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Trump Attempts To Blackmail China With New Humanitarian Tariffs

Posted on by Helena

THE Tariff Game:  Most recently, Trump rebated a number of companies Billions of dollars in Tariff Rebates.  The total amount so far is $81 Billion in rebates to such affected companies as Ford, Walmart, Amazon, UPS, Fedex, Costco, etc… The People who actually absorbed the tariffs via higher prices?  Rebate = ZERO.  The amount of rebates remaining unpaid by Trump?  $85 Billion. Now Trump wants to impose more illegal tariffs despite the Supreme Court ruling:

President Donald Trump’s new tariffs include 10% to 12.5% global import duties being imposed on 60 trading partners.  The new citations are based on foreign countries which fail to combat ‘forced labor’.  A separate 50% tariff on specific Canadian goods such as automotive, dairy, and alcoholic products is completely illegal according to the Supreme Court and will simply lead to more refunds.

25 states have thus sued Trump claiming he is in violation of the Supreme Court’s decision.  The countries included in the scheme of disregarding ‘forced labor’ or Human Rights Abuses include 1/3 of the globe: The UK, Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Indonesia, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, China, EU, Russia, India, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, etc…  The End Result; Americans have already been fleeced by the tariffs with no reimbursement.  Another round will accomplish a deeper hit on American pocketbooks – pushing many into foreclosure, bankruptcy, and a failed middle class.

That would be the Purpose. Hitting Canada the hardest at 50% is contrived to destroy their economy so Trump can attempt to add them as the 51st state. (On a weird note, the White House website wants me to subscribe to see their content). Subscribe means tracking. Tracking means surveillance. 

Trump deeply wants to create an Empire.  He dreams of being known in the history books as someone akin to Genghis Kahn or Muhammed or Napoleon.  A Great and Glorious Conqueror who expanded the Isramerica Empire to include South America, Canada, Greenland, the Middle East, and Ukraine. Like Hillary, he wants to wear velvet robes and a solid gold crown bedecked with rare jewels to exemplify his Greatness. 

The fact that he is completely out of touch with the world may be lost on him, but his sons and daughters have the ability to step in and contain his humiliation yet choose not to.  Do they despise him that much?  

In order for Trump to declare the tariffs are based on humanitarian rights – he would need documented proof that said violations exist.  President Trump’s direction is based under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.  Trump has declared that these 60 countries are in violation for their failure ~ to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor.  Most specifically China. Any country which trades with China must be punished according to Trump.  Despite the punishment being born by American Taxpayers. The effective block on China is likely an attempt at blackmail for Rare Earths given Trump has been unable to find a replacement for his War Industry and time is running out.

China does not respond well to blackmail any more than Iran does.  Relations will not improve. Necessary Rare Earths will be more rigorously blocked, and Trumps foot will find itself in his mouth. Because every avenue he has pursued is at least 5-8 years away.  IF Trump wants to continue his PacMan exercise in gobbling entire countries – he needs weapons. Now.  Iran has already restocked with shipments and America is left high and dry. 

Strategy is now an infantile game of word salad and his base is falling away more rapidly.  Midterms given alternate ideologies an edge will not tolerate Trump’s rampant and conflating fraud and corruption as he profits BILLIONS on his own declarations – including the insider trades on oil.  Iran has followed the money trajectory and implicated Kushner and Witkoff – the two peacemakers who did absolutely nothing but profit off Trump’s maniacal swings.

Iran and Oman claim a deal is close between them to open the Strait with caveats – including a fee.  Said fee will bump up oil and industrial goods costs which will be passed to the receiving country’s taxpayers. It is unclear if Trump will claim this as a red line and strike Iran again given after 312 times of bomb shifting, the red line is a moving target.  In order to quell that possibility, Trump declares that the 313th time he really, really means it.  Last Chance. Either capitulate or Trump will decapitate Iran.   

But given Israel’s weapon stockpiles are also perilously diminished, Trump has nowhere to go for replacements except Russia…  Wouldn’t it be fun if Russia sold Trump all duds?  Missiles packed with tomatoes and kiwis… raining down on Iran. Just a thought.

The process for charging the tariffs, collecting the tariffs, and then redistributing them to tech companies which don’t lower prices or rebate customers might garner Trump a few ‘donations’, but lose more points in the end leading to a failed Midterm objective.  UNLESS – he cheats.   

The Door has been purposefully left open as the Save Act languishes. And Trump needs some rigorous cheating in order to gain back a lost MAGA. All while scaring off legal immigrants who are afraid to vote due to a rogue ICE command that will be used to monitor elections.  His chicken in the bag is Dominion which as of 2025 is owned by a Trump fan. And cheating is something Trump is very very good at.  Proving this business acumen quite efficiently!      

The Dollar As Global Reserve Currency is Wobbling Precariously

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World Economic Forum:  “Central banks are diversifying their currency reserves, and the development of alternative payment corridors that reduce dependencies on the US dollar are expanding.  Recent analysis by the World Economic Forum estimates that heightened fragmentation could reduce global GDP by up to $5.7 trillion, while also stoking inflation.”

As the Global Reserve Currency, the dollar dominance is directly correlated to perceived safety and security of the government, and the economy in relation to other dominant economies.  Alternative currencies at this stage are not a threat, however, Trump’s Tariffs and Warring have created a wobble.  A wobble in earth’s rotation creates fragmentation, a wobble in the global financial system can create a collapse. 

The wobble began when the Trump Tariffs were announced fracturing global trade and causing China’s yuan to gain some dominance.  While Bitcoin isn’t tied to a country or government, it too gained traction in 2025 in response to Trump’s rhetoric and escalating flip-flops leading to his now rather psychotic behavior.  Trump’s posturing on Iran gave even more traction to China and the wobbling became more frenetic.  The US market is not an indicater of much of anything any longer, as finances are shared between BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.  Leaving the stage empty except for a single podium and a monologue of pitiful LIES.  Anyone…. Anyone…?

The only country with the courage to mock this hideous Play and give it an F Rating, has been Iran.  The three countries hedging against the dollar include China, Russia and Turkey who have been steadily buying gold in anticipation of a dollar and/or America collapse.  Since 1970, the dollar as a global foreign exchange reserve had dropped by a third before the policies of Trump and the War. 

IF gold became the new reserve currency, America would be forced to reveal the contents of Fort Knox.  The last audit was around 1974 and was considered rather inane given it was simply an invitation for some congressional members to view the vaults.  The last full audit was in 1953 under Eisenhower.  If in fact the vaults are severely depleted as many believe, should gold become the new reserve currency, America is farked.  In July 2025, France requested the return of its $15 billion gold reserves from the US.  It took until January 2026 for the US to comply.

If the dollar lost its place on the throne, America would likely face significantly higher borrowing costs, forcing a choice between tax hikes, debt restructuring, or severe austerity measures.  True inflation would be catastrophic.  As everything that was – is no longer, and the shroud of lies would be forced to speak truth.  A tumbling instead of a wobble.  Something like the collapse of the Soviet Union.   One rather interesting shift would be the removal of economic sanctions with which the US is so gloriously generous.

Currently, over 30 countries and 13,000 individuals are sanctioned by America.  In addition, some 500 entities are sanctioned for human rights offenses and abuses.  That leverage would disappear.  Spain has become the latest country to be expelled from trade by Trump.  These sanctions ride piggy-back on who is holding the golden rod of Global Reserve Currency. 

In 1944 The Bretton Woods system was adopted in which America was appointed the holder of the global currency status because the US controlled two thirds of the global gold.  In 1971, Nixon ended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold and effectively ended the Bretton Woods Agreement.  Thus, the dollar was now simple fiat currency – it’s only backing a pinky swear promise creating floating exchange rates.   Nixon instituted this fiat system to halt a run on U.S. gold reserves by foreign nations, combat inflation, and prevent economic collapse. Massive foreign debt, trade deficits, and high costs from the Vietnam War had crumbled America’s economy.

At the time of Nixon’s decision, the US debt to GDP was 35%, and the DoD budget was $72 billion.  Today the debt to GDP is 125% and likely to grow significantly as the Iran War costs, Venezuela conflict costs, Israeli military costs, and tariffs blow the economy apart, while the Dod Budget is well over $1 Trillion.  Adjusted for inflation, the 1971 Dod $72 Billion budget would be worth roughly $590 Billion or about half the true budget imposed today.

Statistically the numbers are completely out of whack!  Today 60% of the global gold (assuming America isn’t lying) is held by the US, Germany, France, Russia, China, Japan, and Italy.  Not only has the US lost its ranking in GDP and DoD Spending, it no longer has the right to exalt holding 66% of the world’s gold for which status as the ‘Global Currency Reserve’ was framed.  Thus, we are listing heavily on perceptions, illusions, and crystal ball estimations.

BRICS accelerated the use of alternate currencies as did the era of Bitcoin et al.  The Iran war will further this evolution and central banks will sell off treasuries to balance their portfolio risks.  China, Brazil, India, Japan, Sweden and Denmark are selling treasuries while increasing their holding in gold.  The slow reorganization of world powers is gaining significant traction.  IF Trump was pro-America, this would be his focus.  Instead, Trump is literally doing the exact opposite …

Trump’s Shipping Blockade Strategy on Par With Trump’s Tariffs

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The strategical tactic behind Trump’s claim that the US Navy will blockade ALL ships entering or exiting the Strait is similar to Trump Tariffs.  Arbitrarily imposed based on which countries were Trump’s newest lollipop, ultimately the inflation was absorbed by US taxpayers and not the exporting country.  As a result, Americans suffered, tariff revenue was never going to generate the revenue the lawyers with no financial acumen imagined, and the courts intervened against Trump.  Blockading all ships in the Strait of Hormuz will impact every middle eastern country, Europe and China.

In both instances, Trump simply forced the hand to slap his own face.  The Biggest losers will simply find alternatives, break any alliance with America, forcing Americans into bankruptcy.  The price of oil will skyrocket and oil companies will make greater profits wherein The People will never share.  The price of gas will climb, airfare will climb, and everything made from oil will climb.  This would include tires, roads, all things plastic, medicine, and food (transportation and fertilizer).

Not one soul inside Trump’s arena have any cognitive understanding of finance.  Saudi Arabia is the third largest exporter of oil and on the wrong side of the War.  They have a pipeline that is operational for transporting oil, although its capacity is significantly less than the shipping Strait.  Their alternative, The Strait of Bab al-Mandeb, connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.  The Houthis have indicated they will attack ships in this corridor on behalf of Iran.

The al-Mandeb Strait is apparently very difficult to navigate and has been avoided over security concerns by many large transport companies including Maersk.  Europe will be completely cutoff.  The US began supplying an eighth of Europe’s oil as of 2025 to compensate for sanctions on Russia.  Given the cost and delay in transportation, this oil is significantly more expensive driving up inflation across the continent. 

CNN has declared that US Intelligence reveals China is planning to send weapons to Iran in the next few weeks.  Of course, no source is named, and it would seem logical that China already has transported weapons to Iran.   But the schism has been relayed to Trump who now pledges Americans, via China, will pay 50% tariffs on everything.  It now appears that the ‘lack of logic’ may be purposeful given the fall of America was considered a necessary evolution by The Club of Rome.

“The Limits To Growth” outlines the means and evolution of resources vs population claiming all resources are finite and population growth undeterred will cause a global economic collapse.  Unless, the elite intervene in this evolutionary process as per the second report, “Mankind at The Turning Point”.  Thus, we became structured with abortions to limit population growth, green energy to mitigate pollution, and forever wars to auto-correct what abortions could not achieve. 

It was through these scenarios that the concept of the ‘common enemy’ was developed as a means of activating and justifying the means – Enemies are not simply individuals, but entire countries.  Enemies are also contrived as resources – for example, oil became a common enemy due to its pollutants.  New enemies translates to more and more weapon development, which leads to foregoing the means to live – sustenance.  Which further depopulates. 

In other words, The Club of Rome publicized a blueprint for how to destroy planet earth.  While that was not their intention, nefarious characters have utilized the fear tactic and enemy tactic straight out of the Report.  Bill Gates is the leading nonscientist, noneconomist, nondoctor to depopulate thru foreign organisms inserted via vaccines and via fake food.  Trump has vocally supported Bill Gates depopulation initiatives since their first meeting in 2025.

By making a global statement that Trump will now take control of the Strait of Hormuz and disallow any and all shipping thru the strait, he is effectively cancelling the global economy.  While attempting to rouse America to support an ideology that Iran is now the world’s biggest enemy, the blueprint for a common enemy was authored by Israel.  Just as Trump did not anticipate the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, he did not anticipate the backlash against him and his policies personally. 

The backlash serves to anoint America as the world’s common ‘enemy’.  Resources are reserved for the supra wealthy and the water supply will become rationed.  Europe and America are experiencing heightened droughts.  Impacting agriculture. Yet Trump is focused on oil and war.  War creates massive pollution, destroys wildlife, poisons oceans, and destabilizes the natural ecosystem. 

While the ‘democrats’ would likely have created the same outcome, the war isn’t about democrats and republicans, it is about evil.  Spain, Trump’s newest pariah sanctioned from ALL trade has simply landed in China with welcome arms.  Trump likely did NOT anticipate this easy transition and will fume like a coal train!  China recently met with Taiwan officials to open and extend trade agreements.  Taiwan is America’s largest supplier of chips. 

No Rare Earths from China, no chips from Taiwan, no oil from Venezuela’s sludge pits likened to tar is salable.  But Trump doesn’t understand nuance.  Can’t grip reality.  And is a blank slate when it comes to intellect.  No one understands this better than our ‘enemy’, Iran, making hilarious LEGO memes to dehumanize Trump and Bibi into the pits of Hell.

America may not Fall, but it will take a life threatening stumble.  As Trump discovers his endorsement of candidates both internally and abroad is a death sentence to that candidates hope for re-election.  As candidates everywhere take note.  And the Trump Train consists of an engine and a caboose, I think I can, I think I can…

Logic is NOT for the intellectually Deficient.

Germany: Imports and Exports with US

Posted on by Helena

Germany and France have jointly stated that they will alter their own corporate tax rates in defiance of Trump lowering the US rate to 21%.   Currently, Germany’s average rate is about 38-39%, and roughly 33% in France. Turkey, Russia, the UK, and Switzerland all fall below the new US rate. So why would Germany and France really care?   Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands, China, South Korea and Indonesia are already below the rates imposed by France and Germany. So what’s the big deal about the US lowering it’s rate?

Its a false perception.  Its news.  Its media bias.  And it creates divisiveness.

The EU, albeit Germany and France, are also screaming bloody bull because Trump has stated he is imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. But the US only imports 3% of it’s steel from Germany, most imported steel comes from Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and Japan.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, “surging steel imports put up to half a million US jobs at risk.” With Trump promoting infrastructure spending, there needed to be in place some barriers that would force companies to buy American. During the Obama administration steel imports doubled.   Since 2000, US aluminum production has dropped 77%, and the world market share has dropped from 16% to less than 2%.   During the Obama administration imports rose roughly 80%.   By contrast, China’s production has gone from 11% to 53% and they represent the largest world producer.

Making America ‘competitive’ seems to go against the European model.

Opinions from Germany’s DW suggest that Trump is simply being ‘unfair’.   How dare Trump put the American people before Europeans!   Ranting on, the columnist declares that Trump is ‘anti-globalist’ and only cares about the US…   He then attacks the American steelmakers for not switching their focus to more specialized high-value steel. Again, why would Germany be so bent out of shape over a commodity that only represents 3% of all imported steel to the US?

Germany’s ‘slowest growing export is steel’ according to WETx.

The retaliation proposed by Merkel is set to include tariffs on blue jeans, bourbon and Harley motorcycles.   The EU is claiming that by Trump imposing these tariff measures on two items, steel and aluminum, he will be responsible for all EU countries retaliating…   Interesting. So, retaliation is not their fault?   If I steal your motorcycle and then you steal my car – are you not responsible for anything? It is a strange ethic to denounce the US and Trump because we are focusing on ourselves instead of them.

Germany represents only 7.9% of US exports and only 5.5% of the US imports.   The European Union accounts for 54-58% respectively of Germany’s trade.   Trade with the US is not substantial. Trump’s tariffs did not target the biggest exports of the EU, they targeted China. Had Trump wanted to hit Germany, he would have imposed tariffs on Germany’s largest exports: automobiles and machinery. He didn’t.

The largest importer of US Bourbon is Canada. The world’s largest exporter of jeans is China.   The largest exporter of motorcycles is China, followed by Japan, Germany, India, and Italy.   Harley Davidson has already been largely impacted by Japanese manufacturing. Their biggest market remains in the US, with the international market representing roughly 38% of sales including; China, India, Africa, Middle East, EU, and South America. They have been aggressively pursuing smaller bikes to accommodate a changing demographic, however the main motorcycle markets in the EU remain to be Vespa, Honda, Ride, Derby and KTM. The ‘total’ US market share of all motorcycles in the EU was 2.9% in 2011.

So why would Germany target these particular markets?

Maybe because Merkel felt obliged to give the appearance she was going to respond to the big meany Trump so as to continue the media promotion that he’s a big, bad meany guy who only cares about Americans and not Germans…  

Or maybe all the rhetoric coming out of the EU is simply BLATHER.