Headlines, 4-8-25: Tariffs & Art of the Deal; Co2 Good for Earth

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4-8-25, * -- Is it 1995 all over again? A 30-year-old video featuring a young Donald Trump lambasting the US government’s auto deal with Japan has resurfaced, with the billionaire criticizing Tokyo’s unfair trade practices and the administration’s abysmal negotiating skills. He said: “In Japan, everything’s restricted, restricted, restricted. We’re sitting but can’t come in, and all of a sudden, this country folds.” he said.  And thirty years later, it is the same old real estate mogul – and Trump tariffs are producing the intended results. 
On April 2, 2025 President Trump's announcement will go down as one of the nation’s most important dates and the country’s “declaration of economic independence” for taking a chainsaw to "globalization." [..] Senior administration officials stated that the baseline and reciprocal Trump tariffs were not up for negotiation because they are more about non-monetary trade barriers that harm US exports. [..]

The significance of those resurfaced clips from the president’s interviews in the 1980s and 1990s is that his message has been consistent: "Countries are ripping off the United States, Washington has failed to push back; and he is ready to engage in economic warfare to protect the country." This is vastly different from the plethora of re-emerged clips of other politicians, be it Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who espoused the same foreign trade gripes as Trump and proposed similar measures, but are now reaching for the nearest hard drugs. 
Is it a case of Swamponomics vs Trumponomics? The Internet never forgets.

* Excerpted full original report here: 
www.libertynation.com/trump-tariffs-bring-the-world-to-the-negotiating-table/

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Earth's record-high greenness and its attributions to good Co2 in 2020
​1-1-25, ScienceDirect.com -- 1-1-25, According to the long term study and the dramatic findings by an American scientist team, global vegetation reached a new greening peak in 2020. The work helps confirm massive global plant growth directly related to recent increases in natural and human-caused the falsely maligned carbon dioxide [aka Co2]. Plants have evolved to grow in an atmosphere much richer in CO2 than current near-denuded levels, and the recent growth and its myriad benefits for humankind are not surprising to those in the know. The news is absent from mainstream headlines since the so called ‘pollutant’ is temporarily being blamed for climate collapse in the interest of boosting the collectivist Net Zero fantasy. Our study identified greening in 2020 was predominantly driven by increased tropical vegetation growth from enhanced rainfall, and further by a broader, long-term greening in boreal and temperate regions, linked with CO2 - pundits wrong again who wanted to get rid of C02.
Source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425724005200?via=ihub
More: Vegetation structural change and CO2 fertilization more than offset gross primary production decline caused by reduced solar radiation in China