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Thank you. Hi, everybody, welcome back to Cognitive Dissidents.

I am your host for this evening, Parallon Mike, and I'm joined by my co-host.

Monica Perez of the Monica Perez Show.

And I'm from Geopolitics and Empire.

Thank you, my friends, for joining us once more.

Tonight, we've got a lot to talk about, as always, it's been another crazy month.

So much has been happening that I didn't know where to start, but I thought, let's just

go with the biggest story in the world, I would say, which is the trade war, which has led

to a huge economic fallout, not as much as most people would have expected just yet.

And that's because the US is out in front in terms of inventories so I just wanted to

begin this one with a little article that I've got just to lay out for listeners where we are

with the trade war and then I'm really interested to get both of your thoughts on this one so

let's just share the screen so it's the first boats carrying Chinese goods with 145% tariffs are arriving in L.A.

And shipments are cut in half.

Expect shortages soon, which I thought was an interesting one.

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