TRADE BRINKSMANSHIP, NOT TRADE WAR, VERSUS GLOBALISM

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brinksmanship, bureaucrcy, China, Donald Trump, Elitism and Class, EU, JFK, Muslim Brotherhood, race and culture, Ronald Reagan, tariff war, trade war

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“Trade War” is a term the enemies of Donald Trump use to denigrate his proposals for restoring a balance to American trade policies.

Only it’s not “trade war” but trade brinkmanship, which, as it was first used to define JFK’s strategy against the USSR in his years in the White House, were intended to prevent a war, not execute one.

I’m actually old enough to remember those days, and the term’s use so know it’s not unlike the principle’s laid down by Donald Trump in his best seller Art of the Deal.

JFK’s use of the term vis a vis the USSR and Khrushchev was not unlike Reagan at Reykjavik in ’86 or Trump-Putin at Helsinki only a few days ago. In each case the American president, out of the hearing of the media, laid all their power cards on the table, making it clear to the other side we could not be matched. Out of sight of the kibitzers this could be done by allowing them to save face, and go home and give it some deeper thought. Khrushchev brought the missiles out of Cuba, Gorby threw in the towel as he knew they could not match our economy in developing our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and likely Putin got the same message, for of three Russian versions, 1962, 1986 and 2018, his position is weakest. Yep. Weakest.

Trade issues with the European Union and China are essentially no different; known strengths versus known weaknesses.

All of China’s plans for regional political hegemony are based on the success of their economy, and most of that would go up in smoke if America quit buying their stuff. The sheer size of our market dwarfs all others.

(There are dozens of fatal flaws in the Chinese internal management system and the way they did their book that made them vulnerable to even regional competition, with US private sector support, which I first set out to prove in 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall which directed me elsewhere. In Asia I liked working with local entrepreneurs but found American partners impossible. The American manufacturing ethos has since changed, so if I were to midwife relationships today, I’d look for American small business entrepreneurs who are a little more hands-on.)

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Catalonia: What The Media’s Not Telling You

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Catalonia, EU, Islamic State, Spain, war on jihad

As not exactly reported by the Communist media complex in America and the reason that Americans must not give up our Second Amendment.

Wow! Magazine by Joshua Pundit

The world, and especially the EU was shocked at the brutality the Spanish government used in an attempt to suppress a referendum on the independence of Catalonia. The paramilitary Guardia Civil was particularly brutal as they invaded polling places. Over 800 people were reported injured as well as a dozen of so Guardia:

Catalonia is the extreme northeast of Spain. It consists of four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city is Barcelona.

Catalonia was originally an independent principality with its own language and culture. That ended after the War of Spanish Secession in 1714, when Catalonia picked the wrong horse, Spain was essentially united by the Bourbon Philip V of Spain and Catalan was replaced on all legal documents with Castilian Spanish.

But Catalonia has remained something of a separate part of Spain, with a unique culture. During the Spanish Civil War, Catalonia, which had socialist movements as an important part of its politics dating back to the mid 19th century sided with the Republic against Franco, which again led to a certain amount of repression when Franco won, including abolishing Catalan institutions and banning the official use of the Catalan language again. Things eased up in the latter part of Franco’s rule, and considerably more after Franco died in 1975.

The current independence movement started in 2014, and the current referendum proceeded as planned by Catalonia’s regional government even after Spain’s courts declared that the referendum was illegal. Proponents of Catalonia’s independence say they won, while Spain says otherwise since in their point of view the entire referendum was illegal[…]

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Charlie Gard: A Society Which Loses its Humanity, Loses its Soul

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abortion, ACA, Barack Obama, Britain, Charlie Gard, death panels, EU, Euthanasia, NHS, Obamacare, sarah palin, Terri Schiavo

Unified Patriots by Lady Penguin

Recently, William McGurn of the WSJ, wrote a thoughtful and compassionate article regarding the situation of Charlie Gard. WSJ has a paywall, here is another source:
I agreed 100% with Mr. McGurn’s perspective, and had some additional thoughts/perspective to add regarding this tragic story.

Let’s go back to 1930’s Germany. Hitler went through the hospitals and killed the old, the sick, the infirm, and the disabled. Family and friends of loved ones who they expected to return home or at least be cared for in the health institutions of that era, never saw them again. Essentially, the “undesirables” of society ended up as part of the millions killed in the Holocaust. Too few people study Germany and the changes in her cultural institutions before World War II, but that’s critical to ultimately understanding the onset of that war. Germany had to be groomed by Hitler in the 1930’s to pave the way for his plans of taking over Europe and initiating/completing his “Final Solution.” Those plans included not only Jews, but the weak, disabled, elderly and his political opponents.

Charlie Gard’s story gives us a glimpse of this same pathway. Britain’s National Health Service has been set up to “own” the individual – whether child or adult. When Charlie was born and had to be placed in neonatal intensive care, the NHS terminated the parental rights of Charlie’s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard. The parents have spent precious months fighting for the right to take the baby out of the NHS and come to America where a physician was willing to try an experimental treatment. In baby Charlie’s case, it wasn’t even about money because the parents had independently raised the necessary funds, but it is/was about who has the RIGHT to determine what was best for Charlie.

The parents wanted to try anything possible to save his life – the State decided nothing was possible and took all control of Charlie away from Connie and Chris. This is what happens in a State controlled health service. The parents appealed to the European Union’s High Court, and the decision of the UK Court AND the National Health Service was upheld. Considering what is happening in the Netherlands – their open and almost gleeful embrace of euthanasia, assisted suicide – the EU Court siding with Britain’s NHS is no surprise. Read another WSJ article, “In the Netherlands, the Doctor Will Kill You Now” by Kees van der Staaij[…]

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Theresa May Invokes Article 50

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A very interesting session in Parliament leading up to Theresa May’s statement invoking Article 50.

May began her statement with the announcement that the six-page letter invoking Article 50 had been delivered to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk by Britain’s EU ambassador formally initiating negotiations of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

May’s statement begins at 44:35 of video.

Streamed live 4 hours ago by Guardian Wires

Live from the House of Commons. Theresa May will call on the British people to unite as she triggers article 50, beginning a two-year process that will see the UK leave the European Union and sever a political relationship that has lasted 44 years.

Below is the Article 50 letter:

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Donald Tusk’s statement to Britain: “We already miss you.”

Brexit: Britain Votes To Leave EU; Cameron Resigns

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Boris Johnson, Brexit, David Cameron, EU, UK

The British voters have spoken and New World Order elitists are mourning today in addition to their doubling down on the fear mongering.

Washington Examiner by Joseph Lawler

British voters chose Thursday to leave the European Union, a decision that could undermine global growth, upend world politics and create volatility in markets worldwide including the United States.

Officials in the U.S. government, and at the Federal Reserve in particular, will be weighing options for responding to any possible turbulence that might result from the “Brexit” vote, a historic development that could reshape global affairs.

Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen warned earlier this week that “the financial market reaction to the uncertainties that would be unleashed by that decision could result in a kind of risk-off sentiment” that could, among other consequences, push up the dollar and lead to falling stock prices[…]

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David Cameron has announced that he is going to resign.

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Telegraph.co.uk by Kate McCann

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union….Flanked by wife Samantha as he delivered an emotional statement outside Number 10, Mr Cameron said he accepted the decision of the electorate, which voted by 52 per cent to 48 per cent to leave the EU. …

With a voice trembling with emotion, Mr Cameron announced he was standing down, before adding: “I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.”

“I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination…”

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LOSER! Cameron should have seen this coming.

 

Talk about timing. . . Go Trump!

Swiss Bill Would Give Everyone a Guaranteed Income and It’s Coming Here

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EU, guaranteed income, US, welfare states

Independent Sentinel by S. Noble

A bill to be decided on in Switzerland would give every one of the 8 million citizens and legal residents a very generous monthly income.Adults would get $2600 a month tax-free and children would get $650 each. No other country has ever done this. [Update: it was voted down]

It is a key Marxist ideal.

Someone who currently earns, say, $6,500 month would not receive any money from the government but $2,600 of it

would not be taxed.

For those getting welfare or other social benefits, payments of up to $2,600 a month would be replaced by the new basic income. Anything over this amount would continue to be provided as a separate payment and taxed accordingly.

Theoretically, a family of two non-working adults and two children at home would be eligible for $6,500 a month, or $78,000 a year tax-free. That’s nearly twice the after-tax income of a typical American family.

Everyone would get it, regardless of work status, income level, or wealth or deadbeat status[…]

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These redistribution of wealth schemes are all about total dominance over our money and labor.  Entitlement minded deadbeats coveting that which they have not earned would do well to look at Venezuela and how their utopic dreams has become a nightmare for everyone except the ruling elites.