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Cyrano wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 23:52 Do these tariffs include IT services exports? That will make lot of people unhappy.

Do we tax US big tech?

Mort Walker wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 05:46 Doug Burgham Sec of Energy was there too. Trump offers lower price oil & gas to India, which then forces Russia to lower prices.

vimal wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025 03:05

Cyrano wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 23:52 Do these tariffs include IT services exports? That will make lot of people unhappy.

Do we tax US big tech?

How will they tax it Services’s? By megabytes of data?

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10:14 PM · Feb 14, 2025

White House’s Valentine’s Day message sends chill down migrants’ spine: ‘Come here illegally and we’ll...’

Amidst Donald Trump's deportation efforts, the White House posted a Valentine's meme with a pink card, mocking illegal immigrants.

Call it brilliant Chinese planning or gross Western incompetence, but the only real winner from the green agenda that Western governments have done so much to impose on the world is Beijing. Solar power cells, wind turbines, electric vehicles and the batteries that keep them moving: China has swiftly established dominance in one critical industry and supply chain after another.

China’s success at capturing the net-zero industrial sector has reduced support for net zero across the Western world. Despite investing heavily in EV-producing factories, many Western car companies fear Chinese EV competition more than they hope for large profits in the EV sector. With solar power cells and wind turbines mostly made in China, there are fewer “green jobs” in Western countries to pull voters toward net-zero policies.

vera_k wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025 22:21 Trump Outsmarts China on Green Energy

Call it brilliant Chinese planning or gross Western incompetence, but the only real winner from the green agenda that Western governments have done so much to impose on the world is Beijing. Solar power cells, wind turbines, electric vehicles and the batteries that keep them moving: China has swiftly established dominance in one critical industry and supply chain after another.

China’s success at capturing the net-zero industrial sector has reduced support for net zero across the Western world. Despite investing heavily in EV-producing factories, many Western car companies fear Chinese EV competition more than they hope for large profits in the EV sector. With solar power cells and wind turbines mostly made in China, there are fewer “green jobs” in Western countries to pull voters toward net-zero policies.

This admission by Lee Zeldin EPA, claimed that $20 billion of taxpayer money was found to be "parked at an outside institution" by the Biden-era EPA. The money was parked in gold bars with a bank.

youtube.com/watch?v=1JbgJUP7s60
youtube.com/watch?v=Qvu2Fe_sy1Q

Forbes itself is a shady news broker, but they have this aired out on YT. The 2nd YT has more nonsense on stealing tax payer's money.

// the thuggish Dumbocrats used tax payer's money, $20 b here another $30 there and so on and had a gala time spending on their pet projects and god-knows to whose pockets it was siphoned off. This is looting 101 as practiced by the BritShitRaj of yore via their governors/ICS/etc.

Jay wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 06:00

This admission by Lee Zeldin EPA, claimed that $20 billion of taxpayer money was found to be "parked at an outside institution" by the Biden-era EPA. The money was parked in gold bars with a bank.

youtube.com/watch?v=1JbgJUP7s60
youtube.com/watch?v=Qvu2Fe_sy1Q

Forbes itself is a shady news broker, but they have this aired out on YT. The 2nd YT has more nonsense on stealing tax payer's money.

// the thuggish Dumbocrats used tax payer's money, $20 b here another $30 there and so on and had a gala time spending on their pet projects and god-knows to whose pockets it was siphoned off. This is looting 101 as practiced by the BritShitRaj of yore via their governors/ICS/etc.

If anyone wants to waste their time on the youtube links, don't. NO THE MONEY WAS NOT PARKED IN GOLD BARS. Lee Zeldin used it as a metaphor...lol
This new admin wants to show evrything the old admin did as "wasteful", regardless of it's its actually wasteful or not and they are masterful at this propaganda. Below is a better article explaining in detail...

https://apnews.com/article/green-bank-e ... 69f61f07b7

vimal wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 02:42 Obama used WTO forcing India to open its green energy sector to foreign business. I won’t be surprised if this was done via some CCP influencers within the Dumbo’s establishment. The only country that benefited from this was China.

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KL Dubey wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 23:58

vimal wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 02:42 Obama used WTO forcing India to open its green energy sector to foreign business. I won’t be surprised if this was done via some CCP influencers within the Dumbo’s establishment. The only country that benefited from this was China.

That's not correct. Simply trash-talking everything doesn't help this forum.

Obamudu started overall very successful renewable energy programs in USA, which were also coordinated with trade negotiations.

His gave Tesla a critical $465M loan back in 2010 that funded its California plant. Demand for EVs became very high and Musk repaid the loan back in just three years. The US became #1 in EVs because of this, and not China.

Similarly, he tried to make USA #1 in solar and wind energy and rolled out multiple loans to US manufacturing. These are the facts: https://environmentamerica.org/articles ... gy-legacy/ This strategy worked for about 10 years, but by then the Chinese managed to master solar/wind supply chain much faster than they could master the EV supply chain.

Reality check: Blaming Obamudu, CCP, or anyone else for Indian failings/missing the bus (before Modi) doesn't cut it....except to feed psychosis of some posters.

vimal wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 02:15 Welcome back Karen, our resident Democrat fact checker.
So China did win in the end like I said.
Also, care to explain how Musk went from being the EV green energy messiah to black MAGA?

KL Dubey wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 04:45

vimal wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 02:15 Welcome back Karen, our resident Democrat fact checker.
So China did win in the end like I said.
Also, care to explain how Musk went from being the EV green energy messiah to black MAGA?

Giving it back to you in the same vein:

Thanks for another "Vimal Bullshit" (i.e. pure BS) post. This will become BR lexicon in future.

So according to you, nobody should try promoting their own industry and nobody should engage in global trade, since "China will benefit in the end".

China benefited because it built its own massive industry and India did not at that time. No amount of trade barriers can resist that after a point.

I'm not a Democrat and I'm not "checking any facts". I made a useful post, which already highlighted how Musk went from EV king to MAGA. I'm not here to spoon-feed an adult, that's the responsibility of the assisted/senior living home. Find one and please retire from any meaningful discussions.

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President Trump signs a proclamation for Gulf of America Day, aboard Air Force One on Feb. 9. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images

President Trump signs a proclamation for Gulf of America Day, aboard Air Force One on Feb. 9. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images

One of the big reasons President Trump is limiting AP reporters' White House access is to protest what aides see as years of liberal word choices that the wire service's influential stylebook spread across mainstream media, according to top White House officials.

Why it matters: The trigger was the announcement by The Associated Press that it would continue using the 400-year-old "Gulf of Mexico" rather than switch to "Gulf of America," as declared by Trump in a Day 1 executive order. But it turns out that broader underlying grievances made AP a target.

The big picture: By spotlighting AP, Trump is amplifying Republican and conservative criticisms that the AP Stylebook, a first reference for most U.S. news organizations, shapes political dialogue by favoring liberal words and phrases concerning gender, immigration, race and law enforcement.

"This isn't just about the Gulf of America," White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich told Axios. "This is about AP weaponizing language through their stylebook to push a partisan worldview in contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many Americans and many people around the world."
The dispute with AP is part of Trump's broader effort to discredit legacy media outlets and the public's trust in the press — already at a record low.

The other side: AP — which has long been considered the gold standard of neutrality — rejects any accusation of bias. Lauren Easton, vice president of corporate communications, told Axios that AP "is a global, fact-based, nonpartisan news organization with thousands of customers around the world who span the political spectrum."

"If AP journalism wasn't factual and nonpartisan, this wouldn't be the case," she said.

Easton said AP provides "guidance on issues brought to us by members and customers, and it is up to them what they choose to use. Again, this is guidance. It's not surprising that political parties, organizations or even individuals may disagree with some entries. The Stylebook doesn't align with any particular agenda."

State of play: After barring AP reporters from covering several events with Trump last week, the White House said Friday that because the wire service "continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America," AP slots in the Oval Office on Air Force One "will now be opened up" to other reporters.

An AP reporter and photographer were blocked Friday from boarding Air Force One for Trump's weekend trip to Florida.
The White House said AP journalists "will retain their credentials to the White House complex."

The backstory: AP said in its Jan. 23 "style guidance," released proactively to guide members and customers, that Trump "has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The body of water has shared borders between the U.S. and Mexico. Trump's order only carries authority within the United States. Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, do not have to recognize the name change."

"The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years," the guidance continues. "The Associated Press will refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen. As a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences."
AP said in the same announcement that it'll follow Trump's executive order returning the name of Alaska's Mount McKinley, which had been changed to Denali in 2015. AP's logic: The peak is solely within the U.S., and "Trump has the authority to change federal geographical names."

Behind the scenes: Five days after AP issued its guidance concerning the gulf name change, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt held her first briefing, and foreshadowed the fight the White House would pick with legacy media.

"Karoline said she would not lie and that she would call out media organizations who do lie," a Trump adviser said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "And we knew the AP would keep calling the Gulf of America the Gulf of Mexico, and that's misinformation."

To attract maximum attention to his change, Trump signed an order in front of reporters on Air Force One as he flew over the Gulf en route to the Super Bowl on Feb. 9, declaring the "first ever Gulf of America Day."

Two days later, the White House blocked an AP reporter from an Oval Office event.

Zoom out: Trump allies — including Mike Cernovich, a leading MAGA influencer on X — began attracting the attention of the president's advisers by highlighting longstanding complaints about some of the AP stylebook's thousands of entries. Other less-well-known accounts criticized guidance about immigration and transgender issues that White House advisers have seen. Among the AP guidance conservatives find objectionable:

Warning against "all views" in transgender coverage: AP's "Transgender Coverage Topical Guide" says to avoid "false balance — giving a platform to unqualified claims or sources in the guise of balancing a story by including all views."
Using the phrase "gender-affirming care": AP says the term, commonly used by advocates and physicians, refers to "a swath of mental and medical treatments (such as counseling, hormones or surgery) that help bring a person's gender expression (such as voice, appearance or anatomy) in line with their gender identity."
Capitalizing Black but not white for race: AP's stylebook advises that "Black" should be used for racial descriptions while the lowercase "black" is considered just a color. AP says "white people's skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore those problems. But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs." AP notes that white people "generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color."
Describing immigrants: The Stylebook frowns on the term "illegal immigrant" and says to "use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant." AP doesn't recommend "undocumented immigrant," and says acceptable "variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission. For people: immigrants lacking permanent legal status."

What they're saying: Terry Schilling, a conservative critic of "transgenderism" (a word AP recommends against), called the style guidance "Orwellian newspeak. It's 1984."

Ashley Brundage, a transgender activist with GLAAD, defended AP for trying to use "inclusive language," and said that "if Republicans are good with name changes for the Gulf of Mexico, then they should be OK for any name changes" for transgender people.

The Axios position: We've taken a different approach than many media companies, based on serving primarily a U.S. audience. The government, plus Apple Maps and Google Maps, call it the Gulf of America. For clarity, we call it the "Gulf of America (renamed by the U.S. from Gulf of Mexico)."

"At the same time," Axios said in a statement Friday, "the government should never dictate how any news organization makes editorial decisions. The AP and all news organizations should be free to report as they see fit. This is a bedrock of a free press and durable democracy."

vimal wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 08:51

KL Dubey wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 04:45

Giving it back to you in the same vein:

Thanks for another "Vimal Bullshit" (i.e. pure BS) post. This will become BR lexicon in future.

So according to you, nobody should try promoting their own industry and nobody should engage in global trade, since "China will benefit in the end".

China benefited because it built its own massive industry and India did not at that time. No amount of trade barriers can resist that after a point.

I'm not a Democrat and I'm not "checking any facts". I made a useful post, which already highlighted how Musk went from EV king to MAGA. I'm not here to spoon-feed an adult, that's the responsibility of the assisted/senior living home. Find one and please retire from any meaningful discussions.

Seems like I touched a raw nerve Karen. All your KLPDumbo posts remind me why dems lost both house and senate in a drubbing at the hands of MAGA. Echo chamber of KLPD created only to place their masters like Bamba and Shillary at the podium of greatness at all cost. Bamba’s actions hurt India green plan and that’s all that matters. You can go suck dumbo bamba lollipops if that’s what you want.

There are many controversial characters inside Washington, but few have had a career quite as destructive as US government official, Victoria Nuland. From her earliest days helping to rip apart the Soviet Union and paving the way for gangster capitalism in Russia, to helping to oversee the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, to engineering a coup in Ukraine, Nuland has been at the forefront of aggressive US foreign policy for over three decades.

MintPress highlights some of her darkest moments.

At the most simple, the scream test meaning is that you can only find out if people will miss something if you take it away – everyone resists losing something, and will insist it needs to remain, but the scream test meaning is to find out if it really is needed or used.

Cyrano wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025 14:45

vimal wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025 03:05

How will they tax it Services’s? By megabytes of data?

By simply putting a % tax on services delivered from outside the US. That could erode cost advantage to the point of making it unviable. Of course I'm not wishing for it.
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KL Dubey wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 23:24 ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... mp-climate
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The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion,[14][15] and the term "Guardian reader" is used to imply a stereotype of a person with modern progressive, left-wing or "politically correct" views.

KL Dubey wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 23:58 Similarly, he tried to make USA #1 in solar and wind energy and rolled out multiple loans to US manufacturing.
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Reality check: Blaming Obamudu, ...

KL Dubey wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 04:45 This will become enter BR lexicon in future.

KL Dubey wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 04:45 I'm not a Democrat and I'm not "checking any facts".

You sire, are certainly no democrat. You are a "Guardian reader" - deep red San Francisco liberal progressive radical left of the AOC/Jayapal/The Bern/Liz Warren ilk.

chetak wrote: ↑20 Feb 2025 09:43