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Trump’s America: WAR, Trade Death, & Agriculture Bankruptcies

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China has rolled out Tariff free market exchange across 53 African nations.  Just as taxing millionaires simply makes them move, Africa was roiling from Trump’s Tariffs which hit South Africa to the tune of 30%.  China steps in and America loses.  Trump keeps handing China the gauntlet of trade and prosperity while sending American troops to WAR and farmers into bankruptcy.    

The US Agriculture Center is under stress as costs increase and commodity prices crash.  The main export crops include Soy, Wheat and Corn.  The main importer?  China.  Trump’s solution?  Use more glyphosate and he’ll remove cancer liability issues through force.  China’s solution?  Find trade elsewhere;  Sub-Sahara Africa is a major producer of corn. Ethiopia is the newest wheat capital.  And South Africa is now leading in production of Soybeans.  Not only will pricing beat out American Farmers, but shipping will also be considerably less.  For China – a win/win!

Trump’s secondary solution?  Give farmers Taxpayer subsidies.  Now they can grow nothing for nobody.  From which pocket will the subsidies originate?  Under President Trump, the US debt is now growing at a staggering $6 billion – per day!  Trump just pledged $10 billion to Gaza and another $10 billion to Israel. 

Farm bankruptcies were up 46% in 2025 shutting down 315 family farms.  Who got the money?  Not farmers, but Israel, the subsidized nation paid for by American Taxpayers.  Farm loans increased dramatically as farmers sought to stay afloat amidst a tariff nightmare reaching into the $350 billion range.

The US trade deficit in goods widened to $1.24 Trillion.  While the trade with China dropped significantly, the deficit rose via Taiwan, Mexico and Vietnam.  Overall the deficit remained unchanged despite Trump’s Big Beautiful Tariffs.  In an unprecedented off the script speech, Trump announced he’ll give away the tariff money he has collected, which he claims is $18 trillion, to a few lower income taxpayers, use some for more powerful weapons like his son’s drone company, and the rest will pay down the debt.

But there is no $18 trillion.  The actual additional revenue is roughly $194 billion. Roughly 1%.  China leads paying the most in Tariff revenue followed by Mexico, Canada, India, Japan and Germany.  Canada is Trump’s newest pariah and will soon shift their economy toward China.  India has already shifted  toward Russia and China.  And Germany doesn’t seem to have a clear direction anywhere except Ukraine – pledging money, troops, weapons, etc… while citizens can’t afford to heat their homes.

Adding to the fray of abject economic failures, despite Trump’s claims that he reduced the federal government, initiated DOGE fraud eliminations, and made money on Tariffs, the DUS Debt has risen nearly $3 trillion.   The actual number of unemployed persons is 14.3 million.  164 million people in the workforce, including 28.7 million part-time workers, are supporting 24 million government workers and countless sub-contractors all getting paid more than the 95% of average workers.  Thus WAR is the only option to completely unravel a failed Empire. The age of conscription is 18-25.  An entire generation that will create a new Dark Ages.

Today, speaking at the first meeting of the Board of Peace, Trump announced Iran has ten days to comply with Washington’s demands or suffer the consequences, ie WAR.  Given Trump’s previous negotiations with Iran were superimposed with strikes, it is more likely the ten day period will last a fraction of that.  How many will die for peace?  Will troops honor Hegseth’s death strategy?  Will Congress be able to intervene?  Will Russia or China react?

Regime Change is a CIA/NED intel operation.  IF Trump anticipates turning the Iran’s power off as he did in order to capture Maduro, the most significant difference is Iran has Hypersonics which do not require a power grid to operate.  Nicknamed the ‘Discombobulator’  contrary to Trump’s assessment, rockets and missiles also do not require a power grip to be operational.  Instead they operate via batteries or onboard gas generators.  A Maduro 2 would likely NOT happen. However, Jesse Canchola at Medium.com discusses The Discombobulator in more detail –

Thus, ‘freeing’ the Iranians would mean murdering a large number in a nondeclared air and boots on the ground war.  With Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman hosting US Bases, they are reticent to allow airstrikes from these bases given the obvious repercussions.  The UK has also denied access.  Leaving just Israel and battle ship carriers in the gulf as the sole offensive.  The War thus becomes a remake of the 1950’s movie Rebel Without A Cause and the game of ‘Chicken’. 

WHO WILL STRIKE FIRST?

Trump in Saudi Arabia vs the Three Stooges in Ukraine

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Three world leaders are filmed on a train attempting to hide their ‘paraphernalia’ while looking like giggling teenage boys caught with a Playboy magazine.  An indelible image imprint.  The fact that they are on their way to meet with Zelenskky, a known cocaine addict, is not lost on the audience.  It is also not lost on other global leaders who see their recreation activities override their leadership qualities.  Deserving of an award from the Three Stooges, Hairy, Curly and Mo, they bring a certain level of absurdity to themselves and the EU as a nation.

Contrast that scene to Trump arriving in Saudi Arabia, and there is a monumental subterranean shift.  All business.  Making Deals – $600 Billion worth.  And the Deals are for America – not for the slapstick antics of Hairy, Curly and Mo, all of whom have brought their respective countries to their knees economically and socially.  Bin Salman recognizes the impact Trump can have to turn around this global coup. Respect is mutually shared.

The aftermath of this sad sack comedy routine is affecting the entire EU.  The EU thus does what it does best – ignore and distract.  The distraction?  The Cannes Film Festival and Hollywood celebrities dominate their news. 

The Three Stooges went to Ukraine for what purpose?  To reinforce the thirty day ceasefire rule for Zelenskky in his upcoming negotiations with Putin?  A phone call would have sufficed.  Thirty days buys weapons and troops.  IF Zelenskky doesn’t comply with instructions – the guillotine is his fate.  Everyone knows the game plan but they have to make a show of the entire process for media rights to the story.

On the global stage, Zelenskky’s threat to blow up the various world leaders at the Moscow Day of Celebration also put a noose around his neck.  Given he was unable to hold to a three day ceasefire, his antics are becoming more sloppy putting everyone on notice, strings are getting tighter. 

Who holds the Stooges strings?    

The European defense industry encompasses 2,764 businesses generating EUR 162 billion in annual sales and employing 1.8 million people.   Major contractors include BAE Systems – UK, Dessault and Thales – France, and Leonardo – Italy.  A significant dependence for all these countries exists via US sourcing.  Given Starmer and Macron keep over-playing their troop deployments as a potential to assist Ukraine – getting thousands into Ukraine could only be achieved if the corridor is clear.  Ceasefire.

The other loser in this Saudi turnaround is Netanyahu.  The Keeper Of The Blackmail.  The come-about from Israel could be related to the Epstein Files and the utter disgust Trump holds for child predators.  Let the blackmail fly.  Desperation and mass genocide has left Israel with few allies if any.   It also puts the Zion Congressional Handlers on notice – as well as AIPAC which is likely in scramble-defense mode. 

Taking Israel out of the US equation and realigning the board players could help secure a completely different Congress.  But the cosmic shift happening outside of the western world is also in play.   Meaning a singular entity, like America, being labeled the global powerhouse, is no longer in vogue.  Instead, the BRICS play is now being matched by a China Gold play.  The gold play has two interesting agendas;  1.  It forces the US and EU to open their Fort Knox facilities,  and 2.  It dissipates the hegemony of the Dollar in trade which right now would reduce interest payments on debt – held primarily by Japan.

Trading in gold instead of dollars is an interesting study of positives and negatives.  The largest  mines producing today are in Russia, Australia, South Africa, Peru, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and the US.  But in December 2024, China discovered a deposit that is considered the largest deposit in the world valued at $83 billion.  Once again, the EU is left behind.  Which solidifies the shift of trade as the shift of politics.  As President Trump announced from the Economic Forum in the Saudi Kingdom – prosperity is the motivation instead of coups, chaos and interference. 

In a momentous gesture, because Boeing has been unable to complete the new Air Force One as ordered years ago, Qatar has offered to gift the US a replacement valued at over $400 million.  Oddly, the democrats find issue with this gift despite it being a gift to the US not Trump.  Air Force One is owned by the US AirForce.  It was New Deal’s Marxist FDR who first instituted a Presidential Pilot Office, via The Presidential Airlift Group.

But then the democrats number one focus at this juncture is to support the murderers and gangland convicts arrested by ICE while assaulting ICE Officers.  A huge embarrassment on a world stage.  But that’s all they’ve got left to fight for as their antics and respect have descended into Hell.  That would be the entirety of their platform which may result in the death of the Democrat Party.    Running on EMPTY.

A Trump Deal: An Alliance of America, Russia and China

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Trump is in a bind with his foreign policy.  Having stated he would end the Ukraine/Russia war within 24 hours, he is now demonizing Putin and threatening more sanctions if Putin doesn’t end the war.  Putin has brought up an interesting point regarding any peace deal – Zelenskky is not authorized to sign the deal because he is not the President of Ukraine according to Ukraine’s Constitution.

Zelenskky illegally halted the presidential elections citing the war as his justification.  However, that justification is illegal.  Therefore anything negotiated and signed by Zelenskky can be trashed by the West at any future point.   Putin has outlined his red-line proposal:  1.  No NATO.   2.  Annexed territories belong to Russia.   3.  Elimination of Nazi battalions.   4.  No bioweapon labs.

Zelenskky has lost.  He has no basis for leading negotiations or demanding anything, however, according to Rubio, Putin needs to give Ukraine something to save face for the CIA losing another war.  And Trump is eying those rare earth minerals…

Prolonging the inevitable does not change the inevitable. 

Technically, as Secretary of State, Rubio should be negotiating with Russia.  Rubio is woefully under-qualified for the job.  The Deputy Director, Landau, has no qualifications to negotiate foreign delegations, leaving Trump to do their job.  Landau is a bully and Rubio is weak. 

Trump keeps up the rhetoric that Putin needs to come to the peace table, but Putin has been shunned by every peace table across the EU for over a year due to Zelenskky’s demand that Putin never be present in negotiations.   A bizarre comedy act from the Burlesque Dancer.

Enter China.  Trump is in side talks with Xi Jinping to help create a Russia peace deal.   The Deal?  Tik-Tok is on the table.  Taiwan.  The western Ukraine minerals.  While the EU thinks it can annex Ukraine for themselves, a deal between Trump, Xi and Putin could upend their pipedream.  It could also have the effect of breaking up the EU as infighting would certainly erupt. 

IF Trump sees the bigger picture – an alliance between China, Russia, America and India could be a phenomenal empire and completely disrupt the EU whose resources and value are diminishing rapidly beneath wind turbines and no oil or gas.  No forward planning.  A worthless military. Nothing left to sell.

With China surpassing the US in AI technology, Russia surpassing with military technology, the US would be better served with partners which are advancing.  Israel is all about destruction – a drain on America.  Germany is side-lined in a recession.  France is – well, Macron.  And the UK has become a Middle East beotch.  They have nothing to come to the table – with.   From a deal making perspective, China and Russia do.  

The old and tired US Intel NGO’s, The Atlantic, CSIS, NED, Open Democracy, continue to languish in a vacuum of enemies.   Propping up their communist ideologies, they are simply extensions of Netanyahu in their fantasy world and pathological lying.  

ANY deal made with Netanyahu has no weight.  Zionists don’t recognize contracts with anyone who isn’t a diehard Zionist.    The brokered ‘Peace Deal’ in Gaza is doomed to fail.  Israel has now warred against its neighbors 18 times since 1948.  They are incapable of peace and prosperity.  Blackmail and death live in their darkness. 

The Atlantic is vying for EU Peacekeepers to deploy to Ukraine.  Putin has emphatically stated – NO.   Belarus has offered.   Trump has signaled that the EU is not on his radar.  CSIS declares that Trump needs to use coercive threats to get Putin to kneel.  Another indication that our NGO Intel is wholly worthless in strategic thinking.  Putin responds to friendship – not coercion.  He also understands ‘saving face’ is important for America. 

Which is why an alliance vs threats would reap many rewards.  As a Deal Maker – Trump knows this inherently.  Will the liberals have a meltdown?  Of Course!  Can they stop such an alliance?  Is Trump willing to share in the spoils?  Imagine the impact if the THREE largest economies aligned in Peace…  The Deep State would crumble into ruins.

The Rules Based Order Crash Landed & No Plan B in Sight

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In a detailed paper written by CSIS scholars unnamed, China is discussed from its initial rise to its current demise.   Central to the paper is their statements that China’s rise was completely under the thumb of America in order to combat an assertive Soviet Union.  Therefore, the US began to “selectively strengthen Chinese military capabilities, selling, among other things, advanced torpedoes, laser-guided artillery shells, and Black Hawk helicopters, while permitting increased commercial ties.”   In fact, the paper states that Washington hoped to be China’s mentor much like Britain mentors the US…

Apparently, the notion of a partnership with China dissolved – as it became a competitor.   According to the illustrious view of CSIS – they note an illicit aspect to China’s growth over the past 50 years is due to its massive espionage campaigns, its use of intellectual property theft (something that predates the 1949 revolution), and its predatory commercial practices.

Oddly, the US was apparently aware of all these aspects of China given they predate the 1949 revolution and still chose to make China their colony.  Just as America is a colony of Britain.  Unfortunately, this couldn’t happen because Bad China does not respect rules for trade and IP protections.  Still, optimistic Westerners hoped this would change as China matured and adopted global norms, such as the Rules Based Order.

But China didn’t actually steal IP, it was handed to them by our esteemed research centers R&D at prestigious universities like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford via the Thousand Talents Program.  The program was elevated in 2010 through the cooperation and incentivizing of the Obama Regime.  We gave China US R&D for free, and then allowed them to manufacture the products that we then – imported.

The Talent Program operated with government approval in the US, Canada, Australia, and South Korea.

Rules Based Order.   Washington is King of the world via the milieu of agencies it concocted since 1945 ~ according to CSIS.   Those countries that do not join The Order are thereafter economically, or physically – destroyed.

According to the Lowy Institute, President Trump single-handedly forever altered The Order which created massive turmoil that hampers the power of the United States to be the central global power vacuum.   As such the Lowy Institute volleys different reactions to this ‘turmoil’ from forcible indoctrination of unfriendly nations to the abandonment of grandiose schemes and acceptance of The Order pertaining to just the US and its allies.  Globalization is dead.

According to Lowy, The Rules Based Order has prevented all wars and endured 70 years of peace…

Officially, they are acknowledging that the Rules Based Order – is dead on arrival.  It is worth noting that the Lowy Institute, based in Australia, was founded by Zionist Frank Lowy who has dual citizenship with Israel.  It is a fair conclusion that the Rules Based Order was a Zionist creation.

While president, both Barack and Michelle celebrated their disdain for America and white people.   Yet, they continue to live here.   None of the previous presidents have opted to live elsewhere despite pummeling America.   Barack and Michelle did not move to Africa as was speculated.   IF America was going to crumble any time soon, we could expect to see some hefty real estate pop up on the sales market.

The Clintons have estates in DC and New York.   Obama’s have estates in New York, Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard.   Bush has a couple homes in Texas.   Despite the gloomy outlook provided by CSIS and Lowy, it appears America is still ranked #1 by the wealthy.   So how and why do they stay if ‘der party ist over’?

While the BRICS continue to expand having topped the G-7 in cumulative GDP, CSIS claims that the D-10 alliance is the new G-7 and should become closer.   Launched by The Atlantic Council in 2014, D-10 refers to the ten leading democracies of the world comprising 60% of people living in democracies?   Anywho – EU Union, US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, Japan and South Korea comprise the unit.   The fact that Italy, France and Germany are part of the EU Union and the total gang is 11 members seems to allude the logic of the Atlantic Council which is more likely to embrace Common Core Math.

The Atlantic Council writes:  “Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran,” writes Brands, “are the new ‘have not’ powers, struggling against the ‘haves’: Washington and its allies.”  What  Brand does claim is that the United States was unprepared for the current pivots away from its dominatrix role.  There is no Plan B.

Even more debilitating to The Order is the chaos Netanyahu interjected into the Middle East which has now become a nightmare for shipments in the Red Sea.   This transit route affects Europe quite negatively as their market continues to be Asia.   EU imports and exports were already falling in 2023, contributing to the recession that has now gripped Germany.   China leads in EU imports – which must traverse through the Red Sea to reach Europe.

So the US is picking up the slack, albeit at much heftier prices compared to China.   Which has contributed to the significant decline in European GDP’s and their flailing economies.   Losing oil imports from Russia seriously tanked the economies.  And Ukraine grifting off the EU and US has created a hole in trade.   In addition, Ukraine exports in 2023 dropped an additional 24% in grain and oilseed and a whopping 35% for corn.  Ukraine export partners include:  China, Poland and Turkey.   China exports require passage thru the Red Sea.

With Ukraine still sopping up Western weapons and money, and China trade reeling, Europe is losing ground.  As a D-10 Alliance this makes for Broke Back America.

Trade is the single Bulwark of prosperity.  Biden has declared that overseas jobs have been eradicated and the US is manufacturing more than ever.   But that wouldn’t be true.   Manufacturing is dominant for computer chips – which don’t make beds, furniture, food, or houses.  In addition, Manufacturing is not an indicator of prosperity because it includes unsold inventories.   Warehouses filled with stuff that consumers can’t afford to buy.   According to the Fed, manufacturing took a nosedive in 2008 remained flat, took a nosedive in 2020 and remains flat.

By comparison, manufacturing steadily rose 550% between 1960 and 2008.  Between 2000 and 2010, the US lost one third of its manufacturing jobs – particularly lower skilled labor.   Perhaps the illegal immigrants will fill vacancies…  Millions of jobs that simply disappeared.  The reasoning?  Globalization displacement – contributing to the trade deficit which now stands at roughly $1 trillion.   Instead, the focus became “Research & Development” – ie, money holes.

China became the manufacturer for ideas developed in US research.   The US spent $792 billion on R&D in 2021, 400% more than China and nearly double what it spent in 2010.   Does R&D increase revenue or GDP?  It is an expense, and thus reduces taxable revenue.  It is overused.   It is so filled with IRS loopholes that the Big Six, Amazon, META, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia now categorize absurd expenses under this loophole to qualify for the ‘tax credit’.   In other words – R&D is a flim-flam.

In order for a New Order to be initiated via the US and its D-10/11, a focus on production would necessitate lower wages to be competitive.   Americans won’t accept that price gap given the Feds artificially inflated the economy making everything unaffordable.   So no, they don’t have a viable Plan B.   They have a failed Plan A.  And 20 million unskilled illegal immigrants.   Organ anyone?

Tale of Two Canals: Taking Down China Trade

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The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway built in the early 1900’s to connect trade between the Atlantic and the Pacific.  It is subject to “climate change”, aka droughts, due to El Nino and La Nina events every few years.   Today, they are in drought mode and the Powers that be are claiming the Canal might never recover and become obsolete…   Ownership of the Canal passed from the French to the US to a joint Panamanian/US control to sole control by the government of Panama as of 1999.  

In 1956, the US tried to ‘pressure’ Egypt to relinquish control of the Suez Canal to the US government.  In 2022, the revenue from the Suez Canal was $9.4 billion.   Revenues for the Panama Canal were $4.9 billion.  Cargo ship tonnage must meet the authorities stipulations based on the quantity of water in either canal.   Larger container ships are prohibited during drought years which affects ‘trade’.

Smaller cargo ships mean greater cost for transportation.   Greater transportation cost increases the price of goods.   Equals inflation.   The attacks by Houthis in the Red Sea are being blamed for spikes in transport costs through the Suez, while climate change is the driver for stalls in the Panama Canal.   Simultaneously.   As in there are no coincidences.

The Suez traffic accounts for 16% of all trade.   Up to 30% of US trade goes through the Suez Canal.   40% of US trade goes thru the Panama Canal from China to the East Coast.   Logistics:   the biggest trade partners of the US include Canada, the EU, China, and Mexico…  No canals if China drops the goods on the west coast.   Thus benefiting Trucking and Railroad endpoint transfers.   Rail is the most cost effective means of transport.   And will benefit the most from canal issues.

Who owns the railroads across America?   Union Pacific shares are owned by BlackRock and Vanguard.  BNSF Railway is owned by Berkshire Hathaway.   CSX Corporation is owned by Vanguard and BlackRock.   Northern Southern railway is owned by State Street and Vanguard.   They are set to benefit the most from shipping diverted away from the Panama Canal.   Boosting the bottom line for BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.   Easy Deezy!

Maersk is one of the largest shipping companies serving the US.   They are claiming that due to the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, they are now forced to circumvent the route in favor of Cape Horn.   But a quick look at their traffic routes reveals that eastern US shipments originate in Europe and western US shipments are direct from China.  The Suez Canal supports trade between the Middle East and China.   Thus, there is zero additional cost to US traffic.  Odd.

So what is really happening?

After the US government basically destroyed China’s real estate market, China shifted its emphasis to high end manufacturing and sanctions against the US.  Xi Jinping was not impressed by the destruction of China’s real estate market and instead of cowering before The Giants – he got mad.   Not unlike Russia’s trade shifts despite heady US sanctions.   Neither of these outcomes were anticipated by the Powers.

The US needed Russian oil and needed China’s cheap goods to maintain economic advantages.   Instead they made enemies.   Lost Power.   Lost leverage.   Another FAIL to add to the Ukraine War.   What to do?   Try and demonize Xi Jinping and spark a possible coup in China.

The China Select Committee (CSC) demanded that the Department of the Treasury report on U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities and directed the Biden administration to impose duties on products originating from China that are deemed critical, such as semiconductors.    In addition, The CSC demanded the Biden administration to take specific actions against Huawei, ZTE and other telecom vendors complicit in installing unsecure telecommunications infrastructure in the United States and other countries.

Further demands include recommendations to expand the U.S. export control and outbound investment regimes, such as by requiring the Department of Commerce to adopt a countrywide system for export controls concerning China and restricting outbound investment in Chinese companies on U.S. sanctions and red-flag lists, as well as their subsidiaries.”

In other words, the US government is directing the current regime to destroy China’s economy.

The China Select Committee was formed January 2023 by Republican Michael McCaul.   He first ran for the House in 2004 – uncontested.  A war hawk, McCaul supports an endless war in Yemen, Ukraine, and labeled Xi Jinping as “Hitler”.   Kevin McCarthy was instrumental in thee creation of The Committee claiming the US was locked in a Cold war with China and that CSC could counter and respond economically against an aggressive China that posed a threat to the US hegemony.

In other words, the Republican hawks are about destruction of anyone and everyone that does  not bend a knee.   The Loss of China as a trade partner would be devastating  to the US economy yet the Powers are of the belief that taking down China will mean the US will control their manufacturing competition.   The committee sited the Pandemic as evidence that China was a threat to global security – ignoring the involvement of Fauci, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Stanford, and the CDC!

In addition, in December 2023, the CSC released a set of 150 legislative recommendations to “reset” US economic relations with China given the ‘discovery’ of an illegal biolab operating in California – approved by Gruesome Newsom.   Every aspect of China operating in the US was via invitation.   Those extending the invitations are not punished, because that would reveal US complicity at the head – The WHITE HOUSE.

Therefore, the role of The Committee is to rewrite history – and take out China thus severely damaging the apparatus that they fear the most – THE BRICS.   The means – Trade routes that will increase China’s Transportation Costs – while giving a punch to the railroads net revenue.   The outcome?   Control.

NATURAL GAS Prices Spike Despite Surplus…

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In 2019, just 1 ½ years ago, America was hailed as having the greatest ‘surplus of cheap gas in the world’. We were oil independent.   Our economy was growing expeditiously!   People were happy!    And a New Age of Prosperity was beginning – albeit not of the Global Order.

So how did we reverse that entirely within just 2 years?   Where oh where did all that surplus go?

Europe first reported a shortage. It’s gas tanks are 77% full with 80% of supplies coming from Russia, Norway and Algeria.    What is their holdup?  “Russian and German regulators are in a debate as to whether new regulations apply that were put in place after the pipeline was given its final investment decisions.” ~ HIS Markit.   Germany’s regulator announced in September it has four months to complete certification of Russia’s Nord 2.   That would indicate the shortage is purely political with citizens literally paying the price while Germany blames Russia!.

Norway raised its gas prices 700%.  Why?   Because it could.

And yet Biden threatens Russia not to profit on the crisis.   Short Term memory:    If I recall it was Obama who initiated an oil and gas war with Russia tanking the price in the hopes that their economy would spiral unabated.   It didn’t work.

The US is the world’s largest producer of natural gas exporting 10% of it’s annual production.   But Biden cut down shale production which is a by-product of natural gas.   Thus the US has gone from a net exporter to a net importer.   Spiking investor concerns. So who is using up the natural gas?

China.   China’s imports are up roughly 20% this year.   January 2021, China’s largest supplier, Australia’s main producer, Woodside, shut down it’s LNG trains for the entire year due to maintenance issues.   As in -0-.   As a result, US shipments increased depleting US reserves that were already hampered by Biden’s shale debacle.

In other words, three separate manipulations have created shortages:   1. Germany refusing to certify Nord 2, and   2.   The US picking up the slack for Australia in shipments to China,  and  3.   Biden cutting shale production.

Warmer than normal weather in the US has now factored into the inventory picture which seems to fluctuate on a media basis – monthly, currently citing inventories are down only 4% from the five year average.   Yet the price of natural gas has risen 51% from October 2020.    In essence revealing the manipulated spike.

Oil and Gas production is down 20% from 2019 when output reached roughly 14 million barrels per day.   Today the output is 11 million with absolutely no direction of it coming close to previous levels.   Although production is only down 20%, gas prices have doubled.

These are NOT parallel numbers.   Exxon Mobile’s share price has doubled in the past year while revenue in 2020 tanked 30%, first half earnings went from a loss of $(1.69) billion to $7.42 billion profit.   DESPITE a massive push for renewables by the Biden Handler Regime.   But then in 2019, Exxon signed a contract with China to provide 1 million metric tons of natural gas per year for 20 years.

Again exports of crude oil & petroleum products to China dropped significantly in the Trump era of 2019 only to increase this year by over 400% for the first quarter. Obviously, Biden’s pleas for the Saudi’s to send more oil to the US is a ridiculous media spill that is indicative of his catatonic brain stem.   US shortages are thus exasperated by taking what we have and giving it to China while doubling the pump price.

Now with US shipping ports in Liberal California and New York congested beyond repair, our ingenious government says we just need to import less cheap products from China.   These same liberals demanded we increase our trade with China when Trump began his sanctions.   It is as though the whiteboard of historical information has been erased and we are supposed to simply stop blinking.

But Then We Are in Alice’s Wonderland… RIGHT?

CHINA: Conned by The Deep State

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Corporate America would seem to be either ignorant or intellectually compromised as we watch the Communist Leaders in America destroy livelihoods, businesses, and lives.   Without money, without a middle class, who is going to buy their products?   Ultimately, those corporations will also be absorbed as is the classic Communist Protocol through nationalization.   Corporate America will thus be owned by a select few.   Executives will become nonessential and gluttonous buffoons. But everyone believes they will be a part of The Club – the elite, because that illusion fits the means to the end…

‘China is gaining traction when the US cripples production with lockdowns’ – so the headlines read   But in reality China loses traction when the US cripples businesses and purchasing power tanks. The US still remains China’s largest export partner, without the US China stands to revert to levels from 2000, 20 years ago.

But numbers are difficult to come by in the illusionary world of China.  Differentials report skews of as much as 200%.    Statistics become only as good as the base numbers being real.   Which is why Science is also an illusion!

In 2018, the US trade deficit with China peaked at $418.9 billion.   As Trump’s trade tariffs began to take hook, by the end of 2019 the deficit had fallen to $345.2 billion on par with 2014.   Significant!   And that was unacceptable.   Thus democrats were told to enforce business closures to devastate production via a propagandized pandemic.  Surely this ply would help China achieve its goal of being #1!   At least that is what they were told.

US trade deficit with the EU is also down to 2014 levels. During Obama’s reign, exports to the EU remained relatively constant, but imports rose dramatically, rising nearly 50%.   The lockdowns have collapsed much of that.

US Trade with China in 2020 is running about 55% of committed levels for both imports and exports, according to the Peterson Institute. 

While China is reporting record trade – the numbers bely that classic – China False Narrative.   Lockdowns have not only hurt US exports, but imports as well.   And while retailers face losing a massive portion of their sales as holiday lockdowns are escalated, those retailers are large – and small and many were buying their products from – China.

Capitalism pulled China out of its worst poverty, and instituting a global lockdown will only serve to exasperate a global meltdown.   For all China’s illogic in imposing a Deep State agenda, they failed to understand that they would also become victimized.   Production is only as good as a market buyer.   How much inventory is China now sitting on without a buyer?

Today China is boasting that it shipped $268 billion worth of goods to foreign markets, the largest since early 2018.   Assuming the mythical numbers parlayed by China, who was buying?

Apparently, while trade has decreased significantly with most countries, China claims their trade expansion in November was due to increased demand in ASEAN countries.   Those countries would include: Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia.

Vietnam trade with China typically produces an annual deficit of $30 billion.   This year, that trade increased by $3 billion adding 3% to trade and 10% to their deficit.   While these ASEAN countries have always been trading partners, absorbing the US is quite another thing.  US import value for China goods is roughly $540 billion annually.   Comparatively, these ASEAN countries contribute on a low end millions, to a high end of $85 billion.   Putting China – in the twallette relatively quickly.

The real China story isn’t their GDP or their trade – it is their GDP per person.   Lagging significantly behind developed countries, China stands at roughly $10,200 or less than 1/6 of the US.   Behind the proud CCP party is poverty.   Media parlays the lack of income inequality in China while evading the obvious – poverty.   Their ego was fed, their pathological lying was ignored, and a global shrinking was embraced.   Twenty years ago China’s GDP per person stood at just $1000.

While the Bernie Sanders of the world like to claim China elevated 600,000 people out of poverty, it bears a looksee what that means.   China measures poverty by those living on less than $1.90 per day which equates to $352 – per YEAR!

Is that the ‘basic guaranteed income the New Green Deal Communists propose for the US?

Given the US quality of living index states the US is roughly 25% more expensive, that would correlate to a person in the US living on less than $2.37 per day.   At the high end of New York it would correlate to someone living on $2.68 per day.   A correlation that does NOT exist.

But the media lavishes praise on China for reducing poverty from 88% to .7%.   The ‘success’ of this reduction can be attributed to two distinct means   1.   The US trade,   and   2.   Capitalism.

However, when measured upward to a poverty line of $5.50 ‘per day’ – the poverty rate rises sharply to over 27%.   That would translate to a poverty rate in the US of $1750 per year. Today, the poverty line in the US is $12,760 per year per person or 730% higher than China.

Xi Jinping is aware of this reality vs illusion and constantly reiterates a desire to renegotiate trade with the US before their economy completely cracks while attempting to diligently hold to his ‘EGO’.   China was played by the Deep State – and that revelation is only just beginning to be understood by the CCP.

If China overtakes the US in total GDP it is meaningless unless the GDP per person increases six fold. That can be achieved by either mass depopulation of China – 78%, or a take over of other countries so as to absorb their GDP while eliminating their population.   Neither of these events is feasible.

Eliminating the US only means an even greater spiral for China given the US literally supports China’s growth and current level of GDP. While the Deep State likely fed China mythical projections, at some point Xi Jinping needs a wakeup call!

In other words – China got conned.

They can even take over Africa while slaughtering their civilians – and the resultant impact will have little effect or impact  – because if the US isn’t buying China loses. If countries across the globe are in lockdown and income is diminishing – China loses.   If Gates depopulates the US – consumers are gone and – China loses.   China got fed a line by the Snake Oil salesman.   They were allowed to steal US scientific research, US weapons research, intellectual property, and they thought they were winning.   These things were a distraction to keep China puppeted.

In the end, China may come to realize that President Trump was actually the least of their problems. Trump wanted fairness, Jinping chose the Deep State and got The Swamp.

CHINA Trade – Bill Gates – The Economic War of Survival

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Exodus from China.  

Who is onboard the Trump Train?   Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that manufacturing will leave China in order to be more resilient in the future. Their largest trade partners are US, EU, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.   Three of the five largest partner countries have significant deficit trade with China, representing a net positive to China of roughly $650 billion. The two partners that have a surplus trade represent a deficit to China of about $100 billion as of 2017. As the global economy screeches to a fingernail on blackboard halt, China stands to fall the farthest. And this is making some very wealthy people – very angry.

Between 2007 and 2018, US direct investments in China rose by 414%. The largest market share companies in China are KFC, Microsoft, GM, Boeing, Nike, Coca Cola, P&G, Intel, Starbucks and Apple. Microsoft has the largest market share at 99.3% with zero competition. While sales are huge, profits are minimal given a laptop or PC can sell for as little as $100 new. The same computer in the US might run 4 to 9 times more.   While Microsoft recognizes that rampant piracy is part of the china game and equal sales in US vs China will result in a 95% less profit, the company merely raises the price in the US to offset the lower margin in China.

Essentially, US purchasers of Microsoft products are subsidizing China 95%.

The virus has not deterred Starbucks for slating aside $130 million to build a new plant in China as per an announcement this March.

While media personalities claim that GM leaving China would cost them $2 billion bottom line per year, their financial statements reveal an interesting anomaly:   1. 2015 thru 2019, GM revenue halved.   Income taxes paid to ‘foreign governments’ totaled $3.319 billion. During the same period income taxes paid domestically totaled $199 million.   Net Income for 2019 was $6.73 billion. So if these pundits are correct – GM would lose 30% of their net revenue. China’s tariff on auto’s is 25% – in order to absorb those tariffs, GM would charge more for the vehicle – in the US. The price paid for the same car in China vs the US is roughly 26.5% cheaper. Who picks up that tab?   US auto buyers.

So is GM really a benefit to the US?   Not much…

In 2019, GM’s top six executives were paid roughly $56 million. Eleven Board members earned between $374,000 and $215,000 to do – literally, next to nothing, they meet annually. This would account for an additional $3.3 million.

These largess companies were dripping in revenue to such an extent they didn’t need to manage their finances, they didn’t need to curb costs, they didn’t need to adjust Executive salaries to a more literal value worth.   They spent lavishly, because they could!

It is complicated.

If the Reset were to include a restructure of the top end to more relative numbers, I think there would be no objection by The People, no matter their political affiliation. But if that restructuring meant a conversion from freedom to peasantry under communist rule – then any sane person – would object.

And while few would argue that the world is over-populated, the means of reduction is the value point.   Bill Gates would argue – death to thee and thee, but not to me and mine.   Gates has 3 children – so he is NOT population zero much less population reduction.   Is he willing to sacrifice 2 of his children to his depopulation agenda? How would he choose?

As of 2019, to the best of our knowledge, Bill Gates owned 5 massive real estate properties – not including land owned thru his Foundation or Trust outside of the US.   He just purchased an additional $43 million property in Del Mar, and is purportedly purchasing a $660 million yacht.   Exactly how does that translate to a benefactor of philanthropy?

It doesn’t.   It translates to a man obsessed with ownership, who has little understanding of the poverty he claims to desire to vanquish.   In reality poverty during his philanthropy has grown significantly.   Malaria has grown and HIV?Aids deaths have grown.

The MASK, the illusion.   The Wizard of Oz behind the great red curtain of Communism.   And there we find Mr. Bill and Melinda Gates.

If one were to translate Bill Gates real estate into a true cause – he could likely support the continent of Africa.   But Gates motives are not eradication of poverty so much as eradication of those in poverty so as to reduce global population by his own parameters of who is qualified to die and who is worthy to live.

And while his ‘carbon footprint’ is likely equal to Australia, he advocates for the eradication of climate change – via you and yours, not me and mine.

Bill Gates created an illusion of who he is.   He can manipulate internet data, he can purge data, he can censor data and he can rewrite data.

In the very small world of Bill Gates, we must vaccinate every single live person on earth for everything – provided he will financially benefit. If he could vaccinate the universe, he would likely call for that as well.   The man is a megalomaniac – a person obsessed with the delusion of wealth, power and omnipotence!

And all his little subjects are led to believe they will ultimately be a part of his delusion – when in fact, they don’t realize in these eyes of psychosis– they are fundamentally ‘nonessential’.  They provide nothing of value – and will be the first to be disposed of in the gulags of Democratic Marxism.

 

Trump’s China Trade War – The Facts

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The Federal Reserve and the World Bank at the behest of a handful of economists who are decidedly left leaning have published two scathing reports which claim that Trump’s trade war with China is costing US taxpayers upwards of $68 billion annually.

Of course the statements are biased. Of course they represent an agenda and potential fodder. If they are true.

Economists are an interesting breed. They sit in glass houses and create a conclusion without seeming to have a basic understanding of real world business and tend to adamantly disagree with each other on a broader scale while presenting a portion of the facts.

Somewhat like the climate change fiasco.

Trades are business contracts. They may be executed as a one-time transaction, transactions that occur over a series of months, and often are transactions that are locked years.   They take time to execute. Terms are pre-determined. Terms are re-negotiated.

These ‘Economists’ have made a determination based on data that is virtually impossible to track. In addition, their supposition ‘estimates’ an annual cost. But even that is wholly unreliable because the Tariffs were imposed over the course of several months in 2018, with intellectual property, aluminum and steel at the forefront.   They effectively began in July and phased in over a number of months.

China’s “implemented and ‘proposed’ tariffs” would affect $110 billion of imports. That does not mean the US exports stop. It means they will be levied a tariff which will effect the profit margin.

The economist’s reports both extrapolate the outcome as an annual loss. A year has not yet occurred.   In fact, there is only two months of trade numbers in 2019 to analyze. Certainly one can extrapolate based on previous data… right? Yes and no.

It is like a poll wherein a random sample of 1000 Democrats all residing in New York are sampled and the results will determine the US Presidential election…

Example:   During Obama’s reign trade data is available on a monthly basis.   At the end of 2008 when Obama came into office, the US trade deficit with China was roughly $268 billion.   By the end of 2016 when Obama left office, it was $347 billion. Before any tariffs had any measurable impact, by the end of 2017 the deficit had climbed to $375 billion.

This ‘non-important’ deficit has climbed every single year since it began in 1986. Since 2000, it has quadrupled. And not one sitting President did a damn thing.

Suddenly, with two measurable months of data available for 2019, the media is calling Trump’s trade war a calamity.

In actuality, the value of imports for January and February of 2019 were down 10% and 20% respectively compared to the previous year – before any tariffs were imposed.

Lets look at another trading partner – Germany.

When Obama came into power that deficit was roughly $28 billion. By the time Obama left office that deficit had spiked to nearly $65 billion. It torched at $68 billion by the end of 2018, well before Trump’s tariffs took effect. The first two months of 2019, the deficit had lowered nearly 10%.

Even in the world of an Economist, 2 months is clearly not enough of a data set to make any conclusion or opinion.   And yet they do. Why?

Obviously it is an attempt to discredit Trump and provide fodder for Democrats who are bent on finding fodder because they are frustrated with the incorrigible corruption, instead of truth.

What this also reveals is the larger picture in which both the US Federal Reserve and the World Bank are colluding in this massive demonization of all things Trump.     It also reveals that these institutions have provided absolutely no guidance or stipulations or concern for the annual increase in US trade deficit for the last 30 years.

Which technically is a reflection on their incompetence. Economic Policy is their mainstay. Their existence. So obviously they did not have the US in their sights for at least 30 years.

Why?
1) According to it’s own website, the World Bank’s field of study is on ‘Developing Countries’.   So why did they commission a report on Trump’s China trade – two well developed countries outside of the scope of their jurisdiction?

2) The second part of these reports claims that US agriculture farms have been hit hard by Trump’s tariffs.   But the agriculture business isn’t the mom and pop farm of a hundred years ago. Mainstream media have been sounding the alarm on the changing face of farms for a decade or two.

Statistics: Most small farms are ‘hobby farms’.   Tax incentives during the Bush and Obama years gave wealthy elites the ability to classify their compound acreage in the middle of such places as Long Island and the Hamptons as farmland, take a tax benefit, and produce enough to feed a cat.

Secondly, ‘large farms make up less than 4% of all farms and account for more than 66% of all sales. And that number continues to edge higher.   They are corporate farms.

And third, the Federal government continues to subsidize small farms up to $20 billion annually.

The value of agricultural exports to China is roughly $23 billion, which represents about 5% of all production in US.

It isn’t just the US Swamp that is fearful of Trump. It is The Swamps that exist globally.   He has turned their power off. He has broken the rules. He does not recognize their structure. And he wants to fix the chaos that they have so dedicatedly created for well over a hundred years.

Certainly there have been a few anomalies in the US; Kennedy, surely. But his fate and that of his brother reveal how determined the International Swamp is to maintain their brotherhood as is.

Lastly, the Federal Reserve Bank:   What is their job? Primarily – to address ‘banking panics’. Secondarily to manage money supply.   In 2012 when Obamanomics was considered an economic catastrophe the response of the Federal Reserve was not to commission economist papers, but to ‘do something’ to leverage that catastrophe. They have no business commissioning reports – outside of their Banking duties.

Trump recently threatened to take down the Federal Reserve; his animosity for that corrupt regime has been no secret.

The Enemy of my Enemy is My Friend.

Trump has been in office two+ years. He has fought for The People while being verbally attacked, legally attacked, his family in jeopardy, his life threated, and still he rose for us.  They are – running scared.

China Spygate: Arrest of Huawei CFO

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Canadian officials arrested Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wanzhou, for allegedly violating sanctions against Iran. Canada claims they did so at the behest of the US and extradition will follow.  But no one in the US seems to have a clue who ordered the arrest, and given that arrests for sanctions violations have never been conducted by the US, the entire scheme seems more than a bit odd, if not a setup, if not falsely reported.

Typically, charges for violations are brought by the Justice Department and involve heavy fines – not arrests.  In this case, HSBC was the favored means of laundering according to reports.  HSBC has a history of laundering with the dubious honor of holding the largest sanctions fine as of 2012 at $1.3 billion as part of a prosecution agreement and $665 million in civil penalties.   At the time, the customers included Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma.  No individual was prosecuted.  In 2014, BNP beat the previous honor and agreed to fork over $8.9 billion in penalties after admitting to laundering transactions involving Iran, Sudan and Cuba.  NO prosecution of individuals ensued.

Bolton has claimed he was both aware in advance – and unaware of the arrest.  Trump was most emphatically unaware, which begs the questions who, why, and how?

The announcement was parlayed on the same day that Trump announced progress in trade talks with China’s Xi Jinping.  And thus alludes to the belief that the arrest was an attempt to defrock the positive and tank the stock market.   China has been relatively quiet, Xinhau News making no comment today, and yesterday relaying a press release that was the only press release available to all media outlets.

Canada has released partial information given a ban on media was requested and granted on Ms. Wanzhou’s request.   According to the Canadian government, they state that Wanzhou, who is ‘Chinese’ is suspected of working for the Chinese government and is a spy.  Which would make the Iran sanctions violation a distraction over the real reason for the arrest.

Ren Zhengfei, founder and President of Huawei Technology, is Wanzhou’s father.  Ren was a member of the Peoples Liberation Party where he worked in the military division as an IT Researcher.  He later joined the Communist Party of China.

Due to his military and Party affiliations, India felt Huawei presented a security concern and barred them from winning particular contracts.   Other countries have made similar security concern comments, but no one – did anything.   Huawei’s attempt to buyout US 3Com was forcibly collapsed due to spying concerns.   They have been on the radar and skated.

Hauwei manufactures telecommunications equipment, smartphones, and networking equipment.  Allegations have arisen that its equipment could contain ‘backdoors’ allowing unauthorized surveillance by the Chinese government and the PLA.  The company response was that their equipment posed no greater threat than any other company – which is legal speak for ‘everyone’s doing it’.  As such, miffed, August 2018, they stated that they would pull out of the US market.  Not quite so easily done.

Huawei is enmeshed in various partnerships with:  Motorola, T Mobile, Honeywell, GE, Deutsche Telekom, Groupe PSA, Symantec, Siemens and others.  Well ingrained in equipment throughout the world, it has overtaken Apple in sales of smartphones and is well on its way to being one of the top five cloud computing companies.

Obviously the Iran sanction violation is a media distraction.  The gag order is being contested.  But given the fact that China is actually being relatively silent regarding the entire situation would indicate that they know considerably more.

The arrest might also be a different backdoor – a bargaining chip…

For an arrest to have been made, evidence of the allegations would be necessary.  The Justice Department is currently head by Acting Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker, hardly a light weight.   He is an avid Trump supporter, and faithful to draining The Swamp.

The media has claimed that William Barr heads the list for Trump’s pick for Attorney General, however whether Barr wants the nomination is unclear and confirmation could easily take months, thereby giving Whitaker reign on the possibility of China spygate.

Tariffs anyone?