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The Gathering Storm Series: Part 5 – The Dragon’s Mask Word Count: 625| Reading Time: 4 minutes The Smile That Deceives China’s greatest export is not steel, nor silicon, nor clothing. Not even cheap items that many do not want or need, for that matter. Not to mention, the country…
The Gathering Storm Series: Part 4 – Digging Deeper into the Dragon’s Veins Word Count: 900 | Reading Time: 5 minutes The Dragon Tightens Its Grip In April 2025, the Chinese Communist Party imposed export controls on seven rare earth elements. These materials—samarium, neodymium, dysprosium, and others—are unfamiliar to most…
The Gathering Storm Series: Part 3 – The Red Dragon’s Detour (Word Count: 445| Reading Time: 3 minutes) Beijing blinked. Tariffs are biting, and China is looking for a workaround. Not a trade deal. A disguise. As reported by The Wright Report, Chinese exporters are now offering licensing deals to…
The Gathering Storm: Part 2 – China’s Economic Weakness Exposed: Why America Must Press On by Michael Stevnes (Word Count: 501 | Estimated Reading Time: 2.5 minutes) The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are quietly reporting something extraordinary. Beijing has begun surveying its major companies with a simple but revealing…
At least 40 are dead and more than 1,000 injured after a catastrophic explosion at the port in Bandar Abbas, Iran—a violent flash in the night that too few will bother to connect to the larger threat building quietly across the globe. Reuters and The New York Times report that…
You earned every dollar. Has our government earned your trust with what they do with it? We debate the powers of government endlessly, but the real question is simpler: When they spend your money, do they honor ‘We the People’ — or betray it? “We the People… to form a…
What If We Had Listened to Trump and the Democrats 35 Years Ago? And Why Are So Many Still Ignoring What’s Plain to See? More than 35 years ago, in a now-famous interview with Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump said something few dared to say at the time: America was being…
A Senate Finance Committee report, covered by STAT News, says Pfizer sold $20 billion worth of medicines to Americans in 2019—but claimed no U.S. profit. All income was booked offshore. No federal income tax that year. None in 2018. None in 2020. One lawmaker called it “the largest tax-dodging scheme”…
This country boy sees the Trump Tariffs as plain and straightforward – righting wrongs. If not now, when and at what price? Prices go up, and some call it a hidden tax. However, the only goods affected are those we buy from nations facing tariffs. Buy American, and there’s no…
Dear Fed Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell: Just shut the hell up about your plans down the road. Your predictions are rarely correct, and you wreak havoc on people’s savings and retirements. Besides, you are seldom accurate, but everyone still believes you know what you are doing. And I know you…
