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Posted on 08/31/2024 9:00:00 PM PDT by ransomnote
Are You Counting the Days Until the Election?
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Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
MarQ
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I have not done a "Broken China Update" in a while. Suffice it to say that things are still bad and getting worse faster than ever. I stand by previous predictions concerning economic & demographic collapse and the end of the CCP.
This time I would like to alert you to an impending strike by against the US Maritime Alliance(USMX) by the International Longshoreman's Association(ILA) on October 1, 2024. This would definitely affect all container operations at ports along the US East and Gulf coasts. It is NOT known if petroleum, oil, & lubricants (POL) and/or passenger traffic would be affected.
The East & Gulf ports handled containers equal to ~7 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU) through July of this year. That is 51% of containers entering the US and about 60% by weight.
A container equal to one TEU is 19 feet 10.5 inches (6.058 m) long and eight feet (2.44 m) wide. The height of these containers is most commonly 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) but ranges from 4 feet 3 inches (1.30 m) to 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m). One Forty-foot Equivalent Unit (FEU) stacks exactly on top of two TEU containers.
Currently both sides are NOT talking. The union says it will strike without a master contract in place and its members have been preparing for a strike for over a year. The Biden Admin says it will NOT intervene to prevent a strike. The only good news is that most shippers anticipated a strike and front loaded goods for the Christmas shopping season.
Anything more than a two week strike will take MONTHS to sort out. A work stoppage stops full containers from coming in and empty containers from going out. Empty containers back up in ports and shippers can lack containers for the next set of products.
A strike at US east & gulf coast ports is bad news for Europe as well. About 20% of the traffic from east Asia to Europe is transshipped to the US east coast. Europe is already dealing with the Houthis blocking the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. This forces ships to go around Africa adding about 3 weeks to the transit time. With a strike here, those containers would quickly begin to clog European ports such as Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg.
Only a small portion can redirect to US west coast ports without hopelessly snarling the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The west coast ports are represented by a different union.
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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