Saturday, December 6, 2025

SAMA HOOLE: Sardines might be the most underrated superfood on the planet. More Omega-3 than a £12 fish oil supplement. More Vitamin D than 30 minutes of sun. Selenium that most Brits are deficient in

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SUSAN KOKINDA: Look at the investment that's coming into the United States. South Korea, $5 billion dollars to rebuild the Philadelphia shipyards. Japan, nuclear power Investments

01:25.   But when I start thinking about most of the Republican Party and Congress, it's hard not to get salty.  But he is dealing with that.  You know, you take Lindsey Graham, I mean there's also a reality principle.  If he doesn't hold on to the Senate and the House in the midterm elections, this is over, and the best chance that we've had to break this globalist order, which I think is Trump's intention, will go down with Trump if we lose the midterm elections.  And I'm very active politically on the ground, very active in Michigan and nationally.  I can tell you how difficult it is to find candidates who think like Trump, or even if we want to take Trump as a person out, to find candidates who genuinely understand how the world works, that we are up against a globalist warmongering financial parasitical system and that the United States has been their puppet for most of the post-war period. And that we have to break that.  To find candidates like that is very difficult let me tell you what's even more difficult getting them elected I have said on a numbers of occasions and believe me I'm on the ground granularly in terms of this we are two or three election cycles away from having a congress which is even close to what I believe Donald Trump and JD Vance wants.  So he's also going to have to make some compromises because he's at least got to keep a Republican Congress so that he doesn't get impeached, you know, the minute they come back into session in 2027.  That's why he plays golf with Lindsey Graham.  That's why he throws out certain sops to these other people.  He has to do a calculus.  He's got to decide between do I get a purist or do I get somebody who say in a swing state might actually win?  It's a very difficult political calculus that he's got to deal with while he's doing everything else.  

3:36.  But I think the key thing is in terms of that and I'm going back to what Alex said in terms of all this foreign policy stuff, all of this foreign policy stuff is bringing immediate economic impact into the United States by the whole process of foreign investment and a tariff policies.  I'll give you an example.  There was a headline in the Detroit Free Press on Sunday that the Canadian trade unions are hysterical and we're right over the border from Canada here in Detroit where I am that the Canadian UAW, or whatever it's called, Unifor, I think it's hysterical because they're losing 3,000 jobs because Stellantis is bringing them back to the United States.  And we'll be picking up jobs in Illinois.  We'll be picking up jobs in Michigan, and that's a result of Trump's tariffs and his foreign policy.  Look at the investment that's coming into the United States. South Korea, $5 billion dollars to rebuild the Philadelphia shipyards. Japan, nuclear power Investments into the United States and these are not sweatshop jobs, building cheap garments like we used to have in the South. These are . . . these are high paying, skilled jobs where one income can raise a family.  If you listen to the whole cabinet meeting yesterday, I was especially struck by the labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer  because she is very focused, and by the way I believe she used to be a Democrat, another one who has come over or was at least appointed at . . . she wasn't a Democrat, she was appointed at the recommendation of the teamsters that's who really pushed her for her position. But they have a program entitled "Make America Skilled Again," because when you start bringing back manufacturing and bringing back a lot of these highly skilled jobs, which we have lost over the past 30 to 40 years, what's the immediate problem you run into.  You don't have a skilled workforce.  We gutted our workforce.  We have Uber drivers.  We have coders.  We have stock brokers, and we don't have much in between.  In fact, we have a 700,000 person immediate shortfall in terms of skilled workers.  So they have a program to create 1 million skilled apprenticeships within a year, and they've already filled 250,000 of those.  Again, these are the kind of jobs where you're not coming out of college with $300,000 in debt and then you can't find a job.  These are the kind of jobs where you come out of college, no debt, and you start at $70,000, 80,000 a year with benefits.  This is a complete reshaping of the US economy.  And his foreign deals are extremely important because what Trump is actually doing is grabbing foreign investment outside of the control of the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, the City of London, Wall Street, and so on.  He's creating a stream of income from other countries directly into the productive sector here in the United States.  The people who don't like him, say, like the Wall Street Journal, the other day had a piece that was titled "Make Money, Not War," and it treats this as bad, that people make money.  And Trump is engaged in all of this kind of stuff.  Of course, people are going to make money, but what are they making money doing?  Are they making money trading in derivatives?

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DR. LAWRENCE SELLIN: America First. End the H1B visa scam. P.S. if you say anything bad about H1B visas, @elonmusk's H1B employees will suppress your post, guaranteed).

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THE ISLANDER: The empire didn’t completely fold. It decentralized. It globalized its extraction. It dissolved borders so revenue could flow freely, in one direction.

The British Empire didn’t disappear. It just learned a new trick. It realized it no longer needed soldiers, gunboats, or stolen continents. It discovered a far cleaner form of plunder, one wrapped in contracts, trusts, and tax codes, executed not with muskets but with Montblanc pens. The trick was elegant: Why rule people when you can rule their money? Why occupy land when you can occupy trillions of tbr world’s balance sheets? Where old empires looted gold, this one loots revenue. Where old empires planted flags, this one plants shell companies. Where old empires ruled through force, this one rules through loopholes. The uniforms changed. The extraction didn’t. The 2025 Corporate Tax Haven Index isn’t merely a report. It is a confession, a glimpse of the operating manual and scale for the last functioning empire of piracy on Earth. Seven of the world’s worst corporate tax abuse enablers are British or British-wired: 🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands 🇰🇾Cayman Islands 🇧🇲Bermuda 🇯🇪 Jersey 🇬🇬 Guernsey 🇮🇲 Isle of Man 🇬🇧 The UK itself Add the satellites: Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, and you have the modern imperial piracy map, not red territories, but redacted ledgers. A colonial spiderweb stretching across oceans, all threads leading back to the City of London, where £3 trillion in global wealth silently passes through conduits built for secrecy and extraction. The empire didn’t completely fold. It decentralized. It globalized its extraction. It dissolved borders so revenue could flow freely, in one direction. While every road no longer leads to Rome, the world’s most lucrative loopholes still converge on London, by design, not coincidence. The brilliance of the system is its camouflage. If any other nation drained the world’s tax bases into secret financial warehouses, it would be condemned as corruption, kleptocracy, destabilization. But when Britain does it? It’s “efficient financial engineering.” It’s “market sophistication.” No... it’s piracy with paperwork. It’s looting rewritten in legalese. The defeated empire realized that plunder becomes respectable once you teach accountants to be mules and carry the loot. Once the empire lost its armies, it built something far more durable, a financial gravity so powerful that corporations, banks, and entire economies were pulled into London’s orbit whether they intended to or not. This is engineered dependence. Control the jurisdictions where profits can disappear, and you don’t just influence corporations, you influence the governments forced to compensate for the revenue they lose. Control the offshore architecture, and you set the conditions for IMF austerity. Control liquidity, and you control sovereignty itself. This offshore empire of piracy is why Russia is decoupling from Western financial rails. China is building parallel infrastructure. BRICS is designing settlement systems outside the dollar. Africa is rejecting Western development banks. The Empire metastasized into the financial system that drains the world today. It swapped gunboats for tax havens, soldiers for accountants, and open conquest for “legal structures” designed to move wealth out of nations and into the same imperial core that once ruled them by force. The genius and the obscenity is that the victims are told this is “modern finance,” while Britain hides behind the very rules it wrote to protect its offshore machinery. Austerity for the Global South. Loopholes for the multinationals. Moral lectures from the capital of money laundering. And here’s the part London fears: That once nations realize they can’t be sovereign while their wealth bleeds into British-run secrecy networks, they face a simple choice: Dismantle the system, or remain subjects of an empire that pretends it no longer exists. Because an empire built on financial gravity endures only as long as nations accept its pull. The moment they walk away, the sun doesn’t set on the Empire, it is snuffed out.
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Friday, December 5, 2025

HEATHER MACDONALD: You can have meritocracy in an institution or you can have diversity. You can't have both

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