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Trucking recession: heavy-duty truck orders collapse, production slashed, cancellation orders soar

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 08:45 UTC
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New reports from the trucking industry show the transportation recession continues to gain momentum through the end of summer, likely to continue through 2019 into 1H20.

The US trucking industry had a blockbuster year in 2018, as high demand for freight allowed transportation companies to expand fleets. But since freight demand was artificial, sparked by importers pulling forward to get ahead of tariffs, the good times were destined to end and end rather sharply.

The Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers index plunged to 49.1 in August, the first time a contraction has been seen since 2016. Prints below 50 suggest the manufacturing economy is shrinking. Data also showed new orders dropped to a seven-year low, while the production index hit 2015 lows.

Comment: See also:

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Microsoft warns that Trump's crackdown on Huawei threatens US companies


RT
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:06 UTC
Huawei logo
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The Huawei logo
US tech major Microsoft is unhappy with US president Donald Trump's push against China's Huawei, claiming that such unfair and "un-American" treatment may hit indigenous companies hard, and Microsoft itself will not be spared.

The tech giant's President Brad Smith has serious doubts over the grounds on which Huawei was added to the US infamous 'Entity List' effectively banning American companies from doing business with the Chinese behemoth. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek Smith said his company wants the Trump administration to shed more light on the matter to check if the move was not taken without "sound basis in fact, logic, and the rule of law."

However, US regulators failed to give any plausible explanation as they simply claim to know much more than they reveal to the businessmen, according to the Microsoft official. He argues that the government must open up, so firms could decide for themselves.
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Embassy insider exposes lies and errors in CNN's defamatory report on Assange

Aaron Maté
The Grayzone
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
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A "bombshell" CNN report claimed to show how Wikileaks founder Julian Assange published stolen Democratic Party emails in 2016 in cooperation with the Russian government from his place of refuge in Ecuador's London embassy. Ecuadorian diplomat Fidel Narváez — who served in the embassy throughout Assange's stay — says that CNN's report was error-ridden and defamatory.

"There are so many smears, speculations, and some false information in that report that somewhat somebody needs to set the record straight," Narváez says. "It is unbelievable how they twist every single thing in order to to defame Julian and Ecuador."

Guest: Fidel Narváez, former Ecuadorian diplomat who served in Ecuador's London embassy for six of the seven years that Julian Assange lived there under asylum.


Comment: See also SOTT's article from Caitlin Johnstone:
CNN's new Assange smear piece is amazingly dishonest - even for CNN!

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Jewish critics, deemed an existential threat to Israel, are labeled 'bad Jews'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
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Member of #IfNotNow is dragged away from Damascus Gate on Jerusalem Day, May 24, 2017.
Lately we've seen a great deal of institutional effort being expended to show that American Jews are all for Israel, except the lunatics.

-The American Jewish Committee says the Jewish group, IfNotNow, is a "radical fringe."

-The Jewish Federations in Seattle actually blocked a $1000 gift to IfNotNow from a family fund it advises because it would damage the goal of building "a cohesive Jewish community" and undermine Israel as a Jewish state.

IfNotNow are young Jews generally with strong communal upbringing who are demanding an end to Palestinian occupation after 52 years.

-Next week Bari Weiss's book comes out saying that all good Jews celebrate the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in Israel, except for a handful of enemies within: "a very small but very vocal group of Jews seems as deeply opposed to Jewish interests as many of our community's enemies." Anti-Zionist Jews, she says, are anti-Semitic.

Comment: See also: As Israel expands its 'settler colonialism' policy, resistance group IfNotNow shifts toward anti-Zionism

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Polygamy debate returns to Utah capital, as lawmaker looks to reduce penalties

Andrew O'Reilly
Fox News
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:59 UTC
Utah state Sen. Deidre Henderson
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Utah state Sen. Deidre Henderson plans to file a bill reducing the penalties for polygamy.
Legal scholars, however, are skeptical that reducing the penalties for polygamy will encourage more people in abusive situations to come forward to report the crimes.

"I'm not sure that redoing the law to make polygamy less of an offense will have the intended effect they hope for," Casey Faucon, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama Law School, told Fox News. "It takes more than just changing a law to get people to come forward and report abusive situations."

While Henderson did not respond to Fox News' request for comment, other proponents of the bill have suggested it would not just lower the general penalty for polygamy from a felony to misdemeanor but strengthen the ability to prosecute polygamists found to have committed crimes such as abuse, human smuggling or fraud.

Along with the other changes to the law in 2017, legislators had added penalties of up to 15 years in prison for polygamists found guilty of those crimes. Connor Boyack, president of the libertarian-leaning Libertas Institute, said the new legislation would make it so prosecutors don't have to prove polygamy and a secondary crime in order to file charges, just that polygamy was a factor in the other crime.
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Collateral damage: The targets of Mueller's 'scorched earth' investigation suffer health problems, ruined relationships, insurmountable legal costs

Paul Sperry
RealClearPolitics
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:55 UTC
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Home surveillance video captures Mueller agents raiding Roger Stone's home at 6 am, January 25, 2019
Veteran journalist Art Moore was editing a story on the Trump-Russia probe last October when he heard a knock at the door. He saw a couple of men in suits on the front porch of his suburban Seattle home and thought they were Jehovah's Witnesses making the rounds. But they weren't missionaries there to convert him; they were FBI agents there to interrogate him, sent by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The G-men wanted to talk about WikiLeaks, specifically whether the Trump campaign had any connection to the hacktivist group's release of thousands of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 election.
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Cargo ship 'listing heavily' in Georgia port, 4 crew members missing, Coast Guard says

Travis Fedschun
Fox News
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:22 UTC
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The cargo ship can be seen on it's side near St. Simmons Sound, Ga.
Four crew members are unaccounted for after a large cargo ship overturned and caught fire near a major port in Georgia early Sunday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard's Seventh District said on Twitter that it was joined by local agencies with "multiple rescue assets" on the scene after the Golden Ray cargo vessel was "listing heavily" near St. Simons Sound in Brunswick, Ga.

The Coast Guard said there were 23 crew members and one pilot on board. All but four crew members have been safely evacuated from the ship, a 656-foot vehicle carrier.

The ship was leaving Brunswick when it drastically leaned to its side early Sunday. The Coast Guard said it was notified by a 911 call at about 2 a.m. of a capsized vessel in the sound.
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Canada boy, 13, finds submerged car, helps police solve 27-year-old missing person's case

Robert Gearty
Fox News
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 18:06 UTC
Car pulled out of lake
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The body of Janet Farris was found in her car which had been submerged in Lake Griffin in British Columbia for 27 years.
A boy who found a submerged car in a lake has helped Royal Canadian Mounted Police solve a 27-year-old missing person's case.

Max Werenka, 13, is being credited with helping the Mounties find the body of 69-year-old Janet Farris, who was reported missing in 1992 in British Columbia.

"I always like to question things," Werenka, of Sherwood Park, Alberta, told CTV News.

Late last month, Max took two Mounties out on Lake Griffin to the spot where he found the vehicle but they couldn't see anything, CBC News reported.
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Hurricane Dorian aftermath: Thousands still missing, militias form to stop looting and altered topography prevents rescue efforts

Ryan Fahey, Sophie Tanno, Megan Sheets & Lauren Fruen
Daily Mail
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:14 UTC
Abaco Island
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Abaco Island
The death toll from devastating Hurricane Dorian will be 'staggering' with thousands still missing, officials have warned amid reports looters are 'trying to shoot people' in the scramble for food and water.

Up to 70,000 are in need of 'life-saving assistance' while Great Abaco is said to be virtually uninhabitable, with bodies piled up and witnesses say there is a 'smell of death' with corpses floating in the water.

While the official death toll stands at 30, that number is expected to rise and hundreds of body bags have been ordered along with extra freezers.

A massive international relief effort was ramped up today as survivors revealed horrifying details of the 'apocalyptic' aftermath of the 185mph, Category-5 storm which hit the islands five days ago.

One survivor, Alicia Cooke, broke down in tears as she revealed: 'Everything is gone, people are starting to panic. Pillaging, looting, trying to shoot people for food and water. It's just no way everyone's going to get out.'

'No homes. No banks. No gas stations. No hardware stores. Everything is gone,' she added, as others said they feared the spread of disease.

Hundreds have gathered hoping to be evacuated today, but efforts have been complicated by flooded runways at Grand Bahama International Airport.

Comment: Officials are having a difficult time reaching the Northern Bahamas as the topography of the coast has changed.
Steve Harrigan reports from Abaco Island in the Bahamas as search and rescue efforts continue. The scale of the devastation is incredible; everything is gone, and worse yet the topography has changed removing the ability of deep water ports to be used in/around most of the northern Bahama islands. The anticipated death toll is expected to be dramatic. [Disturbing Content]


The duration of Hurricane Dorian has changed the underwater topography making access to the Island communities even more difficult, if not impossible. The Bahamian National Emergency Management Agency and the Royal Bahamian Defense Force have warned all ocean vessels to stay clear of the Northern Bahama islands.

The equipment needed, and the fuel to make the equipment operational, is not able to reach the Islands because the underwater topography has changed. Deep water channels and port routes need to be remapped. Most previous ports in/around the Northern Bahamas are no longer feasible for use. What used to be deep water is now shallow water.

Air crews from the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Military are working under the authority granted by the Bahamian National Emergency Management Agency and the Royal Bahamian Defense Force to reach as many island residents as possible. However, the mass delivery of tonnage is severely limited by the inability to open the airports and use fixed wing carriers.

Large ships cannot port, and hovercrafts are needed to avoid the issues with topography changes. All coastal maps are essentially useless around Abacos and Grand Bahama Island. Near shore navigation is currently impossible for large vessels.

This recovery effort is going to be complex and long duration.


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Swedish scientist thinks humans should eat dead bodies to save the planet

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:55 UTC
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A Swedish behavioral scientist has suggested that it may be necessary to turn to cannibalism and start eating humans in order to save the planet.

Appearing on Swedish television to talk about an event based around the "food of the future," Magnus Söderlund said he would be holding seminars on the necessity of consuming human flesh in order to stop climate change.

Environmentalists blame the meat and farming industry for a large part of what they claim is the warming of the earth.

According to Söderlund, a potential fix would be the Soylent Green-solution of eating dead bodies instead.

He told the host of the show that one of the biggest obstacles to the proposal would be the taboo nature of corpses and the fact that many would see it as defiling the deceased.

Söderlund also acknowledged that people are "slightly conservative" when it comes to eating things they are not accustomed to, such as cadavers.

Comment: "This is the pinnacle of the unholy marriage of the war on food with the totalitarian climate agenda.": Ice Age Farmer Report: "Save the planet - Eat humans"

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