Frank said (October 26, 2025):

Your statistics are usually right, but the figure for the US manufacturing wage of 44 bucks an hour is a hallucination.

Been in industry all my life. We're lucky to get a raise every decade, sometimes longer. You have to understand that when American biz says "total remuneration," they often mean the amount of wage PLUS medical insurance which no other Western nation has to fuck with because they have national health plans. The USA is cursed with a political class that thinks this is Communism. And the health plans given by private industry are skimpy, with huge deductibles, and most people will be bankrupted by an appendectomy or a root canal with a crown, I kid you not.

Aerospace unions might get forty-four an hour. The rest of us come in at maybe half that.

That said, a nation should produce most of it's own stuff. The age of the manager taking advantage of low wage nations to sandbag his own people's lives is mercifully coming to an end. Some of us would rather have seen a revolution to EXPLICITLY put it to these felons but... it's ending and good for that.

As always your stuff is illuminating and I plan to get your latest book as soon as I get my sporadic raise...

JD said (October 25, 2025):

"Trump is considering bombing Venezuela."

"All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others." ~ H. L. Mencken

Amber said (October 22, 2025):

“Now that China has put a ban on exports of rare earths to the US - mainly due to the Trump provoked "tariff-war" - Trump is eager to get his hands on rare earths wherever he can find - and get them. They are crucial for the war-industry, which - as the world knows - is the lifeblood of the US-American economy. As to drug trafficking, the world also knows or should know, the globe's biggest drug- and human trafficker is the United Sates herself.”

https://henrymakow.com/2025/10/oct-21---war-or-peace.html

Hi Henry:

There was a big meeting and press conference with the Australian PM in Washington, D.C. just the other day where Trump found his rare earth minerals supply with Australia.

Another thing that happened was the Australian Ambassador is set to be thrown out of the country for having said that Trump was a “village idiot” – sometime before his diplomatic posting happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHeQPY4XAI

Ironically, ALL THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE in the “No Kings” protest would have sided with the Australian Ambassador as there were signs like: “No Crown for a Clown.”

The protest should have really been called: “NO TYRANTS”—to be more to the point and something THEY would fear.

As Trump and his cronies commit one treasonous act after another on a daily basis, WHY ISN’T ANYONE BRINGING UP the word “impeachment” or more accurately “TREASON”?—as the country is being destroyed at break-neck speed.