New York Subway Shooting
April 12th, 2022Via: New York Post:
At least 16 people were injured, including 10 who were shot, when a suspect set off a smoke grenade and unleashed gunfire on a Brooklyn subway train during Tuesday morning rush hour, the NYPD and law enforcement sources told The Post.
The gunman — possibly disguised as an MTA construction worker and wearing a gas mask — launched his bloody assault around 8:30 a.m. on a Manhattan-bound N train at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, where authorities later discovered several undetonated devices, FDNY and police said.
The suspect is believed to have set off the smoke grenade moments before firing off a barrage of bullets, police sources told The Post.
China Port Congestion Leaves Everything From Grains to Metals Stranded
April 11th, 2022Via: Bloomberg:
Dotting the sea off Chinese ports are 477 bulk cargo ships waiting to deliver resources from metal ore to grain into the country.
Queues of vessels carrying raw materials have jumped after Shanghai initiated a city-wide lockdown at the end of last month to combat Covid-19. More than two weeks on, the congestion has expanded to nearby Ningbo-Zhoushan as ship-owners desperately divert ships to other ports in the country to avoid the trucker shortage and warehouse closures in Shanghai.
There were 222 bulkers waiting off Shanghai as of April 11, 15% higher than a month earlier, according to Bloomberg shipping data. At Ningbo-Zhoushan there were 134 carriers, 0.8% higher than last month, while further north, the combined ports of Rizhao, Dongjiakou and Qingdao saw a 33% increase to 121 vessels.
More: Parking Lot Of Vessels Worsens At Chinese Ports As COVID Shutdowns Spark Nightmare
Finland, Sweden Could Join NATO as Soon as This Summer
April 11th, 2022Via: NY Post:
Finland and Sweden are poised to join NATO as early as this summer, a move that a US official said stemmed from Russia’s “massive strategic blunder” of invading Ukraine, according to a report published Monday. ??
Membership of the two Nordic countries in the Atlantic alliance was a “topic of conversation and multiple sessions” last week during meetings of NATO foreign ministers that were attended by representatives from Stockholm and Helsinki, the Times of London reported.
Finland is expected to submit an application in June, with Sweden following soon after, the report said.
BASF CEO: Banning Russian Energy Imports Could Throw Germany Into Historic Crisis
April 9th, 2022Via: Reuters:
Germany could face its biggest economic crisis in nearly 80 years should imports of Russian gas and oil be stopped or disrupted in the long-term, the chief executive of BASF, one of the country’s biggest electricity consumers, said.
“This could throw the German economy into its biggest crisis since the end of World War Two,” Martin Brudermueller told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, adding this posed an existential threat to Germany’s small and medium-sized businesses.
The Global Fertilizer Shortage Means That Far Less Food Will Be Grown All Over The Planet In 2022
April 9th, 2022Via: Economic Collapse Blog:
A fertilizer shortage has added to growing concerns about the Ukraine war’s impact on the price and scarcity of certain basic foods.
Combined, Russia and Belarus had provided about 40% of the world’s exports of potash, according to Morgan Stanley. Russia’s exports were hit by sanctions. Further, in February, a major Belarus producer declared force majeure — a statement that it wouldn’t be able to uphold its contracts due to forces beyond its control.
Russia also exported 11% of the world’s urea, and 48% of the ammonium nitrate. Russia and Ukraine together export 28% of fertilizers made from nitrogen and phosphorous, as well as potassium, according to Morgan Stanley.
Astronomers Just Discovered the Farthest Object in the Known Universe
April 9th, 2022Via: LiveScience:
A possible galaxy that exists some 13.5 billion light-years from Earth has broken the record for farthest astronomical object ever seen.
“Will Famine Emerge by Year End? Yes.”
April 8th, 2022Via: Peak Prosperity:
The President’s Brother, James Biden, and the Chinese
April 7th, 2022Via: CBS:
“We have people with the Biden name, dealing with Chinese business people that have a relationship to the Communist Party,” Senator Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge. “I think James Biden was very much a part of this.”
Bank records released by Republican senators this week indicate James Biden’s company, the Lion Hall Group, received payments from a Chinese-financed consulting group in 2018, before his brother Joe announced he was running for president. Grassley says that same year James Biden and the president’s son, Hunter, received monthly retainers totaling $165,000 — $100,000 to Hunter and $65,000 to James.
Czech Republic Provides T-72 Tanks and Armoured Infantry Vehicles to Ukraine
April 6th, 2022Via: Daily Mail:
The Czech Republic has become the first NATO country to send tanks to Ukraine, providing T-72 and armoured infantry vehicles following President Zelensky’s plea for help.
Several BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, howitzer artillery pieces and more than a dozen T-72 tanks were yesterday loaded on a train bound for Slovakia where they are expected to head on to Ukraine, footage run by public broadcaster Czech Television showed.
Manure Supplies Run Short as Fertilizer Prices Soar
April 6th, 2022Just pull up to a Biden press conference and haul off as much as you need.
Via: Reuters:
For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern entrepreneur has worked hard to woo farmers on its benefits for their crops.
Now, facing a global shortage of commercial fertilizers made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more U.S. growers are knocking on his door. Sandquist says they’re clamoring to get their hands on something Old MacDonald would swear by: old-fashioned animal manure.
“I wish we had more to sell,” said Sandquist, founder of Natural Fertilizer Services Inc, a nutrient management firm based in the U.S. state of Iowa. “But there’s not enough to meet the demand.”
