Shadow the Cats owner China literally wants to rule the freaking world both economically and thru its use of force. They have a 2100 plan that no one talks about. By 2100 they want the entire world under their control and they mean the entire world. By 2050 they want everything east to Europe under their thumb including Russia. By 2075 they want all of Europe and by 2100 they want control of the American Continents. They want everything and country under their rule.
China literally wants to rule the freaking world both economically and thru its use of force. They have a 2100 plan that no one talks about. By 2100 they want the entire world under their control and they mean the entire world. By 2050 they want everything east to Europe under their thumb including Russia. By 2075 they want all of Europe and by 2100 they want control of the American Continents. They want everything and country under their rule.
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I suggest you take the time to read the first chapter (free) of Gingrich's book regarding the challenge China presents to the US. See if it makes you think about looking at the lenses with which you see the world. https://www.gingrich360.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/TrumpVsChina_Chapter1.pdf
You know we have a real enemy, Russia, which some people choose to ignore.
Russia is hostile, but is at most, a regional power. It has neither the population, economy or military might that China does. Even weakened Western Europe could take care of Russia. They bluster and do provacative things, but they really don't have the hard power to back it up.
SD70DudeIt is mainly about our lack of scheduling (most train crews still work on call, without regular assigned days off) and the Company's demand for cuts to the rest and time off we can take.
charlie hebdo You know we have a real enemy, Russia, which some people choose to ignore.
"Gov. Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that al-Qaida is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaida. You said Russia ... the 1980s, they're now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years," Obama said. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/22/barack-obama/obama-romney-called-russia-our-top-geopolitical-fo/
York1 John
And Romney was prophetic. But now, in the face of overwhelming evidence, his party is in denial.
Backshop Russia is hostile, but is at most, a regional power. It has neither the population, economy or military might that China does. Even weakened Western Europe could take care of Russia. They bluster and do provacative things, but they really don't have the hard power to back it up.
Putin's goal is to reconstitute the Soviet Union. And even now, the Russian military is far more powerful than China's.
charlie hebdo And even now, the Russian military is far more powerful than China's.
And even now, the Russian military is far more powerful than China's.
I agree though they have lots of missiles, tanks and nukes. But a Europe dominated by Russia is a powerful economy. Meanwhile we are driving away almost all our allies.
My point is that Russia can only bluff their way to dominance. If other countries push back, the game is over. Nukes are a false threat unless someone else attacks them first.
If Trump withdraws from NATO, you will quickly see a return to the Warsaw Pact and a new German-Russian non-aggression pact, ala 1939.
BackshopMy point is that Russia can only bluff their way to dominance. If other countries push back, the game is over. Nukes are a false threat unless someone else attacks them first.
Russia has been actively persuing disinformation campaigns in all democratic countries to devise issues with which to split the country's unity of purpose. In the US you see what we have. In Great Britian we have 'Brexit'. In all democratic countries you have the Russians pushing the deviseveness of the immigrant situations and vilifying any of Muslim persuation. Russia is sucking out the sense of unity of the Western countries.
Putin's method to bring Russia to dominance, at least dominance over Western Nations, is the divide and conquer method knowing that he has neither the economic power of the force of arms to bring it about.
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BaltACD Backshop My point is that Russia can only bluff their way to dominance. If other countries push back, the game is over. Nukes are a false threat unless someone else attacks them first. Russia has been actively persuing disinformation campaigns in all democratic countries to devise issues with which to split the country's unity of purpose. In the US you see what we have. In Great Britian we have 'Brexit'. In all democratic countries you have the Russians pushing the deviseveness of the immigrant situations and vilifying any of Muslim persuation. Russia is sucking out the sense of unity of the Western countries. Putin's method to bring Russia to dominance, at least dominance over Western Nations, is the divide and conquer method knowing that he has neither the economic power of the force of arms to bring it about.
Backshop My point is that Russia can only bluff their way to dominance. If other countries push back, the game is over. Nukes are a false threat unless someone else attacks them first.
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BaltACDRussia has been actively persuing disinformation campaigns in all democratic countries to devise issues with which to split the country's unity of purpose. In the US you see what we have. In Great Britian we have 'Brexit'. In all democratic countries you have the Russians pushing the deviseveness of the immigrant situations and vilifying any of Muslim persuation. Russia is sucking out the sense of unity of the Western countries.
They haven't been doing anything that we haven't been doing to ourselves. Factionalism is actually a very usefull tool to prevent the masses from uniting against the empowered elite. Much the same way that you control a stampede by turning the herd in on itself, much of the lib/con, dem/rep excelsior that fills up our airwaves is of the same spirit.
Flintlock76 Look for business elsewhere Mr. Fritz. If the regionals and shortlines can find it so can you. Screw Wall Street.
Look for business elsewhere Mr. Fritz. If the regionals and shortlines can find it so can you.
Screw Wall Street.
Miningman Yes some of us certainly do have a concern, and give our support to our Forum Member who is fighting the good fight. In a way they are fighting for all us all against tyranny. It is shameful that some corporations sell out to the almighty buck and ironically in the process are they themselves controlled by this tyranny. Great things have small beginnings.
Yes some of us certainly do have a concern, and give our support to our Forum Member who is fighting the good fight. In a way they are fighting for all us all against tyranny. It is shameful that some corporations sell out to the almighty buck and ironically in the process are they themselves controlled by this tyranny.
Great things have small beginnings.
Well said.
Making deals with an "organ harvesting regime" that has been continuously violating international laws and treaties, allied with hostile like Russia and North Korea, sponsoring mobs like ISIL, purging every single religious group in its country (Yes, they are doing it right now), penetrating overseas flagship companies systematically (the list is too long) is always dangerous. It would lead us nowhere but aiding a so-called "communist" country that continually sees America as her number one threat. Now, even the Mainland Chinese are joking about how the CCP leading by Xi is brainwashing their kids in the schools: "Hate America in the morning, hate America in the afternoon, hate America in the evening, but study in America, and buy the iPhone." Foreigners in China can't even buy a High-Speed Rail (HSR) ticket recently if he doesn't have the documents they need. Xi is turning his beautiful country upside down, trying to monitoring and manipulate every single citizen (including American who are working in China) with countless number of webcam, CCTV, spy app, and that infamous social credit system.
Note that the CCP has already messed up their economy so badly that almost every single local government except Shanghai, are in astronomical debts (as of March 2019). We are talking about 300 trillion RMB of (bad) debts here and there all over the former Communist China, now should be called the State Capitalism China. I really don't think trading with a country like this will bring America and the Free World a brighter future, it is like making deals with an eBay seller who has overwhelming negative reviews, even though he has countless alternative accounts (some of them are based in Russia, some of them ironically based in Hong Kong). There is a reason why Xi sent his daughter back to America, this is an open secret. Of course, he is not the first top party leaders of CCP who sent their family members and corrupt money to the Free World, they know this regime won't last long. I wish Mr. Fritz would take all these things into account when he is thinking about the long term interests of America and the future of the company he is leading.
I am glad to see that our representative and senator are still holding the ground of American values altogether, now it is Trump's turn to decide how to get the best use of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy act of 2019, as well as the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019. The Hong Kong Police Force, now probably directly under CCP's command since July 2019, is doing what you could only find in a Police State, systematically lynching, sexual assault, and murdering young protesters and their families for months, the reason behind is too obvious ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUIe4DNo3jQ) If you want details and first-hand evidence that you would find it disgusting, you know where to find them (and this is not the right place for me to show them) Xi turned an Asia's safest city, an international finance center into hell. But compared to the situation in the Xinjiang Uyghur "Autonomous" Region of China, the Uyghurs need even more immediate help, let alone millions of freedom-loving Chinese who are held hostage by their own government right now.
For the sake of justice, it should be the Free World to shape the future of humanity altogether, not the USSR, not the CCP/PRC+Russia+North Korea, never!
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As the "Man on the spot" I was hoping you'd weigh in on this topic. And he IS the man on the spot, trust me.
I work in transportation at the Port of Los Angeles and there has been a downturn compared to previous years. Container terminals that used to be open 6 or 7 days a week are now operating only 4 or 5 days a week with reduced number of shifts.
Perhaps the silver lining in this possible "permanent damage" will be the Class 1s taking a page from the smaller railroads and focusing on carload freight. Those 2 or 3 cars a week to that lumber yard can add up when there are thousand of them.
JoeBlow Perhaps the silver lining in this possible "permanent damage" will be the Class 1s taking a page from the smaller railroads and focusing on carload freight. Those 2 or 3 cars a week to that lumber yard can add up when there are thousand of them.
There will have to be a movement that announces that PSR was the anti-customer initiative that it has been for that to happen. I am not holding my breath.
In addition to the retrenchment of service, PSR has also sliced away most of the sales and marketing forces of the company's who are nominally the ones that seek out new traffic opportunities.
BaltACDIn addition to the retrenchment of service, PSR has also sliced away most of the sales and marketing forces of the company's who are nominally the ones that seek out new traffic opportunities.
A self-fulfilling prophesy if ever there was one: "We're not seeing a demand for carload traffic..." Of course not. There's no one to handle the sales if there was...
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Hitler butchered tens of millions of Germany's (and other occupied countries' ) people. Lenin and Stalin butchered tens of millions of Russia's (and other occupied countries') people. Mao butchered tens of millions of China's people. We should be helping freedom-loving people leave Hong Kong before 2047 when the iron fist of socialism clamps down around Hong Kong for good.
I can tell you this much from what we deal with on our custom blend resin side. The on average 3-4 contaniers a week that were blended and shipped overseas to China yes we shipped that much overseas are now staying here in the USA and most of those loads are going out in my bosses own trucks. The companies that needed them shipped overseas have relocated the manufactoring plants here in the states.
Good for them!
Murphy Sidingmaybe you were implying that part of the plan was to punish those who enabled the Chinese to move goods into our market-
Would it be okay to believe (hope) that part of the plan was intended to punish those who moved their production to China?
kgbw49... iron fist of socialism...
Socialism, in and of itself, is not bad (not necessarily all that good, but...)
The same applies to communism.
The problem arises when those two terms are used as euphemisms for totalitarianism. And all too often, that is actually the case.
Anyone here read "Animal Farm?" All was good until the pigs amended "but some are more equal than others" to the initial motto of "All animals are equal."
tree68 kgbw49 ... iron fist of socialism... Socialism, in and of itself, is not bad (not necessarily all that good, but...) The same applies to communism. The problem arises when those two terms are used as euphemisms for totalitarianism. And all too often, that is actually the case. Anyone here read "Animal Farm?" All was good until the pigs amended "but some are more equal than others" to the initial motto of "All animals are equal."
kgbw49 ... iron fist of socialism...
A 'Iron Fist' is totalarian tyrany no matter what form of economic system is used by the Iron Fist.
Socialism and Communism REQUIRE an iron fist in order to function. They run against the human nature of individuals in achievement, competition , freedom of expression and choice.
Miningman Socialism and Communism REQUIRE an iron fist in order to function. They run against the human nature of individuals in achievement, competition , freedom of expression and choice.
Yes.
Miningman Socialism and Communism REQUIRE an iron fist in order to function.
Socialism and Communism REQUIRE an iron fist in order to function.
I consider Canada more socialist than the USA, please describe the iron fist of Canada
Convicted One Miningman Socialism and Communism REQUIRE an iron fist in order to function. I consider Canada more socialist than the USA, please describe the iron fist of Canada
I view what we are seeing in China, these days, is Iron Fisted Capitalism, with governmental assistance in attacking foreign markets and the govenment getting a return on the 'assistance'.
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