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San Francisco's newly elected Mayor Daniel Lurie says of the drug paraphernalia distribution, and the proliferation of use of fentanyl and drugs in San Francisco-

“We’ve lost our way. We are no longer going to sit by and allow people to kill themselves on the streets.”

Daniel Lurie defeated London Breed for Mayor of San Francisco on a platform of cutting the use of fentanyl and drugs in the city, with the support of the business community.

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The US has 1 trillion in trade deficits each year and it is completing the destruction of manufacturing in the US. Half of this is with China as China exports through Vietnam and Mexico, third countries, in addition to 295 billion dollars of trade imbalance the US has with China. China, Mexico, Canada and Vietnam are the largest offenders. No country can long endure with such a loss of its manufacturing base. The US Navy itself is in danger without the manufacturing to compete with China in shipbuilding. China has taken up over 50% of shipbuilding, and soon the US Navy will not be able to protect the free world if these types of economists and self serving German or other foreign interests drive a false narrative and the US acts on such false narratives.  Without the US Navy in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans no one is safe, not Germany, not the EU, not India, not Latin America or the rest of Asia and the world.

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Germany's DW.com says in this report- "However, economists have pointed out that the US benefits from having large trade imbalances with the rest of the world, as the dollar is used in most trade, and offers major tailwind effects to the US economy." Which economists one must ask? Most of these economists had turned their back on the working people in factories in America, on their wages turned into a downward spiral, on their jobs, their factories lost for three decades. Today the American people have a sense of the true cost of this colossal failure to protect American workers and small towns across America depending on manufacturing. The pandemic exposed the risks of supply chain shocks and inflation by overly concentrating manufacturing in China.  The US has 1 trillion in trade deficits each year and it is completing the destruction of manufacturing in the US. Half of this is with China as China exports through Vietnam and Mexico, third countries, in addition to 295 billion dollars of trade imbalance the US has with China. China, Mexico, Canada and Vietnam are the largest offenders. No country can long endure with such a loss of its manufacturing base. The US Navy itself is in danger without the manufacturing to compete with China that has taken up over 50% of shipbuilding, and soon will not be able to protect the free world if these types of economists and self serving German or other foreign interests drive a false narrative. Without the US Navy in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans no one is safe, not Germany, not the EU, not India or the rest of the world. ...

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Amazon makes an offer to buy the whole of TikTok on April 1, 2025 before a April 1, 2025 deadline. A law passed in Congress in 2024 was upheld by the US Supreme Court requiring the sale of China based TikTok to American buyers for national security reasons or be closed to US users altogether. Amazon has connections to TikTok where TikTok users refer other users to products which can be bought on Amazon with revenue being passed on to influencers who get a cut on the transactions.

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Warnings about the decline in reading comprehension in the US shown by 30 years of NAEP testing, all the way down the graphs show.  About 70 percent of American children in 4th grade cannot reach Reading Proficient level of the National Association of Education Performance Tests for 2024. The problem is the lack of rich content based education as standard in all American schools says E.D. Hirsch. It is also about getting children excited about reading, and giving them opportunities to use their imagination. This promotes lifelong learning the key to better reading. This way children seek out new books from libraries, from friends, mentors, from the internet and from online stores. Once this happens it takes place on its own. Interaction with adults adds another dimension to the reading. Lyrarc's Movement for Global Literacy is about rebuilding reading comprehension in the US. This is behind every aspect of educational activity, reading is fundamental to all educational activity.  It is also fundamental to nation building, never more important than today with the fragmentation in cultures and ethnic fragmentation being allowed to happen as core fundamentals were ignored, and hard earned experience neglected by adopting newfangled theory since the 1950's that has failed us. ...

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Democrats win a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and lose 2 Congressional elections in Florida with smaller margins in April 2025. It revives spirits of Democrats following a loss in the November 2024 elections.

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After a civil war with 3.5 million displaced people Burma is hit by an earthquake. Pictures of the earthquake are shown in the BBC News.

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Senator Grassley of Iowa is chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. He is introducing a bill called the Judicial Relief Clarification Act to limit the role of lower courts in issuing TRO's temporary restraining orders as universal injunctions and make them immediately appealable. A flurry of lower court decisions have created confusion about executive actions in 2025.

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In 2024 US inflation was 2.9%. The problem in 2025 that elected DJT was immigration and borders, and the deindustrialization that has taken place over three decades in the US, first with Japanese trading practices and now with Chinese trading practices and state capitalism. The deindustrialization created the supply shock during the pandemic. It also has destroyed American manufacturing and factory jobs and communities in the US, shattering the middle class. This requires an Amendment to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to set a goal of reindustrialization as part of the Fed's mandate.  The 1970's were a period of high inflation that led to US central bank the Fed under Paul Volcker making an effort under president Carter to tackle inflation. It was 6.7% in 1977 in the first year of the Carter administration rising to 13.5% in 1980 when Carter was defeated in one term. This is why the 1977 Amendment to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 stressed the goal of price stability and maximum employment as goals for the Fed. The Fed Reserve Act of 1913 did not state the goals as it was designed to setup a central bank for the US under Woodrow Wilson and it focused on setting the institution of the central bank the Federal Reserve, its regional banking structure and the governors, their terms of office.  ...

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The First 100 Days of DJT show the president and the administration acting quickly on many fronts risking a chaotic appearance as the courts limit actions  and the administration scrambles with its next response. The president and the administration are moving quickly because they see a short two year window to get things done. And see the tradeoff between making some errors but getting things done which were supported by voters in November 2024 vs leaving a lot undone if one or two houses of Congress changes hands. 

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DJT economic adviser Peter Navarro says German and South Korean companies will be the one's that will have to raise prices as these companies  VW, BMW and Benz, Hyundai and Kia, make most of their cars imported to the US in Mexican or German plants. American companies make 60 to 80% of their cars in the US already and will shift production here with little or no increase in prices. US International Trade Commission did a study in 2024 about a 25% import tariff and it shows a 5% increase. WSJ shows other studies at 10% but this includes prices of luxury brands that are less sensitive to price changes such as BMW, Benz and Audi cars.

"The reason why we will not see inflation is because foreigners are going to eat most of it, they have to," he said, adding that the US "is the biggest market in the world." - Peter Navarro

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Shawn Fain of the United Autoworkers union in the US says NAFTA and the USMCA that replaced it continued to create incentives for outshoring jobs and manufacturing from the US to Mexico and Canada. It also undercut wages of American workers. Speaking on CBS Face the Nation, March 30, 2025, Fain described the situation and his support of 25% tariff on auto imports into the US, which USITC study shows increasing auto prices by 5%, in this way- "Now that Wall Street's upset about it, it's an issue. Where was Wall Street when- when all these manufacturing facilities have been leaving the country in the last 30 years? You know, interestingly enough, you know, automotive companies in the last three years, 2019- 2019 to 2023, they jacked up the price of vehicles 35% to 40% over that time frame. (compared to 5% with this tariff). Not because of anything that happened, not because wages went up. It was just flat out price gouging to consumer and corporate greed. Where was the outcry then? They don't have to raise the price of vehicles a penny with these tariffs. It's a decision that the companies are making, and that lays straight in the hands of the- of the companies." "Mexican workers, they're not the enemy. They've been exploited for decades. You know, another promise of NAFTA was that it was going to raise the standard for everybody. The realization of that is the wages in America and the wages in Mexico were cut in half over the- over the last 30 years as a result of NAFTA. So it's driving a race to the bottom, and that's not going to work for anybody." ...