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RECORD NUMBER OF FREIGHTERS AWAIT OFF CALIFORNIA COAST

You should drive on it sometime, 35mph average is a good speed. Then you go through every little town along the way. For any sort of commercial traffic, you would need a whole new road.
It would be interesting to see what it could become with significant investment. The amount of money and delay being talked about and the long timeliness going forward open up all kinds of previously unthinkable options
 
You should drive on it sometime, 35mph average is a good speed. Then you go through every little town along the way. For any sort of commercial traffic, you would need a whole new road.
Don't forget all the bribes and grease money you'd need along the way.
 
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Now y'all heard of a "Japanese Inspection?" Japanese Inpsection, you see, when the Japs get in a load of lettuce they're not sure they wanna let in the country, why they'll just let it sit there on the dock 'til they get good and ready to look at. But then of course, it's all gone rotten... ain't nothing left to inspect. You see, lettuce is a perishable item... like you two monkeys.
I voted for him:dustin:
 
Didnt the US own the Panama canal? Joe biden has taken the crown as the worst president from Carter in record time.
Ownership transferred in 1999.



For those with hazy memories.... Bill Clinton was president at the time. But the transfer was long in coming, not directly his doing.
 
Ownership transferred in 1999.



For those with hazy memories.... Bill Clinton was president at the time. But the transfer was long in coming, not directly his doing.
He just sped up the turn over by a few years, Made a great Photo op
 
Uh oh...

In response to the supply chain crisis, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo recently stated, “the reality is that the only way we get to a place where we work through this transition is if everyone in America and everywhere around the world gets vaccinated.” Clearly, this has led to speculation that the supply chain shortages are being manipulated in order to push the vaccine agenda. The Biden administration has touted a supposed deal it negotiated to help the Port of Los Angeles to operate 24/7 to offload the backed-up cargo. But one union leader said that union workers are already capable of working 24/7. The problem, in his view, is that “foreign-owned shipping companies” are not requesting labor.

 
This just in

Procter & Gamble Co. said it will raise prices on a number of household staple goods as the cost for raw materials and freight has increased faster than it had anticipated.

The company, which makes a range of products including Tide and Charmin, said it would begin to charge more for oral care, beauty, and razors. Earlier this year, Procter & Gamble said it would charge more for toilet paper and diapers.

The new price hikes are not being implemented on all its products, but they will be marked for specific items such as razors and in some sub-categories, CFO Andre Schulten told Reuters. U.S. retailers are aware of the new sticker prices, he added.

“We announced price increases to retailers in the U.S. on oral care, skin care, and grooming,” Schulten said in a conference call. “It’s item by item,” he added, although he did not say how much the prices will rise.

“As this pricing reaches store shelves we’ll be closely monitoring consumption trends,” he also remarked in the conference call. “While it’s still early in the pricing cycle, we haven’t seen notable changes in consumer behavior.”

Global supply chains are under strain due to factors such as a resurgence of COVID-19 cases and lockdowns in Asia and labor shortages in the United States, leading to a surge in raw material prices that is also squeezing profits at Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser.
there is more but didn't want to run a foul of the limit
and this

The owner of a New York City supermarket chain predicted the food prices will increase sharply in the coming months, with some increasing 10 percent in the next two months.

John Catsimatidis, the billionaire supermarket owner of Gristedes and D’Agostino Foods, warned that food giants such as Nabisco, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola will prioritize raising prices on products.

“I see over 10 percent [price increase] in the next 60 days,” he said in an interview with Fox Business on Monday, adding that the trend will not drop “anytime soon.” Catsimatidis cited rising inflation and supply chain bottlenecks that are currently plaguing supermarkets and other retailers around the United States.

Catsimatidis then cautioned: “I see food prices going up tremendously” because food company CEOs “want to be ahead of the curve and the way they’re doing it is they’re dropping all promotions. They are dropping low-moving items.”


again there is more but didn't want to run a foul of the limit
 
Ownership transferred in 1999.



For those with hazy memories.... Bill Clinton was president at the time. But the transfer was long in coming, not directly his doing.
IIRC China owns the canal management contract.
 
Now wait....

Not so long ago things were running just fine.

Now we have dock workers not working
Deere union on strike
UAW (auto union) on strike
Actors union planning strike (thank God)
More strikes looming

Dem's are the Unions party


Something fishy is going on here.
Many unions are pissed about being forced to vaccinate. So this encourages them to bitch and threaten strikes over issues the were not really a big deal before the vax mandates...Many here hate unions but they are in the fght against mandates....
And while unions in general are suported by Democrats, the members of skilled worker unions and rough neck unions are mostly conservatives
 
sooo... here come the shortages...

Target shelves are fairly bare in the paper section, locally... and now the news announces Glass Bottle Shortage.

I guess it's back to box wine for me.
 
china doesnt allow foreigners to own land except a single residence but the US happily sells its infrastructure off to foreigners :shaking:

mark my words... China will own Alaska by 2050.
 
A few years ago Ghi-NA tried to buy the port of Charleston, S.C. I forget who told them to fuck off, you ain’t getting it. Sose, they didn’t. IIRC.
Unions will stand tall, till they get their pay raise, medical shit and retirement increase guarantees. Then, OK jab these fuckers!
 
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