Manufactured Crisis – A Map Of The Cargo Ships Currently Incoming And In Holding Pattern Offshore Ignored By The MSM

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If you’ve been following the current news from Hell recently, you will have learned a while back that there is a developing supply line crisis in “Biden’s” America, causing some of us - I am definitely in that number so roll out the old and tired Conspiracy Nut shibboleths- to more and more seriously wonder whether there is some overall plan being executed by “invisible hands”, with apologies to Adam Smith. I have a personal reason to be more than a little interested in this festering problem, quite aside from the fact that My Lady and I like to eat and be able to find the things we want to purchase at our local stores, and that is the fact that the recliner I bought and paid for eight months ago (fool me once, shame on you… you know the rest) may well be-probably is- on one of those ships sitting in the Gulf of Mexico right now. Here is a graphic showing the build-ups around the coasts — it may be accessed here if you wish to check it out:

Here is an excerpt from a good piece analyzing the problem and setting forth the possible explanations for this massive backlog in the supply chain, directly affecting us all and promising to affect all of us more and more with each passing day:

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Dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of Los Angeles and New York face shocking wait times of up to four weeks and railyards and trucking routes are hopelessly clogged due to the lack of manpower to unload goods – with an expert warning that the government needs to intervene or face spiraling inflation and unemployment.

The backlog of billions of dollars of toys, clothing, electronics, vehicles, and furniture comes as the demand for consumer goods hit its highest point in history as consumers stay home instead of spending money on travel and entertainment.

Supply chains have lagged far behind consumer demand due to a lack of manpower at American ports and the restrictions that came with the COVID-19 outbreak early last year. These constraints, which include social distancing and mandatory quarantines, have severely limited the number and ability of port workers to do their jobs.

That’s what we’ve heard on the mainstream media!

Every excuse given but the obvious: The Covid vaccine mandate labor shortage is preventing goods from being delivered.

The impact has of course been enormous on the rail segment of the supply line, as one would expect, and as shown in this graphic from an extensive analysis in The Daily Mail, which can be accessed here:

If I may be pardoned what might appear to be a slightly irrelevant side-note and inquiry: why is it that the only way to get honest reporting on real facts and events here in the USA is clearly not through the American mainstream media but through either “right wing terrorist news sites”, as I assume Gen. Milley would term them, or through foreign publications, almost all of which are based in London? Bias? What bias?

The major international transport organizations have just released a “Joint Open Letter” sub-titled “Transport heads call on world leaders to secure global supply chains” calling on world leaders to do something to alleviate these back logs before, in their words as the experts most ideally situated to know what may follow, we experience “global systems collapse.” The document itself may be accessed here, but I have decided to copy it out in whole, rather than try to pick and choose those parts I think may be most helpful, as this statement is the clearest concise summary of the deadly crisis facing us if our leaders, including the one we call “pResident” (h/t my Ricochet colleague Nohaaj for this nice turn of phrase!) if we can wake him up long enough, continue to ignore it. Here is the statement in full:

Joint open letter – Transport heads call on world leaders to secure global supply chains

29 September 2021

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the maritime, road and aviation industries have called loudly and clearly on governments to ensure the free movement of transport workers and to end travel bans and other restrictions that have had an enormously detrimental impact on their wellbeing and safety. Transport workers keep the world running and are vital for the free movement of products, including vaccines and PPE, but have been continually failed by governments and taken for granted by their officials.

Our calls have been consistent and clear: freedom of movement for transport workers, for governments to use protocols that have been endorsed by international bodies for each sector and to prioritise transport workers for vaccinations as called for in the World Health Organization’s SAGE Roadmap for Prioritizing Uses of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Context of Limited Supply.

Heads of government have failed to listen, to end the blame-shifting within and between governments and take the decisive and coordinated action needed to resolve this crisis.

This is why IRU, the world road transport organisation, IATA, the International Air Transport Association, ICS, the International Chamber of Shipping, and ITF, the International Transport Workers’ Federation, have come together to make an urgent plea to the world’s heads of government and the United Nations Agencies to remove restrictions hampering the free movement of transport workers, and guarantee and facilitate their free and safe movement.

Our collective industries account for more than $20 trillion of world trade annually, and represent 65 million global transport workers, and over 3.5 million road freight and airline companies, as well as more than 80% of the world merchant shipping fleet.  Seafarers, air crew and drivers must be able to continue to do their jobs, and cross borders, to keep supply chains moving. We ask heads of government to urgently take the leadership that is required to bring an end to the fragmented travel rules and restrictions that have severely impacted the global supply chain and put at risk the health and wellbeing of our international transport workforce. We also need the same urgent leadership to increase global vaccine supply by all means at our disposal, in order to expedite the recovery of our industries.

We ask that our transport workers are given priority to receive WHO recognised vaccines and heads of government work together to create globally harmonised, digital, mutually recognised vaccination certificate and processes for demonstrating health credentials (including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results), which are paramount to ensure transport workers can cross international borders.

We also call on the WHO to take our message to health ministries. Despite early engagement at the outset of the pandemic and issuance of guidance, health and transport ministries have not utilised it, resulting in the situation we face today. We need the WHO and governments to work together to ensure this guidance is accepted and followed.

The impact of nearly two years’ worth of strain, placed particularly upon maritime and road transport workers, but also impacting air crews, is now being seen. Their continued mistreatment is adding pressure on an already crumbling global supply chain. We are witnessing unprecedented disruptions and global delays and shortages on essential goods including electronics, food, fuel and medical supplies. Consumer demand is rising and the delays look set to worsen ahead of Christmas and continue into 2022.

We have all continued to keep global trade flowing throughout the pandemic, but it has taken a human toll. At the peak of the crew change crisis 400,000 seafarers were unable to leave their ships, with some seafarers working for as long as 18 months over their initial contracts. Flights have been restricted and aviation workers have faced the inconsistency of border, travel, restrictions, and vaccine restrictions/requirements. Additional and systemic stopping at road borders has meant truck drivers have been forced to wait, sometimes weeks, before being able to complete their journeys and return home.

It is of great concern that we are also seeing shortages of workers and expect more to leave our industries as a result of the poor treatment they have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat.

In view of the vital role that transport workers have played during the pandemic and continue to play during the ongoing supply chain crisis, we request, as a matter of urgency, a meeting with WHO and the ILO at the highest level to identify solutions before global transport systems collapse. We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the UN General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now.

As noted above, we have started seeing signs of supply line issues everywhere and those signs seem to be multiplying the closer we get to the huge Christmas Holiday shopping season. Perhaps, again taking the enormous risk that the Conspiracy Thought Police will set their black helicopter down in the backyard, we may have stumbled on a sure fire way to stop the Biden-Susan Rice-Pelosi-Schumer dictatorship’s authoritarian strangling of our Beloved Nation before it’s too late. Perhaps, the very thought of their children asking — crying — why they could not get what they wrote Santa for and not having a good answer will finally drive enough citizens to become the name of the online publication from which this piece was initially drawn: Defiant America!

It is WAY past time!

God Bless America!