APR 02, 2024

Looks like we Trumped Red China

His protective tariffs ignited a worldwide backlash against the commies.1/2

THE NEWS ON MONDAY MORNING WAS DOMINATED BY STORIES OF AN ECONOMIC RECOVERY BY RED CHINA OF A RECESSION THAT THE U.S. PRESS HAD LARGELY IGNORED.

Bloomberg reported, “[Red] China’s factory activity beat expectations in March, boosting optimism about the country’s ability to achieve its ambitious growth goal of around 5% this year.

“The Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to 51.1 on Monday — above the 50 mark that indicates expansion for a fifth month, the longest streak in more than two years.

“Government data published on Sunday showed manufacturing PMI in March snapped a five-month contraction to rise to the highest in a year. Both numbers beat market expectations, adding to evidence that the country’s industrial sector is building momentum for an economic recovery.”

Trusting Red China numbers is like trusting its statements on covid but the encouraging news is that Red China has — or at least had — a recession. The admission by ourMaoist press shows that the communists who run the joint no longer can paper reality over.

Of course, under Biden we no longer can trust our government’s numbers. Maybe we should just give up on compiling numbers because most of them are just polls (or surveys to use their language).

The narrative about Red China has changed dramatically.

John Austin of the Brookings Institute wrote in Time magazine, “Conventional wisdom that [Red[ China’s economy would eclipse the U.S. in a decade—maybe even sooner—is looking uncertain. The view that [Red] China was the emerging geopolitical power, with developing nations tucked under its wings, is looking similarly shaky. It is now unclear whether [Red] China’s GDP will ever surpass the U.S. and nations around the world are rethinking their ties to Beijing and the debt trap that is the Belt and Road Initiative.

“Meanwhile, [Red] China’s population growth is done. Chinese entrepreneurs are leaving the country. Optimism is dimming among Chinese youth. The Chinese stock market is tanking. Foreign direct investment is in freefall, as global business seeks alternatives to the ‘world’s factory’ that don’t come with the same geopolitical risk, and Big State political meddling. The economic indicators are so bad that Beijing is pulling many of them from public view.”

Hmm. Suddenly those inscrutable Chinese are quite scrutable. The only policy Beijing (Red China’s equivalent to Washington) successfully enacted was its One Child policy. That puts Red China ahead of DC by one.

Of course, Red China’s equivalent to the FBI had an easy time forcing compliance because the people have no guns. As NPR politely said, “the policy's enforcement was especially violent.”

Why did the American press start admitting that Red China is in trouble?

Joe Biden. The mission statement of every newsroom this year is Elect Joe Biden because Democracy Dies in Darkness and by golly Ned, the press will make sure it is very dark this year.

So the Time piece said, “As for the U.S., it is chugging along as the world’s fastest-growing and most dynamic economy. Inflation is down while jobs, real wages, and productivity are going up.”

Nothing quite says communist dictator like calling your leader Uncle Joe.

In Red China, its recession can be measured in kilowatts and empty factories. The South China Morning Post reported on Monday, “Behind China’s new-energy overcapacity as it changes the face of manufacturing and raises the stakes of competitiveness.”

The story began, “Undeterred by the overcapacity that is looming large in domestic manufacturing, and unfettered by the mounting risks of trade restrictions imposed by the West, Wang Rongshuo has still decided to go big this year — with an all-in expansion of his business in the new-energy sector.”

The story saidmanufacturing is below 75% capacity.That seems to mean that only three of every four mills are operating. I am a far cry from being an expert but it seems that building a factory is so expensive that you would not build four when you need only three.

So why are those fourth factories idle? (And I realize that because of the expense of restarting, you might drop use at all four factories to keep them open.)

SCMP said, “Beijing is also facing strong pushback from the United States and the European Union, which have repeatedly raised concerns that their domestic companies have been squeezed out by low-priced Chinese products that have flooded in as manufacturers see overseas markets as the means to help them absorb excess capacity.”

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/looks-like-we-trumped-red-china

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And why is there a strong pushback?

Donald Trump.

6 years ago when we had a real president, he slapped tariffs on Red China, whose apologists in the think tanks immediately mislabeled as a tax on Americans. Um, every Republican president has used tariffs to protect American factories, but never mind, the official revised history of America has him inventing them.

The Tax Foundation said, “The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades.”

Of course, Red China ate most of the tariffsas it wanted to maintain market share. The problem for the communists was under Trump’s leadership, other countries joined in. There is more to the story of Red China’s recession, of course. Spreading covid around the world had a backlash. And communism doesn’t work. But do not discount the role of the wrecking ball we call Donald Trump.

This weekend, the New York Post posted an excerpt of Steven W. Mosher’s new book The Devil and Communist China.

He wrote,“The Trump tariffs—imposed in 2018 and still in place today — set China back on its heels. And the covid debacle deepened China’s economic malaise.

“But most of the wounds have been self-inflicted.

‘The Chinese economy is suffering from a kind of death by a thousand cuts perpetrated by the policies of Xi Jinping, a man who models himself on one of the most monomaniacal — and deadly — communist leaders in human history.”

Reagan took down communist Russia along with Lech Walesa, Margaret Thatcher and Pope Paul II.Trump is taking down Red China with the help of Chairman Xi.

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/looks-like-we-trumped-red-china

OMG Trump did being very friendly with Xi. Xi thought tariffs would go away when Joe got in. But they didn’t,why do you think that is?

I know why, anons know why!

Death to America,' 'Death to Israel' chants pour out of Muslim protesters in Michigan on last day of Ramadan

Dearborn has become a ‘hotbed for hate,’ according to one expert

By Michael Lee Fox News

Published April 7, 2024 2:44pm EDT

Dearborn, Michigan mayor hits Biden for sending campaign to meet with local Arab-American leaders

Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told CNN's Dana Bash on Tuesday that it was "dehumanizing" of President Biden to send a member of his campaign staff to speak with Arab-American and Muslim leaders in the state.

Protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, shouted "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" during an International Al-Quds Day rally held in the town.

"Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America," Tarek Bazzi, a Michigan-based activist associated with the Hadi institute, said in a video from the rally that was shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Bazzi’s comments were followed by crowds chanting "Death to America!" in the background.

Bazzi reasoned that the rallies held on the day "are so anti-America," instead of a focus on Israel, because "it’s the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities," pointing to Israeli’s continued siege of Gaza as an example.

The activist went on to quote Malcom X, who said the U.S. is "one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth," while arguing to eliminate the entire American "system."

"It’s not just Genocide Joe that has to go," Bazzi said, referring to President Biden. "It is the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen, and would support it – such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s Earth."

Bazzi then turned his attention to Israel, telling the audience that when "fools" ask them "if Israel has the right to exist," that the chant "Death to Israel" is "the most logical chant shouted across the world today."

The remarks were followed by chants of "Death to Israel!" from protesters in the crowd.

International Al-Quds Day, an annual pro-Palestianian event that is held on the last Friday of Ramadan, enjoys significant support in Dearborn, which has the highest proportion of Muslim residents in the country.

Celebrations of the day have been controversial throughout the world, even drawing a ban by German authorities in Berlin on multiple occasions.

Rallies to mark the day have been taking place in Dearborn for at least 20 years, according to MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky, who told Fox News Digital that the town has become a "hotbed of hate for many years."

"You can see rallies and sermons in support for Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran," Stalinsky said, noting that the threats emanating from the city have become even more pronounced since the October terrorist attack on Israel.

Michigan Republican State Rep. Phil Green told Fox News Digital thathe agrees with assessments of a growing problem in Dearborn and around the country, arguing that it saddens him to see "the world’s problems coming to our doorstep."

"This type of extremism, this type of rhetoric, this type of division… threats of violence, was a Middle East thing,it seems like a lot of that was limited to the Middle East, and now it’s come to our doorstep," Green said.

Green stressed that the majority of Dearborn’s citizens are peaceful and don’t promote violence,but acknowledged the movements bubbling up from the town are worth monitoring closely for lawmakers.

Dearborn also became the center of a protest movement against Biden last month, with activists from the town encouraging Democrats to vote "uncommitted" instead of supporting the president’s re-election bid…

https://www.foxnews.com/us/death-america-death-israel-chants-pour-muslim-protesters-michigan-last-day-ramadan

Seriously you have to watch this, it’s hilarious

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https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1777073119439565242

Government-Funded NGOs, Linked To NATO, Are Interfering In European Elections

“Correctiv” and “Institute for Strategic Dialogue” are military and intelligence front groups spreading disinformation about German farmers and politicians, evidence suggests

GREGOR BASZAK AND MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER

APR 05, 2024

Sasha Havlicek, CEO, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (left); German Green Party politician and Minister for Family Affairs, Lisa Paus (center); and Correctiv" founder, David Schraven, at an anti-AfD rally (right)

Last week, Public reported that European politicians are waging a disinformation campaign aimed at smearing their political opponents as linked to Russia. The current effort appears related to adisinformation operation by the French military. In February, French military officials claimed that “websites” were promoting “an anti-French narrative.”

In February and now, Western government officials made accusations against their political enemies but made no arrests and announced no prosecutions, which likely means they do not have any evidence of criminal activity. As such, government military and intelligence agencies are engaged in essentially political activities unrelated to national security and thus illegal.

Now, Public has learned that both NATO-funded and government-funded NGOs are working with government bodies to interfere in German elections.Their “influence operation” aims to keep Germany in line with American foreign policyobjectives andundermine the European peace movement.

The evidence suggests thatEuropean intelligence agencies and NATO are breaking domestic EU laws against foreign election interference. The EU prohibits elected officials and politicians from using military, intelligence, and security agencies to advance political and electoral means.

(They really don’t like Populists or Peace in the EU!)

https://public.substack.com/p/government-funded-ngos-linked-to

What is matter? It’s not as basic as you’d think.

Rahul Rao Sep 25, 2023

(An atom consists of protons, neutrons, electrons, and a nucleus. But matter consists of a whole lot more. Deposit Photos)

A little less than one-third of the universe—around 31 percent—consists of matter. A new calculation confirms that number; astrophysicists have long believed that something other than tangible stuff makes up the majority of our reality. So then, what is matter exactly?

One of the hallmarks of Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity is that mass and energy are inseparable. All mass has intrinsic energy; this is the significance of Einstein’s famous E=mc2 equation. When cosmologists weigh the universe, they’re measuring both mass and energy at once. And 31 percent of that amount is matter,whether it’s visible or invisible.

That difference is key: Not all matter is alike. Very little of it, in fact, forms the objects we can see or touch. The universe is replete with examples of matter that are far stranger.

What is matter?

When we think of “matter,” we might picture the objects we see or their basic building block: the atom.

Our conception of the atom has evolved over years. Thinkers throughout history had vague ideas that existence could be divided into basic components. But something that resembles the modern idea of the atom is generally credited to British chemist John Dalton. In 1808, he proposed that indivisible particles made up matter. Different base substances—the elements—arose from atoms with different sizes, masses, and properties.

(John Dalton, a Quaker teacher, suggested that each element is made of characteristic atoms and that the weight ratio of the atoms in the products will be the same as the ratio for the reactants. SSLP/Getty Images)

Dalton’s schema had 20 elements. Combining those elements created more complex chemical compounds. When the chemist Dmitri Mendeleev constructed a primitive period table in 1869, he listed 63 elements. Today we have cataloged 118.

But if only it were that simple. Since the early 20th century, physicists have known that tinier building blocks lurk within atoms: swirling negatively charged electrons and shrouded nuclei, made from positively charged protons and neutral neutrons. We know now, too, that each element corresponds to atoms with a certain number of protons.

And it’s still not that simple. By the middle of the century, physicists realized that protons and neutrons are actually combinations of even tinier particles, called quarks. To be precise, protons and neutrons both contain three quarks each: a configuration type that physicists call baryons. For that reason, protons, neutrons, and the matter they form—the stuff of our daily lives—are often called “baryonic matter.”

==Strange matter in the sky=

In our everyday world, baryonic matter typically exists in one offour states: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.

Again, matter is not that simple. Under extreme conditions, it can take on a menagerie of more exotic forms. At high enough pressures, materials can become supercritical fluids, simultaneously liquid and gas. At low enough temperatures, multiple atoms coalesce together, creating the Bose-Einstein condensate. These atoms behave as one, acting in all sorts of odd quantum ways

Such exotic states are not limited to the laboratory. Just look at neutron stars: Their undead cores aren’t quite massive enough to collapse into black holes when they go supernova. Instead, as their cores crumple, intense forces rip apart their atomic nuclei and crush the rubble together. The result is essentially a giant ball of neutrons—and protons that absorb electrons, becoming neutrons in the process—and it’s very, very dense.A single spoonful of a neutron star would weigh a billion tons.

(This animation depicts a neutron star (RX J0806.4-4123) with a disk of warm dust that produces an infrared signature as detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The disk wasn’t directly photographed, but one way to explain the data is by hypothesizing a disk structure that could be 18 billion miles across. NASA, ESA, and N. Tr’Ehnl (Pennsylvania State University)

https://www.popsci.com/science/what-is-matter/

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ContinuedWhat is matter? It’s not as basic as you’d think.

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There are, potentially,hundreds of millions of neutron stars in the Milky Way alone. Deep in their centers, some scientists think, pressures and temperatures are high enough to rip neutrons apart too. Those neutrons may break the quarks that form them.

Physicists study neutron stars to learn about these objects—and what happened at the beginning of the universe.The matter we see around us did not always exist; it formed in the aftermath of the big bang.Before atoms formed, protons and neutrons swam alone through the universe. Even earlier, before there were protons and neutrons, everything was a superheated quark slurry.

Scientists can recreate that state, in some fashion, in particle accelerators. But that disappears in a flash that lasts a fraction of a second.It’s no comparison to the extremely long-lasting neutron stars“You have a lab that basically exists forever,” says Fridolin Weber, a physicist at San Diego State University.

Matter in the grand scheme of the universe

Over the past several decades, astronomers have developed several ways to understand the universe’s basic parameters. They can examine its large-scale structure and identify subtle fluctuations in the density of the matter they can see. They can watch how objects’ gravity bends passing light.

A specific way to measure matter density—the proportion of the universe made up of visible and invisible matter—is to pick apart the cosmic microwave background of the big bang. From 2009 to 2013, the European Space Agency’s Planck observatoryprodded the afterglow to give scientists the best calculation of the matter density yet, 31 percent.

The most recent research used a different technique called the mass-richness relation, essentially examining clusters of galaxies, counting how many galaxies exist in each cluster, using that to calculate each group’s mass, and reverse-engineering the matter density. The technique isn’t new, but until now it was raw and unrefined.

“When we did our work, as far as I know, this is the =first time that the mass-richness relation has been used to get a result that’s in very good agreement== with Planck,” says Gillian Wilson, an astrophysicist at the University of California Riverside, and one of the authors of a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal on September 13.

Yet remember, it’s not that simple. Only a small fraction—thought to bearound 15 percent of matter, or 3 percent of the universe—is visible. The rest, most scientists think, is dark matter. We can detect the ripples that dark matter leaves in gravity. But we can’t observe it directly.

(The 494 xenon-filled photomultipliers on the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector can sense solitary photons from deep space. LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment)

Consequently, we aren’t certain what dark matter is.Some scientists believe it is baryonic matter, just in a form that we can’t easily see: Perhaps it is black holes that formed in the early universe, for instance. Others believe it consists of particles that must barely interact at all with our familiar matter. Some scientists believe it is a mix of these. And at least some scientists believe that dark matter does not exist at all.

If it does exist, we might see it with a new generation of telescopes, such as eROSITA, the Rubin Observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and Euclid, that can scan ever greater swathes of the universe and see a wider variety of galaxies at different times in cosmic history. “These new surveys might change our understanding of the whole universe [and its matter],” says Mohamed El Hashash, an astrophysicist at the University of California Riverside, and another of the authors. “This is what I personally expect.”

https://www.popsci.com/science/what-is-matter/

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I had to reread that 3x. Thx for your input. Always fun to go off in a direction thats non political!