Friday, January 9, 2026

From Migrant Workers to Supremacist Settlers


In the aftermath of WWII, the landscapes of North America and Western Europe were profoundly reshaped by the imperatives of reconstruction, economic expansion, and the establishment of comprehensive welfare states. Citizens in both regions exhibited a heightened concern for social welfare, driven by the collective trauma of war and the ideological triumph of social interventionism. This era marked the institutionalization of safety nets designed to mitigate poverty, unemployment, and inequality, fostering societies where prosperity was ostensibly shared. However, beneath this veneer of progress lay a pragmatic dependency on immigrant labor to sustain economic growth.

In North America, before the 2014 border crisis, illegal immigration from Mexico was tacitly tolerated to fulfill demands for domestic servants in affluent households or unskilled workers in agriculture and industry. Similarly, Western Europe, from the 1960s onwards, witnessed an influx of foreign workers (frequently illiterate) to bolster industrial production and essential municipal services such as street cleaning and waste management.

While both regions grappled with similar economic necessities, the cultural and religious dimensions of immigration have precipitated divergent trajectories, culminating in a perilous capitulation in Western Europe. The integration of Muslim immigrants from nations like Turkey, Algeria, and Morocco—historically adversarial to Christian Europe—has engendered, not assimilation but domination. Unlike the predominantly Catholic Mexican immigrants in North America, who integrated with relative harmony, Muslim arrivals in Europe have, over generations, asserted demands that undermine host societies’ secular foundations.

Arguably, Western Europe’s timid political response represents a betrayal of its Enlightenment heritage, leading to a de facto submission to Islamic supremacism. A review of historical labor needs, cultural clashes, and political cowardice illuminates how Europe risks becoming a vassal to an exploitative, ruling mentality, contrasting sharply with the resilient defenses of Middle Eastern Christians against similar encroachments centuries ago.

The post-WWII period heralded an unprecedented commitment to welfare across the Atlantic. In North America, the New Deal’s legacy evolved into expansive social programs, while in Western Europe, the Beveridge Report in Britain and similar initiatives in France, Germany, and Scandinavia laid the groundwork for cradle-to-grave security. These systems were predicated on sustained economic growth, which necessitated a robust labor force. However, native populations, empowered by education and upward mobility, increasingly shunned menial jobs, creating vacuums in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.

In North America, this gap was filled by undocumented migrants from Mexico, whose presence was overlooked due to their economic utility. These individuals, often fleeing poverty and instability, provided essential services without straining welfare resources initially. Their Catholic faith aligned broadly with America’s Judeo-Christian ethos, facilitating a degree of cultural compatibility despite linguistic and socioeconomic barriers. Policymakers, from the Bracero Program’s remnants to informal border policies, recognized this influx as a boon, allowing the affluent to maintain lifestyles dependent on cheap labor.

Western Europe mirrored this dynamic but with distinct sources. The 1960s economic miracle—Wirtschaftswunder in Germany, Trente Glorieuses in France—demanded workers for factories churning out automobiles, textiles, and consumer goods, as well as for urban maintenance. Guest worker programs invited young men from Turkey, North Africa, and the Middle East, regions with surplus labor and historical ties to Europe through colonialism and conflict. Unlike North America’s immigrants, these were predominantly Muslim, hailing from societies where Islam shaped social norms, gender roles, and interfaith relations. Initially, their contributions were lauded; they rebuilt war-torn infrastructures and fueled prosperity. Yet, this tolerance masked underlying tensions, as these migrants brought worldviews antithetical to Europe’s post-Christian secularism. 

The welfare state’s expansion inadvertently exacerbated these issues. By providing generous benefits, it attracted not only workers but also families and dependents, transforming temporary migrations into permanent settlements. In North America, this led to debates over amnesty and integration, but in Europe, it sowed seeds of cultural discord. Europe’s failure to enforce assimilation policies, unlike America’s “melting pot” ideal, allowed immigrant enclaves to flourish, where Islamic practices clashed with liberal values.

A critical distinction lies in the religious and cultural profiles of immigrants. Mexican migrants to the U.S. were overwhelmingly Catholic, sharing a monotheistic framework with the host society. This commonality mitigated potential conflicts; intermarriages, shared holidays, and ecclesiastical networks fostered integration. Even as illegal status persisted, their labor was indispensable, and cultural exchanges enriched American society without demanding systemic overhaul.

In contrast, Western Europe’s Muslim immigrants originated from nations with legacies of enmity towards Christendom. Turkey’s history evoked memories of Vienna’s sieges; Algeria and Morocco recalled the Reconquista and the Barbary slave trade. Young men arrived in waves, initially modest in demeanor, adapting to host norms out of necessity. As solitary workers, they appeared peaceful, remitting earnings home and avoiding confrontation. However, numerical growth—through family reunifications and higher birth rates—emboldened assertions of identity.

By the 1980s, demands escalated: halal food in schools, prayer rooms in workplaces, and accommodations for gender segregation. Mosques proliferated, usually funded by foreign governments promoting Wahhabism or Salafism. Though presented as “tolerant multiculturalism”, society’s concessions were the thin edge of the wedge towards dominance. Unlike Catholics, who assimilated into pluralistic societies, Muslims, per traditional interpretations, view non-believers as inferior. The Quran’s dhimmi status for Jews and Christians historically imposed subservience, a paradigm revived in immigrant communities.

Second- and third-generation Muslims, born in Europe yet alienated by perceived discrimination, adopted an “exorbitant ruling mentality”. Educated in welfare-funded schools, they demanded, not equality but privilege, viewing host societies as decadent and ripe for conquest. This shift is evident in urban no-go zones, where Sharia patrols enforce Islamic norms on non-Muslims. The symbolism is unmistakable: Europe’s post-Christian populace, having abandoned faith for secular humanism, lacks the spiritual fortitude to resist.

As immigrant populations swelled, so did their influence. In cities like Paris, London, and Berlin, Muslim communities pressed for special considerations, from burqa allowances to curriculum changes omitting Holocaust education to avoid offending anti-Semitic sentiments. It is crucial to realize that such demands stem from a worldview where Muslims are divinely entitled to rule. Historical precedents abound: the Islamic conquests of the 7th–8th centuries subjugated Christian populations in the Middle East and North Africa, reducing them to dhimmi status—taxed, humiliated, and marginalized.

Contemporary Europe echoes this. Politicians, fearing electoral backlash from growing Muslim voting blocs, exhibit timid compliance. No mainstream figure dares critique Islamic prejudices: the virulent anti-Semitism manifest in synagogue attacks or the contempt for Christians as “infidels”. This silence emboldens extremists; surveys indicate significant support among European Muslims for Sharia over secular law.

The parasitic lifestyle adopted by Muslims is not universal but culturally normalized. Welfare dependency, higher than native rates, is rationalized as jizya—a tax on non-Muslims. This mentality posits Muslims as a ruling class, with Europeans as servants. Second-generation immigrants, radicalized in mosques or online, internalize this, demanding resources without reciprocity. Suburban riots in France (2023) or Sweden’s car burnings (2022) exemplify resentment turned aggressive.

Contrast this with North America’s experience: Mexican immigrants, while facing prejudice, integrated economically, contributing to a vibrant Latino culture without seeking dominance. Europe’s submission is self-inflicted, a product of guilt over “colonialism” and “racism”, paralyzing resistance.

Western Europe’s political class has capitulated unconditionally. Unlike Middle Eastern Christians, who resisted Islamic invasions for centuries—defending Constantinople or enduring martyrdom in Anatolia—modern Europeans submit. It is as if their judgment is paralyzed by historical amnesia and moral relativism. Leaders like Angela Merkel, with her “Wir schaffen das” mantra, invited millions without vetting, straining welfare systems and social cohesion.

Criticism of open borders and insidious Islamization of society is stifled as “Islamophobia”, a term weaponized to silence debate. This rhetorical tactic, exploited in equal measure by ideological enemies and banal cowards, betrays Europe’s Judeo-Christian heritage. Multiculturalism masks resumed conquest. Muslims ultimately expect Christians to serve as second-class citizens. Where are the Charlemagnes or Sobieskis?

The consequences are dire: rising anti-Semitism, gender-based violence, and cultural erosion. Without honor, Europe ignores the tradition of those who preserved faith amid barbarism.

Post-war welfare’s labor demands invited immigrants without misgivings. As in anticipation of the caliphate, however, unrestrained influx of Muslims into Western Europe has fostered an undisguised dominance behavior. In response, protest movements across Europe have urged awakening before irreversible vassalage. Westerners must reclaim sovereignty or fade into dhimmitude.


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The Moral Blackmailing of the American People


In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the "ravages of mob law" throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant "mobocratic spirit" threatened to sever the "attachment of the People" to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln's opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."

Unfortunately, it seems that every few years, Americans must be reminded anew of Lincoln's wisdom. This week's lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement standoff in the Twin Cities is but the latest instance of a yearslong baleful trend.

On Wednesday, 37-year-old "queer activist" Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Good, who had barricaded her vehicle in an attempt to obstruct an active law enforcement operation, ignored agents' requests to exit the vehicle and instead directed her car at one of the agents. Good actually then hit the agent, who was briefly hospitalized for his injuries. But before she could do even more damage, the agent shot and killed Good. The federal government has called Good's encounter "an act of domestic terrorism" and said the agent shot in self-defense.

Suffice it to say, Minnesota's Democratic establishment does not see it this way.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to the deployment of 2,000 immigration agents in the area and the deadly encounter by telling ICE to "get the f-- out of Minneapolis," while Gov. Tim Walz called the shooting "totally predictable" and "totally avoidable." Frey, who was also mayor during the George Floyd-inspired mayhem of 2020, has lent succor to the anti-ICE provocateurs, seemingly encouraging them to make Good a Floyd-like martyr and riot accordingly. As for Walz, he's right that this tragedy was eminently "avoidable" -- but not for the reasons he thinks. If the Biden-Harris administration hadn't let in untold millions of unvetted illegal aliens, and if Walz's administration hadn't conveniently overlooked hundreds of Minnesotans -- of mixed immigration status -- defrauding taxpayers to the tune of billions of dollars, ICE never would have embarked on this particular operation.

National Democrats took the rage even further. Following the fateful shooting, the Democratic Party's official X feed promptly tweeted, without any morsel of nuance, that "ICE shot and killed a woman on camera." This sort of reckless fear-mongering may have already inspired a crazed activist to shoot three detainees at an ICE facility in Dallas last September while targeting officers; similar dehumanizing rhetoric about the National Guard perhaps also played a role in November's lethal shooting of a soldier in Washington, D.C.

Liberals and open-border activists play with fire when they so casually compare ICE, as Walz previously has, to a "modern-day Gestapo." The fact is, ICE is not the Gestapo, President Donald Trump is not Hitler, and Charlie Kirk was not a goose-stepping brownshirt. To pretend otherwise is to deprive words of meaning and to live in the theater of the absurd.

But as dangerous as this rhetoric is for officers and agents, it is the moral blackmail and "mobocratic spirit" of it all that is even more harmful to the rule of law.

The implicit threat of all so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, whose resistance to the federal government smacks of John C. Calhoun-style antebellum "nullification," is to tell the feds not to operate and enforce federal law in a certain area -- or else. The result is crass lawlessness, Mafia-esque shakedown artistry and a fetid neo-confederate stench combined in one dystopian package.

The truth is that swaths of the activist Left now engage in these sorts of threats as a matter of course. In 2020, their monthslong rioting following the death of Floyd led to upward of $2 billion in insurance claims. In 2021, they threatened the same rioting unless Derek Chauvin, the cop from the fateful Floyd traffic stop, was found guilty of murder. In 2022, following the unprecedented (and still unsolved) leak of the draft majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court case, pro-abortion activists protested outside many of the right-leaning justices' homes, hoping to induce them to change their minds and flip their votes. And now, ICE agents all throughout the country face threats of violence -- egged on by local Democratic leaders -- simply for enforcing federal law.

In "The Godfather," Don Corleone referred to this sort of thuggery as making someone an offer that he can't refuse. We might also think of it as Lincoln's dreaded "ravages of mob law."

Regardless, a free republic cannot long endure like this. The rule of law cannot be held hostage to the histrionic temper tantrums of a radical ideological flank. The law must be enforced solemnly, without fear of favor. There can be no overarching blackmail lurking in the background -- no Sword of Damocles hovering over the heads of a free people, ready to crash down on us all if a certain select few do not get their way.

The proper recourse for changing immigration policy -- or any federal law -- is to lobby Congress to do so, or to make a case in federal court. The ginned-up martyrdom complex that leads some to take matters into their own hands is a recipe for personal and national ruination. There is nothing good down that road -- only death, despair and mobocracy.


Europe Pretends to Own Greenland


The most detestable thing about European-constructed “globalism” is its pretense. It pretends that man-made “climate change” will kill everyone unless we allow bureaucratic busybodies to regulate all economic exchange. It pretends that Russia is about to conquer all of Europe, even though all of Europe has been mocking Russia as a third-world paper tiger for the last thirty years. It pretends that the mass invasion of foreigners from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia is completely natural, impossible to prevent, and that acceptance and toleration is the “humanitarian” thing to do. It pretends that its native citizens are “racists” for wishing to preserve their own cultures in their own lands. Even while it welcomes Islamic civilizational conquest throughout the continent, European “globalism” pretends that its mangled, mismanaged, and misremembered civilization remains the central and paramount expression of enlightened progress in the world.

To outsiders not imbued with a sense of European entitlement or burdened by Europe’s policy delusions, Europe is a mess. It is presently reconstituting itself into a self-hating-Islamocentric-parasitically-pluralistic-historically-illiterate morass of cultural meaninglessness. Europe’s movies and television shows regularly bowdlerize history by removing native Europeans from ancient tales. Europe’s suicide will be complete when every actor is non-white and every storyline reinforces the narrative that Muslims settled all the lands from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. These multicultural historical revisions are preposterous. Yet when native Brits point out that there were no African Celts during the time of Caesar’s invasion or Pakistani lords in the royal courts of the Middle Ages, the dis-United Kingdom sends social media “thought police” to harass and legally threaten anyone unwilling to pretend that history is offensive and must therefore be rewritten.

In matters of personal defense, Europe does nothing but pretend. Big, bad French president Emmanuel Macron, seriously terrifying U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer, and king kraut German chancellor Friedrich Merz rounded up Europe’s “coalition of the willing” in Paris recently to join hands with holdover-president Zelenskyy and stare down Russia’s President Putin with all the glowering determination that men wearing ten-thousand-dollar suits can bear. Although European elites mock us Americans as a bunch of ignorant, hick cowboys, the Paris summit did what it could to convey to the world that Europe’s most serious lawmen had formed a deadly posse that would not relent until every last Russian had been chased out of the European Union’s expanding plantation.

Yet aside from European leaders’ love for bloviation and their penchant for ratcheting up their noses so high in the sky that the rest of the world sees nothing but nose hair, how will they back up all their anti-Russian threats? They can’t. Their militaries are wet noodles, and every European general knows it. It is the U.S. military that allows European lords to prance on stage with the affectation that they possess vestigial spines. It is American troops and their cowboy ways that allow European elites to pretend that their natural state is anything other than supine surrender. You take away U.S. military might from dying NATO, and a contingent of good-ol’-boy Texans could take most of France before mini-mouse Macron changed into his high-heeled loafers.

So why is the Danish prime minister announcing to the world that a U.S. takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO? That’s like announcing to an unknown arsonist that if he doesn’t stop setting fires, you’ll disband the fire department. What is the Danish prime minister’s thinking here? She has one rowboat filled with three guys armed with morally indignant words and a flare gun guarding the world’s largest island. If she sends American troops and military hardware back to the Western Hemisphere, then maybe the same Russian army that has spent the last four years trying to tame the Eastern territories of Ukraine really does conquer all of Europe. I mean, how does Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen plan to defend her Nordic peninsula and surrounding islands from Putin’s Slavic horde? With furrowed brows, legally binding treaties, and stern words?

The truth is that Greenland barely belongs to anybody. It is three times the size of the world’s next biggest island and has nearly thirty percent of Australia’s land area. Yet Greenland has only 56,000 residents -- making it the least densely populated country in the world. Although the kingdoms of Norway and Denmark have claimed Greenland for a thousand years, ninety percent of the population today is Inuit. Danes, on the other hand, make up around seven percent. Calling Greenland Danish is like the United Kingdom calling India British. It is a vestige of European colonialism -- the very bugaboo that European elites hypocritically denounce to their citizens as “racist,” “imperialist,” and “incompatible” with the twenty-first century. For Prime Minister Frederiksen to claim that 50,000 Inuits must remain part of the Danish Realm sounds like sour grapes from an Old World power that feels an inflated sense of self-worth knowing that Greenland represents ninety-eight percent of its total land mass.

Anyone who looks at a North Pole-centered map of the world can understand President Trump’s strategic thinking. The Arctic is the battlefield of tomorrow. Russia and the Nordic countries surround one side of the Arctic. In the Western Hemisphere, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland complete the circle. Canada -- a socialist country that still bows down to King Charles III and has too many economic ties to communist China -- is an unreliable partner. Only red-white-and-blue Americans can properly defend the North American side of the Arctic. Besides, the U.S. military has been investing in Greenland’s defense for the last century.

Americans already defend Greenland. Pretending that it somehow belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark is petty narcissism. Unfortunately, European elites excel at little else besides petty narcissism. So Danish prime minister Frederiksen will pout. The triumvirate of tiny tots -- Starmer, Macron, and Merz -- will stomp their feet and threaten President Trump with all their invisible might. But no amount of European huffing and puffing will change the president’s mind. Once he decides that something must be done in defense of America’s national security, it gets done in due time.

However the final details get written, North America’s Greenland will once again belong to North Americans. Or were Europe’s old monarchies under the illusion that the Monroe (or Don-roe) Doctrine applied only to regions in the South?



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Dems Hate Trump More Than An Actual Dictator


The hypocrisy of Democrats is as thick as Caracas flies. And their claims that Maduro’s arrest violated U.S .and international law are wrong.



The State Department’s 2023 Human Rights report on Venezuela sums up despot Nicolas Maduro’s brutal regime. It lists a litany of horrific offenses: arbitrary killings, enforced disappearance, torture or inhuman treatment by security forces, arbitrary arrests, serious restrictions on freedom of expression, and trafficking of human beings. 

And that’s just the report’s first paragraph. 

The document also notes the obvious, Venezuelans’ inability to change their government peacefully through free and fair elections. Dictators typically frown on such freedoms. 

“Although Maduro representatives did not release statistics on extrajudicial killings, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) reported that national, state, and municipal police entities, as well as the armed forces and colectivos (Maduro-aligned armed neighborhood gangs), carried out hundreds of killings during the year,” the report, issued by President Joe Biden’s State Department, noted. 

The Democrat’s administration, days before Biden left office, upped the bounty on Maduro from $15 million to $25 million. While campaigning in June 2020, Biden — or his autopen — bashed President Trump for not doing enough to take on the South American tyrant. 

“Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro,” the Twitter post chided. “As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy.”

Congressional Democrats also wagged their fingers at Trump. 

“And the president brags about his Venezuela policy. Give us a break. He hasn’t brought an end to the Maduro regime,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) railed in a 2020 speech just before the Senate’s final vote in Trump’s impeachment trial. “The Maduro regime is more powerful today and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.”

‘Reckless’

But Schumer and his Dem brethren have changed their tune after the Department of War’s stunningly successful operation over the weekend capturing the narcoterrorist and his wife at their Caracas compound. The two appeared on Monday in a lower Manhattan federal court to multiple charges, including drug trafficking.  

Schumer called the intricately coordinated mission, dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve, “reckless.”

“And the American people are just, this morning, in fear of what’s going to happen here,” Schumer told ABC News host and human colostomy bag George Stephanopoulos on Sunday morning, just hours after Trump announced Maduro’s arrest. 

Democrats suddenly sounded like they were defending an actual dictator, a tyrant they once demanded be brought to justice. 

“Maduro’s illegitimate election does not give the president the power to invade without congressional approval, nor does it create a national security justification,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., declared on X. “That contention is laughable.” The blowhard insisted Trump has “started an illegal war with Venezuela.” 

In 2019, Murphy demanded Trump “make the realist case for intervention in Venezuela (getting rid of Maduro is good for the United States) rather than trying to pretend his administration all of a sudden cares about toppling anti-democratic regimes.” 

‘Tested in the Courts’

The hypocrisy is as thick as Caracas flies. And the assertions are wrong, national legal expert Hans von Spakovsky tells The Federalist. 

“That’s not just my opinion. It’s been tested in the courts,” von Spakovsky said in a phone interview. 

Remember Manuel Noriega, Panama’s pockmarked military dictator? President George H.W. Bush didn’t seek congressional approval when he signed off on Operation Just Cause, the U.S. Military’s December 1989 invasion of Panama to bring the ruthless dictator into custody. Like Maduro, Noriega was charged with drug trafficking. And like Maduro, Panama’s drug lord was a real a-hole. Noriega was accused of throwing a young priest out of a helicopter over the Pacific Ocean. 

“At the time, Noriega had an outstanding criminal indictment against him down in Miami for drug dealing,” von Spakovsky said. “There’s a pending criminal indictment against Maduro since 2020 for doing the same thing.”

Noriega’s defense attorneys made the same arguments as Maduro’s legal counsel, that his arrest violated U.S. and international law. 

“Every single one of those claims was thrown out by the U.S. courts, all of whom said Bush acted fully constitutionally within his authority,” von Spakovsky said. 

U.S. presidents have long used the Authorization for Use of Military Force provided by Congress to engage in military actions. Trump rightly argues that Maduro and his drug-peddling regime are a significant threat to the United States, a huge target of the Venezuela drug trade. Such emergencies are detailed in the  War Powers Resolution of 1973.

Von Spakovsky said it’s clear that Democrats lambasting Trump for the military operation in Venezuela haven’t read the War Powers Resolution. 

‘Democrats’ Hypocrisy’

Where were these critics when President Barack Obama ordered military personnel to drop into a foreign country and kill most-wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States? 

“Obama also carried out thousands of drone strikes without congressional approval, and experts then believed he was justified,” wrote USA Today columnist Nicole Russell. 

So what’s the difference? Trump.

Maduro was brought to justice by the duly-elected Republican president that Democrats hate more than Venezuela’s deposed dictator. The brutal reign of Nicolas Maduro reads like a Cormac McCarthy novel, yet Dems keep toting “No Kings” signs and calling Trump a dictator. 

“It’s yet another example of Democrats’ hypocrisy: They seem to hate Trump more than they want an oppressed country to be liberated. That’s pretty remarkable,” Russell wrote. 

That’s Trump Derangement Syndrome of criminally insane proportions. 


U.S. Trade Deficit Drops 40% in Latest Commerce Dept Report


As you review this latest data on trade, remember any drop in trade deficits has two big picture functions:

First, lower trade deficits generally mean the accompanying GDP release will be stronger than anticipated because imported products are a deduction from the valuation of all goods and services created in the U.S. economy.  Lower imports mean less is deducted.

Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, a drop in the trade deficit created by diminished imports means more wealth remains inside the USA.

We are not spending, sending money overseas, to import foreign goods at the same rate, and that money stays inside the U.S. economy. More wealth inside the U.S. provides the fuel for expanded domestic growth, more investment gains in USA manufacturing and USA industry and the ability to pay higher USA wages.

The Commerce Department is reporting today that the U.S. trade deficit for October 2025 dropped to the smallest amount in 16-years.  A significant amount of the deficit drop was because a high value of physical precious metals (gold/silver) was exported, simultaneous with big offshore pharmaceutical companies dropping the prices of imported products (policy and tariff pressure).

WSJ – The U.S. trade deficit shrank dramatically in October to its lowest level since 2009, the Commerce Department said Thursday, an unexpected twist in a year of volatile trade flows that have been buffeted by the Trump administration’s steep tariffs.

American imports fell to $331.4 billion in October, while exports increased to $302 billion. That yielded an October deficit of $29.4 billion, an imbalance nearly 40% smaller than September’s. (more)



Some may question whether internal consumer demand has declined, causing the significant drop in imports.  However, the U.S productivity rate is still very high – which generally means domestic consumer demand is still high and all units produced have a lower overall cost per unit.

Economic analysis can get weedy…. so, a simple way to look at productivity is to think about baking bread in your kitchen.

If you were going to bake 4 loaves of bread it might take you 2 hrs. start to finish. However, if you were going to bake 8 loaves of bread it would not take you twice as long because most of the tasks can be accomplished with simple increases in batch size, and only minor increases in labor time. Your productivity measured in the last four loaves is higher.

Economic Productivity is measured much the same way, within what’s called a production probability equation.

Additionally, if two hours of your time are worth $40, each of four loaves of bread costs $10 in labor; but if you make 8 loaves in the same amount of time the labor cost is only $5/per loaf.

Improved gains in efficiency/productivity (more bread needed) supports faster economic growth without generating higher inflation; no need to raise prices because your cost to make each loaf of bread decreases the more you make.

Higher sales and lower per unit cost means more profit for the bread-maker. No need to raise prices, and without inflation, there’s no motive for the Fed to raise or maintain high interest-rates.

Increases in productivity generally means the economy is generating more stuff. The more stuff generated the higher the value of all economic activity; this increases GDP growth.

When we see higher productivity in direct alignment with GDP increases, the increased production indicates sustainable GDP growth.

Additionally, we can look at the internal dynamics to see big happenings inside the domestic economy.

The data was delayed by the government shutdown, but in December the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the third quarter 2025 GDP {DATA HERE} showing a very strong 4.3% growth.  The second quarter was also revised up to 3.8%.

Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 4.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025, showing increases in consumer spending, increases in exports.  Third quarter imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased boosting the overall GDP number.  This strong GDP result corresponds to today’s report showing a shrinking trade deficit.


President Trump Withdraws the U.S. From the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and 65 Other Globalist Institutions/Mechanisms


This is factually a much bigger deal, a bigger win, than most will initially appreciate. It is what MAGA is about.

As many deep political followers well understand, the 66 organizations that President Trump has just withdrawn from represent a large network of sanctioned government organizations that structurally support the globalist agenda.

President Trump has issued an executive order [SEE HERE] “Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States.” These institutions, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, are mechanisms that exist to underpin globalist objectives.

Each of the institutions carry “membership fees” or financial obligations each participating government pays into. Each organization consists of board members, stakeholders and other administrative offices which employ the friends and families of current and former politicians, world “leaders” and essentially well-connected and disconnected elites who run the agencies. It’s like a massive network of NGOs, except the entities exist exclusively with government funding.

Just like the United Nations itself, the USA always pays the dues, fees and largest portion of the operating expenses, which includes payrolls and travel benefits. Other countries participate, but it is the USA who picks up the largest portion of the financial obligations for the organization itself to exist.

Like USAID, the designated “global” organizations (conventions, treaties, etc) operate as massive bureaucratic rule makers for global standards and practices. The organizations themselves employ a network of downstream entities, agencies, contractors, think-tanks, academic liaisons and internal government offices who collaborate with the goals and objectives of the parent organization.

Inside each of these agencies and institutions you find the friends and families of the power brokers who run global -mainly western- systems of government. Withdrawing the support of the U.S. means cutting that entire apparatus off from receiving funding from the USA. Europe and the USA are the largest funders of each of these World Economic Forum aligned agencies.

It is not coincidental that President Trump and Secretary Rubio are making this move in advance of President Trump traveling to Davos, where the network associations congregate. President Trump is expected to deliver a bucket of ice water upon the heads of those who attend Davos annually.

The GREAT RESET crew, who design the global government customs and norms, is being reset.

This move is massive in relation to their financial dependency on the United States participating in the various schemes.

This is a big deal, and President Trump has put Secretary of State Marco Rubio in charge of dismantling it.

[President Donald J Trump] – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct:

Section 1. Purpose. (a) On February 4, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14199 (Withdrawing the United States from and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations). That Executive Order directed the Secretary of State, in consultation with the United States Representative to the United Nations, to conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States. The Secretary of State has reported his findings as required by Executive Order 14199.

(b) I have considered the Secretary of State’s report and, after deliberating with my Cabinet, have determined that it is contrary to the interests of the United States to remain a member of, participate in, or otherwise provide support to the organizations listed in section 2 of this memorandum.

(c) Consistent with Executive Order 14199 and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to take immediate steps to effectuate the withdrawal of the United States from the organizations listed in section 2 of this memorandum as soon as possible. For United Nations entities, withdrawal means ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law.

(d) My review of further findings of the Secretary of State remains ongoing.

Sec. 2. Organizations from Which the United States Shall Withdraw. (a) Non-United Nations Organizations:

(i) 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact;

(ii) Colombo Plan Council;

(iii) Commission for Environmental Cooperation;

(iv) Education Cannot Wait;

(v) European Centre of Excellence for Countering

Hybrid Threats;

(vi) Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories;

(vii) Freedom Online Coalition;

(viii) Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund;

(ix) Global Counterterrorism Forum;

(x) Global Forum on Cyber Expertise;

(xi) Global Forum on Migration and Development;

(xii) Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research;

(xiii) Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

(xiv) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

(xv) Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

(xvi) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

(xvii) International Cotton Advisory Committee;

(xviii) International Development Law Organization;

(xix) International Energy Forum;

(xx) International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies;

(xxi) International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

(xxii) International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

(xxiii) International Lead and Zinc Study Group;

(xxiv) International Renewable Energy Agency;

(xxv) International Solar Alliance;

(xxvi) International Tropical Timber Organization;

(xxvii) International Union for Conservation of Nature;

(xxviii) Pan American Institute of Geography and History;

(xxix) Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation;

(xxx) Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia;

(xxxi) Regional Cooperation Council;

(xxxii) Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century;

(xxxiii) Science and Technology Center in Ukraine;

(xxxiv) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme; and

(xxxv) Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

(b) United Nations (UN) Organizations:

(i) Department of Economic and Social Affairs;

(ii) UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — Economic Commission for Africa;

(iii) ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean;

(iv) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;

(v) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia;

(vi) International Law Commission;

(vii) International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

(viii) International Trade Centre;

(ix) Office of the Special Adviser on Africa;

(x) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict;

(xi) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;

(xii) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

(xiii) Peacebuilding Commission;

(xiv) Peacebuilding Fund;

(xv) Permanent Forum on People of African Descent;

(xvi) UN Alliance of Civilizations;

(xvii) UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

(xviii) UN Conference on Trade and Development;

(xix) UN Democracy Fund;

(xx) UN Energy;

(xxi) UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

(xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;

(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;

(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;

(xxv) UN Oceans;

(xxvi) UN Population Fund;

(xxvii) UN Register of Conventional Arms;

(xxviii) UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination;

(xxix) UN System Staff College;

(xxx) UN Water; and

(xxxi) UN University.

Sec. 3. Implementation Guidance. The Secretary of State shall provide additional guidance as needed to agencies when implementing this memorandum.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. Trump [LINK]

• This is essentially deconstructing the George H.W. Bush “New World Order” as established over decades by governing elites, financial institutions & western governments.  • This is removing a massive network of agencies and operations, and the Bush-era 1992 U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is still only one part of it.

• This is tectonic geopolitical plate shifting with ramifications that are beyond most persons understanding.

Each of these global regulatory processes, policies and constructs, then creates an office within the U.S. government for regulatory enforcement and compliance.

Each treaty, convention and organization creates a bureaucracy within the U.S. govt to comply with it. That bureaucracy then expands govt spending far beyond the initial costs. (i.e. annual membership fees, association fees, and internal agreement payments for each participating govt).

We pay to join the agreement, we agree to the terms of the agreement, then we have to pay to organize our own offices to align with the agreement we just joined.

It gets worse….

Each agency within govt then has to create a subsidiary office for their specific compliance with the larger network. So, you have a DC govt compliance system, and an agency compliance system that is topic specific to that particular agency.

The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as an example, means every single agency from HHS to DOD to FEMA to DHS to the entire apparatus of govt, all of them, need to have a corresponding office to create agency specific rules that comply with the originating charter.

You see, it’s not just the Federal Govt paying the U.N a membership fee for the Framework Convention on Climate Change, but each agency within govt then has to pay an office staff filled with lawyers, compliance officers, and bureaucratic nonsense teams that carry out the charter of the agreement we just signed up to.

Each of the 66 outlined “agreements” can end up generating hundreds or thousands of federal employees that are tasked with U.S. administration of the agreement.

Each of those federal employees has an expense account, credit card, vehicle, or voucher method, some form of indulgency, that connects them to the larger spending graft.

What Trump has done is a much bigger detonation than most will initially contemplate.

Thousands of well-connected DC employees, wives of politicians, brothers, sisters, in-laws, friends and family members, will now lose their income streams.

♦ This is also happening as President Trump has presented the 2026 National Security Strategy.  A stunning 33-page outline reprioritizing all of the interests and objectives of the United States government.

On December 6, 2025, President Trump put the world on notice that sovereign U.S. interests would be baseline for all of our strategic foreign policy approaches; particularly Europe was put on notice.

On January 7, 2026, President Trump is putting the world on notice that all of these various self-restricting global systems, institutions and mechanisms will no longer be supported by the United States.  Thousands of downstream beneficiaries that exist -in majority- from U.S. participation and underwriting, are going to be scrambling trying to find a way to retain their status.

President Trump’s upcoming speech to the World Economic Forum should be epic.

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright will join President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a source familiar with the plans said on Wednesday.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will also be part of the planned delegation, the source said.

Trump will attend this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in person, after addressing the gathering by video link last year, four days after returning to the White House for a second term.

This year’s meeting is scheduled for January 19-23. {source}