Is The Economy Just Now Falling Apart

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A very serious strike by the Longshoremen Union has closed all ports in the East and Gulf of Mexico. Just a few days of this and the country east of the Rockies will grind to a halt. They are looking for a huge increase in pay, and they are paid plenty as it is imo.
 

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A very serious strike by the Longshoremen Union has closed all ports in the East and Gulf of Mexico. Just a few days of this and the country east of the Rockies will grind to a halt. They are looking for a huge increase in pay, and they are paid plenty as it is imo.
On the west coast meanwhile I heard somewhere that the ports will one day insist on electric trucks only when collecting containers, or some such idiocy. Electric trucks do not have the payload and the container will need transferring to a proper rig just as soon as it leaves the dock yard, adding to the haulage cost and causing further delays.

I think that was the story anyway.
 

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On the west coast meanwhile I heard somewhere that the ports will one day insist on electric trucks only when collecting containers, or some such idiocy. Electric trucks do not have the payload and the container will need transferring to a proper rig just as soon as it leaves the dock yard, adding to the haulage cost and causing further delays.

I think that was the story anyway.
Ah Gavin Gruesomes California!
 

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I'm not subscribed.
But the opening section of this article is pretty much spot on.

 

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Oil is still very cheap, and gas is still selling fir less than 3 dollars so I will top up now actually in a few minutes
 

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I've sold up and moved into a sea worthy cabin cruiser, making plans to visit some islands in clew bay, corrib and the general NW coast 🏴‍☠️
did you really -- i studied marine engineering for a short while --let me know if you need anything .
what kind of boat what engine .
as a young man i accompanied my father during the mayfly week and i was used to row from Cornomona for miles down the lake to tire me out and the wind would blow us back to Cornamona while we dapped .
shut off the engine and let her drift for an hour or so and just have your mind altered by the lake and mountains and the sound of water and birds -- listen for the farthest away sound and meditate in heaven on earth .
save up the coins and tie up at Ashford castle and say fuck this i and my credit card will cry tomorrow but tonight i live like a king .
there is a picture in O Malleys pub in Cornamona of a long line of cars going to mass in Oughterard --DRIVING ACROSS THE LAKE in 1947 big freeze .
 
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Reports of panic buying have f toilet paper here after just one day of striking by the longshoremen
 

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With the Longshore strike, added to some strange outages in mobile phones and banks in the US, plus the Middle East, plus the storm damage, its already shaping up to be an exciting month at least in the US!
 

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Just be careful when lighting those joints.....
Joints won't do on the ocean wave sir, the traditional seaman's pipe is best.
The tricky part is loading it in mid-air between the swells and gusts so have no choice but to keep up the practice, otherwise morale drops, and that's not allowed!🧐

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Reports of panic buying have f toilet paper here after just one day of striking by the longshoremen
the Iranian press have pointed out that Israel is 9 million and Iran is 90 million people and they have prepared for Israel trying to bomb their oil industry and if they do they have enough missiles to destroy Israel and they will sink any tanker in the strait of Hormuz as all oil benefits America and they intend to crash the worlds economy if Israel attacks them -- they are quite relaxed stating this and they mean business .
forget the toilet paper and the longshoremen strike .
get armed get out of America when she blows .
 

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the Iranian press have pointed out that Israel is 9 million and Iran is 90 million people and they have prepared for Israel trying to bomb their oil industry and if they do they have enough missiles to destroy Israel and they will sink any tanker in the strait of Hormuz as all oil benefits America and they intend to crash the worlds economy if Israel attacks them -- they are quite relaxed stating this and they mean business .
forget the toilet paper and the longshoremen strike .
get armed get out of America when she blows .
Iran will do fuck all ~ ~ because if they do much ~ ~ America and Israel will Annihilate them !
 

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Things are just collapsing now and that is why trump is going to be put in, A Fall Guy.

In other news, the debt is now at 25.815 . Maybe it will hit 36 trillion by next tuesday
 

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Things are just collapsing now and that is why trump is going to be put in, A Fall Guy.

In other news, the debt is now at 25.815 . Maybe it will hit 36 trillion by next tuesday
Note how economics are never mentioned in the campaign.
 

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Its both. The the government borrows money through the Fed.
Except he does not print money, he borrows it . It is The Federal Reserve, not the government that prints money.

And they have said they are stopping and even worse, are going to unprinted the trillions printed. So the markets are predictably crashing. And while prices may be going up, we are seeing massive deflation.
Which is a big problem for borrowers and the biggest oneistheUS government.
 

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you expressed an opinion re Palestinian protests some time ago and i was very interested as it displayed the middle America understanding which was influenced by 24/7 wall to wall description of the Palestinians as terrorists .
everyone who could walk and talk around you believed this .
today America has changed - americian -people online are realizing THEY ARE THE PALESTINIANS .
they are occupied --every important part of the American power base is Jewish/Israeli .
everyone of any consequence is a DUAL citizen .
A dual citizen is both a religious member of a violent cult which seeks the destruction of America and a citizen of Israel and and and a so called citizen of the USA at the same time .
a child could see this equation does not compute and NOBODY is a dual citizen of Israel and anywhere else .
today on USA twitter a very common quote is Wiemar economics demand a Wiemar solution--this is becoming mainstream and the occupation of the USA and its clapping seals-- 55 standing ovations-- congress is now in full view-- America will never recover from this -worldwide people were shocked that prior to exterminating the Palestinians he had to show he could get away with it to the world .
i am not antisemitic -- i researched some years ago why Irish people were living like wild animals in the woods and bogs of Ireland after reading a page of Irish history in a book called the Irish race by MC Manus .
i was so disturbed by what i read i said if it kills me i am going to find out who did this to the Irish -- i set about a search which took me over a year of study to find it was the British empire and i then studied the British empire to find who did this to us and they were not British .
to a casual observer it seems i have a strong view on anything Jewish --this is not true i admire the Semitic Jews of Palestine who have traveled the world ( including IRAN and were welcomed warmly by president Amijinadad) in order to -- explain Semitic Jews do not support the genocidal government of Israel who are not Semitic Jews and they originate in eastern Europe and as you are in the process of finding out are destroying everything you love and have spoken about and filmed and shown us .
 

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