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Jan 1 2022

Biden Administration Claims of California Port Improvement Not Reflected in Port Operations for November


Posted originally on the conservative tree house December 31, 2021 | Sundance | 140 Comments

You might remember on October 13, 2021, Joe Biden delivered widely carried remarks about specific actions his administration was taking to increase operations at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB).

Here we take a closer look at the claims since the original announcement, and then highlight the actual results from the ports.  The port operations are actually doing worse today than they were in October. They are less efficient, less productive and have offloaded less freight in November than they did in October.  The factual results are exactly the opposite of the administration claims.

The October 13, 2021, White House fact sheet is HERE, “announcing a series of public and private commitments to move more goods faster, and strengthen the resiliency of our supply chains, by moving towards 24/7 operations at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.”  On November 17, 2021, the White House gave an update, “Recent Progress at Our Ports: Moving Cargo and Filling Shelves” and claiming the increased hours of operations were delivering on the White House expectations of increased productivity and offloading capacity.

Throughout these past 11 weeks, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg have been claiming their supply chain task force has been successful in generating exceptional results and removing the backlog at the ports, specifically the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.  However, if we look at the actual records from both ports, we find exactly the opposite:

Ports record their data in 20-foot equivalent units, or TEU’s.  The Port of Los Angeles data shows they handled 468,713 import containers in October, and 405,309 in November.  That’s a decrease of 63,404 import containers from the prior month. [DATA LINK]

The Port of Los Angeles is the largest port of the two.  The POLA also showed a decrease in Total TEU’s handled (import and export).  As you can see above, the total TEU’s handled in October was 902,643.  The total TEU’s handled in November was 811,459.

That’s a decrease of 91,184 total containers handled.  This is the exact opposite of what Biden, Harris and Buttigieg are claiming.

Next, we look at the Port of Long Beach (POLB).  [DATA HERE]

Again, we note the Total Loaded containers (carrying cargo) in October 2020, the month of the White House announcement, was 507, 214.   In the full month of November 2020, the total of loaded containers handled was 472,215.   That’s a decrease of 34,999 containers.

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There is a disconnect between what the White House, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are saying, and the actual results of what is taking place at the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles.

Perhaps the administration did not expect anyone to check when they claimed on November 29th:

“The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—which handle 40 percent of the country’s containerized imports—continue to show improvement in moving containers out of the docks and into warehouses.”  [White House link]

Despite what the White House Supply Chain Disruption Taskforce is claiming, the actual records from the ports do not concur.  Someone is clearly lying, and/or not expecting anyone to check.

There’s a strong possibility they did not expect anyone to notice, because part of their logistical scheme involved telling the ship operators to wait further offshore so that it would give the illusion of less congestion near port:

CALIFORNIA – […] “Starting Nov. 16, ships waiting to anchor at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will have to wait for a green light about 150 miles from the coast, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn., the Pacific Maritime Assn. and the Marine Exchange of Southern California said in a statement Thursday. That compares with 20 nautical miles (23 miles) now. North- and southbound vessels must remain more than 50 miles from the state’s coastline.” (read more)

Apparently, what the White House taskforce did was to move the line of awaiting cargo ships further offshore to make them less visible.  Then, it appears, the White House just started making up talking points about productivity at the ports increasing and capacities expanding; neither claim is based on facts that surface in the actual operations of the ports.

The outcomes speak for themselves.  Both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach handled less cargo in the first full month of the “new expanded operations” than they did in the previous month when the expanded operations were announced.

In order to remind ourselves how big an issue this was for the White House, watch the Biden announcement from October 13, 2020, again.

It looks like the media need to start asking questions….

Oh wait, never mind.

Jan 1 2022

Dr. Robert Malone Discusses The Absence of Informed Consent and The Silencing of Vaccine Query


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 31, 2021 | Sundance | 215 Comments

Dr. Robert Malone was recently removed from the Twitter platform for providing raw scientific information and his interpretation surrounding SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, variants and vaccines.  Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of the nine original mRNA vaccine patents, which were originally filed in 1989 (including both the idea of mRNA vaccines and the original proof of principle experiments) and RNA transfection. Dr. Malone has close to 100 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited over 12,000 times.

Since January 2020, Dr. Malone has been leading a large team focused on clinical research design, drug development, computer modeling and mechanisms of action of repurposed drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. Dr. Malone is, in essence, one of the most prominent experts in the use of vaccines to advance public health.

After his voice was removed from Twitter, Dr. Malone appeared with Joe Rogan to discuss the issues and events surrounding the silencing of vaccine inquiry, and the lack of informed consent {Direct Rumble Link Segment}.  The full 3-hour interview with Joe Rogan is available on Spotify – LINK HERE.

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Jan 1 2022

Never Ending Fear Cycle, Marxist Public Teachers Group Wants to Lock Down Schools Again


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 31, 2021 | Sundance | 185 Comments

The National Educators United group, the epicenter of the indoctrination machine, wants to lock-out school students again because they are worried about Omicron. [Tweet Link] The “teachers” are organizing their Marxist tribe to send protest petitions to various education officials in an effort to avoid returning to school after the holiday break [petition link here]

It’s a tough call on which institutions have lost the most credibility over the past 18 months between the medical institutions, the education institutions or the institutions of the justice system (courts, FBI and DOJ).

To the ordinary American citizen and family, the scale of the ideological corruption amid a multitude of institutions is perhaps the biggest revelation of the past year.

Jan 1 2022

Institutional Hoaxing – Brilliant Video Shows How Media, Joe Biden and Govt Health Officials Drove the Omicron Fear Narrative


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 31, 2021 | Sundance | 241 Comments

The already low credibility of media and the political health establishment has collapsed more in the final week of this year than most months preceding it.   Why?

The main cause of this specific moment, an inflection point in the arc of COVID history, was the Omicron “winter of death” narrative pushed by Joe Biden, the COVID taskforce, government health officials, left-wing politicians and media.   The Omicron doom and fear narrative became a parody of itself.   One brilliant videographer has put together a mashup showing what took place in the past ten days.

It all started with ultra-progressive Harris County, Texas, Judge Lina Hidalgo holding a dramatic press conference to report that an unvaccinated man in Houston, who was in his 50s, had died from the omicron variant (pictured left).

However, only one journalist actually called the hospital to check the claim and discovered what progressive Judge Lina Hildago claimed was actually false.  There was no unvaccinated 50-year-old man who died from Omicron in the hospital.  It was all made up by the judicial version of AOC.

Unfortunately, once the media, medical establishment and politicians had that press conference soundbite, FROM A JUDGE – not a doctor, they were off to the races.  This video brilliantly shows what happened next.  WATCH:

Jan 1 2022

Illinois Holocaust Museum Begins Requiring Visitors to Show Approved Travel and Vaccination Papers


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 31, 2021 | Sundance | 278 Comments

As we exit the year 2021, the gravitational irony created by Omicron has become so strong the fabric of space and time have begun folding upon themselves.

The Illinois Holocaust Museum is targeting to remove the unclean visitors.

[Tweet source – Story Link]

As soon as tomorrow’s leaders reach yesterday, they will find us.

Until then comrades, we continue the checkpoint resistance.

Dec 31 2021

Fertilizer Inflation Contributing to Higher Food Prices


Armstrong Economics Blog/Inflation Re-Posted Dec 31, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Food prices are expected to rise going into 2022, and one major contributing factor is the rising price of fertilizer. The American Farm Bureau Federation stated that all nutrients had risen dramatically in cost over the last year:  ammonia has increased over 210%; liquid nitrogen has increased over 159%; urea is up 155%; MAP has increased 125%; DAP is up over 100%, and potash has risen above 134%. This does not include the growing cost of transportation.

Due to growing global demand, the US exports 44% of all fertilizer materials made domestically. Six specific crops generate two-thirds of fertilizer demand: corn (16%), wheat (15%), rice (14%), vegetables (9%), fruits (7%), and soybeans (5%). In the US, corn requires 49% of all fertilizer, with wheat accounting for 11% and soybeans 10%.

The American Farm Bureau Federation expects demand and prices to remain high into the spring season. As a result, farmers are increasingly shifting to crops that require less fertilization. The prices for these nutrients are so high that many farmers will be lucky to break even on costs. As always, these costs will be passed on to the consumer. Expect foods, especially those requiring a higher level of fertilization, to go up in the new year.

Dec 31 2021

Fauci Takes Professional Gaslighting to New Levels, Now Admitting Children Hospitalized COVID Cases is Wrong


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 30, 2021 | Sundance | 228 Comments

This admission is exactly what people have been arguing for two years.  This exact point, and the “with COVID -vs- from COVID” argument within the false narrative, is what justified Big Tech to ban COVID critics from their speech platforms.

I’m not going to comment further; at a certain point these reversals just get silly.  WATCH: 

Suddenly, as the magic politics of COVID infection rates turns into a liability, the accuracy of hospitalized COVID tests is something to clarify.

These officials are just throwing magic beans into the audience at this point.  In the past ten days, the CDC, NIH and FDA have jumped so far over the justification shark, the light from where justification shark jumping starts could not catch them for years.

Dec 31 2021

An Example of Field to Fork Inflation


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 30, 2021 | Sundance | 299 Comments

Here’s a solid example of what “field to fork” inflation is all about.   Two images shared today point out how the farmland inflation originates, and how the farmland inflation surfaces in your life.

The first image (pictured right) is a current price reference point for crop fertilizer [Source] from the perspective of the farmer preparing.

To go into the deep weeds behind what is causing this massive jump in price, you can review THIS ARTICLE.

[…] “Compared to September 2020 prices, ammonia has increased over 210%, liquid nitrogen has increased over 159%, urea is up 155%, and MAP has increased 125%, while DAP is up over 100% and potash has risen above 134%.”

Those fertilizer component products are used for corn, wheat and soybeans crops.

[…] “Corn represents about 49% of the share of U.S. nutrient use, while wheat accounts for about 11% and soybeans account for 10%. Cumulatively, those three crops account for about 70% of U.S. fertilizer consumption.” {link}

Now, you might say those crops do not seem like they are that important.  However, keep in mind that Corn, Wheat and Soybeans represent the baseline for not only grain production in the U.S, but they are also the primary feed products for proteins: chicken, pork and beef.

Worse yet, both grain and protein are the primary ingredients in pet foods; so pet food producers end up collecting even more price increases in their manufacturing. Have you noticed a shortage of pet food on your shopping trips?

When fertilizer goes up that high in price, the end cost of that harvest goes up in price, along with the end price of everything the harvest is used for.

So now we get to the point in the supply chain where these protein price increases show up to the average consumer.

This restaurant menu was shared with CTH today and reflects how the owners of this specific dining establishment are having to cope with the price of chicken from their wholesale supplier.  This example shows just how rapidly -and unpredictably- the price increases are hitting the restaurant industry.

Yes, chicken wings are now CURRENTLY falling under “market price.”

This is the fork side of “field to fork” inflation, and the chicken wing price represents the outcome of a total supply chain under extreme inflationary pressure.

Keep in mind, what the farmer was sharing on Facebook, about the price of fertilizer and weed killer, are prices for the ‘next’ harvest, not the one he/she has already completed.   The origin of the next harvest starts with components at prices 100 to 150 percent higher than the previous harvest.

Grain silos already loaded are carrying higher prices for the next several months, as the product flows through the supply chain and is used in the food production and feed of current ancillary users (manufacturers and protein providers).  However, those prices are on the previous cost of production.  When those grain silos need to be refilled, the next inbound harvest will have even higher costs.

When the current field inflation cumulates through the supply chain, the outcome will carry a price increase even higher than current.

I’ll bet there are a lot of restaurants visiting print shops to order new menus right now.  By the time we get to Superbowl Sunday, the price of ¹chicken wings is going to bring sticker shock to those who have not prepared.

Last point….  If you’ve been wondering why there’s such a massive push from the communists toward “plant-based proteins“, and even meat grown in laboratories, this outcome is part of the reason.  The climate change agenda -writ large- makes the traditional food supply skyrocket in price to unsustainable levels.  The professional leftists have been using the Overton window to nudge people into accepting an entirely new diet.

[Same group pushing ‘tiny houses‘]

#Let’s Go Brandon.

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[NOTE: ¹More chicken wings are purchased in the days leading up to the Superbowl than any other time of year.]

Dec 30 2021

India into 2022


Armstrong Economics Blog/India Re-Posted Dec 30, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

India’s Home Minister Amit Shah believes that his nation is on track to become the fastest-growing economy in 2022. India just experienced an 8.4% rise in GDP during Q3 compared with the year prior. Asia’s third-largest economy seems to be growing faster than many other nations; however, inflation and labor woes are hurting growth.

Inflation soared 14.3% in November after months of double-digit increases. Urban unemployment is around 9%, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, which noted that the poor are experiencing the effects of inflation most significantly.

Private consumption in India in Q2 was 7.7% less than the same timeframe in 2019 and 2020. Demand has waned from the lowest earners as they are simply struggling to survive. Aljazeera noted that India’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) compose 30% of GDP, represent 50% of exports, and 95% of manufacturing. Due to COVID, 9% of MSMEs have shut down. That number is likely to rise as thousands reported earlier in the year that they would need to scale down or shut down before 2022.

The government supported a rural job program as highly desired employment in the larger cities is scarce. The program developed was designed to guarantee workers 100 days of paid work, but the annual budget ran out of funds only seven months into India’s fiscal year. Sabyasachi Kar, RBI Chair at the Institute of Economic Growth, has stated that this problem is not novel as India has failed to create enough manufacturing jobs. Instead, MSMEs remain the staple of India’s workforce, employing nearly 110 million people.

Other countries are keen to trade with India, and they certainly have promise for advancement. India successfully moved away from its agriculture-based economy over the last two decades and earned its place as the sixth-largest economy in the world.

Dec 30 2021

Economic Confidence on the Decline


Armstron Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Dec 30, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Americans have lost faith in the economy after a year of runaway inflation and incompetent leadership. The Economic Confidence Index (ECI) fell to -33 last week, similar to levels seen during April 2020 when the world economy went on a hiatus. With inflation running at its highest level since 1982, it is no wonder that the public has lost confidence in the government’s ability to handle the economy. Even President Biden recently told the public that there is no solution at a federal level to combat the effects of covid.

About 67% of respondents said that the economy is worsening. Around 29% said that the economy was their greatest concern, and among them, 11% cited general concerns, 6% cited employment constraints, and 2% cited class differences. Around 21% said poor government leadership was of utmost concern and 13% noted the ongoing coronavirus. Gallup stated that 40% of Americans would rate the economy as “fair,” while 42% feel it is “poor.”

“As 2021 comes to a close, morale is low in the U.S. COVID-19 continues to rage on, perceptions of the U.S. economy have worsened, Biden’s job approval rating is slumping, and Americans’ overall satisfaction with the direction of the country is low,” the report concluded. “Six months ago, the public was much more optimistic, but the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19, supply chain problems and rising inflation have dampened spirits.”

This is how the pendulum swings from public to private waves.