Brexit, for once some facts.

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Look out for fake, scam calls or texts from Belgian numbers.
Why Belgium, I don't know, maybe Belgian telecoms giving them out free or scammers want more innocent looking ones than "certain other countries".
(That rich general/politician/prince still hasn't sent me the last installment of free money :) )
I just got one with 11digits when Belgium only has 9 or 10, be careful people!
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I wonder what bone fide purpose they would have for a Fake Number Generator? ;-)
 

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Apparently they interrogated an old? woman for 4 hours with No Legal Representative. She dies of a heart attack and they also Threaten anyone who objects to her treatment with the same.
Heard of any similar behaviour in recent history?
Tusk, tsk, EUSSR demo-krazi is so exciting it could be your .... :-/
 

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Apparently they interrogated an old? woman for 4 hours with No Legal Representative. She dies of a heart attack and they also Threaten anyone who objects to her treatment with the same.
Heard of any similar behaviour in recent history?
Tusk, tsk, EUSSR demo-krazi is so exciting it could be your .... :-/
Did you lookup details of the case before posting that yt video?
 

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You should look into what happened to McKinley's 1890 tariffs. In just 3 years at a time where the industrial revolution guaranteed a booming economy regardless of policy, the tariff experiment failed, government income was less than without tariffs. The result of that failed policy is the rise of globalism in the last 120 years. McKinley was eventually assassinated in 1901.
Trump blows up the US economy and causes more damage than he can force others to make concessions. The world can live without Trump's USA but can USA live without the world? Answer in a year.

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The tariff was not well received by Americans who suffered a steep increase in prices. In the 1890 election, Republicans lost their majority in the House with the number of seats they won reduced by nearly half, from 171 to 88.[14] In the 1892 presidential election, Harrison was soundly defeated by Grover Cleveland, and the Senate, House, and Presidency were all under Democratic control. Lawmakers immediately started drafting new tariff legislation, and in 1894, the Wilson-Gorman Tariff passed, which lowered US tariff averages.[15] The 1890 tariff was also poorly received abroad. Protectionists in the British Empire used it to argue for tariff retaliation and imperial trade preference.[16]
 

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You should look into what happened to McKinley's 1890 tariffs. In just 3 years at a time where the industrial revolution guaranteed a booming economy regardless of policy, the tariff experiment failed, government income was less than without tariffs. The result of that failed policy is the rise of globalism in the last 120 years. McKinley was eventually assassinated in 1901.
Trump blows up the US economy and causes more damage than he can force others to make concessions. The world can live without Trump's USA but can USA live without the world? Answer in a year.

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The tariff was not well received by Americans who suffered a steep increase in prices. In the 1890 election, Republicans lost their majority in the House with the number of seats they won reduced by nearly half, from 171 to 88.[14] In the 1892 presidential election, Harrison was soundly defeated by Grover Cleveland, and the Senate, House, and Presidency were all under Democratic control. Lawmakers immediately started drafting new tariff legislation, and in 1894, the Wilson-Gorman Tariff passed, which lowered US tariff averages.[15] The 1890 tariff was also poorly received abroad. Protectionists in the British Empire used it to argue for tariff retaliation and imperial trade preference.[16]
I hope youre right. it pains me to say this but there's an alternate possibility - trump, like nixon in the 70's ("Nixon Shock") is deliberately disintegrating the globalised world economy to re-establish american hegemony. whether it works (and US accumulate the world's capital, again) depends on how many other countries suck up and kiss the ring and how happy maga voters are to shoulder the pain. Trump deliberately put 10% on UK instead of the 20% on EU to split it from EU, stop it from aligning against US. the next few weeks will be telling.
 

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:eek:
 

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the new mobility car :p
 

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I hope youre right. it pains me to say this but there's an alternate possibility - trump, like nixon in the 70's ("Nixon Shock") is deliberately disintegrating the globalised world economy to re-establish american hegemony. whether it works (and US accumulate the world's capital, again) depends on how many other countries suck up and kiss the ring and how happy maga voters are to shoulder the pain. Trump deliberately put 10% on UK instead of the 20% on EU to split it from EU, stop it from aligning against US. the next few weeks will be telling.
The situations and the objectives are different. Nixon did the only thing that was possible, stop gold withdrawals. The usa gold could run completely out in months. I was at uni then and my girlfriend was doing 'science eco', we talked a lot of Bretton Woods, fixed exchange rates and Nixon. Trump on the other hand is defenceless against opponents who retaliate with tariffs against us goods. Trump said that 'China plays it wrong'. What trump doesn't want to see is that his tariffs reduce American imports by x%, retaliations will reduce American exports by y%, quite often, even when x > y, the net result is first and foremost is reduction in activities leading immediately to American job losses and corporation tax receipt losses. 7 trillions have gone from US stock market. That will translate to more than 1 trillion less corporate profit for every coming year. That's what happened to the 1890 McKinley's tariffs.
Trump is hoping that companies like apple is going to make their iPhone in the usa. Someone should tell him that it's delusional .
GOP congressional will have to step in pretty soon to stop trump's revolution.
 
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This one is for saneagle. Rachel Maddow (I know saneagle isnot a fan of her) has just released a yt video, the story is how Trump had actually got the idea of campaigning on tariffs. If you believe the story, trump asked jared kushner his son in law to find him an economics advisor for his 2016 campaign. Jared did not have a clue who to call, he went on amazon looking for a book/idea. The one that caught his eye was one titled 'Death by China '. He liked the title and instead of reading it, he cold called its author, a guy called Peter Navarro. Navarro agreed to joined trump's team as his economics advisor. The thing that nobody noticed is that in his book, navarro again and again quoted an economist called Ron Varra. As it turns out, ron varra is a made up name, an acronym of navarro himself.
 

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Good, if it's not fake A.I.? Back to EFTA and sovereignty :)
Meloni: 'When Europe lost its pride, tying its economy to autocratic regimes...etc'. I assume she didn't mean autocratic regimes like Putin, trump and orban? So which autocracies did she mean?
As far as I can see, Europe isn't freeloading on American military, it's rather America spending large amount of money to maintain its hegemony on not only Europe but also on rest of the world. So vance is very wrong.

 
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