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Treasury secretary defends Greenland tariffs: 'The national emergency is avoiding the national emergency'
www.nbcnews.com

... Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended proposed tariffs targeting eight European countries that oppose President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland, telling NBC News' "Meet the Press" that the goal is to avoid a future national emergency. ...

Asked by moderator Kristen Welker what national emergency justifies tariffs against countries that oppose Trump's Greenland ambitions, Bessent argued that "the national emergency is avoiding a national emergency." ...



How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle (July 2025)
www.bbc.com

... "I am the evidence," was the eyebrow-raising comment made by Donald Trump when he appeared before the Scottish Parliament in 2012.

He was speaking as an "expert" witness on green energy targets, describing how he believed wind turbines were damaging tourism in Scotland.

Five years before he first became US president, it was one of his earliest interventions on renewable energy - but since then his opposition to them has grown to become government policy in the world's biggest economy.

He was objecting to 11 turbines which were planned -- and ultimately constructed -- alongside his Aberdeenshire golf course.

On his latest visit to Scotland, he described those turbines as "some of the ugliest you've ever seen".

When Trump bought the Menie estate, about eight miles north of Aberdeen, in 2006, he promised to create the "world's greatest" golf course.

But he soon became infuriated at plans to construct an offshore wind farm nearby, arguing that the "windmills" -- as he prefers to call the structures -- would ruin the view. ...

They generate enough electricity to supply up to 80,000 homes but the wind farm was also built as a test and demonstration facility for new technology.

Trump battled the plans through the Scottish courts, then appealed to the UK's Supreme Court - but he was unable to stop the "monsters" from going ahead.

It clearly left him smarting and he's not had a good word to say about wind power since. ...

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More from the article ...

... Last week brought some good news for the East Coast's struggling offshore wind industry.

Federal courts ruled three times for developers of northeast projects " one of them being New London-based Revolution Wind " which so far have succeeded, barely, in fighting back against the Trump administration's continuing effort to shut them down.

Trump has long opposed offshore wind turbines, dismissing them as ugly threats to bird and marine life that, if completed, will produce unreliable and prohibitively expensive electricity.

But the administration's latest stop work order " turned back at last temporarily in court by Revolution, New York's Empire Wind and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind " is based on the claim that a classified Pentagon report, one too secret to discuss, has identified offshore wind turbines as a threat to national security.

The security claim has met skepticism not only in court, but in Congress and elsewhere. The administration and Pentagon have so far refused to elaborate, but there is widespread belief that the claim is based on concern that enormous, revolving windmill blades interfere with military radar by producing unwanted images known as clutter.

If that is the claim, the wind industry and its supporters say the potential problem was identified by the Pentagon and resolved to its satisfaction years ago. ...

Whatever the reason for its latest concern, the Pentagon won't talk about it, even when pressed by powerful members of Congress with seats on committees that control the defense budget and weapons procurement. ...



#28 'Tis way too easy.

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#25 And when they can't handle your "truth", they plonk you.

People vote with their killfiles.

Then there's things like this ...

Wyden Expands Epstein Investigation with Probe of Hundreds of Suspicious Bank of New York Mellon Transactions
www.finance.senate.gov

... Epstein Moved Nearly $400 Million in and out of Accounts at Bank of New York Mellon through 270 Wire Transfers; the Bank Waited Years to Flag the Transactions with the Treasury Department

Washington, D.C. -- Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., expanded his investigation of the financing of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking network today with a new probe of Epstein's client relationship with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) and the hundreds of millions of dollars he moved in suspicious transactions through BNY accounts.

In a letter to BNY CEO Robin Vince, Senator Wyden stated that committee investigators had uncovered a 2019 filing in which the bank disclosed that Epstein had moved $378 million in and out of BNY accounts through 270 wire transfers, and that the bank had failed to identify a legitimate business purpose for any of those transactions. Senator Wyden's letter also noted that many of Epstein's wire transfers exhibited patterns and structuring indicative of money laundering, yet BNY failed to flag the transactions with the Treasury Department until 2019, more than a decade after the transactions were made -- a potential violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. ...



#47 Won't work.

"People lie, make mistakes constantly."

Close, but no cigar, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut.

Donnerboy, when told he posted something in error said, "I was wrong".

Why can't you, liar?

Oh, and you're not the primary audience for posts like this.

You're welcome.

Now, for really important questions ...

Have you figured out the meaning of the word "speculation", bell boi ? ? ? ?

As well as the word "efficacy"?

Inquiring minds want to know, bell boi.

There's this ...

China buys more US soybeans, total purchases approach 10 million tons
www.reuters.com

... China's total purchases from the latest U.S. crop were now estimated at 8.5 million to nearly 10 million tons, according to traders and analysts, representing up to 80% of the 12 million metric tons that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China pledged to buy by the end of February.

"There were more U.S. cargoes bought by Sinograin and total purchases are very close to 10 million tons," said one of the traders with direct knowledge of the deals. "We think China will buy a couple of million tons more to meet the target."

On Tuesday morning, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported private sales of 336,000 metric tons of soybeans to China for shipment in the 2025/26 season that ends on August 31, bringing China's total confirmed purchases since October to nearly 6.9 million tons.

In addition, a sizeable share of the roughly 3 million tons in sales confirmed by the USDA to undisclosed buyers is thought to be to China. ...


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