More Winning

Trump brings presents to the NATO summit-

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/02/sacrebleu-ustr-lighthizer-announces-100-countervailing-duties-on-2-4-billion-of-french-products/

From the article-“After determining the value of the French tax on U.S. internet services at $2.4 billion; Lighthizer announces a 100%  countervailing duty on a carefully selected $2.4 billion in French imports.

Obviously the agenda for the bilateral NATO meeting between U.S. President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron just changed.  LOL, you have to love Team USA.

Oh, but wait, wait… it gets better….

We have to remember, THIS $2.4 billion U.S. tariff against France would be on top of the $7.5 billion (per year) countervailing duty recently won from the Airbus subsidy case in the WTO…. and by law France cannot retaliate.

Oh my, President Trump strolls into the NATO bilat with Macron while holding a $10 billion legally justified countervailing tariff position.  How’d ya like ‘dem grapes?”

Papers Please

Australia rolls out first ever cell phone detection cameras-

I know, it’s CNN, but occasionally they trip over something worth reading-

“Images identified as being likely to contain a driver illegally using a call phone will then be verified by authorized personnel, authorities said, noting that images captured by the system would be “securely stored and managed.”

Sure they will (sarc)

“For the first three months, drivers caught out by the technology will receive a warning letter, Transport for New South Wales said in a statement, after which offenders will face a fine of up to $344, or $457 in a school zone, and penalty points on their drivers license.”

“The NSW Government is serious about reducing our state’s road toll and rolling out mobile phone detection cameras is another way we will do this,” Andrew Constance, Minister for Roads said in a statement.”

Stop lying, it’s about generating revenue while finding a new way to invade people’s privacy.