Archive for the 'War' Category
Oil Tumbles 8% as China Retaliates with Tariffs on U.S.
April 4th, 2025Via: Reuters: Oil prices plunged by 8% on Friday, heading for their lowest close since the middle of the pandemic in 2021, as China hit back in an escalating global trade war with the U.S. after President Donald Trump’s barrage of levies this week. China announced it will impose additional tariffs of 34% on all […]
Trump’s Tariff Strategy Explained in 18 Minutes
April 4th, 2025I never thought I would see the U.S. resist China’s grand strategy. It would have been nice to have done it more slowly. Factories could have been built, the expertise could have been cultivated, markets could have adjusted in an orderly manner… Nope. That’s not how it’s going to go. Trump has less than four […]
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 […]
Germany: Stern Magazine Calls for Conscription of Young People to Take Up Arms ‘To Defend Diversity’
April 1st, 2025Via: Remix News: Stern Magazine is calling for mass conscription of German youths to join the army, including to ensure the defense of “freedom and diversity.” The reaction to the article has been harsh to say the least, with hundreds of negative comments directed at Stern. The article, entitled “Others no longer defend us? Then […]
“Who Is Controlling RFK Jr.?”
March 29th, 2025It’s hard to believe that RFK Jr.’s dalliances with consenting adults would provide enough leverage to get him to perform in the servile and despicable manner that he has been with regard to Israel. It is just dalliances with consenting adults, right? RFK Jr. Flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s Jet, Attended Party at Ghislaine Maxwell Home […]
UK Government Announces New Exercise to Prepare for Next Pandemic, Tool to Provide “Targeted Support” to Vulnerable Groups
March 28th, 2025Targeted Support. *wink* Also, France advises people to lock their doors in the event of a nuclear incident. Via: Jonathan’s Substack: To support this, the Cabinet Office has created a Risk Vulnerability Tool with the Office for National Statistics. The tool creates a map of the UK for different risks that we face, and shows […]
Journalist Included in Private Trump Administration Signal Chat About Military Attacks Against Houthis
March 25th, 2025How did they get classified information onto Signal? Or, how did Signal get installed on classified systems? Why was the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, included? Hmm… Via: Daily Mail: MPs voiced fury today after an extraordinary security bungle revealed some of President Donald Trump’s most senior team condemning Europe as ‘pathetic freeloaders’. A bombshell exchange on […]
Counter Terrorism Police Probe Heathrow Fire
March 21st, 2025Mmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: Counter terrorism police are now leading the probe into an electrical substation fire that has shut London Heathrow Airport for the whole of today amid claims it could be a Russian sabotage attack linked to Vladimir Putin’s campaign of disruption. More than 1,300 flights to and from the UK’s busiest […]
Boeing Wins F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter
March 21st, 2025Sure, give Boeing a chance, after Lockheed’s $2 trillion F-35 boondoggle. Via: The War Zone: In the biggest development for U.S. Air Force tactical air power in more than two decades, Boeing has been announced as the winner of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) ‘fighter’ initiative. As the centerpiece of the NGAD effort, […]
“European Military Powers Work on 5-10 Year Plan to Replace U.S. in NATO”
March 20th, 2025Good. Now make it five to ten months, with payments for goods and services provided by the U.S. Via: Financial Times: Europe’s biggest military powers are drawing up plans to take on greater responsibilities for the continent’s defence from the US, including a pitch to the Trump administration for a managed transfer over the next […]
