Notices by Mr. Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)

When a company moves its manufacturing to China the Chinese government instantly owns their means of production. That's the trade off for the cheap labor.

If a company decided to move manufacturing back to the US they have to start completely from scratch with all new equipment, etc.

That sounds great, but the US doesn't make very much of this equipment so it must be bought from overseas.

Companies are NOT "pouring" back into the USA. They're just not.

The #EU will launch its first countermeasures against #Trump's tariffs next week, the bloc's members agreed on Wed, joining #China & #Canada in retaliating & escalating a global #trade conflict.

The approval came on the day that Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs on the EU & dozens of countries took effect, including massive 104% duties on China, extending his tariff onslaught & spurring more widespread selling across #markets.

#economy #inflation #recession #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-start-retaliating-against-us-tariffs-tuesday-2025-04-09/

Kyle is not only in a flannel shirt and jeans, he’s carrying a book bag with working zipper and inside the bag he’s carrying a tiny tarot card set and has a journal with one of the poems he wrote in it! And other details but no spoilers 😅

Ana Vidovic
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
(Francisco Tárrega)

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fwjX-m4LkYk

Playing For Change
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
(Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes)

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ONS-itFKSSI

Playing For Change
Black Leaves
Kirby

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TIRz8k-kzDc

Playing For Change
Crossroads

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RCisGFYDrKQ

Rich guy now reading the return policy.

https://www.ft.com/content/56b9c745-22f7-4494-b790-37be4c61f6ae

#RedRecession #trump #uspol #tariff

NBC: The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, according to six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter.

Still, the administration has made no final decision and reached no definitive agreement about countering the cartels. And unilateral covert action, without Mexico’s consent, has not been ruled out and could be an option of last resort, the sources said. It is unclear whether American officials have floated the possibility of drone strikes to the Mexican government.

The U.S. military and the CIA have dramatically stepped up surveillance flights over Mexico to collect intelligence in advance of what is likely to be a major campaign against the cartels, which the White House has labeled a threat to national security, the six sources said. The flights are being carried out with Mexico’s approval, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House propagandist, told reporters Tues that #Trump had tasked his advisers to “have tailor-made #trade deals w/each & every country that calls up this administration to strike a deal.” But she rejected the idea that this marked an “evolution” from aides’ earlier comments that there would not be a negotiation over #tariffs, w/more set to take effect tomorrow. She reaffirmed Trump is not planning to pause implementation of his plan.

#economy #inflation #recession

Trump / "DOGE" / Project 2025 guys have been so successful so far because US institutions have already been hollowed out for decades and everybody involved just does as they're told. There are no guardrails, if there ever were.

The liberal cope of bureaucrats heroically refusing to comply just doesn't exist. There are no meaningful whistle blower or other protections for civil servants, and most of these people can't afford to be laid off in retaliation.

Earlier, Sen #RonWyden of Oregon, the top #Democrat on the #Senate #finance cmte, assailed #Trump’s #trade policy as he grilled Jamieson Greer: “The U.S. #economy has gone from the envy of the world to a laughingstock, in less time than it took to finish March Madness.”

#tariffs #ExecutivePower #AbuseOfPower #economy #inflation #recession

#nato #giftarticle #feminism
https://wapo.st/425ymYR

I watched this (Number 1 on the Call Sheet) last weekend and cannot recommend it highly enough; especially for us white folk (most of us need this education).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36005664/

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle."

Frederick Douglass

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble. Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

Frederick Douglass

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

Frederick Douglass

"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed."

Frederick Douglass

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

Frederick Douglass

S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average heading towards bear market, NASDAQ already there. Usually a reliable indicator the US will enter recession. An incredible self own.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce3qnyr7y94t?post=asset%3A1c155ff8-27d2-44d5-b6eb-834958d86b90#post