Notices by b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu), page 2

As economists and journalists I've seen so far have been just unable to find any real basis for Trump's claimed external tariffs being "responded to", mostly describing them with terms like "magic" or "apparently unfounded", here is the first person professionally within the relevant fields I've seen who claims to have a solid explanation for how the numbers were made, either astonishingly incompetently or more likely plain deceptively, from James Surowiecki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Surowiecki).

White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai claims that "No we literally calculated tariffs and non tariff barriers", while in its claims Trump-administration has reclassified EU's VAT (value-added tax) as a non-tariff barrier while that is just not true, VAT isn't a trade barrier but instead an evolved form of what in USA is "sales tax" mess which isn't mentioned in the other direction by Trump and representatives.

The exception seems to be when a place has no/very low trade with USA, so their crazy calculation can't be reasonably applied, they just declare 10% anyway, like e.g. Heard Island and McDonald Islands with population total of 0,
except for Russia which isn't included and they claim it's because Russia is sanctioned so trade is low, but that didn't stop them from putting other places on the list.

Trump's tariffs keep reminding me of two other events when rulers compensated for field-relevant incompetence through increased authoritarianism instead of through decentralization so that those with the relevant competence, those doing the actual things such as farmers, factory workers, etc could with their deep knowledge decide how they should do things.
It reminds me of the "Great Leap Forward" which leaped the people into the "Great Chinese Famine" and it reminds me of the first five-year plan of the "Soviet" Union imposed by Stalin resulting in the Soviet famine which included the Holodomor and similar devastation elsewhere.

Economic analysis on how "Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists", featuring the formula I tooted earlier in this thread
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trumps-idiotic-and-flawed-tariff-calculations-stun-economists

900 car manufacturer employees in USA "temporarily laid off" due to Trump's tariffs bullshit against the immediate neighbors.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-says-will-temporarily-lay-off-900-us-workers-following-tariff-2025-04-03/
Sooo, guess those workers will just have to "temporarily" stop paying rant and eating then?

Guessing there are lots of and will be even more of such mass-layoff cases soon, because MAGA.

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“I think it’s going very well,” Trump, asked about the market reaction [to Trump's trade war tariffs], told reporters.

“You’ve never seen anything like it. The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom.”

Akayla Gardner
White House Reporter
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-04-02/trump-s-tariff-announcement?cursorId=67EED6DCB2240000

Suuure, "buddy". :-D

Meanwhile, in the really real world...
"Here is the latest chart of the S&P500 as of 2pm ET on Thursday:" (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-world-trade-republicans-join-democrats-block-canada-tariffs-us-politics-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67eeda608f0843b305e4a2fa#block-67eeda608f0843b305e4a2fa)

Trump's tariffshit keeps keeping the markets "boom" going. 😆
"Elon Musk lost $11bn the day after Donald Trump's tariffs [...]
world's 500 richest people lost a combined $208bn [...]"
https://news.sky.com/video/musk-zuckerberg-and-bezos-how-are-the-richest-men-impacted-by-trump-s-tariffs-13342098

Forbes World's Real-time Billionaires [...] Losers
(changes since 5pm EST of prior trading day)
Elon Musk -$15.7B | -4.15% | Tesla, SpaceX
Larry Ellison -$10.8B | -6.24% | Oracle
Warren Buffett -$10.7B | -6.50% | market gambling
Mark Zuckerberg -$9.2B | -4.99% | Facebook, Instagram
Jeff Bezos -$6.7B | -3.44% | Amazon
Jensen Huang -$6.4B | -7.22% | nVidia
Larry Page -$3.9B | -3.07% | Google
Rob Walton & family -$3.8B | -3.60% | Walmart
Jim Walton & family -$3.8B | -3.63% | Walmart
Alice Walton -$3,7 B | -3.83% | Walmart
Thomas Peterffy -$3.7B | -7.56% | market gambling
Sergey Brin -$3.6B | -3.00% | Google
Bernard Arnault & family -$3.6B | -2.28% | opulence brands (France)
Bill Gates -$3.5B | -3.24% | Microsoft

😁👍 :anarchoheart3:

Today:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC):
"[...] The IFRC is gravely concerned for the ambulance crews of the Palestine Red Crescent who came under heavy gunfire while responding in the early hours of 23 March in the Al-Hashashin area of Rafah. Since then, there has been no communication with the teams. [...]"
https://www.ifrc.org/article/statement-ifrc-calls-access-and-information-fate-nine-missing-palestine-red-crescent-medics

Then:
"Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah

Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/israel-admits-firing-at-ambulances-in-gaza-after-palestinians-say-rescuers-missing-in-rafah

Meanwhile, also:
"Israeli army fires at French UNIFIL [UN peacekeepers] patrol near Rmeish in South Lebanon"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/846277/israeli-army-fires-at-french-unifil-patrol-near-rmeish-in-south-lebano/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (which, for reference, organizes the "American Red Cross" and all its equals worldwide),
"is outraged at the deaths of eight medics from Palestine Red Crescent Society, killed on duty in Gaza"
https://www.ifrc.org/press-release/ifrc-condemns-killing-eight-palestine-red-crescent-medics-gaza

Furthermore, "The Palestine Red Crescent Society is devastated by the killing of eight of its medics in Rafah. They were targeted by the Israeli occupation forces while performing their humanitarian duties [...]"
More: https://www.palestinercs.org/en/Article/12024/%E2%80%8FPRCS-The-Killing-of-Eight-of-Our-Medics-is-%E2%80%8FA-Tragedy-Against-Humanitarian-Work

"Shoulder to shoulder, against Fascism!"

The people of Şişli district of İstanbul, the Mayor of which was also usurped during Erdoğan's current coup, keep protesting in spite of heavy rain this evening.
Protests remain completely banned by the decree-appointed Governor.
Also this time you can hear the neighborhood express its support for the protest by banging pots and pans at home.

Police ensuring the safety of the people and protecting public peace in Turkey this evening, by... unprovoked shoving a person in a manner that could very well have caused severe head trauma and then... beating that person and another person who came to help the injured,
probably to prevent the horrible crime of speaking regime-dissenting opinion to the recorder.

The pretext for Turkey detaining the journalist Joakim Medin from Sweden on arrival to cover the anti-coup protests is "insulting the president" (of Turkey) and "membership of an armed terrorist organization", according to dokuz8HABER's report just now.

Now Reuters confirmed the default charges against anyone the Erdoğan-regime dislikes are being used against the journalist Joakim Medin from Sweden too.
It's this https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/109677366052782731 protest in Stockholm that they've decided is "membership in a terrorist organization" and "insulting the president" (...a president who is an insult to humanity).

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/swedish-journalist-jailed-turkey-terrorism-insult-charges-2025-03-28/
Also, I've never seen anyone call that person by the name "Kaj" before...

New livestream of an anti-coup protest (banned) happening now in Ankara, capital city of Turkey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3R5v8bh9js

Another new livestream, this time of the anti-coup protest in İzmir, W Turkey... or rather, the pro-coup cops' repression against the people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXVXEawr2Kk

The Council of Europe (CoE, again: not related to the EU) Congress of Local and Regional Authorities urged Turkey "to stop prosecuting and detaining elected representatives from opposition parties; release current detainees [...]"
https://www.coe.int/en/web/congress/-/congress-urges-t%C3%BCrkiye-to-release-detained-mayors-and-stop-their-dismissals-and-detention

More journalists detained for doing their jobs of covering the anti-coup protests in Turkey, as "Two journalists covering protests detained by anti-terror police"
https://bianet.org/haber/two-journalists-covering-protests-detained-by-anti-terror-police-305927
In addition also the journalist Joakim Medin from Sweden was detained after arriving to cover the protests for @dagensetc, so there has been demand that the government of Sweden must do their job by demanding Turkey release the journalist, but I have not seen any report of a response to this.

"Lawyer of jailed İstanbul mayor taken into custody", which of course endangers the universal human right to defense
https://bianet.org/haber/lawyer-of-jailed-istanbul-mayor-taken-into-custody-305930

Also, here is a summary of how, so far, related to the anti-coup protests Turkey's "broadcasting council silences dissenting voices: RTÜK imposes record penalties on opposition channels"
https://medyanews.net/turkish-broadcasting-council-silences-dissenting-voices-rtuk-imposes-record-penalties-on-opposition-channels/

Now also AFP covers that "Swedish journalist Joakim Medin was detained upon arrival in Turkey where he was heading to cover anti-government demonstrations, Sweden's foreign minister and the reporter's newspaper Dagens ETC [= @dagensetc] said Friday"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/world-news/846078/swedish-journalist-detained-on-arrival-in-turkey3a-fm/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

Archived livestream from a "Great Student Assembly" in Ankara for the anti-coup protests, which ended about 40 minutes ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Me5dA2ECM
This is of course too covered by the decree-imposed Governor's blanket ban.

Representative of the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (DİSK, >300k members) at a rally during ½ day strike in İzmir, W Turkey, called for a general strike and resistance against economic injustice, political oppression and violations of democratic rights.