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Senate Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee released a report Thursday estimating that tariffs cost the typical U.S. family nearly $1,200 from February through November.

Using data from multiple government agencies and Goldman Sachs, the report found the monthly cost of tariffs for households jumped from $54.65 in February to $184.51 in October.

If tariff levels remain unchanged in 2026, the typical household is projected to pay about $2,100 more for goods due to tariffs, the report said.

Tariffs, a tax on companies importing goods into the United States, are often passed on to consumers when businesses raise prices to offset the added expense. Some companies have said they try to absorb the costs, but many have not.

Comment:

 During a press conference in Brussels in March 2022, President Biden was discussing the global impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on wheat and other grain supplies. He stated that the food shortages were "going to be real" in the context of global supply chain disruptions and the US sanctions added mainly on Russia but affecting many countries, particularly those in the Middle East and Africa. Just a thought.

المخيخ

 

تُشغّل رياضة تنس الطاولة المخيخ بشكل كبير، وهو مركز التنسيق في الدماغ، نظرًا لمتطلباتها من ردود الفعل السريعة، والتنسيق بين اليد والعين، والمعالجة السريعة لدوران الكرة ومسارها، مما يتطلب تكاملًا بين المهارات الحركية (المخيخ والفصين الجداري والقذالي) والتفكير الاستراتيجي (قشرة الفص الجبهي) لتحقيق النجاح.
يعزز هذا العمل السريع والمنسق المسارات العصبية، ويحسن الوظائف المعرفية مثل الانتباه، ويعزز ترابط الدماغ، مما يجعلها "رياضة ذهنية" تُفيد في تحسين المرونة العقلية.

يجب عليك تتبع الكرة، وتوقع دورانها، والتخطيط للضربات، وكل ذلك يتضمن المخيخ للتنسيق والفصين الجداري والقذالي للمعالجة البصرية.
تخطط قشرة الفص الجبهي للتكتيكات، بينما يعمل المخيخ وقشرة الفص الجبهي معًا لتنفيذ الحركة البدنية الكاملة.
تُظهر الدراسات أن لاعبي تنس الطاولة لديهم زيادة في الاتصال الوظيفي الديناميكي في مناطق تشمل المخيخ والحصين والقشرة البصرية، مما يشير إلى مرونة أفضل في الشبكة العصبية.

Table tennis heavily engages the cerebellum, the brain's coordination center, due to its demands for fast reflexes, hand-eye coordination, and rapid processing of the ball's spin and trajectory, requiring integration between motor skills (cerebellum, parietal/occipital lobes) and strategic thought (prefrontal cortex) for successful execution. 

The cerebellum is crucial for coordinating movements, and table tennis trains it intensely with its quick back-and-forth action, linking vision to motor response.

• You must track the ball, anticipate spin, and plan shots, all involving the cerebellum for coordination and the parietal/occipital lobes for visual processing.
• Studies show ping pong players have increased dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) in areas including the cerebellum, hippocampus, and visual cortex, indicating better network flexibility.

Cerebellum..

 

Table tennis heavily engages the cerebellum, the brain's coordination center, due to its demands for fast reflexes, hand-eye coordination, and rapid processing of the ball's spin and trajectory, requiring integration between motor skills (cerebellum, parietal/occipital lobes) and strategic thought (prefrontal cortex) for successful execution. 

This rapid, coordinated action boosts neural pathways, improves cognitive functions like attention, and enhances brain connectivity, making it a "brain sport" that benefits mental agility. 

The cerebellum is crucial for coordinating movements, and table tennis trains it intensely with its quick back-and-forth action, linking vision to motor response.

• You must track the ball, anticipate spin, and plan shots, all involving the cerebellum for coordination and the parietal/occipital lobes for visual processing.
• The prefrontal cortex plans tactics, while the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex work together to execute the physical follow-through.
• Studies show ping pong players have increased dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) in areas including the cerebellum, hippocampus, and visual cortex, indicating better network flexibility.
•  This comprehensive engagement improves attention, memory, and overall cognitive function, making it a great workout for the brain, especially for aging adults. In essence, table tennis is a "chess on steroids," demanding constant mental and physical integration, strengthening the neural networks controlled by the cerebellum and other key brain regions. 

Gold..

 

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration’s new “gold card” visa was open for sale, offering an expedited and “direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people” in exchange for a $1 million “gift,” or $2 million if their company is footing the bill. 

Hours earlier, U.S. Customs and Border Protection formally proposed requiring visitors from visa-exempt countries in Europe and Asia to provide a five-year social media history and detailed information about family members as a condition of entry to the U.S.

The intrusive new “social media snooping rule” for visitors from the 42 countries in the Visa Waiver Program would “come into effect early next year shortly before hundreds of thousands of football fans” travel to the U.S. for the World Cup, 

Comment:

For those who hate this USA and wish it's destruction, should not be welcomed here. 

They should immigrate to the Countries they love, and most likely are not welcomed there either.

let many of those coming to USA who are will establish, and can contribute to the success of this country instead of the illegals, Kayotes, scam artists, sex trafficker. 

Sanctions..

It is widely acknowledged by experts that the U.S. and Western sanctions on Russia, combined with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and blockade of Black Sea ports, have contributed to global inflation and exacerbated food shortages, primarily through disruptions in global commodity markets. 

 Russia is a major global exporter of key commodities, including oil, natural gas, wheat, and fertilizer. Sanctions and the war have disrupted the supply of these goods, leading to price spikes in global markets.

Inflationary Pressure: The rising costs of energy and agricultural products have been passed on to consumers worldwide, contributing to general inflation in the U.S. and beyond. This has compounded pre-existing inflationary pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages.

 Sanctions, coupled with the physical destruction of Ukrainian agricultural infrastructure and the blocking of its ports by Russia, have threatened global food security. The UN has warned that the number of undernourished people globally could increase due to these disruptions.

Lopsided..

 

For nearly two decades, esteemed economist Nouriel Roubini has worn the nickname “Dr. Doom” with honor. He earned it in the mid-2000s for warning of a housing crash that Wall Street dismissed, until he was proven catastrophically right.

In a new essay for the Financial Times, the economist argues that the conventional view—that America’s “Liberation Day” tariffs would trigger stagflation, tank the stock market, kneecap the dollar, and end U.S. exceptionalism—is simply wrong. 

Instead, he sees something close to the opposite: a short period of cooling growth, followed by a powerful rebound led by technology and capital spending that keeps the U.S. firmly in the top spot.

The now common view that the U.S. stock market is in a massive bubble and bound to crash is incorrect over the medium term,” he wrote. 

On the other hand, what he predicted isn’t necessarily the rosiest. 

The near-term picture looks like a “growth recession,’ he said, meaning slower, below-potential GDP. It’s not the hard landing or 1970s-style stagflation many have predicted, and it isn’t a bubble popping, but it’s a lopsided economy, as many Wall Street analysts have also noticed.   Just a thought.

Fraud..

 

They’ve made grave errors.

The Social Security Administration must do more to prevent benefit checks from going to dead people and Congress should step up to pass safeguards to protect taxpayer dollars from fraud, according to one GOP senator known for cracking down on pork barrel spending.

Ernst cited examples where authorities eventually discovered that dead people were still getting checks, which were often taken by their relatives.

In one instance, Canadian national Ellis Kingsep allegedly cashed in some $420,000 worth of checks for his mom between 1995 and 2023, when she would’ve been 103 years old. The feds later caught Kingsep with books on how to make fake IDS and photocopies of his mother’s signature.

Vetted..

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving served in an elite CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, according to new details that emerged Thursday about the suspect’s background.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal

 entered the U.S. legally in 2021 under humanitarian parole as part of the Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country. 

The operation aimed to support and resettle vulnerable Afghans, including those that had helped U.S. troops in the past.

 The shooting is an example of what happens "in this country when people are allowed in who are not properly vetted." 

The Biden administration allowed "thousands of people into this country without doing a single piece of background checking or vetting."

Net-Fkix..

 

Convict..

 

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system, The Post has learned.

Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on his mayoral transition’s “criminal legal system” committee — just one of many questionable picks.

According to officials at the state Department of Correction and Community Renewal, Linen was hit with a sentence of seven to 14 years and was sprung on parole on July 5, 2006.

Comment:

The coming 4 years will be a great watch. Just a thought.