Trump – China Announce Interim Tariffs Deal

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

Oh, this must be giving Democrats a serious case of heartburn

US, China announce reduced tariffs for 90 days after trade talks

The U.S. and China announced on Monday that tariffs against one another will be reduced for a 90-day period after officials held trade negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.

The tariffs President Donald Trump announced against China on April 2 are being cut by 24 percentage points for this temporary period while retaining the remaining ad valorem rate of 10% from that announcement, according to a joint statement.

China agreed to the same stipulations, adding that it will “adopt all necessary administrative measures to suspend or remove the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2,” the announcement stated.

Under the deal, reciprocal tariffs for both countries would be reduced by 115%. The U.S. will temporarily lower its tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, and China will reduce its levies on American products from 125% to 10%.

Both the U.S. and China agreed to take the aforementioned actions by Wednesday.

Could this turn into something long lasting? The NY Times, Washington Post, and many other Credentialed Media outlets are gently naysaying this, almost like they want Trump, meaning America, to lose. Reducing tariffs on exported American goods would be a good thing, right, especially to China? Hey, maybe this would lead to all those Chinese EVs being brought over. You’d like that, NY Times and Washington Post, right? You’ve posted articles about how great they are and so much less expensive many times.

The two sides also agreed to “establish a mechanism” to continue discussions about economic and trade relations, which will be led by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, according to the joint statement.

It’s good that you have business people who want to protect the U.S. first, rather than squishy diplomats squishing around.

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Doom Today: Bananas Under Threat From Global Boiling

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

Well, this is horrible

Bananas under threat as rising temperatures killing crops – report

Bananas are coming under increasing threat from climate change, and farmers saying extreme weather is “killing” their crops, according to a report.

An analysis by international development charity Christian Aid released on Monday shows rising temperatures and climate-related pests are putting bananas at risk.

It found that nearly two-thirds of the most suitable banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean – a region responsible for around 80% of the world’s banana exports – could be lost by 2080 due to climate impacts.

Bananas grow in a temperature range of between 15-35C but are also very sensitive to water shortages, meaning increasingly extreme weather is affecting the plant’s ability to photosynthesise.

Oh, phew, it’s in the far flung future. Surprise? It was just last year that we were told that climate doom would just make bananas more expensive.

In light of the findings, Christian Aid is urging developed nations to urgently reduce their carbon emissions to stem the growing impacts of climate change.

It also calls for international climate finance to support banana growers and agricultural communities to adapt to the changing climate.

Government force and redistribution of money from the 1st world to the 3rd.

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UK Plans To End Mass Immigration Or Something

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 6:45 am

Could this be the Trump effect, stopping all the criminals and parasites from coming in? Maybe getting them out of the UK?

UK plans to end ‘failed free market experiment’ in immigration

The British government outlined plans on Sunday to end what it called the “failed free market experiment” in mass immigration by restricting skilled worker visas to graduate-level jobs and forcing businesses to increase training for local workers.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to cut net migration after the success of Nigel Farage’s right-wing, anti-immigration Reform UK party in local elections this month.

Under the government’s new plans, skilled visas will only be granted to people in graduate jobs, while visas for lower-skilled roles will only be issued in areas critical to the nation’s industrial strategy, and in return businesses must increase training of British workers.

The Labour government said the changes will be part of a policy document, known as a white paper, to be published on Monday setting out how ministers plan to reduce immigration.

After Britain eventually left the EU in 2020, the then Conservative government reduced the threshold to allow workers in categories such as yoga teachers, dog walkers and DJs to be eligible for skilled worker visas.

“We inherited a failed immigration system where the previous government replaced free movement with a free market experiment,” Yvette Cooper, the British interior minister, said in a statement. “We are taking decisive action to restore control and order to the immigration system.”

Are you getting the idea that this only applies to productive people, ones who contribute, who aren’t on the public dole and looking to change the UK into something else?

Net migration, or the number of people coming to Britain minus the number leaving, rose to a record 906,000 people in the year to June 2023, up from the 184,000 people who arrived in the same period during 2019, when Britain was still in the EU.

So, nothing about kicking out all those who do not contribute? Those who simply showed up and said “I’m here, where’s my free stuff”?

“The mayor of Rochdale is a Muslim.

Today in England there are over 3,000 mosques, there are over 130 Sharia courts in England and there are more than 50 Sharia councils.

78% of Muslim women do not work and receive state support and free accommodation. 63% of Muslims do not work and receive state support and free housing state supported. Muslim families have an average of six to eight children who all receive free accommodation.

Every school in the UK is required to teach about Islam. the No. 1 most common baby name in England is Muhammad.

This is not immigration this is invasion”

But, the government has no intention of booting them out.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 11, 2025 – 1:56 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles causing heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post what happens when there is too much solar power.

It’s brunette’s week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 11, 2025 – 8:55 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the eye doc fixed my contacts prescription. Actually went down .25 in each eye, so, now everything is not super blurry at distance. And even within 3 feet. This pinup is by Art Frahm with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog: Hypocrisy, thy name is Ocasio-Cortez
  2. This ain’t Hell…: Mikie Sherrill Accused of Stolen Valor
  3. Theo Spark: Marxist Monuments to CRT ………………from Rico
  4. The Right Scoop: BREAKING: President Trump says great progress made with China in Switzerland
  5. The Lid: College Palestinian Group Admits Their Job is to ‘Destroy the United States’
  6. The Hayride: Despite House Democrats’ ire, DEI bill passes committee hurdle
  7. The Gateway Pundit: Democrat Judge Rochelle Lozano Camacho Turns Herself in to County Officials – Arrested and Charged with Vote Harvesting Scheme Targeting Seniors During Her Primary
  8. The First Street Journal: As always, the credentialed media report on an individual point, and miss the real story
  9. Sultan Knish: Obama’s Sexism
  10. Pacific Pundit: Rachel Levine will be administratively discharged at the end of the week after SCOTUS upholds Trump military trans ban
  11. neo-neocon: Meet the potential 51st state: Alberta
  12. Moonbattery: Effect of Black Lives Matter on Murder Rate
  13. Legal Insurrection: HHS Officially Suspends Research at NIH High-Security Pathogen Lab
  14. Jihad Watch: While Biden Pentagon Was Fighting the Houthis, the Biden State Department and USAID Were Funding Them
  15. And last, but, not least, IOTW Report has Poland: Thousands Protest Against Migration Ahead of Presidential Elections

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Bummer: States Sue Over Trump Admin Freezing Charging Station Funds

By William Teach May 11, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’m not so sure why they are upset Mayor Pete barely built any while serving under Biden

US states sue over Trump freeze on funds for electric-vehicle charging stations

California and 15 other states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, saying the federal government was illegally withholding billions of dollars awarded to states for building electric-vehicle charging stations.

The U.S. Transportation Department in February suspended the EV charging program and rescinded approval of state plans pending a review.

Senate Democrats said President Donald Trump was withholding more than $3 billion from the program, which was approved as part of former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

The lawsuit, joined by the District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey and Colorado among others, was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington State.

The states said the administration’s decision “will devastate the ability of states to build the charging infrastructure necessary for making EVs accessible to more consumers, combating climate change, reducing other harmful pollution, and supporting the states’ green economies.”

Well, why can’t they use their own taxpayer money to build them? Surely they can get The Rich in those states to pay, right? And the peasants won’t mind paying for the chargers as good little Liberals, right? All mostly Dem states, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Gavin gave a press release

When America retreats, China wins.

President Trump’s illegal action withholding funds for electric vehicle infrastructure is yet another Trump gift to China – ceding American innovation and killing thousands of jobs.

Instead of hawking Teslas on the White House lawn, President Trump could actually help Elon – and the nation – by following the law and releasing this bipartisan funding.

You know what would be really funny, once a Democrat judge says the money must be spent? To spend all the money building EV charging stations in Republican states. The bullshit Inflation Reduction Act never said what states the money had to be spent in, you know.

And Gavin can spend California money building the chargers. It’s not like the Biden admin did such a great job building them. A grand total of 58 by the time he left office.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 10, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heatsnow and summer freezing from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on a secret Iranian nuclear facility.

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India And Pakistan Edge Closer To Full Scale War

By William Teach May 10, 2025 – 10:30 am

It would be very, very bad

India and Pakistan edge closer to war as nuclear-armed rivals trade strikes

India and Pakistan appeared to be edging closer to war on Saturday, as the two nuclear-armed nations both claimed they were provoked by the other before launching strikes against military assets in their rival countries.

Early Saturday, Pakistan’s armed forces said they targeted military sites inside India in response to an Indian missile attack at three air bases in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Hours later, India said its attack — which it claimed had hit four military bases in Pakistan — was in response to Pakistan attacking its civilian infrastructure.

Before Pakistan’s military action early Saturday, Pakistan’s chief military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said India had targeted Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi, Murid air base in Chakwal and Rafiqui air base near Shorkot with air-to-surface missiles. Most of the missiles, he said in a later appearance, were intercepted and there were no casualties or damage.

India’s actions, he said, were “pushing the whole region toward dangerous war,” and vowed a firm response. (snip)

The Indian government dismissed Pakistan’s claims of destruction of Indian military capacities, including damage to the country’s critical infrastructure such as power systems, as “completely false.” “It is Pakistani actions that have constituted provocation and escalation,” India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said in a late morning news briefing.

Every day this seems to escalate more and more between two countries that despise each other. And have nuclear weapons

Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations on Friday issued a call for de-escalation and said the two countries should “engage in direct dialogue towards a peaceful outcome.”

Good sentiment, but, they hate each other

“There is no real historical precedent for what we’re seeing unfold,” said Asfandyar Mir, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a D.C.-based think tank. “We are now at a critical height on the escalation ladder.”

I’m rather surprised that no articles discuss what full scale war looks like between the nations.

(Metro UK) In 2019, a team of scientists investigated how a nuclear war between the two countries could start – and what the consequences could be for the rest of the world.

The direct effects of a nuclear exchange in India and Pakistan themselves would be apocalyptic.

Depending on the precise number of weapons used and their respective yields, anywhere between 50 million and 150 million people would be killed.

That is not to mention the cities obliterated, the millions more injured with no hope of immediate help, and the destruction of major infrastructure.

A slightly antiseptic way of saying this would be horrible

The huge amounts of smoke sent billowing into the stratosphere from those burning cities would block out sunlight, sending global temperatures plummeting by up to 10C.

Professor Brian Toon, a leading expert on climate and atmospheric science who co-authored the study, told Metro: ‘Even [nuclear war between] India and Pakistan can produce ice age temperatures with their arsenals.’

Which could cause serious problems with food production around the world, for one. And then all the nuclear fallout. Which could all result in one to two billion being killed around the world. Pakistan has 170 nuclear weapons and India has 164

The study estimates that 95 to 100% of the population would be left starving in Canada.

In Russia, the figure is 75 to 95%, while the proportion of people left starving in China was projected as 50% and 25% in the United States.

So, when JD Vance said this is not the problem of the U.S., which Karoline Leavitt contradicted in calling for de-escalation, he was wrong. This has world wide implications.

Whelp, I wrote this in the early morning for posting at 1030am, and, before it could even post

This has weirdly made many people, meaning Trump haters, upset.

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Bummer: Majority Of Britons Want Net Zero Scrapped

By William Teach May 10, 2025 – 7:15 am

Eh, it’s kinda unscientific, since it is a web poll, but, come on, how scientific are so many polls taken by pollsters? (via Watts Up With That?, which has a screenshot of the numbers being 95% for scrapping it)

Poll of the week: Should the 2050 net zero target be scrapped?

Ed Miliband has long been one of Westminster’s most vocal advocates for Britain’s net zero agenda. But his vision of a green future is increasingly coming up against a less forgiving reality.

This week, we asked readers: Should the UK scrap its 2050 net zero target? A resounding 95 per cent of over 26,000 respondents said yes.

Telegraph readers’ reasons ranged from economic survival to energy security and a growing frustration with what many see as climate policy detached from common sense. Here’s why you believe the time has come to pull the plug.

For many, net zero has become synonymous with financial burden – rising energy bills, increased costs for businesses and pressure on household budgets.

“If the Government wants to grandstand about cutting the UK’s one per cent share of global emissions, fine,” says Russ Hindle. “But don’t hike our energy bills – do it slower, cheaper and pay for it yourself.”

I’m looking at the version via Internet Archive, so, cannot see the actual poll, but, yeah, 95%

Other accused politicians of blind idealism. “No matter how much evidence is given to them, our politicians are hell bent on throwing us off a net zero cliff without giving us a say,” argues Mrs P.

The same politicians who refuse to practice what they preach.

“No one wants to pay the highest energy costs in the world to solve a problem that’s likely beyond humanity’s control, and certainly beyond Britain’s ability to meaningfully influence,” says Hugo McEwen.

He continues: “This is Jacobin-style communism disguised as climate policy, intended to impoverish and ‘equalise’ us. Nigel Farage is right: stop it now, or face a revolution.” (snip)

One reader puts it bluntly: “Net zero is lunacy. We contribute a tiny percentage of global CO? emissions, yet we’re trashing our economy in the name of the ultimate virtue-signalling project. Meanwhile, the world’s largest economies are doubling down on coal and gas to stay competitive.”

See, every experiment needs an experimental group. Initially, Brits thought this was great, but, now that they have had to live it, they aren’t too thrilled, to say the least.

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Trump Admin Rips Democrats Arrested Trying To Storm ICE Facility

By William Teach May 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

Seriously, these Democrats are nuts

Will the charges stick?

Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center

Federal officials arrested Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark, on Friday after a confrontation that also involved three members of Congress at a new immigration detention facility that is expected to play a central role in President Trump’s mass deportation effort.

Mr. Baraka, a Democrat who is running for governor, was taken to a separate federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, where he was still being held hours after the arrest. A large crowd of supporters was gathered outside waiting for information about when he would be released.

A few Dem wacko congresscritters were allowed in to participate with their stunt of supporting illegals. Bad ones. More on that in a minute

Mr. Baraka was allowed past the front gate, but was not allowed to accompany the members of Congress inside, according to a video taken by Viri Martinez, an immigration activist who witnessed the arrest.

“Congressmen are different, congresswomen are different,” a Homeland Security Investigations agent told the mayor, the video shows. The agent added: “That is the last warning. You will be placed under arrest.”

If they do not prosecute him then there is a problem with the justice system. But, you can bet some leftist prosecutor or judge will let him off.

(Fox News) The White House is blasting Democrats for “prioritizing the welfare of illegal aliens over American citizens,” after “outright breaking the law” and storming an ICE facility in New Jersey. (snip)

“As always, Democrats are prioritizing the welfare of illegal aliens over American citizens – except now they’re crossing the line between meaningless political street theatre and outright breaking the law,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital.

DHS has stated that Delaney Hall in New Jersey is full of alleged killers, MS-13 gang members and child rapists. And other criminals. This is who Democrats are trying to protect.

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