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All the WEF owned mainstream media are having an absolute meltdown. Only time will tell whether Trump and his friends made the right decisions. He claims that he has pedges of 6 trillion dollars worth of investment coming into USA. The other side are doing everything they can to undermine him. The stock markets were all overvalued. A realignment has been predicted for ages, and long before Trump mentioned tarrifs. The MSM are using the crash for convenient political capital.

I've been telling you for months that something was going to happen because it was indicated by the rapid rise in the price of gold that started last April, long before Trump's election. Post #2172, post #2218, post #6889, post #8982:

It wasn't a secret that China sells treasury bills and buy gold to make the rmb the world new best reserve currency. If you go back to 1944, at the time of Bretton Woods agreement, the usa held more than 50% of the world's gold.
Trump won't bring the jobs back to the rust belt. He will lose them instead. Have you seen the price of robots in China?
 

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$hit hole :D just set all the bins on fire job sorted :p
 

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China sells $trillions of US debt, the Fed limits damage with QE, freezes Chinese bank accounts, USA invades Greenland, tries to compete with sanctioned Chinese manufacturing for 20 years. Meanwhile China and Russia grow to become the only technological superpowers? China holds the cards.
 
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Trump will double down for a few weeks but ultimately, he has no choice but to negotiate down his silly tariffs when it is clear that investors are moving their money out of the USA instead of in. Gatt average tariffs were 22% in 1947 but only 5% in 1999 and now around 2% for a reason.
Supply chains are essentially multi national even down to things like a simple bicycle. Tariffs are a no no. All they do is increase your manufacturing costs and diminish your competitiveness. That is very clear when companies have to recruit overseas. On top of disrupting supply chains, building factories take years, training the labour force even longer so in order to bring manufacturing back to the rust belt, it would be wise to start with tge longest step, science education.
 

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Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs, Non-Monetary Tariffs, Illegal Subsidization of companies, and massive long term Currency Manipulation, despite my warning that any country that Retaliates against the U.S. by issuing additional Tariffs, above and beyond their already existing long term Tariff abuse of our Nation, will be immediately met with new and substantially higher Tariffs, over and above those initially set. Therefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th. Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated! Negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
 
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$hit hole :D just set all the bins on fire job sorted :p
Becoming ??? I think that ship has long sailed

I've traveled a fair bit. From France to India and much in between, so I've met a lot of people of different cultures and been observant as to how people of those countries conduct themselves.

The UK is like the backward part of the world, and while many are good and reasonable people, a great many don't seem to know how to behave towards their fellow man.
 
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Becoming ??? I think that ship has long sailed

I've traveled a fair bit. From France to India and much in between, so I've met a lot of people of different cultures and been observant as to how people of those countries conduct themselves.

The UK is like the backward part of the world, and while many are good and reasonable people, a great many don't seem to know how to behave towards their fellow man.
Like so many of your views, this is upside down and inside out.

I'd agree that in most of the world, most people are basically good. In general when I have been abroad, often travelling on foot with a bag on my back, people have been helpful and benign, rather than the opposite. But I am aware that this depends on where I was and as for your assessment of how 'we' are when you say we are the 'backward part of the world', this observation may reflect where you happen to live in the UK. It is not my assessment at all.

Europe is a pretty civilised part of the world. In general, outside of ghettos of deprivation and horrible behaviour, people across Europe tend to share a culture which is benign. But your remark that we are the 'backward' part of the world, is frankly not supported by the data. The UK has a homicide rate in line with the rest of western Europe. About 1 person per hundred thousand in Europe is the victim of homicide. In teh UK it is slightly lower (0,95 per hundred thousand). In the USA, the rate is over five times that. In many other societies it is even worse. MUCH worse in many places.

Global terrorism rates are low except if you happen to be in the Middle East where it is extraordinarily high, and when it happens outside the nexus of the Middle East, it most commonly involves people from the Middle east. The victims of terrorism are mainly people IN the Middle East. We in Europe hardly feature at all as victims, but when we do, it is very likely to be inflicted by people from the Middle East. Are all Middle Eastern people terrorists? Certainly not. They are much more likely to be its victims than they are to be its perpetrators.

That though doesn't undermine the problem that in admitting people from that part of the world on a large scale, you WILL be importing some people who will resort to terrorism when they feel aggrieved. just ask the French, the Germans and the Swedes. All that notwithstanding, the worst terrorist outrage carried out in Europe since the horrible Lockerbie bombing was carried out by a blond Norwegian nutcase who murdered over 70 people. It also occurs to me that we should not get overly hung up on definitions of mass murder such as terrorism while people like Putin are slaughtering dozens of civilians each day with his war against Ukraine. There is no doubt at all about who the biggest terrorist in Europe is right now






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I found out some important stuff today about heatpumps and gas. I went to the Landlords Association meeting, where we had speakers from various agencies. The first were dealing with helping tenants reduce their energy costs and the second was dealing with energy performance certification(EPCs).

They got together to say that we shouldn't touch heatpumps with a barge pole because they're forcing tenants into fuel poverty. They don't make any savings at all unless the building is modern and already has a high EPC rating. The tenants are simply switching them off and getting their own free-standing calor gas heaters. A lady, who runs a letting agency, said her son is a registered heat-pump installer and gas boiler installer. He has also said not to install a heatpump because of the very high costs of running them.

The next revellation is that today you get a higher EPC rating if you have a gas boiler, but, next year, they're going to change the algorithms so that you get a higher rating with electric heating and a gas boiler will work against you. Nobody has thought about hydrogen and how that's going to fit in, but it's a green energy, so will probably help. Then came the bomshell for me that presently the gas companies are already pumping 20% hydrogen into your gas, with a plan to increase it soon to 50% and maybe eventually 100%. The problem at the moment is the supply pipework. Hydrogen leaks more easily because of the smaller molecule size, so they need to upgrade all the pipework, which they're doing right now,
 

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my house is a pre fab and thought id be clever and pay for the epc cert as try get it bit cheaper fkn came back a c could be a b :oops:

guy bought his house and bricked it up to the tune of 250k and is only a c its a fkn scam!

2 2bed tiny houses new built at top of the road one is rented and electric bill is 4x what i pay with 14kw bosch heat pumps.

i had them cleaned yesterday cos not been done in 11 fkn years 50 quid.
 

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sun was crap today as well so they do need cleaning
 

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my house is a pre fab and thought id be clever and pay for the epc cert as try get it bit cheaper fkn came back a c could be a b :oops:

guy bought his house and bricked it up to the tune of 250k and is only a c its a fkn scam!

2 2bed tiny houses new built at top of the road one is rented and electric bill is 4x what i pay with 14kw bosch heat pumps.

i had them cleaned yesterday cos not been done in 11 fkn years 50 quid.
I got my window cleaner to do mine for £25, which I thought was a ripoff because he only charges £10 for the windows, which takes longer. My house is a bungalow.