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An Economic Lesson for President Trump
Paul Craig Roberts
President Trump’s economic proposals, with one exception, constitute a coherent package. I will address his proposals in a later column. Today I address his bad idea that would cause the failure of Trump’s renewal of the American economy. That bad idea is H-1B and L-1 work visas. For the past three decades, American manufacturing, engineering, and design jobs have been moved offshore. US corporations use foreign labor to design, engineer, and manufacture the products that they sell to Americans. The consequence is to deny Americans the income from producing the goods and services that they consume. Wall Street and the corporations have imposed deindustrialization on the United States, thereby putting it on the road to a third world economy.
H-1B and L-1 visas add to this loss of American employment and income from jobs offshoring. A minimum of 85,000 H-1B visas are granted each year. This means that 85,000 Americans are displaced from working in the IT and engineering sectors of the US economy. By the time the visas expire, the foreigners are integrated into the work force and are on their way to receiving green cards, Over a 10 year period, 850,000 American jobs have been given to non-citizens.
DeepSeek: The Rise of China's Open-Source AI Amid US Regulatory Shifts and Privacy Concerns
Cindy Harper
DeepSeek offers open-source generative AI with localized data storage but raises concerns over censorship, privacy, and disruption of Western markets.
A recent regulatory clampdown in the United States on TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform, triggered a surge of users migrating to another Chinese app, Rednote. Now, another significant player has entered the spotlight: DeepSeek, a Chinese-developed generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, which is rapidly gaining traction. The growing popularity of DeepSeek raises questions about the effectiveness of bans like TikTok and their ability to curtail the use of Chinese digital services by Americans.
President Donald Trump has called attention to a recent Chinese AI development, describing it as a “wake-up call” for the US tech industry.
Speaking to Republican lawmakers in Florida on Monday evening, the president emphasized the need for America to strengthen its competitive edge against China’s advancements in technology.
The Global Water Crisis in 2025: Who Controls the Most Precious Resource?
Fred Gransville
1) Water Monopolies: Who, When, Where, Why, and How?
Water monopolies, a burgeoning threat of the 21st century, are rapidly gaining control over a resource that was once considered a public good. The scale of commercialization has surged in recent decades, with corporations vying for dominance over water rights across the globe.
Who: A few large multinational companies, including Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo, hold the majority in the water market. Other food and beverage companies also sometimes enter into partnership deals with governments, sometimes with large-scale water rights where access to freshwater is already an issue of stress. Under pressure from economic and political interests, local and national governments have often privatized water utilities and handed control to these big multinational companies.
The Geopolitics of the Arctic in 2025: Resource Wars, Pollution, Climate Change and Global Competition
Tracy Turner
In a better world, the Arctic would be left to wolves, polar bears, seals, and whales. But not in this world, with our Robber Baron Politicians and Criminal CEOs.
The Arctic, once a remote, frozen frontier, is now a hotbed of fierce geopolitical rivalries due to unprecedented climate changes. The melting ice cap has escalated the stakes in 2025 for control over its vast resources and emerging shipping lanes. This heated contest, involving global powers such as Russia, the United States, Canada, China, and Israel, is not just about territory loss, but also about how trade and energy sources will be managed in a warming world.
As industrial activity in the Arctic grows, so do the alarming environmental risks. The prospect of an ecological disaster looms larger each day, threatening one of the last unspoiled places on Earth. The Arctic, once pristine and untapped, is now on a dangerous path toward becoming a permanent casualty of corporate greed and military-industrial pollution.
Consumption America: How Maximum Profits Are Depleting Health, Food Systems, and the Planet
Tracy Turner
Abstract:
The building blocks of 21st century American life, from suburban homes and lawns to gas-guzzling SUVs that clog roadways, have been rooted in excess. Today's culture of consumption controls almost every phase of our lives; excess is now not only deemed normal but actively celebrated. While encouraged at all costs to consume, we are simultaneously expected to look away from the outcomes of those behaviors.
Yet, this is fundamentally an unsustainable consumption culture that in many ways gives women a sense of empowerment. And the corporations facilitating the vicious cycle of consumption with this trend have prospered from the base of ignorance and apathy among us while agricultural livelihoods, biodiversity, and our health—that nurturing touch to life—continue to buckle under such exploitation. This system is based on the principle of maximum profit, a principle that often works directly against the environment and the very systems of life we rely on for survival. As will be outlined in these following sections, this destructive, profit-driven model is taking humanity—and the planet itself—into extinction.
Israel's Widening Reach: A Geostrategic Melange of Diplomacy, Resource Extraction, and Imperialism
Chris Spencer
The State of Israel is an intricately interlinked part of the geopolitics of the region, largely through its special relationship with the United States, complemented by that with Russia, and now spreading toward Africa, Latin America, and beyond. This complex geopolitics at the core represents the struggle for military and economic hegemony, ensured through resource extraction, diplomatic manipulation, and covert operations. It's not just a question of influence but of siphoning the wealth and resources of the most vulnerable regions, using military power to enforce such domination. In this model of imperialism, it might be observed side by side with the tactics of Russian and U.S. actions where countries all over the world act as pawns in a greater competition for global domination.
Mathematical Analysis of Military Spending and Resource Drain
Global spending on military budgets includes direct military aid, projects of resource extraction, and covert operations-all exposing a wide net of transferences of wealth from the South to the masters of imperialism. Herein follows an overview of selected financial figures and the overall implications.
Judaism: From Psalms to Surveillance Mind Control
By Cathy Smith
God, my blade-server, encrypts my soul in the fortress of His protection, shielding me from the firewalls of fear. His commands are my protocols, sharpening my spirit like a flawless algorithm in the face of battle. Though the route of my VPN may be long, My Bladeserver runs a checksum on every transaction of Death and Mind Control
The Descent of the Judaic Faith -- From David's Psalms to Modern Surveillance,
Genocide and Mind Control
Once having come from profoundly spiritual and a strong dependence upon God's protection, the Judaic faith has transformed through quite remarkable, deeply troubling means. The biblical legacy, based on divine trust and humility, has been replaced by a modern nuclear Israel of high-tech military power, pervasive surveillance, and psychological mind control manipulation.
This trajectory from the Psalms of King David to the Surveillance Mind Control World-Domination State of 2025 tracks the decline of Israel's spiritual ideals and the rise of technological control. What once was a kingdom grounded in divine faith is now a state led by military and intelligence networks, mind control, and genocide. With Israel becoming the high-tech superpower that it is today and the complicated geopolitics it's playing out, the spiritual realm of King David appears to grow ever more far away, muffled by algorithms, drones, and genocide.
This timeline charts the evolution of Israel from David's psalms of refuge to the modern state's dominance through intelligence, technology, and psychological manipulation. It outlines the decline of Israel's foundational ideals and their replacement by military prowess, surveillance, and psychological strategies aimed at both global dominance and control over its citizens and occupied populations.
SUV Crisis: Urgent Global Energy Consumption, Resource Depletion, and Looming Starvation of Billions
Tracy Turner
Governor Gavin Newsom's recent executive action to ban the sale of gas-powered string trimmers and leaf blowers in California is generally considered a 'good' start for emissions reductions from small engines. But the initiative puts into sharp focus a paradox in a state--and a world--where an increasing number of people are opting for high-horsepower, gas-guzzling SUVs. And though the effort to reduce small-engine emissions might produce some modest environmental dividends, the more significant problem--the massive fuel consumption and resource depletion triggered by the SUV culture--remains essentially unaddressed. While California is at the forefront of all environmental policies, there is a complete disconnection from small-engine environmentalism to large-scale ecological impact with the same kind of vehicles their citizens cherish.
This problem is not confined to California or even the United States.
It's a global issue. Increased demand for gas-guzzling SUVs worldwide and massive pollution due to lithium battery production and disposal add to global energy crises and increase starvation risks by removing crucial agricultural resources.
Although SUVs are marketed as rugged outdoor individualists’ vehicles, they are mostly purchased by the Pringles/Mountain Dew/Cheetos Diabetes Crowd. Insecure women driving around alone, with visions of soccer moms dancing through their heads. Even the movie Robocop took a swipe at the aggressive, intimidating, consumptive crowd (in the movie the vehicle SUX 6000 and the board-game Nuke’em, you nuke them before they nuke you. SUV drivers throttle you before you can throttle them, a sadistic addiction from the SUV Clotaire Rapaille Reptilian Brain, fight or flight syndrome. The thrill of cutting someone off in a 6,704 lb. Jeep Grand Wagoneer via throttle addiction (the SUV Clotaire Rapaille Reptilian Brain) is more important than eating tomorrow.
The unexpected consequence of our worldwide addiction to SUVs, put together with the waste of electric vehicle batteries in the future, is a perfect storm that imperils food security and, by extension, the survival of billions of people.
Trump’s Cabinet Selections Shows Us He Is An Israel Firster And His Subservience to Zionist Censorship (Part 1)
By Mark Aurelius
Many people today believe Donald Trumps’ first term 2017 cabinet/ advisor/ staff selections were a disappointment, especially since he was going to drain the swamp. In fact, some were working against him. One more of his important campaign promises never achieved.
But this new round of nominees for this upcoming 2025 term are even more alarming, especially since some do not seem to be especially qualified (except they are all pretty much pro-Israel no matter what—the apparent criteria which trumps all other consideration).
Too many reflect the rabid zealousness of Zionist domination already reigning in the U.S. Government, and its willingness to destroy our American 1st Amendment birthright, that is if speech happens to be critical of Jews, Zionism, and Israel, particularly Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians.
A half a year ago Joachim Hagopian wrote in an important statement:
“On Wednesday May 1st, the House overwhelmingly passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act by a 320-91 vote, … Expanding the scope of what is legally considered antisemitism, … another bipartisan Uniparty trap to ensnare the thousands of protesters exercising their free speech against the apartheid Israel’s extermination of Palestinians, in effect criminalizing those that are critical of the genocide. … a betrayal of our First Amendment rights and a betrayal of the American people, and a testimonial how AIPAC Israel through bribery and blackmail have turned our constitutional republic into a totalitarian technocratic police state.”
New US Antisemitism Law Turns Critics Against Israeli Genocide Into Criminals
Techno-Colonialism: The New Digital Conquest of the South
Cathy Smith
The digital era has made the Western techno-companies and international organizations regard technology as the ultimate solution for the Third World, from Africa, Asia, to Latin America. This perception of 'progress' reinforces the current status quo of global power dynamics and erodes cultural sovereignty and further entrenches inequality. The techno-colonialism, if it might be described, is a digital takeover of the Global South, not something over the horizon but already upon us.
This is not an abstract debate; it is real in the lives of villagers and city dwellers of the Global South. There are very deep impacts felt here, ranging from the digital divide, enforced dominance of Western tech platforms, to eroding local cultural practices. An example in coastal villages of Kenya indicates how patterns of communication and tradition have taken a downward shift as they gradually embrace more aspects of the West. This pattern is reflected equally in highland Guatemala with a changed face for the economy and social systems of the community. This is a development name given to the people, being exposed to such a nature of 'prosperity' at the cost of the autonomy and identities
