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So Trumps threatening poor Taiwan by announcing he is levying tariffs on Taiwan Chips . 25%-100%. Wow. Even China never got past 60% in Trumps first term. Be prepared to pay 50% more for your devices
U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on Taiwan's semiconductor industry has sent shockwaves through the Silicon Island.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-taiwan-semiconductor-tariff-impact-china-tech-2022564
Canada and Mexico get hit with 25% while China gets off with 10%. Whats wrong with this picture? Retaliatory Tariffs are a given. Higher prices will come soon, and not just on Canadian and Mexican Imports.
Another plane crash around 6:30 pm Friday to close out January as 6 Mexican Nationals in a twin-engine medevac jet (Learjet 55) descends like a missile into a Philadelphia neighborhood killing a person in the car. They were on their way to its final destination, Tijuana International Airport after the child passenger was treated in a Philadelphia Hospital and released.
This fully fueled plane reached 1,250 ft altitude before descending nose first going from 0 to 11,000 ft per minute vertical velocity within 20 seconds
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Cant help noticing the victims on the plane were Mexican Nationals heading to Mexico as Tariffs on Mexico being announced.
Meanwhile Trump administration officials began releasing significant amounts of water from two dams in California’s Central Valley on Friday. The releases, have sent water toward low-lying land in the Central Valley, and none of it will reach Southern California or help put out the fires. Releasing so much water now served little use for farmers, who typically have higher irrigation needs in the spring and summer months when agricultural fields are abundant during the region’s notoriously hot and dry summers . The water is likely to run through canals and either come to rest in low-lying basins or flow out to the Pacific Ocean
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/trump-water-california-central-valley.html
So if that water is needed by farmers this summer it could be tough times ahead.
There are reports that Musk aims to take control of the Treasury computers used to complete payments. The Treasury Department executes payments on behalf of agencies across the government, disbursing $5.4 trillion, or 88 percent of all federal payments, in the last fiscal year.
The system is run out of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a little-known but critical office that is responsible for getting money to Social Security recipients, government employees, contractors and others.
Control of the system could give Musk’s allies the ability to unilaterally cut off money intended for federal workers, bondholders and companies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/david-lebryk-treasury-resigns-musk.html
Data is the new Oil of todays economy so what are the odds this data ends up at some company or private intelligence company like Palantir hands ?
CIA back in action. After Trump seemingly implied we need more CIA to protect us it seems Trump wants them back in the covert action game, or at least to do more of it. Focus on Mexico.
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, Tariffs, Plane Crash and now sicking the CIA on them and maybe the military to follow
US president plans to issue a presidential finding —a classified directive issued by the commander-in-chief— authorizing the CIA to engage in covert action targeting the drug cartels. A number of Trump allies have reportedly compiled a list of targeted cartels, which are located mostly in Mexico. They include notorious criminal organizations, such as the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Gulf Cartel.
Additionally, the FTO designation might constitute the first step toward an American military presence inside Mexico, or missile strikes directed against designated FTO strongholds, including drug production and storage facilities.
In November of last year, there were reports in the American media claiming that key figures in the incoming Trump administration were contemplating launching a military invasion of northern Mexico.
https://intelnews.org/2025/01/21/01-3382/
Why would we need to do so if the border is secure? Because most of the Fentanyl (>90%) is brought into the country by Americans in vehicles at legal border checkpoint crossings.
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