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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republicans-propose-up-to-3-trillion-in-spending-cuts-to-fund-tax-cuts-package/ar-AA1xQFJ3?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=0813788cc0544be8b23e3290b5c7ecc0&ei=12 Major Areas Targeted for Cuts ・Medicaid: Medicaid, which accounted for $817 billion in federal spending in 2023, is a key target. House Republicans are considering citizenship requirements and work mandates for recipients—policies that could save an estimated $100 billion over the next decade, according to projections cited by The New York Times. ・Student Loan Programs: The House Education and Workforce Committee is proposing up to $500 billion in cuts, primarily focusing on reforms to federal student loan programs. Suggested changes include lowering borrowing limits, restricting non-citizen eligibility, and capping public service loan forgiveness programs. The federal Direct Loan Program currently costs taxpayers approximately $197 billion annually, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. ・Food Assistance Programs: The House Agriculture Committee has proposed reductions between $100 billion and $250 billion that could impact the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. The proposed cuts could significantly affect low-income families who rely on the program for food security. ・Federal Employee Benefits: The Oversight and Government Reform Committee has suggested $66 billion in reductions, specifically targeting federal employee retirement and health benefits. These cuts could have widespread implications for the federal workforce. In addition to spending cuts, House Republicans are exploring revenue-generating options. The Judiciary Committee is considering imposing fees for immigration-related processes such as asylum applications, annual renewals, detention, parole, and visa overstays. The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed increasing fees on the shipping industry and imposing new fees on electric vehicles, estimating potential savings of up to $26 billion. Republikanerne i kongressen vil altså spare 3 billion dollar gjennom massive kutt - som praktisk talt er snakk om å robbe de sårbare for livsnødvendigheter? Å, det kommer til å bli interessant når disse som trenger matkuponger, allikevel stemt republikansk og på Trump, vil finne seg kastet ut i sterk nød. De har allerede ikke lenge muligheter for å kjøpe medisin fordi priskontrollvedtaket har blitt fjernet av Trump. Og de føderale arbeidere kommer til å gjøre opprør. Det er mulig at Musk og hans DSE har planer om å privatisere mye av den føderale arbeidsstokken uten å forstå at de føderale arbeidere har kompetanse og ekspertise som er dårlig egnet i privatmarkedet.

Absolutt intet regime gjør det. Helt siden statsbyråkratiet var oppfunnet hadde ulike regime uansett ideologi og doktrine valgt å opprettholde det ansiktsløse og mekaniske byråkratiet for å kunne beskikke statsforvaltningen - slik at selv når kongen dør, vil kongens styre består, og er svært viktig for statefunksjonene over hele verden med få unntak. Det er ikke mulig å bare bytte ut et byråkrati i et demokratisk system uten å sende hele systemet ut i total kollaps, og det vet alle statsvitere som vet at hvis demokratene returnere til makten, må de overta byråkratiet som ellers bli latt i fred. Helt siden den amerikanske føderale staten oppsto i 1792 er statsbyråkratiet frikoblet fra partipolitikk og makthavernes luner. Da Bush junior var president, hadde republikanerne prøvd å forme om byråkratiet ved å sette inn nøkkelpersoner - det tok Obama lang tid å overvinne dette, men ikke før enorm skade hadde hendt. Hvis staten mister byråkratiet eller hvis byråkratiet ikke er lojal mot staten - er staten dømt til å opphøre med å eksistere.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/terrified-senator-describes-death-threats-lobbed-at-republicans-who-opposed-hegseth/ar-AA1xPbgM?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=07fc77467d7e4fd1bc6409f77f6c5783&ei=17 Det har kommet ut at dødstrusler hadde hendt under nomineringen av Hegseth, minst en republikansk senator kan ha blitt presset til å gi hennes godkjenning pga. trusler mot henne og hennes familie - Joni Ernst. (Iowa) Dette kan produsere en ufattelig skandale om det skulle vise seg at flere senatorer hadde blitt regelrett truet på disses liv for å presse dem til å la Hegseth komme til. Det kan bli meget stygt så snart Trump er vekk og MAGA-styret rensket bort. Veldig stygt. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hegseth-will-be-defense-secretary-here-s-how-he-plans-to-upend-the-pentagon/ar-AA1xPb7o?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=a0ca46e55a8c43df8c90ab4237bbacf3&ei=3 “He came across in his hearing like a college junior excited about all the new concepts he learned in class,” said one defense official, granted anonymity to speak candidly about their new boss. “People get that ASEAN isn’t the only acronym he doesn’t know." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-he-could-send-us-special-operators-after-mexican-drug-cartels-it-could-make-things-a-lot-worse/ar-AA1xQuko?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=5e00ad55014f444b9e866ad0eba0a193&ei=33 Hegseth vil helt sikkert tillate ulovlige militæroperasjoner på meksikansk grunn uten den meksikanske regjeringens tillatelse uten å ense faktumet om at det er en slags "våpenstillstand" mellom de ledende kartellene og den føderale staten som et resultat av Narkokrigen som så 400,000 døde og savnede i 2006 til 2022. I slutten var man så trøtt av den endeløse krigen at den venstrevridde (venstresentralist) Lopez Obrador stoppet alle offensive operasjoner til fordel for oppdemmingsstrategi - det gjort at volden som fortsetter, stort sett ble internt mellom de kriminelle. Sheinbaum som overtok etter ham, aktet å fortsette den samme strategien, med hennes vri. Hun mente omfattende etterretningsarbeid for kartlegging og systematiske nålestikkangrep for å destabilisere kartellenes virksomhet er essensielt, og har derfor et sterkt behov for at status quo-situasjonen forbli den samme, så hun kunne nippe ut kartellene bit for bit. Kartellenes makt er for sterk for en direkte konfrontasjon så hun vil utmanøvrere dem ved å være smartere i hennes bruk av maktmidlene. Det fungert meget godt så langt, noen ganger var kartellmilitante så overveldet at de var massakrert eller bakbundet uten å gjøre effektiv motstand. Hun vil ikke la brushoder kommer inn og ødelegge alt. Violence against cartels could trigger a humanitarian crisis and spur more immigration to the US, said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University who has extensively studied cartels. Mexican civilians caught in the crossfire would likely flee communities, which could create a refugee crisis, she said. "They are going to apply for asylum in a desperate situation," she said, calling the idea of immediate military intervention illogical. It's not as simple as killing top leaders either. Complicating the grip cartels have on Mexican society is their seemingly infinite complexity, she said. "We're not talking about businesses that operate vertically, like El Chapo and El Mayo, and all these guys that provide orders to everyone," she said, referring to two infamous drug kingpins. Most cartels operate with less centralized command structures and are splintered into smaller cells. Some of these focus on drug movements and production, while others focus on kidnapping, extortion, and human smuggling. If the goal is to limit the reach of the cartels and the violence and the destruction that comes with them, "you are going to get the exact opposite effect" if you start killing leaders, said Carolyn Gallaher, a professor at American University who studies cartels, in an interview with BI. Top leaders can be easily replaced by others zealously vying for power, creating an even more complex battlefield for American troops and Mexican civilians. "When you start fighting an army that is not behaving like a regular military, you are basically in the middle of civilian life," Gallaher said. "And you don't have an accurate way to differentiate between civilian and soldier." Sheinbaum vil helst la kartellsjefene være i fred av bitter erfaring fordi det vil lede til voldseksplosjon med enorme konsekvenser som sett i 2006-2020, og vil derfor bare ta ut de meste produktive mellomlederne og de meste aktive celler knyttet til bestemte virksomhet som menneskeslaveri, narko og trusler mot lokalpolitikere som lever meget farlig. Hva hun trenger mest er mer og enda mer etterretning med omfattende datasankning - hun vil endog vite når og hvor kartellmilitante spiste og gjør fra seg. Men hun har en fiende i den sterke korrupsjonskulturen som gjør at lokaladministrasjon helt opp til delstatsnivå har blitt kompromittert og måtte motarbeides i lik stor grad som mot kartellmedlemmene. Amerikanske eksperter med innsikt i saken mener et amerikansk-meksikansk samarbeid omkring etterretningsinnsats og målrettet anslag er det beste valget, og at dette er noe som vil ta tid. Gjerne en eller to generasjoner. Det er rundt 650,000 soldater, paramilitære politimenn og spesialpolitimenn i Mexico mot angivelig 300,000 aktive kartellmedlemmer og et par millioner aktive kriminelle eller mer som "grasrota" i det kriminelle livet. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mass-deportations-aren-t-here-yet/ar-AA1xQaSE?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=0dd94ab8bb5146baaeae323b6a913502&ei=3 Om det ikke er nok, må Mexico forberede seg på mye større problemer fordi det er hundretusener av migrantene som sitter strandert i sitt land, som må returneres til deres hjemland eller assimileres, noe som er lettere sagt enn gjort. ICE har ikke gjort mer enn vanlig så langt utover kontroversielle enkelte raid som kan ansees som prøvekult, fordi forskriftene forberedes, utarbeides og sendes ut - som i seg selv vil ta tid. Så langt tyder signaler på at ALLE migranter uansett status er i fare om å bli deportert i den nære fremtiden. Det finnes utvekslingsstasjoner langs grensen hvor migranter med tillatelse fikk komme gjennom mens disse uten tillatelse returneres - på den måten kunne enorme folkemengder forflyttes, men på sitt høyeste "bare" 400,000 per år som sett da Obama var president - 4,8 mill. var sendt ut i 2009-2017. Nå går det bare en eneste vei gjennom disse stasjonene, tilbake til Mexico. Det som Trump ønsker, sprenge alle tenkelige rammer fordi i bare fire år skulle 11 mill. returneres - og det er bare om de illegale. “If all that ICE accomplishes is a series of splashy operations that take a lot of resources but come intermittently, then it will be a sign that the administration is better equipped to scare migrants than arrest and deport them in numbers that substantially exceed what the agency accomplished under Presidents Biden and Obama,” "Actually implementing Trump’s plans for mass deportations will require a large-scale and costly mobilization of government and law enforcement. That will not happen overnight. “We’re not going to see a significant increase in actual deportations this year, even with the Trump administration’s best efforts, simply for logistical and financial reasons,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School. “There will be some increase in actual deportations this year, but it’s not going to be millions of people.” The law enforcement capacity needed to both secure the border and carry out mass raids in the interior of the US right now does not exist. Getting ICE, detention facilities, and immigration courts staffed to the levels Trump’s plan would need would require massive investment. That money would have to be approved by Congress, which already green lit another very expensive immigration bill in the last week and may be reluctant to drop more funds on the issue. However, Sean Ross, deputy chief of staff for Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), told Axios that she would be pushing for increased ICE funding via the budget reconciliation process and future appropriations bills. Another hurdle is finding immigrants, which may require cooperation with local law enforcement that sanctuary cities have been so far unwilling to provide. Even those that ICE rounds up might not be deported immediately. Trump has tried to expand what’s called “expedited removal” so that anyone who has entered the US within the last two years can deported without a hearing before an immigration judge. But people who did not arrive in the US recently are entitled to such hearings, and the immigration court backlog currently stands at about 3.5 million cases. It could take years to deport people who are newly arrested and added to that backlog. These practical challenges will make it difficult for Trump to quickly implement his campaign vision for mass deportations. But the reality of it may not matter so much as how the public perceives his agenda. “What he’s trying to do is have a public relations campaign that sows fear and chaos among immigrant communities and assures his base that he is doing everything that he can to have increased immigration enforcement,” Yale-Loehr said. Det er mulig at Yale-Loehr tar feil fordi det er en meget voldsom halsbrekkende tempo for tiden som kan snu alt på hodet, for MAGA og Trump mente de vil gjennomføre deportasjonsplanen mye raskere og større enn tidlig. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-immigration-enforcement-memo-targets-migrants-who-entered-legally-under-biden/ar-AA1xNW1U?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=06f75c19a6a44b0ebc497d77cad9ec57&ei=12 Artikkelen forklarer at Trump har seriøse planer om å deportere alle legale migranter som hadde kommet til USA i 2021-2025. Det ser ut at haitierne i Springfield kan bli tvunget til å reise hjem til Haiti som er svært utrygt, og der vil endelig gir rasistene i byen hva de ikke vil ha; ruin. For uten haitisk arbeidskraft vil denne - og et dusin andre byer - bli spøkelsesbyer om ikke så lenge. Det er ikke lite urettferdig fordi da lavtlønnede amerikanerne gjort opprør og forlot de dårlige arbeidsplasser som resultat av pandemien og overopphetningen i 2021, hadde et stort arbeidssjikt blitt stående tom - som de legale migrantene overtok og bidro meget sterkt for å berge USA fra inflasjonen. De gjort USA rikere og bedre, og nå skal de ut?

Nostradamus` spådom om en avtale mellom "Russlands konge" og en amerikaner er i ferd med å gå i oppfyllelse; han skrev at "det vil ryste hele verden og sjokkere alle fiender". Så meget, at selv Nostradamus fant dette verdt å nevne, muligens fordi sjokkvirkningene av dette ville ha kastet Vesten ut i en meget alvorlig eksistenskrise. Men ta det med ro; han mener ikke at verden vil gå under, og at Vesten vil gjenreises og ta tilbake verdensdominansen "med mer klokskap enn før", en mystisk mann i USA vil rydde opp så meget, at det vil stabilisere hele verden. Interessant at han antyder at USA kan forsvinne som et resultat til fordel for en amerikansk-europeisk maktkonsentrering. Dessverre er vi nå kommet inn i skjærsilden.

Alle burde be om at min spådom ikke vil skje i oppfyllelse fordi den vil smadre alt USA står for. Disse "kristenkonservative" burde egentlig kalles "kristenfascister", og nyere opplysninger har vist at mange - spesielt evangelikale - skal ha brutt med Jesu budskap omkring syn på fattigdom og sameksistens.

Studere saken. Terrorisering av kvinner og medisinpersonell med trusler, voldelig atferd og mobbvold hadde vært så vanlig, at Clinton hadde nesten hele nasjonen med seg for å vedta FACE-loven - det er snakk om medisinsk tjeneste som må ikke saboteres, med mennesker som skal utøve deres valg i frihet. Men jeg vil aldri svare på en av de verste fanatikerne jeg har noensinne støttet på i 24 år.

Utrenskningene av det føderale byråkratiet har startet. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/widespread-massacre-trump-fires-17-inspectors-general-in-move-that-appeared-to-violate-federal-law/ar-AA1xPJQ4?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=85825030d5714e67b41e0713de72b043&ei=23 “The inspectors general were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately, according to people familiar with the situation, who like others in this report spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private messages,” the Post reported. “The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire the inspectors general.” The Post said inspectors general from the Departments of Defense, State, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Energy were terminated. Most of the IGs who were removed were appointed by Trump during his first term. “It’s a widespread massacre,” said one IG who was dismissed Friday night. “Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system.” Helt i tråd med Prosjekt 2025. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/all-the-former-officials-trump-has-taken-security-details-away-from/ar-AA1xOVLw?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=4ef0bcd0598e49208975628e3fe1f5ce&ei=6 Listen over disse som mister statlig beskyttelse - dette kunne ikke forklares på annet måte enn ren ondsinnet hevn. Bolton mener det er en reell mulighet at terrorister fra Iran kan drepe ham, fordi han står på en drapsliste utarbeidet av Khamenei som reaksjon på drapet på Suleimani - Pompeo står også på listen som var oppdaget av CIA. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/evangelicals-abandoned-jesus-teachings-for-trump-s-cultural-decadence-conservative/ar-AA1xPgMX?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=9ea8d8bd752342c4b72edd5559449d22&ei=27 Interessant artikkel om de evangelikale "kristne" (JEG MÅ SI DET MEGET KLART FOR ALLE SOM LESE: EVANGELIKALE ER IKKE DET SAMME SOM EVANGELISK!) som valgt å bryte med Jesu budskap og dermed er frafalne i øyne på andre kristne som tar den slags på alvor. Inkludert meg selv. "Trump has a cultlike hold on great swaths of the evangelical movement. They will stick with him regardless of what he does. Initially, they reconciled themselves to what he said. Then to how he acted. And now they have made their peace with policies and appointments that would have once caused a revolt" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-donald-trump-is-racing-so-fast-to-remake-america/ar-AA1xPjUS?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=31cc9537da6b4d1f94381e6f994b33aa&ei=35 “It’s hard to respond to so much chaos, which is Trump’s MO. Flood the zone,” said Rep. Veronica Escobar (D., Texas). “We’ve got to prioritize those things that are important to us and to the American people, because there will be far too much for us to battle.” Trump’s critics have done little but watch from the sidelines—with one high-profile exception. The president sat in the front row Tuesday at a prayer service where an Episcopal bishop implored him to show mercy to immigrants and LGBTQ children. Her remarks generated more than 30 million online views in 48 hours. The president, in a social-media post hours later, called the bishop a “radical left hard line Trump hater.” De må skjerpe seg meget kraftig. Eller kommer de til å oppleve noe som kan sette dem og hele USA i sterk skam som kan ødelegge dem - eller reformere dem. Det amerikanske folket har nå gode grunner for å spørre seg selv om dette, matprisene er på vei opp, inflasjonen gradvis, men sikkert dukke opp på nytt selv om markedet fremdeles sier "det vil ikke skje, det vil ikke skje" som mange velgerne hadde sagt. Som alle nå forstår; Trump mener det når han sier det han vil gjøre. Nesten alle hadde overhørt ham fordi de trodd det var valgflesk og støy. Nå begynner det å gå opp for dem. Markedet er trolig sist ut, ved 1. februar kommer det til å bli interessant.

I strid med alt som het allmenn fornuft hadde senatrepublikanerne med tre unntak - partiveteranen McConnell og to kvinner - stemt for Hegseth mens alle andre stemt mot - slik at visepresident Vance reddet den meget kontroversielle kvinnehateren som nå er USAs forsvarsminister. Denne gjort det meget klart at Trump vil få alt han peke på fordi senatrepublikanerne har kommet under hans innflytelse gjennom partiapparatet og MAGA-press. Senatorene er blitt strøgutter for presidenten - som er i meget klar strid med det politiske systemets ånd. Dermed er skrekkadministrasjonen et faktum. Mange senatorer som hadde stemt for Rubio, satt i forvirring da de lært at han hadde skjerpet Trumps ordre om å stoppe all bistand for 90 dager og bidrar til enda større forvirring samtidig som Israel får en særbehandling som virker meget provoserende for hele verden. Da innsettelsen av Trump startet 20. januar, hadde de færreste forestilt seg det som vil kom - nå er smilene som stivet da Trump kom med hans tordentale den gang, erstattet med sure miner og måpende munn. Det kommer flere og flere signaler - ikke minst da en lov som skjerper behandlingen av migranter som begår lovbrudd kom under kritikk - om at mange vil nå kjempe tilbake med alle midler. Det er et stort flertall i befolkningen og etablissementet som ikke vil ha et MAGA-styre som kom gjennom pga. sterk uvitenhet som var skapt gjennom manipulering av sosiale medier og tvilsomme mediekanaler som Fox News - som stort sett eies av milliardører med libertarianske tendenser. Folkestemningen kan sures mot Trump og MAGA på rekordtid, og republikanerne risikere altfor mye - fordi hvis misnøyen blir så stor, er den eneste muligheten for å beholde makten gjennom valgjuks eller misbruk av 1789-konstitusjonen, som er meget sterkt utdatert - så meget, at det bare er grunnlovtillegger av mindre status omkring valg og stemmerett.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-department-curtails-prosecutions-for-blocking-access-to-reproductive-health-centers/ar-AA1xOCbZ?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=37d5cbbaadec4ceba1359a92c1c751fd&ei=38 Enda en spiker i kisten for abortsretten. Selv om det kan få legale konsekvenser fordi FACE-loven fra 1994 krenkes med et slikt inngrep. Hvis Trumpadministrasjonen skulle nekte å følge loven som skal beskytte abortpraksisen mot ulovlig atferd som drap, terror, sabotasje og munnhugg, vil det ramme hele landet. Selv delstater som har abortsrett kan finne det meget problematisk i møte med gjerningsfolk fra andre delstater. Det skal ikke brukes skjønn under enhver omstendighet når en lov håndheves. Nå er det definitivt et tidsspørsmål før republikanerne finne på et føderalt forbud mot abort som kan komme gjennom begge hus i kongressen uten å trenge majoritetsflertall. Det er på tid for disse republikanske velgerne som vil beholde abortsretten - å innse at de hadde tatt feil og latt seg lurt av en lurkdreven svindler. Det blir verre og verre - det er nå et rent MAGA-styre i USA, som vil framprovosere meget voldsomme reaksjoner.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-trump-s-america-first-strategy-could-literally-make-america-sick/ar-AA1xOODT?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=8dfb459512f44bcb8dc3f9455a2c085c&ei=17 “President Trump is living in Fantasyland. You can’t replace the singular global health organization that’s been the center of global health for more than 75 years. And if he thinks we can ― that we are stronger by going it alone ― he’s badly mistaken. It’s very clear our domestic capabilities can’t replace a worldwide network of surveillance and response.” Ikke bare vil det svekke WHO så meget at epidemibekjempelse kan bli vanskelig uten den omfattende assistansen fra USA som har den største konsentreringen av medisinsk ekspertise og teknologi i verden, slik at det kan koste mange liv og utløse meget alvorlige ringvirkninger for verdenssamfunnet, det kan ramme det amerikanske folket med full styrke fordi uten WHO vil det bli mye vanskeligere å bekjempe smittsomme sykdommer. I en tid hvor habitatsødeleggelse muliggjør nye dødelige pandemier som Covid. I verste fall kunne det koste flere millioner liv og sende USA ut i enorme økonomiske vansker. https://www.latintimes.com/trump-team-stonewalling-latin-american-nations-mass-deportation-talks-this-not-how-its-572601 Trump nektet å diskutere deportasjonsplanene med de latinamerikanske regjeringene (det er allerede eksisterende avtaler om utlevering av kriminelle aktive migranter til hjemlandene fra før). Så langt er alt i det blått, men det er et land som fryder seg; Venezuela. Maduro sier at han vil ønske velkomne alle migranter som hadde dratt ut til andre land, blant annet USA - og det er mulig at Trump-administrasjonen kan finne på å komme ham i møte. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-shutting-down-immigration-offices-across-latin-america-set-up-by-biden/ar-AA1xNH4M?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=f23e9a4112fe47cb93b6fd2fbe7663a3&ei=16 Among the steps Mexico is taking to prepare for the impact of Trump's mass deportations are tent camps for migrant featuring attention centers along its northern border. Components for the first of nine centers arrived on Tuesday at El Punto in north Juarez, a location near the Rio Grande. This center, expected to be operational by the end of the week, will provide essential services such as food, medical checkups, temporary lodging, and a $98 debit card to help deported Mexican nationals return to their home states, as informed by the Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodriguez. Så langt er Mexico meget fast besluttet på at bare disse med meksikansk statsborgerskap skal få hjelp for snarest mulig reintegrering, men spørsmålet alle stiller seg er nå om man er i stand til å håndtere de deporterte, for det er ikke nok kapasitet for samtidige av meksikansk herkomst. Mexico hadde ganske nylig nektet å gi et amerikansk transportfly landingstillatelse, muligens fordi det ikke var meksikanerne om bord, når det allerede finnes utvekslingsstasjoner på grensen hvor returnerte migranter kan hentes av meksikanske myndigheter. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-dhs-signals-party-may-be-over-for-roughly-1-500-000-migrants-paroled-into-us-under-biden/ar-AA1xOBpV?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=ac20bd14a27f44de8227275ac501c9db&ei=54 Det virker som at det er ikke de illegale migrantene som vil bli hardest rammet i begynnelsen, for det er kommet signaler om at 1,5 mill. legale migranter med midtetidig oppholdelsestillatelse med CHNV-programmet og CBP One-app kan bli sendt ut av USA. Disse er fra Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti og Venezuela. Har Trump-administrasjonen seriøst ønsket å sende ut flyktninger som har krav på beskyttelse, til fiendtligstemte regimer - i strid med kongressens vilje og tidligere praksis? Dette er i seg selv et massivt brudd på asylretten. Dette kan lede til meget enorme problemer, spesielt omkring Cuba og Venezuela. Mange latinos i USA kan finne dette provoserende. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canada-eyes-new-hub-to-handle-possible-refugee-surge-from-us/ar-AA1xOKnj?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=ddcfff988d674e4d955e9252a3a06b90&ei=51 Canada forberede seg på flukt ut av USA - noe som tidlig er helt uforstående. Selv om alle åpninger over grensen har blitt lukket i nyere tid, er det klart for kanadierne at de må ha asylsentre for flyktninger - som ikke kan betegnes som migranter, men flyktninger fordi de kommer fra en truet situasjon. Det er mulig at det ikke bare vil være eks-migranter fra andre land som vil rømme USA i fremtiden.

Da mene det at de føderale dommerne kan gripe inn, selv om det er et meget åpent spørsmål om kongressen hvor Mike Johnson som speakeren kunne finne på å svekke institusjonen til fordel for Trump. Det er trolig i ledd med Trumps plan om å begå et massiv konstitusjonsbrudd, nemlig å overta ansvaret for statsfinansene som er underlagt kongressens kontroll.

Jeg er tilhenger av dødsstraff, og vedkommende som tråden handler om, etter min mening kan fortjene den strengeste straffen - men jeg mener bestemt på at bruk av dødsstraff bare skal skje der all tvil feides til side i størst mulig alvor av rettsinstansen som må være helt innforstått med de moralske og prinsipielle rammer omkring straffbruk. Enhver mulighet for å bevise den anklagedes uskyld eller forbrytelsens karakter må gjennomføres og utprøves før en domfellelse kan skje. Det finnes individer som ikke kan få leve når de utgjør en fare for andre mennesker, og må dermed henrettes fordi disse vil aldri kunne bli annet enn hva de hadde blitt. Hvis det er meget spesielle skjerpende forhold omkring forbrytelsen eller om karakteren av forbrytelsen er ekstraordinært grotesk, burde anklageren - og dommerne må gi deres samtykke - forlange lovens strengeste straff. Av hensyn til menneskeheten.

Dette er forræderi av Marco Rubio, som gjort dette bare timer etter senatet godkjente ham. Og Biden nok en gang burde i skammekroken fordi han var så altfor sent ut! Nå er NATO med unntak av USA nødt til å overta ansvaret for å gi hjelp til Ukraina.

Libertarianerne. Det er hva disse som kalt seg "konservative" i dag, i virkeligheten er. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianisme “I will be a true friend to libertarians in the White House, and I am proud to be the only president in 70 years who started no new wars. I took on the military-industrial complex. I broke the stranglehold on neocons and warmongers on the Republican Party…. I withdrew from the Paris Accord. I withdrew from the anti-gun UN arms treaty, and I withdrew from the corrupt and very expensive World Health Organization”. He concluded by saying: “We want libertarian votes because you stand for what we stand for”. https://unherd.com/2025/01/is-trump-the-most-libertarian-president-ever/ Libertarianism is a naïve ideology that risks cutting deeply into the core functions of a state. What’s insidious about libertarianism is that it looks good at first. Listening to Trump talk about over-taxation and overregulation with Rogan, I couldn’t help but nod along. The problem is the erosion of state capacity and mounting red ink. Fra artikkelen hadde en kommentar kommet med noe meget interessant at den gjenvises her: It’s difficult to be a pure libertarian these days. For example, how does one reconcile free trade with a hostile regime with a command economy manipulating its currency and pursuing monopolies on strategic goods and resources in order to exert political pressure. Doctrinaire libertarianism has no suitable answer as both punitive tariffs and and a taxpayer funded industrial policy are considered unacceptable. There are a number of other modern issues where libertarianism fails the test of pragmatism. As such, the party is on the political fringe, much like the Green Party on the left. A lot of them are closer to anarchists. Since the 1990s when Newt Gingrich based his contract with America on budget balancing and cutting spending, there has been a faction of libertarian leaning Republicans because they are aligned on many issues. The most visible leader of the faction these days is Rand Paul. He has often been allied with Trump but clashed at other times. Even Rand isn’t a pure libertarian these days. Also, even the politicians that run as libertarians and get less than 10 percent of the vote are likely to have held office as Republicans. It’s just not a viable political ideology in its pure form and nobody can sell it to the people. Trump can’t either, but he isn’t really trying. The only label that really fits is that of a nationalist. It’s the only consistent theme. Whatever policy he embraces, his logic is that it is good for America, makes the nation stronger, and puts the nation in a stronger or that it directly benefita the American people. It’s a testament to how far the globalist ideology has gone that a leader adopting policies according to the needs of his or her own country over and above the wants and needs of other nations is somehow controversial. Moreover, that basic statement of America first, which shouldn’t even need to be said, was sufficient for a political outsider with no experience and an established reputation of being a womanizer, a con man, and an obnoxious jerk, to bring the political establishment of the richest and most powerful nation on earth to its knees. That’s what still staggers me. That the establishment was so incompetent, so blind, and so wedded to their internationalist projects, that not only did they fail to stop Trump, they failed to understand why he succeeded. In a healthy, content, and well run democratic nation, Trump could never have come to power. Yet there are so many progressives and neocons and globalists who still don’t get it. As much as I think Trump is an opportunist whose entire political career represents little more than a way to appease his ego. As much as I am convinced he has very little idea what he’s doing and is in over his head, I can’t honestly say the other side is any better. They’re horrible in a completely different way. At least Trump may accidentally stumble into some new policy that works. The other side won’t deviate from their failed, unpopular ideology. I don’t have high hopes for Trump’s second term. He has yet to demonstrate he has a good understanding of the reforms and changes we need. He just throws crap at the wall and sees what sticks, which is still an improvement over what we have had. He has picked an eclectic cabinet from many political ideologies and factions who are almost guaranteed to be fighting each other at the first sign of trouble, as indeed they already are fighting over the visa issue. These disagreements are not a bad thing. The last thing we need is more echo chambers where everybody agrees. Just through disagreements and internal conflicts, we are bound to do at least marginally better Hopefully, Trump will continue to be inconsistent, pragmatic, and responsive to the people. If he somehow turns too many off by veering too far from his promises, he runs the risk of being labeled a sellout. It bears remembering that while Trump’s takeover of the Republican party seems complete, the underlying political instability that allowed Trump to rise hasn’t gone away, and probably won’t without far more drastic reforms than Trump will take for the very reasons this author states. We still will need a real populist who knows what they’re doing and does have a longterm plan based on pragmatic thinking and reining in the excesses of international finance and taking a sledgehammer to the largest corporations. That’s a libertarian position as well, one I don’t expect Trump will touch now but others might. That person could still come from either party depending on the circumstances. Further, there will still be support for economic globalism, from libertarians and others, but globalism is likely dead as a political philosophy. Dette er veldig interessant for å si det mildt. At Trump er en amerikanernasjonalist fremfor en libertarian, kan stemmes ganske godt med det som er observert i lang tid, siden Trump fremmet nasjonalistiske ambisjoner - kledt i libertarianske klær fordi denne ideologien er så ekstremt oppdelt, at ingen er helt enig om hva det mene, det er bare altfor mange forskjellige retninger - men dette er sterkt blant flere milliardører, spesielt techmilliardører, som oppriktig vil ha en redusering av stat og størst mulig "frihet" samtidig som de vil fremme "egen" frihet på andres bekostning. Som sett med Musk og kritikken mot ham på nettet, som avslørt at han mente hans egne frihet sto over andre. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/27/opinions/trump-booed-libertarian-convention-2024-election-obeidallah/index.html Disse som definere seg som "ekte" libertarianere derimot ville ha likhetsprinsippet side om side med frihetsprinsippet - selv om det stadig få dem til å begå blemmer - og tar sterk avstand fra Trump. Men de burde også gjøre det med disse som aktet å bruke deler av ideologien for deres egne tolkning av libertarianismen. https://newrepublic.com/article/189432/libertarian-party-future-trump Det ser ut at ledende libertarianere har omsider forstått at de kan ikke tillate fortsettelsen av fragmenteringen av deres ideologi som misbrukes av Trump, techmilliardører og MAGA samt forkjempere for "falsk konservatisme". Men jeg tror de har allerede tapt, forspranget for de andre som "stjålet" ideologien til seg for en desevolusjonsprosess som nå er i full gang, er blitt for stor. Så stor at libertarianismen har blitt hva nasjonalismen var for nazismen, men sannsynlig med neoføydalisme som resultat. Dette kommer til å bli hengende i all evighet - "konservatismen" i USA eksisterer ikke, den er et hult skall som rommet noe helt annet.

https://theukrainianreview.info/the-denmark-usa-crisis-is-a-paradigm-shift Ukraine, Denmark and Europe as a whole suddenly feel and fear the effects of the change of power in Washington. We are not just going from one American government to the next, Republicans after Democrats, Donald Trump after Joe Biden. It seems to me – during a long stay in Lima, the sizzling capital of Peru – that we are finally leaving the epoch, which began with the end of World War II in 1945 and included the collapse of the Soviet Union. We are approaching a new age, maybe an age of tyrants and tyrannical artificial intelligence. As a devout European and democrat I can hope for the best but must fear the worst. Democracy seems to be decaying around me, and not only in South America, where politics tend to be rather dubious. Until recently democracy was considered inevitable, in the US so victorious that a famous professor could sell his idea of the end of history on the market of fantastic opinions. Today, at the opening of the second quarter of the 21st century, we have more history than we can consume, ranging from two extremely brutal wars in and near Europe: Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine, and Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Lies flourish on what is called social media at the expense of the civilization we know, and which largely emerged from the Enlightenment and the European revolutions from 1789 to 1848. Are we dealing with a paradigm shift? My answer is a reluctant yes. Fundamental ideas, models, and notions are being turned upside down. Let me venture to say, as we move from the disappointing US election in the direction of the 22nd century, that with Donald Trump in the White House, Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin and Xi Jinping in the secret city of Beijing, we move from a troubled, but familiar world to one of lawlessness and brutality. It looks like a paradigm shift, a repeat, not a copy, of ancient Rome’s fall in the fifth century to the barbarians. In this process, Ukraine, much against the hope of 1991, plays a leading role. Ukraine is the front line of European civilization. If the barbarians breakthrough in Ukraine, the rest of Europe will be lost. Europeans, all Europeans, the brave Ukrainians included, must make common cause here and now, given that under Trump, the United States can be expected to return to its historic destiny, that of distancing itself from Europe. Will Europeans take responsibility? We shall know more after next month’s parliamentary elections in Germany, but I can control my optimism. These weeks, Denmark has its meeting with reality. Denmark, Ukraine’s close partner, considers itself a country of peace and thought, as a member of NATO, that it was protected by the USA. The enemy was always Russia, communist or fascist. Even before Trump’s return to the White House, this convicted gangster let it be known that his USA demanded the cession of Greenland to the USA for “absolute” security reasons. The Danes now know, what the Ukrainians have known for centuries, that international law does not exist, that the inviolability of borders and territorial integrity do not exist, that treaties and alliances do not exist, that the new Trump-Putin era knows only power and powerlessness. A war between two allied democracies? It seemed unthinkable, but in the paradigm shift between old and new, we see a large country issuing its ultimatum demands to a small country. The Danes, who have not been at war since 1864 when they ceded Schleswig and Holstein, two predominantly German-oriented duchies, to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Empire of Austria, have no idea what to do and cannot count on much help from other Europeans. Danish security policy since the establishment of NATO in 1949 has collapsed. The East Europeans and Baltic peoples know that the Putin admirer in Washington can sell them to the warmonger in the Kremlin, if and when it may suit his whim. The Danes were caught unaware and as innocent as Alice in Wonderland. A fear in Copenhagen is that should Denmark not follow orders, Trump may whisper to Putin that maybe he should move out into the Baltic Sea and take the island of Bornholm. A summit between the two gentlemen gangsters is approaching. What should we fear, not only the Danes but all of us? Maybe Trump and Putin in 2025, just like Hitler and Stalin in 1939, will divide Europe between them. The small state of Denmark is in a hopeless situation vis a vis its now formal ally, the superpower USA. Copenhagen wants to negotiate with Washington, but about what? Denmark can suggest a referendum on the future of Greenland. Shall the world´s biggest island with 56,000 inhabitants remain with the kingdom? Shall it go to the US? It can also become a sovereign Greenlandic state? But will it be allowed to live? Of course, it won’t. The US, Russia and even China are there to grab what can be grabbed, even with a risk of a major war on top of the world. The Danes can try to stall in the hope that Trump will lose his majority in Congress in the midterm elections only 22 months away (if those elections will be allowed to take place). Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, referred to by Trump as “a nasty woman”, because in 2027 she refused his bid to buy Greenland, may be speculating in the president’s early death or normal resignation in four years. Who knows? Perhaps Trump or his successors will maintain the demand. Perhaps they will have the Constitution rewritten to the point where a Trump dynasty can be created and remain in power indefinitely, the empire of America, model North Korea. Only this much is certain: The Greenland crisis, like the almost three-year-old war in Ukraine, shows that not only Denmark, but Europe – having neglected its defence needs in favour of an easy life – now risks becoming the victim of the new age. The paradigm shift is in full swing. By Per Nyholm God artikkel. Men Nyholm undervurdere muligheten for borgerkrig/maktskift i USA, hvor Trump egentlig bare har 30 til 35 % av folkets støtte under enhver omstendighet, og en stor del kan skjelles av - han hadde aldri vunnet til seg en majoritet på mer enn 50 %, det nærmeste er 49,8 % - og bølgen av presidentordrer samt innføring av Prosjekt 2025 i både gjerning og ånd har kommet som et meget stort sjokk på amerikanerne flest. Som en rekke artikler her i tråden viser, det er meget stor farepotensialitet som i praksis sette den amerikanske borgerfreden - et ord som er nærmest kommet i glemmeboka - i stor fare. En borgerfred som fra gammelt av er på skrøpelig grunn. Selv med den massive propagandakampanjen av libertarianere - det er den ekte identiteten bak "den falske konservatismen" i USA - og omfattende misinformasjon, er de amerikansk-europeiske båndene ikke noe som kan kuttes over, spesielt ikke med skandinavisk-britisk del av Europa. Sannsynlig vil nærmeste hele folket med klar unntak av trumpistene som er en kult, helst si "stopp" enn å tillate en amerikansk soldat drepe en dansk soldat. Amerikanerne kan ikke "bare" stjele til seg sine alliertes land eller angripe disse uten noe grunn. Det vil være i strid med de estiske prinsippene amerikanerne henter sin stolthet i.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-dismantling-of-eeoc-and-civil-rights-act-enforcement-will-have-chilling-effect-for-black-workers/ar-AA1xGtfa?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=e2c0268b80504495a0521faf35e4e7c4&ei=13 “When you tamp down the use of equity language in your administrative processes, they’re really…trying to allow active discrimination to come back into play,” Tillery argued. “These are all things meant to put Black people and other people of color back into a racial caste system where discrimination against them was legal. This is his first step toward that.” Det har fulgt til meget voldsomme reaksjoner. https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/politics/trump-s-new-justice-department-leadership-orders-a-freeze-on-civil-rights-cases/ar-AA1xHgMi?ocid=BingNewsSerp Alle pågående borgerrettssaker har blitt satt på hold helt uventet av Trump-administrasjonen. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-budget-pick-russ-vought-is-starting-to-upend-washington/ar-AA1xNkBV?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=efe33498e9844d67aae1b7d1142b3de7&ei=31 Å, det kommer til å eksplodere, ja... Om et halvt år vil det amerikanske folket ENDELIG innse hva det republikanske partiet siden 1994 hadde egentlig ønsket å innføre - og det er mitt håp - selv om det er svært lite og vag - at disse som hadde stemt republikansk, innse at de hadde gjort en meget stor feil. Være forsiktig med hva du ønske deg - du kan FÅ DET.

Som jeg hadde gjettet helt riktig. Davosmøtet er også preget av opplevelsen med en aggressiv og konfrontasjonslysten mann som hadde talt til dem gjennom en direkte TV-samtale. Dette er en Trump som ingen hadde ventet seg, og som alle kunne se i forbindelse med Putin i dag; dette hadde jeg sett i 2020. Det var da han regelrett gikk løs på Putin som var mildt sjokkert av en slik opplevelse den gang. Norge må støtte Danmark uten den minste nølingen, og EU må snarest mulig på banen. Stoltenberg under nylige intervju virker noe blek om nebben, som kan tyder på at han kan ha innsett at hans spyttsliking-strategien som var etterapet av andre i desember-januar, ikke har den nødvendige virkningen som før. Trump lide av sterk stormannsgalskap og kan ikke overtales på lik fot, da han er overbevist om hans spesielle status og makt som "verdens mektigste mann". Det vil ikke være overraskende om at det kommer til å bli kaos når verdenslederne måtte sette hardt mot hardt i slutten mot en mann som har mistet konseptene. Selv kineserne er svært usikkert, for Trump ser ut til å svinge svært kraftig, han kom med absurde trusler, deretter smiske så voldsomt at selv Xi fant det ubehagelig, før 60 % toll - nå nylig bare 10 %, mindre enn mot Canada/Mexico og eventuelt EU. Alle kommer til å tape meget massivt, for det er så langt ingenting om de ekte republikanerne og libertarianere vil gripe inn mens demokratene krangler og brummer høylytt. Det vil sannsynlig skje først når skaden er hendt. Trump er gal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-plan-to-designate-mexican-drug-cartels-as-terrorist-organizations-could-have-ripple-effects-on-the-economy-nyt-reports/ar-AA1xMWba?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=87d61f08e0ba4d29b6bcb91fa4dc7b51&ei=114 Trump's Plan to Designate Mexican Drug Cartels as Terrorist Organizations Could Have Ripple Effects on the Economy: NYT Reports President Trump vowed to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations during his inaugural address Monday, a move that could upend the current strong relationship between Mexico and the U.S. Experts are now warning the decision could also hurt the economy. Just hours after assuming office, the new president issued an executive order asserting the cartels' activities threatened the security of the United States. "Nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border" is controlled by the crime groups, the document said. "In certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental entities." Trump's new order doesn't specify which Mexican groups would be added to the list. In fact, it orders the secretary of state to come up with the names, and to also consider crime gangs from other countries— such as the MS-13 in El Salvador and the Tren de Aragua from Venezuela, The Washington Post reports. Designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations could preface the use of military force on Mexican soil. At the same time, it could also lead to tougher financial penalties and legal ramifications in the U.S. against those involved, according to CNN. Trump has been vocal about his plans to curb the influence of drug cartels. He has threatened to drop bombs on fentanyl labs and send special forces to take out cartel leaders, an incursion that could violate Mexico's sovereignty and disrupt relations with the United States' largest trading partners, The New York Times reports. But the new designation could also have unintended consequences. These criminal networks have extended their operations far beyond drug trafficking and human smuggling. They are now embedded in a wide swath of the legal economy, from avocado farming to the country's billion-dollar tourism industry, making it hard to be absolutely sure that American companies are isolated from cartel activities, a recent New York Times report shows. "This has come up in previous administrations across the political spectrum and from members of Congress who have wanted to do it," said Samantha Sultoon, a senior adviser on sanctions policy and threat finance in the Trump and Biden administrations. "But no one has done it because they have looked at what the implications would be on trade, economic and financial relationships with Mexico and the United States," she added. "They have all come away thinking that such a designation would actually be super shortsighted and ill-considered, though prior administrations viewed the U.S.-Mexico relationship far differently than the incoming Trump administration appears to. Identifying which businesses employ or are affiliated with criminal organizations could be nearly impossible, the report added, given that tens of thousands of people are involved and operating in various industries, including the hotel and agriculture sectors. Cartels tend to use the legal economy to launder money, which could mean that unwitting employees working at a resort or an avocado packing could technically be working for cartels unknowingly, the Times reports. The designation could also hurt companies on both sides of the border. Interestingly, it is so broad and vague that ranches in Texas or farms in California could be swept up by the penalties if their employees send remittances to family members in Mexico who are involved in organized crime. Subsequently, if money transfer companies like Western Union also stop transactions to Mexico over worries about properly vetting Mexican clients, it could affect the remittances the country relies on. That would be devastating to the Mexican economy, which received $63.3 billion in remittances in 2023, nearly 5% of the country's gross domestic product. For de meksikanske kartellene er narkosmugling og trafficking ikke lenge de viktigste inntektskildene for de organiserte kriminelle som i mange år hadde tatt fordel av den sterke korrupsjonskulturen og fattigdomsproblemet for å overta store deler av den legale økonomien samtidig som systematisk vold var brukt for å ha en terroreffekt mot folk som vil motarbeide dem - den føderale staten Mexico er i krigstilstand med kartellene, men da et bevæpnet forsøk på å knuse kartellene slo feil, hadde det fulgt til en "stillstand". Flere hundretusener var drept. Terroriststemplet kan ikke trøbbelfritt benyttes mot de meksikanske kartellene som har gravd seg dypt i sivilsamfunnet at disse ikke kan fjernes uten å ramme sivilister omkring disse. Det er ikke mulig å vite hvor kartelltentaklene går i et land hvor staten står svak i møte med en slik trussel. De meksikanske politikerne frykter at hvis kartellene skulle rammes hardt eller gå berserk, kunne det gjøre enorm skade på den meksikanske nasjonaløkonomien.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-has-a-message-to-ceos-build-in-america-or-pay-up/ar-AA1xNyl6?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=a7067fec9a7e4cca9131411b5b83bbcf&ei=6#image=1 Interessant artikkel om hvordan Trump vil omstrukturere den amerikanske nasjonaløkonomien, han satser på at markedet kan tiltrekke seg utenlandsk finans og know-how (han forsto ikke at utenlandsk finans skyldes sterk valuta og dollarvalutaens meget spesielle egenskaper - som kan strykes ut med politisk handling), og vil returnere til "År Null". There's been a lot of buzz about how president-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could negatively impact some of the market's biggest names. Some of the largest multinational corporations in the S&P 500 have heavily diversified supply chains with exposure to China and other international economies. However, for every company losing out from Trump's tariffs, there's another set to benefit from the red wave election outcome. Tariffs will lend a helping hand to some areas of the US economy by incentivizing domestic consumption and investment, according to DWS Group's Americas Chief Investment Officer David Bianco. With the US having shifted toward a service economy model, businesses aren't as dependent on physical assets as they were in the past, leaving them less exposed to supply chain risks and potential tariffs. Certain areas of the technology industry will be shielded, especially companies that don't manufacture physical products. Software, cloud services, and digital platforms have traditionally not been negatively impacted by protectionist policies. "Whether it be software as a service, internet, social media, digital technology, or communications — they're not too worried about tariffs," Bianco said. Another big winner from tariffs and Trump policies in general is the financial sector. Banks are another great example of businesses that don't depend on imports. Regional banks, in particular, have very little exposure to non-US revenues. According to Clayton Gardner, co-CEO of wealth management firm Titan, banks are also likely to receive an additional boost from deregulation under Trump. In general, Gardner believes low-margin, cyclical businesses with little international exposure will be the biggest winners from Trump's policies. These businesses will experience minimal impact from tariffs while also benefitting from lower corporate taxes, which Gardner expects to go down under Trump. You might interact with some of these companies, which Gardner dubbed "good old-fashioned American businesses," on a day-to-day basis. They include grocery stores, dollar stores, home builders, and small airlines. "They have razor-thin margins as it is," Gardner said. As margins start to improve due to lower corporate taxes, deregulation, and increased domestic demand, these companies will see an outsize benefit. Along a similar vein, smaller manufacturing companies might come out as the biggest winners of the Trump presidency, according to Samuel Rines, macro strategist at WisdomTree. Rines anticipates that the tariffs will make a compelling case for companies to move their operation to America. He points to Kentucky and Tennessee, two automobile manufacturing hotspots, as signs that American manufacturing is making a comeback. Last year, a major supplier for Ford announced plans to build three facilities in Tennessee. Companies have been gradually reshoring since the pandemic and will have increased incentives to do so under Trump. Rines also sees room for more of the "higher-end manufacturing," such as chips and other technologies critical to AI development, to move back to the US. The Biden administration passed bipartisan legislation, such as the CHIPS Act, to fund domestic production of semiconductors, and Rines thinks it's unlikely that Trump will halt these popular policies. Dessverre tar de litt feil her og der; for det første har de glemt delvaremarkedet for kommunikasjonsteknologiproduksjon i USA - spesielt halvledere/chips som fremdeles er sterkt utenlandskdominert; for det andre skue de tilbake på "Reagan-æren" ved å tro en redusering fra 21 % til 15 % vil "dryppe ned" - og mangel på regulering hadde nemlig fulgt til finanskriser flere ganger. Delvaremarkedet er så enormt, at kineserne hadde kunne eksportere enorme mengder komponenter fra en spike til en ventil til USA fordi det er veldig sterk etterspørsel av helt presist disse "good old-fashioned American businesses" - Walmart supermarkeder har store problemer fordi hvis toll på kinesiske import reises, vil de syltynne prismarginene forsvinne. Det globale delvaremarkedet var i startgropen da Reagan vant valget i 1980. De vestlige politikerne i dag fremdeles ser ikke ut til å fatte omfatningen av dette. Det som kalles "higher-end manufacturing" var ikke et resultat av Trump eller markedet, fordi det var allerede mens Obama var president, innsett at USA måtte ha egen semikonduktørproduksjon i møte med Kina, og som Biden lagt meget betydelige ressurser på. Det er også av politiske grunner mange amerikanske selskaper flyttet tilbake til det nordamerikanske markedet - Mexico med billig arbeidskraft, Canada med høyutdannede arbeidere og USA som hovedsegmentet. Det er fremfor for dyrt for mye av tilbakeoverføringen så lenge reallønnene for flesteparten av befolkningen i USA ikke er på samme nivå som EU. USAs problem er at den bare - bare - har verdensledelsen innenfor kommunikasjonsteknologi, hvor EU hang altfor langt tilbake, alle tidlige fordeler - transport, jordbruk, banktjenester etc. - har forduftet fordi amerikanerne hadde for lenge tviholdt på amerikanske standarder selv om om USA utgjør mindre enn 20 % av verdensøkonomien i en verden hvor Kina er verdens produksjonssenter av "hardware" varer. Det gjør at biler fra USA med klar unntak av Tesla er utdatert i sammenligning med biler fra resten av verden. Boeing har seriøse trøbler for tiden. Jordbruket har tapt sterkt mot BRICS-land som Brasil, Kina (Xinjiang) og India samt Russland. En gang måtte Sovjetunionen ha korn, nå kan Russland eksportere korn tilbake - til USA. (mathandel er ikke forbudt) USA hang så langt bakover i serviceøkonomi og banktjeneste at europeerne som kom dit, måtte spørre seg om de ikke var gått femti år tilbake i tiden! Kina aktuelt er kommet svært langt foran Kina på nærmeste alle steder med få unntak, og de har en skipsbyggingsindustri som er hele tusen ganger så stor som den amerikanske. Bare få dusin 150+ skip - medregnet militærsfartøyer - sjøsettes hver år i USA. Skipsbyggingen hang så langt bakover at ingen utlending vil engangs se på skipsverftene i USA. Biden hadde forstått det, og derfor stimulerte den amerikanske nasjonaløkonomien mens det er helt håpløst i EU hvor den tyske parasittøkonominaturen er et meget stort problem mens Brexit hadde fjernet den viktige balansemakten mellom Tyskland og Frankrike - og sistnevnt er generelt misfornøyd med politisk og økonomisk tilstand. EU var rammet av "mer katolsk enn paven"-symptomet ved å bli for liberalt, for markedsvennlig og for deregulerte slik at statlig stimulering som kunne skje i USA, er svært vanskelig i EU/EØS. Ennå vil det ta mye tid, og toll er ikke svaret. Roosevelt ment det da han fjernet tollbarrierene gjennom viktige forhandlingsrunder med handelspartnere man ikke kunne klare seg uten, og samtidig tvunget gjennom stimulering og velferd mens man sto for en målrettet proteksjonistisk politikk basert på streng regulering av teknologi og tollvern av strategiske varer. Trump simpelt vet ikke hva "tollvern" betyr, tariffer er alt som opptar ham. Dessuten er den samfunnsøkonomiske tilstanden i det amerikanske samfunnet etter lang tid ikke robust nok for å takle en meget brutal omstrukturering som Trump ønsket seg i hans drømmer om hans ungdoms USA.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/donald-trump-is-not-waiting-for-rfk-jr-he-has-already-started-his-war-on-public-health/ar-AA1xMOWX?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=d29bbb13c7d5447a998644330392580a&ei=52 Det er så mange horrible artikler så man miste tellingen. Her er det en om Kennedy og hans sterke fiendtlighet mot folkehelsa. Trump ser ut til å dele mange av hans holdninger. Robert Kennedy's Senate hearing to review his nomination to head Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to begin next Wednesday. Still, Donald Trump is not waiting for his candidate to get confirmed before launching a full-scale war on public health. For weeks now, some Democrats have tentatively expressed hopes that the vaccine denialist and former Democrat might not be so bad, pointing to Kennedy's statements about promoting healthy food as evidence that he might have good qualities. Kennedy's critics pointed out that empty rhetoric about nutrition and exercise is a standard deception ploy from anti-vaccine activists. It's designed to make their hatred of preventive medicine seem "reasonable," but is insincere, as evidenced by the lack of interest in doing anything substantive to improve public health. Kennedy skeptics are swiftly being proved right. McDonald's-loving Trump has not made even a whisper of a hint of a move toward "better school lunches," but on the real meat of Kennedy's agenda — waging all-out war on public health services — Trump is moving full steam ahead. One of his very first actions in office was to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO), which Trump has hated since 2020, when they kept undermining his efforts to paint the COVID-19 pandemic as a "hoax." Kennedy has hated WHO even longer, and not just because of his opposition to global vaccination campaigns that save countless lives. He and his organizing partners have fought WHO's efforts to prevent the spread of HIV, improve birth control access, or protect health care access for gay people. Kennedy refuses to accept that HIV causes AIDS, instead blaming it on what he imagines are "lifestyle" choices among gay men, even though, globally, most HIV-positive people are women and girls. As many folks warned, Kennedy's priority was never going to be "healthy food," but making sure that infectious diseases could spread more easily at home and abroad. On the "at home" front, Trump has already kick-started Kennedy's agenda, which is objectively pro-virus. As Science reported, Trump imposed a large number of restrictions on the National Institutes of Health (NIH), "including the abrupt cancellation of meetings including grant review panels. Officials have also ordered a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel." The cancelations could destroy a large number of annual research grants, which could slow down or stop important studies in disease treatment and prevention. This, too, is in line with Kennedy's overt hostility towards any scientist working to prevent infectious disease. When he was still a stunt candidate for president, Kennedy spoke at an anti-vaccine conference and promised that, when he was in charge of NIH, "We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years." By which he meant he would block research into preventing and treating infectious diseases. Trump throwing a wrench into the ability of the NIH to fund infectious disease research looks very much like the first step in Kennedy's scheme to lay waste to medical infrastructure to protect people from such illnesses. Kennedy's bizarre hatred of germ theory isn't the only item on the anti-health agenda. A HHS-run website informing American women of their reproductive rights was taken down mere hours after Trump was sworn in on Monday. The site didn't just help women seeking abortion learn where it is still legal to do so. It reassured women that birth control is still legal and that it's mandatory for most insurance plans to cover it. Kennedy sometimes makes pro-choice noises in public, but his actions suggest he's eager to pander to the religious right on this issue. He's been meeting with anti-choice Republicans and appears amendable to their views. He's signaled a willingness to go with the Project 2025 plan to rescind the FDA approval of the abortion pill. All this might seem like esoteric policy to most Americans, but it's tied to an anti-health agenda that could dramatically impact millions of people's ability to get even basic health care. The New York Times reported Thursday that congressional "Republicans are passing around an extensive menu of ideas to cover the cost of a massive tax cut and immigration crackdown bill." At the top of the list? What they hope could be a $100 billion cut to Medicaid, a program that now covers nearly 1 in 5 Americans. Similarly, billionaire Elon Musk, with his shady "government efficiency" study group, has been eyeballing massive cuts to Veteran Affairs, as a way to cut taxes for rich people like himself. Those programs are incredibly popular, creating a political firewall that may tank the plans to lay waste to the health care of millions. But Trump and Musk's hostility to federal employees is already doing damage. On Thursday, Veterans Affairs was forced to issue an exemption from the White House’s federal hiring freeze for the department's health care positions after days of outrage and panic. In one of the more satisfying moments of the week, this reality was even felt by MAGA influencer John Basham, who took to Twitter to plead for the restoration of his wife's nursing job offer, which was initially rescinded by Trump's order. It's good to see someone who richly deserves it suffering so, but it, unfortunately, points to a larger issue: these hiring freezes will interfere with the lives of those who rely on federal funding. Not that Trump will care, no matter how much whining his voters do on Twitter. Trump also signed an executive order this week to terminate President Joe Biden's successful efforts to lower the prices of many common pharmaceutical drugs. The drug price move ties off the thread that ties Kennedy and Trump's views together: health care should be a privilege of the wealthy, and not a basic human right. Kennedy's vague words about healthy eating might sound good on paper. In practice, he's setting up a pretext to deny healthcare access to lower-income people, by saying they deserve to be sick because they supposedly didn't take care of themselves. It's why Kennedy is so hostile not just to vaccines, but any acknowledgement of infectious disease. It's a lot harder to blame the victim when the illness is caused by a virus. If he's confirmed to HHS, this attitude will prevail. The talk about healthy eating will almost certainly not translate into helping people access better food. It'll just be an excuse to blame people's "lifestyles" when public health declines on Kennedy's watch. De fattige og lavtlønnede skal altså dø av sykdommer fordi de fortjene det fordi de ikke arbeidet hardt - dessverre er denne holdningen ikke bare knyttet til Kennedy, for det er en voksende stemning for å kaste de fattige og lavtlønnede helt ut av fellessamfunnet i sann sosialdarwinistisk ånd i "konservative" kretser som i virkeligheten er libertarianske fremfor konservativ - som i nyere tid nå beskrives som forsøk på neoføydalisme. Dvs. føydal tilstand hentet rett fra den mørkeste middelalderen. Da valget hendt, valgt rekordmange nyreligiøse latinos å stemme på GOP og Trump - og det kom ut at det skyldes en ny kirkedoktrine som er i klar konflikt med kirkelæren, de fattige har seg selv å takke, de skulle ikke få hjelp om ulykken skulle ramme dem, og hvis de skulle rammes av sykdom, kriminalitet, deportasjon - hver mann for seg selv, for det er Guds vilje - i meget klar strid med Jesu budskap. Så meget, at disse "kristne" er først og fremst kjettere. Denne holdningen finnes i den evangelikale kristendommen som er svært fundamentalistisk - og dessverre har det vært sett en meget sterk vekst av nyreligiøse som gikk dit fremfor annetsteds, selv om doktrinene derfra er knapt i tråd med kristenlære og kirkelære - og; som forklart med latinos, kjettersk i slik grad at de ikke kan tiltales som kristne.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-s-love-affair-with-confident-stupidity-has-reached-awful-new-heights-opinion/ar-AA1xMJZV?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=6daafd12433746e3b5866555b015cbdf&ei=50 Five years ago, I wrote about how the politics of stupidity and crankery in America was degrading us as a society and human beings. That was January 2020. Within months, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. It’s only gotten so much worse. For the remainder of 2020, we dealt with 385,676 deaths from the disease while then-President Trump lived in denial and misled the American people every day. He lied about its danger, how long it would last, treatments and prevention. He would bring in medical experts to speak during White House press conferences and then make stuff up himself out of nowhere and undermine everything that they said. It was horrifying. People were dying and losing loved ones and the president was spewing an endless stream of strange nonsense, drivel, and dangerous misinformation. Many millions of people believed everything he said without question. Then Trump lost the 2020 Election. He began lying about that too. Millions believed him again. Coward politicians rolled over for him. His lies exploded in the historic Jan. 6 attack on our nation’s Capitol. As the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out to the public at-large in 2021, the anti-vaxxer movement went into overdrive. Currently vaccine hesitancy is near record highs, so the anti-vaxxer movement really made out, a grisly and telling cultural consequence of a pandemic that’s taken 1.2 million American lives. Regardless, objectively, the covid vaccine was a man-made miracle. Plagues throughout history have lasted up to 20 years or more. We had a vaccine in 11 months thanks to the brilliance of scientific research and modern medicine. It was incredible. It was a tremendous accomplishment of humankind by every historical standard, and people threw the most outrageous temper tantrums over it. It’s easy to get lost in modern comfort, but I wish more people would just take a few seconds sometimes to recognize that we live in extraordinary times. The fact that we get to take hot showers every day is a monumental luxury compared to the rest of human history. That we can communicate across the globe instantaneously is anthropologically astounding, if you compare the last 30 years of human history to the 300,000 years before it. Look around you right now, wherever you are: desks, tables, electronics, electricity, light bulbs, appliances, glassware, furniture, knick-knacks, artwork, paint, carpeting, buildings. All of those things require science, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics, logistics, expertise. Experts. Smart people. Smart people gave us all of this. Intelligence gave us every amazing thing that we see around us and take for granted. The collective education of humankind over millennia has brought us here. A whole galaxy of humans and human know-how has come together to give us these wild luxuries of daily existence that make the vast majority of us wealthier in health and technology and everyday human comfort than the richest kings and queens and emperors of history. And yet. We sneer at experts. We spit epithets like “academic elites” at professors dedicating their lives to pursuing discovery that benefits humankind. And we worship flashy internet hucksters selling lifestyle scams. We mock intelligence and glorify egomania and materialism. We worship spectacle and are voyeurs for anger, confrontation, and violence. We live in fantasy worlds where what we want to believe is true regardless of whether it is true, because what we want comes first no matter what, certainly no matter any facts, this decadence of mind and body only afforded to us by modernity’s remarkable luxury and technology. It is in these ways that I regard a very great many adults as simply overgrown children. Speaking of which, five years later, Donald Trump is president again. He has pardoned the 1,500 rioters who sacked the United States Congress to try to overthrow the last election for him. Trump also launched a broadside this week against America’s scientific, academic, and medical research efforts, pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and hitting the National Institutes for Health with with “devastating” freezes on meetings, travel, communications. Trump’s cancellation of NIH grant review panels, as Forbes reports, includes the $7.1 billion annual budget for the National Cancer Institute: “of which more than $3 billion a year is allocated directly towards research for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer, which causes over 600,000 deaths in the U.S. every year.” The NCI supports 72 different cancer centers. Freezing national funding for cancer research is sadistic. It could also be devastating to America’s institutions of higher education. In Ohio, Republican politicians are piling on. This week they reintroduced a proposal to overhaul education at our colleges and universities. They seek to install a culture of fear and paranoia over subject matter among Ohio faculty, threatening their livelihoods and banning their ability to strike. They also seek to ban any diversity efforts on campuses as well as any diversity courses. The bill’s clear intent is to having a chilling effect on freedom of speech and expression in Ohio’s institutions of higher learning, both explicit and implicit, which is an atrocious insult to the entire purpose of education and all of the ideas behind open inquiry in the pursuit of knowledge. Ohio higher education currently ranks No. 39 in America. Apparently that’s not bad enough for them. America’s love affair with confident stupidity continues to reach awful new heights. The bill will come due. The piper will need paid. The damage will be extensive. Den amerikanske fordummingen er velkjent, men her må det sies at det er en antivitenskapelig bevegelse som er sentralt i MAGA, og som Trump med hans kunnskapsløsheten som skyldes en meget alvorlig personlighetsbrist som vanskeliggjør informasjonsbearbeiding er et meget glimrende eksempel på. Vitenskap er det som mer enn noe annet hadde gjort USA mektig, for dette muliggjorde den teknologiske og samfunnsmessige revolusjonen siden begynnelsen på 1800-tallet, allerede i forveien legemliggjorde en berømt mann som en av grunnlovsfedrene bak 1789-konstitusjonen selve det amerikanske vitenskapsbegjæret - Benjamin Franklin. En av de største heltene i det amerikanske folkets mytologi. DeWitt som skrev denne artikkelen har rett, den antivitenskapelige holdningen er uakseptert. For 300,000 år siden hadde mennesket, som da besto av flere arter med sapienser (oss) som en av flere, lite annet enn stein- og treverktøy, bar hender og ikke noe klær i det hele tatt, "hus" den gang var bare steinsirkler med forsenkning som omringes med tornekratt og tildekkes med skinnkledde stenger tatt fra busktrær. All som het klær var ikke annet enn skinneplagg - det var først med sy med hull det var mulig å lage ekte klær - for bare flere titusener år siden. Vi hadde ingenting utover det grunnleggende den gang. Så begynte kunnskapsbårne tradisjoner å feste seg, en gradvis, men sikker improvisering tok seg opp og da den kognitive revolusjonen startet for 70,000 til 75,000 år siden, var vegen mot vitenskap allerede stakket ut. Da Franklin levde, visste han ikke noe om hvordan livet hadde vært for 300,000 år siden, men i likhet med hans stamfedre forsto han viktigheten av kunnskap og oppdagelse for å improvisere og deretter forbedre levestandardene. Det gjør ham til en legende på lik fot med Newton og Einstein.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-trump-ii-destruction-is-already-in-full-swing/ar-AA1xNQYF?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=9b2a4d3e7fad4c8ea0ad98734e7fa7ae&ei=30 The Trump II Destruction Is Already In Full Swing Bare 49,8 % hadde stemt på Trump under valgdagen og hadde kunne vinne bare fordi andre kandidater stjålet fra Harris de nødvendige stemmer hun trengte. Ennå hadde han oppført seg som hvis han hadde vunnet "folkets mandat" med et tydelig resultat, muligens under meget sterk forvirring av valgsystemets valgmannsordning. Mange av presidentordrene er i klar konflikt med det majoritetstemningen i det amerikanske folket ønsker. Allikevel frita dette ikke det amerikanske folket ansvaret for det som skje; mens rundt 30-35 % ville uansett hadde stemt på Trump, hadde 14 til 19 % valgt å overhøre alle velmente advarslene som hadde haglet meget tett gjennom året 2024 med talløse artikler, dusinvis av bøker og endog en film. Og mange demokratiske velgerne som kunne ha gitt Harris seieren, lot være av en rekke årsaker, men fremste må være manglende innsikt og for sterke fordommer pga. Harris` hudfarge og kjønn. Hva som enn skje; det er ikke Trump eller GOP republikanerpartiet som har det endelige ansvaret, for i et demokrati er det først og fremst folket som må bli sittende med ansvaret.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-could-do-incredible-damage-to-mexico-and-canada-with-a-single-signature/ar-AA1xMIX9?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=9b2a4d3e7fad4c8ea0ad98734e7fa7ae&ei=2 A 25% tariff on all goods from Mexico and Canada would wipe out $200 billion from US gross domestic product (GDP) and $100 billion from Canada’s smaller economy and knock 2% off Mexico’s growth rate, according to a recent analysis from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Så langt er det ingen som tror Trump kommer til å bryte USMCA-traktaten og sende det nordamerikanske fellesmarkedet ut i resesjon, ettersom konsekvensene for alle tre land vil bli enormt, selv om analytikerne mener Canada og Mexico vil tape mest, vil USA også bli meget sterkt skadelidende for det er ikke bare bensinpris, helt siden begynnelsen på 1920-tallet hadde det vært et stort samhandel mellom de tre landene som med Norge og Sverige i dag. For instance, the auto industry treats North America as if it’s one country, not three. Parts and cars are made in factories spanning the entire continent. Car parts sometimes cross the border multiple times before they end up at a dealership. There really is no such thing as an all-American car. “Imposing a tariff of that magnitude would be devastating to the US auto industry,” Emmanuel Rosner, senior research analyst at Wolfe Research, wrote in a November report. Den siste all-amerikanske bilen var produsert så sent som i 1980-årene, fordi det globale delvaremarkedet hadde tatt seg opp, slik at alle bilprodusenter over hele verden kjøpe delvarer og komponenter fra flere land, det finnes i virkeligheten ikke et eneste bilkjøretøy over hele verden som er utelukkende produsert i et enslig land. Alle produsenter av transportmidler fra sykkel til fly i USA bruker delvarer produsert i andre land - og siden 2019 hadde mange investert betydelige ressurser på delvarekilder mye nærmere egne land - som Mexico og Canada. All produksjon vil stanses opp om handelen avbrytes, og en stigning på 25 % vil lede til ragnarokliknende forhold for både bilselger og bilkjøper. “For Mexico, a 25% tariff would be catastrophic,” Nå prøver meksikanerne å finne ut om de kan unngå dette, det meldes at de forberede seg på retur av migranter fra USA, men det er så langt meget uklart om det er mulig å stanse narkosmuglingen fordi mye av fentanyl-salget er legalt, og fordi det er altfor høy etterspørsel i det amerikanske folket. Hvis 25 % av landets BNP faller ut, vil det få meget fatale konsekvenser som kan endog gjør USA meget sterkt utsatt for sosial voldsspredning og destabilisering. For meget mange amerikanske og utenlandske investorer som har satset flere hundre milliarder dollar kan det bli katastrofalt fordi det er et utstrakt fattigdomsproblem med organiserte kriminalitet. “America is not an economic island, and serious economic problems abroad could come back to harm our financial system, our export sector and adversely impact our companies’ earnings,” I kontrast til hva mange tror, har den amerikanske nasjonaløkonomien ikke vært frikoblet fra resten av verden til tross for et stort internt marked - gjennom 1800-tallet var den føderale statens viktigste og eneste inntektskilde tollinntektene som var svært viktig da man ikke hatt sterk skattlegging som i senere tid. I begynnelsen på det tjuende århundret ble tollen redusert, og da tollen reises som konsekvens etter svartekrakket i 1929 - fikk det meget uante følger; all handel tok sterk skade og statsinntektene falt meget massivt. Roosevelt som overtok, måtte fjerne tollmurene og satse på stimulering av den økonomiske motoren. Dette var begynnelsen på gullalderen for den amerikanske nasjonaløkonomien. Og ennå er ikke EU og andre land som Kina kommet på bordet. Markedet har blitt sterkt overrasket over Trumps meget stor voldsomhet og har sett at han mente det han sier, noe som for mange er nytt. Da Trump kom til Davos, har mange milliardører, økonomer og politikerne steilet over hans voldsomhet og endeløse påstander som for dem virker helt meningsløst og avsindig.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/y-all-voted-for-evil-trump-destroyed-online-for-ice-raids-being-allowed-to-happen-in-school-churches/ar-AA1xIyaj?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=0767da2eb447441d914e3bd3269fe409&ei=43 Deportasjonene har begynte - og på rekordtid blir amerikanske statsborgerne anholdt, endog en krigsveteran som var mektig oppbrakt da han senere blir løslatt. Det skje svært tilfeldig og planløst, slik at en atmosfære av terror har oppnådd og spredt seg over mange delstater hvor det allerede har fått økonomiske ringvirkninger. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/who-s-he-working-for-congressman-slams-trump-s-first-days-in-office/ar-AA1xEsXP?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=1fb8d68ad4084331b51df3f3727c5aec&ei=62 Demokratene og politikerne er sterkt sjokkert over brakhastigheten Trump hadde startet med i hans regjeringstid - og sier rett ut at det er simpelt for mye, og at Trump ved å benåde over 1,500 dømte opptøymenn fra 6. januar hadde gått så langt over streken - så de betviler hans lojalitet mot stat, konstitusjon og folk. En gang var presidentordrer aktuelt sjeldent - nå utsendes det så mange, at det bryter alle grenser og all norm for maktbruk. For ideen var at presidenten måtte dele makten med andre maktgrener fremfor å sende ut presidentordrer som hvis disse var lovforskrifter. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-a-republican-i-have-one-question-for-gop-lawmakers-backing-trump-s-jan-6-pardons/ar-AA1xGomI?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=6a6d92d96e244f67b47dbc32bac7b977&ei=22 Republikansk feighet er blitt svært gapende, spesielt etter Hegseth klarte å bli nominert som kandidat for forsvarsministerposten - 51 mot 49 - og dermed vil senatet enten godkjenne eller avvise ham. Hegseth har meget sterke misogyniske holdninger og en kontroversiell villighet til å forbryte seg mot lov, slik at prosessen avslørt for alle at GOP er villig til å forkaste all troverdighet for Trumps skyld. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-cancels-black-history-month-at-federal-agency-whistleblower-lawyer-reports/ar-AA1xKeVg?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=838936206c364c6b9c6b5dd7bd99e687&ei=79 Trump gjort mer enn å bare stoppe DEI-programmet, han vil helt tilintetgjøre alt - inkludert å kaste ut alle DEI-spesialister og tvinge statsansatte til å rapportere hverandre om "uaksepterte holdninger" og all data skulle slettes. Commenting on the developments, Zaid wrote: “It goes beyond what happened at DHS & NASA today. CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate to former offices.” Zaid reported: “CIA is also apparently banning lanyards that have to do with affinity groups. Women’s Council had to take down website & cancel all events, incl women’s history month. They are also compiling lists of members within affinity groups.” [NOTE: Trump’s blunt force anti-DEI moves are even more severe than was predicted, and reach beyond government into the private sector where he has threatened legal problems for any corporation using DEI practices. Dette gjør presidentordren langt mer kontroversielt enn ventet, for dette kan med rette ansees som et grov eksempel på maktmisbruk gjennom en bevisst utryddelsesstrategi hvor alt og enhver omkring DEI skulle bli helt 100 % utslettet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion DEI er av meget gammel dato, for det var John F. Kennedy som startet praksisen da han formaliserte "Affirmative action in the United States" i 1961, som allerede i tretti år var vektlagt av forskjellige presidentadministrasjoner, men i uformell form - dette var som et tiltak mot rasisme og forskjellbehandling. Som et resultat av sosiale spente situasjoner omkring rasespørsmålet i 2010-årene hadde DEI fått større viktighet enn før, og hadde i Biden-årene blitt meget viktig for mange konserner og for statsapparatene. Men rasister og høyreekstremister har stått for en voldsom misinformasjonskampanje mot DEI, som dels kom under berettiget kritikk pga. ukontrollerte atferd av "woke"-aktivister som gjør mer skade enn nytte. Trump aktet å slette bort noe som har eksistert siden 1930-tallet. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-targets-his-own-first-term-achievements-for-no-clear-reason-opinion/ar-AA1xMH8c?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=29bce89830ee4ac8a1b7447118d54190&ei=13 " - Making them scramble in anticipation of economic doom is the whole point. As he does with Democrats, Trump seems to get an enormous amount of pleasure out of behaving contemptuously, tossing out nonsensical sentence fragments and febrile conspiracy theories and then watching as his fellow world leaders try their best to react normally and pretend that the president of the United States isn't an erratic geezer with the comportment of a lesser Sopranos lieutenant - " Meget uansvarlig, det sies at Trump er meget besatt av mafiafilmer og underholdning omkring mafia. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/swaths-of-u-s-government-grind-to-a-halt-after-trump-shock-therapy/ar-AA1xKZL5?ocid=BingNewsSerp&cvid=9166c69d877f487aa4ec931a0d0adc9d&ei=41 Det har startet; staten er i ferd med å stanse som et resultat av Trumps overtagelse. The gears of government slowed to a halt this week after President Trump axed major federal initiatives across Washington, causing even routine functions to hit the skids. The Transportation Department temporarily shut down a computer system for road projects. Health agencies stopped virtually all external communications in a directive that risked silencing timely updates on infectious diseases. A hiring freeze left agencies wondering how parts of the government could adapt to new demands. Confusion loomed over how agencies should disburse funds allocated by the previous administration. While glitches aren’t uncommon during the early days of presidential transitions, some longtime federal employees said the chaos seemed more extreme this week due in part to wide-spanning differences between the agendas of the previous administration and the new one. The stalled initiatives extended far beyond Trump’s cancellation of federal DEI programs. New leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services halted all external communications from the health agencies through Feb. 1. Food and Drug Administration employees scrambled to clarify that they could still issue critical safety alerts, while scientists said their grant-review meetings had been canceled, potentially endangering funding for their health research. National Institutes of Health scientists were also told to stop purchases of supplies, essentially bringing their research to a halt, two people familiar with the matter said. The communications pause caught the attention of Congress, with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) urging Agriculture Department nominee Brooke Rollins to ask why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s messages to farmers on bird flu had been halted. “We’re concerned,” Klobuchar said. A spokeswoman for the White House said that the communications pause didn’t relate to emergencies or critical health needs, and that food and safety inspections continued. She described the disruptions as temporary inconveniences. CDC trackers on seasonal flu and bird flu hadn’t been updated, and the agency’s flagship weekly report, which has communicated public-health information for decades, wasn’t issued as normal on Thursday. Staff in one CDC department has canceled a dozen work trips scheduled for the next two weeks, including travel to events that took months to plan, an official said. CDC has postponed several planned meetings with outside partners, including one on antimicrobial resistance, according to a person familiar with the matter. The administration paused the communications in part to ensure that new missives aligned with Trump’s executive order declaring only two genders, people familiar with the matter said. The aim was to nix references to “pregnant people,” for example, rather than pregnant women. Such language, aimed at being inclusive, grew pervasive across healthcare in recent years and has drawn criticism. Previous administrations also paused some external communications, but people with memory of them say those pauses were far less sweeping and didn’t affect such things as NIH grant meetings or routine CDC data updates. Meetings to review potential NIH grants—the lifeblood of American science—were canceled. When the World Health Organization held a call to discuss the Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania, leaders in the health-department division that prepares for pandemics told staff not to attend the call. Some federal workplaces rescinded job offers to comply with a hiring freeze issued from the White House. That included the Department of Veterans Affairs’ hospitals and clinics, according to Jacqueline Simon of the American Federation of Government Employees labor union. The White House also directed two of its offices to come up with a plan to shrink the federal workforce. The VA said it had issued some exemptions to the hiring freeze and would do whatever is necessary to provide veterans with benefits and services they earned. The National Park Service employs thousands of seasonal employees each year. Two employees who had accepted offers as interpretive rangers at national parks, but who hadn’t yet started, said they received emails rescinding their offers. The emails, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, were sent from a government address. Most agencies were under a hiring freeze that could last up to 90 days, but it could run longer at the Internal Revenue Service, even as the agency enters tax season and the period in which it normally hires many seasonal employees. Rather than the standard 90 days, the Trump order that freezes hiring said the Treasury Department must sign off before the IRS can hire again. The agency canceled a Thursday webinar to give résumé tips to potential applicants. An IRS spokesman didn’t reply to an inquiry on social-media reports of the agency rescinding job offers. “Freezing hiring at the IRS will severely impact the level of service,” said Doreen Greenwald, president of the National Treasury Employees Union. Agencies were also struggling to understand a Trump executive order that paused the distribution of funds from former President Joe Biden’s 2021 infrastructure law and his 2022 climate law, people familiar with the matter said. The order told agencies to review cash disbursements and submit reports on their status within 90 days. Many of those funds had been promised to companies through loan contracts, which are legally binding, experts said. The order set off a wave of confusion about which funds needed to be halted. On Tuesday, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo clarifying that the order only targets funds related to electric vehicles and some other clean-energy technologies. The memo states that agencies “may disburse funds as they deem necessary after consulting with the Office of Management and Budget.” “Executive orders do not change underlying statutes, so if loans or grants have been awarded pursuant to a statute like IRA and funds have been appropriated, an executive order would have a hard time turning that back,” said Scott Segal, a partner at Bracewell, referring to the climate statute. Long delays “might have violated the law,” he said. Billions of dollars have been disbursed to clean-energy projects through the Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure funds, but billions more remain unspent. Companies that received loan commitments from the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office, which provides low-interest funds to clean-energy projects, were unsure about when they might receive their cash. Andy Marsh, chief executive of Plug Power, which makes green hydrogen, said he was confident the government would eventually honor its obligations. The loan office finalized a $1.66 billion loan to Plug Power in the final days of the Biden administration. “Contracts, whether it’s with the government or a contract with another party, you have to live by the rules of the contract,” he said. The spending guidance also sparked chaos at the Transportation Department, said Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, a Washington think tank. Soon after the executive order circulated, the Federal Highway Administration shut down its computer system that helped state officials manage federal funds for road projects due to the executive order, he said. “I started to get panicked texts from people at the [Transportation Department] saying we’re shutting down our systems,” he said. After the OMB circulated its memo, the systems were turned back on. Koenraad Van Doorslaer, a virologist at the University of Arizona, was due to attend an NIH training session Thursday ahead of reviewing grant applications from scientists studying oral cancers. That meeting was canceled on Wednesday. If a pending grant application doesn’t get reviewed, Van Doorslaer said, “I won’t get money in my account, I can’t pay myself, I can’t pay anyone in my lab, I may have to close down the lab.” Jeremy Berg, who was director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at NIH when President Barack Obama took office, said grant meetings typically continue through a presidential transition, so the current situation is unusual. In fiscal year 2023, NIH reviewed nearly 52,000 grant applications and funded 21% of those. About 83% of NIH’s $48 billion budget goes to scientists outside NIH labs through such grants. “If that gets delayed by more than a few weeks or more, then everything in the whole system needs to get rejiggered to make it work,” Berg said. Det kan skape meget store ødeleggelser fordi det er kommet for mange presidentordrer med for dyptgående inngrep som kastet de statsansatte og program knyttet til helse, utdanning og vitenskap - som er svært viktig for USAs fortrinn mot resten av verden - ut i forvirring. Dette er "Prosjekt 2025"-ordrer som på ingen måte er ønsket av det vitenskapelige miljøet i USA.

En blivende stat må kunne stå på egne bein. Det er ingen tvil om grønlenderne kan få statsstatus, det eneste spørsmålet er hvor lenge, og ifølge eksperter er det snakk om tiår før Grønland kan få selvstendighet. Inntil videre må grønlenderne beskyttes mens disse bygger opp sin fremtid.