We have been tracking the issue of U.S. port congestion, supply chain crises and the White House supply chain initiatives since they first surfaced last fall. We finally have full data to review, and what we see is very disturbing. Not only was the White House supply chain effort a fraud, but they also manipulated the port system to give a false impression of the U.S. economy.
Let’s start with the latest issue.
For several weeks, we have been trying to figure out why the Port of Los Angeles (POLA), our nation’s busiest and most valuable port, had delayed their reporting for December.
Normally they update their container statistics and port efficiency/productivity results between the 10th and 15th of the month. However, this month the data was delayed by several weeks.
When we finally grew frustrated and asked the POLA about this ridiculous delay, they responded January 25th, saying: “Good morning. Data from one vessel has delayed final numbers. We plan on releasing numbers today or tomorrow.”
The POLA justification and timing seemed odd, and their explanation seemed fishy. One container ship manages to delay the entire POLA result? However, this morning after checking and seeing still no result we realized what was going on.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the U.S. 4th Quarter GDP result (link). The value of imported goods is a deduction to the U.S. GDP. If the biggest port in the U.S. holds back their import cargo data, the resulting information cannot be deducted from the GDP. Missing data gives an artificial outlook for the GDP. Put another way, the 4th quarter GDP is inflated by the missing deduction.
From the position of the Biden administration, there is a perverse economic motive to keep all those import cargo ships from arriving.
Would the Port of Los Angeles intentionally hold back data in order to help the White House give a false and more optimistic impression of the U.S. economy? At first blush it might seem a stretch, but then – as if on cue – a few hours after the BEA made the public release, suddenly the Port of Los Angeles released their December data. In politics timing is never coincidental.
Yes, it is entirely possible, I would actually say likely, the BEA fourth quarter outlook is skewed by a bunch of factors, one of them being the missing December import data from Los Angeles.
This suspicion increases when we realize the ideological outlook behind the people running the Port of Los Angeles, the politics of California and the influence of White House supply chain taskforce member John Porcari as Ports Envoy.
Additionally, right about the time POLA would normally generate their data in January, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to the Port of Los Angeles for a supply chain initiative briefing and press conference.
Given the political issues and importance at stake for Joe Biden – yes, it is entirely likely the White House influenced a December port reporting delay for two reasons. First, to help the illusion of better economic picture; and second, because the White House port supply chain initiative was a fraud.
The second point takes us back to the reason why we were tracking this issue to begin with.
In October and November, the Biden administration was touting its port supply chain initiative as a fix to the backlog at the ports. {October Initiative Here} and {November Update Here}. Calling it, “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.”
Despite these claims from the White House, the ports never moved forward to 24/7 operations. Factually, the operational productivity at both the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach dropped.
The ports handled less cargo, off-loaded less cargo and did absolutely nothing to remove the port congestion that was created by the local and state environmental ordinances.
On January 19th, the Port of Long Beach (POLB) released its data {LINK}. What the statistics show, is that less cargo is being handled now than it was when the 24/7 port operation announcement was made:
As noted earlier today, the Port of Los Angeles finally released their data {LINK} and the same is true (see below).
The White House claimed hours of operation expanded to increase capacity, yet fewer containers are being handled at both ports.
The outcomes speak for themselves. Both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach handled less cargo and fewer containers in the two months after the “new expanded operations” were announced, than in October when the expanded supply chain operations were announced. There is no improvement at all. Less cargo is being handled.
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. Now, here’s where it gets really Machiavellian.
There’s a strong possibility the White House 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)
That announcement was followed up by Oakland port officials when Pete Buttigieg made his trip earlier this month.
OAKLAND – […] Following its success in Southern California, the new system is being expanded to the Bay Area. Ships will wait 50 miles off the coast in a safety and air quality zone until their scheduled arrival time at the Port.
The new system became effective Monday. Ships will get an arrival time based on when they left their last port of call. Before Monday, ships were given an arrival time when they were fewer than 80 nautical miles from the coast.
The new system will allow ships to take their time getting to Oakland, reducing emissions while at sea. It will also allow more space between vessels at sea, making shipping safer especially in the winter when storms are brewing.
“The resounding success of the new container vessel queuing system in Southern California has set the stage for this expansion to the Bay Area,” said Jim McKenna, president and CEO of the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents maritime companies that do business on the West Coast, in a statement. “This updated system has reduced the number of vessels at anchor near our ports.” (read more)
We call this “Operation Hide the Ships.”
What the White House supply chain taskforce did was move the line of awaiting cargo ships further offshore to make them less visible. Then 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 purpose of telling the ships to await their port time in a queue farther offshore is transparent. The Biden administration wants to give the illusion they eliminated the bottleneck of container ships. Out of sight is out of mind.
Operation ‘Hide the Ships’ allows the administration to make claims about port efficiencies and increased productivity that are abjectly false. The data from the two months after the October announcement shows less container offloading and onloading happened in November and December than happened in the prior month of October when the new initiatives were announced.
To sum this all up. What we have here is an obvious situation where not only did the Biden administration manipulate a false impression of a port supply chain improvement, they also leveraged the import product reporting delay to inflate U.S. economic statistics.
Knowing that, what else are they lying about?
Earlier Outlines and citations:
Communism can only exist in a bubble of lies.
Oh no don’t tell me the Biden gang is cooking the books.
Surprise? not
…and when the masses don’t have guns to shoot back.
If they stopped loading empties, there would be more time to unload the backlog. When China ran out of empties to fill, the backlog would rapidly go to near zero.
It would be interesting to recalculate the U.S. 4th Quarter GDP substracting the data released by the LA port.
Isn’t it funny how the number ONE keeps popping up? First, ONE anonymous study causes the FDA to terminate the use of monoclonal antibodies. Now ONE cargo container ship prevents LA from reporting their numbers. How big was that one ship? The size of Catalina Island?
They had to know what was on that ship before it docked. The excuse is bullshit.
“The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the U.S. 4th Quarter GDP result (link). The value of imported goods is a deduction to the U.S. GDP. If the biggest port in the U.S. holds back their import cargo data, the resulting information cannot be deducted from the GDP. Missing data gives an artificial outlook for the GDP. Put another way, the 4th quarter GDP is inflated by the missing deduction.”
When I read this paragraph in the article, I spontaneously thought, “D#%!, these people are seriously f*#%!*d up!”
What word or phrase exists to describe lies of such a huge magnitude?
Treason is the word that comes to mind.
Democrats?
I hate it when people lie to me. I especially hate it when they lie to me with data. Because they believe they are so much smarter than we are that we won’t see their lies.
Lies are dangerous because they warp reality. When people live their lives according to lies everything is pulled out of it’s proper shape. But, like stretching a rubber band, reality always snaps back. And, it is always painful.
Great job by you and your team — Biden smoke and mirrors, which means GDP is a house of cards from the White House to Wall Street 😳
… the pictures of these nimrods sitting outside in the sunshine wearing their masks just kills me …
Not just the sunshine but there will be sufficient wind to rapidly diffuse the virus if any of those wearing masks were puffing out viral particles.
The Administration appears to be pushing us toward an economic disaster. The supply chain issues are bad and getting worse. The Covid requirements for cross-border truckers seem illogical only if one assumes that the government wants to fix the situation. The illegal aliens bused to red states seem designed to overwhelm social services.
When considered in total, it is hard to see how there was no malice in these decisions.
The Federal Reserve doesn’t give a shit either; it’s only waiting for the right time to pull the plug on the US economy.
The BIS central bank heist will now accelerate the global transition away from the dollar.
The Fed takes its orders from the BIS.
Since 1997 the EU and China ran a combined $9 trillion trade surplus with the US.
The Fed triggered this crisis deliberately because it serves purposes of international banks and the agenda of globalism.
Venezuela……..hold our beer!
“If people keep choosing means that seem unsuited to their ends, consider that you might not understand their ends.”
Thank you so much for this. It’s one thing to know or “feel” that they are lying rats. It’s another thing to know about what.
The question I have now is why? It’s a big screwup hurting the lives of the American people, on the docks, in the ships, and across the nation. Yes, so what else is new with these people? Even the attempt to cover it up is the norm. Besides the crippling of a nation’s supply chain to allow an easy defeat by another nation; besides the targeting of ports on the Pacific Ocean side of the country; besides the simmering rage across the nation and the call for Civil War from the mass media; what could it be????
They intend to create massive riots and violence prior to the 2022 election. Then create a faux demand that the “gummint” step in to fix. Pockets of martial law, no in person voting, communication technology shut down intermittently….. people in panic focused ONLY on trying to find food and gas.
Everything. They’re lying about everything.
They don’t even try to make their lies believable anymore. One ship? Really? Three or four ships would have been more believable.
The last picture attached to the exposing article, defines Stupid on steroids, for the American Electorate. What is even more silly not only did the illegal dummies(Biden/Obama) think we the folks believe that BS. Evidently so does bankrupt China. Thanks Sundance for exposing many things. Anyone still wondering what it takes to work at the fake WH or MSM? Crime family connections.
someone is running the show and it isn’t them
How can actions like this be anything but a purposeful step in bringing down our economy so as to generate the deep-state’s desired cry from citizens for the government to step in and ‘fix’ things?
We need more people to wake up.
What would gdp have been had it been included?
Good Question !!!
The banana republic exposed for another lie upon a lie.
Fraudulent GDP numbers under a distorted CPI is all I need to know that inflation/stagflation will continue or even accelerate as tapers.
The Fed has intentionally created a Catch-22 outcome.
The global transition away from the dollar, toward inflation-resistant investments, has already begun.
The reality is that inflation is the cause of supply chain disruptions, not the result of supply chain disruptions.
The pandemic is the perfect cover for the inflationary end game.
The outcome is a trap for the people, not the FED.
The Fed triggered this crisis deliberately because it serves purposes of international banks and the agenda of globalism.
Since 1997 the EU and China ran a combined $9 trillion trade surplus with the US.
International Monetary Fund and World Economic Forum is openly seeking a one-world digital currency system.
The Fed takes its orders from the BIS.
As the stagflationary crash plays out, never forget who was really the cause of the public’s suffering.
Absolutely. Always follow the money. The whole purpose is the “New World Order” one world government of total surveillance and totalitarianism with a digital currency. That’s what these COVID passports are about. They will become digital passports that lead to a social credit score system and the end of the world as we know it. We have to unite and not comply. The only advantage we have are numbers and a united populace is the only thing the globalists fear… I say put the fear of God into these evil SOBs and send them back to hell where they belong.
They are lying about everything.
These are the same morons that want people to believe they are the “ adults in the room. “
There is absolutely nothing they do that is good for the citizens of the USA.
They are the very definition of corrupt.
They can lie all they want. Empty shelves and high prices proclaim the truth 24/7/365
Tucker, Jesse, please report on this!!
And Joe Rogan, you too!!
This is like the gambler trying to hide the losses from their spouse.
Venezuela 2.0
Oakland Observation
On my journey today from the west side of the bay at Hunters Point, across the bay bridge and south along the Oakland waterfront- not a single crane was stirring anywhere I looked.
I only noticed a handful that were in the ‘use’ position and the rest had the booms folder over. I’m not sure how many cranes there are, but it’s more than a dozen or two and less than fifty. You can’t really gaze at the scenery driving…
Lots of space in Oakland- but no ships?
Right now CNN is on at my gym. They are praising Biden for resolving Ukraine/Russia and yet he was purposely left out of all calls.
Don’t ever forget how the media has propped up these lies.
Thank you, Sundance.
We must all prepare.
Deceit, lies, incompetent behavior, and distrustful actions – How can anyone trust thus Administration? Total ineptness, and incompetence. Biden & Harris need to go. Period!
send this to Trump and his team!!!! They’ll jump all over this
I never listen to the numbers that government puts out … they always lie … (although I was less skeptical during PDJT era) … Government numbers are meant to make the government look good, so of course they’re full of crap.
What else are they lying about you ask? How about EVERYTHING
Oh, well, yeah there’s all that reality stuff, but look over here!
Candace Owens nails it by calling this out as a way to distract attention away from those realities and onto something else.
In this case it’s a tasteless, ugly, dark, pajama-looking pantsuit that looks like a crooked hillary design original. It makes me cry out for mercy and holler for Sundance and the Mickey Mouse graphic.
The story tells itself.
Minnie gone woke and ugly.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/candace-owens-claims-minnie-mouse-makeover-part-of-plot-to-destroy-fabrics-of-our-society/
Sundance’s ominous comment “what else are they lying about?” gives me pause. There are so many things that we KNOW they are lying about.
Almost a million illegal aliens imported into the country and dispersed around various cities and states. They claimed they are “refugees” from the Taliban, or they are women and children. Yet people who have seen them know they are primarily young, military aged men from many different backgrounds and countries.
Unfortunately, my fellow American citizens, given the financial outlook, the medical tyranny, importing illegals, the corrupt and criminal DOJ/FBI/CIA, the dis-functional military leaders, etc., I fear the worst.
This government is headed for the dustbin of history. They cannot be trusted. They must be destroyed if we are going to save Western Civilization and the future of our children.
Feed the data and the question to the Doocy kid so he can ask at the next WH press conference.
“the Doocy kid” is one of our few heroes in the “press corpse” – his being name called so invidiously by Joe Biden is actually a badge of honor though having watched his dad, Stevey Doocy for many years on Fox and Friends, it is especially rankling that Joe Biden should be using THAT terminology about any Doocy –
Joe Biden is SO low and all the people connected to him, spouse, family and friends are in the mire with Joe
No amount of cooking the books on economic data will change the availability or price of the item on the store shelf.
On target! Back in July we saw U.S. GDP grew 6.5% 2nd quarter, then 3rd quarter down to 2.3%, and now 4th quarter incredibly the BEST GDP in DECADES – 6.9%.
So the strategy is working …at the same time, the manipulated supply chain is swathing the coffers of major food producers as they profiteer revenues off the fake news. What did Sundance just report…Kraft Heinz hiking prices 30%!
THEY’RE ALL IN ON IT… Stop playing their game! Figure out how to get off their bus and become self-reliant.
had a really great conversation today about this very subject. From a very far left leaning progressive. He actually brought it up. He is outraged this adminsitration (he voted biden apparently, but I didn’t dig on him *yet*). I just let him talk it out.
He is a very savvy entrepreneur…self made in every way…a classic american business man. I admire that, even if we don’t share the same views on politics and choices.
He stated to me, that IF he attempted to do something like this in his business, he would be the object of serious IRS investigations.
I asked him a blunt question: do you think this was actually to prop up good numbers? I mean there is a good argument it does produce that. But what is actually the goal here: seem to me it’s about covering for a failed national economic strategy. One so heavily tilted in lockdowns, mandates, they lost complete sight of the bigger picture.
as the famous quote goes: it’s the economy dummy!
He gets it.
I didn’t find it a good opportunity to press him about what he is thinking about “his party” He’s a smart guy. I think he’ll come around. He strikes me as a practical reasonable person. He is experience serious issues getting the core goods that make his business work…So he is a stakeowner in this fiasco. A direct victim of a failed policy. I think he will come to jesus when he learned (eventually) this was the goal. To starve out the US economy to advance the cccp goals.
In a few weeks, I’ll check in with him and see if he wants to talk about bidens deals with china and russia. I think he is already aware of this “possibility”. I think he’ll finally start thinking a bit more realistically about why these events are occurring.
we’ll see. Doesn’t strike me as the koolaid guy, just someone who made terrible choices with “leadership”..probably voted like most people did: orange man bad, vote him out.
sad, that even very smart and intelligent people could not understand we did not vote for President Trump to be our ideal role model. (although i think he is). But that he was right on the money with his policies and vision for america first.
He’ll come around. I might even invite him to plink this weekend with my brothers. See what happens when he feels safe around real firepower.
If the 4th quarter GDP data was manipulated upwards by not including the late report on the Port data, the next GDP report will include a correction revision of the 4th quarter GDP. You can count on the biden administration and their compliant media to avoid reporting on the revision. This is a common practice of talking points politics.
Unsurprisingly, this is the exact sort of corruption, lying, and sleight of hand you’d expect from the CCP, with the same crowing about how much better things are running for the people when in fact they’re not working out at all for the people.
Our transformation to Communism is nearly complete, and without a single shot being fired.
what could be the problem we have the three stooges working on the importation of the goods from China to L.A.( Brandon, heels up and the buttboy) Moe, Larry and Curly could do a much better job.
But then, those ships waiting 150 nautical miles away from port are gonna create a larger backlog of waiting to get more cargo and deliver it…. This is a disaster, the news needs to start asking the right questions (I won’t hold my breath)
Biden isn’t smart enough to do all this. This has to be the Kenyan’s doing, with the help of others. However, win or lose Biden will get the credit
EVERYTHING, the hiding and obfuscation of the problems we in America are facing will be magnified in the coming months , our economy won t be able to continue….bring back Donald asap
I can confirm with eyes on target fewer ships are visible in the Catalina channel.
Operation Hide The Ships is in full gear
What else are they lying about?
Pretty much everything!
Well, now that the port numbers are out, the new GDP can be calculated or does “The Last Refuge” not have anyone capable of that?
What else are they lying about?
EVERYTHING!!!
“If the biggest port in the U.S. holds back their import cargo data, the resulting information cannot be deducted from the GDP. Missing data gives an artificial outlook for the GDP. Put another way, the 4th quarter GDP is inflated by the missing deduction.”
Nice job outing the economic fraud, Sundance! 😆
Sounds like when votes were inflated?
Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Fascists, Nazi’s, Communists…
They’re all one and the same today; or the differences are so minor as to be irrelevant.
What they have in common makes moot whatever differences they might have.
What they ALL have in common is that they ALL lie and hate America.
Since they hate America, they hate US!
It’s time to start asking if your neighborhood butcher, baker, and candlestick maker is ideologically aligned with any of the above and, if so, shunning them socially and boycotting their businesses.
Don’t ever feel sorry for them. They are NOT our friends! They will do, would do… and, HAVE done worse to us or people like us (deplorables)!
At least 3 dozen ships parked in among the islands off the east side of Vancouver island. Equally as many anchored in port and harbor west of Vancouver, BC. Sourced from the map at MarineTraffic.com
maritimetraffic.com shows you where the vessels are – interested citizens have been watching this kind of activity and you would have seen the vessels move out corresponding to the info Sundance presents if doing so. An interesting website regardless – like air traffic websites, environmental/weather websites, a gentleman who reports on earthquake activity around the world – there are some pretty cool sources to monitor out there!
From the BEA GDP link…
People have less disposable income and are saving less DESPITE A SUPPOSED 6.9% increase in GDP.
These are terrible numbers. Those who haven’t felt it yet will do so in a big way very very soon.