Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
U.S. Tariffs Spark 64% Drop in Imports, 49% Decline in Container Bookings
April 14th, 2025Via: Word on the Street: The recent imposition of tariffs by the United States has led to a significant disruption in global trade, particularly affecting the country’s import orders. Following the announcement of tariffs on April 2, there has been a noticeable freeze in trade activities, with a sharp decline in import orders. This trend […]
“We Need to Talk About Britain”
April 14th, 2025Via: Sargon of Akkad: Related: How Sweden’s Multicultural Dream Went Fatally Wrong
Britain: Mother Arrested After Confiscating Daughters’ iPads
April 13th, 2025Via: Daily Mail: A mother of two was left to stew in a police custody cell for more than seven hours after she confiscated two iPads belonging to her children – and was accused of theft. … Ms Brown was searched and had custody photographs and fingerprints taken after taking away her daughters’ devices in […]
Gabbard: “Electronic Voting Systems Have Been Vulnerable to Hackers for a Very Long Time”
April 11th, 2025It does get exhausting, decade after decade. Via: Modernity News: National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard made a startling revelation during an open cabinet meeting Wednesday, announcing that she has evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate the results of past US elections. “I’ve got a long list of things that we’re […]
China Escalates With 125% Tariff On U.S. Imports
April 11th, 2025I wonder if some sort of kabuki theater is about to take place, complete with fake origin labels and warehouses in lower tariff countries… Via: ZeroHedge: Around the close of Hong Kong trading hours, Beijing retaliated against President Trump’s tariffs by hiking levies on U.S. goods to 125%, up from the prior 84%. In a […]
New Zealand Considering Increasing Maximum Residue Level of Glyphosate in Wheat, Barley and Oats by 100X
April 9th, 2025Update: This Just Greeted Me at the Grocery Store For Real pic.twitter.com/oVl2m46soH — cryptogon (@cryptogon) April 10, 2025 — “New Zealand Food Safety deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle says an increase of maximum residue levels of glyphosate found in food won’t mean it is unsafe.” Via: Farmers Weekly: New Zealand Food Safety is proposing to increase […]
China Raising Tariff on U.S. Goods to 84%
April 9th, 2025Via: Yahoo!Finance: China said it will raise its tariff on US goods to 84%, retaliating to the hefty new tariffs on its imports that kicked in on Wednesday. The move came after the Trump administration followed through on a threat to add a 50% tariff on Chinese goods, in addition to 34% reciprocal tariffs, raising […]
Flashback to January: Warren Buffett’s $325 Billion Cash Pile
April 4th, 2025I don’t know how many times I’ve posted about Warren Buffett amassing hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, in anticipation of a major correction in stocks, but it’s a lot. He knew that valuations had gotten insane, which essentially rigged the market to blow. I wonder if he also knew that Trump would light […]
Trump Announces Sweeping Reciprocal Tariffs on Trading Partners
April 2nd, 2025I wonder if Ross Perot is smiling from the great beyond… Remember that? Because Ross Perot’s prescient warnings were not heeded decades ago, this is what a Made in USA car looks like now: President Pfizer Warpspeed Trump Gaza #1 is awful in some ways… and good in other ways. Bringing sanity to trade imbalances […]
Is It Any Sort of Useful Signal That Someone with an Estimated Net Worth Between $60 and $80 Million Fled California Because of High Taxes, High Prices, High Crime and Government Mismanagement?
April 2nd, 2025Has the situation in California crossed some sort of red line, where even seriously wealthy people can’t stand it anymore? With this Producer Michael video below, you might be thinking, “Who cares? It’s one guy.” But here’s the thing: It’s not just one guy. I’ve known a few high net worth people and they usually […]
