Trump and Xi Views on Rare Earths Deal Differ, Trade Expert Says
“The biggest thing is the US ability to import intermediate goods that contain Chinese rare earths, and these especially flow through Japan and South Korea. The US imports more of these as embodied materials than they do directly. So that’s really where the real threat is.”
“The defense sector is incredibly exposed. They’re not going to advertise this publicly, but this is the reality.”
AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue “extremely harmful actions” such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it.
This image is visually distinct and appears to be a new, stylized portrait of Donald J. Trump, dated June 2025. It marks a departure from traditional photographic presidential portraits, instead adopting a more dramatic, almost cinematic or painterly tone. Here’s a detailed breakdown:
Visual Features and Composition
Expression and Mood
Facial Expression: The expression is intense and resolute, with narrowed eyes and tightly pressed lips. There’s a deep furrow in his brow, conveying seriousness and determination.
Emotional Tone: The portrait evokes strength, defiance, and perhaps even a sense of battle-readiness —a visual narrative likely meant to appeal to themes of toughness and resilience.
Lighting
High-contrast lighting: Dramatic shadows and highlights create a chiaroscuro effect, emphasizing the ruggedness of Trump’s face and the texture of his skin and hair.
Background: The background is dark and featureless, further focusing attention on the subject and enhancing the theatrical, almost mythic quality of the portrait.
Styling and Attire
Suit: Trump wears a sharply cut, dark blue suit, a white shirt, and a bright red tie, again echoing the colors of the American flag.
Lapel Pin: A small American flag pin on the left lapel adds a traditional patriotic element.
Hair and Skin Tone: His hair is wind-swept and more grey than in past official imagery, possibly symbolizing age and experience. His skin tone appears warmer and more textured, almost like a digital painting or hyper-realistic rendering.
Artistic Qualities
This image is not purely photographic. It has either been digitally painted, AI-enhanced, or heavily stylized in post-production. It bears a resemblance to heroic portraits or campaign artwork, rather than the historically neutral tone of official government portraits.
Symbolism and Messaging
This portrait appears to have been intentionally crafted to project power, determination, and resolve. Its visual language is more personal branding than presidential tradition. Unlike the calm, approachable, or statesmanlike tones of Obama or Biden’s portraits, this one evokes a more campaign-era emblem of leadership under fire.
It might be compared more to:
Wartime portraits of leaders (e.g., Churchill during WWII).
Populist iconography—designed to stir loyalty and emotional intensity.
Mythic representations—the shadowed, sculptural face aligns with how one might portray a historical or epic figure.
My perspective is genuine, though it may not be as insightful.
The man is handsome and successful. He doesn’t need to posture.
This photo looks like the playground bully that, as a teenager, I couldn’t wait to punch in the face.
In any case, I doubt the global leaders feel threatened. Amused perhaps.
The Medical Council of Canada said in an email statement that the number of American doctors creating accounts on physiciansapply.ca, which is “typically the first step” to being licensed in Canada, has increased more than 750% over the past 7 months compared with the same period last year — from 71 applicants to 615. Separately, medical licensing organizations in Canada’s most populous provinces reported a rise in Americans either applying for or receiving Canadian licenses, with at least some doctors disclosing they were moving specifically because of Trump.
Documentary “Follow the Silenced” uncovers the stories of individuals whose lives were shattered by the COVID-19 vaccine trials and the early rollout. The documentary exposes the devastating injuries and deaths that were ignored by our government
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson talk about their new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again”
I have a question do you guys ever take B12 through IV for energy and stamina? I take it every six month, B12 plus mineral through IV and it takes an hours for it to go through, I call local clinician and he come to our home to administer it it cost me $200 per his visit My primary doctor is aware of it Thanks
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Scott Pelley, the anchor of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” made a thinly veiled attack on President Trump during the Wake Forest University commencement speech.
He didn’t mention Trump by name, but he did warn, “To move forward, we debate, not demonize; we discuss, not destroy. But in this moment, our sacred rule of law is under attack… Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak, in America.”
The same people who bitterly objected to Pelley’s speech, calling him a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, are copacetic with Trump’s commencement address at West Point and his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery.
If you are going to give it, you’ll have to take it. That’s life.
When will shareholder lawsuits start against POTUS? Trump starting to single out specific companies and doing damage to stock prices. Apple is the latest target.
The Supreme Court would rule that Trump’s speeches are official business, and he is not liable.
As it stands, the situation is toxic for businesses and investors. I don’t see how it will improve until the voters make a decision.
The voters have the ultimate control. If the voters decide that enough is enough with Trump, they will elect a majority of Democratic Party candidates in November 2026. Congress then would impeach to regain control of its constitutional responsibilities. In that event, I could see Trump resigning and JD Vance becoming President.
jimg
May 21, 2025 10:49 am
#46736
Dan Collins, Founder of Tyrell Chemical, studied at Tsinghua University and spent 20 years setting up American companies into China. Dan is now back in America setting up new companies bringing back industrial production
“Today, we’re announcing the first major discovery made by our AI Scientist with the lab in the loop: a promising new treatment for dry AMD, a major cause of blindness”
There is no “Maturity Wall” 101. Though this is a myth you may not be relieved by this thread.
Have you seen the doomer charts about the maturity wall of US Debt. It is a clear signal that you should unfollow those who post it. It usually starts with 9TN of debt comes due.
“Anthony Dedens’…approach to the allocation of his investors’ capital has yielded exceptional returns – and his disciplined investment philosophy offers an eye-opening insight into many of the problems inherent in the modern-day asset management business”
As of July 1, 2025, physical gold is officially a Tier 1, high-quality liquid asset under Basel III for U.S. banks, fully recognized at market value for regulatory capital purposes
Quotes: jimgBiden administration “climate” and energy policies amounting to thousands of pages in regulations and hundreds of billions of dollars in grants and subsidies to uneconomic energy projects have been swiftly reversed. Examples in just the past few weeks include:
The announcement by the Department of Energy just yesterday (May 12) of no fewer than 47 regulatory reversals, covering everything from ovens. to dehumidifiers, to clothes washers and driers, to shower heads, to dishwashers, and much, much more.
“Climate fantasy”? The ideological rhetoric is excessive, I guess.
This is the intersection of economics and politics.
You and I believe most of these projects were uneconomic, but others disagree.
Canada’s Carney has always been WEF policy-minded (e.g., climate), but his latest answers to questions along these lines (reminding him of his books and previous speeches), but he says as Prime Minister, he has to be “pragmatic.”
I think he will be because (a) it takes forever to show economic benefits the WEF way, and (b) the world is watching. He has a minority government and an ultra-strong conservative majority in the natural resources-rich Western Canada provinces. The voters have spoken, and most wanted energy projects developed, starting ASAP.
I see that Thanasis (Θανάσης) is a Greek given name, short for Athanasios (Αθανάσιος), which can mean “eternal life” or “immortal”.
squarpeg1
May 9, 2025 3:10 pm
#46602
I have been selling my stocks as the market has come back. I am just very worried about who is running the ship here. I’m trying to grasp how we ended up in crazy town. I am not anti-republican. But everyday it feels like things are getting more unstable and off the rails. Today, “Trump Appoints Fox News’s Judge Jeanine Pirro To US Attorney’s Office In DC” When you see decisions like this happening all the time, you have to really ask yourself whether this is the guy that should be in charge of world economic order. I just don’t have the stomach for it anymore. I am selling the market so I can sleep at night. This will be my last post about it. Stay safe out there.
Take a Blow-Torch and Ram It UP EVERY ORIFICE DC Has & Then Some. Cheers.
squarpeg1
May 8, 2025 2:07 pm
#46593
Big news on UK trade deal…So what, complete non issue. The great leader needs to get to work on something that matters. He needs to get moving on this China trade or he is going to have a lot of very unhappy people other than me. Not that I do not understand the premise, just being handled in the most incompetent way. Hard for me to grasp the stupidity of it.
Russian civil aviation authorities suspended flights at Moscow’s Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky airports, as well as in Nizhny Novgorod, Kirov, Yaroslavl, Kazan, and other cities today after Ukraine launched its most extensive drone assault on Russia. This resulted in significant travel disruptions late Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to a representative of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, airport closures and flight cancellations were announced to guarantee the safety of civil aviation operations.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that 524 Ukrainian drones have been intercepted nationwide overnight, marking the largest series of drone strikes since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.
Prominent Russian air carriers such as Aeroflot, Pobeda, and S7 have warned travelers to anticipate disruptions due to the cancellation of hundreds of flights scheduled for today.
Imagine the economic impact if the major US cities encountered a similar attack.
The world knows who was the adult in the room today.
This video at the end shows Carney’s leadership. “The US-Canada relationship is over. This is a tragedy.”
jimg
May 6, 2025 9:29 am
#46557
Ukraine’s $500 billion rare earths scam: they don’t exist, and we should know better Back to Washington then, where nobody in the mining industry, and even in the mining industry in the Ukraine, believes that Ukraine has huge reserves of rare earths. So industry insiders are perplexed with this $500 billion number that is thrown around now, and that Ukraine will sign a deal to pledge these vast reserves – which don’t exist – in exchange for debt forgiveness for everything up to now, and a blank check going forward. Ukraine doesn’t have it.
But let’s pretend they did. All the rare-earth production on the planet totals $15 billion per year. And let’s pretend, further, that Ukraine magically created 20% of the world’s rare earths and could be pulling them out of the ground starting right now. Ukraine’s output would be $3 billion a year, which divided into $500 billion is 166 years.
Trump and Xi Views on Rare Earths Deal Differ, Trade Expert Says
“The biggest thing is the US ability to import intermediate goods that contain Chinese rare earths, and these especially flow through Japan and South Korea. The US imports more of these as embodied materials than they do directly. So that’s really where the real threat is.”
“The defense sector is incredibly exposed. They’re not going to advertise this publicly, but this is the reality.”
BBG: https://archive.is/JrkgW#selection-1209.0-1209.64
In 2025, China significantly escalated its control over the global rare earth magnet supply chain by introducing strict export restrictions.
https://radialmagnet.com/chinas-magnet-export-restrictions-what-they-mean-for-the-world/
AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue “extremely harmful actions” such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go
Former OpenAI Employee Warns of AI Apocalypse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g98xrNn4wrU
The FBI’s Ability To Disappear Evidence Calls For Transparency, Stat
By: Prof. Margot Cleveland
https://archive.is/XzgxI
AI’s take on the new official Trump photo.
This image is visually distinct and appears to be a new, stylized portrait of Donald J. Trump, dated June 2025. It marks a departure from traditional photographic presidential portraits, instead adopting a more dramatic, almost cinematic or painterly tone. Here’s a detailed breakdown:
Visual Features and Composition
Expression and Mood
Lighting
Styling and Attire
Artistic Qualities
Symbolism and Messaging
This portrait appears to have been intentionally crafted to project power, determination, and resolve. Its visual language is more personal branding than presidential tradition. Unlike the calm, approachable, or statesmanlike tones of Obama or Biden’s portraits, this one evokes a more campaign-era emblem of leadership under fire.
It might be compared more to:
My perspective is genuine, though it may not be as insightful.
The man is handsome and successful. He doesn’t need to posture.
This photo looks like the playground bully that, as a teenager, I couldn’t wait to punch in the face.
In any case, I doubt the global leaders feel threatened. Amused perhaps.
Medical Doctors are fleeing Trump.
Ex-Goldman Sachs head of Southeast Asia operations jailed for 2 years.
Malaysia was defrauded.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250529-us-judge-sentences-ex-goldman-sachs-banker-to-two-years-over-1mdb-scandal
Documentary “Follow the Silenced” uncovers the stories of individuals whose lives were shattered by the COVID-19 vaccine trials and the early rollout. The documentary exposes the devastating injuries and deaths that were ignored by our government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6geJcT3C2kk
Bret Weinstein talks about the vaccine and the documentary “Follow the Silenced”
Start at 53 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ90eyukLvs
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
talk about their new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKF_UarIdu0
I have a question
do you guys ever take B12 through IV for energy and stamina?
I take it every six month, B12 plus mineral through IV and it takes an hours for it to go through,
I call local clinician and he come to our home to administer it it cost me $200 per his visit
My primary doctor is aware of it
Thanks
ChatGPT spit out the following…
🧪 What the Research Says:
🩺 Bottom Line:
thanks
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MSN Report: 60 Minutes anchor targets Trump
Scott Pelley, the anchor of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” made a thinly veiled attack on President Trump during the Wake Forest University commencement speech.
He didn’t mention Trump by name, but he did warn, “To move forward, we debate, not demonize; we discuss, not destroy. But in this moment, our sacred rule of law is under attack… Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak, in America.”
The same people who bitterly objected to Pelley’s speech, calling him a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, are copacetic with Trump’s commencement address at West Point and his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery.
If you are going to give it, you’ll have to take it. That’s life.
When will shareholder lawsuits start against POTUS? Trump starting to single out specific companies and doing damage to stock prices. Apple is the latest target.
The Supreme Court would rule that Trump’s speeches are official business, and he is not liable.
As it stands, the situation is toxic for businesses and investors. I don’t see how it will improve until the voters make a decision.
The voters have the ultimate control. If the voters decide that enough is enough with Trump, they will elect a majority of Democratic Party candidates in November 2026. Congress then would impeach to regain control of its constitutional responsibilities. In that event, I could see Trump resigning and JD Vance becoming President.
Dan Collins, Founder of Tyrell Chemical, studied at Tsinghua University and spent 20 years setting up American companies into China. Dan is now back in America setting up new companies bringing back industrial production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ngccqS9ydA&list=PLDtK-oqJj1JeUEAbyG-aIXrYdxpB5mI7E
Demonstrating end-to-end scientific discovery with Robin: a multi-agent system
https://www.futurehouse.org/research-announcements/demonstrating-end-to-end-scientific-discovery-with-robin-a-multi-agent-system
“Today, we’re announcing the first major discovery made by our AI Scientist with the lab in the loop: a promising new treatment for dry AMD, a major cause of blindness”
https://x.com/SGRodriques/status/1924845624702431666
All quotes:
There is no “Maturity Wall” 101.
Though this is a myth you may not be relieved by this thread.
Have you seen the doomer charts about the maturity wall of US Debt. It is a clear signal that you should unfollow those who post it. It usually starts with 9TN of debt comes due.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1923870967228416346.html
“Anthony Dedens’…approach to the allocation of his investors’ capital has yielded exceptional returns – and his disciplined investment philosophy offers an eye-opening insight into many of the problems inherent in the modern-day asset management business”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4_U6bS-cU4
Chris Whalen:
The U.S. Is 80% Broke, And No One Realizes It, The Fed Caused This, and Can’t Fix It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgL8rPuhvYE
As of July 1, 2025, physical gold is officially a Tier 1, high-quality liquid asset under Basel III for U.S. banks, fully recognized at market value for regulatory capital purposes
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/basil-gold-tier-one-in-america-FRD94TPJTQOWBK6FahHJBA
Quotes:
jimgBiden administration “climate” and energy policies amounting to thousands of pages in regulations and hundreds of billions of dollars in grants and subsidies to uneconomic energy projects have been swiftly reversed. Examples in just the past few weeks include:
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-5-13-as-the-federal-government-abandons-the-climate-fantasy-new-york-doubles-down
The Dem WordPress filter held this up. LOL.
“Climate fantasy”? The ideological rhetoric is excessive, I guess.
This is the intersection of economics and politics.
You and I believe most of these projects were uneconomic, but others disagree.
Canada’s Carney has always been WEF policy-minded (e.g., climate), but his latest answers to questions along these lines (reminding him of his books and previous speeches), but he says as Prime Minister, he has to be “pragmatic.”
I think he will be because (a) it takes forever to show economic benefits the WEF way, and (b) the world is watching. He has a minority government and an ultra-strong conservative majority in the natural resources-rich Western Canada provinces. The voters have spoken, and most wanted energy projects developed, starting ASAP.
A wonderful story from one of you.
Serious health issues do not stop people from enjoying a good life. https://www.facebook.com/thanasis.gadanidis.
We first met on a bus to Whistler. He sounded keen on the market, and then he said he was on his way to my conference.
I see that Thanasis (Θανάσης) is a Greek given name, short for Athanasios (Αθανάσιος), which can mean “eternal life” or “immortal”.
I have been selling my stocks as the market has come back. I am just very worried about who is running the ship here. I’m trying to grasp how we ended up in crazy town. I am not anti-republican. But everyday it feels like things are getting more unstable and off the rails. Today, “Trump Appoints Fox News’s Judge Jeanine Pirro To US Attorney’s Office In DC” When you see decisions like this happening all the time, you have to really ask yourself whether this is the guy that should be in charge of world economic order. I just don’t have the stomach for it anymore. I am selling the market so I can sleep at night. This will be my last post about it. Stay safe out there.
Soooooo, I suspect we’re not going to agree on much.
I live a few miles outside the ‘Circle of Doom’ ( DC beltway ) and I Hope Judge Jeanine along with
https://x.com/mrddmia
https://x.com/jeffclarkus AND Others
Take a Blow-Torch and Ram It UP EVERY ORIFICE DC Has & Then Some. Cheers.
Big news on UK trade deal…So what, complete non issue. The great leader needs to get to work on something that matters. He needs to get moving on this China trade or he is going to have a lot of very unhappy people other than me. Not that I do not understand the premise, just being handled in the most incompetent way. Hard for me to grasp the stupidity of it.
Russia is under a major drone attack.
News Report:
Imagine the economic impact if the major US cities encountered a similar attack.
Outstanding example of leadership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OukxQBhr9JA
The world knows who was the adult in the room today.
This video at the end shows Carney’s leadership. “The US-Canada relationship is over. This is a tragedy.”
Ukraine’s $500 billion rare earths scam: they don’t exist, and we should know better
Back to Washington then, where nobody in the mining industry, and even in the mining industry in the Ukraine, believes that Ukraine has huge reserves of rare earths. So industry insiders are perplexed with this $500 billion number that is thrown around now, and that Ukraine will sign a deal to pledge these vast reserves – which don’t exist – in exchange for debt forgiveness for everything up to now, and a blank check going forward. Ukraine doesn’t have it.
But let’s pretend they did. All the rare-earth production on the planet totals $15 billion per year. And let’s pretend, further, that Ukraine magically created 20% of the world’s rare earths and could be pulling them out of the ground starting right now. Ukraine’s output would be $3 billion a year, which divided into $500 billion is 166 years.
https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/ukraines-500-billion-rare-earths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tILXLxMTmgA