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US Economy Faltering While Trump Profits

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Trump targeting allies of China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, will backfire should China simply redirect its entire trade, crashing the American economy.  While the economies of China and America remain interwoven, China has options that America does not.  China could redirect trade to ASEAN countries, to Europe, and through stimulation of internal demand.  Because America is no longer a viable or competitive manufacturer we could see ourselves in a bit of a pickle.

China buys vast amounts of U.S. crops like soybeans, corn, and beef, recent trade tensions and China’s investment in South American agriculture have shifted reliance, creating uncertainty for U.S. farmers who want stable trade rather than temporary aid.  China has been increasing imports from South America and Latin America to limit trade reliance with the US. 

Sharp Decline in Trade Volume: Full-year 2025 data shows substantial drops, with U.S. imports from China down around 34% and exports to China down roughly 38% year-over-year.  What this means for America is higher costs.  Trade with India for 2025 increased by over 20%, but our Great Economist Zulu in the WH, simply traded one trade deficit for another.  Over $50 billion the first ten months of 2025.  Mexico trade deficit first 10 months was $165 billion.  What this reveals is what is being ignored!  US needs far exceed the value of what we produce.

And therein lies a conundrum.  Trump announced that Venezuela will ONLY buy from America.  But Venezuela has no money due to colossal sanctions imposed by Trump in 2017.   Trade partners, China and Cuba, bartered goods.  So how will Venezuela pay? 

The Economists in the WH are either daft and ignorant, or they are Rip Van Winkling their way to another parallel universe through a CERN collider.  Because, trading one deficit for two others is about as logical as Common Core Math.  Unfortunately, gathering the necessary data to make economic evaluations via the US Census Bureau has been in limbo with release dates for November and December listed as TBD… with February the earliest potential.

Thus – ALL the data presented to the public in terms of inflation, GDP Growth, Employment, etc… for 2025 are false.  Contrived.  Made Up.  The data is unavailable.

The GDP Growth for the third quarter is touted as phenomenal revealing 4.3% pace.  What drove it?  1)  Consumer spending for tariff inflated goods,  2)  Government defense spending,  3)  Increased Corporate profits.  4)  According to the BEA, the 4.3% is an ‘estimate’.  “The average of real GDP increased 3.4% in the third quarter compared to 3.2% in the second.” 5)  January 22 a new release will be issued showing an ‘updated Estimate for the 3rd quarter’.   Estimated.  https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/gross-domestic-product-3rd-quarter-2025-initial-estimate-and-corporate-profits

Actually reading the documents – a Lost Art.  Reminds me of Obamacare and its massive number of pages that literally no one ever read with the exception of, Ben Carson!  Congress, the Media, Pundits – don’t read, don’t research – and thus parrot false information.  The Economy is NOT stellar.

Force feeding us Stellar does not enhance trust and erodes confidence. 

The economic fray is emphasized by fragmented relations between Trump and his former allies, Qatar and Saudi Arabia who are seemingly moving in a different direction given the Israel disorder and chaos in the Middle East Region.  This hemisphere was essential to Trump’s package of ‘investment pledges’.  Of which not a dime has yet to be delivered.  Stepping back, the geopolitical confrontations employed by Trump across the world is not just wearying to Americans – but to former allies.  The Middle East represented the largest pledges in Trump’s wallet.  And that bromance would appear to be over.  Crown Prince Bin Salman has lost Trust in Trump and his Israeli Regime.

There is no alternative to these ‘pledges’ – Europe is broke and desperate, Japan is broke and desperate, and broken ties with Russia and China will RESET the Order in favor of BRICS and Middle East money.  The Pariah of destruction will isolate America as our ‘enemies’ use diplomacy and détente to evolve and enrich while the Israeli/Trump mantra of the ancient Art of Torture and Death fails yet again.  And History is Repeating itself in this cycle of Nephilim.

Meanwhile, the Trump Organization under Eric is cutting deals with Saudi Arabia for personal profit.  Mar a Lago Style.

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.

CHINA: Smuggling Intellectual Property – Bio Hazardous Virus’s and Economic Theft

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Intellectual Property has been a topic of trade discussions and concern with respect to China.   Most of the media coverage regarding intellectual property revolves around music, movies, the entertainment industry, etc…   Something of a distraction. In reality, the true issue is much more frightening as it involves science, bio pharmaceuticals, bio hazards, diseases, drugs, nuclear data, etc…   In the past two months, the FBI and Justice Department have arrested or expelled a number of scientists from R&D universities in the US as it has been uncovered that they are smuggling vials, samples, and documents to China – routinely. The program that facilitates this is called, Thousand Talents Program.

Coincidentally, it was established in 2008 by the Chinese government and since its inception patent applications in China have more than tripled.

In essence the premise is twofold:   1.   Solicit a Chinese scientist to gain access to a US, Canadian, or EU University for the purpose of R&D – working pro bono, and   2. indoctrinate a US scientist through university programs, and offer a very lucrative salary and expense account so as to ‘finance’ their willingness to share their patents with China.

Technically, these scientists are required to share with their respective university of study that they are affiliated with Chinese companies, and the university is supposed to report those affiliations to the state or feds.   They haven’t.

Instead, it would appear that in addition to patented technology being shared, the universities have been accepting large ‘unreported’ sums from the Chinese government. Currently, Harvard and Yale are under investigation, however, there are literally hundreds of universities that are a part of the investigation. The threshold for reporting is $250,000, so the amount of money is significant and is estimated to be in the billions.

The Thousand Talents Program has been in operation for over a decade, coincidentally seeming to have been initiated during the Obama administration, and is now the subject of a massive investigation.   With the Wuhan Coronavirus making headlines, few media outlets discuss the possible links given the rumbling of either a purposeful outbreak, or an accidental one.   Another coincidence…

Xiangguo Qiu, a virologist, her husband, Keding Cheng, and Qui’s students were working at the National Microbiology Lab of Winnipeg, a level 4 Lab, without compensation. In 2017-2018, they made five trips to China’s Wuhan National BioSafety Lab.

The Wuhan Lab opened in 2015 to study deadly infectious diseases and pathogens, specifically SARS and Ebola, SARS is directly related to the Coronavirus.   According to a Rutgers molecular biologist, Richard Ebright, the SARS virus had escaped from the lab on multiple occasions due to lab technician errors.

It would appear that the Canadian virologist, Xiangguo Qui, is the most likely connection for the Coronavirus given:   1.   She was found to be smuggling virus’s from the Winnipeg Lab to China, and subsequently expelled along with her husband, and 2. She was not compensated by Canada, and thus likely part of the Thousand Talents Program.

While university officials claim that ‘sharing’ information is common, it presents a complicated tier of reporting – and certainly ‘smuggling’ is not a part of that tier.

Dr. Kang Zang was an ‘eye doctor’, or ophthalmologist, who worked at the University of California San Diego studying genetics. He set up multiple companies registered in the Cayman Islands and operating out of his Del Mar California home that have reported assets in the multiple millions.   These companies were not disclosed and utilized technology he gained while under contract with the Thousand Talents Program which can pay as much as $58,000 per month and up to $150,000 in living expenses.

NIH awarded Zang more than $15 million in grant money. His companies include “biomedical technology’, and ‘biological pharmaceutical’ interests. He resigned.

Charles Lieber, a chemist from Harvard has been arrested for his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Program.   In addition to Harvard, his institutions of study include Wuhan University of Technology.   His latest development includes the ability to inject into a chosen region of the brain macroporous electronics that act like a brain probe.

In addition to Lieber, the Justice department charged two Chinese nationals; Yanqing Ye and Zaosong Zheng. Ye is currently in China, and Zheng was arrested for attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research samples.   In addition to payments from the Thousand Talents Program, Lieber was also compensated $15 million from NIH.

Last month, Turab Lookman, a physicist, was arrested for his involvement with the Thousand Talents Program.   He worked in Sante Fe at the Los Alamos National Laboratory tasked with securing the nation’s nuclear stockpile, and conducting research.

Yu Ben Meng, was the chief investment strategist for the California state run, CalPERS. Under his direction, CalPERS invested in numerous Chinese companies that were blacklisted by the US government including surveillance companies.  Meng was recruited into his position through the Thousand Talents Program. Members of the Senate are calling for his immediate resignation.

August 2018, Xiaoqing Zheng removed electronic files with company trade secrets involving its turbine technologies and hid data files in a digital photograph of a sunset.  He was an employee of General Electric and was arrested.

Oddly, the media seems uninterested in these nefarious accounts despite the incredible risk they pose to national security.   Not only are US secrets being stolen and shared, the potential monetary reward is thus also diverted making US R&D which is funded by taxpayers, an economic waste.

The Trade Deficit Is A Serious Debt!

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As the Trade Tariff hubbaballoo points a finger back at Trump it is interesting to note that not one country was willing to negotiate. Given the inconsistencies in the current tariffs that truly are penalizing US products, not one country saw fit to simply come to the table with a proposal. Canada’s Trudeau was probably the worst example because his retaliation was more of a childish response calling out Pence because the deal had an expiration limit of five years, and then refusing to talk any more.   Are these people really college graduates?   Did their business acumen come from a cereal box? They are truly acting like five year olds.

Who is really the villain here? The EU countries, Canada and Mexico have all created an advantage for their economies and trade, Trump was closing the gap and every country balked and instead chose a ‘tit-for-tat’ business approach…

The argument tapped by Liberal media is that trade includes goods and services, and when services are added to the overall picture – Canada is a surplus partner – albeit everyone else – isn’t. Ok. Trump offered Canada an out – and they refused.

So what is the point?   The point is we need to close the gaps.

The Washington Post goes on to declare that a trade deficit does not mean the US is actually losing real money, it just means American’s buy more goods from other countries than other countries buy from the US. How incredibly inane.

“A trade deficit represents an outflow of currency” – definition courtesy of Investopedia.  

In 2007, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco wrote a white paper that gives greater perspective to the deficit. According to their research the balance began to shift to a deficit in the early 1990’s when Clinton was President. In order to finance the deficit, the US borrows from abroad and/or sell assets to foreign countries to cover the imbalance.

The paper quotes various views of the cause of the deficit and whether it is a concern.   Of course, if the US has to borrow or sell off assets to pay for the deficit each year, ultimately there will be no assets left to sell, and borrowing will come to an end.

The cause of the deficit is debatable. But economists would agree that many factors contributed to the crisis, and therefore many factors will have to change in order to alter the consequences.   Including; government budget deficits, national savings and domestic investment.

In addition trade is affected by exchange rates and tariffs. A weaker dollar makes US goods more affordable for foreign purchasers.   Tariff’s create an unfair added cost.

Bottom line the US trade deficit is a serious issue that has a finite consequence.   It’s borrowing to pay for your borrowing, ultimately, the money/assets will run out. By doing nothing – it is certain death.   It is selling America to the highest bidder. And Trump is trying to stave off the disaster set in motion by Billy Clinton and Georgie Bush – both of whom are entrenched in the Cabal and Swamp.