>>20689049

You should be aware that there as many sheriffs as there are counties

There are many that are the marxist leninist maoist fascist and whatever other -ist you include in your rants

Many are like Potato, installed via fraud

Too many were installed for DEI purposes and weren't really up to the task of Meter Maid

Trying the draft would be hysterical, watching so many self-identify as women that the Selective Service laws have to be made gender neutral and then there's the little issue of all those diagnosed Bipolar, ADHD, ADD, and all the other conditions that made big profits for big pharma. Now the fly-over States get to have all the capable white boys decide they are Conscientious Objectors

Service as a Conscientious Objector

Two types of service are available to conscientious objectors, and the type assigned is determined by the individual’s specific beliefs. The person who is opposed to any form of military service will be assigned to alternative service – described below. The person whose beliefs allow him to serve in the military but in a noncombatant capacity will serve in the Armed Forces but will not be assigned training or duties that include using weapons.

Alternative Service

Conscientious objectors opposed to serving in the military will be placed in the Selective Service Alternative Service Program. This program attempts to match COs with local employers. Many types of jobs are available, however the job must be deemed to make a meaningful contribution to the maintenance of the national health, safety, and interest. Examples of alternative service are jobs in:

conservation

caring for the very young or very old

education

health care

Length of service in the program will equal the amount of time a man would have served in the military, usually 24 months.

https://www.sss.gov/conscientious-objectors/

Imagine they try to draft the Rust Belt boys but they all get jobs instead

>>20689119

>They support national security background checks

Those are out of Sheriff's hands, initial checks start with local PD to see if criminal record at current place of residence, then FiB takes it from there

IT IS NOT SPELLED "POSSY"

>>20689120

BRICS is doing better by the week

>>20689221

I certainly understand it. Do you understand the implications of this?:

Chinese property scene remains cause for concern for capesize owners

Sam Chambers March 29, 2024

Persistent gloomy headlines about the Chinese property sector continue to give otherwise bullish capesize owners pause for thought.

In late January, a Hong Kong court ordered the liquidation of the Evergrande Group, bringing an end to two years of financial instability during which the company struggled to meet its debt obligations.

Dry bulk owners might have hoped that the court ruling would bring an end to the doom and gloom headlines surrounding the Chinese property sector which represents about 25-30% of the nation’s GDP and approximately a third of the country’s domestic steel demand. The bad news has continued to roll in, however.

Cape rates have been remarkably strong in Q1, but have struggled this week. The capesize index on the Baltic Exchange lost one point to 2,637 yesterday and has slipped over 24% for the week.

Iron ore futures fell on Friday for a fourth straight session, as concerns over China’s property sector weighed on demand and port inventories rose.

The “wild” swings in iron ore prices and rising stockpiles have got some owners feeling a “bit jittery” conceded analysts at brokers Arrow in a recent research report.

On Thursday, ratings agency Fitch cut its forecast for China’s housing market and said it now expects a 5%-10% fall in new home sales in 2024.

Country Garden, the country’s largest private property developer, on Thursday delayed the publication of its 2023 financial results. Vanke, another major developer, reported a 50.6% drop in 2023 core profits.

Total stocks of imported iron ore at China’s major ports rose for a fourteenth consecutive week to reach a two-year high of 144.3m tons yesterday, data from industry consultancy Mysteel showed.

“Iron ore demand could see some pressure due to China’s sluggish property market,” HSBC warned this week. The bank sees China’s iron ore demand declining at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4% over 2024-28 and global demand remaining flat over the period.

“The pick-up in Chinese steel demand remains slower than expected this year, continuing to weigh on steel profit margins and iron ore prices,” stated a report from another bank, ING, this week, noting how inventories are increasing as the pick-up in steel consumption from end-users is weaker than expected at this time of the year.

Citi analysts, noting the slow start to the Chinese construction season, said in a research note published earlier this week that they expect China steel production to lift from current levels.

“China steel consumption growth will likely remain weak but with industry profits up, we expect steel producers to lift output with steel exports to remain high,” Citi argued.

Broker SSY remains constructive on the Chinese steel complex. In its annual forecast, published last month, it noted that the property market correction in China has now been ongoing for nearly four years, which means that the sector is smaller relative to the other sectors driving steel demand – from approximately 40% share of domestic steel demand in 2020 to an estimated 33% in 2023. Secondly, the other sectors — notably auto manufacturing, shipbuilding, infrastructure and manufacturing — showed strong growth throughout 2023 and have the continued support of Chinese policymakers for 2024.

In related news, there is now a new way to keep track of iron ore stockpiles – from space.

US-headquartered Ursa Space has unveiled a new weekly dataset providing volumetric measurements of iron ore stockpiles across critical global locations. Using satellite imagery, this subscription-based service offers data on strategic stockpile locations including Port Hedland in Australia, Saldanha Bay in South Africa, Brazil’s Ponta da Madeira, and Chinese import hubs Qingdao and Caofeidian. The company also offers similar services for coal and oil, and can provide stockpile data on cobalt and copper on request.

https://splash247.com/chinese-property-scene-remains-cause-for-concern-for-capesize-owners/

>>20689236

>The TERRORISM in moscow is because the local sheriff don't arrest these fucks.

Most idiotic and schizo thing I've read here in a week

>>20689250

This stuff here I really want to watch but would be real nice if Marketfag could keep an eye on the stocks of the big lines and the big retailers they serve most

Carriers Unveil New FAK Hikes in Bid to Halt Asia-Europe Rates Slide

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – April 5, 2024

Container spot freight rates on the main deepsea east-west trades continued their gentle descent over the course of this week, despite the ongoing vessel diversions from possible Houthi attacks in the Red Sea region.

There are, however, trade pockets where rates have shot up.

Forwarders report, for example, that with air freight capacity out of Colombo constrained, an uptick in shipping rates from Colombo to Dubai – where air cargo connections to Europe are plentiful – had increased 62% in a little more than a month.

“There is a big pick-up in sea-air ex-Colombo. We have seen significant increases in FCL bookings of sea-air from a number of well-known forwarders. This has also resulted in sea freight rates Colombo/Jebel Ali increasing proportionally, and going up every two weeks.

“40ft rates CMB/DXB have increased from $800 to $1,300 in one month; we are hiking twice a month with around $200/40ft each hike,” one told The Loadstar.

Freight rate platform Freightos said this week: “Ocean rates that had climbed sharply at the beginning of the year on Red Sea diversions and lunar new year demand may be reaching their new diversion-adjusted floor.

“Decreases from January/February peaks on the impacted ex-Asia lanes have slowed in recent weeks, and recent rate announcements by some carriers suggest they are hoping to keep rates at the $3,000-$3,500 per 40ft level to Europe, and $3,500-$4,300 level to the Mediterranean this month.”

The three main spot freight indices – Freightos’ FBX, Drewry’s WCI and the Xeneta XSI – recorded Asia-North Europe rates in that bracket: Xeneta saw Asia-North Europe rates climb 1% week on week, to finish at $3,341 per 40ft; while Freightos saw it climb 2%, to $3,258.

Drewry, however, recorded a 3% week-on-week decline, to $3,078, although it remains 101% higher year on year.

In an attempt to halt the slide, Hapag-Lloyd yesterday announced a new FAK [freight all kinds] rate of $3,000 per 40ft on Asia-North Europe from 15 April, while CMA CGM today announced an FAK of $4,000 per 40ft on the trade, to be applied on the same date.

Hapag-Lloyd will apply an FAK rate of $3,700 per 40ft to West Mediterranean ports, and $4,100 to Black Sea destinations, also from 15 April, while CMA CGM will hike its rates to $4,200 and $4,400, respectively.

MSC is also set to introduce new FAK rates to Mediterranean and Black Sea on that date, although by a far more ambitious $4,800 per 40ft on Asia-West Mediterranean shipments, and $5,100 to Black Sea ports.

The increases are also likely to be linked to the rising cost of fuel. This week, Zim introduced a new bunker adjustment factor (BAF) charge on Asia-Mediterranean shipments of $718 per teu, some three times higher than on any of its other trades, as a result of “our temporary measures to reroute our vessels, given the Houthis attacks on vessels in the Red Sea”.

Transpacific spot freight rates saw a similar pattern: Xeneta recorded a 4.2% slip on Asia-US west coast shipments, to $3,474 per 40ft; while Drewry recorded a 3% decline, to $3,704. Drewry also recorded a 3% decline in Asia-US east coast services, to 4,894 per 40ft.

As contract negotiations between carriers and North American customers are under way, it will be interesting to see how much effect current spot rate levels have on contract levels when they are signed, and how much pricing remains an issue.

As US maritime analyst John McCown wrote last week: “Both the prevalence and credibility of spot rates are misunderstood.

“While there is an information content in the level and trend of spot rates, they always need to be analysed in the context of what is occurring with the more-important contract rates,” he said.

https://gcaptain.com/carriers-unveil-new-fak-hikes-in-bid-to-halt-asia-europe-rates-slide/

>>20689330

OK, he's freakboi, so what?

>>20689341

>prollem is trade is gonna slow as less is brought in to US from Asia

That's one of the things that gets me. The EU is getting more hurt by their sanctions than Russia. The oil products and LNG are huge to the EU industries, but as more plants scale back or just plain die, then Asia will pick up that slack. Unless the US can turn the taps back on with a quickness, it's going to be a circus. I posted months ago how Russian crude is going to India at low prices and getting refined. The refined petroleum products are then considered to originate in India and so no sanctions, but the EU is paying more for the stuff than if they had not done the stupid and just bought from Russia.

Russia is making oil money, India is making a mint, EU is paying more, Texas and Alaska are hogtied.

While people are watching China, few are watching Vietnam. That place will be increasing industrial capacity with the same kind of cheap labor China has. Vietnam has Cam Ranh Bay, and lots have been going on there over the years.

From 2016, and last few years effort put into making the place better for containers, but check this out:

This Vietnamese Base Will Decide the South China Sea's Fate

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/vietnamese-base-will-decide-the-south-china-seas-fate-16093

>>20689421

I see it as Trash Collection and Disposal

General Research #23139 >>18851346

Not going to work anymore. The cycles are becoming clearer. Gore and cp to test the defenses, then cycle through tons of muh joo, then racist/white supremacy, then some slide like "RRN is legit" and thenwhen the garbage gets tossed, scream "muh censorship."Any way possible to waste bread and bury the goodies. Baiting to start arguments the best, having "arguments" among shills when anons won't bite. Around and around and around it goes. Doesn't change any minds, just wastes bread. There's nothing left.

Bitch about BO and BVs and the truly retarded among you bitch about bakers deleting stuff all you want, not going to work, not going to change anything. Scream "muh free speech" when the ammo left for MSM to jump on with hit pieces is tossed out.

Your shit is old

>>20689476

You fool no one fedboi

>>20689456

Canada #55 >>20641999

Expect A Financial Crisis In Europe With France At The Epicenter

by Tyler Durden Thursday, Mar 28, 2024 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com

The EU never enforced its Growth and Stability Pact or Maastricht Treaty rules. The crisis is coming to a head with France and Italy in the spotlight. The first casualty will be Green policy.

'''Compliance Rules

1) Deficit rule: a country is compliant if (i) the budget balance of general government is equal or larger than -3% of GDP or, (ii) in case the -3% of GDP threshold is breached, the deviation remains small (max 0.5% of GDP) and limited to one year.

2) Debt rule: a country is compliant if the general government debt-to-GDP ratio is below 60% of GDP or if the excess above 60% of GDP has been declining by 1/20 on average over the past three years.

3) Structural balance rule: a country is compliant if (i) the structural budget balance of general government is at or above the medium-term objective (MTO) or, (ii) in case the MTO has not been reached yet, the annual improvement of the structural balance is equal or higher than 0.5% of GDP, or the remaining distance to the MTO is smaller than 0.5% of GDP.

4) Expenditure rule: a country is complaint if the annual rate of growth of primary government expenditure, net of discretionary revenue measures and one-offs, is at or below the 10-year average of the nominal rate of potential output growth minus the convergence margin necessary to ensure an adjustment of the structural budget deficit in line with the structural balance rule.

'''Deficit Disaster Zones

France and Italy are major disasters right now on the budget deficit rule. France has a budget deficit of 7 percent and Italy 5 percent.

France needs to reduce its deficit by a whopping 4 percent of GDP!

Neither Italy nor Greece should never have been allowed in the EMU (European Monetary Union – Eurozone) in the first place.

Greece has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 170 percent. The target is 60 percent.

But the lead chart tells the picture. Only the Scandinavian countries are in compliance.

'''Looser Rules Postpone the Crisis

On February 10, the EU agreed to Looser Fiscal Rules to Cut Debt, Boost Investments.

The latest revamp of two-decades-old rules known as the Stability and Growth Pact came after some EU countries racked up record high debt as they increased spending to help their economies recover from the pandemic, and as the bloc announced ambitious green, industrial and defense goals.

The revised rules allow countries with excessive borrowing to reduce their debt on average by 1% per year if it is above 90% of gross domestic product (GDP), and by 0.5% per year on average if the debt pile is between 60% and 90% of GDP.

Countries with a deficit above 3% of GDP are required to halve this to 1.5% during periods of growth, creating a safety buffer for tough times ahead.

Defense spending will be taken into account when the Commission assesses a country’s high deficit, a consideration triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The new rules give countries seven years, up from four previously, to cut debt and deficit starting from 2025.

Note that the EU can tweak enforcement but not the baseline Stability and Growth Pact targets themselves without unanimous agreement, and a new treaty.

'''Spotlight France

France has a budget deficit of 7 percent but wants to fund a European army to fight Russia.

How is that supposed to work?

'''Spotlight Green Fantasies

The EU has adopted ambitious Green policies that will cost much more money than has been budgeted.

How is that supposed to work?

'''Targets Won’t Be Met

You can take those Green targets and throw then into the ashcan of ideas that never should have been set in the first place.

Even if you give France 7 years to be deficit compliant, how is France supposed to cut back a whopping 4 percent of GDP?

'''What’s the Basic Problem?

Eurointelligence says “Technology is the main cause of the decline. Geopolitics is what accelerated it.”

Technology is not the problem. The Maastricht treaty that created the Eurozone is flawed. And it cannot be fixed without unanimous agreement.

Given productivity and work rule differences, one interest rate set by the ECB cannot serve Italy, France, Greece, and Germany.

Add to that, EU nannycrat rules. The EU is more interested in cracking down on Google (Now Alphabet GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Facebook (now Meta Platforms META), and Microsoft (MSFT) for alleged monopolies than developing anything.

The EU Is Dysfunctional

In a single word, the EU is dysfunctional. That’s the problem, not technology. The Maastricht treaty itself is a big part of the reason the EU is dysfunctional. The Euro itself, with one common interest rate, is fundamentally flawed.

Companies like Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple could not exist in the EU because in the name of competition and diversity, the EU would kill them before they ever got big enough to matter.

EU rules make it impossible to fix the basic problem. So the EU has resorted to nannycrat rules to regulate US and Chinese companies instead of fixing anything.

Technology, including AI, and geopolitics is now accelerating the basic problem, the EU is dysfunctional by treaty. It’s showing up in polls everywhere.

More:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/expect-financial-crisis-europe-france-epicenter

>>20689456

>I also remember a gas hike that threatened trade back sometime ago, no sure when though

There were two different things that went on about the same time. Russia cut back on exports to shore up domestic supplies and the big complex with the refinery and LNG plant and ship terminal in Louisiana had probs from a big storm or something that had the place down for a while.

China and Japan were getting the stuff while EU went lacking, and to make it worse Singapore cut back on coal exports for their domestic stocks.

>>20689551

Um, yeah. If he was Hitler then you and Maddcow could have held hands on the way to the gas chamber years ago.

>>20689530

Dear Hollyweird:

Pam Greer from back in the day

>>20689565

>EU wishes to dominate policy of world

WEF via EU Parliament

The farmers are done with the climate change, bad carbon dioxide, bad nitogen, eat ze bugs bullshit

Spring Planting Season now. Plant now but don't get any of the harvest to the cities, tell them "oops, government would not let us plant full fields" and keep everything mall town local. Let them make their salads with leftie newspapers

>>20689565

>EU wishes to dominate policy of world

>>20689565

>EU wishes to dominate policy of world

WEF via EU Parliament

The farmers are done with the climate change, bad carbon dioxide, bad nitogen, eat ze bugs bullshit

Spring Planting Season now. Plant now but don't get any of the harvest to the cities, tell them "oops, government would not let us plant full fields" and keep everything mall town local.