Showing posts with label corporations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporations. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Corporations leaving the US

 

Recently an increasing number of corporations have left the US, is in the process of leaving or is planning to take their facilities elsewhere on the globe. It seems Trump's tariff policy is not working out in the way he has promised. Instead of companies relocating to the US, as Trump would make the world believe, they seem to be legging it in droves. And to be honest most five year olds could have predicted that it would not. So, one has to wonder if this was the plan all the time, even when Trump in interviews tries to bully opinions away from the terrible future that is ahead of millions of American citizens. The situation up to May 6 2025:

  1. Harley Davidson has left
  2. Boeing is leaving
  3. Ford is planning to leave
  4. GM is planning to go elsewhere
  5. Pratt & Whitney is planning to move away from the US
  6. Open AI plans to leave
  7. Nvidia plans to relocate to Singapore
  8. Google intends to move out of the US
  9. Meta is fleeing the US
  10. Many Silicon Valley corporations are in the process of leaving
  11. Several large players in the military industrial complex have moved parts of their operation to Canada, while Canada is not as friendly as it used to be to Americans due to Trump's policies, while apart from Canada, there are no other options for corporations in this market segment to relocate to other countries for security reasons

I think I may have forgotten a few corporations that may choose to dash out of the burning building on US soil. Also the big German car producers - Mercedes, Audi and BMW - have withdrawn their sales operations to the US. Toyota, Honda and Nissan from Japan stopped exporting to the US too. TSMC's factory in Phoenix Arizona is unable to hire personnel that is qualified to operate their complex systems, while their production is heavily dependent on rare earth minerals that China stopped exporting to the US. All of this is devastating for the common American worker; that lost their job from one day to the other and since the US tariff policy affects every US company, finding a new job is very difficult if not impossible. Trump's administration feels more like: Make America break again.



The arrogant, bullying tariff tzar



In addition, the US is still sending weapons to the Ukraine - in spite of Trumps promise to end that war in 24 hours, the US Navy has suffered considerable losses in its war against Yemen, while the highly praised US THAAD defense system was unable to intercept an Ansar Allah hypersonic missile fired at the Ben Gurion airport in Israel. By the way, the US stockpile of munition is rapidly shrinking and in the future production will be challenging due to the shortage of rare earth metals. Meanwhile according to star reporter KJ Noh, China is running entirely robotised plants in which missiles are produced at great speed 24 / 7.

Because an increasing number of countries is de-dollarizing, the US also has to deal with a huge financial blow, while even China, Japan and South-Korea have recently signed an agreement to work more closely with China and the countries in the (Southeast Asian) ASEAN alliance - this would have been unthinkable only a few months ago. It just shows that almost that countries around the globe are rapidly taking measures against the insane US tariff policy and rapidly are switching to the BRICS+ multi-polar global policy.



Priorities aren't always clear.



The AI corporations mentioned in 6 to 10 in the numbered list shown at the top of this blog post, can not just leave in an instant, because their data centres can only run on a humongous amount of energy that not many countries can offer. Google, Meta and Open AI have recently published that they needed to build their own nuclear based electrical generators to run their plants, of which there are not many around the world to run them, because they are already barely capable to supply enough electricity to their existing nations' networks. So, go figure, building a nuclear plant takes years, while in the meantime China continues to develop its AI systems - hardware and software - at a tremendous pace. Guess what the consequences will be of competing in the global AI race with China for US corporations.

The problem for large corporations that intend to flee the US, is that they have to rebuild their supply chain and logistics, which is extremely difficult, especially in view of obtaining the necessary parts and materials (the supply of which may be restricted in many cases), setting up contracts with foreign governments, dealers, transport organisations and customs, all of which will require a considerable amount of time during which there is no income. If the disorder in US politics has not made these big corporations decide to not go through the enormous trouble to relocate, than the chaos that the Trump administration caused, must be immeasurably huge.

If I recall correctly, the next Olympic games will be held in Los Angeles in June 14 2028. It is unclear how much will be left of the US by that time. Probably half the army will be needed to chase the homeless, illegal immigrants, Soros' woke gangs and drug addicts away from the cameras, so that the US can continue to pretend that they still are the world's superpower number one. It is difficult and scary to even imagine what will happen around that event. The most disturbing thought is that at that time Trump and his band of soulless billionaires may still be in office if all goes wrong.

I can not imagine that Trump and his advisors did not see all this coming and if they did not, DOGE should immediately fire the entire lot and / or throw them in jail, because the literally ruined the lives of millions of American workers faster than one can blink an eye. A person with a negative IQ is known to be capable to wreck a lot, but this tragic situation in American and consequently global politics, is far beyond any stretch of imagination, while I previously assumed that Trump had carefully picked his staff to run the US. This is why I think this US drama and consequently the world's, is the result of a deliberate, premeditated evil plan of which we still have not seen the extreme consequences yet. 


Friday, June 2, 2023

From internet ads to blades and bats


Since years internet ads annoy the crap out of browsing people, particularly the smartphone crowd that sees large chunks of their screen blocked by popups and cookie messages that most of the time are a challenge to remove. Corporations like Google, Microsoft and Facebook earn their billions by tricking companies to advertise. Roughly 30% of the bandwidth of webpages is consumed by ads, which slows down internet experience quite drastically. Only 0.4% of the ads is actually intentionally clicked on by visitors of which half the number of clicks were accidental, because popups suddenly appear where and when visitors do not expect them; this hampered experience is not the reason why people visit sites. So, advertising on the internet is stupid and inefficient for both the web corporations as well as their clients and potentially interested users of the web, because ads basically make browsing sites a riling pain in the neck.

The 10% at the bottom is braindead beyond help


Adobe and Apple banned flash a few years ago, pretending they did that to protect user security. Corporations couldn't care less for user security, so whenever they invent such fake arguments, people can bet their life on it that it is pure and utter humbug. Adobe just forced banning flash, because after that ads would be written in html5 and css, which makes it much more difficult to block ads, since these languages are integrated in the website code, making filtering out the bunk a hell of a job, while running the risk of ruining the site itself. The corporations just found a more efficient way to screw their clients and internet users, in order to make an increased profit themselves. If you believe the corporations' devious official statement concerning improved user security, consider getting your head checked.

The behemoths of the internet get away with their scam, because regulatory systems are not particularly interested in actually taking legal action against the corporate swindle because they have greater interest in the bribes that corporations fill their offshore accounts with. WeChat has taken a different approach that at least does not block close all of their screen commodity - they built in an algorithm that is capable of figuring out what users are chatting about and e-mail spam them with ads based on that information. It probably is even more devious than the other web giants' methods, but at least there is not deluge of ads that blocks website content.

US militia defending Bundy ranch against FBI and CIA with assault rifle


Anyway, one way or an other users of the internet are screwed with their pants still on, because corporations lobby and purchase their way into legal immunity, governments enjoy their bribes and post political jobs that corporations offer and users of the web a censured and silenced which reduces them to conforming and complying consumers that do not oppose the corporations' evil strategy. This all is part of the plan to make the global population silent, obedient and stupid, which allows the ruling class to do whatever they want whenever they want.

However, the inevitably impending collapse of the fiat US dollar, may change the situation drastically shortly, because making a profit of billions of dollars may hit the digital oligarchs straight in the balls, which is a development that supersedes the capacity of plunderers to rob their clients and users blind without being afraid of any form of punishment. The governments are of course complicit in this conspiracy and will their subsidies for participating in the internet scam go up in smoke. So, to save their worthless paper currency they have already begun to raise interest rates and taxes, which will inevitably result in lower innovation and therefore production of businesses. That is a highway to hell for them that they will not be able to afford, since their entire system and method of schemes for decades has been based on these anti-constitutional schemes that they are unable to change overnight. This means that the rulers of the online digital world will suffer from the ill-chosen polities of the government with which they have been colluding at the expense of their clients and users.

Increasingly young protesters are prepared to use violence


The economy caving in is bad news for everyone, but at least many of the formerly appallingly wealthy will join the poor victims that they have been plundering ruthlessly for too long in having the disposal over increasingly diminished funds. The courageous French people are already beginning to feel a revolution on its way to society, because everyone is utterly fed up with the inequitable policies of corporations and governments. Public revolt therefore is a response of the people that is waiting to happen. It has the potential to terminate the remorseless type of rule that the people have suffered from for far too long a period of time. At some point even the ultra rich will not be able to escape the wrath of their victims that they forced to live pillaged, suppressed and abused lives.

That probably is the ultimate consequence of the irksome ads deluge that the internet users have been unable to avoid and it possibly is the instigator that will make everybody aware that there is way to get rid of unjust corporate and governmental rule. The galling web ads are of course just a tiny fraction of what is going to take place and all these annoyances, threats, deceit, violence, plundering, injustice, abuse etc. put together will put a stop to the current inhumane rule from this world's highest echelons. So, start to sharpen your blades, wax your bats and other combat tools to prepare for the fatal battle that is going to suck the entire global population in a fight for their lives.