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An Interesting Read – A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System
It turns out Trump’s entire game plan may have been taken from economic advisor Stephen Miran’s playbook.
In November, Miran wrote A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System, which according to experts precisely parallels what Trump is now attempting to carry out.
One of the core tenets of the document is the deliberate devaluation of the US dollar in order to make US exports favorable again to reignite American manufacturing. The entire issue revolves around the famous Triffin’s dilemma, which notes:
A country whose currency is the global reserve currency, held by other nations as foreign exchange (FX) reserves to support international trade, must somehow supply the world with its currency in order to fulfill world demand for these FX reserves. This supply function is nominally accomplished by international trade, with the country holding reserve currency status being required to run an inevitable trade deficit.
To summarize the above for the laymen, a country which holds the world’s reserve currency faces a significant dilemma wherein its national trade policy and monetary policy are effectively at odds against each other. In order to keep its currency as reserve status—and reap all the geopolitical benefits this creates—the country must hamstring its own economic output by running a huge trade deficit, which means the country imports far more than it exports, which hurts—or in the case of the US, kills—domestic manufacturing.
Why must a country run a trade deficit to retain its global reserve currency status? Because when your currency is the global reserve currency, the entire world constantly hungers for it in order to use it in all the various countries’ international trade between each other. The only way to keep those countries constantly supplied with dollars is for Americans to buy tons of foreign imports, which effectively sends dollars to those countries, since these purchases are made with dollars. If the countries instead bought a ton of US exports, they would be paying for those exports with dollars, which means all the dollars would be sent back to the US, and global nations would have a severe lack of US dollars. What would happen then? They would have no choice but to trade with their own currencies, which would mean the collapse of the dollar reserve system.
Plus – https://x.com/typesfast/status/1907600619420147833/photo/1
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On the flip side, the US has (had?) a massive advantage in that when it issues debt and introduces more money into circulation, the debt obligation reduces in real terms. When other countries devalue their currency, their debt obligation increases because the debt is usually denominated in USD.
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” to keep its currency as reserve status the country must run[ing] a huge trade deficit, which means the country imports far more than it exports, which hurts—or in the case of the US, kills—domestic manufacturing.”
Trump should therefore be aware that re-balancing the trade deficit to neutral means that $US can not be the sole reserve currency.
If nobody needs $U.S. in order to trade, then all those $U.S. that are out there in the world will come home to The U.S.
If the U.S ceases to be the net importer that it is now, then there will be a mass of $U.S. dollars looking for things to buy that are not imported (are NAFTA goods really imports? It depends).
The inflation risk is fairly glaring, But The Don loves inflation . . .apparently.
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Whatever the plan it has caused the worst two day stock wipe out ever
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14571907/wall-street-stock-market-crash-trump-tariffs.html
Presumably there a floor to all this but it’s easy to imagine the whole thing spiralling out of control as countries seek to retaliate and new alliances are formed
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“the worst two day stock wipe out ever”
The current 5% drop is a correction.
25% is a wipe out.
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I think I heard that the Dow Jones was down 10% at the close.
Is it still overvalued ?
We shall see.
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Transcript – Secretary of State Marco Rubio Holds a Press Conference on Tariffs, NATO, Russia/Ukraine and More
Question markets are crashing around the world for the second day in a row the consensus is that the president’s tariffs were much higher than expected and based on economic formulas that people do not understand um what is your reaction and what is the impact on Europeans you want them to spend more on defense
Marco Rubio yes which they’re agreeing to
Questioner finally but how can they do that when their economies are crashing and they
are now
No there, No no no no no their economies are not crashing their markets are reacting no their economies are not crashing
their markets are reacting to a dramatic change in the global order in terms of trade and so what happens is pretty straightforward if you’re a company and you make a bunch of your products in China and all of a sudden shareholders or people that play the stock market realize that it’s going to cost a lot more to produce in China. your stock is going to go down but ultimately the markets as long as as long as they know what the the rules are going to be moving forward and as long as that’s set in and you can sustain where you’re going to be the markets will adjust businesses around the world including in trade and global trade
they just need to know what the rules are once they know what the rules are they will adjust to those rules so I I don’t think it’s fair to say economies are crashing markets are crashing because markets are based on the stock value of companies who today are embedded in modes of production that are bad for the United States we have to be a country that think we’re the largest consumer market in the world and yet the only thing we export is services and we need to stop that we need to get back to a time of a country that can make things and to do that we have to reset the global order of trade term
Questioner: and the other part of my question
well the worst thing is to leave it the way it is forever i mean this is just can’t continue we can’t continue to be a country that doesn’t make things we have to be able to make things to provide jobs for Americans we and that that’s it
it’s that simple china as an example i mean it’s outrageous i mean they don’t consume anything all they do is export and flood and and distort markets in addition to all the tariffs and barriers they put in place so the president rightly has concluded that the current status of global trade is bad for America and good for a bunch of other people and he’s going to reset it and he’s absolutely right to do it
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PS He is Really Good – A Superb Extemporaneous Politician – Clear, Reality
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Read the Comments
IM BLOOOOOOWN AWAY AT HOW MUCH COMMON SENSE RUBIO HAS.. I didnt like him much before… UNTIL NOW WOOOOAH IM BLOWN AWAY… BRIGHT BRIGHT BRILLIANT MAN! Nothing but common sense! MUCH RESPECT TO YOU RUBIO. I’m impressed!
Excellent Marco Rubio we could not have had a better foreign minister, knowledgeable and classy.
Sir, Marco Rubio is straigt forward, he is one of best secretary in USA history, a great guy and a REAL AMERICAN
Loving Marco, Love the direct way he answers questions and correcting at the same time the reporters accurate saying how it is. Bravo Marco.
Finally, the age of intelligence! 👍
Off Centre but good
My neighbour accidentally left two tickets on the front seat for Snow White, and someone broke in and left four more. Please be careful out there.
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Two points Old Ozzie,
(1)Firstly:
I believe this should be ‘The Primary way’ as I understand what was the the ‘Third World Debt’ held by institutions primarily the World Bank was laundered through various financial institutions and then sold to the US Pension Funds as an asset.
Or you could sell the US population 10 doses of a ‘vaccine’, any number of pieces of paper pretending to be Derivatives, Property Portfolios, Prommisory Notes for Gold held in the City Of London ‘Fiat Gold’, or even cheap products inflated by being restricted such as Fentanyl, Coccaine, Pornography etc.
Even, the sale of endless conflicts to the American people. The Ukraine war could be one such example.
(2) And last but not least:
So why is Australia undertaking this strategy when the Aussie Dollar commands the respect of the Peso?
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“pieces of paper pretending to be. . . . . . ”
That is so last century ; they will now accept zeroes and ones. No paper.
And auto-sign is cool . . .apparently.
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As the old world order is on the wane BRICS could make progress trading in their own currencies, but that is a bit dodgy. The Reserve currency may end up being a crypto pool devoid of dollars.
‘The BRICS countries overtook the G7 countries share of the world’s total gross domestic product (GDP) in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) in 2018. By 2024, the difference had increased even further, the BRICS now holding a total 35 percent of the world’s GDP compared to 30 percent held by the G7 countries.’ (Statista)
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In theory yes, but the problem always comes back to who controls the money supply, which country ‘invents’ new money to put in the pool to compensate for growth.
The UN would love their “Special Drawing Rights” to be the reserve, so they control it. America their dollar of course. Crypto just gets played with until it matures enough to be understood and stable, and gold is still the best even if we just dig it up to bury it underground. I can’t see why the BRICS don’t use a gold-based standard, apart from the fear all Govts have of NOT being able to inflate their currency as they wish.
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My understanding is the BRICS+ currency will be gold-backed , but also commodity -backed (oil, etc.) but not necessarily convertible on demand.
China is not the only country buying gold.
A U.S. gold-backed CBDC is not off the table. An impoverished populace might demand it if hyperinflation was killing them. They could all need new phones 🙂
The transition will occur over the term of the current Presidency, and beyond ; so at least 4 years.
And then some , surely.
Anyway , Trump World has set the wheels in motion; presumably that’s his job.
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Why BRICS don’t use a gold-based standard just yet, they’ll wait for the dust to settle.
Germany holds the second-largest hoard of gold on the planet, surpassed only by the United States.
‘For decades, the idea that Germany’s gold reserves – some of the largest in the world – might not be safe in the vaults of the New York Federal Reserve would have seemed like the stuff of conspiracy theories. But as the political landscape shifts in Washington – and questions have been raised as to what’s actually in US vaults, some German lawmakers are beginning to wonder aloud: Is their gold still secure?’ (Zerohedge)
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For the record, this is exactly what I voted for.
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Too many superlatives there. Wait till the dust settles.
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Worth watching 20 mins 15 Secs YouTube
‘Markets Are Crashing’: Reporters Grill Sec. Marco Rubio About Trump Tariffs
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Pat Condell is back on YouTube and in the following video discusses the now-dysfunctional woke institutions that identify as “universities”.
It’s tragic what has become of them.
They used to be centres of learning and scholarship, back in the day.
https://youtu.be/DXqpAO9CNhw
Under 5 mins.
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There’s no doubt about it this man speaks Truth to power in plain English. Thanks
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David M:
Never mind the Universities, how about the schools?
I was (very) recently in the supermarket but bought only 2 items. When I got to the (rather attractive young) checkout I handed them to her along with my bag. She put a price that seemed low. When I asked “that seems very cheap” she asked if I wanted a receipt. I asked for one and pointed out she had only charged for one. There the 2 items were in front of her on the bench. So she did another transaction.
Surely the schools touch them 1+1 =2?
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The SpaceX Fram2 mission has returned from space, the capsule recovered and the crew are waiting to exit the capsule. I’m watching live.
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They are all out now.
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Tariffs are NOT Reciprocal –
“How did the Trump Administration come up with these tariff rates? Why would a nation like Madagascar, for example, with a small economy, be hit with a 47% tariff? Reciprocal tariffs were determined based on America’s trade deficit with other nations. They took each nation’s trade surplus with the US by total exports and divided that number by two, proclaiming we are asking them for half of what they have been charging the United States.
The assumption behind this method is that a trade surplus means one country is “taking advantage” of the other. However, trade imbalances do not function in such a cut-and-dry manner. The US runs trade deficits with some countries while running surpluses with others. The global economy is interconnected, and imposing arbitrary tariffs based on a deficit does not reflect the broader picture.
For example, China may have a surplus with the US, but it also imports raw materials from other nations to manufacture goods. If the US places a retaliatory tariff, it does not necessarily mean that China has been unfairly charging the US. China’s advantages of natural resources and lower production costs is part of the trade deal. There is a reason the US and China were one the largest trading partners, as China relied on American consumers the same way that America relied on cheaper Chinese goods. China was then investing in US debt, which it once viewed as a safe trade, but that is no longer the case, and America will suffer as a result. All of these measures are causing America’s trading partners to flee.”
More at –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/tariffs-not-reciprocal/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Maybe it’s Trumps concern for the “little country” that is being usurped by China which is on route for global domination one little country at a time. Australia too is on the verge and our uniparty doesn’t fill me with much joy.
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” They took each nation’s trade surplus with the US by total exports and divided that number by two, ”
Simplicious reckons they took each country’s trade imbalance and divided by the US imports from that country, but yes, a straight-line formula. America’s biggest export is the American dollar, as it has been since WW2, and they don’t need to export anything else so long as the rest of the world keeps buying them. That’s why they are happy to go to war with anyone who thinks of moving away from the $US, and Trump is going to have to tackle the BRICS over this or America will have to work for a living.
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“America will have to work for a living.”
In its present condition?
Mate , you’re dreaming.
On the other hand, if the Depression was deep enough . . . who knows?
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How can the rest of the world keep buying from them if they hoover up all the profitable industries, which is undeniably Trump’s goal?
If Trump’s formula works and he has a trade surplus with every country, the world will fall into the Greater Depression in just a few years.
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Flood of the century: how our most stoic Aussies survived outback disaster
JAMIE WALKER and MACKENZIE SCOTT
To begin with, it made such a beautiful noise: rain, sweet rain, drumming on the roof of Ted and Pip Robinson’s home in Adavale.
The Vietnam veteran and his wife went to bed early, as people do in this far-flung corner of the Channel Country in southwest Queensland.
It had been tipping down for days but they weren’t worried: every drop seemed like manna from heaven after a parched and punishing summer.
Blackwater Creek, wrapping around their place, was running again, part of the spider’s web of ephemeral rivers and waterways that crisscross the vast western plains leading into the Simpson Desert.
The couple knew what happened when they erupted – how drought turned to flood overnight – yet nothing could prepare them or their friends and neighbours, in communities and stations stretching all the way to Longreach, for the 12 desperate hours to come.
Flood of the century
The time was 3.30am on Thursday, March 27, day one of the outback’s flood of the century.
Only now, as the flood ebbs, having inundated an area twice the size of Victoria, killing at least 150,000 head of cattle, sheep, horses and other stock as well as a multitude of wildlife, are people able to draw breath and share their stories of courage and forbearance in the face of this epic disaster.
The cost will be counted in a damage bill of billions and higher meat prices nationwide, but also in the trauma experienced by some of our most stoic Australians.
Hard-bitten cattlemen are dreading the clean-up. Mass graves will be dug to accommodate the reeking piles of decayed carcasses blackening the landscape.
There’s anger at the absence of warnings about the scale of the rain event, partly due to a blindspot in the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather radar system.
Thousands of kilometres of fencing and hundreds of properties have been devastated, erasing a lifetime of sweat and back-breaking toil for the hardest-hit graziers and business operators in the stricken towns.
“People are potentially going to go three years without income,” warned Quilpie mayor Ben Hall.
“That’s three years before they generate a dollar, not making a living. They may be able to keep their head above water for a period, but realistically what are they going to survive off when their entire livelihood has been wiped out?”
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I was in Winton for these https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129095754
Not sure about the ‘of the century’ – depends who measures!
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There was a locust plague after too – v. biblical.
Even though the house was screened, you would sweep a big pile up each morning.
And it stunk!
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We had another storm last night which officially made it the all time record wettest year here, barely into the fourth month. As I said the other day, wetter than Cairns. I think 1946 may have been the earlier record, I know that was a BIG flood.
And yes, I know it rained before we had gauges, don’t bother with that.
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And it’s still bloody raining enough to wet the washing. 🙁
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Flood of the century? Which one they happen every 100 years or so
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As Donald TRUMP said, “Everything woke turns to s**t.”
The Left destroy everything.
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Here is a video regarding the dispute over the age of the Omo 1 skeleton founded in Ethiopia in 1967. The real age has a huge impact on the “out of Africa” theory.
But woke anthropology (“consensus science”) has already established the Official Narrative and won’t allow alternative interpretations.
https://youtu.be/Byk18lRBKa0
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Domestic terrorists in the US, Leftists, are facing 20 years jail for setting fire to electric car dealerships.
But don’t the Left want EVs to “save the planet”?
And are Leftoids too stupid to understand that every time they destroy a Tesla insurance companies have to pay for another one to be purchased from Elon? It results in another sale!
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Cards are open on the table now.
Tesla terrorism shows they were playing with pretty low cards.
No more bluffing
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Maybe every time they torch a Tesla, two or three other people decide not to buy one.
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Maybe every time a Tesla-Torcher is sent to prison, some other unknown number of frothing fools decide not to torch one?
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Ism Schism Isis Crisis:
First they burned the forests and shouted: See? Man-made Global Warming!
Then they burned the towns & cities and shrieked: See? Trump’s fault! Change!
After 4 years of ice-cream sleepwalking, they’re back, burning electric vehicles while shouting: See? Climate Crisis! Trump is H….r!
Arson, [ah’-son], noun, wilful malicious burning of property [Latin arsio].
Does one require a Degree of insanity to act this way or is it the final stage of Mental Breakdown Eugenics (MBE) Disorder?
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Possibly not the sale of another Tesla and possibly not a battery powered car.
But definitely increased insurance premiums for Tesla owners.
Time will tell how effective law enforcement is on suppressing this spate of wilful property damage.
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Where is the study (ies)?
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Shown within video.
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I have known for years that cholesterol is essential for brain health. The poison is in the dose and I have no idea if there is an upper limit, and what it would be, for general health.
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Don’t forget your shingles vaccination…
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/08/study-finds-shingles-increases-risk-of-cognitive-decline/
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As a data point my GP has offered me such an injection.
I asked whether it was safe and effective.
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If you’ve already had it are you immune? It was another malady I had after the safe and effective shot.
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Yip Israeli medical were first to identify upsurge of shingles post inoculations and suggested the shot reactivated the varicella zoster virus/chicken pox which kicked off the shingles.
Of course the immediate pile on of counter claim started – not really sure how to take that “out of Africa” link contribution – and the original message got lost in the ether.
Here is a pre-insanity period run down from University of Southern California before information was weaponized and instead of just sharing it was sharpened and sent.
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If you had chicken pox etc. when you were young you may be immune, but about 8 years ago my doctor recommended I have the vaccine just in case. It was a free dose for those over 70. So I did and haven’t had shingles nor chicken pox etc. since.
I was in his surgery yesterday and he suggested a ‘flu injection which I refused (as he noted also from the previous 7 years).
I haven’t had ‘flu in that time and Covid (while in hospital) which was so mild that I didn’t realise it but commented to the Nurse about a blocked nose. BANG! 7 days quarantine (and boredom). I wonder whether the daily 3,000 units of Vitamin D (+K2) might have helped.
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These fear campaigns (this one playing on the natural worry about dementia) are becoming familiar, and surely – surely – less effective.
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With over 250,000 medications on the market today, it is astonishing to realise that none of them have ever cured anything. Aside from penicillin—discovered in the early 20th century—there’s not a single medication that has truly eradicated the illness it was meant to target.
For more than a century, these companies have pushed countless pills, potions, and lotions for every conceivable disease. Yet, we remain in the same cycle of sickness. People are diagnosed, they take their prescribed medication, and continue taking it for life. What’s the reason? Simply put, pharmaceutical companies don’t want to cure diseases—they want to treat symptoms and keep us coming back for more.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/why-don-t-drug-companies-ever-cure-anyone-1
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Penicillin isn’t perfect. It hasn’t eradicated anything. It might help eradicate a particular ailment from the individual who takes it. But it doesn’t prevent another episode occurring in that individual.
Then there are things that can develop penicillin resistance.
While few things, if any, have actually been eradicated or can practically be; there’s plenty of effective drug treatments that we’re seemingly better off having had. Even if official total eradication hasn’t occurred.
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One of the relentless string of climate propaganda sausage machine climate stories is appearing on most outlets.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14571397/Belizes-Great-Blue-Hole-concerning-secret.html
The storm count proxy they have studied shows
variability over millennia but more storms more recently, but long before man-made climate change was a factor.
They have produced a hockey stick by adding a projection for the 21st century onto the end of the data, without this there is nothing outside the apparent recent ‘normal’ range.
https://www.science.org/cms/10.1126/sciadv.ads5624/asset/1f4b2584-6446-402a-b1ac-db0a808b8560/assets/images/large/sciadv.ads5624-f3.jpg
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads5624
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The daily mail is not on my list of newspapers. Unlikely it will be in future.
Still Michael Mann made a lot of money over 20+ years with his Hockey Stick Illusion, so I assume that the editor hopes for some subscribers.
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Appeal for grant money.
‘A 21st-century extrapolation suggests an unprecedented increase in TC frequency, attributable to the Industrial Age warming.’
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More on the experimental covid “vaccine”.
REMINDER FOR LEFTOIDS: Time for your 37th booster.
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Certainly messed with their reproductive systems from the information I was given by Pharmacy assistants talking to women who were undertaking the ‘gene therapy’. Happily post-menopausal women were suddenly having periods and women used to regular perods were missing periods. This caused great concern as many husbands were stuck in fly in fly out states or across borders and there was a possible virgin birth to be explained. One pharmacy assistant exclaimed at the increase in sales of preg tests, “They are breeding like rabbits”.
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Storms and tornadoes for 5 days in central US. Threat of flooding in the Mississippi Valley.
https://i.ibb.co/TFCkYgk/gfs-hgt-trop-NA-f036.png
https://i.ibb.co/1GWV7wp2/Screenshot-2025-04-04-22-19-05.png
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Are they blaming TRUMP?
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Sounds like ‘spring’ to me.
Too much rain, not enough rain, too much snow, not enough snow: it’s hard finding the perfect planet, especially when you’re green…
Kermit the frog.
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The remade Snow White was a woke disaster.
Normal people refused to watch it.
But surely there were enough wokesters out there to patronise it and make the film profitable for their favourite woke corporation?
Where were they all?
Or are wokesters just a noisy but influential minority that make life miserable for the rest of us?
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And why did they write real short statured people out of the story? They were replaced with animations. The real people were rendered invisible and also real short statured actors were denied rare employment opportunities.
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New article on NoTricksZone: “New Study: Corals Thrived When Global Sea Levels Were Meters Higher Than Today 6000 Years Ago”:
https://notrickszone.com/2025/04/03/new-study-corals-thrived-when-global-sea-levels-were-meters-higher-than-today-6000-years-ago/
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I have seen a lot of Australian Government advertising to raise awareness of shingles and for certain age groups to get the shingles vaccination (which incidentally my doctor doesn’t believe to be very effective).
Why the sudden need for awareness about shingles?
Two possibilities are:
1) The marketing arm of Big Pharma, the TGA is promoting the vaccine.
2) Increased rate of shingles due to possible immune system damage by covid “vaccines”.
Or both of the above.
Of course, some blame covid-19, not covid-19 vaccination for the observation of increased shingles risk.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/covid-19-linked-to-higher-shingles-risk-for-over-5
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As I noted above my GP offered me such an injection.
My question was whether it was safe and effective.
If told him if he said no I wouldn’t take it.
If he said yes I told him I would run a mile.
He just said it was up to me.
And therein lies the natural consequence of the recent compulsion and propaganda.
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Perhaps actually reading what’s in the link before posting would be beneficial:
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Which is exactly why I wrote:
And as has been discussed here many times, many of these publications are utterly untrustworthy.
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Dear Dry Liberal
If you follow the link to the paper, the Authors state:
The ‘index date’ is defined as:
My reading of this is that the individual was not vaccinated at the time of the occurrence of the first Covid 19 event. (Boy that would have been embarrassing, Safe & Effective and all that) We know from the Pfizer this could be that you were considered un-vaccinated even after having the shot. This would have been a tricky study for funding if the data had listed the occurrence of Herpes Zostera relative to having a ‘Jab’. So best leave the discussion of the Jab right out of the study and declare everyone unvaccinated due to the fact they were not registered as vaccinated at the time they had had their first runny nose etc:
I could be wrong as many of the studies referred to had big words I have not taken time to digest. David I see has used the word untrustworthy, I would add confused.
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I have my amateur radio station running in the background and some people are chatting and I was alarmed to hear one proudly announce that he just had his covid “vaccination”. Apparently even now, there are true believers…
He had a VK3 callsign so he is a Victoriastani.
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Further listening reveals him to be an anaesthetist…
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You hit the trifecta on coincidences there!
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Sounds qualified for your anti-desflurane woke gang.
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FWIW- How tariffs might work –
“Tariffs: Wall Street versus Main Street
There’s a significant amount of noise-versus-signal debate over President Trump’s new tariffs. I thought I’d offer a simple explanation, that glosses over many of the finer details but clarifies the essence of the problem.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/tariffs-wall-street-versus-main-street.html
And
“Heads up, shooters: tariffs and our ammo supply”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/heads-up-shooters-tariffs-and-our-ammo.html
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Interesting comment in on of the linked items, that the US imports all its lead
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The US has been at war with China since Nixon. Not Russia. And China is playing the long game.
The current issue is not exchange rate, tariffs, inflation, stocks, it is deaths. At present 100,000 young men a year are dying from Chinese Fentanyl, 50x more dangerous than Heroin.
America lost 400,000 young men in WWII, a war which created the modern world to one of mass manufacture and consumer goods and booming life expectancy and quality of life, world wide.
But the boom is faltering for lack of people.
Economists blame the birth rate, contraception, choice for lack of workers and offshoring production and mass migration. But imagine what 100,000 young adults in America a year means. Every consumer society needs consumers and workers and new people.
And the blame goes back to China. Aided by Canada and Mexico across two very long borders which have been wide open. With neighbours like these, who needs enemies?
It’s not about exchange rates, the NYSE, electric cars or Facebook or gold or trade. It’s about the destruction of America by China and enabled by Mexico and Canada.
But no one wants to talk about it. As if it didn’t exist. If the standoff with Russia was the Cold War. The attack on the United States is the Silent War between the US and China.
In a nuclear age, the Wuhan Flu was just the start. From Darwin to Panama to Greenland and Europe, Taiwan and Japan, the war is hotting up. And Chinese warships are circling and threatening Australia and New Zealand and Taiwan. And spy balloons cross America and communications cables in the Baltic are cut accidentally by a number of Chinese ships, in a show of incredible weakness, governments pretend not to notice. Meanwhile Russia and China sign a friends forever pact. So reminiscent of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact in 1939.
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And Trump is goading NATO and the UK into doing something in their own defence. But they are once again too busy squabbling and the world’s industrial giant of the 19th century, Britain, no longer makes and only melts steel. They can buy it all from China which makes over half the world’s steel. Plus Russia.
All their money is going into reversing the industrial revolution because of a completely science free UN religion called Climate Change. Which almost no one else believes except Australia and New Zealand and Canada. Even though it is transparent nonsense run by a massive 80,000 person UN filled with retired politicians who care nothing about world peace. Fire the lot of them. As Trump has shown, we now have the telephone.
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“Every consumer society needs consumers and workers and new people. ”
It has been talked about for decades that this model was unsustainable, but no new idea were forthcoming until it was taken out of our hands. You will not have white Western societies in the future, women’s lib has taken that choice away.
Its quite fascinating that giving women the choice to have children, the basis of life for us all, has resulted in them saying ‘no thanks, not in this sort of society’. So the declining birth rates mean we will run out of people, ie customers & the producers of production, or we will import people from other cultures and be drowned by them, or we will automate the means of production and have fewer people living in a different society with robots making everything.
The internet is diluting the control Govts had over the propaganda for each country, so the differences are blurring and patriotism is fading. There will not be the pressure for immigrants to become staunchly Australian or British or whatever their new country is. Going to war might be a lot more difficult when a lot of your population side with the enemy…
The selection of who ends up as the society is also interesting. Do we have the lowest classes leading a life of luxury attended to by robots, because they were the last ones breeding? Do we have a short-lived luxurious society where production is automated but the people are incapable of keeping it going as those who set it up are bred out of the society?
I’m sure ‘the people’, those most affected, won’t get any choice in which direction the country goes.
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Molotov Ribbentorp pact? Wasn’t that a rather short forever? 3D chess players theorise Taiwan is to justify China’s military buildup, but what they may really want is a return of their Siberian provinces. If they took them, there would be little objection from the west.
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FWIW –
For better or worse?
“New Car Performance Tech: Electrohydraulics Enable Software-Defined By-Wire Suspension”
https://www.motortrend.com/news/new-car-performance-tech-electrohydraulics-enable-software-defined-by-wire-suspension/
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FWIW – Canada vs USA
“Journalist: “are you going to boycott US strawberries?”
Carney: “I dont buy my own groceries””
https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/1908135074979090914
A line he got from “Elbow”?
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“You Wouldn’t Want to Be Him on That Dreadful Day
“Perhaps history is teaching us that today’s popular leaders like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are not the people’s last chance. They are the globalist’s last chance.” — Kurt Schlichter”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/you-wouldnt-want-to-be-him-on-that
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Look at the world we have created, there is no hope anymore with people and governments like this.
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/billboard-chris-vs-australia-lawsuit?publication_id=791657&post_id=160553010&isFreemail=true&r=15jnh4&triedRedirect=true
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The comment that kicked all this off
This woman (yes she’s a female) is part of a panel of 20 ‘experts’ hired by the WHO to draft their policy on caring for ‘trans people.’
“People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards.”
Will be interesting to see which way the e-safety board rule on this but probably not before the election.
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Klaus Schwab To Step Down As World Economic Forum’s Chair
According to the Financial Times Klaus Schwab, the unelected mastermind behind the World Economic Forum (WEF) is preparing to step down as chair of the board of trustees.
The latest announcement comes after Klaus Schwab announced his resignation as executive chairman of the WEF last year.
After five decades of steering the WEF into a playground for elites, Schwab’s exit signals what could be the long-overdue unraveling of a technocratic agenda that aimed to dictate how the rest of us live, eat, travel, and think.
Schwab’s announcement follows months of internal chaos, scandal, and growing global backlash against his Orwellian vision.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/globalist-puppetmaster-klaus-schwab-steps-down-as-world/
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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He wouldn’t be stepping down unless he’d appointed a trustworthy replacement to continue to carry out his destruction.
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British cities overrun by ‘cat-sized’ rats who gorge on rubbish flowing into the streets and multiply at a frightening speed
They’ve taken over major cities including Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.
But rats aren’t stopping there as Tottenham has become the latest UK destination to be overrun by the giant rodents.
London appears to have seen a rise in rat infestations in recent months, with increasing levels of fly-tipping on residential streets bringing in the vile rodents who like to feast on food waste.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14494749/British-cities-overrun-rats-rubbish-bins-streets.html
Sounds just like New York.
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Don’t they have .22’s in the UK? Oh, that’s right.
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They’ve taken over major cities including Westminster.
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Copied from Farcebook.
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Interesting.
It sure does!
I can wake at any specific time I choose accurate to 5 seconds. I don’t know how, but I don’t need an alarm clock.
On a sidenote, who’s heard of biphasic sleep?
In times gone by some people would wake in the wee small hours, get up and do an hour or 2 of work then go back to bed.
No adverse effects and probably a good idea for those so affected.
Meditteranean countries have a form of that by way of their midday naps.
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Yes. It was only relatively recently discovered that this was the norm in Medieval and other times, having been forgotten from history.
The First and Second Sleep.
It was rediscovered by A. Roger Ekirch.
https://harpers.org/archive/2013/08/segmented-sleep/
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Same as Jack Reacher!
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Breaking news: Trump is stepping down as POTUS to become even more powerful district court judge.
/satire
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What would happen if we put Tesla signs on every parliament house in the country?
Asking for a friend.
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Microsoft turns 50 today
https://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-50/
I used MS-DOS 2.0 back then but have v1.0 in my archives.
Gates made his fortune on the biggest lie in business history. Nothing’s changed.
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Blaze Star that’s 3,000 lightyears away will soon explode — and you’ll get to see it from Earth: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’
A star system 3,000 lightyears away is ready to go nova — and when it blows, it will be visible from Earth.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/04/us-news/blaze-star-thats-3000-lightyears-away-will-soon-explode/
/Wording needs help
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Seen on a post on a highway:
“Albo – weak, woke and sending us broke”
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Been looking into the figure of Baphomet over the past few years, here and there, and find it endlessly fascinating. For those who may not know, Baphomet was basically an idol that the Knights Templars were accused to worshipping in the 14th-centuty. The idea really took off when occultist Éliphas Lévi drew that famous image of Baphomet most here would have probably seen. He said that Baphomet was a representation of what he called the “Astral Light” which was sort of like an energy that he thought pervaded the universe, and said the goat represented the “equilibrium of opposites”, male and female, light an dark, conscious and unconscious, macrocosm and microcosm, united as one. This idea of male and female joining as one also fascinated Austrian poet Robert Musil (1880–1942) where he wrote about Isis and Osiris joining as one and becoming a single being. This idea is also represented by the 12th-century figure of the Rebis, which represents male and female joined as one, the alchemical Great Work. No doubt that Jungian psychology and individuation also plays a part in these ideas too, where an individual becomes a unique, whole self by integrating conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche. Just started watching a documentary about Jung on Amazon. The guy was a genius.
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And on the subject of idols of the demonic Baphomet (above), we have this idol of Dan Andrews which is still going ahead.
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No problem; place the statue on top on a long greasy pole. Should be quite at home there.
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2023
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Overnight thunderstorms in the US.
https://i.ibb.co/XZL3QJX3/Screenshot-2025-04-05-08-10-27.png
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When the Northeast is frozen.
https://i.ibb.co/Gv63D7HG/gfs-o3mr-150-NA-f096.png
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