Yes, Tariffs Raise Domestic Prices, That's the Reason for Them

BePo, the Bezos Post, aka the Washington Post, reported on Monday that:

National Economic Council Director Lawrence Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration's tariffs on Chinese imports, contradicting President Trump's repeated inaccurate claim that the Chinese foot the bill.

Which is a truth stated with intent to deceive.

Yes, tariffs raise the price of imported goods, which is bad. But tariffs boost domestic production of import substitutes, thus raising the demand for labor, hence raising wages, thus enabling Americans to pay higher prices for locally produced goods. 

Moreover, the substitution of domestic products for many of the half-trillion-dollars-worth of goods the US currently imports from China will greatly increase domestic demand for the materials and machines necessary to expand American manufacturing. This, in turn, will stimulate investment in all kinds of R and D and in technical education. 

Who loses from tariffs?

The globalist elite, who seek relentlessly to maximize profits by manufacturing where wages are lowest and environmental and workplace health and safety regulations are weakest, while selling where prices are highest, and taking profits where taxes are lowest or non-existent. 

That's why MAGA is such an incendiary idea. Globalists don't want to make American industry great again or Americans prosperous again. They want to make Americans poor — dirt poor, like the teeming masses of Third Worlders with whom they are striving mightily to flood both the United States and Europe, thereby to drive down wages.

And that's why the globalist elite deploy leftist puppets to accuse of racism, those who oppose their own impoverishment through invasion of their homeland by people of alien race, religion and culture.

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Why President Trump Will Never Reopen the 9/11 Investigation

Thierry Meyssan, a French journalist and political activist, founder of the Voltaire Network and author or the book: 9/11 The Big Lie, has issued an open letter to President Trump demanding that he reopen the 9/11 investigation. He writes:

Mister President, The crimes of 11 September 2001 have never been judged in your country. I am writing to you as a French citizen, the first person to denounce the inconsistencies of the official version and to open the world to the debate and the search for the real perpetrators. In a criminal court, as the jury, we have to determine whether the suspect presented to us is guilty or not, and eventually, to decide what punishment he should receive. When we suffered the events of 9/11, the Bush Junior administration told us that the guilty party was Al-Qaïda, and the punishment they should receive was the overthrow of those who had helped them – the Afghan Taliban, then the Iraqi régime of Saddam Hussein. However, there is a weight of evidence which attests to the impossibility of this thesis. If we were members of a jury, we would have to declare objectively that the Taliban and the régime of Saddam Hussein were innocent of this crime. Of course, this alone would not enable us to name the real culprits, and we would thus be frustrated. But we could not conceive of condemning parties innocent of such a crime simply because we have not known how, or not been able, to find the guilty parties. We all understood that certain senior personalities were lying when the Secretary of State for Justice and Director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, revealed the names of the 19 presumed hijackers, because we already had in front of us the lists disclosed by the airline companies of all of the passengers embarked - lists on which none of the suspects were mentioned. Read more

There is, however, not the slightest possibility that Trump will do anything to uncover the truth about 9/11 for the simple reason that Trump was a party to covering up the truth in the first place. Interviewed by a German TV reporter two days after 9/11, Trump clearly articulated the official cover story:

Why did the buildings come down? It was the tremendous power, the tremendous heat... the tremendous amounts of fuel that was dumped on the building. Sixteen hundred degrees temperature. I guess that's probably more than anything could take, no matter what. What could have prevented such a disaster? People were willing to die and willing to become Kami Kazis. There's very little you can do about it.* How must the US respond?  They have to find out who did it and they have to go after those people.

So there you have it. The full official narrative.

(1) Kami Kazis, you can't stop 'em.

(2) Jet fuel fires, bound to bring the buildings down, even though they were designed to withstand precisely that, an airliner strike and jet fuel fire.

(3) We gotta go to war with whoever they say did it. 

Trump is, was, and for decades past has been as much a creature of the so-called deep state as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Bushes. He`s just with a different faction, a faction that has split with the globalist Clinton faction. Trump, a military academy graduate, is the public face of a faction based in the military. It is because of his military backing that Trump has not been assassinated. If the Clinton camp were to murder Trump, the Trump faction would execute a military counter-coup and dispose of their opponents in the traditional military fashion with firing squads, or indefinite incarceration.

The military have put their man Trump in power because they know they cannot defeat or contain rival powers without rebuilding the industrial base upon which the ability to deliver overwhelming military force anywhere any time depends. That`s what Making America Great Again is about: it is about rebuilding both industrial capacity and public morale as the necessary foundations of continued global military domination.
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* Especially when the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, acting for the President who on a childrens' story book reading trip, had ordered a NORAD stand down.