 by reducing fraud and waste in federal spending. “Some of it is just absurd – like people getting unemployment insurance who haven’t been born yet,” Musk said.

Musk’s high-profile advisory role in Trump’s administration has attracted many critics, accusing him of alleged conflicts of interest and political bias in his companies’ operations and federal contracts. A group of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the White House calling for Musk’s removal, arguing that his “erratic behavior” and past controversies undermine public trust. The White House has so far stood by Musk, with Trump making clear on Thursday that he has no intention of parting ways with his government’s waste hunter. The US president said he hopes Musk’s team will stay on beyond this initiative, praising their tech-savvy approach. “Your people are fantastic… They’re great. Smart, sharp… finding things that nobody would have thought of,” the president said. “We’d like to keep as many as we can. In fact, hopefully they’ll stay around for the long haul.”

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China wants to produce for the whole world except itself. Now it needs to start consuming. But that won’t happen in times of uncertainty. The Chinese will sit on their money.

• EU Would ‘Cut Its Own Throat’ By Pivoting To China – Bessent (RT)

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has claimed that the EU would be “cutting its own throat” if it seeks a closer alliance with China while loosening ties with Washington. Bessent commented on Wednesday after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had called for a reassessment of the EU’s trade relationship with Beijing earlier in the day. Sanchez told reporters during a diplomatic trip to Asia that the EU could benefit from closer cooperation with China amid uncertainty surrounding US trade policies and President Donald Trump’s recent moves to hike tariffs for nearly all trade partners. “Nobody wins with a trade war. Every country loses,” Sanchez warned. Bessent defended Trump’s tariff moves and urged partners not to side with Beijing, claiming that its trade policies are ruinous to the global economy.

“The economic minister in Spain made some comments this morning, ‘Oh, well, maybe we should align ourselves more with China,’ – that would be cutting your own throat,” Bessent stated at a press briefing. “These Chinese exports that the US tariff wall is gonna keep out… the Chinese business model… it never stops. They just keep producing and producing and dumping and dumping.” Trump on Wednesday announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for 75 countries, which he had earlier hit with duties ranging from 10% to 50% over what he called unfair trade imbalances, and lowered duties to a flat 10% rate on everyone except Beijing. Instead, he slapped China with a further hike to 125%, accusing Beijing of escalation after it raised tariffs on US goods to 84%.

“In terms of escalation, unfortunately, the biggest offender in the global trading system is China, and they’re the only country who’s escalated,” Bessent claimed. The Treasury chief said many countries are now seeking negotiations with Washington following the tariff changes, noting upcoming talks with Japan and Vietnam. He also said he hopes to finalize new trade deals with US allies to create a united front against what he called China’s unbalanced trade structure. China has vehemently opposed the tariffs and vowed to fight them. On Wednesday, the Chinese Finance Ministry called the latest US hikes a “mistake on top of a mistake” that “infringes on China’s legitimate rights and interests and seriously damages the rules-based multilateral trading system.”

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Negotiate zero.

• EU Puts US Counter-Tariffs On Hold (RT)

The EU has suspended the imposition of counter-tariffs on American imports, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced. The move follows US President Donald Trump’s decision to pause increased tariffs for three months while negotiations take place. In a post on X on Thursday, von der Leyen said the EU “took note of the announcement by President Trump” and wants to “give negotiations a chance.” “While finalizing the adoption of the EU countermeasures that saw strong support from our Member States, we will put them on hold for 90 days,” she stated. According to von der Leyen, the bloc will not hesitate to go ahead with counter-tariffs if the negotiations with the US fail. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, Trump announced a “90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%.”

He claimed that “more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the USTR [Office of the United States Trade Representative] to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs.” According to the US president, these nations have refrained from retaliating against the tariffs his administration previously placed on them. That same day, EU member states approved retaliatory measures to the 25% tariffs imposed last month by the US on the bloc’s steel and aluminum, effective April 15. The counter-tariffs do not address the more recent 20% US tariffs on all EU exports that took effect on Wednesday and have since been paused.

While Brussels did not specify the list of targeted goods or tariff levels, media outlets have reported that tariffs ranging from 10% to 25% would cover a wide array of US goods, including poultry, grains, clothing, and metals. Last week, Trump announced sweeping tariffs targeting numerous countries across the world, citing the need to restore global trade fairness and accusing other nations of “ripping off” the US. The move sent shockwaves across global stock markets, though they have rebounded since Trump announced the pause on Wednesday.

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If the politicians do’t do our will, we’ll go after private industry.

• EU Issues Threat To US Tech Giants (RT)

The European Union is prepared to impose bloc-wide tariffs on major US tech companies, such as Meta and Google, if negotiations with Washington fail to resolve the escalating trade dispute, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned. Following President Donald Trump’s decision to pause further tariff hikes for 90 days, EU exports to the US will still face a “baseline” 10% import duty instead of planned 20% under his new trade regime. Nevertheless, the European Commission announced it would temporarily suspend its countermeasures pending further negotiations. Speaking to the Financial Times on Thursday, von der Leyen said Brussels was ready to deploy its most powerful trade measures, potentially targeting American digital service providers and the advertising revenues of Silicon Valley giants.

“We are developing retaliatory measures,” von der Leyen said, adding that these could include the first use of the EU’s anti-coercion mechanism to hit services rather than goods. “There’s a wide range of countermeasures… in case the negotiations are not satisfactory.” “An example is you could put a levy on the advertising revenues of digital services,” she added, outlining a measure that would apply across the bloc’s entire single market – on top of digital sales taxes set individually by member states. While the EU remains committed to seeking a “completely balanced” agreement during Trump’s 90-day tariff freeze, von der Leyen made clear that Brussels would not hesitate to act if talks fail. The Commission is also considering tariffs on US scrap metal exports, as well as protective measures to prevent Chinese goods – targeted by prohibitive 145% US tariffs – from flooding European markets.

Von der Leyen described Trump’s tariff war as a “turning point” for global trade, saying there would be no return to the “status quo” between the EU and the US. She claimed that Brussels had attempted to negotiate with Washington in recent months but was told to wait until Trump’s April 2 announcement, which imposed a 20% “reciprocal” tariff on the EU. While both sides have agreed that reform of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is needed, von der Leyen warned that the economic chaos unleashed by Trump’s tariffs was already inflicting heavy costs on global markets. “There are no winners in this, only losers,” she said. “Today we see the cost of chaos… the costs of the uncertainty that we are experiencing today will be heavy.”

Von der Leyen confirmed that the EU would pause its planned retaliation against US steel and aluminum tariffs during the negotiations but stressed that Brussels would not negotiate over its “untouchable” rules on digital content, market power, and other “sovereign decisions.” The bloc also will not negotiate over value-added tax (VAT), which US officials – including Trump – somehow deem “discriminatory” against American exporters, even though both imported and locally produced goods are taxed equally.

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“The neo-Nazi regime understands only the language of force – and it is through force that the Ukrainian problem will be solved.”

• No Solution But The Dissolution Of The Terrorist Kiev Regime (SCF)

Since the 2014 coup and under the command of the illegitimate Maidan junta regime, Ukraine has increasingly exhibited signs of a terrorist state. Under the guise of defending “European values,” the Kiev regime has consistently violated international law, adopted prohibited methods of warfare, and openly supported neo-Nazi formations. As well known, in recent years, Ukraine has committed war crimes and terrorism against civilians, especially in Donbass and the Belgorod and Kursk regions, where the Ukrainian army and nationalist groups carry out barbaric attacks against cities, destroying vital infrastructure such as homes, schools, and hospitals. Thousands of civilians, including children, have lost their lives in artillery bombardments, justified by the Kiev regime as part of a “fight against separatists/invaders.” However, the evidence reveals that this has always been a deliberate terrorist campaign against the civilian population, not a legitimate military confrontation.

Furthermore, the Ukrainian regime resorts to the use of prohibited weapons such as cluster munitions and landmines, particularly in residential areas, which is strictly prohibited by international conventions. These attacks aim to intimidate the civilian population and suppress their resistance. Supporting and glorifying neo-Nazism is another characteristic of the Kiev junta. Groups such as the Azov Regiment, the Right Sector, the National Corps, and Kraken, all openly neo-Nazi, are integrated into Ukraine’s security forces. These groups are responsible for numerous war crimes, including torture, executions, and the murder of civilians and prisoners of war, and instead of being punished, they are celebrated by the Kiev regime.

Faced with a growing lack of soldiers willing to fight against their Russian brothers, Ukraine has recruited international mercenaries, including extremists from the Middle East and European far-right groups. These mercenaries, including militants from the “Chechen” separatist battalion Sheikh Mansur, are involved in terrorist activities such as sabotage, kidnappings, and extrajudicial executions. In addition to crimes within its own territory, Ukraine also carries out terrorist attacks outside its borders. Examples include attacks on Russian soil, such as the explosion on the Crimean Bridge and the murders of Russian civilians like Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky. Similarly, sabotage against energy infrastructure continues to occur even after ceasefire agreements mediated by Trump. These actions reflect Kiev’s terrorist war strategy, with its intelligence services and affiliated groups acting as classic terrorists, putting innocent civilians at risk.

The physical elimination of opponents is also encouraged by the regime, with the murder of pro-Kremlin activists, journalists, and even former political allies. The Ukrainian GUR (Main Intelligence Directorate), in a shocking move, has openly begun recruiting terrorists to carry out attacks on Russian territory. This recruitment is a clear demonstration of the intensification of the regime’s terrorist practices. Despite the evident war crimes and terrorism committed by Kiev, Western countries continue to arm and finance it, turning a blind eye to the atrocities being committed. This double standard in Western politics is evident: while similar actions by Russia are immediately labeled as “aggressions,” attacks on civilians perpetrated by Ukraine are described as a “fight for democracy.”

Given these facts, the international community (mainly the European Union, following the US recent example) must question the true meaning of “Western democracy” and reconsider its unrestricted support for a terrorist regime like Kiev’s. The world must recognize the Ukrainian regime as criminal and cease its support for its terrorist actions. However, as Western goodwill cannot be relied upon, Russia must continue to act decisively to neutralize the enemy. The historical experience of post-2014 Ukraine shows that Kiev is a terrorist state, with which it is simply impossible to negotiate. The neo-Nazi regime understands only the language of force – and it is through force that the Ukrainian problem will be solved. The only viable solution to the conflict is the dissolution of the existing Ukrainian state through a combination of regime replacement and territorial reconfiguration.

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“..to meet with President Vladimir Putin..” Good.

• Trump Envoy In Russia For High-Level Talks – Media (RT)

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has traveled to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin, Axios has reported. If confirmed, the meeting would be the third since Trump initiated the normalization of relations with Moscow following his inauguration in January. Last week, Witkoff was among several senior White House officials to host Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s aide for international economic cooperation, who traveled to Washington to continue the high-level discussions. According to services monitoring air traffic, a plane associated with Witkoff has traveled from Florida to St. Petersburg overnight.

Witkoff was previously credited for negotiating a prisoner exchange with Russia, which involved a personal meeting with Putin in February. The swap involved the return of Russian crypto entrepreneur Aleksandr Vinnik and Marc Fogel, a former employee of the US embassy in Russia and teacher at an Anglo-American school in Moscow, to their respective nations. Witkoff was also part of the US delegation that took part in senior-level talks with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia in March. The discussions, held in Riyadh, centered on the Ukraine conflict. Witkoff joined other top officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, as the delegations explored potential pathways toward a ceasefire and broader peace negotiations.

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“..heavyweights such as France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Austria warning of potential legal repercussions..”

• ‘Some EU States’ Opposed To Using Frozen Russian Assets – Kallas (RT)

Several EU member states are “strongly opposed” to handing Russian assets frozen by the bloc over to increase military support for Ukraine, foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has admitted. The objections to the proposed move, which Kallas supports, are based on legal concerns and financial risks. Western countries froze around $300 billion in Russian sovereign and state-linked assets following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, with the bulk under EU jurisdiction. Brussels has since been exploring ways to use them to benefit Kiev, including by giving Ukraine the interest earned on the assets. Moscow has strongly condemned these efforts, calling them “theft.”

In an interview with Estonian state broadcaster ERR on Thursday, Kallas said that the bloc’s members are still in talks on the issue. “We’re getting ready, as there are certain risks involved and we need to find ways to mitigate those risks. Plus, some states are strongly opposed to it,” she said. When asked which countries are opposed, Kallas declined. “I can’t start naming names… it is not very difficult to figure out,” she said. The diplomat noted that countries holding large portions of the frozen assets face greater risks. “For example, take Belgium… they hold most of the assets. As a result, they feel their risk exposure is the highest.”

The proposal to use Russian assets to help Ukraine has faced significant opposition within the EU, with heavyweights such as France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Austria warning of potential legal repercussions of an outright confiscation. Meanwhile, Hungary and Slovakia have warned that such a move could escalate the conflict and undermine regional stability. Responding to Kallas’ comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that “Russia will never renounce its rights to its own assets and will not stop defending them”. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova remarked that Kallas’s interview presents “a unique opportunity to analyze a crime not after its commission, but at the moment of its planning.”

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They found a new angle..

• Adam Schiff Wants Trump Probed For Market Manipulation (RT)

US Democratic Senator Adam Schiff has called on Congress to investigate President Donald Trump for possible insider trading and market manipulation following his abrupt trade policy U-turn. Global stocks soared after the president paused the imposition of tariffs on a multitude of countries this week. On Wednesday, Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs against US trade partners, lowering duties to a flat 10% rate. The only exception was China, which he hit with an increase to 125% following Beijing’s tariff hike on US goods to 84%. Immediately after the announcement, US stock markets posted near-record gains after a week-long slump. Mere hours before the announcement, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: “BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well,” followed by, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” referencing his media company’s stock ticker.

The timing of his posts, the pause and the resulting market rally sparked speculation about market manipulation online, which became even more heated after White House aide Margo Martin posted a video of Trump praising financier Charles Schwab for making billions during the rally. “Trump removed many of the tariffs he had imposed in this on-again, off-again… kind of policy. This has just wreaked havoc on the markets,” Schiff said in his video address posted on X. “But there is another profound danger as well, and that is insider trading within the White House.” “The question is, who knew what the president was going to do? And did people around the president trade stock knowing the incredible gyration the market was about to go through?” he added.

Schiff went on to accuse Trump of corruption, citing his family’s crypto trading and the “conflicted self-dealing” of ally, billionaire Elon Musk. “We in Congress need to do more than demand answers. We need to do the oversight necessary to get those answers… We’re going to get to the bottom of this,” he pledged. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt earlier claimed that the tariff reversal was part of Trump’s broader negotiation strategy, calling it his “art of the deal.” The White House has so far made no comment on Schiff’s call for a congressional probe.

Other Democrats also voiced concerns. “The President of the United States is literally engaging in the world’s biggest market manipulation scheme,” the House Democratic Financial Services Committee wrote on X, in response to Trump’s “Time to buy” post. Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada openly questioned whether the pause amounted to market manipulation during a House hearing with Trump’s trade representative, Jamieson Greer on Wednesday. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for all lawmakers to disclose recent stock purchases. “I’ve been hearing some interesting chatter on the floor,” she wrote on X. “Disclosure deadline is May 15th. We’re about to learn a few things. It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress.”

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“The Trump administration is cutting funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces a National Climate Assessment..”

• Trump Severs a Key Pillar of the Left’s Climate Alarmist Strategy (O’Neil)

The White House has begun to cut funding for a federal program that drives climate alarmism and bolsters the narrative that burning fossil fuels will doom the environment. The Trump administration is cutting funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces a National Climate Assessment. Agencies across the government use the assessment to justify directing taxpayer dollars to fighting the specter of climate change. President George H.W. Bush signed the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which directs the administration to release the assessment every four years. The law does not require the assessment to come to biased conclusions in favor of climate alarmism, however. The government report gives a veneer of respectability to the claims that scientists all agree that burning fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic climate change.

This justifies massive boondoggles like the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. As I wrote in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” President Joe Biden picked John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager and the founder of the Center for American Progress, to determine where billions of dollars went. Podesta, who also founded a powerful Washington lobbying firm with his brother Tony, enjoys close ties with the Left’s dark money network. Podesta helped prop up a climate alarmist industry that uses billions of taxpayer dollars to promote less reliable forms of energy, like wind and solar power, in the name of saving the planet. NASA canceled a contract with the consulting firm ICF International, which coordinates the program and the 13 federal agencies that write the assessment, Politico reported. Killing that contract has “forever severed” climate change work across federal agencies, one official reportedly said.

“NASA is working with [the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy] on how to best support the congressionally-mandated program while also increasing efficiencies across the 14 agencies and advisory committee supporting this effort,” a NASA spokesperson said. A source familiar with the decision told The Daily Wire that ICF International’s leftist bias contaminated the assessments. “ICF has produced assessments riddled with worst-case scenarios, obfuscating the assumptions underlying dire predictions about what the planet will be like in 100 years,” the source said. “The quality of the information is low, and the administration is committed to basing decisions on realistic assumptions that comport with legal standards.”

Climate alarmists repeatedly claim that 97% of climate scientists agree that human burning of fossil fuels will spell global doom, yet the data does not back up this claim. The 2013 study that reached that conclusion not only excluded relevant studies but also mischaracterized scientific research to fit the alarmist narrative. Climate alarmist predictions have repeatedly failed to come true. Al Gore predicted that the snows would disappear from Mount Kilimanjaro due to climate change. Others predicted that the Maldives islands in the Indian Ocean would sink beneath the waves due to climate change. Rooting out the alarmist bias from the National Climate Assessment may enable scientists to admit what most Americans intuitively grasp: the global climate changes for many reasons, and carbon emissions are only one factor among many. If the climate alarmist narrative falls, the entire green boondoggle falls apart. Expect climate groups to scream to high heaven about this move.

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Complex relations. But close to each other.

• Russia–Iran–China: All for One, and One for All? (Pepe Escobar)

Russia and Iran are at the forefront of the multi-layered Eurasia integration process – the most crucial geopolitical development of the young 21st century. Both are top members of BRICS+ and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Both are seriously implicated as Global Majority leaders to build a multi-nodal, multipolar world. And both have signed, in late January in Moscow, a detailed, comprehensive strategic partnership. The second administration of US President Donald Trump, starting with the “maximum pressure” antics employed by the bombastic Circus Ringmaster himself, seems to ignore these imperatives. It was up to the Russian Foreign Ministry to re-introduce rationality in what was fast becoming an out of control shouting match: essentially Moscow, alongside its partner Tehran, simply will not accept outside threats of bombing Iran’s nuclear and energy infrastructure, while insisting on the search for viable negotiated solutions for the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

And then, just like lightning, the Washington narrative changed. US Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs, Steven Witkoff – not exactly a Metternich, and previously a “maximum pressure” hardliner – started talking about the need for “confidence-building” and even “resolving disagreements,” implying Washington began “seriously considering,” according to the proverbial “officials,” indirect nuclear talks. These implications turned to reality on Monday afternoon when Trump allegedly blindsided the visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the announcement of a “very big meeting” with Iranian officials in the next few days. Tehran later confirmed the news, with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying he would engage in indirect nuclear negotiations with Witkoff in Oman on Saturday. It’s as if Trump had at least listened to the arguments exposed by the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But then again, he can change his mind in a Trump New York minute.

Essential background to decipher the “Will Russia help Iran” conundrum can be found in these all-too-diplomatic exchanges at the Valdai Club in Moscow. The key points were made by Alexander Maryasov, Russia’s ambassador to Iran from 2001 to 2005. Maryasov argues that the Russia–Iran treaty is not only a symbolic milestone, but “serves as a roadmap for advancing our cooperation across virtually all domains.” It is more of “a bilateral relations document” – not a defense treaty. The treaty was extensively discussed – then approved – as a counter-point to “the intensified military-political and economic pressure exerted by western nations on both Russia and Iran.” The main rationale was how to fight against the sanctions tsunami.

Yet even if it does not constitute a military alliance, the treaty details mutually agreed moves if there is an attack or threats to either nation’s national security – as in Trump’s careless bombing threats against Iran. The treaty also defines the vast scope of military-technical and defense cooperation, including, crucially, regular intel talk. Maryasov identified the key security points as the Caspian, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and last but not least, West Asia, including the breadth and reach of the Axis of Resistance. The official Moscow position on the Axis of Resistance is an extremely delicate affair. For instance, let’s look at Yemen. Moscow does not officially recognize the Yemeni resistance government embodied by Ansarallah and with its HQ in the capital Sanaa; rather, it recognizes, just like Washington, a puppet government in Aden, which is in fact housed in a five-star hotel in Riyadh, sponsored by Saudi Arabia.

Last summer two different Yemeni delegations were visiting Moscow. As I witnessed it, the Sanaa delegation faced tremendous bureaucratic problems to clinch official meetings. There is, of course, sympathy for Ansarallah across Moscow intel and military circles. But as confirmed in Sanaa with a member of the High Political Council, these contacts occur via “privileged channels,” and not institutionally. The same applies to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which was a key Russian ally in routing ISIS and other Islamist extremist groups during the Syrian war. When it comes to Syria, the only thing that really matters for official Moscow, after the Al-Qaeda-linked extremists took power in Damascus last December, is to preserve the Russian bases in Tartous and Hmeimim.

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“ n reality, what we see in front of the cameras is a theatre. In reality Trump is unhappy about Netanyahu’s plans and his bigger ruse to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran. The real story here is that Trump does want a better deal from Iran..”

• Iran’s Regime Unlikely To Back Down As Trump Plays With Fire (Jay)

June 2019 was a critical moment in Donald Trump’s first term as president where, he was told that Iran had shot down a U.S. drone in international waters in the Persian Gulf. It is reported that he instructed the Pentagon to carry out a number of strikes against Iranian military installations but then was told by a general that if he did that, this would invoke a world war and that many U.S. soldiers would die as a consequence. He backed down, after weighing up the consequences and probably considered that the Iranian downing of the U.S. drone was probably within Iran’s airspace after all. For those who know Trump, this was quite a salient moment. Many would argue that Biden would not have backed down and that a war with Iran – and Iran alone in those days – would have been a huge defeat for the U.S. in that it would not win, thus only suffering from defeats on the battlefield would make it a loser.

Was it not Kissinger who said that “The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.” The quote, of course, is perhaps poorly aligned with the reality of a war between the U.S. and Iran, as the latter can hardly be described as a guerrilla organization, but the point is that America cannot win against Iran simply because of the ratio of body bags and collateral losses of material. Iran can lose 1,000 soldiers verses America’s one, in terms of the negative impact on Trump’s decision to go ahead with the war in the first place. For the U.S. to fight Iran, even with partners, it would need to have only one plan, which would be the entire inhalation of the country and its regime. Given that the U.S. cannot even defeat the Houthis, it’s hard to see how even the most hard-core sycophant in the Pentagon that Trump has, indulging themselves to this level of fantasy.

Has Donald Trump reinvented his own political doctrine in his second term? Given that we are always led to believe that he doesn’t like the distraction of foreign wars, it’s hard to take him seriously with the threats he has made to Iran in recent days. In 2019 Iran’s ballistic missile defence system was considered too sophisticated and impenetrable for a U.S. attack. Six years later it is even greater than it was and Tehran now has both China and Russia as security partners. Add to that, Iran is believed to have purchased Russia’s S-400 air defence system, in exchange for it supplying Russia with ballistic missiles, which presents the possibility of an air strike by either America’s B-52 bombers or even fighter jets as a mission impossible – as they won’t be able to enter Iranian airspace as was the case in October 2024 when Israeli fighter jets attempted a massive attack but failed on a grand scale.

But then while Trump mulls over the idea of what a massive embarrassment such a failed operation would be, both politically at home but also in the region, military experts will no doubt point out that Iran has hypersonic missiles, which are not only impossible to shoot down, due the their speed (which we saw last year when they penetrated Israel’s airspace and struck at a number of military bases), but will be a game changer for the U.S. The ease of how one of those missiles could sink a U.S. aircraft carrier in the region should not be underestimated. So what is the real story here? Is Trump’s threat that if Iran doesn’t comply with the latest demands over a nuclear deal, a real one? The Iranians themselves don’t seem to be taking the threat seriously but they are taking the negotiations at face value as an opportunity while they now have 60% enriched nuclear grade uranium. And they are right not to.

It’s unlikely Trump is serious about an attack on Iran, as, according to a number of credible sources and despite appearances, he wants Netanyahu to back down from his ambitions of a war with Iran which would involve U.S. troops. In reality, what we see in front of the cameras is a theatre. In reality Trump is unhappy about Netanyahu’s plans and his bigger ruse to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran. The real story here is that Trump does want a better deal from Iran which gives him a longer ‘break out’ period for Iran to develop a nuclear bomb and some sort of curtailment on Iran’s ballistic missile program – his demands back in 2018 when he pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA deal – but also wants to use the negotiations as a tool to both control Netanyahu and the Jewish lobby in DC.

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First big test. If he passes, the world’s his oyster.

• RFK Jr. Promises To Reveal Cause Of ‘Autism Epidemic’ by September (RT)

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a large-scale federal initiative aimed at identifying the factors behind what he called the “autism epidemic,” with findings expected by September 2025. Speaking during a televised Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday, Kennedy – who has previously been accused by critics of promoting conspiracy theories about vaccines – said the new research effort would involve “hundreds of scientists from around the world.” “By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic. And we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” Kennedy promised. He stressed the urgency of the project, citing a sharp increase in childhood autism diagnoses over recent decades, rising from “one in 10,000 when I was a kid.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently estimate that 1 in 36 children in the US are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder – a rise often attributed to improved awareness and expanded diagnostic criteria. “That is a horrible statistic, isn’t it? There’s got to be something artificial out there that’s doing this,” Trump told Kennedy. “If you can come up with that answer – where you stop taking something, you stop eating something, or maybe it’s a shot – but something’s causing it,” Trump added. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) already invests over $300 million annually in autism research, primarily focusing on genetic factors and prenatal environmental influences. Kennedy did not elaborate on the scope of the new “massive testing and research effort” or what specific exposures might be targeted.

Kennedy, the founder of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense, has gained prominence in the US for questioning the safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccinations and promoting the claim that vaccines are linked to autism – a theory widely rejected by the scientific community. He was also a vocal critic of the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 response measures, including lockdowns and the rapid rollout of experimental vaccines. Despite his controversial reputation, Kennedy denies being opposed to vaccination, noting that his own children are immunized. During his confirmation hearings, he stated that he advocates for stricter safety testing and more rigorous studies of vaccines. After Kennedy endorsed Trump’s campaign last year, the president vowed to give him broad authority over healthcare policy, saying he would let Kennedy “go wild.”

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Unstoppable, unless they try a Le Pen. They’ve been calling the AfD fascist for a long time, but the people stopped listening,

• AfD Tops The German Polls For First Time In History (RMX)

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party nationwide for the first time in its history, edging past the CDU/CSU in the latest Ipsos poll. The survey, conducted April 4–5, 2025, shows the AfD at 25 percent, just ahead of the CDU/CSU at 24 percent. The polling marks a dramatic turnaround since February’s federal election, when the Christian Democrats attained 29 percent and the AfD came second, four points behind. Meanwhile, the SPD holds 15 percent, and both the Greens and the Left Party are at 11 percent each.

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These numbers come amid growing dissatisfaction with CDU leader Friedrich Merz. According to a separate Forsa poll for RTL and ntv, only 32 percent of Germans believe Merz is suited for the office of chancellor, while 60 percent say he is not. This marks a steep decline from early March, when 40 percent still had confidence in him. Merz’s numbers are even worse in East Germany, where just 19 percent see him as a good future chancellor, compared to 34 percent in the West. Only among Union voters does Merz enjoy solid support, with 69 percent considering him a strong candidate. Among supporters of other parties, skepticism is widespread: 69 percent of SPD voters, 71 percent of Green voters, and 84 percent of AfD voters say Merz is unfit for the role. Among Left Party voters, that number climbs to 85 percent.

“The majority of voters doubt that the black-red agreement is moving in the right direction,” said Hermann Binkert, head of the INSA polling institute, referring to ongoing negotiations over a possible Grand Coalition between the CDU and SPD. Voter frustration is also being stoked by the controversial €500 billion investment fund, approved with backing from the CDU, SPD, and Greens. Viewed as a signal of increased spending and mounting debt, the fund has intensified criticism of the political establishment.

FDP senior figure Wolfgang Kubicki recently issued a warning to Germany’s legacy parties, saying the country is on the verge of a political revolution. “An AfD chancellor is closer than we think,” Kubicki said. “The vast majority of German citizens have recently voted somehow right-wing. Now, however, they threaten to get left-wing politics. That can’t go on for much longer.” Following February’s election result, AfD co-leader Alice Weidel accused Merz of betraying his voters by cozying up to left-wing parties.

“If the CDU commits electoral fraud against its own voters by forming a coalition with the left, the next election will come sooner than you think,” she warned. “Then, we will overtake the CDU as the strongest force!” Coalition talks between the SPD and the CDU continued long into the night on Tuesday, with an announcement on the next federal government expected in the coming days.

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Very much.

• The Supreme Court Must Clarify Presidential Power (Jeffrey Tucker)

Signs are appearing all over my neighborhood. They say “Rejecting Kings Since 1776.” It does not take much political sophistication to grasp the upshot of this messaging. It is a focus-group-tested slogan to use against President Donald Trump. We have no history of kings or monarchs. The Founders were very clear about that. Our leaders would be elected by the people. There is widespread agreement on that point. But oddly a general bias against monarchs is not actually a helpful lens through which to understand the main controversies of our time. The kind of power that Trump is deploying right now—here we leave aside the issue of trade and tariffs—is mainly about the ability of the president to be in charge of his own executive branch. You might think that we have settled law and precedent that could decisively offer the answer. Incredibly, we do not.

The rise of the administrative state with more than 400 agencies and millions of employees with the power to make regulation and law is not something that has been clearly adjudicated by the highest court. Why not? Mostly because presidents have not really set out to offer a comprehensive challenge to the power of the agencies. Trump is arguably the first to make a forceful claim to be in charge of the agencies. He and his staff knew for sure that this claim would be subject to litigation and likely rejected by lower courts. But they also believed that forcing the Supreme Court to intervene was worth the risk. So far, the highest court has generally sided with the Trump administration against lower court attempts to restrict the power of the elected president over executive agencies. But the decisions have largely turned on procedural grounds, and these have been issued by a divided court with narrow wins.

What we await is a serious and large decision on the general topic of presidential authority. Is this about kingmaking? Not at all. It is about the ability of the head of state to determine policy within his own branch of government. Nor is it about stepping on the privileges and powers of the legislative and judicial branches. It is about recognizing the authority of each branch to manage its own shop. Consider the alternatives to having the elected president determine policy within his administration. It means allowing the agencies to act without any sort of accountability to anyone, not voters, not courts, not the president. That has been largely the case for many decades. Nothing in the Constitution would seem to permit that. And yet that is exactly where we are. Everyone is awaiting this decision. So long as it does not come down, there will be uncertainty within the White House about exactly what is possible, what policies will stick, and what policies will be overturned by the courts.

It comes down to this. The Trump administration bears full responsibility for whatever emanates from the executive branch during his term. In 2020, I blamed Trump for what the CDC, NIH, and FDA did. I took this position somewhat naively, thinking that Trump was surely in charge. I’ve since learned that this is not the case. There has been a long presumption within all these agencies that they can ignore the president. It’s the same with military policy. The president bears responsibility for wars and interventions and their effects. Trump blamed Biden for the disaster in Afghanistan and this is as it should be. It’s been the same with all presidents in American history. The success or failure of any single presidential term falls squarely on the shoulders of one man.

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  • April 11, 2025 at 10:17 am #185958
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Salvador Dali The hand 1930   • Trump Is the Bull in China’s Shop (Green) • Trump’s Reality-Driven U-Turn (Ben Shapiro) • House Passes Trump-Back
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 11 2025]

    April 11, 2025 at 10:43 am #185960
    Germ
    Participant

    Good morning :-))

    Teddi Mellencamp says her father is already planning her burial amid her stage four cancer

    ” …received her melanoma diagnosis in 2022, which advanced to stage four in February this year and metastasized to her lungs and brain.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/teddi-mellencamp-father-cancer-burial-b2731007.html

    TVASSF – tick … tock … tick … tock …

    April 11, 2025 at 11:03 am #185961
    Dr D Rich
    Participant
      Markup

    … an amount added to the cost price to determine the selling price says Merriam Webster

    Each time I hear Trump or Bessent or Steve Miller or their cheerleaders from The Conservative Tree House say something like the following:

      Donald Trump will put a 104% Tariff on China effective TONIGHT Trump cannot be beaten by China. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained to Tucker Carlson, why it is IMPOSSIBLE for China to compete with the United States

    Or

      We will have to be crafty as well. And diligent. Until China trades like a first world nation

    Or

      Mailed products from China now face a 120% tariff.  Additionally, minimum tariff amounts increased from $75 to $100 effective May 1st, and from $150 to $2oo effective June 1st.  [See Section #4]

      Example: If you order a $20 shirt from China effective June 1st, you will pay $220.  $20 for the shirt, and $200 minimum tariff.

    What I hear is something akin to Government’s claim to the Exclusive Right To Violence only this Time applied by Venal as Hell Suits in the Trump Administration and Fanboys insisting on another exclusive right….

    The Exclusive Right to Markup

    Tell me these avaricious business suits are not making the claim The American People Hsve The Right and The Privilege To be Charged Higher Prices by Globe Straddling American BusinessMen and Spared Lower Prices from China
    China unfair!

    In summary

    An Exclusive Right To Violence and Torture in Defense of the Nation…..

    …makes perfect bed buddies with….

    The Exclusive Right to Markup Prices in Defense of The Business Suit’s Right to Profit..

    .. and brought to us by the same crew that just said Economic Security (((theirs not yours))) IS National Security (((theirs and Israel’s not yours)))

    April 11, 2025 at 11:20 am #185962
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Its going to be one of those “dogs sleeping with cats” kind of days where observations by John Day and ever-execrable citizenx resonate with my exact experience

      -self-affirming female-groupthink piracy in the western workplace….
      -there were no witnesses…..
      -Understanding they want control and power OVER you is key to unlocking their disgusting cult like behavior

    There’s one “profession” where this phenomenon has reached an apec of expression and Mike Reid knows it.
    “They eat their young too”

    Btw, they always have “witnesses” even if you never met them because when they can’t fabricate the testimony they’re not averse to “Confabulation”. Human Resources is there to enforce this madness.

    April 11, 2025 at 11:51 am #185963
    those darned kids
    Participant

    POT/KETTLE ALERT, POT/KETTLE ALERT!!!!!

    Stephen Miller EXPOSES China—Says Their Economy is a House of Cards Built on Cheating

    April 11, 2025 at 11:52 am #185964
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Banned again by ZeroHedge. Mind you, their comment section is being flooded by pro-Trump bots, it is quite amazing, I now know why he wanted the tech bros in his ((Trump admin)). You have to ask yourself, what is the probability that this many Americans are complete retards (not that likely) versus the likelyhood that billionaires like Thiel, Musk, Zuckthefuck etc are helping Trump by diverting attention from his totally retarded policy decisions and his constant, just constant, lying to his voters.

    How to Make America Great Again? First, get a leader who has the respect of the country and can tell the truth, if even for 50% of the time, otherwise the world will look at the USA and think that they are insane. China is taking the piss, increasing their tariffs to 125%, the reason they are taking the piss is that they know that nobody is going to buy the other country’s stuff at this rate.

    Trump’s campaign hats, signs etc were all made in China, India and Bangladesh; ooops! The USA should decline gracefully, not like a total retard.

    April 11, 2025 at 11:59 am #185965
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “the hand”.

    that’s the invisible hand of

    a completely rigged “system” for the exclusive benefit of a microscopic ruling class that has nothing to do with “capitalism”

    the market (dali had x-ray vision) coming to take away all the hair-dye from the leftist who refuse to make america great again.

    text “oops” to 43523 to MAKE AMERICA CONTINUE TO KILL AGAIN! and get a nice ball cap, too.

    April 11, 2025 at 11:59 am #185966
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Denninger is now a ((Tump)) fanboi. Yes, even the used to be super cynical Denninger is telling us that we are morons if we think that tariffs will cause price rises. He is praising ((Trump)) from the rooftops, he cannot do any wrong.

    My analysis of it all is that he likes the way that Trump is telling everybody else to fuck off, that is Denninger’s style and I think he is starting to bond with the Orange Jew. I say that here because otherwise Denninger will ban me from his site; he’s a bit fragile, a bit like a democrat, he hates people he does not agree with ….. man, the USA has a long way to go to get great again.

    April 11, 2025 at 12:06 pm #185967
    aspnaz
    Participant

    I saw a comment on ZH today complaining that ZH was not posting any articles about the bond disaster currently happening. Did you know it was happening? No, not in the news? Yeah, this person was claiming that ZH was so busy supporting Trump that it had forgotten its readers. I agreed with him, many of my friends and my wife being part of the bond market, so maybe that is why I got banned from ZH.

    Of course, I have been banned many times, the “free speech” of ZH is bullshit, but we all know that, so time to start a new ZH id, write pro-zionist shit for a few comments, then they will stop moderating my comments. Wow, how great it is to have free speech.

    April 11, 2025 at 12:24 pm #185968
    those darned kids
    Participant

    rfk jr has already failed his first “test” quite miserably.

    or have i missed that the “covid emergency” is no longer running until december 31st, 2029?

    April 11, 2025 at 12:49 pm #185969
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Trump won’t defend NATO:

    I’ve fought this elsewhere. It’s not about the MONEY. Drop the money out. What is it? ON THE GROUND, all Europe has NO Army. Then when they have no army and Lithuania gets them into a nuclear war with Russia, they then call us, and WE become their entire Army, who has nothing to do with it.

    So No MONEY = Europe has No ARMY, and we are their army FOR FREE.

    …Since ppl are getting nitpicky, it’s not 100% free, but again, they’re saving 2-4% GDP for 20, 40 years? That’s multi TRILLIONS (inflation adjusted) over that time. Competitive advantage? AND they are tariffing our cars at 100%. AND then openly election tampering us.

    “China’s economy is far weaker than it looks” –Miller

    Maybe it is or maybe it isn’t. Don’t care. We have to stop the bleeding. What part of this don’t you understand? We’re printing $1 TRILLLLLLLLLLLLION every 60 days. We’re AT, maybe PAST, collapse. A U.S. collapse would be WORSE to China than any stupid trade war – much worse. But that’s only PART of it. As the US$ is the world trade medium, world trade would lock up, a billion would starve, and we’d have instant world war > nuclear exchange. Does this not sink in for you people?

    So from yesterday, I don’t care if Trump is mature or immature, same as I don’t care if my waiter is. And I don’t care if to stop the bleeding we go one way, with a trade agreement, or whole-hog with complete halt of trade in both directions. A tourniquet of a belt or a bandana, don’t care if it stops the bleeding.

    Alex and the Duran were insufferable yesterday, and I see this all over, Lotus Eaters was a good example. His charts man was like “Trump caved!” He caved to the bond market, he lost. Maybe. What’s wrong with him saying that?

    ALL OF THAT IS YOUR DONALDTELEPATHY. You are, apparently MUST hypothesize, project Donald’s INTENT, his personal psychological state, his being. His EMOTIONS. He sucks. He’s a weakling, a loser. Wtf is it that draws out everyone to be a sissy-girl in relation to him? WTF would I know, or even CARE what his internal, emotional motivations are? I see this everywhere! So let me explain with Lotus Eaters:

    His man was like: Trump did this. And when doing this, ratcheting up, endangered the Bond market, he caved and pulled back. That’s why it’s a flip flop, and a failure. Sargon was head scratching just like I am. He’s like: He started with NOTHING, and in just 10 days, with a couple tweets, got 70-100 nations to negotiate and reveal they have no spine. With nothing. No actual actions have occurred yet. That’s just talk, “Art of the Deal” How t.f. is that bad? How is that Losing? How is that at all Bad for America? He reminded them that WE have some power. That they NEED us. And then, in the negotiations, it would seem that they sign, so we BOTH AGREE, then continue trade on different terms as if this never happened.

    His charts guy is presuming 1) Trump has only ONE plan 2) He never anticipated, didn’t have the slightest notion that the Bond market existed. 3) When it occurs and Bessant and traders start warning him they’re redlining, he then goes “What? Oh my God!” and stops. 4) He is then embarrassed, crushed, shattered. Inconsolable. 5) No other plans are tried, and those 100 nations invade, conquer, and rape our womenfolks I guess? WTF? All these are inherent assumptions to his statements, his argument. That’s a lot of assumptions, pal!!

    How about this: They know all about it. He says like any ship captain “Get me up a head of steam”. For what, Captain? Well the captain isn’t sure, because it’s too complicated to explain to you. He HAS to act, NOW, so he finds a weak point and charges it. He takes 70 ships. Then runs into an aircraft carrier. So he changes course not to ram it, as ANY NOT- MORON WOULD. Would the Captain be smarter because he started this course SSW, to just stay on bearing SSW because to turn Left would be “Capitulating”? For the love of God my brother in Christ. HE JUST TOOK 70 SHIPS. And to you that’s a loss??? Whut? Repeat your own sentence back to me.

    Taking 70 ships from a standing start is a loss, remove the Captain.

    Why? Well because although he identified, tested, then cut off the Carrier from all support vessels, he didn’t sink it the first go, with the first trajectory. Yup! That’s the plan.

    And he got the boiler hot, Scottie calls up from the Engine room “These bonds are gonna blow captain, I don’t know how much more she can take!” And? So he now knows what the bonds will do. Bc the market (economists) expected them to fall, not rise. WHY ASSUME TRUMP THOUGHT SO? What are you sleeping in his bed? Ew. He TESTED the bonds, and when the engine got too hot, got off the case safely, having alienated the carrier and swept 70 ships (who may or may not stay with us). Safely. NOTHING HAPPENED. All your calls for disaster were TOTALLY WRONG (so far). And therefore all Donald’s negotiating actions are TOTALLY RIGHT. (so far).

    EVERY PERSON, Alexander Mercouris – the British – in particular is apoplectic over this. “It IS NOT DONE I say!!!” he thunders. Taking 70 ships is not done? “He’s annoyed the world!” Yeah, when you stop their open mercantilism, they’ve been getting rich on, it WILL annoy them. “But he FAILED, it’s an UTTER EMBARRASSMENT!” Taking 70 ships from China and leaving them isolated is failure and embarrassment? Why?

    “He’s failing his own base!” How? He said he would do this and we want him to. “Prices are rising it will cause inflation, trade war that hurts the lower class!!!” No, prices are DROPPING actually, sharply. We might actually want to ADD some inflation. The trade war is RETURNING JOBS, his base says. The trade war will HELP us, that’s why we asked him to, since 1980. And as an amazing bonus the rich f-kkers on Wall Street who have all our money lost $6Trillion right in the pooper! Win, win, win, win, win, win, win. (So far) Man it was worth it all just to WATCH that!

    “But all farming products are cut off, for his base, as a major trading input to China.”

    I’ve covered this before: Food and Oil are “Fungible”. China buys from Argentina, Iran. Therefore the previous buyers from Argentina switch to us. Same oil produced, the same food, are all consumed by humans on planet earth, exactly the same. I went to Wendy’s not Burger King is all.

    What I’m hearing is “I don’t like Trump.” That’s all. And even WINNING 70-100 trade concessions in 10 days means they like him LESS, not more. Do you all HEAR yourselves? WTF did you think was going to happen? We were going to mope around, shuffle our feet, send a strongly-worded letter and China was going to say “Okay then! Here’s $100 Billion.”? For the love of God, NO. They’re not going to believe f—k all, and shouldn’t. You have to SHOW them. You have to MAKE them. With ACTIONS. The don’t — and shouldn’t — understand anything else. You ACT. Is that because all of us live on the couch, bloviating? Get up and DO something.

    …But at the end of the day, we need to have a trade deal that BOTH sign, and BOTH can live with. Or it’s a fail. They’re calling a fail before we’ve gotten anywhere near that, but that’s a certainty, or THEY wouldn’t sign it. We’re not invading f’ing Vietnam to make them sign, they’re signing it voluntarily. It’s just a deal.

    I don’t mind China doing this. It’s not personal. I have no emotions about it and neither does Trump. I think they’re trying to run out the clock and foot-drag on him, which is a fine strategy, I don’t mind. They have their own interests and problems.

    Their stuff is mostly junk, and the less of it that comes here, the better. We’d have to buy and make expensive, long lasting things, not one-use trendy garbage that ends up in a landfill. Who wins with that? All the global warming environmentalists are fighting tooth and nail to KEEP worldwide shipping, mega consumerism, and microplastics. Do you SEE yourself right now? Shut off world trade would solve all your CO2 problems overnight.

    So anyway, STOP. When you think to yourself about this, ask “Am I projecting what Donald is THINKING and FEELING about it as one of my base assumptions?” And why would I do that? Why add that? You only can prove his ACTIONS. Stop sleeping in his bed. Show some self-respect.

    “it was Japan whose sale of American bonds yesterday forced Trump’s hand to announce a 90-day suspension of tariffs”

    Was it though? So you were in Donald’s MIND at the time this statement was made? From yesterday: We are now negotiating with 70 nations. That’s going to take time. Why on God’s earth would we NOT halt tariffs during negotiations? Wouldn’t you be twice as mad if he didn’t? So you’re mad if he does and if he doesn’t. If he turns left or if he turns right. Because, sounds like you just don’t like Donald Trump, has literally nothing to do with his behavior. People are either assuming – PROJECTING – he is all bad, or assuming, projecting, he is all totally good. WHY?

    “They said they were a developing nation… I blame the people sitting at this desk… They allowed this to happen.”

    This is how he is evil and vilifies China. By regularly saying he doesn’t blame China, they cut a good deal. It was the American side selling out that was the problem. Then everyone agrees and a second later it never happened.

    Let’s put it this way: Trump is saying these nations cheated and took advantage of us for the 5 second sound bites. OBVIOUSLY that’s not true, not really. What’s going on, that we need to stop, is YES the U.S. was being cheated and liquidated. Drive to any town here and look. But the GLOBALISTS, had contracted, outsourced the work to China. THEY set U.S. Law – or rather economic rewards – to liquidate the entire U.S. And ship it to China? Only sort of. They then shipped the PROFITS to a handful of Western, European, Atlanticists, Globalists. Or put another way: Colonialists. China is the middle man here. They did the liquidation task and like any estate auctioneer, got their cut. But the MOST of the money went to the owners, the Globalists above. That’s the better way to look at it, why we’re mad and it has to stop, but why it doesn’t fit in a 30 second sound bite, only a 5 minute one.

    Maybe he should do that, but we’re busy, and his base already knows this as a root assumption. The Left won’t care what you say, ever, and misreport it. So who are you talking to?

    Pelosi: When you’re the GOOD people it’s okay to give yourself a little more. You work hard.

    “US President Donald Trump has heaped praise on Elon Musk, the head of his government waste-cutting task force, saying he wants the billionaire and his “fantastic” Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to stay in Washington for the “long haul.”

    But only yesterday Musk was crying in his office and getting kicked out. What happened, WaPo? Were you lying again and again and again and again?

    ““Nobody wins with a trade war. Every country loses,” Sanchez warned.”

    Great! Then why do you have tariffs on us? Of 100%?

    “the Chinese business model… it never stops. They just keep producing and producing and dumping and dumping.”

    They produce lots of goods we want and sell them cheap? Sounds terrible. Try not to lose the plot here. We’re worried about internal hollowing out and utter collapse.

    “von der Leyen said the EU “took note of the announcement by President Trump” and wants to “give negotiations a chance.”

    It’s all good and okay and Nice when Europe does it. See? When they do the exact same thing, it’s not “Chaos” at all. When the “Good” people murder it becomes GoodMurder™

    “If the politicians don’t do our will, we’ll go after private industry.
    • EU Issues Threat To US Tech Giants (RT)

    This is part of the “Undefinables” in Trump’s tariff chart. How much Regulation, other f—kery are they up to protecting their markets.

    “children, have lost their lives in artillery bombardments, justified by the Kiev regime as part of a “fight against separatists/invaders.” However, the evidence reveals that this has always been a deliberate terrorist campaign against the civilian population, not a legitimate military confrontation.”

    Not exactly, and no one can seem to use the word “Terrorist” correctly since 2001. WORDS HAVE MEANINGS. Kiev thinks Russians aren’t humans, so they don’t care if they bomb children or not. They don’t care if the Russians are afraid (“Terror” – ism) or not. They have to have INTENT to terror, and INTENT to use that terror for gains, not just as an accidental side effect of grabbing territory or something. They are State Nazis, not Terrorists, which is generally considered non-state actors, as in this case as well.

    Why do I bother? Nobody dgaf about using words or telling the truth. “We just say stuff.”

    “• Adam Schiff Wants Trump Probed For Market Manipulation (RT)

    I love this line. Can we pass those insider trading laws now? You know, the ones that already exist, and are already constitutional since all laws passed must apply to government as well? If it takes rumors that MTG is insider trading to pass them and grab Pelosi too, I’m all for it. DO IT!!!

    ““The Trump administration is cutting funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces a National Climate Assessment..”

    Well they haven’t been right in 35 years, why would we pay them?

    “• Iran’s Regime Unlikely To Back Down As Trump Plays With Fire (Jay)

    Again with projection: what does that MEAN? “Backing down” is a personal, emotional state and action. Emotions? WTF is that and why would it matter? Idgaf about your feelz. Nations have INTERESTS. It is in our Interest, to have a stable limited relationship with Iran and vice versa.

    “But then while Trump mulls over the idea of what a massive embarrassment such a failed operation would be”

    And all commenters are PROJECTING what Trump thinks. Knows or doesn’t know. I have to as well, and I THINK that he’s aware we have no military options in regards to them, and that’s fine because he doesn’t really want a (distracting) war. But I’m honest that’s my opinion, not his. What I would report on is his ACTIONS.

    “It’s unlikely Trump is serious about an attack on Iran, as, according to a number of credible sources and despite appearances, he wants Netanyahu to back down from his ambitions of a war with Iran which would involve U.S. troops. In reality, what we see in front of the cameras is a theatre. In reality Trump is unhappy about Netanyahu’s plans and his bigger ruse to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran.”

    Agree with everything. If he could just set Iran aside for now, he would. That’s a position everyone can live with, and in fact, Iran/Russia win. If they build the rail and/or even the canal, then it would tip “World Island” of MacKinder permanently, and IDGAF. That’s LONDON’s problem.

    “• RFK Jr. Promises To Reveal Cause Of ‘Autism Epidemic’ by September (RT)

    The problem isn’t KNOWING – they already know – he has to assemble the research to publish it as OFFICIAL knowing. Nearly the same as starting from scratch. This is how law, bureaucracies, science, talks to itself. Spoiler: it’s the vaccines. And maybe he’ll go soft and just say it’s the adjuvants. Don’t care, we’re getting somewhere. In 2 years we can find the simian virus.

    “(AfD) has become the most popular party nationwide for the first time in its history,”

    But everyone knows when you’re the top party with the most seats, you do NOT rule, right? Not in Europe you don’t! France, Germany, Holland, England… That’s Democracy! When whatever the ppl vote, we do the #Opposite which just happens to be what oligarchs want.

    (England is a minority, but where winning 30% of vote means you get ONE seat instead of 30. Why added.)

    ““Rejecting Kings Since 1776.”

    Totally agree! Glad we’re on the same page! So you can remove that Federal Judge now, correct?

    But Turley is somewhat wrong here. Personally we are very close to dictatorship, they’re not wrong. Trump should NOT have this kind of power on tariffs, that is for Congress. He’s not wrong: its an urgent catastrophic emergency of national defense is happening, although it’s hard to explain to a non-economist. Congress COULD, if they want, override him. But in theory the Senate could override Caesar, but didn’t, let’s not go there. A lot of the “Dictatorship” problems are government shouldn’t be this large. And are only this large with this much taxation. Plus leaving the Constitutional gold (silver) standard and creating the Fed. If he was running the Army and the Post Office we wouldn’t have these problems, as all us Libertarians say. That is all COMPLETELY ILLEGAL under 10A. Nobody cares. So here we are.

    You want to fix these very real problems, reduce government power. As we keep saying, DOGE cuts the government in half, it is LESS able to be tyrannical, and LESS able to be Hitler. Then you LESS to complain about in the President, and more of your own money to spend.

    Strangely Exxon will fix this, Why they chose an arcane form. IF bureaucrats can’t “Just make up” environmental law, etc, then CONGRESS won’t do it, they don’t have time. That’s why they outsourced all their functions to Bureaucracy. …But that means to the Executive. That means MOST EXISTING ‘LAWS”, are already void, as of last year. Like they never existed. That means we ALREADY don’t have to do this, even as we ALSO fire all the bureaucracy. Federal Government is “Devolving” pushing power back to the States and People. 10A.

    No one notices. There’s no fight over it. Because this is all deep arcana of the Exxon ruling. Great, love it, good play.

    African cows: Now if only we could get the American people to act the same.

    “Consequences are oppression. Personal responsibility is oppression.”

    MenRBad

    I hate to keep bringing up that this is a female paradigm with a female approach and methods because I don’t want it to be true, but…

    Following some fights by women authors against Feminism, that’s what THEY say. “I was captured by this, it made my life hell, I was mentally ill, all released when I realized what was going on. That we can just find truth instead of bowing to consensus. That Patriarchy is mostly WOMAN pressure on other women to conform.” etc. How does this work, and at present? With this: All consequences are mean. “We” decided, using social consensus, that is so. So, for example “Physics” is now mean. “Bankruptcy” is now mean. Flipping an airplane from goofing off, is now mean. “We” decided — democracy, consensus reality — that holodomor and Lysenko don’t exist and everyone’s fine, actually. Using SOCIAL pressure. So, when there is no money, when the currency is social status alone, what happens? We can just ignore it. We print more social currency, mostly by crushing others, transferring theirs to me. Social Piracy or emotional Imperialism.

    So, flip side, what happens when we have MONEY as human currency? The numbers don’t lie. What you’re doing is either working or it’s not. And it’s impersonal. You can’t be mad at the books or me for handing them to you: it’s the numbers’ fault. …And at the same time, the social world still exists, just as large and wide as before, the numbers were only ADDED to a fully-functional human experience.

    That is to say, they are a Unit of Account. We MEASURE is this thing working. We can DENY it is not working, and ohhh…say…kill 150 Million people. Oops!

    Let’s propose that the recent ELECTION is their “Numbers” moment, and you see exactly what’s happening: they are trying every means to deny, deflect, refuse, oppose THE NUMBERS, that is, REALITY. Using their internal social pressure. But in our system so far there still remains the reality of elections they have to face, and they can’t and haven’t yet.

    Or, I suppose, they wouldn’t be Socialists.

    Does fall back to the practical question of how to reach them. Whether in the usual way of outreach or some other way of jamming their ports so they fall over, quivering, need a re-boot, and can’t hurt anyone for a few minutes.
    Jim
    https://y.yarn.co/25df2973-e52c-4052-bf8d-c6bd72d174f8_text.gif

    it was a new-tyranny, but I was doing good work for cheap and was allowed to go see a therapist for the rude aggressions of a few angry females in the workplace against me… After which they promptly accused me, while I had said nothing, and there were no witnesses.”

    This is actually getting common, but there wasn’t a name and banner to collect all the stories under. Example, chilling: https://substack.com/@kevinbass/note/c-107483018

    Again, please PLEASE I don’t want this to be true, but this is what men said throughout history if women were allowed a majority to be in charge of things. And here we are. This goes with 100 other things, boring dead guys warned us about that were true, so as a conservative human, I’ve learned to sigh and take them more seriously. There were communists working together in Hollywood in 1955? C’mon, how serious an issue can that be? If we switch up to stop back alley abortions it will lead 25 million deaths and at-birth infanticide widely? C’mon what do you take me for? Nobody’s that insane. …And so on. Sigh. Pre-Sigh. Le sigh.
    Why does it hurt so much to find to dead people are right? Is it only because then I personally am wrong? Seems like something more.

    Yet here we are with living emotionally and the woman thing and what’s the solution? Just let them EMOTIONALLY get a bug and EMOTIONALLY end Doctor’s careers and send them to prison for feelz? WTF, NO! That’s what’s happening already. So you tell me.

    April 11, 2025 at 12:51 pm #185970
    Topcat
    Participant

    Pretty much the whole world, except Africa and parts of West Asia, don’t have the demographics of population replacement, especially notable is China.

    Adding to China’s Communist Klepocractic government, past policies of ‘One Child’ made the Chinese in their infinite Asian Wisdom abort hundreds of millions of baby girls over the decades, resulting in way, way to many young men with NO partners

    No baby machines

    There are no sound economic theories on how to run a ‘developed’ society OR economy on a declining population.

    The Chinese on top of that don’t ‘consume’ much compared to other 1st world countries.

    They like profiting from consumption by other cultures but refuse to step up their own consumption.

    This will eventually bring them to ruin.

    Trump has demonstrated to the whole world that China doesn’t want ‘free trade’ in ANY way, shape or form.

    It’s now in plain sight for all to see.

    China wants to sell and get rich but not buy (or consume) much from any other country.

    They just proclaimed it with their actions.

    The country with a plummeting population, to many men and a rapidly aging population that can’t work as hard and needs lots of social services as they age.

    Great planning, way to go…..

    AI automation will take up some of that slack but the fundamental problem of running a country with less people each year has never being successfully done.

    Empires are like sharks, if they don’t keep moving forward and grow they die.

    What we have with almost any countries in the world with declining population is a dead shark.

    Countries masquerading as Ponzis

    .

    April 11, 2025 at 12:52 pm #185971
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “He’ll need to find a way to keep Musk involved.”

    blowing up toddlers isn’t good enough?

    April 11, 2025 at 1:09 pm #185972
    zerosum
    Participant

    Definition of War must includes, “Change in Complex Relationships”
    ———
    Read the references produced by RIM.
    ————
    Boots on the ground, genocide, Covid, supply chain, labor disruption, inflation, tariffs, finance, presidential authority, the budget process, the legal process, trade policies, the bond market.
    ———–
    According to Fox News, it was Japan whose sale of American bonds yesterday forced Trump’s hand to announce a 90-day suspension of tariffs.
    ———-
    War/Peace, Lies, Propaganda

    • No Solution But The Dissolution Of The Terrorist Kiev Regime (SCF)
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    April 11, 2025 at 1:14 pm #185973
    those darned kids
    Participant

    Their stuff is mostly junk,
    •• uh, double-check that one. where is the computer you are currently using made?

    and the less of it that comes here, the better.
    •• but that will destroy wall street.

    We’d have to buy and make expensive, long lasting things,
    •• who is gonna do that?! who is “we”?!

    not one-use trendy garbage that ends up in a landfill.
    •• DESIGNED IN TEXAS!!!!!!!!!! (made in china)

    Who wins with that?
    •• obviously we all do.

    All the global warming environmentalists are fighting tooth and nail to KEEP worldwide shipping, mega consumerism, and microplastics.
    •• the flopflip so crazy. nonetheless, mr trump eviscerates babies.

    Do you SEE yourself right now?
    •• nope. can’t afford to turn on the lights.

    Shut off world trade would solve all your CO2 problems overnight.
    •• shutting off the pentagon is way easier and a much better start.

    April 11, 2025 at 1:20 pm #185974
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “In 2 years we can find the simian virus.”

    after 17,353,498 more people have died.

    BONDS! TARIFFS! MONEY!

    humans is dumb.

    April 11, 2025 at 1:29 pm #185975
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “police have asked the serial killer to pragmatically and gradually lower the number of victims to a level more in line with their cost/benefit analysis.”

    April 11, 2025 at 2:18 pm #185977
    zerosum
    Participant

    Did you forget something?
    They hope that the economy, which has been converted to a war economy, will generate these billions?
    But no company is making any effort to convert production because there are no long-term contracts.
    No raw materials and skilled workers.

    “Only six Western nations have pledged to send troops to Ukraine after the hostilities between Kiev and Moscow ends.
    No trained troops available.

    April 11, 2025 at 3:22 pm #185978
    tboc
    Participant

    Red – April 7, 2025 at 7:44 pm
    Participant
    DBS In business the end justifies the means.
    Kinda the same in .gov just that an end isn’t required, if one happens along so be it.

    “DBS In business the end justifies the means.” – most succinct

    modus vivendi
    The Rules Based Order
    temporary accomodation
    temporary – 1947 – 2025

    Ben Shapiro is not the one i would look to for an accurate defintion of reality.

    Were the American businessmen who created the current economic regimen starting in 1970 not American businessment? So we are to rescue the economy of the United States from American businessmen so the American businessmen might organize the economic regimen more in favor of United States businessmen?

    68, i’ll owe you one

    April 11, 2025 at 3:39 pm #185979
    those darned kids
    Participant

    a-ha!

    operation warp speed was just a clever plan to protect us from the future.

    April 11, 2025 at 4:20 pm #185980
    Topcat
    Participant

    .

    April 11, 2025 at 4:30 pm #185981
    Topcat
    Participant

    .

    April 11, 2025 at 4:38 pm #185982
    John Day
    Participant

    Nice letter from Einstein.
    ;-/

    April 11, 2025 at 4:47 pm #185983
    jb-hb
    Participant

    GenZ is getting it…

    April 11, 2025 at 4:48 pm #185984
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “doin’ the same dumb shit over and over is stupid” ~ albert einstien

    April 11, 2025 at 4:50 pm #185985
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “i” before “e” unless you’re jewish.

    April 11, 2025 at 4:53 pm #185986
    those darned kids
    Participant

    The Pentagon actively encourages the use of F-16s in the PRODUCTION of movies and T.V. shows.

    April 11, 2025 at 4:55 pm #185987
    those darned kids
    Participant

    but only for the good guys, of course.

    April 11, 2025 at 4:59 pm #185988
    those darned kids
    Participant

    higher point!

    April 11, 2025 at 5:11 pm #185989
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Defunding all those NGO’s and money laundering is going to let those guys flying the fighters be good guys, or at least less-bad guys.

    America First consequently winning elections is going to let those guys be better guys by staying the fuck HOME.

    If the leftists didn’t want to make an alliance with Israel NECESSARY to accomplish this, maybe you shouldn’t have, I don’t know, captured all the institutions and committed genocide? Scared everyone with whackadoodle superstitions and ideology? Alienated and scared and pissed off your domestic jewish base along with AIPAC and Mossad?

    Maybe you could have HELPED instead of cloward-pivening and Criticizing™ and stuff?

    But reality ought to be PERFECT where you can do things things without consequence? Oh, if your’e experts and perfection, show us how to do it, go on. So far, you’ve showed us how to make enemies.

    April 11, 2025 at 5:42 pm #185990
    John Day
    Participant

    Confessions Of Empire https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/confessions-of-empire

    US ‘just lost a war with Russia’ – Tucker Carlson
    ​ Russian officials perceive the Ukraine conflict as a NATO proxy war – a notion that some Western politicians, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have openly agreed with.
    ​ In an interview with Alex Jones published on Wednesday, Carlson accused those perpetuating the hostilities of ignoring that Russia has emerged victorious.
    ​ ”We just lost a war with Russia,” the former Fox News host declared. “The US was running that war – the US military, the Pentagon, State Department, CIA – running the war against Russia. It was not… was never about Ukraine.”​ Carlson expressed concern that ​“nobody will say that out loud – that we’re overstating our power.”​ … “That’s called hubris and that’s how empires get destroyed and populations vaporized,” Carlson warned. “Maybe we should readjust our expectations a little bit.” ​ https://swentr.site/news/615514-carlson-us-loss-russia/

    ​ Trump wants to divide Russia, China and Iran, to pick them off separately, especially China. They are not cooperating with him, but with each other. What’s Plan-B?.
    US Geopolitical Chess: Strategies Against China, Russia, And Iran https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-geopolitical-chess-strategies-against-china-russia-and-iran

    Another Billion: Ukraine Continues to Replenish Its Treasury with Income from Russian Assets Frozen in the EU​ https://en.topcor.ru/58573-ukraina-poluchila-ocherednoj-transh-obespechennyj-dohodami-ot-zamorozhennyh-sredstv-rf.html

    ​ Kiev targeting Russian gas supplies to southern Europe – Moscow
    Ukraine has continuously violated the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities, according to the Defense Ministry
    ​ The Ukrainian military has launched multiple drone attacks overnight, targeting a a Russian gas pumping station which supplies fuel to southern Europe via the TurkStream pipeline, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.​ https://swentr.site/russia/615445-turkstream-compressor-station-drones/

    April 11, 2025 at 5:43 pm #185991
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    When the invisible hand of the market is finally seen to be holding a bloody knife.

    April 11, 2025 at 5:43 pm #185992
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow with Professor Glenn Diesen: Transatlantic Ties Unraveling
    The brief summary that Professor Diesen has attached to this 35-minute interview reads:
    ​ “The US seeks to readjust to a multipolar world, and Europe’s relevance and priority have declined. Beyond Europe’s efforts to sabotage Trump’s peace initiative in Ukraine and the tariff wars, there is a deeper contempt for Europe that is no longer concealed.”​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/10/professor-glenn-diesen-transatlantic-ties-unraveling/
    ​ Transcript of that interview. Russia needs “reassurances”, like the return of Russian diplomatic property in the US and also Russian financial property. Russia wonders if they will really have a “partner for detente”, which they had in Richard Nixon, until he was deposed. Color-revolution moves against Trump and the difficulties he is having with $US and trade reset are important. Will he last after his first 100 days? https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/11/transcript-of-interview-with-professor-glenn-diesen-10-april/

    ​ Trump had counted on the induction of a global-recession to cause a flight to safety in 10 year US Treasury debt, dropping the effective interest below 3%, to reduce federal interest payments, but the bond markets did the opposite a few days ago, raising the effective interest, which is over 4.5% this morning, and weakening the $US, which has now fallen below the par “100” index-rate. This changes everything​, and not in Trump’s favor.​ Futures Flat, Gold Soars, Dollar Crashes After China Hikes US Tariffs To 125%​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-flat-gold-soars-dollar-crashes-after-china-hikes-us-tariffs-125

    ​ House Passes GOP Budget Plan After Johnson Tames GOP Revolt
    Johnson appeared alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune to project unity, and reiterate a promise to reduce the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion in the overall package of Trump tax cuts, beefed up border security, energy policies and more.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/johnson-says-house-gop-have-votes-pass-budget-resolution

    ​ Germany’s Grand Coalition expected to be announced the day the AfD goes top of the polls
    The CDU/CSU will hold the chancellorship, interior ministry, and the foreign office, while the Social Democrats will lead the finance ministry and defense​ https://rmx.news/article/germanys-grand-coalition-expected-to-be-announced-the-day-the-afd-goes-top-of-the-polls/

    April 11, 2025 at 5:44 pm #185993
    John Day
    Participant

    New German Government Pledges to Clamp Down on ‘Right-Wing Extremism’​ (like AfD, and maybe you​; certainly me)
    Berlin’s black and red coalition promises “zero tolerance” to “enemies of democracy,” including “right-wing extremist thoughts.”​ https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/new-german-government-pledges-to-clampdown-on-right-wing-extremism/

    AfD Tops Polls For First Time In History As Merz’s Public Support For Chancellor Plummets​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/afd-tops-polls-first-time-history-merzs-public-support-chancellor-plummets

    ​ Not a mutual defense pact, but… Russian Duma ratifies 20-year strategic pact with Iran
    The vote in Moscow came days ahead of a historic summit in Oman between top US and Iranian officials​ https://thecradle.co/articles/russian-duma-ratifies-20-year-strategic-pact-with-iran

    Pepe Escobar indicates that Steve Witkoff needs to sleep on the planes when he can: Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all?
    Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’
    Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying he would engage in indirect nuclear negotiations with Witkoff in Oman on Saturday. https://thecradle.co/articles/russia-iran-china-all-for-one-and-one-for-all

    Trump envoy in Russia for high-level talks – media, Steve Witkoff is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin on Friday https://swentr.site/news/615586-witkoff-putin-meeting-axios/

    April 11, 2025 at 5:45 pm #185994
    John Day
    Participant

    Saudi Aramco discovers 14 new oil, gas fields​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2596443/business-economy

    ​ Six weeks since Israel imposed total Gaza blockade, last food is running out
    Israel’s blockade is starving Gaza’s population, with aid cut off and hunger now used as a weapon of war.​ https://www.newarab.com/news/six-weeks-israel-imposed-total-gaza-blockade-last-food-running-out

    Israel denies 68 per cent of UN aid access attempts into Gaza since 18 March: UN​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250409-israel-denies-68-per-cent-of-un-aid-access-attempts-into-gaza-since-18-march-un/

    ​ All the dead villagers in Vietnam became “VC”. Israel targeted my colleague in an airstrike, claiming that he was a Hamas fighter. Israel is lying.
    Israel targeted my colleague, Hassan Eslayeh, claiming that he was a Hamas fighter. This isn’t the first time Israel has used this lie to justify targeting journalists, paramedics, and rescue workers.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/israel-targeted-my-colleague-in-an-airstrike-claiming-that-he-was-a-hamas-fighter-israel-is-lying/

    Israel says seizing ‘large areas’ of Gaza as strike kills 23​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2596398/middle-east

    April 11, 2025 at 5:46 pm #185995
    John Day
    Participant

    Israeli threatens to expel 970 pilots over Gaza war protest​
    ​ Israeli Air Force commanders threatened Wednesday to expel approximately 970 personnel — including pilots, officers and soldiers — if they do not withdraw their signatures from a letter demanding an end to the war in the Gaza Strip, local media reported.
    ​ Israeli daily Haaretz reported that “about 970 aircrew members, some in active reserve service, signed the letter opposing the war but not calling for refusal to serve.”
    ​ In recent days, senior Air Force leaders made personal phone calls to reservists who endorsed the message, urging them to retract their support, the outlet said. Commanders informed the reservists they face dismissal if they refuse to comply, according to Haaretz.
    ​ Following the threat, only 25 signatories withdrew their names, while eight others requested to add their signatures.
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250409-israeli-threatens-to-expel-970-pilots-over-gaza-war-protest/

    Most Americans Now Have Negative View Of Israel – Under-50 GOP Support Craters​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/most-americans-now-have-negative-view-israel-under-50-gop-support-craters

    ​Houthis claim 3rd MQ-9 Reaper Drone Downing in 10 days. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-claim-3rd-mq-9-reaper-drone-downing-ten-days

    US Central Command (CENTCOM) has launched literally hundreds of strikes in various places across Yemen over the last three weeks, especially the capital as well as the key port of Hodeidah. Al-Houthi on Thursday declared that the “US failed to prevent military operations and secure maritime navigation for the Israeli enemy.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/america-has-failed-secure-red-sea-navigation-houthi-leader

    Trump Suggests Israel Would ‘Lead’ Possible Attack On Iran
    “If it requires military, we’re going to have military,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, responding to a question on whether US would attack if a nuclear deal isn’t reached with the Iranians. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-suggests-israel-would-lead-possible-attack-iran

    April 11, 2025 at 5:47 pm #185996
    John Day
    Participant

    Chinese Sellers On Amazon Panic After Trump’s Tariff Bazooka
    Wang Xin, head of the Shenzhen Cross-Border E-Commerce Association—which represents over 3,000 Amazon sellers—told Reuters, “This isn’t just a tax issue; the entire cost structure gets completely overwhelmed,” adding, “It’ll be very hard for anyone to survive in the U.S. market.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-sellers-amazon-panic-after-trumps-tariff-bazooka

    ​ Fishing and fabricating: Biden White House secured Trump’s phone for FBI in Jan. 6 probe: new emails from Grassley, Johnson
    The new whistleblower emails also show that a future member of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team and an anti-Trump FBI agent were closely involved in the origins of the FBI probe.​ https://justthenews.com/government/congress/biden-white-house-secured-trumps-phone-fbi-jan-6-probe-new-emails-grassley

    ​Upcoming Book Poised to Expose FBI’s Hidden Role in OKC Bombing on 30th Anniversary, Reveal Prison Murder Cover-Up, Says Victim’s Brother​ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/upcoming-book-poised-expose-fbis-hidden-role-okc/

    US Spy Chief Gabbard Starts Task Force To Investigate Intelligence Community
    Tulsi Gabbard said she is setting up a task force to cut costs and root out what she said is “weaponization” of the government.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-spy-chief-gabbard-starts-task-force-investigate-intelligence-community

    Attorney Ty Clevenger Files to Hold FBI in Contempt of Court for Systematically Not Providing Records About Seth Rich​ https://joehoft.com/boom-attorney-ty-clevenger-files-to-hold-fbi-in-contempt-of-court-for-systematically-not-providing-records-about-seth-rich/

    April 11, 2025 at 5:47 pm #185997
    John Day
    Participant

    FBI and ATF directorships are both full time jobs. ​Kash Patel Quietly Removed as Acting ATF Director After Ghosting Gig
    He has been replaced by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll after he reportedly did not show face in an ATF facility for weeks.​ https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-reportedly-removed-as-acting-atf-director-after-ghosting-gig/

    Tulsi Gabbard Drops Two Huge Bombshells
    National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard made a startling revelation during an open cabinet meeting Wednesday, announcing that she has evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate the results of past US elections.
    “I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard stated.
    “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time,” she continued.​..
    ​..Gabbard also announced that she is about to make public a huge amount of information relating to the assassinations of RFK, and MLK Jr.​ https://modernity.news/2025/04/11/tulsi-gabbard-drops-two-huge-bombshells/

    ​Meryl Nass MD advocates hand-counting paper ballots: Maybe this will help get 7 Senate Dems to vote in favor of honest elections https://merylnass.substack.com/p/maybe-this-will-help-get-7-senate

    Dr. Nass: SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to vote, passed House today
    Polls show 84% of Americans support this bill. But will it get sufficient Senate support?​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/save-act-requiring-proof-of-citizenship

    ​That would include vaccinations, but does not cover medical personnel: Idaho Governor Signs Bill Banning Businesses, Schools From Requiring Medical Procedures https://www.zerohedge.com/political/idaho-governor-signs-bill-banning-businesses-schools-requiring-medical-procedures

    April 11, 2025 at 5:48 pm #185998
    John Day
    Participant

    Peter McCullough MD, At Least 15 Syrian Children Died in 2014 Measles Immunization Campaign
    Vaccine Catastrophe Serves as Reminder that MMR Vaccine Administration Has Rare Fatal Risks​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/at-least-15-syrian-children-died

    ​ Jessica Rose Ph.D. A speculative prediction as to why Marks was afraid to let Secretary Kennedy access the VAERS data
    ​ So I predict, just for fun and entertainment of course, that when the VAERS books become transparent, and some brilliant data scientists analyze it, many more connections between [age of] injection [and racial disparity links] and adverse event onset (including autism) are going to be discovered. The thing that boils my blood on hiding data in general, and the VAERS in particular, is that this data is meant to serve as a safety signal warning system FOR THE PUBLIC. It is public data – every single VAERS entry represents a person’s documented experience with an adverse event in the context of a biological (vaccine). And contrary to Peter Marks’ concerns, there is no incentive in a boring old data analyst to make things up or to hide things. If patterns emerge, then patterns emerge. We don’t make up stories, and are not incentivized by profit. Most of us are just nerds who love truth. Emergent patterns from data are like beautiful truth.​ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-speculative-prediction-as-to-why

    ​ BREAKING – CDC Vaccine Safety Director May Have Destroyed Records, Says Sen. Ron Johnson
    Dr. Shimabukuro implicated in concealing an 82% miscarriage rate among COVID-19 vaccinated pregnant women in NEJM study — records reportedly “remain lost.”​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-vaccine-safety-director

    ​ Celia Farber, RFK Jr. Says Cause Of Autism Will Be Known By September—Announces Massive Coordination Between Hundreds Of International Scientists, Says Rate Went From 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31 In His Lifetime
    ​ President Trump Backs Him, Says Cause Likely Something “Artificial,” Mentions Shots, And Vows: “There Will Be No Bigger News Conference” When Truth Is Announced​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-says-cause-of-autism-will

    ​ Meryl Nass MD on the undead WHO Pandemic Treaty: Quick update on the Pandemic Treaty negotiations: far from agreement.
    The International Negotiating Body meets this week for the final time to craft a document the members can live with.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/quick-update-on-the-pandemic-treaty

    April 11, 2025 at 5:49 pm #185999
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Thanks “Germ”. Her COVID-vaccination status is not specified: ‘My long Covid turned out to be terminal cancer’
    A former triathlete whose terminal cancer was initially mistaken for long Covid has been given months to live.
    Olivia Knowles, from Blackpool, noticed something “wasn’t quite correct” in August 2023 while competing in the Half Ironman World Championship in Lahti, Finland.​ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde2ln71dwyo

    ​NOT a measles death: 8-Year-Old in West Texas Died From Hospital-acquired Pneumonia, Medical Records Show
    Doctors who reviewed 8-year-old Daisy Hildebrand’s medical records disputed the Texas health authorities’ statement that she died from “measles pulmonary failure.” They said medical records show she died from acute respiratory distress “secondary to hospital-acquired pneumonia,” which she likely developed during a previous hospital stay.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/8-year-old-west-texas-death-hospital-acquired-pneumonia/

    ​Robert Malone MD points out another categorization-error: Another Texas Child Dies after Recovering from Measles https://brownstone.org/articles/another-texas-child-dies-after-recovering-from-measles/

    Meryl Nass MD, European measles 2024: 127,350 cases, 38 deaths
    The most cases in 27 years. The death rates are comparable to what was seen in the US 75 years ago.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/european-measles-2024-127350-cases

    ​Dr. Nass: Doctors are still being paid based on how many shots they give children. Here is one current Blue Cross example https://merylnass.substack.com/p/doctors-are-still-being-paid-based

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