The price of aluminum—which has already been surging in 2021—has soared in response to the military coup in Guinea since the country is a major world supplier of bauxite, which is critical in producing the metal. “Miners now have little other option than to sit tight and await further clarity from the transitional authorities,” Eric...
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AMERICA PUMPS UP THE RICH, CHINA PUSHING THEM DOWN
“A powerful China should also be a fair and just China,” says Yao Yang, a professor of economics at Peking University, quoted in a 7 September New York Times article. In an effort to ensure equality, President Xi Jinping has declared that China has reached the next phase in its growth, and has informed China’s...
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U.S. LOST AFGHAN WAR: $2.3 TRILLION DISASTER. CHINA THE WINNER.
The Washington crime syndicate stole $2.313 trillion from the citizens of Slavelandia to fight the Afghan War that George W. Bush launched in October 2001. And President Joe Biden—who voted to give Bush the power to launch it—ended it in a disaster a few weeks ago. With the American military gone, the Biden pullout has...
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ABBOTT SIGNS SOCIAL MEDIA FREE SPEECH LAW
Message to online socials: don’t mess with Texas. The state made it unlawful last week for social media companies to exclude users based “solely on their political views.” Independent voices and particularly liberty-minded Americans have increasingly faced bans and suppression by Facebook, Twitter, and a handful of social media platforms that control most of online...
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RICHEST AMERICANS ARE BIGGEST TAX CHEATS TREASURY REPORT FINDS
President Biden’s Treasury Department released a report on Thursday that found the richest 1 percent of Americans accounted for up to $163 billion owed in taxes each year, according to a report. The Trends Journal has reported extensively on attempts to get the country’s wealthiest to pay their fair share. See: “TAX DODGING ON A GRAND SCALE”...
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MILLIONS IMPACTED BY CUTOFF OF BENEFITS
Monday, 6 September 2021 marked the end of the U.S. government’s expanded unemployment benefits, part of the $1.9 trillion economic aid package which had been in place since March, leaving 7.5 million Americans entirely without benefits and another 3 million without their $300 weekly unemployment supplement. Opponents of the aid package have been calling for...
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SUPPLY CHAIN RECOVERY: A LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE
On any given day, reports The Wall Street Journal on 7 September, forty or more cargo ships lie at anchor off the California coast, awaiting access to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. This is indicative of how the COVID War continues to play havoc with worldwide supply chains; before COVID-19, it would...
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WOMEN CONTINUE TO OUTNUMBER AND OUTPACE MEN IN COLLEGE
The “higher education gap” is widening in the U.S. between men and women, and increasing to record levels with no end in sight, The Wall Street Journal reported last Tuesday. Women now outnumber men as college students, at 59.5 percent vs. 40.5 percent, for the 2020-21 academic year. Overall, as we have been reporting, there’s...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
BIDEN ADMIN PUSHING FOR IRS SURVEILLANCE OF ALL BANK ACCOUNT DATA. It’s called the “American Families Plan.” First introduced by the Biden administration in May, the legislation pretends to be about strengthening average American families. In reality, it gives the IRS new powers and beefed up personnel to comprehensively surveill the finances of American citizens....
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USE ANYTHING AT HAND TO ASSIST IN YOUR DEFENSE
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato We have for decades urged our students to carry a handful of aquarium gravel in their outer pocket to have something to disorient and distract any possible assailant with. Walking to your car, leaving work, out for a stroll, etc.—having a handful of gravel arms you for an unexpected...