Bidens Handlungen/Resultate als POTUS

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/e…port-strike-what-to-know/

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East Coast port strike looms for first time since 1977. Here's what to know.

Thousands of dockworkers at every major East and Gulf coast port are girding to strike starting early next week, threatening to close trade gateways that handle about half of all goods shipped in containers in and out of the U.S.

Negotiations between the union representing dockworkers and a shipping industry group representing terminal operators and ocean carriers have been stalled for months, with both sides this week issuing conflicting statements about their willingness to bargain.

Experts say a shutdown could severely hamper the flow of goods and raise shipping costs. Any spike in such expenses could be passed on to consumers just as U.S. inflation normalizes, and even potentially hinder the Federal Reserve as it finally pivots to lowering interest rates.

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https://www.reuters.com/busine…ay-says-union-2024-09-29/

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US East Coast port strike set to start Tuesday, says union

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A port strike on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico will go ahead starting on Tuesday, the International Longshoremen’s Association union said on Sunday, signaling action that could cause delays and snarl supply chains.

Sieht so aus, als ob der Streik kommt.

Das sind jetzt so ziemlich die letzten Minuten, um das in letzter Minute abzuwenden:

https://apnews.com/article/por…60f46a64e4322d1702beb1f72

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US port strike by 45,000 dockworkers is all but certain to begin at midnight

NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing U.S. dockworkers has signaled that 45,000 members will walk off the job at midnight, kicking off a massive strike likely to shut down ports across the East and Gulf coasts.

https://abc7ny.com/post/port-s…on-ila-contract/15378528/

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Dockworkers go on strike at 14 U.S. ports after contract expires

ELIZABETH, New Jersey (WABC) -- Tens of thousands of dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts have walked off the job after their contracts expired on October 1 at midnight.

The move has impacted 14 ports in total but the ripple effect could hurt a large swath of Americans.

On Monday, officials for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, along with the governor of New York, were weighing options and putting together contingency plans for the strike.

The strike could have devastating impacts on the shipping industry, including shortages and driving up the cost of goods.

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Also wenn das wirklich den Umfang hat, den alle schildern, ist das der nächste wirtschaftliche Schock für die USA. Und erstmal kein Ende absehbar:

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The International Longshoreman Association says it is willing to stand on the picket lines for as long as it takes until a new deal is struck with the United States Maritime Alliance. The two sides have not met since June and there are currently no plans in place for them to discuss options.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is now calling on the Biden administration to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, forcing dockworkers to stay on the job while negotiations continue.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration will not step in to stop the port strike. A statement from the White House read, in part, "The President has directed his Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force to meet every day and prepare to address potential disruptions, if necessary."

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/0…sts-starting-to-rise.html

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Chaos is building for shippers as U.S. port strike continues and costs rise

Key Points

• As the East and Gulf coast ports strike hits day three on Thursday, there are multiple signs of supply chain stress building.
• Thousands of shipping containers were potentially dumped at the wrong ports as ocean carriers scrambled to find alternate options for cargo, and increased tracking of diverted vessels is a direct challenge to an ILA union threat to stop unloading at other ports.
• Surcharges imposed by shipping giants are starting to mount, and the need to use inland transportation options like trucking and rail for diverted cargo are adding to costs.
• A major grocery chain CEO tells CNBC that while it is well stocked for weeks to come, some go-to items will not be available and prices on items like bananas will rise significantly.

Zitat von Wemir

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/0…sts-starting-to-rise.html

Und das so kurz vor der Wahl.

Zitat von RobFord Gesinnungsgenosse

Und das so kurz vor der Wahl.

Liegt aber nur daran, dass der Vertrag, den die Gewerkschaft hatte, Ende September abgelaufen ist.

https://ilaunion.org/reference/master-contract/

https://ilaunion.org/wp-conten…sterContract0-2021-12.pdf

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The term of the new Master Contract (and of all local collective bargaining agreements covering employees engaged in work involving container and ro-ro operations on the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States) shall be for six years from October 1, 2018 through and including September 30, 2024.

Aber falls du nur sagen wolltest, das kommt sehr ungelegen für die Demokraten. Jepp.

Zitat von Wemir

Liegt aber nur daran, dass der Vertrag, den die Gewerkschaft hatte, Ende September abgelaufen ist.

https://ilaunion.org/reference/master-contract/

https://ilaunion.org/wp-conten…sterContract0-2021-12.pdf

Aber falls du nur sagen wolltest, das kommt sehr ungelegen für die Demokraten. Jepp.

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Der Streikführer klingt jedenfalls sehr überzeugend.

Tja, das war es wohl.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/1…ort-strike-suspended.html

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Port Union Agrees to Suspend Strike

The International Longshoremen’s Association received a new wage offer and will halt its walkout at East and Gulf Coast ports, which began Tuesday.

The International Longshoremen’s Association agreed on Thursday to suspend a strike that closed down major ports on the East and Gulf Coasts. The move followed an improved wage offer from port employers.

The strike, which the dockworkers’ union began on Tuesday, threatened to weigh on the economy five weeks before national elections. Employers, represented by the United States Maritime Alliance, have offered to increase wages by 62 percent over the course of a new six-year contract, according to a person familiar with negotiations who did not want to be identified because the talks were continuing. That increase is lower than what the union had initially asked for, but much higher than the alliance’s earlier offer.

In a statement, the union said that it had reached “a tentative agreement on wages” and that its 45,000 members would go back to work, with the current contract extended until Jan. 15. The union said it was returning to the bargaining table “to negotiate all other outstanding issues.” The alliance issued a similar statement.

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Außer das hier:

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President Biden, when asked about the tentative deal on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Thursday evening, said: “We’ve been working hard on it. With the grace of God, it’s going to hold.”

Hält so gut, wie die Entwürfe für Abkommen, an denen sich Bidens Nahost-Politik versucht.

Zitat von Wemir

Okay, ich sehe zu diesem Hurrikan ziemlich viel Diskurs, zum einen dass es so schlimm wie bei Katrina sei (siehe Wikipedia), zum anderen dass es ein komplettes Versagen seitens der Bundesregierung gibt.

Ist weiter ein Thema, vorallem dass während Geld und Ressourcen nach Israel geschickt werden aus Sicht der Kritiker nur unzureichend Hilfe für die Betroffenen von Hurrikan Helene kommt. (Kann nicht wirklich sagen, ob es mehr oder weniger ist als sonst.) Lindsey Graham hat den perfekt passenden Auftritt für diese Perspektive geliefert:

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1842016786512019943

Zitat von Wemir

Ist weiter ein Thema, vorallem dass während Geld und Ressourcen nach Israel geschickt werden aus Sicht der Kritiker nur unzureichend Hilfe für die Betroffenen von Hurrikan Helene kommt. (Kann nicht wirklich sagen, ob es mehr oder weniger ist als sonst.) Lindsey Graham hat den perfekt passenden Auftritt für diese Perspektive geliefert:

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1842016786512019943

Climate Change voted for Trump

Frage:

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Thank you Kobe Smith with the FT. You've described calls for widespread tariffs as deeply misguided and the IMF today has warned that such policies will dent global growth. Can you elaborate more on the near-term economic impact of these policies and over a longer time horizon. How concerned are you about the potential impact of the dollar status -BANG- as the world's reserve currency?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAgNpzw6y-w&t=1525s

Ich will ja jetzt nicht abergläubisch sein, aber das ist kein gutes Zeichen.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/s…-american-discrimination/

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Chips Giant TSMC Sued Over ‘Anti-American’ Discrimination

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been accused by a group of its U.S. employees of concocting a “discriminatory scheme” that favors Taiwanese foreign workers.

Asthe world’s biggest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, ramps up production in the United States, a group of more than a dozen current and former employees are suing it for alleged “anti-American” discrimination, which they claim has displaced U.S. workers in favor of Taiwanese hires.

Ich glaube die allgemein akzeptierte Erklärung ist, dass TSMC mit der Qualifikation und/oder den Ansprüchen von US-amerikanischen Arbeitern unzufrieden ist und deshalb auf die eigenen Landsleute setzt. Aber ich frage mich, ob sie sich vielleicht auch dagegen sträuben, am Aufbau ihrer US-Konkurrenz durch Wissenstransfer teilzunehmen.

Zitat von Marner

Biden begnadigt Hunter

passende Musik

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri…m-president-joe-biden-11/

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Statement from President Joe Biden

Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. [...]

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Executive Grant of Clemency

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

President of the United States of America

To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:

Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto

ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN

A Full and Unconditional Pardon

For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions) by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket No. 1:23-cr-00061-MN in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and Docket No. 2:23-CR-00599-MCS-1 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto signed my name and caused the Pardon to be recorded with the Department of Justice.

Done at the City of Washington this 1st day of December in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-four and of the Independence of the United States the Two Hundred and Forty-ninth

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Einige Leute finden das verdächtig natürlich wegen der Ukraine und Burisma. Weiß aber nicht genug darüber, um zu sagen, ob der Startpunkt 2014 dafür ausreicht.

Bemerkenswert finde ich, dass die Begnadigung auch für dieses Jahr also bis zur Unterzeichnung gilt. Aber vielleicht macht man das immer so.

Passend dazu, aber leider noch eine Woche vor Chefcommander Bidens jüngstem, barmherzigem Gnadenakt geschrieben:

This Is a Bad Use of a Democratic Lame-Duck Period

As Donald Trump prepares to take power, Democrats are spending a disturbing amount of energy ramping up wars and trying to hand him the powers he needs to crush his political opponents.

Zitat von Branko Marcetic - Jacobin, 26.11.24

The Democratic Party spent the past three years telling voters that Donald Trump was a dangerous authoritarian, a literal fascist who would be a dictator on day one and whose election would mean the end of American democracy. So you would think they’d spend the few, dwindling months until he takes power working feverishly to tweak existing policies, bolster protections for vulnerable groups and Joe Biden–era policies, and generally Trump-proof the country before he comes in and gets the wrecking ball going.

You would think. Instead, Democrats and the outgoing Biden administration are devoting a disturbing amount of their energy in these final few months of Democratic governance to fueling wars around the world and handing Trump the powers he would need to crush his opposition.

Take the war in the Middle East. The Biden administration’s preelection creation of a November 12 deadline by which Israel would have to stop deliberately starving Gazans or risk jeopardizing further US military aid was a shot of hope: given the pointed date (seven days after the election), maybe Biden and his team were finally going to end US support for Israel’s heinous war, since they wouldn’t have to fear electoral or political consequences for doing so anymore.

Instead, when the date came, the Biden administration simply decided, even as eight different organizations declared the humanitarian situation in Gaza was at its worst ever point, that Israel had done good enough — with Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly ignoring the many lower-level State Department officials urging the administration to suspend at least some weapons. As a result, the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued its gratuitous, increasingly pointless spree of massacres and atrocities in both Gaza and Lebanon.

In the waning days of his time in power and his political career as a whole, Biden also: vetoed a United Nations resolution that demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and was backed by every other member of the UN Security Council (unlike even Barack Obama, who in his lame-duck period sent Netanyahu a message by allowing a resolution condemning Israeli settlements to pass); whipped Democrats to vote down Bernie Sanders’s bill to block $20 billion of arms sales to Israel, using talking points that even some in the administration apparently found embarrassing; and denouncing the International Criminal Court for issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu, while personally phoning the president of France to tell him off for saying he would act on them in line with international law.

After being rebuked by an electorate fed up with US wars and frustrated at the wealth being sent overseas while problems at home go unaddressed, Biden — whether out of spite or because he doesn’t have to care anymore — seems to have decided to double down on this unpopular course.

That’s not just in the Middle East. Biden recently gave the green light for Ukrainian leadership to launch long-range missiles into Russian territory despite nuclear-tinged warnings from Moscow, dangerously escalating the war with little military benefit. Biden had resisted the move up until now, and we very clearly saw firsthand why: Russia — which warned it would view the move as a direct US attack, and that this could be enough to justify a nuclear response — reacted by launching a new, hypersonic ballistic missile, one that can carry a nuclear warhead and left NATO leaders spooked enough to hold an emergency meeting. Blinken has vowed that “every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed out the door between now and January 20,” even as, for the first time, a slim majority of Americans oppose sending more US military aid for the war. [...]

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Der nächste Absatz gefällt mir besonders gut, weil er beschreibt, wie die Demokraten noch schnell ein Gesetzt mit verabschiedet haben, das sich gegen Non-Profit-Organisationen und NGOs richtet, indem man deren Einstufung als terroristische Vereinigungen erleichtert, und das in ähnlicher Form anderswo - wie zum Beispiel gerade ganz aktuell in Tiflis/Tbilisi, dem "wahren Herzen Europas" (M. Roth) - von wertebasierten westlichen Freiheitspolitiker*innen und Qualitätsjournalist*innen zum Anlass genommen wird, Regierungen, die solche Gesetze erlassen, den Rücktritt nahe zu legen, und ihnen vorzuwerfen, sie würden sich damit zum verlängerten Arm des autoritären russischen Ungeheuers in seinem Hasskampf gegen die Demokratie machen:

Zitat von Jacobin - ebd.

Meanwhile, on the domestic front, the House just last week passed a bill that has been called a “civil rights disaster” and the worst supposedly anti-terrorism bill since the Patriot Act, because it would give an administration the power to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status if they are labeled, with minimal evidence, supporters of terrorism. Aimed primarily at pro-Palestinian groups and institutions, it passed thanks to fifteen Democrats voting for it, and fifteen more of them refusing to vote, from conservative and pro-Israel Democrats like Colin Allred and Ritchie Torres, to a progressive like Katie Porter, who is about to leave Congress. [...]

Zitat von Utan

Der nächste Absatz gefällt mir besonders gut, weil er beschreibt, wie die Demokraten noch schnell ein Gesetzt verabschiedet haben, das sich gegen Non-Profit-Orgaisationen und NGOs richtet, indem man deren Erklärung zu terroristischen Vereinigungen erleichtert ...

Das ist noch die letzte Strafe an die ganzen braunen Menschen, die den Dems die bedingungslose Gefolgschaft verwehrt hatten. Kamala hatte ja schliesslich gewarnt, dass alles noch viel schlimmer kommen könnte, als es ohnehin schon ist.

https://www.politico.com/news/…den-pardon-nixon-00192101

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We haven’t seen a pardon as sweeping as Hunter Biden’s in generations

The “full and unconditional” pardon is aimed at protecting the president’s son from future prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.

Hunter Biden’s pardon looks a lot like Richard Nixon’s.

President Joe Biden’s grant of clemency on Sunday night — an extraordinary political act with extraordinary legal breadth — insulates his son from ever facing federal charges over any crimes he possibly could have committed over the past decade.

Experts on pardons said they could think of only one other person who has received a presidential pardon so sweeping in generations: Nixon, who was given a blanket pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974.

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Zitat von Wemir

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/1…althcare-death/index.html

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Gunman at large after UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in ‘brazen targeted attack,’ police say

Schätze das gehört noch zu den Resultaten:

https://twitter.com/kenklippen…tatus/1866585808431665171

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I've obtained a copy of Luigi Mangione's manifesto:

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

Kleiner Auszug:

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[...] I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. [...]