This is layers of odd. As many readers are aware, the prices of fertilizer have skyrocketed as supplies have been heavily impacted by increased energy costs and supply chain issues. Many people have worried if a shortage of fertilizer may impact farm yields this year.
Against this backdrop CF Industries, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hydrogen and nitrogen fertilizer, is warning its customers that Union Pacific Railway Lines is now restricting the amount of container tonnage they will permit. [Press Release Here]
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), a leading global manufacturer of hydrogen and nitrogen products, today informed customers it serves by Union Pacific rail lines that railroad-mandated shipping reductions would result in nitrogen fertilizer shipment delays during the spring application season and that it would be unable to accept new rail sales involving Union Pacific for the foreseeable future. The Company understands that it is one of only 30 companies to face these restrictions.
CF Industries ships to customers via Union Pacific rail lines primarily from its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana and its Port Neal Complex in Iowa. The rail lines serve key agricultural areas such as Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California.
Products that will be affected include nitrogen fertilizers such as urea and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as well as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), an emissions control product required for diesel trucks. CF Industries is the largest producer of urea, UAN and DEF in North America, and its Donaldsonville Complex is the largest single production facility for the products in North America.
“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” said Tony Will, president and chief executive officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.”
On Friday, April 8, 2022, Union Pacific informed CF Industries without advance notice that it was mandating certain shippers to reduce the volume of private cars on its railroad effective immediately. The Company was told to reduce its shipments by nearly 20%.
CF Industries believes it will still be able to fulfill delivery of product already contracted for rail shipment to Union Pacific destinations, albeit with likely delays. However, because Union Pacific has told the Company that noncompliance will result in the embargo of its facilities by the railroad, CF Industries may not have available shipping capacity to take new rail orders involving Union Pacific rail lines to meet late season demand for fertilizer. (read more)
Things get increasingly curious when you look at who owns majority stakes in CF Industries (manufacturer), and who owns Union Pacific (distribution):
The top two shareholders of CF Industries are Vanguard and Blackrock:
(SOURCE)
The top two shareholders of Union Pacific are Vanguard and Blackrock:
(SOURCE)
Basically UP’s system is facing a fluidity problem due to a lack of manpower. UP is starting to get a less than stellar reputation as a place to work if you are in railroad circles so most of the people they are hiring are new to the industry and inexperienced. If they don’t starting limiting the number of cars that they accept their whole railroad will gridlock:
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/shippers-complain-about-union-pacifics-plans-to-meter-traffic/
So limit less necessary shipments. Good production is somewhat necessary, no?
Good point. If you recall from last year, the rail classification yards were as backed up as US ports. My (limited) understanding is this has not gotten much better. Stuffing more traffic into the system will make it worse. But thankfully we’ve got a bunch of Slavs grunting out another chapter in their 1000 year book of grievances to keep everyone distracted. Stock up on essentials. Fall could get a little rough.
the u.s. probably shouldn’t have added yet more grievances to that 1000 year book, given how prone the slavs are to grunting about grievances.
oh well, the petrodollar wasn’t that important, was it?
Your limited understanding is a lot more than most of us have. A great post.
One wonders if all of these incidents are planned or connected in some kind of way. We see who the money is behind it all, but who wrote the plan, and how it is being relayed and executed?
Where are the feedback loops emerging, and who is making the decisions? What are their names? Get inside the OODA personalities and alter the dynamics…
Economic historians will have a field day with this in 30 years. But it’s our problem today.
If anyone believes that narrative then I have some shares of bridge stock you might be interested in.,,,,
4 days ago: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/whats-offing-union-pacific-unp-135601064.html
3 days ago: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/union-pacific-unp-earnings-expected-190007330.html
2 days ago: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/union-pacific-named-best-company-140000189.html
Don’t tell us UP is having employment problems that are affecting business in any significant way. That would affect fundamentals and those aren’t showing signs of a labor shortage unless those news reports are pure fiction.
The fastest easiest way to reduce costs and improve their bottom line is to get rid of rail cars. It helps management’s bonuses but limits the business the RR can do. They don’t care about that though.
That’s because a large number of rail cars these days are leased. That practiced began to be more ‘mainstream’ in the 1950s. But the railroad doesn’t remove rail cars from it’s inventory unless management understands that the particular commodity and/or customers for which the cars were acquired is going to be in short supply or reducing their business for an indefinite period of time.
I know this because my paternal grandfather handled company-wide railcar leasing in his office before he retired. He and my father both worked their entire careers for a major U.S. common carrier Class 1 railroad.
Great info! … I’m always amazed at the breadth and depth of the life experience and knowledge of CTH readers. So helpful.
Like many companies, Railroads ‘optimized’ to the bare bones. If your company starts talking about optimization, start planning an exit because the axe starts swinging shortly there after. Now, they find themselves trying to get the ‘optimized’ people back. They may also have vax requirements too, which, reduces the prospect pool. Someday, those that survive this will look back and marvel at all of the self inflicted wounds that brought our formerly great civilization down. Plant a garden, build walls, the end approaches.
Thanks man, I am going to apply for a job at UP! I might actually get lucky! They would be lucky to have me!
It seems to me. They are expecting fewer people. Why would Big Pharma be expecting fewer people?
Why are the car companies not unset about far fewer people being able to buy cars?
SFB, I work in the Industry and at least the one I’m familiar with (T) is upset about it and doing all they can to produce as many as they possibly can.
I know most will believe this is INTENTIONAL, in part because “no onecould be THAT stupid!”,…
but I beg to disagree.
You know how “rocket scientists” are recognised as very smart, as in “what are you, a ROCKET SCIENTIST??!”
Read up on the investigations of the 2 shuttle disasters; group think, suppressing unpopular dissenting opinions, allowing desire to dictate decisions rather than logic, ANY group of people, even a group of very smart people, can make STUPID decisions, and take STUPID and counterproductive, even self destructive actions.
And, the Idiots In Charge are NOT smart; they are mediocre at best intellects who got where they are despite their obvious shortcomings.
Fauxi is the poster boy; no intellect, but knows how to navigate the swamp.
They have been pretty effective taking over the major govs across the world. Don’t underestimate your competition
those would be the likud mossad who laugh at their u.s. prostitute.
Lysenkoism. Liberal Soviet “Science”
Yes it is possible for smart people to make poor decisions. But there is a difference between (smart) people acting in good faith and people acting in bad faith. That question is the one you’ve omitted except in passing in your first sentence.
Never underestimate stupid people in large groups. Like Trudeau supporters. You know, Morons.
Who actually owns Vanguard and Blackrock? The names of people, please.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2tFstBs61PE5/
These families do.
Vanguard is owned by its funds and its funds by their investors. Since Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street are the biggest index fund / index ETF managers, they also control the most public traded stock.
UP action is possibly due to fall out from Precision Railroading. It’s very controversial though the usual complainers (like unions) are out there so it’s hard to tell what’s what. The detractors will tell you PR screwed up the CP and then was brought into CSX which also got screwed up. Again, that’s the detractors’ opinions.
Vanguard is a monopoly. Who are the people that represent the majority stakeholders?
See it, Vanguard to Blackrock to Street Capital to Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.
Dominion Voting Systems, Acquired by its Management Team and Staple Street CapitalNews provided by
Dominion Voting Systems Jul 16, 2018, 19:02 ET
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-voting-systems-acquired-by-its-management-team-and-staple-street-capital-300681752.html
Who cares who owns Vanguard or Blackrock? It’s irrelevant.
The Union Pacific STOCK – as well as all other stock – is owned by thousands of people in their IRA/401k’s.
Goddamn there are a lot of stupid people on this site.
The same idiots who will be blaming “Them” for the nuclear war after everything is gone.
Let me repeat this for you.
Vanguard is a monopoly. Who are the people that represent the* majority stakeholders*?
Who owns the largest share? All the others are cover for them.
When * majority stakeholders* vote, the board of directors listens. Think twitter in the news now.
but the proxies for stock owned in mutual funds are voted by the fund managers, not the ultimate fund shareholders (though they do get to vote proxies on the fund).
Thank you. I had forgotten this – fund managers. Then, how do the majority stockholders exercise control?
Before you can execute a successful war you better understand the enemy and more importantly you better know damn well who they are. The people behind these firms are the very forces behind all this. The people behind the curtain pull the strings. I am not going to demonize the entity it’s the people behind it.
at least we are not stupid enough to curse our own Creator in witness of millions of souls..
and it is “your kind” who will be blamed..
But once again, the largest shareholders of the company in question, UNP, are Vanguard and Blackrock, with State Street, Wellington, and Bank of America right behind them.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UNP/holders
Sorry. When you invest money into mutual funds you’re only allocated shares in that mutual fund. The mutual fund owns the stocks the funds invest in.
Even if you open a brokerage account and buy stocks they’re held by a clearing house. Don’t believe me. If you have a brokerage account with any stocks you’ve purchase give that large investment house a call and say you want the stocks held in your brokerage account sent to your home address. They’ll say sorry. Can’t do that. Or won’t.
That’s not to say you can’t go to a local stock broker and buy stocks and have them sent to your house. But, just don’t expect Vanguard or BlackRock to do that for you. I haven’t seen them offer that service on Vanguard.
I rolled my 401k into my IRA account with Vanguard since 2002. I have done very well over the years.
from the individual investors’ povs, vanguard has decent products (low or no load funds with good performance and low management fees, no commission online trading in individual asset accounts, pretty good systems and info, tax reports, etc.).
Yeah, and then they decided to involve themselves in an incestuous relationship with BlackRock. I don’t know if they started before Bogle died or after.
Yes, and so has Bill Gates. But, what was the true cost.
This is just a question for us all.
Vanguard owns Blackrock who owns Street Capital who owns Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.
How do you think Dominion Voting Systems did during the last 2020 election? Did they switch votes?
I am not coming after you randyinrocklin. Just pointing out the true cost. Was it worth the few dollars we got in our 401K?
Bill Gates… You mean the guy who’s been buying up farmland while trying to get people to eat fake meat and bugs?
They own each other. They are the same pig wearing different masks.
vanguard claims to be owned by the people who have vanguard mutual fund investments there.
https://www.quora.com/Who-owns-Vanguard-Group
I have never seen a company where the majority stockholders did not exercise control? Please help me to understand. Thanks
Vanguard is NOT a majority shareholder in anything. It is astock brokerage firm that holds investments for its customers. It DOES NOT get to vote those shares. The owners get to vote the shares they own – not the custodian (Vanguard).
Can you understand that?
Have to try to remember there’s a difference between owning stocks outright and owning shares in a mutual fund or ETF. Now, theoretically you own can own stocks in your Vanguard brokerage account. But, try calling up and asking them to send them to you. You can probably get it done but it’ll take a lot of teeth pulling.
Now when you own shares in a mutual fund you only get to vote on fiduciary matters related to the mutual fund only. A mutual fund can hold multiple stocks in multiple companies and only the mutual fund gets to vote at stockholder meetings for those companies. This way they can separate your sway over what a company can do by proxie.
Now, if you hold stocks in a brokerage account then you would have the ability to vote on issues related to that company at stockholder meetings.
So, when you invest in mutual funds they act as middle men thwarting any attempt to have a say at stockholders meetings.
So, owning stocks is not the same as owning shares in a mutual fund or ETF. And, ETFs are just like mutual funds although they can be traded throughout the day unlike mutual funds.
EXACTLY! Ding, ding, ding. we have a winner.
Black Rock is public but it looks as if Vanguard owns majority share. Vanguard is a PRIVATE entity. But it’s the old money families for the most part. Didn’t check the link but I assume Pedro might have sent you the same video I posted to SD. Stopworldcontrol.com
Lance M. Fritz (Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer) is also head of the Business Roundtable trade and international committee. If anyone would be in a position to understand what the disruption of fertilizer distribution would accomplish, it would be Fritz.
Perhaps now if the Bolsheviks are going to limit chemical fertilizers via Lysenko pseudo-science (think Climate science) to do another Holomodor and mass murder Christians, we should relook at John Hamaker’s “Rock Dust” as fertilizer.
A Rock Dust Primer
file:///C:/Users/18643/Downloads/A%20Rock%20Dust%20Primer.pdf
I went to look for rock dust information. This video is not anti-rock dust; it is an interesting investigation of the conditions that might work, or not work.
For example the interviewee said that his plants were more frost resistant because of high mineral content. I had never heard this before.
Interviewee also says that incompletely finished compost may actually rob plants of minerals, and there is a scenario where you do well to add rock dust to compost during composting, for optimal results later.
Biodynamic composting is not an answer for large industrial farms, but some smaller operations have found it useful. Steiner and biodynamic preparations seem woo-woo; but, whatever works… especially in a situation where the leadership appears to want to starve us:
https://www.groworganic.com/blogs/articles/how-to-make-your-own-biodynamic-compost
Ty for your input. Since you are interested please look at my comment/link on page 1 here about “Bread From Stones”
Cheers mate
If I send in 50 cents and 3 box tops can I get a Letter of Marque?
Aren’t Vanguard and BlackRock on the Twitter Board of Directors? Aren’t they trying to block Elon Musk from buying Twitter?
So they’re now trying to control how much and how little food we eat?
Who are these people? Who’s controlling them + Clinton + Obama + etc?
Has CTH ever delved deeply into BlackRock and Vanguard?
last week Vanguard bought 10% of Twitter to put Musk’s 9% share in second place.
No they didn’t. They bought an amount of shares FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS for their retirement accounts.
Vanguard is fundamentally a stock brokerage.
Sheesh.
You keep thinking “FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS”. Share purchase was just a coincidence, highly unlikely.
Research Blackrock, Vanguard investing US companies 401K plans in China. Doubt
the investors, THEIR CUSTOMERS know the extent of their hard earned money being sacrificed to China.
If the customers are ignorant of where and how their retirement funds are being invested; they deserve to lose all their money. The employees chose their investment vehicle after all. Vanguard, et al just executed their wishes.
Satan controls them.
Vanguard invented the mutual fund. Been around quite a while now.
If you are this stupid please do the smallest bit of homework before opening your ignorant trap in public.
90% of the postings on this site are the ignorant blabbering of imbeciles.
Pleasant attitude, Stuart. Hope to not see you here in the near future.
I would offer that the “imbeciles” are questioning whether Vanguard honors their fiduciary duty to their investors, or whether Vanguard uses its investors $7 Trillion in assets to effect corporate and governmental policies that said investors may be opposed to. That’s all.
Nope, that is not what the imbiciles are saying at all. They are saying Vanguard is private, family owned money and they use it to control the world by being majority shareholders in many companies. That is, in essence, the nonsense they are spewing.
As for fulfilling their fiduciary duty; there are legions of trial lawyers who make a living suing over just this type of malfeasance. Vanguard didn’t get this old and large by not following the law. They take their generous cut of your trades and move on.
Pot, I would like to introduce you to Kettle, but you won’t stop blabbering.
Vanguard invented the mutual fund like Al Gore invented the internet. Next time you’re doing the ‘smallest bit of homework’, maybe make sure it’s correct before you go patting yourself on the back and belittling everyone else. MFS Massachusetts Investors’ Trust created the modern mutual fund in 1924. Please, though, tell us all how smart you are….
Yes, and Lotus 123 invented the spreadsheet.
Vanguard was the entity that popularized mutual fund investing when IRA’s and 401k’s came into being. they are the Microsoft of mutual fund investing.
But yes, you are correct and so learned (and you miss the point)… Vanguard did not invent the mutual fund. So?
@Janet
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/06/20/blackrock-in-the-white-house/
think maybe they are using rail to unload california port problems since there are no trucks.we did that in south carolina to help our charlston port keep up. i bet vanguard and blackrock own the farms that arent going to get fertilizer, limited crops will demand a higher price
How does it help them if the prices are so high nobody can afford to buy? Staples are a margins game. Very thin margins.
We’re already cut off from Russian ammonium nitrate, 75% of world supply, so this move by Buffet seems aimed at starving people…
my little grandson loves to mess with his Vanguard ETFs. He doesn’t have enough to buy into the funds but his chore money and birthday money are enough to buy a share or two of an ETF. So he prints out the holdings and runs to tell us he just bought another diamond mine or gold mine or oil company or steel mill or apartment building or hospital. it costs him nothing as he piggy backs of me.
also he can trade ETFs during the day (unlike the funds) and watches highs and lows. He gets very excited when he buys and or sells. he is also watching a pipeline at the moment.
Brilliant way to teach! Well done!
They should be teaching these things in school… instead of “Gender Identity” *CRT* and all the rest of this prog nonsense!!
Is this related?
Georgia governor declares supply chain state of emergency
Kemp’s executive order runs for 30 days starting Saturday
By Mark Solomon
15 Apr 2022
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/georgia-governor-declares-supply-chain-state-of-emergency
It’s called politics.
If we only had a transportation secretary who could handle the job.
home handling the hwife
hwife = contraction of he-wife
Those nipples of his hwife must be seriously sore from all that breast feeding.
Harvest of Despair: The Ukrainian Holocaust
This is very evil; cannot process today..
I smell another manufactured crisis.
Rationing, price controls and subsidies, less freedom on the horizon?
Are they trying to win the approval of the American voter? Isn’t 39 percent approval enough already?
They’ve got us surrounded…
They’ll never get away now.
wasn’t there an American WWII general who said something like, “they’ve got us surrounded, poor bastards.”
No fertilizer, no corn. No corn, no ethanol for the 15% to add to gasoline.
Oh no. There will always be corn for ethanol. Those Iowa farmers will kill you over those subsidies. We will get less corn to eat. That’s all.
This is correct Mike. Remember the millionaire corn farmers using the power of government to screw YOU the next time a bunch of idiot musicians has a “Farm Aid” concert. I live in farm country. Farmers are the wealthiest demographic in the state. All of them that I know have second homes and endow wasteful civic nonsense. The poor farmer is a myth.
It was reported a few days ago, fertilizer shipments via rail in Canada were being reduced as well.
Coordinated.
whats the reason for the reduction?
The Great Reset.
One in fourteen will live under the great reset. Depopulation! The jab didn’t get the results needed (yet), abortion now at full term birth, flooding the border will take time to seed the chaos and overdose from opioids are filling in the gap. Hyperinflation, depression (expected) and the collapse of the dollar. Just to name a few reasons.
Good times ahead. Like a ride on the Disney Transgendered Express.
What’s the reason for the mandated reduction by UP?
Petey Buttgager is all over this like Hunter on a stripper’s ass sprinkled with cocaine.
“What, me worry?”
South Africa’s Largest Container Port of Durban Remains Closed Following Catastrophic Flooding on Monday Night…
https://www.project44.com/supply-chain-crisis-tracker
who is John Galt?
He is the main character in Atlas Shrugged, and if you have never read the book, you are behind the information curve and how the book is related to current events.
sounds like YOU haven’t actually read the book lol
or maybe you forgot /s
Boot Edge Edge
Butty – Gig
The people have to take action somehow to break this madness up its gone way to far. This scam has to be EXPOSED.
I think this may impact soybeans more than corn or wheat. My guess is based on the overlap of where soybeans are grown and where CFI uses UP.
Info:
What is produced where – nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/A_to_Z/index.php
CF Industries’ website touts staging product at distribution centers. Perhaps sufficient product has already been staged.
CF Industries’ 2016 report on page 4 is a map showing production & distribution locations, and distribution routes & carriers. – archive.org/web/20170505041716/cfindustries.com/globalassets/cf-industries/media/documents/reports/annual-reports/cfi_2016-annual-report.pdf – Also page 33: leased railcar fleet of approximately 5,700 tank and hopper cars
Interactive map showing production & distribution locations – cfindustries.com/who-we-are/locations
UP routes – up.com/cs/groups/public/@uprr/@corprel/documents/digitalmedia/img_up_svc-unit-regions.png
UP overview by state – up.com/aboutup/usguide/index.htm
A hole in my research is the connection between fertilizer use and the end commodity, for example how much fertilizer is used for wheat versus soybeans. Is there a big difference? I have no idea, I’m not a farmer. Another topic is the impact on animal feed.
Corn requires the most fertilizer, wheat/rye next. Soybeans get it too, but require less N as they’re legumes and fix their own N in their roots. That’s how it used to be, don’t really know common processes these days. I stopped helping farm grain while we still plowed and disked the soil to prepare for planting. We were no-tilling beans, though.
I’ve read that many farms in the Midwest are scaling back corn and planting beans this spring. Don’t know if that’s true, but it makes sense given our present situation.
The CF stock tripled in price since last August.
Uh, creating food shortages, crop failures, and then massive default on farm mortgages which will then be gobbled up by Blackrock and Vanguard?
And Bill Gates.
By the way, though this can’t be done on a mass scale, if you store animal feces/urine and your own, you can use it as fertilizer.
Eww, right? Well, you wanna eat or not?
Regenerative livestock farming would help a lot. Graze more cattle & keep them grazing rather than bringing them in together to eat grain. As they graze they pee & poo as they go (urea & nitrogen) building up the soil. Interestingly, regenerated grassland also sequesters more carbon than does the same area of conifer forest so that should also satisfy the climate change folks. Perhaps we should be eating MORE meat due to the benefits grazed cattle bring to farmland rather than less? Without soil regeneration we’re definitely more reliant on applied imported minerals which actually deplete the soil so we have to keep importing & applying more and more… A grain-centric diet for humans is also not the best. Meat (or eggs) is the most nutrient-dense food so you need less of it per capita to survive & be healthy.
Do they occupy their control illegally, yes? If you think a monopoly is illegal since only a few people make up the majority stockholders.
Vanguard is a monopoly. Who are the people that represent the majority stakeholders?
See it, Vanguard to Blackrock to Street Capital to Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.
Dominion Voting Systems, Acquired by its Management Team and Staple Street CapitalNews provided by
Dominion Voting Systems Jul 16, 2018, 19:02 ET
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-voting-systems-acquired-by-its-management-team-and-staple-street-capital-300681752.html
“Vanguard is a monopoly.” No it isn’t.
Don’t know how Dominion got into the conversation but it is getting close to being a monopoly judging by the states that use its systems exclusively. This seems to be where the evil is hiding. If true, you can “vote harder” until you turn blue but there will never be another fair election.
Wish we had some leadership on the federal level. A strong President would exceed his authority a bit and do some jawboning to get UP to prioritize fertilizer.
Since we don’t have that, would love to see Trump step up as “shadow President” more often. He might address current policy more directly at the rally speeches, or do policy press conferences every week or two.
maybe i am totally wrong but those “owners” are a myriad of individual investors whose collective holdings are reported here.
however if it is mutual funds, and it might be, those proxies are voted by the funds’ managers, but are publicly reported.
why would the stockholders or their agents wish to reduce revenues and hence profits for the shares they own, reducing performance?
the u.s. government on the other hand does not care. why they would want to starve the citizenry and reduce the support for the deep state biden administration is also hard to figure. but they really don’t seem to care that brandon seems to be mounting a challenge to gw bush’s terminal approval of 25%.
I’m counting down the days until these diabolically-influenced, globalist Bond villains that want us to eat the bugs and live in the pod get their comeuppance. All this is being done purposefully because the climate change scam and the resulting carbon capture and trading scam is estimated to be 5X larger than all the stock exchanges of the world combined. You cannot eat meat or grown non-GMO crops is their dystopian great reset green nightmare. If you follow their plotting all the way to the logical conclusion, it is abundantly clear that they intend to dramatically reduce the standard of living in the West while starving to death a large portion of the world’s population. They manufacture a crisis and then provide solutions that would’ve never been acceptable without said crisis. Scary times.
Don’t worry. The Republican leaders will be along shortly to fix things.
Sarc tags? You don’t need no steenkeeng sarc tags!
Yeah. That free market that Hannity and Shapiro talk about ain’t working so well anymore is it. The truth is the “free market” has been rigged from top to bottom and side to side for a long time. The elites can push it any way they want now. If they decide to stave people they can make that happen.
The great reset. You will own nothing and eat bugs, if you can find them.
The problem is that, by nature, entrepreneurs actually hate competition. Competition squeezes margins. So “free market” has been turned into “free to monopolize.” And our politicians are in cozy bed with this because their payoff for allowing or facilitating uncompetitive practices is huge.
Same poop, different day, same players.
Food is not available and, even if it was. you can’t afford it.
You need to lower your expectations.
Seriosly, man made food shortages and bankrupting people to pay for food is violence.
Wait, I thought hurting your feelings by not correctly reading your mind to know what pronoun you want me to use was violence…
SD…..Blackrock & Vanguard own majority share in almost everything. The corps including media all seem to roll up to them. Here is a video that backs my claim. These guys behind this site are good people I think. Lotta good honest doctors in this cliche.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/monopoly/
So then why isn’t any one looking into UNion Pacific and asking the obvious questions? This is not hard folks, putting pressure on the people who are making these decisions has to start happening. What are the options? Sit behind a computer screen and face starvation? Sigh! Wasting time!
The article should have delved into this rather than leaving it hanging. Luckily lots of commenters have filled in what the author omitted.
You have to dig around, but it appears railroads cut back on workers over the past 3 years by a third. No backup to handle surge in shipments, difficulty hiring replacements and long training times.
Another supply chain problem courtesy of Brandon and it is impacting ethanol (remember last week at Menlo) production by restricting grain shipments. Elevators are full and farmers face problem of who will take their output. Etc. and Etc.
And its not just UP. BUrlington Northern, CSX, Norfolk Southern all have the same problem.
Multinational corporations should not be allowed to exist. Period.
Religious and legal philosophers– and other thinkers– should consider how to limit the lifespan of corporations. As human legal fictions, they should not be permitted to exist longer than God allows individual people to live, with no exceptions.
We need to apply the the Rule Against Perpetuities to juridical “people”, i.e. corporations. There needs to be a legal corporate lifespan at the end of which a corporation expires by operation of law.
Everyone is excited about the fertilizer. You completely missed the DEF fluid.
No DEF.
No trucks on the road
No tractors in the field
No one tons running support.
No DEF is worse than the train completely stopping. Everything stops.
DEF also has a short shelf life.
That jumped out at me too.
I’m DEF, I couldn’t hear you. Could you speak up?
Sheesh. This smells like bad fish.
“Vanguard & Blackrock Control the World”
Vanguard and Blackrock were also the #1 and #2 top shareholders in Twitter, until Elon crashed the party.
These rich people and all their organizations want to eliminate the power of the middle class and force us to accept every liberal order. Romney is a Black Rock associate and is a typical example. We need to break up this monopoly. Government and other unions are major contributors and guide their politics.
I suggest you look at the top management of these venture deals- Chances are they are NOT working for the good and safety of America. FIRE up the ovens and see if they straighten out.
Urea is also an essential ingredient for coal fired power generating stations, those that remain anyway. It is used in the post-combustion air quality control systems similar to diesel vehicles. Without urea, coal fired power stations couldn’t meet air quality standards and would need to shut down.
One wonders why our system design is to flush urea & nitrogen into the ocean instead of capturing it in abundance to keep soil from turning into inert dirt.
It isn’t odd if you just admit the Emperor is buck naked.
We are in the early stages of the long-prepared Great Culling of the Useless Eaters who they have told us for over 50 years are destroying Mother Earth + will “soon” cause the extinction of All Life on Earth…
They are calling it The Great Reset.
It is the same Living Space argument.
Hitler, Stalin + Mao are coming out of the shadows now…
You have to admit. Some of the useless eaters could use a culling. Places like Portland, Seattle, San Fran, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, and places in-between seem to have more than a few useless eaters.
But, where does it stop. Once you kick off the giant Concentration Camp Factories and start feeding them useless eaters you eventually need to keep feeding the furnace glowing red hot. So, eventually, they have to come for you and me to keep the fires going.
That was my question about the Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi’s made good money feeding the camps with undesirables. What would happen when they ran out of undesirables?
That’s what they discovered in the gulags under Stalin. They worked the people to death and always needed a fresh supply.
Central planning strategists have the collapse all figured out. Famine is part of the plan. The other cards on the table are economic collapse, war, civil unrest. Prep yourselves.
I now realize that Vanguard and Blackrock are part of US govt.
Decommissioning of the Urea Plant in Nikiski, AK was part of this plot….
The Big Squeeze has begun in earnest.