And the COVID virus came from a bat in a Wuhan market. The CCP has 4.5 million shills on social media doing its propaganda. Oh the other hand 500 million Chinese have never had a cup of coffee because they cannot afford it. How does that stimulate the Chinese economy?
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Plus the US is the biggest market in the world. Plus it is both the largest food and oil producer. As well as the largest exporter of both. China is a major importer of both. SO let China eat its cell phones.
The leadership of the CCP is also not very good at leading by anything other than top down authoritarianism. Which has lots of problems based on the fact that authoritarian societies do not put much thought into how to keep it peasants happy. As the peasants are supposed to own nothing and be happy. XI for example told the Chinese people things were going to get tough, and they should tighten their belts. Which is exactly the opposite of what the CCP's winning strategy would look like. They are over a barrel because in their drive to world domination they decided that they did not need a healthy consumer economy. Lack of domestic consumption in China is what Trump is exploiting. There is no one that can absorb China's industrial output besides that US.
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myth number one - all other countries get free millitary support while america does all the actual heavy lifting and expense.
let us consider a list of wars that australia has got involved in , during the last 50 years . most other American allies will have a variation on this.
the US dragged us into
Korean War (1950–1953)
Vietnam War (1965–1973)
Gulf War (1990–1991)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Iraq War (2003–2009)
Iraqi Civil War (2013–2017)
Syrian civil war (2014–2017)
War on ISIL (2014–present)
Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
2019–2022 Persian Gulf crisis
wars in our region we dragged the USA into
*crickets*
wars in our region, that our allies (UK and NZ) helped us with
Malayan Emergency (1950–1960)
Borneo Confrontation (1963–1966)
East Timorese crisis (1999–2000)
Operation Anode (2003–2013)
Operation Astute (2006–2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w ... 93present)
Im sure their is a double reverse backflip and retelling of this which makes america the exploited victim in all this, but its pretty damn amusing to the rest of us.
For the first time in half century, when the war isnt blowing up goat fuckers in the middle east or africa with vastly superior firepower, Europe actually had a real war, with a real dangerous attacker.
America changed all the rules, played the exploited victim, and now is negotiaing on behalf of russia, against the rest of the west.
We can see very clearly, what the outcome for having an agreement with america is.
let us consider a list of wars that australia has got involved in , during the last 50 years . most other American allies will have a variation on this.
the US dragged us into
Korean War (1950–1953)
Vietnam War (1965–1973)
Gulf War (1990–1991)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Iraq War (2003–2009)
Iraqi Civil War (2013–2017)
Syrian civil war (2014–2017)
War on ISIL (2014–present)
Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
2019–2022 Persian Gulf crisis
wars in our region we dragged the USA into
*crickets*
wars in our region, that our allies (UK and NZ) helped us with
Malayan Emergency (1950–1960)
Borneo Confrontation (1963–1966)
East Timorese crisis (1999–2000)
Operation Anode (2003–2013)
Operation Astute (2006–2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w ... 93present)
Im sure their is a double reverse backflip and retelling of this which makes america the exploited victim in all this, but its pretty damn amusing to the rest of us.
For the first time in half century, when the war isnt blowing up goat fuckers in the middle east or africa with vastly superior firepower, Europe actually had a real war, with a real dangerous attacker.
America changed all the rules, played the exploited victim, and now is negotiaing on behalf of russia, against the rest of the west.
We can see very clearly, what the outcome for having an agreement with america is.
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myth number 2 - usa is the most important market in the world, everyone will have to negotiate with trump over trade
This is australias export destinations, Asia is orders of magnitude more important than america.
this is everyone else, only the blue countries are susceptable to american bullying.
This is australias export destinations, Asia is orders of magnitude more important than america.
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this is everyone else, only the blue countries are susceptable to american bullying.
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myth number 3 - asia will collapse without access to america.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-eco ... pe=article
the other sources of these stats are behind paywalls, this is the same numbers
the US accounted for 23.03 per cent – nearly a quarter – of Vietnam’s total GDP
exports to the US accounted for 9.29 per cent of Thailand’s GDP.
US-bound goods from Malaysia made up 8.85 per cent of its total GDP
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exports to the US accounted for around 3.4 per cent of Japan’s GDP in 2023.
Chinese data shows that the US accounted for 2.74 per cent of China’s GDP in 2023, and that percentage increased to 2.84 of China’s GDP in 2024.
from this we can see that being a small ally of the US is the worst thing to be, they suffer the highest consequences.
I can say once again , clearly , and simply, that being an america ally is now worse than being an enemy.
Countries will make the appropriate adjustments
https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-eco ... pe=article
the other sources of these stats are behind paywalls, this is the same numbers
the US accounted for 23.03 per cent – nearly a quarter – of Vietnam’s total GDP
exports to the US accounted for 9.29 per cent of Thailand’s GDP.
US-bound goods from Malaysia made up 8.85 per cent of its total GDP
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exports to the US accounted for around 3.4 per cent of Japan’s GDP in 2023.
Chinese data shows that the US accounted for 2.74 per cent of China’s GDP in 2023, and that percentage increased to 2.84 of China’s GDP in 2024.
from this we can see that being a small ally of the US is the worst thing to be, they suffer the highest consequences.
I can say once again , clearly , and simply, that being an america ally is now worse than being an enemy.
Countries will make the appropriate adjustments
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myth number 4, america is the biggest and most important economy in the world.
you need to be american, and not paid attention to the last couple of decades, to think this.
nobody else does.
you need to be american, and not paid attention to the last couple of decades, to think this.
nobody else does.
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myth number 5, america is at the centre of world trade because america is awesome and everybody else wants to be part of it.
quitely possibly true up until a decade or so ago.
the real reason, was that america was a stable trading partner with free trade agreements to everyone else.
even more awesome for america, everyone else did their trade in american dollars so america could print money, run huge deficits, and still import all the goodies it wanted, from anyone it wanted.
what if someone blamed trade deficits for this problem ? and not america exploting its position in the world and spending more than it earned ?
that person would be retarded, punish the wrong people for the wrong crimes, and leave america isolated and irrelevant to the rest of the world.
which is nice.
quitely possibly true up until a decade or so ago.
the real reason, was that america was a stable trading partner with free trade agreements to everyone else.
even more awesome for america, everyone else did their trade in american dollars so america could print money, run huge deficits, and still import all the goodies it wanted, from anyone it wanted.
what if someone blamed trade deficits for this problem ? and not america exploting its position in the world and spending more than it earned ?
that person would be retarded, punish the wrong people for the wrong crimes, and leave america isolated and irrelevant to the rest of the world.
which is nice.
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It's a tuff recalibration for Mericans.
I saw Douglas Murray on the Joe Rogan podcast, pointing to the idea many Americans have, to assume/believe/like to think, that there is nothing in the world that happens without major US involvement. As if other people and nations are not able doing old school warfare for their own reasons, power grabs without any White Wacko West involvement or Colonial Past to blame it on.
I saw Douglas Murray on the Joe Rogan podcast, pointing to the idea many Americans have, to assume/believe/like to think, that there is nothing in the world that happens without major US involvement. As if other people and nations are not able doing old school warfare for their own reasons, power grabs without any White Wacko West involvement or Colonial Past to blame it on.
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Parodite wrote: ↑21 Apr 2025 13:33 It's a tuff recalibration for Mericans.
I saw Douglas Murray on the Joe Rogan podcast, pointing to the idea many Americans have, to assume/believe/like to think, that there is nothing in the world that happens without major US involvement. As if other people and nations are not able doing old school warfare for their own reasons, power grabs without any White Wacko West involvement or Colonial Past to blame it on.
US Imports as Percentage of World Trade
The United States is the world's largest importer, with a significant influence on the global economy. In 2023, the total value of international U.S. imports of goods and services amounted to 3.83 trillion U.S. dollars, marking one of the highest figures observed since the turn of the millennium.
However, specific percentages of U.S. imports in the context of world trade are not directly provided in the available data. The U.S. imports as a percentage of its GDP have fluctuated over the years, but the exact percentage for the most recent data is not specified in the context.
$106 trillion(word GDP) - $29.28 trillion (US GDP) divided into $3.83 Trillion(US imports)World GDP
The total world GDP for 2023 was approximately $106,172 billion according to World Bank data.
The World Bank also forecasts that the total world GDP will continue to grow, with the latest forecast for 2024 indicating a value of $109.02 trillion.
Which means the US accounts for 5% of world GDP outside of the US. The average world GDP annual growth since 1961 is something like 1.5%
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I still remember as the pre-Napster pop music industry collapsed, the biggest amount of piracy was coming from the Netherlands, which had laws in place making it hard for the English-speaking music industry to protect and enforce their property rights.
Further complicating the picture was the fact that the piracy was so thoroughly penetrating the para-English speaking market, a lot of executives figured the piracy was going to be a good thing in the long run where their product could completely swamp old barriers and then they'll figure out how to make money off of it later.
So the strategy going forward was to raise prices in the anglo-speaking world and severely punish downloading there; hence things like the very invasive spy software put on albums like Foo Fighter's "One by One" in those markets and very aggressive legal pursuits of bankrupting families because little timmy downloaded the latest metallica single.
A lot of families were punished in America, Australia and Britain to make up for the insane amounts of data little johannes was downloading.
But this was progress and the future. It was just a given that the dutch and european kids were an exciting new frontier for growth and a real market. The anglo kids were an ungrateful and contemptuous rabbles of numbers on an excel spreadsheet that were supposed to operate in very specific ways to protect the industry at all costs.
At no point did anyone advocate for them or even suggest protecting them to the extent of the dutch kids of course. Who would've thought of something like that?
Well the future came, no money was made and all the markets collapsed. Kids moved on to other things.
Probably nothing to learn from any of this.
Further complicating the picture was the fact that the piracy was so thoroughly penetrating the para-English speaking market, a lot of executives figured the piracy was going to be a good thing in the long run where their product could completely swamp old barriers and then they'll figure out how to make money off of it later.
So the strategy going forward was to raise prices in the anglo-speaking world and severely punish downloading there; hence things like the very invasive spy software put on albums like Foo Fighter's "One by One" in those markets and very aggressive legal pursuits of bankrupting families because little timmy downloaded the latest metallica single.
A lot of families were punished in America, Australia and Britain to make up for the insane amounts of data little johannes was downloading.
But this was progress and the future. It was just a given that the dutch and european kids were an exciting new frontier for growth and a real market. The anglo kids were an ungrateful and contemptuous rabbles of numbers on an excel spreadsheet that were supposed to operate in very specific ways to protect the industry at all costs.
At no point did anyone advocate for them or even suggest protecting them to the extent of the dutch kids of course. Who would've thought of something like that?
Well the future came, no money was made and all the markets collapsed. Kids moved on to other things.
Probably nothing to learn from any of this.
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As I recall the industry went after people that shared the music for others. By some pretty shady lawfare. But you are talking about an industry that lobbied congress into putting a tax on all cassette tapes sold for any use to pay the music industry for any piracy that might happen to their music. So in truth they deserved to fail.NapLajoieOnSteroids wrote: ↑22 Apr 2025 01:13 I still remember as the pre-Napster pop music industry collapsed, the biggest amount of piracy was coming from the Netherlands, which had laws in place making it hard for the English-speaking music industry to protect and enforce their property rights.
Further complicating the picture was the fact that the piracy was so thoroughly penetrating the para-English speaking market, a lot of executives figured the piracy was going to be a good thing in the long run where their product could completely swamp old barriers and then they'll figure out how to make money off of it later.
So the strategy going forward was to raise prices in the anglo-speaking world and severely punish downloading there; hence things like the very invasive spy software put on albums like Foo Fighter's "One by One" in those markets and very aggressive legal pursuits of bankrupting families because little timmy downloaded the latest metallica single.
A lot of families were punished in America, Australia and Britain to make up for the insane amounts of data little johannes was downloading.
But this was progress and the future. It was just a given that the dutch and european kids were an exciting new frontier for growth and a real market. The anglo kids were an ungrateful and contemptuous rabbles of numbers on an excel spreadsheet that were supposed to operate in very specific ways to protect the industry at all costs.
At no point did anyone advocate for them or even suggest protecting them to the extent of the dutch kids of course. Who would've thought of something like that?
Well the future came, no money was made and all the markets collapsed. Kids moved on to other things.
Probably nothing to learn from any of this.
Nothing to do with the subject here but I am thinking of changing careers and becoming a pirate.
Could American PIRATES help win a war with China?
So when my grand kids ask me what I did in the war. I can honestly say "I was a pirate"
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NapLajoieOnSteroids
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It gets scummier than that.
A part of the story is of course having no defense against corporations.
Another one is a bit more between the lines.
CD sales peaked as baby boomers and others rebought their whole discography again on a new format. The extra cash from the switch-over was coming to an end right around the time napster took off.
The CD was always driven by the 'upgrade' customer base and not music fans being music fans.
But if you're mucky-muck mid-level executive #5 at universal music group, what is better for future job security? Telling your bosses that the gravy train is over and they probably should start downsizing the amount of middle men they employ OR hyper-fixate and panic about a novelty and position oneself as the prognosticator of the new horizon?
The rational choice for a majority was to stir up trouble, even to a point of contributing to the crash.
A part of the story is of course having no defense against corporations.
Another one is a bit more between the lines.
CD sales peaked as baby boomers and others rebought their whole discography again on a new format. The extra cash from the switch-over was coming to an end right around the time napster took off.
The CD was always driven by the 'upgrade' customer base and not music fans being music fans.
But if you're mucky-muck mid-level executive #5 at universal music group, what is better for future job security? Telling your bosses that the gravy train is over and they probably should start downsizing the amount of middle men they employ OR hyper-fixate and panic about a novelty and position oneself as the prognosticator of the new horizon?
The rational choice for a majority was to stir up trouble, even to a point of contributing to the crash.
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prediction.
the war against china will be started by the usa, not china.
the war against china will be started by the usa, not china.
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NapLajoieOnSteroids wrote: ↑22 Apr 2025 02:51 It gets scummier than that.
A part of the story is of course having no defense against corporations.
Another one is a bit more between the lines.
CD sales peaked as baby boomers and others rebought their whole discography again on a new format. The extra cash from the switch-over was coming to an end right around the time napster took off.
The CD was always driven by the 'upgrade' customer base and not music fans being music fans.
But if you're mucky-muck mid-level executive #5 at universal music group, what is better for future job security? Telling your bosses that the gravy train is over and they probably should start downsizing the amount of middle men they employ OR hyper-fixate and panic about a novelty and position oneself as the prognosticator of the new horizon?
The rational choice for a majority was to stir up trouble, even to a point of contributing to the crash.
It was pretty stupid on their part at least in hindsight. When I was on reddit I introduced a lot of young people to sixty's and seventies music that is free to listen to on Youtube. A lot of them really liked it. When Napster first came out there was a lot of start up internet radio stations. When the Music industry was negotiating with the government on royalty fees there we no representatives there for the online radio stations. SO the music industry reps asked big on royalty fees for them just because they could, and pretty much shut them all down. That was in the 1990 before any sharing services came along. The same thing happened when Madonna remade "American Pie" her remake sucked but Mclean's original got very popular again. Thirty years after the original release. Then there was the movie "its a wonderful life" When it first came out it was something of a flop because it used a lot of cut out scenes(I think that is the right name). Which were new and they confused people. SO RKO sat on the film for 30 or 40 years wanting too much for royalties so none of the TV networks wanted to buy it to show. Then they forgot to renew the copyrights to the film and lost the ownership rights. Once it was free anyone could show it on any media for free. SO it turned into a must watch annually Christmas movie. Just imagine if they had let one network show it once for free at Christmas. So it seems Gordan Gekko was wrong.
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China warns countries against striking trade deals with US
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variations on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_ ... the_monkey perhaps.NapLajoieOnSteroids wrote: ↑22 Apr 2025 01:13 I still remember as the pre-Napster pop music industry collapsed, the biggest amount of piracy was coming from the Netherlands, which had laws in place making it hard for the English-speaking music industry to protect and enforce their property rights.
Further complicating the picture was the fact that the piracy was so thoroughly penetrating the para-English speaking market, a lot of executives figured the piracy was going to be a good thing in the long run where their product could completely swamp old barriers and then they'll figure out how to make money off of it later.
So the strategy going forward was to raise prices in the anglo-speaking world and severely punish downloading there; hence things like the very invasive spy software put on albums like Foo Fighter's "One by One" in those markets and very aggressive legal pursuits of bankrupting families because little timmy downloaded the latest metallica single.
A lot of families were punished in America, Australia and Britain to make up for the insane amounts of data little johannes was downloading.
But this was progress and the future. It was just a given that the dutch and european kids were an exciting new frontier for growth and a real market. The anglo kids were an ungrateful and contemptuous rabbles of numbers on an excel spreadsheet that were supposed to operate in very specific ways to protect the industry at all costs.
At no point did anyone advocate for them or even suggest protecting them to the extent of the dutch kids of course. Who would've thought of something like that?
Well the future came, no money was made and all the markets collapsed. Kids moved on to other things.
Probably nothing to learn from any of this.
punish the ones that are easy to punish, so the others get a warning.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/vie ... 025-04-22/
Vietnam clamps down on fraud on US exports, document shows
By Francesco Guarascio
April 22, 20256:05 AM UTCUpdated ago
A container is loaded onto a cargo ship while docked at Hai Phong port in Vietnam
A container is loaded onto a cargo ship while docked at Hai Phong port, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for many countries, in Hai Phong, Vietnam, April 16, 2025. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
Summary
Vietnam trade ministry issued directive on April 15
Officials told to strengthen controls on imported goods
New procedures on releasing 'Made in Vietnam' certificates
China is Vietnam's top source of imports, US is its top market
US accused China of using Vietnam as illegal transhipment hub
HANOI, April 22 (Reuters) - Vietnam's trade ministry has issued a directive to crack down on illegal transhipment of goods to the United States and other trading partners as it tries to avoid steep U.S. tariffs, according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
The ministry in the directive, which was dated and effective April 15, said trade fraud was likely to increase amid growing tension caused by U.S. tariffs.
That in turn would make it "more complicated to avoid sanctions that countries will apply to imported goods" if fraud is not prevented, it said.
The directive did not specifically name any countries where transhipment fraud might originate. However, Vietnam's goods imports are nearly 40% from China and Washington has openly accused Beijing of using the Southeast Asian nation as a transhipment hub to dodge U.S. duties.
Vietnam has been slapped by the Trump administration with 46% "reciprocal" tariffs, currently paused until July, which if applied could seriously undermine a growth model that relies on exports to the United States, its top market, and large investments in the country by foreign manufacturers.
Under the directive, officials at the trade ministry, customs and other agencies have been told to strengthen supervision and inspection of imported goods to establish their origin, "especially imported raw materials used for production and export".
Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed officials to combat trade fraud, counterfeiting and other issues of concern for the United States as the country readied to start talks with Washington on tariffs, the government said on its portal on Tuesday.
CHINA WARNING
The trade ministry directive was issued the day China's President Xi Jinping concluded a trip to Vietnam during which several agreements were signed, including one on strengthening cooperation between agencies in charge of issuing certificates on the origin of goods.
Earlier this week, Beijing warned countries against striking trade deals with the U.S. at its expense.
Under allegations of illegal transhipment, exported goods from China stop in Vietnam to change their certificate of origin despite no or insufficient value being added in the country, before being shipped to the United States where they can enjoy lower tariffs than if they were labelled as Chinese products.
New stricter procedures are to be implemented to inspect factories and supervise the release of "Made in Vietnam" labels, "especially for enterprises with a sudden increase in the number of applications for certificates of origin," the Vietnamese trade ministry's document said.
It instructs officials to propose when needed "specific measures to prevent illegal transhipment".
The directive was issued after an emergency meeting held by Vietnam's government office early in April, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the duties.
Reporting by Francesco Guarascio; Editing by Martin Petty and Raju Gopalakrishnan
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Doc wrote: ↑22 Apr 2025 17:55 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/vie ... 025-04-22/
Vietnam clamps down on fraud on US exports, document shows
By Francesco Guarascio
April 22, 20256:05 AM UTCUpdated ago
A container is loaded onto a cargo ship while docked at Hai Phong port in Vietnam
A container is loaded onto a cargo ship while docked at Hai Phong port, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for many countries, in Hai Phong, Vietnam, April 16, 2025. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
Summary
Vietnam trade ministry issued directive on April 15
Officials told to strengthen controls on imported goods
New procedures on releasing 'Made in Vietnam' certificates
China is Vietnam's top source of imports, US is its top market
US accused China of using Vietnam as illegal transhipment hub
HANOI, April 22 (Reuters) - Vietnam's trade ministry has issued a directive to crack down on illegal transhipment of goods to the United States and other trading partners as it tries to avoid steep U.S. tariffs, according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
The ministry in the directive, which was dated and effective April 15, said trade fraud was likely to increase amid growing tension caused by U.S. tariffs.
That in turn would make it "more complicated to avoid sanctions that countries will apply to imported goods" if fraud is not prevented, it said.
The directive did not specifically name any countries where transhipment fraud might originate. However, Vietnam's goods imports are nearly 40% from China and Washington has openly accused Beijing of using the Southeast Asian nation as a transhipment hub to dodge U.S. duties.
Vietnam has been slapped by the Trump administration with 46% "reciprocal" tariffs, currently paused until July, which if applied could seriously undermine a growth model that relies on exports to the United States, its top market, and large investments in the country by foreign manufacturers.
Under the directive, officials at the trade ministry, customs and other agencies have been told to strengthen supervision and inspection of imported goods to establish their origin, "especially imported raw materials used for production and export".
Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed officials to combat trade fraud, counterfeiting and other issues of concern for the United States as the country readied to start talks with Washington on tariffs, the government said on its portal on Tuesday.
CHINA WARNING
The trade ministry directive was issued the day China's President Xi Jinping concluded a trip to Vietnam during which several agreements were signed, including one on strengthening cooperation between agencies in charge of issuing certificates on the origin of goods.
Earlier this week, Beijing warned countries against striking trade deals with the U.S. at its expense.
Under allegations of illegal transhipment, exported goods from China stop in Vietnam to change their certificate of origin despite no or insufficient value being added in the country, before being shipped to the United States where they can enjoy lower tariffs than if they were labelled as Chinese products.
New stricter procedures are to be implemented to inspect factories and supervise the release of "Made in Vietnam" labels, "especially for enterprises with a sudden increase in the number of applications for certificates of origin," the Vietnamese trade ministry's document said.
It instructs officials to propose when needed "specific measures to prevent illegal transhipment".
The directive was issued after an emergency meeting held by Vietnam's government office early in April, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the duties.
Reporting by Francesco Guarascio; Editing by Martin Petty and Raju Gopalakrishnan
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Bullying Vietnam. That's the spirit I was talking about.
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The big $$ scammers tend to get away more easily with their trickery. While all small people are held to account and pushed to respect data privacy, big corp and gvts sit on, use and abuse all global "private" data sets and milk it to their financial and powerhouse benefits.
Par example the 2008 finacial crisis where the perpetrators by and large got away with it and all losses were socialized at the back of taxpayers. Only rhe vikings of Iceland did the right thing after the Icesafe scam: put the political and financial gangster pranksters behind bars in a remote vulcano area. Nobody thought ("nobody" being the vested interest scammer profiteers community and quasi knowledgeable commentators) they could even recover, would take at least 10 years. They recoverd in 2,5 years.
Par example the 2008 finacial crisis where the perpetrators by and large got away with it and all losses were socialized at the back of taxpayers. Only rhe vikings of Iceland did the right thing after the Icesafe scam: put the political and financial gangster pranksters behind bars in a remote vulcano area. Nobody thought ("nobody" being the vested interest scammer profiteers community and quasi knowledgeable commentators) they could even recover, would take at least 10 years. They recoverd in 2,5 years.
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Deja vu
The US should never have gotten into WWI. It should not have supplied any weapons to the belligerents. The UK mounted a massive propaganda campaign (A lot of German Americans were lynched in New England as a result of said propaganda. It made John Rockefeller and JP Morgan its weapons purchasing agents for North America.
JP Morgan's nephew was, I believe, Wilson's assistant treasury secretary and he did wonders to get the US involved and then into the war. At the start American law made it illegal for US companies to supply weapons for a war that the US was not involved in. But Wilson was told if the weapons were sold cash and carry to all comers from either side then that would not break the law and it would help drive the economy and also help him win re-election. So a lot of weapons were sold to England and France but not to Germany. Due the most effective British blockade of German ports. So things went on like that for a while until the French and British ran out of cash. So Wilson was told that if he did not allow weapons purchases on credit the economy would crash and he would lose the election. SO Wilson agree to weapons purchases on credit. The theme of Wilson's re-election campaign was "He Kept Us Out of War"
Then after the election Wilson was told that the French and the British were going to lose the war and then they would default on all the credit they had taken to buy American weapons with. and there would be a huge economic crash. They also told Wilson, a progressive, that he would have a huge influence on remaking the world after the war if the US entered the war.
The end result was 6 months after the election Wilson, and the Wilson campaign slogan "He Kept us Out of War", declared war on Germany. Germany who at the start of the war was seen as no better or worse than the French and British.
US Troops made the difference in the war ending it. Wilson wanted no reparations for Germany and all people of Europe should have election to determine what country they wanted to belong in. However the British and French governments wanted none of that. So people in the streets of Paris were shouting at Wilson "Yankee GO HOME !!" Which is where that term came from. So Germany paid reparations Britain and France used the reparations to pay on the debts like those they owed to the US. And Germany borrowed money from the likes of John Rockefeller and JP Morgan. That worked until the Germans could no longer pay the reparations and the loans taken out to pay the reparations. Everything fell apart, and the Great Depression happened even though Wilson did everything to avoid it by getting the US slowly dragged into a war that was not in its interests. Then Hitler came to power because the German elite thought they could control him, and 20 years after Europe destroyed itself Europe again destroyed itself.
And to this day more or less THIS IS THE WAY IT WORKS.
So again why should the American people be forced to support this idiocy with their hard earned money?
The US should never have gotten into WWI. It should not have supplied any weapons to the belligerents. The UK mounted a massive propaganda campaign (A lot of German Americans were lynched in New England as a result of said propaganda. It made John Rockefeller and JP Morgan its weapons purchasing agents for North America.
JP Morgan's nephew was, I believe, Wilson's assistant treasury secretary and he did wonders to get the US involved and then into the war. At the start American law made it illegal for US companies to supply weapons for a war that the US was not involved in. But Wilson was told if the weapons were sold cash and carry to all comers from either side then that would not break the law and it would help drive the economy and also help him win re-election. So a lot of weapons were sold to England and France but not to Germany. Due the most effective British blockade of German ports. So things went on like that for a while until the French and British ran out of cash. So Wilson was told that if he did not allow weapons purchases on credit the economy would crash and he would lose the election. SO Wilson agree to weapons purchases on credit. The theme of Wilson's re-election campaign was "He Kept Us Out of War"
Then after the election Wilson was told that the French and the British were going to lose the war and then they would default on all the credit they had taken to buy American weapons with. and there would be a huge economic crash. They also told Wilson, a progressive, that he would have a huge influence on remaking the world after the war if the US entered the war.
The end result was 6 months after the election Wilson, and the Wilson campaign slogan "He Kept us Out of War", declared war on Germany. Germany who at the start of the war was seen as no better or worse than the French and British.
US Troops made the difference in the war ending it. Wilson wanted no reparations for Germany and all people of Europe should have election to determine what country they wanted to belong in. However the British and French governments wanted none of that. So people in the streets of Paris were shouting at Wilson "Yankee GO HOME !!" Which is where that term came from. So Germany paid reparations Britain and France used the reparations to pay on the debts like those they owed to the US. And Germany borrowed money from the likes of John Rockefeller and JP Morgan. That worked until the Germans could no longer pay the reparations and the loans taken out to pay the reparations. Everything fell apart, and the Great Depression happened even though Wilson did everything to avoid it by getting the US slowly dragged into a war that was not in its interests. Then Hitler came to power because the German elite thought they could control him, and 20 years after Europe destroyed itself Europe again destroyed itself.
And to this day more or less THIS IS THE WAY IT WORKS.
So again why should the American people be forced to support this idiocy with their hard earned money?
Re: Trump Admin | Part Deux
It seems to me these war scams where the US let itself be dragged into other people's wars is a variation on a theme: the generals, the planners, the owners ie.those with a lot of money and power but no personal organic skin in the game drive all big events in all of history. The disconnect is everywhere.
Re: Trump Admin | Part Deux
Hence conspiracy theories abound. Which mostly are dis-information to hide the real conspiracies.
"Hey Joe we have a hot one! 'Q' up the next conspiracy theory."
"Hey Joe we have a hot one! 'Q' up the next conspiracy theory."
Re: Trump Admin | Part Deux
https://modernity.news/2025/04/30/trump ... next-pope/
Trump Reveals Who He Thinks Should Be The Next Pope…
Steve Watson
30th April 2025
One comment
Angers leftists… again
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President Trump was asked Tuesday who he would like to see become the next Pope, and he suggested he could do the job.
“I’d like to be Pope,” Trump joked, adding “That would be my number one choice.”
"I'd like to be Pope." – President Trump pic.twitter.com/WZavhJrKIa
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 29, 2025
“No, I don’t know, I don’t have a preference,” Trump answered more seriously.
“I must say, we have a cardinal out of a place called New York who is very good,” he added, referring to Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
Many have also suggested that Cardinal Sarah would be the preferred successor to the uber woke Francis.
Social media exploded into action following Trump expressing his desire, albeit jokingly, to be the next pontiff.
He’s so funny! Lolpic.twitter.com/ON3v9Gmghf
— Debra17leo (@Debra727lynn) April 29, 2025
Exactly. His jokes make them shit their pants, while we actually get the jokes and laugh.
— hideandseekchamp (@hideandseekyeti) April 29, 2025
pic.twitter.com/Y7EvVaVbM0
— Forrest Bayport (@forrestbayport) April 29, 2025
Day one as Pope: gold curtains, golf Fridays, and choir in MAGA hats. LFGO! pic.twitter.com/FDfMllzlU0
— cryptakel (@Tinnetakel) April 29, 2025
the liberal mind can't comprehend jokes like this
— David Davidson (@brostoevksy) April 29, 2025
pic.twitter.com/2mSLTR9z72
— Josh (@Joshrespecter) April 29, 2025
pic.twitter.com/SpC8URkL3x
— Bayou_Lou (@lou_bayou) April 29, 2025
pic.twitter.com/7odAdUV9wP
— Rhein Amacher (@RheinDAmacher) April 29, 2025
Despite this obviously and clearly being a joke, Leftists were still angry, as usual.
In real life, we term this a joke
— Charlie (@SpaceCowboyUSA1) April 29, 2025
His supporters already do
— William Buecker (@wcbuecker) April 29, 2025
Preaching dogma all day to the faithful – oh hang on – that's what he's doing now!
— Maxwell Black (@Coreandor) April 29, 2025
Yup. Keep laughing people….you think he's kidding ??.
he's Satan.
— Sam Shaw (@SusanTa66595999) April 30, 2025
You must be retarded or in flat out denial. Turns out America didn't need legislation. It just needed a new president. https://t.co/xIBTIqczwt
— Uncle (@UncleApes) April 30, 2025
— Jenn Helmer (@jenn_helmer) April 29, 2025
I'm going to
What a pompous arrogant, delusional, fool…
— meadow (@8888meadow) April 29, 2025
And on and on the humourless misery continued.
"I'd like to be Pope." – President Trump pic.twitter.com/WZavhJrKIa
Re: Trump Admin | Part Deux
Law and Liberty | America's Implicit Defaults
The United States prides itself on never having defaulted on its federal public debt. And in formal terms, that claim holds up: obligations have been paid on time, in full, and in the currency promised. That’s no small achievement—and it sets the US apart from most other countries, as if Hamilton’s dictum still quietly defines the nation’s approach: “States, like individuals, who observe their engagements are respected and trusted.”
But that’s not the whole story. The US has found ways to erode the real value of those payments without breaking the legal terms of its debt. This ability rests on a legal doctrine known as nominalism—the principle that a debt is satisfied by payment of the stated amount in dollars, regardless of what those dollars are worth in real terms. When value is eroded without breaching the formal terms of repayment—whether by inflation, devaluation, or internationally coordinated monetary policy—the real value of the obligation is reduced. Legally, it’s not a default, but economically, it may be.
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