March 10, 2025
Out of Africa
Timothy Birdnow
U.S. Marshall had to escort DOGE into the offices of the U.S. African Development Foundation and locks had to be changed. the Foundation staff was refusing entry to Musk and his team and Steve Marocco, head of international aid for the Trump Administration.
What do they have to hide?
U.S. Marshall had to escort DOGE into the offices of the U.S. African Development Foundation and locks had to be changed. the Foundation staff was refusing entry to Musk and his team and Steve Marocco, head of international aid for the Trump Administration.
What do they have to hide?
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Mexico Befouls Water to America
Timothy Birdnow
So they want to play this game, eh?
Mexico Dumps Raw Sewage into River Used by San Diego Residents
I hate to tell the Mexicans but the Colorado river runs through the U.S. before it reaches Mexico. Be a shame if anything should happen to all that water the Mexicans depend on so much...
So they want to play this game, eh?
Mexico Dumps Raw Sewage into River Used by San Diego Residents
I hate to tell the Mexicans but the Colorado river runs through the U.S. before it reaches Mexico. Be a shame if anything should happen to all that water the Mexicans depend on so much...
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The Road to Jerusalem
Timothy Birdnow
Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade over not much worse.
West-Backed Jihadists In Syria Massacre Over 1000 Alawite & Christian Men, Women & Children
Urban launched the First Crusade after Muslims massacred 1400 pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. This was the last straw; the Turks had been systematically harassing Christian pilgrims, kidnapping and ransomong them and generally abusing Christians in the area. But it wasn't much worse than what we are seeing today with the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
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Where is Richard the Lion-Hearted when you need him?
Oh, the Crusades are usually blamed on the Christians these days but the reality is they were a response to centuries of aggression against Christendom on all fronts and while there were excesses and very bad things done by some of the western armies by and large the Crusades were not about conquest nor were they any more cruel than the Turks had been. The Crusades primary goal was to reopen the pilgrimage roads to Jerusalem.
Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade over not much worse.
West-Backed Jihadists In Syria Massacre Over 1000 Alawite & Christian Men, Women & Children
Urban launched the First Crusade after Muslims massacred 1400 pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. This was the last straw; the Turks had been systematically harassing Christian pilgrims, kidnapping and ransomong them and generally abusing Christians in the area. But it wasn't much worse than what we are seeing today with the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
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"After several days of radical Sunni Islamist militants targeting religious minorities in Syria for mass killings, mainly in coastal areas, the mainstream media has belatedly begun to cover it (as the killings are growing to the point of getting too hard to ignore). Some correspondents estimated that there are thousands dead and wounded, mostly Alawites but also Syrian Christians among them, as post-Assad Syria unravels under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) Jolani.
"The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago," The Associated Press reports.
The jihadists, which include foreign fighters as well as ruling HTS members, in some cases are simply going into the homes of non-Sunnis and massacring whole families. The terrorists haven't been shy about uploading their killings on the internet as well as in livestreams. Men, women, children, and even babies are being brutally murdered.
"The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago," The Associated Press reports.
The jihadists, which include foreign fighters as well as ruling HTS members, in some cases are simply going into the homes of non-Sunnis and massacring whole families. The terrorists haven't been shy about uploading their killings on the internet as well as in livestreams. Men, women, children, and even babies are being brutally murdered.
Where is Richard the Lion-Hearted when you need him?
Oh, the Crusades are usually blamed on the Christians these days but the reality is they were a response to centuries of aggression against Christendom on all fronts and while there were excesses and very bad things done by some of the western armies by and large the Crusades were not about conquest nor were they any more cruel than the Turks had been. The Crusades primary goal was to reopen the pilgrimage roads to Jerusalem.
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Cause of Death in Hackman Case
Timothy Birdnow
Gene Hackman's death appears to have been a result of a heart condition coupled with advanced-stage Alzheimers. Apparently Hackman lived a week after his wife passed from sudden onset of Hanta virus. He appears to have been confused and just left her lie.
The dry desert mountain air preserved both corpses. And the dog that died was crated, so likely died of thirst.
It's a very sad story. Read more here.
No doubt Hackman died because he wasn't taking his medications or caring for himself. Alzheimers is a terrible disease.
Gene Hackman's death appears to have been a result of a heart condition coupled with advanced-stage Alzheimers. Apparently Hackman lived a week after his wife passed from sudden onset of Hanta virus. He appears to have been confused and just left her lie.
The dry desert mountain air preserved both corpses. And the dog that died was crated, so likely died of thirst.
It's a very sad story. Read more here.
No doubt Hackman died because he wasn't taking his medications or caring for himself. Alzheimers is a terrible disease.
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Squeeze the Chinese
Timothy Birdnow
Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada to keep China from backdooring goods - including Fentanyl - into the U.S. and avoiding trade restrictions, according to this piece in the Epoch Times.
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Moreover, with European and Asian companies still eager to access U.S. markets, there is hope they will increase investment and manufacturing within the United States. The higher prices Americans experience are the cost of increasing foreign investment in the United States, expanding U.S. manufacturing, combating fentanyl, and reducing the flow of taxpayer money to the CCP.
Canada and Mexico generally have lax policies on China and immigration, which have allowed China to gain access to the United States over the past decade. Despite U.S. pleas to tighten policies and close these backdoors, Mexico and Canada have been slow to act. However, in late February, Sheinbaum’s administration proposed that rather than the U.S. imposing tariffs on Mexico, Mexico would match U.S. tariffs on China. This move aims not only to avoid U.S. tariffs on Mexico but also to counter the influx of cheap Chinese goods, especially counterfeit products.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Mexico’s proposal "very interesting" and suggested that Canada should also consider implementing similar tariffs, which could create a ”fortress North America” against Chinese imports. However, Mexican tariffs on Chinese imports would not impact Chinese companies already manufacturing in Mexico, meaning this move may not fully achieve Trump’s desired outcome. Meanwhile, Canada has completely rejected the idea, refusing to impose similar tariffs on China and instead threatening retaliatory action.
In addition to raising tariffs on U.S. imports, the CCP has accused the United States of violating World Trade Organization norms while ignoring its own extensive history of trade violations—one of the key reasons behind Trump’s aggressive stance. Trump has urged Americans to bear with him in the short term, believing that standing firm against China will yield long-term benefits..”
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I've come to trust Trump knows what he is doing in most instances, most especially where trade and economics are concerned. He's angering long-standing allies, but these allies haven't been as good a friends as they make themselves out to be and it's showing now. Things will be patched up in due course; Canada and Mexico need us and they know it. But China is another matter entirely and we never should have allowed things to wind up where they are with China - we built them into a superpower.
What Trump is trying to do is exactly what Reagan did the the Soviets in the eighties. Everyone thought the U.S.S.R. was an economic monster, a huge superpower. But it turned out they were all hat and no cattle. China is similar; the numbers make her appear to be an economic monster but that's because nobody wants to actually compete with her and push her. Everyone loves the cheap labor, the cheap goods, and are happy to give sweetheart deals to China. All of this was led by the U.S., starting under Bill Clinton (remember, they helped get him re-elected in '96 with illegal campaign contributions.) Just as nobody realized how weak the Russians were until Reagan pushed them, so too does nobody realize that China isn't really as strong as we all believe. Trump understands this and that's why he's squeezing them -and that's why they are so very upset with him.
I've long argued China is a paper tiger and Trump's policy will show that IF it is allowed to come to fruition. Of course, in '26 the Democrats could well retake the House or the Senate or both and the policy won't be allowed to come to fruition as the old "investigate and impeach" strategy is redeployed.
Mexico and Canada are now more or less in the Chinese orbit and that has to be ended. Trump is squeezing them to squeeze the Chinese.
Let's hope he has the time to make it work.
Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada to keep China from backdooring goods - including Fentanyl - into the U.S. and avoiding trade restrictions, according to this piece in the Epoch Times.
FTA:
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Moreover, with European and Asian companies still eager to access U.S. markets, there is hope they will increase investment and manufacturing within the United States. The higher prices Americans experience are the cost of increasing foreign investment in the United States, expanding U.S. manufacturing, combating fentanyl, and reducing the flow of taxpayer money to the CCP.
Canada and Mexico generally have lax policies on China and immigration, which have allowed China to gain access to the United States over the past decade. Despite U.S. pleas to tighten policies and close these backdoors, Mexico and Canada have been slow to act. However, in late February, Sheinbaum’s administration proposed that rather than the U.S. imposing tariffs on Mexico, Mexico would match U.S. tariffs on China. This move aims not only to avoid U.S. tariffs on Mexico but also to counter the influx of cheap Chinese goods, especially counterfeit products.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Mexico’s proposal "very interesting" and suggested that Canada should also consider implementing similar tariffs, which could create a ”fortress North America” against Chinese imports. However, Mexican tariffs on Chinese imports would not impact Chinese companies already manufacturing in Mexico, meaning this move may not fully achieve Trump’s desired outcome. Meanwhile, Canada has completely rejected the idea, refusing to impose similar tariffs on China and instead threatening retaliatory action.
In addition to raising tariffs on U.S. imports, the CCP has accused the United States of violating World Trade Organization norms while ignoring its own extensive history of trade violations—one of the key reasons behind Trump’s aggressive stance. Trump has urged Americans to bear with him in the short term, believing that standing firm against China will yield long-term benefits..”
fin
I've come to trust Trump knows what he is doing in most instances, most especially where trade and economics are concerned. He's angering long-standing allies, but these allies haven't been as good a friends as they make themselves out to be and it's showing now. Things will be patched up in due course; Canada and Mexico need us and they know it. But China is another matter entirely and we never should have allowed things to wind up where they are with China - we built them into a superpower.
What Trump is trying to do is exactly what Reagan did the the Soviets in the eighties. Everyone thought the U.S.S.R. was an economic monster, a huge superpower. But it turned out they were all hat and no cattle. China is similar; the numbers make her appear to be an economic monster but that's because nobody wants to actually compete with her and push her. Everyone loves the cheap labor, the cheap goods, and are happy to give sweetheart deals to China. All of this was led by the U.S., starting under Bill Clinton (remember, they helped get him re-elected in '96 with illegal campaign contributions.) Just as nobody realized how weak the Russians were until Reagan pushed them, so too does nobody realize that China isn't really as strong as we all believe. Trump understands this and that's why he's squeezing them -and that's why they are so very upset with him.
I've long argued China is a paper tiger and Trump's policy will show that IF it is allowed to come to fruition. Of course, in '26 the Democrats could well retake the House or the Senate or both and the policy won't be allowed to come to fruition as the old "investigate and impeach" strategy is redeployed.
Mexico and Canada are now more or less in the Chinese orbit and that has to be ended. Trump is squeezing them to squeeze the Chinese.
Let's hope he has the time to make it work.
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Abrams Admits She Got the Big Bucks from Biden
Timothy Birdnow
From the horses mouth! (And I do mean horse.)
Stacey Abrams Admits Involvement in Alleged $2 Billion Biden ‘Vote Buying’ Scandal
Power Forward,Abrams NGO, was clearly a slush fund laundering taxpayer dollars to the Democrats.
From the horses mouth! (And I do mean horse.)
Stacey Abrams Admits Involvement in Alleged $2 Billion Biden ‘Vote Buying’ Scandal
Power Forward,Abrams NGO, was clearly a slush fund laundering taxpayer dollars to the Democrats.
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Raskin Calls for Trump Censure over Pocahontas jab
Timothy Birdnow
Uh, Jamie - you can't censure the President since he isn't in Congress, you dope.
Raskin: Trump Should be Censured for Racial Pocahontas Slur
Pocahontas was a heroine in American lore, by the way; not sure how it's a "slur" except it points out Lizzy Warren is a liar and hypocrite, as she is not Native American except in her own mind and to the university she scammed.
BTW Raskin is big on accusing Republicans of "slurs". He accused James Comer of slurring when Comer said the DOJ was weaponized under Joe Biden - a fact that should be obvious to even the dullest of observers.
Given some of what RAskin has said over the years, such as accusing Trump of purposely fomenting a violent overthrow of the government, maybe HE should be censured.
Uh, Jamie - you can't censure the President since he isn't in Congress, you dope.
Raskin: Trump Should be Censured for Racial Pocahontas Slur
Pocahontas was a heroine in American lore, by the way; not sure how it's a "slur" except it points out Lizzy Warren is a liar and hypocrite, as she is not Native American except in her own mind and to the university she scammed.
BTW Raskin is big on accusing Republicans of "slurs". He accused James Comer of slurring when Comer said the DOJ was weaponized under Joe Biden - a fact that should be obvious to even the dullest of observers.
Given some of what RAskin has said over the years, such as accusing Trump of purposely fomenting a violent overthrow of the government, maybe HE should be censured.
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War with Iran?
Timothy Birdnow
War draws near with Iran.
Why Does Hardly Anyone Seemto Realize that We are Literally on the Brink of War with Iran
While I suspect Iran would not be as tough as the author seems to believe I do know it would be a lot harder to invade Iran than Iraq or most other countries. The population of iran is almost 91 million (double that of Iraq), and she has a solid economic base thanks to oil. The Iranians are well educated too. And geographically Iran is defensible; a series of high mountains surrounding the interior plain have always made it hard to invade. Shoot; the Romans never could subdue Iran (then known as Parthia) and that was the most powerful military on Earth.
So it wouldn't be a cakewalk, although being a third world country Iran should fold militarily fairly easily to us (the guerilla war will be the big problem). Taking Iran will definitely be easier than holding it.
Not that taking it would be all that easy.
The sad thing about this is that Obama and then Biden fumbled the ball in handling Iran, to the point where ther is no longer any wiggle rooms with them. (Bush flubbed it up too; he should have invaded Iran and not Iraq.) We've had thirty years of bad policy that has allowed Iran to reach the point where we no longer have good options for dealing with her.
At any rate we are facing a grim prospect - either let Iran have nukes or try to kick the can down the road again and hope it buys more time. That seems to be what Trump is trying to do right now.
The whole world increasingly resembles the Titanic when the passengers went out and collected iceberg ice for their cocktails; it was a wonderful party and they danced until the ship was sinking. The party is now over and the ship is sinking.
Is it any wonder Trump is so eager to end the Ukrainian war now? He needs to get Russia out of the mix so he can deal with Iran. Russia and Iran are close allies. If it comes to war Russia could well go in on Iran's side. Trump needs them to stay out of this.
These are grim times.
War draws near with Iran.
Why Does Hardly Anyone Seemto Realize that We are Literally on the Brink of War with Iran
While I suspect Iran would not be as tough as the author seems to believe I do know it would be a lot harder to invade Iran than Iraq or most other countries. The population of iran is almost 91 million (double that of Iraq), and she has a solid economic base thanks to oil. The Iranians are well educated too. And geographically Iran is defensible; a series of high mountains surrounding the interior plain have always made it hard to invade. Shoot; the Romans never could subdue Iran (then known as Parthia) and that was the most powerful military on Earth.
So it wouldn't be a cakewalk, although being a third world country Iran should fold militarily fairly easily to us (the guerilla war will be the big problem). Taking Iran will definitely be easier than holding it.
Not that taking it would be all that easy.
The sad thing about this is that Obama and then Biden fumbled the ball in handling Iran, to the point where ther is no longer any wiggle rooms with them. (Bush flubbed it up too; he should have invaded Iran and not Iraq.) We've had thirty years of bad policy that has allowed Iran to reach the point where we no longer have good options for dealing with her.
At any rate we are facing a grim prospect - either let Iran have nukes or try to kick the can down the road again and hope it buys more time. That seems to be what Trump is trying to do right now.
The whole world increasingly resembles the Titanic when the passengers went out and collected iceberg ice for their cocktails; it was a wonderful party and they danced until the ship was sinking. The party is now over and the ship is sinking.
Is it any wonder Trump is so eager to end the Ukrainian war now? He needs to get Russia out of the mix so he can deal with Iran. Russia and Iran are close allies. If it comes to war Russia could well go in on Iran's side. Trump needs them to stay out of this.
These are grim times.
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March 09, 2025
Trump Cuts Funding to Columbia U.
Timothy Birdnow
Why are these big schools getting all this money in the first place?
Trump admin slashes $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University over attacks from anti-Israel protesters
Why are these big schools getting all this money in the first place?
Trump admin slashes $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University over attacks from anti-Israel protesters
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Hostin Calls for Violence
Timothy Birdnow
"Ain't No Sunshine Where She's Gone" Hostin is calling for violence against Republicans.
Hostin: Trump Presidency an ‘Existential Crisis,’ Dems Must Be Willing to ‘Fight and Die’
I seem to remember the J6 self-guided Capitol tour was called an "insurrection" and we were told it was caused by Trump's rhetoric. Well, what is this but incendiary and violent insurrectionist rhetoric?
Hostin says the Democrats don't know how to fight as opposition. That is true; they've always been in the majority, even when they are numerically fewer, because the media has always treated them as the majority and they just behave that way. Always have. When Republicans have run things they have never actually tried to accomplish anything in the past.
And apparently she doesn't remember the Democrats behaved this exact same way when George w. Bush was President. Ditto when Bush Sr. was boss, and under Reagan. It's nothing new.
All that is happening now is they are actually losing because they haven't updated their playbook (which goes back to Roosevelt) and it's just not working anymore. Why not? Technological innovation has helped,and also they have in many ways worked themselves out of a job (for instance, they have destroyed big labor by opening the borders) but mainly because Trump is not following the script. He's actually trying to win, something Republicans never did in times gone by. The Democrats are flabbergasted at this; it goes against all convention and tradition. Who do these Republicans think they are!
So they rage and scream and threaten. If they weren't doing this I would be worried.
So Sunless joins Joyless in the alt-reality world of the insane Liberal who simply cannot understand how they went too far and blew it. Good luck trying to figure that out Sunny, with your limited intellect!
"Ain't No Sunshine Where She's Gone" Hostin is calling for violence against Republicans.
Hostin: Trump Presidency an ‘Existential Crisis,’ Dems Must Be Willing to ‘Fight and Die’
I seem to remember the J6 self-guided Capitol tour was called an "insurrection" and we were told it was caused by Trump's rhetoric. Well, what is this but incendiary and violent insurrectionist rhetoric?
Hostin says the Democrats don't know how to fight as opposition. That is true; they've always been in the majority, even when they are numerically fewer, because the media has always treated them as the majority and they just behave that way. Always have. When Republicans have run things they have never actually tried to accomplish anything in the past.
And apparently she doesn't remember the Democrats behaved this exact same way when George w. Bush was President. Ditto when Bush Sr. was boss, and under Reagan. It's nothing new.
All that is happening now is they are actually losing because they haven't updated their playbook (which goes back to Roosevelt) and it's just not working anymore. Why not? Technological innovation has helped,and also they have in many ways worked themselves out of a job (for instance, they have destroyed big labor by opening the borders) but mainly because Trump is not following the script. He's actually trying to win, something Republicans never did in times gone by. The Democrats are flabbergasted at this; it goes against all convention and tradition. Who do these Republicans think they are!
So they rage and scream and threaten. If they weren't doing this I would be worried.
So Sunless joins Joyless in the alt-reality world of the insane Liberal who simply cannot understand how they went too far and blew it. Good luck trying to figure that out Sunny, with your limited intellect!
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Missouri Wins Against China
Timothy Birdnow
China owes the state of Missouri $24 billion dollars as a result of a lawsuit filed by state attorney general Andrew Bailey and he's going to seize their assets to force them to pay up.
From the article in Lifezette:
So China not only unleashed this thing on the world and on the good state of Missouri but they also tried to impede efforts to protect our citizens. They need to be held accountable.
China owes the state of Missouri $24 billion dollars as a result of a lawsuit filed by state attorney general Andrew Bailey and he's going to seize their assets to force them to pay up.
From the article in Lifezette:
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced the ruling as a significant legal victory.
"This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world,” Bailey said in a statement.
"China refused to show up to court, but that doesn’t mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation. We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.”
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2020 by former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, accused China of obstructing the production, purchase, and export of critical medical equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), at the height of the pandemic.
The case had faced legal challenges, including an initial dismissal by a lower court.
However, a court of appeals ruled in Missouri’s favor in January, reviving the lawsuit but limiting it to claims regarding supply hoarding.
"This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world,” Bailey said in a statement.
"China refused to show up to court, but that doesn’t mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation. We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.”
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2020 by former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, accused China of obstructing the production, purchase, and export of critical medical equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), at the height of the pandemic.
The case had faced legal challenges, including an initial dismissal by a lower court.
However, a court of appeals ruled in Missouri’s favor in January, reviving the lawsuit but limiting it to claims regarding supply hoarding.
So China not only unleashed this thing on the world and on the good state of Missouri but they also tried to impede efforts to protect our citizens. They need to be held accountable.
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According to Plan
Timothy Birdnow
The cracks are starting to appear in Canadian resolve.
Canadian Premier Danielle Smith Says Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations In First Mar-a-Lago Meeting
Remember, the U.S. economy is ten times the size of Canada's. This is a trade war they can't win.
Also, remember the point of many of these tariffs is to drive American production of the goods we do buy from Canada and Mexico. We'll start making stuff here and not rely on potentially fragile supply chains.
For instance we buy a lot of electricity from Canada. Why? They dam rivers that flow into the U.S. and generate power then sell it to us. We could have the dams ourselves and generate the same power but environmentalism has made that unappealing and so we've made outselves hostage to the Canucks and now we are seeing just why this IS a liability; they are threatening to cut this electricity off, or put a big surcharge on it.
Of course they need to sell the electricity as much as we need to buy it at this point. Embargoing electricity to the U.S. doesn't help the Canadian economy.
All this will do is get new energy projects up and running to avoid being hostage to Canada in the future.
And Mexico? Don't we want to move auto plants here rather than buy cars that were once American companies no made in Mexico?
This is all working according to plan.
The cracks are starting to appear in Canadian resolve.
Canadian Premier Danielle Smith Says Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations In First Mar-a-Lago Meeting
Remember, the U.S. economy is ten times the size of Canada's. This is a trade war they can't win.
Also, remember the point of many of these tariffs is to drive American production of the goods we do buy from Canada and Mexico. We'll start making stuff here and not rely on potentially fragile supply chains.
For instance we buy a lot of electricity from Canada. Why? They dam rivers that flow into the U.S. and generate power then sell it to us. We could have the dams ourselves and generate the same power but environmentalism has made that unappealing and so we've made outselves hostage to the Canucks and now we are seeing just why this IS a liability; they are threatening to cut this electricity off, or put a big surcharge on it.
Of course they need to sell the electricity as much as we need to buy it at this point. Embargoing electricity to the U.S. doesn't help the Canadian economy.
All this will do is get new energy projects up and running to avoid being hostage to Canada in the future.
And Mexico? Don't we want to move auto plants here rather than buy cars that were once American companies no made in Mexico?
This is all working according to plan.
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Light Blogging Continues
Timothy Birdnow
Just a quick note; things are progressing slowly but surely on the home front and while it's going to be a while until I get back to daily blogging I'm getting there.
The wife is improving and should be doing much better in due course.
Please be patient and keep coming back; I'm going to post an occasion and it posting will grow as time goes by.
Cheers!
Just a quick note; things are progressing slowly but surely on the home front and while it's going to be a while until I get back to daily blogging I'm getting there.
The wife is improving and should be doing much better in due course.
Please be patient and keep coming back; I'm going to post an occasion and it posting will grow as time goes by.
Cheers!
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Why Europe Wants EndlessWar in Ukraine
Timothy Birdnow
The E.U. has method behind their madness in terms of their endless Ukraine war policy.
The E.U. Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt
Fta:
So it's being used to justify inflation. And then they can blame it all on that SOB Donald Trump.
The E.U. has method behind their madness in terms of their endless Ukraine war policy.
The E.U. Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt
Fta:
Such strategic independence needs money and investment—a lot of it—not only to boost defense but much else, like energy and innovation; areas in which Europe is lagging behind the US and China. In order to have the pretext to implement this spending plan, the idea among the EU elite is to make sure that the war in Ukraine does not end too quickly. That way the conflict can be used to justify artificially injecting much needed money into the moribund EU economies.
First, there was a question of providing €20 billion euros of additional military support for Ukraine and that the EU self-imposed fiscal rules to be loosened using the existing "escape clause” in the event of "exceptional” circumstances, such as the bogus "defense of Ukraine” excuse. As Bloomberg stated, "under this plan, EU nations would be exempt from debt and deficit limits when financing military expenditures. This marks a fundamental shift in EU financial policy, as such exemptions have previously been impossible under EU rules.”
Indeed, the EU elite does not want to follow the arbitrary EU fiscal rules: for Paris, the 3 percent limit of budget deficit to GDP is politically painful, and for Berlin, the limit of max 60 percent of GDP in terms of federal public borrowing seems like an artificial constraint.
Then there was a talk of a €700 billion euro defense package. Newsweek stated that: "Baerbock said the package could be worth some 700 billion euros ($732 billion).” French President Emmanuel Macron also confirmed this on March 2, 2025. "We will give a mandate to the European Commission to define our capacity needs for a common defense,” Macron said in an interview published in several French newspapers. "This massive funding will probably reach hundreds of billions of euros.”
The official slogan of "help Ukraine defend itself” will give the EU political and financial elite an excuse to turn on the spigots of the European Central Bank at full thrust again; to shower the entire European economy with "free” money, and shore up its fragile economies, like it did after the euro crisis of 2011, with the enormous covid recovery fund in 2021, as well as with the Green New Deal.
First, there was a question of providing €20 billion euros of additional military support for Ukraine and that the EU self-imposed fiscal rules to be loosened using the existing "escape clause” in the event of "exceptional” circumstances, such as the bogus "defense of Ukraine” excuse. As Bloomberg stated, "under this plan, EU nations would be exempt from debt and deficit limits when financing military expenditures. This marks a fundamental shift in EU financial policy, as such exemptions have previously been impossible under EU rules.”
Indeed, the EU elite does not want to follow the arbitrary EU fiscal rules: for Paris, the 3 percent limit of budget deficit to GDP is politically painful, and for Berlin, the limit of max 60 percent of GDP in terms of federal public borrowing seems like an artificial constraint.
Then there was a talk of a €700 billion euro defense package. Newsweek stated that: "Baerbock said the package could be worth some 700 billion euros ($732 billion).” French President Emmanuel Macron also confirmed this on March 2, 2025. "We will give a mandate to the European Commission to define our capacity needs for a common defense,” Macron said in an interview published in several French newspapers. "This massive funding will probably reach hundreds of billions of euros.”
The official slogan of "help Ukraine defend itself” will give the EU political and financial elite an excuse to turn on the spigots of the European Central Bank at full thrust again; to shower the entire European economy with "free” money, and shore up its fragile economies, like it did after the euro crisis of 2011, with the enormous covid recovery fund in 2021, as well as with the Green New Deal.
So it's being used to justify inflation. And then they can blame it all on that SOB Donald Trump.
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March 07, 2025
Waters Claims Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
Every time Donald Trump or any ally of his or even supporters such as myself said the election of 2020 was fixed we have been universally shouted down by the media "with no evidence" they add every time (despite there being all manner of evidence be it statistical analysis or eyewitness testimony or the very obvious fact that juries have sent Democrats to prison for vote fraud in that election). Yet little is said when a Democrat makes unfounded claims of fraud.
Take Stacey Abrams, who is STILL claiming she was cheated in 2018 despite absolutely no evidence to prove the assertion.The media still treats her as a respected political figure.
So now we have the very crazy Maxine Waters doing what she does best. She is screeching like a howler monkey about Elon Musk and his "high tech ass" "interfering with elections".
She said "we’re not going to give up in investigating and finding out.” In other words, if the Democrats take Congress in '26 the whole stinking pogrom comes back - investigations, interference, lawfare. And this is just Maxine being Maxine to the mainstream media.
"We don’t know everything that Elon Musk has done with his high-technology a**,” she said.
"We don’t know what he’s being accused of by some, as it may relate to the election, but we’re not going to give up in investigating and finding out.”
Rep. Maxine Waters: "Elon Musk with his high-tech ass may have hacked our last election” pic.twitter.com/JlBvb4oAbe
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Strange how it's a major issue when MAGA people do it, "election denial" but it's just a fun diversion when a Democrat does.
I'd like someone to investigate Ms. Waters and see what kind of fraud she's benefited from over the years, since she is so gung ho on stopping fraud.
Every time Donald Trump or any ally of his or even supporters such as myself said the election of 2020 was fixed we have been universally shouted down by the media "with no evidence" they add every time (despite there being all manner of evidence be it statistical analysis or eyewitness testimony or the very obvious fact that juries have sent Democrats to prison for vote fraud in that election). Yet little is said when a Democrat makes unfounded claims of fraud.
Take Stacey Abrams, who is STILL claiming she was cheated in 2018 despite absolutely no evidence to prove the assertion.The media still treats her as a respected political figure.
So now we have the very crazy Maxine Waters doing what she does best. She is screeching like a howler monkey about Elon Musk and his "high tech ass" "interfering with elections".
She said "we’re not going to give up in investigating and finding out.” In other words, if the Democrats take Congress in '26 the whole stinking pogrom comes back - investigations, interference, lawfare. And this is just Maxine being Maxine to the mainstream media.
"We don’t know everything that Elon Musk has done with his high-technology a**,” she said.
"We don’t know what he’s being accused of by some, as it may relate to the election, but we’re not going to give up in investigating and finding out.”
Rep. Maxine Waters: "Elon Musk with his high-tech ass may have hacked our last election” pic.twitter.com/JlBvb4oAbe
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 5, 202
fin
Strange how it's a major issue when MAGA people do it, "election denial" but it's just a fun diversion when a Democrat does.
I'd like someone to investigate Ms. Waters and see what kind of fraud she's benefited from over the years, since she is so gung ho on stopping fraud.
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March 06, 2025
Stealing America with Her Own Money
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats are the kings of slush funds and subverting taxpayer money to get themselves elected.
$375B EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta gave billions to charities founded only months earlier
The Democrats are the kings of slush funds and subverting taxpayer money to get themselves elected.
$375B EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta gave billions to charities founded only months earlier
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No Way Hyundai!
Timothy Birdnow
Hyundai is refusing to cancel DEI on the theory that the Democrats will come back into power and they will have the inside track, I suppose. Good luck with that.
DEI is wildly unpopular with consumers. It's main advocates are elites in Universities and activists.
Let me spell it out for these South Korean imbeciles running Hyundai; cancel DEI or we will cancel you. It's that simple. Hyundai sales will drop off if they push forward with this.
And if they refuse to follow the guidelines put in by the Trump Administration they may well wind up being defunded by America and being hit by tariffs to boot.
Go woke go broke. Continue to be woke and you become a joke.
Hyundai is refusing to cancel DEI on the theory that the Democrats will come back into power and they will have the inside track, I suppose. Good luck with that.
DEI is wildly unpopular with consumers. It's main advocates are elites in Universities and activists.
Let me spell it out for these South Korean imbeciles running Hyundai; cancel DEI or we will cancel you. It's that simple. Hyundai sales will drop off if they push forward with this.
And if they refuse to follow the guidelines put in by the Trump Administration they may well wind up being defunded by America and being hit by tariffs to boot.
Go woke go broke. Continue to be woke and you become a joke.
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Savings Rebate Likely
Timothy Birdnow
This may be politically popular but I don't think it's a good idea; we need to pay the debt down first.
Proposed DOGE Divident Could Become Law
Of course this could help in boosting the economy at this critical juncture, which may be more important. The politics of this are not to be dismissed; Trump needs to keep the political good will on his side and only relief from high prices will do that. He was elected to fix the economy as much as to close the border; he's done the latter but now needs to accomplish the former and that's going to be a much tougher nut to crack given the Biden spending is just starting to kick in and the strangulation of the economy has yet to come fully.
So perhaps this is the right approach. We've just got to stop blowing money and Congress needs to grow a spine.
This may be politically popular but I don't think it's a good idea; we need to pay the debt down first.
Proposed DOGE Divident Could Become Law
Of course this could help in boosting the economy at this critical juncture, which may be more important. The politics of this are not to be dismissed; Trump needs to keep the political good will on his side and only relief from high prices will do that. He was elected to fix the economy as much as to close the border; he's done the latter but now needs to accomplish the former and that's going to be a much tougher nut to crack given the Biden spending is just starting to kick in and the strangulation of the economy has yet to come fully.
So perhaps this is the right approach. We've just got to stop blowing money and Congress needs to grow a spine.
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No Matter
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More winning!
Trump Effect: Mayor of D.C. Renaming "Black Lives Matter Plaza”
Guess those black lives don't matter so much to the Democrats in the District after all!
More winning!
Trump Effect: Mayor of D.C. Renaming "Black Lives Matter Plaza”
Guess those black lives don't matter so much to the Democrats in the District after all!
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A Few Thoughts on the Trump Address
Timothy Birdnow
Just a few quick thoughts on Trump's address to the Congress.
First, he handed them their lunches. He pointed out exactly why America is in the current dilemma it is in and placed the blame where it belonged. It's well past time someone did that.
A liberal family member complained about the speech, saying Trump was embarassing and combative. When did she expect? These were people who FRAMED him for false crimes and tried to put him in prison for no other reason than that he beat them. And they succeeded in at least one state court before a partisan judge. Why wouldn't Trump call them out? Why wouldn't he put pressure on them.
THEY understood that, which is why they went into this thing ready to disrupt the proceedings, which tthey did, most especially Rep. Al Green who stood there pointing a cane (which could be construed as a weapon and should have been taken away from him) and shouting over the President. I was thrilled to see Speaker Mike Johnson (who I usually call Tiny but won't this day) had the man tossed from the room. But they were abusive in other ways, booing and catcalling and waving pre-printed signs that said "LIES!" on them. Republicans have never done anything even remotely like that.
Anyone remember congressman Joe Wilson? He was the man who yelled "that's a lie" when Barack Obama was giving a similar address to a joint session of Congress - and t media and the Democrats exploded over the discourtesy. He was reprimanded by the House and by his own party for just one such outburst, and the media raged against this for months. Now all the Democrats were booing and hissing and trying to drown out Mr. Trump, and Al Green stood there shouting pejoratives at the man while pointing a weapon at him (and had to be rmoved by the Sargent-at-Arms) and it's suddenly TRUMP'S fault, you know, the guy who was twice targeted for assassination by crazed liberals.
The rules are a little different when you are a Democrat than those that apply to Republicans.
Fortunately there is a move in Congress to censure Green. They should censure all the Democrats, who behaved like spoiled children.
I mean, they couldn't applaud for a 13 year old boy with cancer, for crying out loud, because TRUMP honored him at the speech. How shameful is that? How petty?
They sat on their hands the entire night. I feared many of them would wind up with gangrene from cutting off the blood supply so long. Lines that should have gotten universal applause was met with stony silence from the Democrats in the gallery. Most had their heads down; they knew they were being destroyed politically at that speech but so fear the radicals in their party they dared not applaud the most basic propositions (like the U.S. is a great country).
And it showed; after the speech the public approval rating for it was waaay up.
Trump renewed calls for most of his projects and particularly concentrated on Ukraine and the need to for peace in the region.
I won't go through the laundry list but there wasn't really anything that new. How could there be? Trump immediately set out to actually enact what he planned; he didn't jaw it to death first.
At any rate Trump had complete control of the speech and the attempts to disrupt it only made the Democrats look petty and childish.
The very fact that the media is not taking a victory lap proves this point. They are trying to hide the truth now. I saw a piece in Yahoo News claiming this speech was horribly unpopular because only 44% of respondants were EXTREMELY IMPRESSED with it, while another thirty percent were just impressed! That's how far they are reaching now.
It's sad; a whole political party has turned completely anti-American and can't even applaud the most basic statements of support for the nation. And the media is basically a bunch of traitors, looking for anything they can find to tear America and her chosen President down.
Watch for another assassination attempt on Trump in the coming months.
Just a few quick thoughts on Trump's address to the Congress.
First, he handed them their lunches. He pointed out exactly why America is in the current dilemma it is in and placed the blame where it belonged. It's well past time someone did that.
A liberal family member complained about the speech, saying Trump was embarassing and combative. When did she expect? These were people who FRAMED him for false crimes and tried to put him in prison for no other reason than that he beat them. And they succeeded in at least one state court before a partisan judge. Why wouldn't Trump call them out? Why wouldn't he put pressure on them.
THEY understood that, which is why they went into this thing ready to disrupt the proceedings, which tthey did, most especially Rep. Al Green who stood there pointing a cane (which could be construed as a weapon and should have been taken away from him) and shouting over the President. I was thrilled to see Speaker Mike Johnson (who I usually call Tiny but won't this day) had the man tossed from the room. But they were abusive in other ways, booing and catcalling and waving pre-printed signs that said "LIES!" on them. Republicans have never done anything even remotely like that.
Anyone remember congressman Joe Wilson? He was the man who yelled "that's a lie" when Barack Obama was giving a similar address to a joint session of Congress - and t media and the Democrats exploded over the discourtesy. He was reprimanded by the House and by his own party for just one such outburst, and the media raged against this for months. Now all the Democrats were booing and hissing and trying to drown out Mr. Trump, and Al Green stood there shouting pejoratives at the man while pointing a weapon at him (and had to be rmoved by the Sargent-at-Arms) and it's suddenly TRUMP'S fault, you know, the guy who was twice targeted for assassination by crazed liberals.
The rules are a little different when you are a Democrat than those that apply to Republicans.
Fortunately there is a move in Congress to censure Green. They should censure all the Democrats, who behaved like spoiled children.
I mean, they couldn't applaud for a 13 year old boy with cancer, for crying out loud, because TRUMP honored him at the speech. How shameful is that? How petty?
They sat on their hands the entire night. I feared many of them would wind up with gangrene from cutting off the blood supply so long. Lines that should have gotten universal applause was met with stony silence from the Democrats in the gallery. Most had their heads down; they knew they were being destroyed politically at that speech but so fear the radicals in their party they dared not applaud the most basic propositions (like the U.S. is a great country).
And it showed; after the speech the public approval rating for it was waaay up.
Trump renewed calls for most of his projects and particularly concentrated on Ukraine and the need to for peace in the region.
I won't go through the laundry list but there wasn't really anything that new. How could there be? Trump immediately set out to actually enact what he planned; he didn't jaw it to death first.
At any rate Trump had complete control of the speech and the attempts to disrupt it only made the Democrats look petty and childish.
The very fact that the media is not taking a victory lap proves this point. They are trying to hide the truth now. I saw a piece in Yahoo News claiming this speech was horribly unpopular because only 44% of respondants were EXTREMELY IMPRESSED with it, while another thirty percent were just impressed! That's how far they are reaching now.
It's sad; a whole political party has turned completely anti-American and can't even applaud the most basic statements of support for the nation. And the media is basically a bunch of traitors, looking for anything they can find to tear America and her chosen President down.
Watch for another assassination attempt on Trump in the coming months.
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