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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
While Hosting South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump Played Video of South Africans Calling for Death of White Farmers
When South African President met with President Trump at the White House he denied that there were calls in his country for the genocide of white farmers. In response, Trump called for the Oval Office lights to be dimmed and a video of South Africans calling for white genocide to roll.
South Africa’s EFF Leader Leads Chants of “Shoot to Kill, Kill the Boer, the Farmer” at Saturday’s Rally as Media Elites Insist This Is Not Happening
The video is here.
His point? Racism is not a one-way street. Except that in Starmer's Britain it is:
The message? Ideas from the Right are to be criminalised in Starmer's Britain, while hate from the Left is indulged.
South Africa's President Ramaphosa says calls for white genocide are protected free speach. So calls for the aassassination of President Cyril Ramaphosa would also constitute protected free speach. You bet, not.
Time for civilized nations to impose trade and other sanctions on South Africa to protect the lives and freedom of South Africans of every skin color against a vile racist governing regime.
The United States of Assassination: Further Evidence That Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK
Former Senior Analyst at the JFK Records Review Board Douglas Horne alleges that JFK was shot MULTIPLE times in the head.
"The JFK skull x-rays reveal unambiguous and clear evidence of two headshots fired from in front of the President... they actually reveal a total of THREE headshots.”
Watch his statement Here
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Canadian PM, Mark Carney, Disabuses Trump of the Idea That Canada Would Rape Easy
Here's the conversation, which reveals one thing clearly: Trump is a narcissist devoid of the slightest intellectual heft. His arguments for a US takeover of Canada are not even childish, they are inane. The border between the countries, he states, is a straight line, as if that established the need for union. He then follows this vacuity by saying that the map of a US:Canadian Union would make a pretty picture. This pretence of an argument he then seeks to reinforce with the further irrelevance that "I'm a very artistic person." Yeah, and so was Adolph Hitler, who could actually paint, while dreaming of territorial expansion.
History, Carl Marx said, repeats, first as tragedy then as farce. The first time with Adolph it was certainly a tragedy. It's to be hoped that this time, with Trump, it remains only a farce.
Carney responded to the American President's outburst of threatening drivel with subtle firmness. Canada, he made clear, would never ever be American.
Bravo, but Canada should up its defense budget. Who knows, Canadians may have to fight for their national survival sooner than they had ever expected, against a foe they had never imagined.
And DJT wants a piece of Palestinian land too.
The Spectator: How Donald Trump will be impeached
History, Carl Marx said, repeats, first as tragedy then as farce. The first time with Adolph it was certainly a tragedy. It's to be hoped that this time, with Trump, it remains only a farce.
Carney responded to the American President's outburst of threatening drivel with subtle firmness. Canada, he made clear, would never ever be American.
Bravo, but Canada should up its defense budget. Who knows, Canadians may have to fight for their national survival sooner than they had ever expected, against a foe they had never imagined.
And DJT wants a piece of Palestinian land too.
The Spectator: How Donald Trump will be impeached
Armageddon Prose: Trump Torpedoes Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism in a Single Stroke?
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Trump Hastening the End of US Power
Dimitri Lascaris says Trump’s chaotic second presidency is hastening the demise of U.S. global power.
Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist. He worked for many years as a lawyer for some of the biggest corporations on Wall Street. To say he knows a lot about deal-making is an understatement.
Lascaris says Trump’s acclaimed business prowess and “art of the deal” are wildly overrated. He is a failed real estate magnate who has been bankrupted and bailed out numerous times.
His 1987 bestselling book, The Art of the Deal, should have been titled The Art of the Con.
Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza and turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” is typical of his unscrupulous and brutish style. It is ethnic cleansing – a blatant war crime on a massive scale – dressed up by Trump as a wonder deal.
The 47th U.S. president’s stupidity, arrogance and criminality are fully on display.
Read more
Meantime:
New, American-born, Pope Leo XIV Supports Open Borders — Previously Took Aim at VP J.D. Vance for Defending American Sovereignty.
Hey Popey: Set an example for the World. Take down your own wall.
Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist. He worked for many years as a lawyer for some of the biggest corporations on Wall Street. To say he knows a lot about deal-making is an understatement.
Lascaris says Trump’s acclaimed business prowess and “art of the deal” are wildly overrated. He is a failed real estate magnate who has been bankrupted and bailed out numerous times.
His 1987 bestselling book, The Art of the Deal, should have been titled The Art of the Con.
Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza and turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” is typical of his unscrupulous and brutish style. It is ethnic cleansing – a blatant war crime on a massive scale – dressed up by Trump as a wonder deal.
The 47th U.S. president’s stupidity, arrogance and criminality are fully on display.
Read more
Meantime:
New, American-born, Pope Leo XIV Supports Open Borders — Previously Took Aim at VP J.D. Vance for Defending American Sovereignty.
Hey Popey: Set an example for the World. Take down your own wall.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
More Lies About Canada From US President Bullshit
Washington CNN
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President Donald Trump has been making false claims about Canada for months. He did it again in the days leading up to his scheduled Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC, Trump made Canada’s military spending sound much smaller than it is and made the US trade deficit with Canada sound much bigger than it is. And in a late-April interview with The Atlantic, he exaggerated the extent of Canada’s trade reliance on the US.
Here is a fact check of these claims – and a bunch of others Trump has made about Canada this year.
Canada’s military spending
Trump, who has spoken repeatedly of his desire to somehow turn Canada into the 51st US state, said in the NBC interview: “And by the way, Canada, they spend less money on military than practically any nation in the world. They pay NATO less than any nation.”
Facts First: It’s not true that Canada is the lowest military spender in NATO or “practically” the world’s lowest military spender. Official NATO estimates show that, of the 31 alliance members with a standing army, Canada had the eighth-highest defense spending in absolute terms in 2024; it had the fifth-lowest defense spending as a percentage of gross domestic product – low, but not lower “than any nation.” The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks global military spending, reported that Canada was the world’s 16th-highest 2024 military spender in absolute terms out of more than 150 countries for which the institute had data.
Trump’s claim is still wrong if he happened to be speaking literally about members’ direct contributions to NATO’s organizational budget. Canada is currently the 6th-largest contributor to NATO’s “common funding” pool.
The US trade deficit with Canada
Trump has repeatedly said the US has a “$200 billion” trade deficit with Canada. He used a familiar vaguer formulation in the NBC interview, claiming, “We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year.”
Facts First: Trump’s claim is not even close to true. Official US statistics show the 2024 deficit with Canada in goods and services trade was $35.7 billion. Even if you only count trade in goods and ignore the services trade at which the US excels, the deficit was $70.6 billion. And even if he was this time using the word “subsidize” to describe unspecified other things in addition to the trade deficit, there is no basis for the claim.
The US-Canada trade relationship
Trump, talking about Canada, claimed to The Atlantic that “they do 95% of their business with us.”
Facts First: There’s no doubt Canada is heavily reliant on its trade relationship with the US, but Trump’s “95%” figure is a significant exaggeration. Canada’s federal statistics agency reported in February: “In 2024, the United States was the destination for 75.9% of Canada’s total exports, and was the source of 62.2% of Canada’s total imports.”
Other Trump false claims about Canada
Here are some other false claims about Canada that Trump has made in 2025:
Canada’s defense spending: Trump falsely claimed in January that Canada spends “less than 1%” of GDP on defense. The official NATO estimates show Canada spent an estimated 1.37% of GDP on defense in 2024, up from an estimated 1.31% in 2023 and from 1.2% in 2022. That’s all short of NATO’s 2% target, which Carney has vowed to meet by 2030, but not as low as Trump claimed.
Canadians’ views on becoming the 51st state: Trump falsely claimed to reporters in January that “the people of Canada like” his idea of Canada joining the US. In fact, poll after poll has shown the idea is massively unpopular with the people of Canada. It has been vehemently rejected by Carney and other Canadian political leaders from left to right.
Canada’s tariffs in general: Trump falsely claimed in a social media post in March that Canada is “ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.” In fact, Canada has long had relatively low tariffs, though it has this year announced a series of new retaliatory tariffs on the US in direct response to Trump’s own new tariffs on Canada. Canada was just 102nd-highest on a World Bank list of 137 countries’ trade-weighted average tariff rates in 2022, the last year for which the data is available – and had a lower average (1.37%) than the United States (1.49%) that year, the most recent for which the data is available.
Canada’s dairy tariffs and former President Joe Biden: Trump falsely claimed to reporters in March that he had Canada’s dairy-tariff situation “well taken care of” at the time he left office the first time, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.” In fact, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration. The tariffs Trump is denouncing were left in place by the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement he signed in 2018, though that agreement did secure greater US access to the Canadian dairy market.
Trump has also persistently failed to mention that Canada’s high dairy tariffs only kick in after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – and as the US dairy industry acknowledges, the US is not hitting its zero-tariff maximum in any category of dairy product, so the tariffs aren’t being applied.
Exemptions from Canada’s dairy tariffs: Trump falsely claimed in April that Canada has low tariffs on only one carton of milk imported from the US, but then imposes massive tariffs on all other US milk imports. In reality, Canada guaranteed in the USMCA that tens of thousands of metric tons of imported US milk per year, not merely a single carton, will face zero tariffs.
Canada’s imports of US agricultural products: Trump, speaking of Canada, claimed in February that “they don’t take our agricultural product for the most part”; he mentioned dairy, then said, “A little bit they do, but not much.” This is false even with Trump’s qualifiers. Canada was the world’s second-largest buyer of US agricultural exports in 2024, according to the US Department of Agriculture, purchasing about $28.4 billion worth.
While Canada does limit foreign access to its dairy, egg and poultry markets in particular, these are exceptions rather than the rule. The US Department of Agriculture notes on its website that “almost all” US agricultural exports to Canada face zero tariffs or quotas, and that “Canada consistently ranks among our top markets for agricultural product exports, representing one of our most significant and reliable trading partners.”
Canada and US banks: Trump falsely claimed in both February and March that Canada prohibits US banks. While Canada’s tight regulations have discouraged many foreign banks from opening retail branches there, Canada does not forbid these banks; in fact, US banks have been operating in Canada for well over a century.
The Canadian Bankers Association industry group said in a February statement that “there are 16 US-based bank subsidiaries and branches with around C$113 billion in assets currently operating in Canada” and that “U.S. banks now make up approximately half of all foreign bank assets in Canada.”
Canada, Russia and China: Trump falsely claimed in January that Canada joining the US would secure Canada “from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them.” Canada has never been surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships, let alone been “constantly” surrounded. In fact, a smattering of Russian and Chinese military ships and jets, as well as Chinese research vessels viewed with suspicion by Canada and the US, have been occasionally spotted in recent years in the vicinity of the US state of Alaska – and have been monitored or intercepted by the Canadian and US militaries.
The Canadian government did warn in December that among the “potential threats” in its Arctic region were “increased Russian activity in Canadian air approaches” and “China’s regular deployment of dual-use – having both research and military application – research vessels and surveillance platforms to collect data.” But that’s not the same as being “surrounded.”
Source: CNN
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC, Trump made Canada’s military spending sound much smaller than it is and made the US trade deficit with Canada sound much bigger than it is. And in a late-April interview with The Atlantic, he exaggerated the extent of Canada’s trade reliance on the US.
Here is a fact check of these claims – and a bunch of others Trump has made about Canada this year.
Canada’s military spending
Trump, who has spoken repeatedly of his desire to somehow turn Canada into the 51st US state, said in the NBC interview: “And by the way, Canada, they spend less money on military than practically any nation in the world. They pay NATO less than any nation.”
Facts First: It’s not true that Canada is the lowest military spender in NATO or “practically” the world’s lowest military spender. Official NATO estimates show that, of the 31 alliance members with a standing army, Canada had the eighth-highest defense spending in absolute terms in 2024; it had the fifth-lowest defense spending as a percentage of gross domestic product – low, but not lower “than any nation.” The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks global military spending, reported that Canada was the world’s 16th-highest 2024 military spender in absolute terms out of more than 150 countries for which the institute had data.
Trump’s claim is still wrong if he happened to be speaking literally about members’ direct contributions to NATO’s organizational budget. Canada is currently the 6th-largest contributor to NATO’s “common funding” pool.
The US trade deficit with Canada
Trump has repeatedly said the US has a “$200 billion” trade deficit with Canada. He used a familiar vaguer formulation in the NBC interview, claiming, “We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year.”
Facts First: Trump’s claim is not even close to true. Official US statistics show the 2024 deficit with Canada in goods and services trade was $35.7 billion. Even if you only count trade in goods and ignore the services trade at which the US excels, the deficit was $70.6 billion. And even if he was this time using the word “subsidize” to describe unspecified other things in addition to the trade deficit, there is no basis for the claim.
The US-Canada trade relationship
Trump, talking about Canada, claimed to The Atlantic that “they do 95% of their business with us.”
Facts First: There’s no doubt Canada is heavily reliant on its trade relationship with the US, but Trump’s “95%” figure is a significant exaggeration. Canada’s federal statistics agency reported in February: “In 2024, the United States was the destination for 75.9% of Canada’s total exports, and was the source of 62.2% of Canada’s total imports.”
Other Trump false claims about Canada
Here are some other false claims about Canada that Trump has made in 2025:
Canada’s defense spending: Trump falsely claimed in January that Canada spends “less than 1%” of GDP on defense. The official NATO estimates show Canada spent an estimated 1.37% of GDP on defense in 2024, up from an estimated 1.31% in 2023 and from 1.2% in 2022. That’s all short of NATO’s 2% target, which Carney has vowed to meet by 2030, but not as low as Trump claimed.
Canadians’ views on becoming the 51st state: Trump falsely claimed to reporters in January that “the people of Canada like” his idea of Canada joining the US. In fact, poll after poll has shown the idea is massively unpopular with the people of Canada. It has been vehemently rejected by Carney and other Canadian political leaders from left to right.
Canada’s tariffs in general: Trump falsely claimed in a social media post in March that Canada is “ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.” In fact, Canada has long had relatively low tariffs, though it has this year announced a series of new retaliatory tariffs on the US in direct response to Trump’s own new tariffs on Canada. Canada was just 102nd-highest on a World Bank list of 137 countries’ trade-weighted average tariff rates in 2022, the last year for which the data is available – and had a lower average (1.37%) than the United States (1.49%) that year, the most recent for which the data is available.
Canada’s dairy tariffs and former President Joe Biden: Trump falsely claimed to reporters in March that he had Canada’s dairy-tariff situation “well taken care of” at the time he left office the first time, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.” In fact, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration. The tariffs Trump is denouncing were left in place by the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement he signed in 2018, though that agreement did secure greater US access to the Canadian dairy market.
Trump has also persistently failed to mention that Canada’s high dairy tariffs only kick in after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – and as the US dairy industry acknowledges, the US is not hitting its zero-tariff maximum in any category of dairy product, so the tariffs aren’t being applied.
Exemptions from Canada’s dairy tariffs: Trump falsely claimed in April that Canada has low tariffs on only one carton of milk imported from the US, but then imposes massive tariffs on all other US milk imports. In reality, Canada guaranteed in the USMCA that tens of thousands of metric tons of imported US milk per year, not merely a single carton, will face zero tariffs.
Canada’s imports of US agricultural products: Trump, speaking of Canada, claimed in February that “they don’t take our agricultural product for the most part”; he mentioned dairy, then said, “A little bit they do, but not much.” This is false even with Trump’s qualifiers. Canada was the world’s second-largest buyer of US agricultural exports in 2024, according to the US Department of Agriculture, purchasing about $28.4 billion worth.
While Canada does limit foreign access to its dairy, egg and poultry markets in particular, these are exceptions rather than the rule. The US Department of Agriculture notes on its website that “almost all” US agricultural exports to Canada face zero tariffs or quotas, and that “Canada consistently ranks among our top markets for agricultural product exports, representing one of our most significant and reliable trading partners.”
Canada and US banks: Trump falsely claimed in both February and March that Canada prohibits US banks. While Canada’s tight regulations have discouraged many foreign banks from opening retail branches there, Canada does not forbid these banks; in fact, US banks have been operating in Canada for well over a century.
The Canadian Bankers Association industry group said in a February statement that “there are 16 US-based bank subsidiaries and branches with around C$113 billion in assets currently operating in Canada” and that “U.S. banks now make up approximately half of all foreign bank assets in Canada.”
Canada, Russia and China: Trump falsely claimed in January that Canada joining the US would secure Canada “from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them.” Canada has never been surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships, let alone been “constantly” surrounded. In fact, a smattering of Russian and Chinese military ships and jets, as well as Chinese research vessels viewed with suspicion by Canada and the US, have been occasionally spotted in recent years in the vicinity of the US state of Alaska – and have been monitored or intercepted by the Canadian and US militaries.
The Canadian government did warn in December that among the “potential threats” in its Arctic region were “increased Russian activity in Canadian air approaches” and “China’s regular deployment of dual-use – having both research and military application – research vessels and surveillance platforms to collect data.” But that’s not the same as being “surrounded.”
Source: CNN
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
Donald the Hun
Donald Trump lusts to rule the entire North American Continent -- meaning he wants to steal Canada. Hitler had the same impulse with respect to all of Europe that was not Germany.
Trump's idea is to occupy Canada -- a country that could be acquired only by military force, and then insult the citizens of the occupied land by granting them the status of just one American state, notwithstanding that Canada is larger than all of lower 49 states combined and has more people than the combined population of America's 22 smallest states.
Yeah, well, drop dead Trump you senile megaliomaniac and the Hell with any Americans who support him in his Hitlerian fantasies.
Trump says Canada would ‘cease to exist’ without the U.S. More silly bugger lies and nonsense from the great American Hitler wannabe who has threatened the occupation and extinction of Canada
And Now This From US Secretary of State Marko Rubio:
"we actually don’t like the way they treated us when it comes to trade."
LOL. By "they" he means we killer Canadians. Poor American bastards being outwitted and robbed blind by a bunch of wily Canucks.
But then Rubio had to make a show of support for his lunatic boss so we won't hold this drivel against him.
Trump lies like Hitler.
Trump doesn't think military force will be needed to make Canada the "51st state"I've never owned a gun, but now may be the time to get one:
Vive le Canada
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Senator Ron Johnson Links WTC Building 7 Collapse to 9/11 ‘Cover-Up’, Demands New Investigation Into the Attacks
Building 7 was a block-long, multi-storey, office building that collapsed on 9/11. It was struck by debris from the collapsing Twin Towers which was said to have started a low intensity fire. Building 7 then sank gracefully to earth as if on an elevator going down.
Some "conspiracy theorists" (CIA copyright terminology) find it hard to understand how a low intensity fire could have brought down a block-long building in such a fashion -- every supporting structure giving way at the same moment. So, yeah,Ron Johnson could be on to something, albeit over twenty years too late.
'Building 7 Controlled Demolition?': Republican Senator Plans Shock 9/11 Hearings, Says 'My Eyes Have Been Opened'
Richard Gage: 10 Facts You May Not Know About 9/11
America's Cold War victory over the Soviet Union was due almost entirely to a better class of bullshit, which enabled a psychopathic elite to fool most of the people most of the time -- about 9/11 and much else.
For the ruling elite, headed at the time by the psychopathic George W. Bush, the value of 9/11 was that it allowed a reduction in civil liberties, and a large expansion in the government's power of intrusion into and control over the lives of citizens.
It will be interesting to see how page views of this site will be reduced as a result of today's post.
British Lion in Defense of National Genocide
French “Great Replacement” Philosopher Renaud Camus Banned From Entering UK
Britain's ruling elite, like that of Canada and most other Western nations, is intent on the genocide of its own people and their replacement by migrants of a different race, religion and culture. Hence, the suppression of comment by people like Renaud Camus on the fact that public policy aims to suppress the fertility of the native population during an alien invasion.
Here are the facts:
UK fertility rate:
1.57 children per woman and falling, versus the maintenance rate of 2.1
in 2024 there were:
591,000 births in the UK. of which 37% were to at least one non-UK born parent
An estimated 300,000 abortions
In addition, there were 728,000 net migrants to the UK.
The Brits are thus being genocided by their own elite by means of fertility suppression, pro-abortion policies, and mass replacement immigration that plays a key role in the suppression of native fertility by raising the cost of housing while driving down wages.
And yes, this is the Trudeau - Carney government policy in Canada too.
Trump Exploring Ways to Resolve America’s Demogaphic Crisis — Including $5,000 ‘Baby Bonus’ For Mothers
That won't cut it. Mothers should have a lifetime share of their child's father's income.
Why are Democrat Politicians and Judges So Hysterical and Desperate to Protect Illegal Alien Thugs, Gangsters, Gangbangers & Terrorists?
“This Is Displacement, Not Immigration”: Muslims Now Majority in Vienna Schools as Freedom Party Sounds Alarm Over ‘Great Replacement’
Meantime: The people of Sweden continue on their path to total self-extinction.
Sweden Offers Migrants $61K Incentive to Leave Europe - That may cause some to leave, but won't it encourage more to come?
Saturday, April 19, 2025
The White House: LAB LEAK,The True Origins of Covid 19
1.
The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
2.
Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
3.
Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
4.
Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
5.
By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
SOURCE: https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/
Funny thing though, Covid was reported to be circulating in the United States and Europe well before the Wuhan Lab leak. (There were some links for that, but probably scrubbed from the Google database by now).
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Trump’s tariffs: a beacon of Catholic social teaching
By Gavin Ashenden
The Catholic Herald: The moment a nation’s debt exceeds its GDP, the economic situation moves into banana-republic territory. This ought to cause deep alarm—but equally concerning is the realisation that we are presented with only one side of the argument in the public space.
These are two serious causes for concern for all of us.
President Trump has proposed a radical reform of America’s trading relationships to rescue its economy. Astonishingly, however, the world’s media appears to have moved into panic mode over Trumpian tariffs.
The assumption in the commentary is that all sensible people should position themselves somewhere on a scale between outrage and panic. Yet Catholic social teaching may offer some balm for a disturbed Western economic digestion, partly because it prioritises protecting the poor.
Commentators’ imaginations have been inflamed due to threats to the current world order, which is based on a trading equilibrium between nations. The American government’s strategy to apply tariffs mirroring and reciprocating the financial hurdles other countries impose on American trade has triggered almost universal outrage.
Occasionally, voices have pointed out that current trading arrangements do nothing to address the gargantuan debt crisis. The American national debt has exceeded $36 trillion, a figure which may mean little to most people—but the ratio of debt to GDP should be alarming: it is currently 122 per cent.
In Britain, since the beginning of the 21st century, government debt has escalated from 33 per cent of GDP to the current level of 100 per cent.
For those of us for whom economic theory is at least as complex and inscrutable as the nominalist theology of the 14th century, these figures should ring the loudest of alarm bells. They mean both the UK and the US economies are sliding inexorably into the quicksand of indebtedness, from which there is no recovery or escape short of a complete economic collapse in the West.
Trump has made it clear that, since the present economic order is unsustainable—particularly for the US economy—he aims to reconfigure trading relationships, beginning by establishing reciprocity between the US and its trading partners.
Who is likely to be most drastically affected by runaway debt pushing economies over the cliff? Undoubtedly, the rich will have large percentages wiped off their portfolios—but it will be the poor who cannot afford to eat. It is worth remembering that in the US, 94 per cent of stocks and shares are owned by only eight per cent of Americans. Thus, volatility on the stock market may or may not constructively affect the economy, but it primarily impacts the very rich, not the poor.
The poor are most immediately affected by the price of essentials. Two central principles of Catholic social teaching involve pursuing options for the poor and vulnerable and ensuring the dignity of work and the rights of workers. Will the proposed tariff reset help with that?
Trump’s strategy is to reduce an overpriced stock market by approximately 20 per cent. This will drive investors towards Treasury bonds, seeking stability in government-issued securities. In turn, this allows the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. Such circumstances would create a new platform from which the US government could renegotiate interest payments on trillions of dollars of debt, thus bringing greater stability to the American economy.
This strategy itself represents a defence of the interests of the poor, especially since this deflationary process lowers prices for ordinary Americans. Despite Chinese propaganda depicting overweight Americans trapped in new factory sweatshops, tariff resets may persuade global businesses to relocate back to the States, providing more jobs—particularly for the poor.
The mainstream media’s capacity to misrepresent tariff negotiations seems limitless. Observers of Trump’s technique will note he pursues “the art of the deal”. His opening position is often shocking and outrageous, designed deliberately to destabilise and seize the initiative. When played out publicly, this causes literal-minded commentators to howl with outrage. Wholly unable to recognise or handle strategic hyperbole, they take him literally and are undone.
The tariff stand-off is yet another example. Trump begins with an aggressive move that deeply unsettles competing negotiators. Then, as so often, he pauses—for 90 days in this case—and waits for a more sensible, accommodating response closer to the median compromise he envisaged all along. He is a wealthy businessman who neither needs his salary nor his job. Yet, he puts his political independence at the service not of the super-rich, who always survive, nor of the comfortable who have a “plan B”, but at the service of the indebted poor, those who have no savings, and those who work two jobs to pay rent and eat.
Commentators whose opinions saturate the media fail to understand either Trump’s technique or his ultimate objective. Catholics have particular reason to be grateful for the platform given to JD Vance, who offers a vision of Catholic ethics as one of several resources potentially guiding government strategy.
Is Trump fully guided by Catholic faith or vision? No. But has he accorded it a privileged position among the ideological and ethical resources the administration may draw on? Although some Catholics express disappointment with certain ethical priorities of the administration, the answer must be “yes”.
Should Trump fail in his attempt to rebalance tariff barriers between the US and its trading partners, the consequences could be catastrophic. The existing global order based on globalisation is already faltering, poised for further breakdown that could trigger civilisational collapse. The poor are always the earliest and most vulnerable casualties. Trump, therefore, might represent their only genuine economic hope.
Monday, April 14, 2025
Trump Tariffs: The Response to Unfair Chinese Trade Practises and Patent Theft
In a world where the global economy bristles with grievances, lamentations and threats, the U.S. tariffs against China arouse anger and incomprehension. Labeled as retrograde protectionism, these tariffs – of up to 145% – are nonetheless defensible in the light of Adam Smith, titan of liberal thought. Far from caricatures, Smith, in The Wealth of Nations (1776), was no zealot of unilateral free trade. His nuances, rooted in pragmatism, offer a surprising reading grid for understanding Republican politics.
China closed
Let’s start by setting the scene. The United States, in imposing these tariffs, aims to rebalance a Sino-American trade relationship that it deems iniquitous: an abysmal trade deficit ($400 billion in 2018, before the first tariffs), systematic and even systemic theft of intellectual property by Beijing, and a worrying strategic dependence for key sectors such as steel or semiconductors.
Purists cry scandal, invoking free trade and peace through commerce. But what is Adam Smith really saying?
The author of The Wealth of Nations certainly despised artificial restrictions. Take his criticism of tariffs favoring local monopolies: “To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.” (Book IV, Chapter II). At first glance, U.S. tariffs, by protecting American steel or electronics, for example, are open to criticism. They distort the market, make goods more expensive for the US consumer, and risk diverting capital to less competitive industries. The figures bear this out: tariffs cost around 0.2% of US GDP in 2019, a toll paid by households via higher prices.
First exception: national defense
But Smith did admit exceptions, and the first resonates with US rhetoric: national defense. The Navigation Act, or more precisely the Navigation Acts, refers to a series of laws passed by the British Parliament between 1651 and 1733 to regulate trade within the British Empire. Their aim was to maintain England’s strategic and maritime primacy. Let’s read Smith: “The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the opulence which can arise from it… As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.” (Book IV, Chapter II).
Trump’s aim in taxing Chinese steel from 2018 is not just to resurrect American blast furnaces (although the symbol has panache). It’s about reducing dependence on a geopolitical rival whose rise threatens American security. In 2017, China produced 50% of the world’s steel – with an output of around 831 million metric tons out of a global total of around 1.69 billion tons, according to World Steel Association data – often subsidized, crushing competitors with fire-sale prices. If America loses its ability to produce strategic materials, what does it become in the event of conflict? A nation of traders, influencers, and woke whiners? Smith, a pragmatist, would have understood the argument: security takes precedence over short-term advantage.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Our Friends in Kiev
By Lucas Leiroz
Strategic Culture Foundation:
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.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
The Trump Putin Phone Call
Trump:
Privyet Vlad
Putin:
Hey Don
Trump:
Enjoy the dumplings in Odessa
Putin:
Enjoy the duck hunting in Nunavut
Trump:
All agreed then?
Putin:
Absolyutno
Impeach Trump
Trump wants to annex Greenland
he is prepared to do it by armed force.
Greenland is more than twice the size of France,
four times the size of Britain,
almost six times the size of Japan.
Trump has also mused openly about taking Canada,
Canada is five times the size of Greenland,
and even larger than the United States itself.
Trump is looking at the World as Hitler did:
what to steal next?
who to smash next?
Trump, is a maniac,
Which is to say, insane.
A great power with an insane leader risks starting a world war.
A world war today would likely end in a nuclear conflagration.
The United States Congress should act now to prevent catastrophe.
Thinks armed force will be unnecessary ... Greenlanders will just submit.
Thinks the same with Canada.
Rightly so unless Carney negotiates something with the EU better than a trade deal.
As for the planes, what use is there now for a license to build-your-own planes over the course of the next ten or twenty years.
Meantime,
Which would take him to a super-senile 86th year.
And if Trump lived that long, he'd no doubt demand another four years.
As Trump reveals, power is a highly addictive drug.
America is ruled by a senile, overweigh, paranoid, drug addict.
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