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Trump poised to reshape global economy and how world does business

Every time Donald Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the US, there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down or rowed back.

Today, he will reveal in the White House Rose Garden not just how serious he is about “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”, but effectively call time on decades of economic globalisation.

And it is still possible that he will do this by launching the equivalent of a salvo of ballistic missiles into the global trading system, with a universal tariff on all imports into the USA.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The case for Alberta as the 51st US state

Alberta would make a great 51st state.  It has a population of 4.8 million and had a gross domestic product of $244.3 billion in 2024.  (All numbers here are in U.S. dollars.)  This would rank us 27th among the 50 states, just behind South Carolina at $246.3 billion.  Over 90% of our economic output is from oil & gas extraction, refining, distribution, and servicing.  Alberta has over 37 billion tons of mostly readily accessible coal reserves, the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, and among the world’s top ten largest natural gas reserves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, USA

China’s Tariff-Dodging Move to Mexico Looks Doomed

Chinese firms invested billions of dollars on Mexican factories to make products for the American market, shipping goods tariff-free under a U.S. trade agreement now in peril

Su Xiuyong moved to Mexico from central China 20 months ago. He doesn’t speak Spanish or English, and finds that he hates the food, but the opportunity was too good to pass up.

Su’s employer, a Shenzhen-based construction company, helped set up Chinese factories south of the U.S.-Mexico border, part of a business boom triggered in 2018 by President Trump’s first round of tariffs on Chinese imports. Su said his firm, Jilian Engineering, can build a small factory in as little as seven months in Mexico.

Chinese companies have kept many goods flowing to the U.S. by manufacturing in Mexico, where products ship to the U.S. tariff-free under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump negotiated in his first term. Chinese firms have invested billions of dollars in hundreds of Mexican factories that make auto parts, electronics, home appliances, furniture, medical equipment and other products for the American market.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexico, USA

Fury at ‘self-segregated’ Islamic ‘mega city’ in tiny Texas town for 1,000 new Muslim homes… as chilling medieval practices emerge

Opponents of a proposed Muslim city in Texas flooded a public meeting Monday in hopes of stopping a controversial Islamic compound from getting necessary permits to begin construction.

For hours, the Collin County Commissioners Court heard dozens of speakers pleading with them to deny the East Plano Islamic Center or EPIC, permits needed to build a city for Muslims that’s meant to be ‘the epicenter of Islam in America’ by organizers.

EPIC, a sprawling house of worship located in Plano, Texas- just north of Dallas- has recently become a target for Gov. Greg Abbott who has accused the mosque of breaking the law, despite no arrests or charges being made public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Lorne Gunter: Alberta Premier Smith’s trip to Florida aligns with Team Canada approach

I realize plenty of Canadian politicians and pundits have been praising Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ford threatened to cut off Ontario electricity headed to the U.S. upper Midwest and because of that was granted a face-to-face meeting in Washington, D.C., with Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary and tariff guru.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Three Words Explain March’s Illegal Border Crossing Numbers

Border crossing numbers hit a new low in March, with federal agents encountering about 7,000 people entering the U.S. illegally last month, mainly through the San Diego and El Paso sectors.

Compared to March 2024, when 137,000 individuals crossed the southern border illegally, that’s a 94 percent decrease.

Homeland Security officials told the New York Post it’s easy to explain the decline: “the Trump effect.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Six in 10 Canadians want to scrap contract for U.S. warplanes: Nanos poll

A majority of Canadians support cancelling a $19-billion contract to buy American warplanes and instead opting for European alternatives, according to a new poll, as relations between Canada and the United States continue to sour.

A survey by Nanos Research conducted for The Globe and Mail found 62 per cent of Canadians survey support, or somewhat support, scrapping a federal government deal to buy 88 F-35 Lightning planes from U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin. It also found 18 per cent oppose, and 3 per cent somewhat oppose, such a measure. Another 17 per cent were undecided.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Three big unknowns ahead of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

Donald Trump says tariffs are coming. That message from the US president has been consistent.

But what tariffs and when? Import taxes have come so thick and fast since he took office that it can be hard to keep track.

Trump has already raised duties on Chinese imports, steel, aluminium and some goods from Canada and Mexico. Higher levies on cars are due to go into effect this week.

We’re now waiting for Trump to unveil the details of his plan for a wider set of tariffs, which his team has spent the last few weeks developing.

The White House is calling it “Liberation Day”. So what might we learn on Wednesday?

‘In the long run, we’re all dead’: Trump allies struggle with trade uncertainty

President Donald Trump is fêting his new tariffs with a Rose Garden “Liberation Day” festival.

Wall Street traders, lawmakers, industry leaders, foreign officials and even some members of the president’s team see only dread.

Trump, at a Wednesday afternoon “Make America Wealthy Again” ceremony, will formally announce a series of new, so-called reciprocal tariffs on U.S.’s global trading partners that he says will restore fairness, free the country from a dependence on foreign goods and stimulate the economy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Europe Is No Longer Worth Defending

Since we no longer share the same ideals of freedom and democracy, we should no long shoulder their burdens.

Monday morning’s edition of the RealClear Politics news aggregator contained a very interesting manifestation of their usual juxtaposition of left vs. right thought pieces. It looked like this…

The articles themselves were no less notable in their approach to the dissipating relationship between a MAGA Revivalist America and a globalist declining Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, USA

Does the US Government Have the Right to Condition Funding to Universities?

Many left-wing university faculty members (a redundancy if there ever was one) are rebelling against the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funding to universities that tolerate antisemitic actions against their Jewish students. They condemned the acting president of Columbia for accepting some of the administration’s conditions for restoring the $400 million that it threatened to cut, and she was forced to resign.

The faculty members are making the absolutist claim that it is always a denial of academic freedom for governments to pressure universities with a cut-off of funding. In making this broad claim, they ignore the lessons of history and the single standard of morality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Off to Canada: MSNBC Applauds Far-Left Academic’s Anti-U.S. Theatrics

Jason Stanley Left Wing Lunatic

MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Monday invited Jason Stanley, Yale University’s so-called “fascism expert” and the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, to mouth off about why he was supposedly moving to Canada. Stanley claimed he was doing so over Columbia University’s “capitulation” to the Trump administration in cracking down on overt anti-Semitism on campus, and cynically used the fact that he’s Jewish and was raising his children as Jews to somehow back up his incoherent position.

This genius is fleeing the USA because he’s Jewish and coming to Canada which is currently enjoying its Liberal-Left Kristallnacht era.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Pentagon Eliminates Lower Fitness Standards for Women in Combat Roles

The Pentagon this week ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat units, a move that is likely to hinder the recruitment and retention of women in particularly dangerous military jobs.

An order by Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, dated Sunday and announced on Monday, mandated that all physical fitness requirements for combat arms positions — units likely to see significant fighting in wartime — be “sex-neutral,” which is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who meet the requirements. The order directs military leadership to implement the new fitness standards by the end of October.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Could America run out of toilet paper?

Americans could face shortages of toilet roll and panic buying in supermarkets not seen since the first, nervy days of the pandemic, according to soft but strong warnings from timber and pulp experts.

President Trump’s planned tariffs on Canadian imports, including 27 per cent levies on lumber, would raise the price of a type of wood pulp that is a key ingredient in American toilet paper.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

US Arrests BC Man, Says He Smuggled Goods to Pakistan’s Atomic Bomb Program

U.S. authorities have arrested a 67-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., accusing him of smuggling banned goods to Pakistan’s military and its nuclear weapons program over more than 15 years.

The U.S. Department of Justice says in a Friday news release that Mohammad Jawaid Aziz was arrested trying to cross into the United States from British Columbia on March 21.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, USA