>Why are you not trusting the science?
Temperature issue
My IQ is higher than Room Temperature
I think it'd be awesome if the "Event Coordinators" that screwed the pooch on this one were having bitch fits with each other on the phone and No Such Agency was recording it all
Only a retard would think of a carrier as "stationary"
I bet you thing a CVN travels alone as well
Houthis can't afford shit, that's why Iran supplies them
Russia Russia Russia!
Trees, shrubs, foliage of various and sundry
Only tactic that ever worked
Start arguments to waste bread and bury the good stuff
Which ones hurt the most?
#25296
>>20625297 Surge of migrant kids at NYC school could push special needs private school out of shared building
>>20625307 Illegal immigrant Brandon Ortiz-Vite has been arrested for shooting 25 year old Ruby Garcia of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
>>20625344 Alarm over mystery cancer 'epidemic' striking under-50s like Kate Middleton as scientists scramble to find cause of startling increase
>>20625401, >>20625484 Now you know why the early retirements from RINO traitors - Special Favors and Connections
>>20625406 The FBI's Otherwise Illegal Activity
>>20625424 Epstein Flight Logs
>>20625430 This massive caravan is currently on its way to invade the U.S. border.
>>20625437 Illinois board member resigns after parolee with long criminal history kills boy, injures pregnant ex-girlfriend hours after release
>>20625474 FBI raids 2 homes owned by NYC Mayor Eric Adams' Asian Affairs director - 3/1/24
>>20625481 Special Counsel Report Reveals University of Delaware Misled Courts to Hide Biden’s Senate Records
>>20625519 Joe Biden Lied to Special Counsel Robert Hur About the Colorful Incident that Supposedly Jumpstarted His Political Career
>>20625675 Former Defense Secretary Says Jan. 6 Committee Issued "Latent Threat" To Keep Quiet
#25297
>>20625991 Michael Cohen document dump raises questions about Bragg, DOJ motives
>>20625996 Two San Diego-area educators arrested on child sex crimes charges
>>20626044, >>20626049 Special Counsel Report Reveals University of Delaware Misled Courts to Hide Biden’s Senate Records That Likely Hold Sexual Assault Complaint Filed by Tara Reade
>>20626187 MRNA VACCINES APPROVED FOR PIGS
>>20626329 Milwaukee takes more than $1 million in ‘Zuckerbucks’ ahead of vote to ban private election funding
>>20626369 Illegal Immigrant Crimes in Chicago the Mainstream Media and the Left Have Covered Up
>>20626427 ‘Alabama Votes Are Not For Sale’: Gov. Ivey Signs Law Barring Third Parties From Trafficking Ballot Applications
>>20626443 Chicago election officials 'find' 10,000 missing ballots in Democratic primary race for DA
#25298
>>20626724, >>20626732, >>20626751, >>20626761, >>20626911, A chemical spill at Pfizer’s Michigan plant is another example of the long line of environmental disasters stemming from Pfizer’s corporate practices. - highwire (screenshots) covid bun
>>20626726 RIP: NYPD officer succumbs to injuries sustained after being shot BY A CAREER CRIMINAL WITH 21 PRIOR ARRESTS
>>20626770 DOJ Announces National Red Flag Initiative - Check If Your State Is One of the 21 Involved
>>20626925 Hail storm in Damon texas on 3/24/24 destroys 1,000’s of acres of solar farms. - twat and mp4
>>20627112, >>20627124, Executive Order 13903—Combating Human Trafficking and Online Child Exploitation in the United States - flashback with sources.
>>20627322 What is in the government's last-minute immigration bill?
>>20627378 ASIO boss tells inquiry into Australian secrecy laws foreign intelligence operatives are posing as journalists
>>20627471 CCP’s Military Growth 'Largely Funded' By US: Ret. Navy Capt.
#25299
>>20627675 WWIII Alert: US Army Publishes ALARACT for “Utilization of the Army Retiree Recall Program”
>>20627691 Jesse Watters on disastrous Biden campaign
>>20627629 Pathetic Liz Cheney attack on Trump
>>20627704 Kristi Noem Signed Law Exempting Massive Chinese Communist-Linked Company From Land Leasing Ban
>>20628005, >>20628057 Democrats And Republicans Want The Invasion At The Southern Border Because "The Money Wants It"
#25300
>>20628613 Records show Alvin Bragg's wife Jamila gave at least $1,000 to Letitia James
>>20628925 The Georgia State House is trying to pull a fast one SEB investigation
>>20628941 Baltimore City Implodes: Police Force Collapses
Seems like the ADL is your new boogeyman since the whole JIDF thing went nowhere
How about these?
#25302
>>20630594 FDA removing basic safety standards with mifepristone, the abortion drug
#25303
>>20631292 UK Money laundering Digg
#25304
>>20631516 School Board Members Accuse Wisconsin Public Schools Superintendent Of Election Meddling
#25305
>>20632344 Smithsonian to pay $50,000 to ousted tourists wearing pro-life attire
>>20632374, >>20632866 Synergy Group operating the Dali
>>20632647 Diddy's favorite guest at his gay honeypot "parties" was said to be Leonardo DiCaprio
>>20632649 Tractor Revolution Is Back in Brussels – Protesting Farmers Again Besiege the EU Headquarters and Spray the Police With Manure
>>20632677 Darren Beattie: Mop-Up Man: Is This Former ATF Agent Running the J6 Pipe Bomb Coverup?
JIDF hasn't existed in years, but you knew that
I wonder how many anons remember these?:
#25074
>>20438532 Eritrean African immigrants burn down The Hague, Netherlands
>>20438690 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' drag queen arrested over child porn allegations in Wisconsin
>>20438992 Blackrock also signing off the Climate Action 100+ agenda
#25075
>>20439635 Non-Citizens Have Been Voting Since 2008
>>20439703 FOIA: corrupt gov’t made sure that Dominion Voting System was in battle grounds states for 2020 election
>>20440106 Biological man pretends to be woman, breastfeeds baby. All done with intention of normalizing pedophilia
>>20440117, >>20440120, >>20440175, >>20440277 Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions
#25077
>>20441340 MSNBC Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About MAGA's Threat To Globalism
>>20441421 Mike Benz: How Globalism And The Administrative State Broke Down America's Middle Class
>>20441555 COVID Vaccine Shedding Is 'Real', FDA & Pfizer Documents Are Proof
>>20441579 Kristi Noem stays silent as South Dakota GOP cedes property rights
>>20441596 @MarcoPolo501c3 is chronicling every fed that had involvement with the Biden "investigation," a blatant miscarriage of justice
>>20441599 The unbelievable saga of PA Judge Sonya McKnight
>>20441694 CBP sources tell FOX 20,000+ Chinese have been encountered just since October 1st
>>20441780 PR Firm celebrates efforts to remove Trump from Colorado ballot
>>20441839 Fani Willis Is Daring You To Call Her ‘Angry’ Because Race Baiting Is All She Has Left
>>20442058 Not seeking re-election so far
>>20442118 (2020) How CIA's Brennan Overruled Dissenting Analysts Who Concluded Russia Favored Hillary
#25078
>>20442271 America First Legal Releases Documents from Litigation Against CISA
>>20442653 New York Migrants Receiving Cash Welfare Payments After Quiet Rule Change
>>20442616 New Book Contains 939 Endnotes; Leaked Docs from FBI, DHS, DOJ; Restricted Chinese Military Documents; No Unnamed Sources
>>20442626 Republicans ask why 9 boxes of Biden records were omitted in Special Counsel report
>>20442647 Ex-DIA Director Lt. Gen. Flynn said Biden's doc gatekeeper Chung, cited for mishandling secrets yet allowed to keep DoD job
>>20442669 Missing Classified Docs On Obama Launching Trump-Russia Allegations Could Have Been Reason For FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid
>>20442690 Media Admit Joe Biden Involved in Lucrative ‘Americore’ Deal with Brother James
>>20442696 Over Half of Fani Willis’ Campaign Contributions Allegedly Tied to Illegal Money Laundering, New Complaint Claims
>>20442712 O'Keefe: Board meeting about our “No Mas Muertes” video - they received 400K from the Universalist Church of Tucson
>>20442980, >>20442683, >>20442558 Huge Line of Illegals “As Far as the Eye Can See” Crossing Into San Diego
You give ADL far more influence than they have
It's Election Season. Soon the "Republicans are coming for your Social Security"
Uniparty owes $2.9 Trillion, when's that being put back?
How Much Money Has Congress Taken From Social Security
Garrett Parker Updated on April 17, 2023
There is an ongoing debate about whether the Federal government and its spending policies are responsible for the current projections that by the year 2034 the outflow of payments will exceed the inflow of tax revenues to fund the social security program. It will become necessary to reduce benefit checks by as much as 21 percent to keep the fund solvent. This number could actually be higher if inflations gets out of control or a reduction in tax revenues further reduces the amount of cash available.
What many people don’t know is how Social Security actually works. There is no cash in the bank to pay out monthly benefit checks. The Congress, those keepers of the financial retirement flame, have been using Social Security taxes to fund other parts of the government because, well the money is there.
Technically the government owes the Social Security fund an estimated $2.9 trillion, money that has been used and not repaid to the fund. The money is legally held in a special type of bond that by law cannot be used for any other purpose other than to put the money back into the fund. But the government, thrifty group that they are, didn’t cash the bonds in, they simply borrowed the money and promise to pat it back.
Not a permanent fix
This $2.9 trillion, put back into the fund, would solve the problem for another 5 or 10 years. Add to that time extension the falling number of recipients as the Baby Boomer generation passes on, and that number can be extended even further. That leaves the question of whether Congress can put the money back without damaging the national budget.
Most experts say no because it’s like the old saying of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Actually, the Social Security program has become much like a state lottery or casino because it depends on people playing, not to fund the intended program (education, assistance for the elderly) but to fill holes in the larger budget where overspending has occurred.
For example, the $4 million in state lottery revenues that was supposed to be added to the education fund eventually wound up being budgeted in the annual education budget. If the lottery inflow was reduced because of lower sales, then the general education allotment would suffer because there is no alternative source of funding. The Social Security program suffers from the same problem except on a much larger scale.
What about the younger generations?
Millennials and younger generations complain they are paying their taxes in just to finance the 63 million retirees, about half who depend on their Social Security check to pay part or all of their monthly bills. But when looking at that $2.9 trillion owed to the fund, and the fact that the fund actually has more money going in than coming out, the problem clearly lies with the government’s addiction to spending. Money is the drug of choice in Washington D.C., and whoever gets elected will get their fix sooner or later.
Which leaves the question of whether anything can be done to put the brakes on government spending. The recent shutdown made no difference to the overall spending because workers would get their back pay and the lights have been kept on so to speak.
There have been losses of research projects that will cost the government even more money in the future, but that is where the eyes of anyone connected with government spending fall. We can fix it tomorrow, but the problem is tomorrow is likely to have a different group of politicians who have yet to know the powerful drug they will be using every single day.
Conclusion
An odd thing is taking place in some financial and economic circles, where people are arguing that the problem of the $2.9 trillion is somehow not the government’s fault and is really not that big of a deal. The clock is running and no one seems to have a solution, yet all admit the government does owe the Social Security fund the money and that the government continues to borrow from the fund every year.
Maybe many of these so-called experts won’t be around in 2034 and can act as if the problem is not really a problem. The real problem is that neither the average person or the accountants and financial planners in the government actually understand what $1 trillion is in real money. Maybe someone could make $1 trillion in dollar bill sized pieces of paper and have them delivered to the Congress. But that would cost too much.
https://moneyinc.com/heres-how-much-money-has-congress-taken-from-social-security/
But they support veterans:
VA ripped for helping pay migrant treatment as over 400K veterans, their families wait
Story by Ryan King • 4mo
The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing blowback for helping pay out millions of dollars to medical providers who treat illegal immigrants while they are in federal custody — while a backlog of hundreds of thousands of claims from veterans has grown.
The VA’s Austin, Texas-based Financial Services Center (FSC) has been contracted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since 2002 to process reimbursement claims by providers who offer services to detained migrants.
In fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30 of that year, FSC processed 161,538 such claims, with the ICE Health Services Corps (IHSC) paying out an average of $584 — a total of $94.3 million in taxpayer money, according to a July 2023 Department of Homeland Security report on “Healthcare Costs for Noncitizens in Detention.”
In the previous fiscal year, 2021, ICE’s health care arm budgeted more than $74 million for the VA’s FSC to assist with “outside referral care” and “medical claims processing,” according to a report from July 2022.
Meanwhile, the pile of benefit claims by veterans and their families awaiting adjudication has grown to 417,855, according to the VA’s own website — up from around 150,000 as of late 2022.
Migrants who trekked across the Rio Grande into the US surrender to the Border Patrol before being moved to a migrant facility for processing. James Keivom
When contacted by The Post, the VA was adamant that the veteran claims backlog and the millions of dollars doled out to migrant health care providers were not related.
“VA does not provide or fund any health care to ICE detainees,” VA spokesman Terrence Hayes told The Post.
“This involves no more than 10 employees and is fully funded by ICE. This has no impact [on] veteran care or services,” Hayes added. “At no time are any VA health care professionals or VA funds used for this purpose.”
“I am a disabled veteran and get 100% of my health care through the Veterans’ Affairs system,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), a retired Navy SEAL who sits on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, told The Post.
“It is incredibly insulting to our veterans who risked our lives defending this nation, and it should shock the American taxpayers that the Biden administration is using VA resources to provide health care to illegal aliens,” he vented.
Van Orden added that the VA’s work with ICE is “despicable and needs to be stopped immediately,” while noting that “many veterans have to travel hours and wait weeks to be seen at a VA facility.”
The office of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) accused the Biden administration of “playing word games.”
“They can’t deny that they’re using Community Care Network providers for illegals. By definition, that means worse options for our veterans,” a spokesperson for the senator told The Post, referring to non-VA practitioners who offer services to veterans such as urgent care, surgeries and dialysis.
More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/va-ripped-for-helping-pay-migrant-treatment-as-over-400k-veterans-their-families-wait/ar-AA1mLxEf
Seems to me the newsfeeds add up so I wouldn't call them spam
I guess this is spam too? Notice sauce is msn
General Research #25663 >>20924649
Biden Administration Presses Allies Not to Confront Iran on Nuclear Program
BERLIN—The Biden administration is pressing European allies to back off plans to rebuke Iran for advances in its nuclear program, even as it expands its stockpile of near-weapons-grade fissile material to a record level, according to diplomats involved in discussions.
The U.S. is arguing against an effort by Britain and France to censure Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s member state board in early June, the diplomats said. The U.S. has pressed a number of other countries to abstain in a censure vote, saying that is what Washington will do, they said.
U.S. officials deny lobbying against a resolution.
The differences are emerging as Western officials’ concerns have deepened about Iran’s nuclear activities.
On Monday, the U.N. atomic-energy agency reported that Iran’s stockpile of 60% highly enriched uranium rose 20.6 kilograms to 142.1 kg as of May 11 from three months earlier, its highest level to date.
U.S. officials say that material could be converted into weapons-grade enriched uranium in a matter of days. It would then be enough to fuel three nuclear weapons.
Some U.S. officials say they fear Iran could be more volatile as the country moves toward elections for a new leader after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash earlier this month. The Biden administration has long said it is seeking a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear program.
European diplomats have warned that failure to take action would undermine the authority of the IAEA, which polices nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. They say it also weakens the credibility of Western pressure on Iran. And they are frustrated over what they see as U.S. efforts to undermine their approach.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-BB1n6Myr
What is nice about postings around here is some stuff is industry-specific and most normies would never lays eyes on the articles:
Unexpected Global Warming Spike Due to Abrupt Reduction in Shipping Emissions, Study Finds
Mike Schuler May 30, 2024
A new study has highlighted an unexpected consequence of reduced shipping emissions: a sudden and significant increase in global warming.
Human activities have long influenced the Earth’s climate, primarily through altering the atmospheric composition. This change generates what is known as “radiative forcing,” referring to the change in energy within the Earth’s atmosphere due to factors like greenhouse gases, which can affect climate change.
The warming impact of human-produced greenhouse gases has been somewhat counterbalanced by the cooling effect of human-made aerosols. However, in 2020, the International Maritime Organization’s low sulphur fuel regulations reduced the maximum sulfur content of bunker fuel burned by the global fleet of ships from 3.5% to 0.5% to benefit public health, leading to an abrupt 80% reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions from international shipping.
This unexpected change has resulted in what researchers describe as an ‘inadvertent geoengineering termination shock’ with a global impact. The sudden decrease can temporarily accelerate global warming by dimming clouds across the global oceans.
Scientists estimate that the regulation has led to a significant increase in radiative forcing across the world’s oceans. The study warns this increase could potentially double, or even triple, the warming rate in the 2020s compared to the rate since 1980.
The warming effect aligns with the recent observed temperature rise in 2023 and is projected to make the 2020s exceptionally warm. The radiative forcing is equivalent to 80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020, creating a strong hemispheric contrast with important implications for changing precipitation patterns, according to the study.
The study suggests that marine cloud brightening, where marine low clouds are seeded with aerosols to become brighter, temporarily cooling the climate, may be a viable geo-engineering solution. Of course, this comes with its own unique challenges.
The study, titled Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geo-engineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming, can be found in Communications Earth & Environment.
https://gcaptain.com/unexpected-global-warming-spike-due-to-abrupt-reduction-in-shipping-emissions-study-finds/
I guess this is not a good time to remind you that while they are killing off the chickens because of bird flu that they were already after the bacon?
Pork supply chain invests $6.5 million in novel vaccine platform
Genvax's goal is to develop a vaccine that matches 100% to the specific strain when an FAD outbreak, such as African swine fever, occurs.
Aug 09, 2022
Genvax Technologies, a startup dedicated to bringing advances in self-amplifying mRNA vaccine production to animal health, has secured $6.5 million in series seed funding. This funding moves the company toward USDA and international regulatory approval of its vaccines in anticipation of any foreign animal disease outbreak in order to increase health and profitability in livestock production.
The company's proprietary saRNA platform allows for rapid development of herd or flock-specific vaccines matched 100% to the variant strain circulating in an animal-production operation. By inserting a specific transgene or "gene of interest" matched to the variant strain into the platform, the saRNA can generate an antibody response without requiring the whole pathogen.
"The threat posed to producers and consumers by foreign animal diseases like African swine fever and constantly mutating variants of swine influenza is extraordinary," says Joel Harris, CEO and co-founder of Genvax Technologies. "The goal is to develop a vaccine that matches 100% to the specific strain when a disease outbreak occurs. For ASF, Genvax's vaccine could be an important tool for eradication efforts and may alleviate any concerns with trading partners abroad. In addition, the financial and public support of multiple stakeholders like United Animal Health and others in the food industry is a huge validation of this technology's promise."
In April 2022, Genvax announced it had received more than $145,000 in grant funding from the USDA-Agricultural Research Services Plum Island Animal Disease Center and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to develop a saRNA vaccine for the ASF virus. ASF can cause up to 100% mortality in pigs and could decimate the income of U.S. pork producers and force layoffs, significantly reducing rural employment. Economic models estimate the worst case scenario of an ASF outbreak in the United States would result in a $50 billion loss to the domestic pig industry.
United Animal Health led the financing with participation from Johnsonville Ventures, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Summit Agricultural Group and Ag Startup Engine. This investor coalition represents animal health, nutrition, feed, meat packers and consumer products in the fight against existing and emerging threats to the food supply chain.
"United Animal Health sees Genvax and self-amplifying mRNA vaccines as the cutting edge of technology to protect the industries we serve," says Scott Holmstrom, Ph.D., senior vice president, research and development, United Animal Health. "These technologies are critical to food security and protein availability. We are excited to be offering our innovation and research farms to work carefully with Genvax in developing these future products."
"We've been impressed with Joel Harris and the Genvax team, in addition to the novel technology they are developing," says Kevin Ladwig, managing director, Johnsonville Ventures. "As a stakeholder in the pork industry, we feel this is a necessary step in helping prepare for and protect against African swine fever and other emerging diseases."
"Iowa Corn recognizes the importance of protecting the livestock industry against emerging diseases such as African swine fever," says Pete Brecht, director, Iowa Corn Promotion Board. "Iowa is a leader in both corn and pork production, we know the value of investing in the protection of our animals and the livelihoods of our farmers across the state. Genvax has a novel approach and an experienced management team to address such an important issue for agriculture."
Genvax was founded in February 2021 by animal health serial entrepreneurs Joel Harris and Hank Harris, DVM Ph.D. In addition to the non-dilutive grant funding from USDA-ARS-PIADC and FFAR, the company raised approximately $1.9 million in a pre-seed round of funding.
https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/news/pork-supply-chain-invests-65-million-novel-vaccine-platform
When I first posted that an anon made the observation that "emissions bad, causes climate change" but that "lesser emissions bad, causes climate change"
Sadly I didn't keep the post from months ago where an actual Climate Scientist compiled actual measurements and found that when the planet was locked down for the scamdemic and mostly everything stopped (you know those nasty cars and their traffic) there was no appreciable change in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere
worldwide. "Humans are killing the planet" but humans don't seem to have any effect on the planet
Heat, yeah that must be it, nothing about Pittsburgh trying the sanctuary city thing I'm sure
New York City turns to school gyms to house new migrants, prompting uproar
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Published 5:22 PM EDT, May 16, 2023
New York (AP) — New York City has begun to convert public school gymnasiums into housing for international migrants, its latest effort to accommodate a growing population of asylum-seekers who have overwhelmed the city’s homeless shelter system.
The move to use the gyms as shelters with six weeks still to go in the school year touched off an immediate backlash, with parents organizing protests at several schools and threatening to keep their kids home once migrants arrive.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, acknowledged Tuesday that the use of the schools was “drastic” but insisted the city is out of options. Around 4,200 migrants sought space in city shelters last week alone, he said.
Twenty school gyms are currently being considered for temporary housing. At least one of them, in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, was housing migrants on Tuesday. Several others have been supplied in recent days with green cots and emergency rations. The mayor said the school gyms were intended to be used only for short periods, with the goal being to move people out quickly.
In Chicago, where officials have reported nearly 9,000 people arriving since August, hundreds of migrants who have come since mid-April have slept on the floors of city police stations. This month the city turned several park fieldhouses into “temporary respite centers,” canceling or relocated summer programs, prompting complaints from some parents.
In Denver, Colorado, new arrivals are being turned away from overcrowded shelters.
In New York City, where a court-ordered mandate guarantees all people a right to shelter, local officials have explored various unconventional ideas for housing its newest residents. Over the weekend, the city announced it had struck a deal to convert a shuttered historic hotel into a shelter with as many as 1,000 rooms.
They have placed migrants in an NYPD academy and petitioned the federal government to reopen a former military airfield.
The city has also placed migrants on buses bound for northern suburbs, prompting anger and lawsuits from upstate officials.
More:
https://apnews.com/article/migrants-asylum-new-york-eric-adams-schools-2c61324054e55b0532c48996794cc30a
Is Marketfag around tonight?
Ships Diverted From Red Sea Send Ripple Effects Across The Globe
By Brendan Murray Bloomberg June 2, 2024
Jun 2, 2024 (Bloomberg) –Never has it been so cheap to inflict a world of economic pain.
That stark point was underscored last week by Maximilian Hess, a principal at London-based Enmetena Advisory, a political risk consultancy. Speaking to a webinar of supply-chain managers, he showed a slide of a canoe-size naval drone and said such jury-rigged weapons have the ability to redirect world trade.
“Nowhere is this more clear than in the conflict in the Red Sea,” Hess said, referring to attacks launched from Yemen toward commercial ships trying to use the Suez Canal.
Nearly six months into the Houthis’ relentless campaign to protest Israel’s war in Gaza, the economic fallout is widening. As ships sail around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, their unpredictable schedules are clogging major Asian ports, creating shortages of empty containers in some places and pileups in others. Delivery times to the US and Europe are getting longer, and freight rates are surging.
Related Article: Freight Rate Surge Recalls Covid ‘Chaos’
The blame rests on several factors as the charts show below — including solid demand for goods in the US. But the latest bout of trade turmoil largely stems from the Red Sea diversions. Sea-Intelligence, a Copenhagen-based maritime data and advisory firm, recently calculated that rerouting increased the average minimum transit time by almost 40% to the Mediterranean from Asia, and by 15% to northern Europe.
The ricochet effect of ships circling back to Asia — now knocked off their timetables — is contributing to bottlenecks in ports like China’s Shanghai-Ningbo and Singapore. Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates is having congestion issues, too, because of its proximity to the Red Sea and because it’s a major trans-shipment hub for freight moving through Dubai on both ocean and air carriers.
Singapore, home to the world’s second-biggest container port, issued a statement last week explaining how it’s experienced a significant increase in arrivals since the start of 2024, leading to an 8.8% rise in container volumes in January through April from a year earlier. Waits for some vessels are two to three days, the port authority said.
“The situation is expected to worsen due to the increase in off-schedule vessel arrivals and very high yard utilization,” Tan Hua Joo, a container market analyst at Linerlytica, said in an email on Friday. As ships spend more time at anchor and face extended journeys, supply chain managers paying for those services feel compelled to place orders further in advance, worrying some into buying more than they might need. The share of container ships arriving on time has slumped to about 52%, retracing much of last year’s improvement from pandemic-era lows of about 30% from early 2022, according to Sea-Intelligence.
Delivery times are particularly slow for goods traveling to Europe and the US East Coast from China — because most of the ships on these routes are avoiding the shortcut through the Suez Canal.
On the demand side, the US economy is adding a strong pull, as import volumes through the Port of Los Angeles showed during the first four months of the year. An early read on May volumes through the nation’s busiest port shows the momentum is continuing — with three of the past four weeks coming in higher than year-earlier levels.
The supply-demand imbalance is happening at least a month before peak shipping season from July to September. That’s when retailers stock shelves for back-to-school sales and year-end holidays, placing large orders from their Asian suppliers. It’s not quite pandemic-level panic level yet, but some analysts say a situation like this can feed on itself when geopolitical risks and tariff threats are so pervasive.
“As more shippers start a peak season early, they create a capacity shortage and rates go up, causing other shippers to join the early stampede,” said Lars Jensen, a shipping analyst and founder of Copenhagen-based Vespucci Maritime. In process, they’re “creating the crunch they hope to avoid,” he said.
Spot shipping rates have responded by going up sharply.
More:
https://gcaptain.com/ships-diverted-from-red-sea-send-ripple-effects-across-the-globe/
>>20958401 (me)
Almost forgot this, goes with
Singapore Reopens Defunct Container Terminals to Tackle Vessel Bunching
By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – May 31, 2024
Authorities battling congestion in Singapore port have reopened shuttered terminals to alleviate the mounting pressure on the world’s largest transhipment hub.
The Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) yesterday announced that port operator PSA had “reactivated older berths and yards that have previously been decanted at Keppel Terminal”, which has upped the port’s weekly handling capacity from 770,000 teu to 820,000.
It said although box volumes in the port over the first four months of 2024 had grown 8.8% year on year, to 13.36m teu, the problems had largely been caused by carriers seeking to play catch-up in their schedules at Singapore.
“We have seen large increases in container volumes and the “bunching” of container vessel arrivals over the previous months, due to supply chain disruptions in upstream locations,” said the MPA.
“The increase in container vessels arriving off-schedule and the increased container volumes handled resulted in longer vessels’ wait time for a container berth.”
It added: “The increased demand on container handling in Singapore is a result of several container lines discharging more containers as they forgo subsequent voyages to catch up on their next schedules. The number of containers handled per vessel has also increased.”
According to the eeSea liner database, there are currently 47 box vessels waiting for a berth at Singapore, and 53 undergoing cargo operations.
Meanwhile, new schedule reliability data released by Sea-Intelligence today says global schedule reliability has fallen to just over 50%, compared with around 65% at this point last year.
The interlocking dynamics of port congestion and deteriorating liner schedules appear to be acting like a fast-spreading infection, with carriers and forwarders trying to recoup the costs of moving containers through busy ports and severely delayed vessels.
The Loadstar receives reports of schedule delays, port omissions and equipment shortages on a daily basis.
Here’s one example from Dubai-headquartered NVOCC CargoGulf of its daily schedule update for just one of the vessels in its AGA service:
“Vessel is undergoing cargo ops at JEA ETD 30 May (port stay of approx 89hrs). Vessel badly delayed due to NGB port closure / SHA/SHK congestion. Simulated 48 hrs berth delay at CMB due to berth congestion (and heavy monsoon winds/rain). SIN e/b will omit due to 5-7 days’ congestion.”
As a result, CargoGulf commercial manager Hans-Henrik Nielsen told The Loadstar it had been forced to implement a $200 port congestion surcharge on all westbound services from tomorrow (1 June).
“As you can deduce from the above, every port in the pro forma schedule faces significant delays. You can pretty much allow 8-10 days delay in a normal 35-day round-trip.
“It also results in severe “bunching” of vessels. So, instead of a nice weekly frequency, we end up with three vessels in eight days – difficult for both shippers and us,” he explained.
The Q1 Schedule Reliability Scorecard, published by liner database eeSea this week, included an insight into how bunching and delays ripple across a service.
Breaking down the vessel arrivals on THE Alliance’s transpacific TP4 service, it is effectively a postmortem of schedule disruption, demonstrating how delays increase in magnitude over the course of several rotations.
Even after the initial service calls, port congestion in China has meant vessels routinely arriving at the first North American port up to four days late, and often another 20 days late returning to Asia.
“Ports further down the rotation take the brunt of the hit,” noted eeSea. “The window of standard deviation grows progressively wider and increases in minimum delay, as do the frequency of extreme outliers, perfectly illustrating the ‘ripple’ effect of cumulative delay.”
The transpacific and Asia-Middle East may be different trades, but they face identical issues and Mr Nielsen explained how the bunching affected supply chains at an operational level.
“The extra cost is significant, and our equipment management is out the window – it’s impossible to get boxes to the right place at the right time.
“With the omittance of port calls, we also lose revenue. Bottom line – much higher cost and less revenue. Not the best combination for any business…”
And his message to carriers’ customers was to take every ETA with a large grain of salt.
“By now, there should not be a forwarder or importer unaware of this “across the board” situation – do not plan, promise or expect ‘just in time’.
“It’s more likely to snow in Dubai in June!” he said.
https://gcaptain.com/singapore-reopens-defunct-container-terminals-to-tackle-vessel-bunching/
Imported US sweets with illegal ingredients seized
11 December 2023
Sweets imported from the US containing illegal ingredients have been seized from shops across the country.
Mountain Dew drinks, Jolly Ranchers, Swedish Fish and Lemon Heads are advertised on TikTok and Instagram and are popular stocking fillers.
But they contain carcinogenic and genotoxic ingredients that have been banned by the UK government.
Manufacturers said they were not involved with the sale of their products in this country.
In Staffordshire, trading standards officers seized £8,000 of illegal sweets from 22 shops.
In one raid in Burton-upon-Trent, over £300 worth of banned confectionary was found in a local corner shop.
They included Jolly Ranchers hard sweets containing mineral oil, which if contaminated with other compounds can initiate cancer formations.
Calcium Disodium EDTA, which is banned within drinks in the UK, was found in Mountain Dew.
In animal studies, the crystalline powder caused adverse reproductive and developmental effects and has been shown to contribute to cancer of the colon.
"People are selling these products not realising they have banned ingredients in them," Stephanie Young, trading standards team leader in Staffordshire, said.
She said some of the products can be on the UK market legitimately if they comply with food standards but those found on the raid were "American branded and not destined for the UK".
Morning Live spoke to parents on the streets of Manchester who said their children loved candy manufactured in the US.
"I think they see the marketing and go right for it," one mum said.
Ms Young said it wasn't just small independent shops stocking the sweets. They have also been found larger retailers and supermarkets.
Last year, £25m worth of US sweets were imported which is 70% more than in 2017.
"It's obviously getting through the ports somewhere," Ms Young, who is also lead officer for the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), said.
"The volume of stuff that we get through the ports, only a small percentage will be checked," she said.
Emeritus Professor Erik Millstone from the University of Sussex said the amount of banned products finding their way onto shelves was concerning.
"The US typically demands proof that something is harmful, whereas here we are prepared to restrict compounds even if there yet isn't sold proof," he said.
"Don't panic about anything you've done in the past, but if you can avoid them in future that's a prudent thing to do."
The manufacturers of Lemonheads, Starburst Gummies, Hershey's and Jolly Ranchers told the BBC their products were produced legally in the USA and that any products being sold in the UK were being done so illegally, and not associated with their brands.
Mars, which manufactures Starburst Gummies, added it had been working to prevent unauthorized third party importation of its products in the UK.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-67642389
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DOWNGRADED: Macron Suffers MAJOR Political Blow as Standard & Poor’s Cut France’s Long-Term Sovereign Credit Rating From AA to AA−
by Paul Serran Jun. 1, 2024
While French President Emmanuel Macron struts around the world warmongering on Ukraine, or else fear-mongering about ‘climate change,’ the country he was supposed to take care of is falling apart.
A floundering economy, a chaotic society made worse by unchecked mass migration, and now, to top it all, Macron got a brutal wakeup call yesterday (May 31), as Standard & Poor’s cut its long-term sovereign credit rating from AA to AA−.
Coming on the eve of the European Elections that his party is projected to lose by a landslide, many see this as ‘probably his darkest day in office.’
Bloomberg reported:
"In a statement on Friday, the credit assessor highlighted the French government’s missed goals in plans to restrain the budget deficit after huge spending during the Covid pandemic and energy crisis.
S&P said that although reforms and a recovery in economic growth will improve the situation, the hole will remain above 3% of gross domestic product in 2027.”
The reduction from AA to AA- trashes Macron’s claim as an economic reformer.
“Le Pen seized on the S&P decision to call on voters to sanction Macron at EU election. She also called other opposition lawmakers to support the latest no-confidence motion her party has proposed to bring down his government.
‘The catastrophic management of public finances by governments that are as incompetent as they are arrogant has put our country in grave difficulties, with record taxes, deficits and debts’, she said in a message on X late Friday.”
S&P sees France’s general government debt as a share of GDP increasing to about 112% of GDP by 2027 – from about 109% in 2023.
Polls are showing his Renaissance group trailing way behind Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.
Finance Minister Bruno Maire tried to put a good spin on the news, saying that the reason for the downgrade is that the government ‘saved the French economy’ during the COVID lockdowns. Yeah, right.
“S&P said the agenda will continue to face strong opposition, both from parliament, where the government has no absolute majority, and from protests, like those seen against pension reform in 2023. ‘Political fragmentation will likely make the continued implementation of policies to address economic and budgetary imbalances somewhat uncertain’.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/downgraded-macron-suffers-major-political-blow-as-standard/
How many did you expect?
Article dated June 1st
Have you heard of the thirteen colonies?
Meanwhile in Haiti:
UN development specialist Garry Conille arrives to Haiti to take up the post of prime minister
June 1, 2024
MIAMI (AP) — A U.N. development specialist tasked with restoring order to Haiti arrived on Saturday to the Caribbean nation to take up his new post as prime minister.
A transitional council seeking to pave the way for an election in Haiti named Garry Conille this week. He replaces interim prime minister Michel Patrick Boisvert, who he met with upon arrival Saturday to the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to a government statement.
Conille has been UNICEF’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean since January 2023 and previously served as Haiti’s prime minister from October 2011 to May 2012 under then President Michel Martelly.
Gang violence is still surging in parts of Haiti’s capital and beyond as Conille takes over the helm of the troubled country awaiting the U.N.-backed deployment of a police force from Kenya and other countries.
Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-development-specialist-garry-conille-arrives-to-haiti-to-take-up-the-post-of-prime-minister/ar-BB1nssFv
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