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2022-06-22 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-22 03:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1
SARCASM SWITCH ON

Just because there are:
Empty food shelves in Wally World,
Food costs are up,
Package sizes are smaller to hide increases,
7 Poultry plants go in flames,
10,000 cattle mysteriously die,
Food Fertilizers sky rockets,
Farm Fuels in short supply,
Animal feed in short supply, because we increased the amount of corn being used for the gas tanks, etc. etc. etc. etc.

Why would anyone get the idea Food supplies are being manipulated and used as a weapon.

OR
It could be as simple as;
We have a bunch of mentally Ill dumbasses who stole an election, can't define what a man or Woman is, can't balance a checkbook, but know how to use a Credit Card.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-06-22 06:54|| 2022-06-22 06:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian media chief welcomes prospect of global FAMINE sparked by Ukraine invasion... and says West will want to be FRIENDS when sanctions bite

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 07:29|| 2022-06-22 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 "You want flies with that?"

Russia's rebranded McDonald's sells 120,000 burgers on its opening day - more than it ever sold before the US chain withdrew from the country due to Ukraine war

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 08:41|| 2022-06-22 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The STB (Surface Transportation Board) just ordered Union Pacific to prioritize trains and crews to service Foster chicken feed operations. Foster was complaining grain was not being shipped and their processing plants were suffering. They had data to back it up. Also UP was to ensure this expedited handling was not at the expense of other customers. Recently UP and others told owners of private cars to park them as they didn’t have enough staff to run trains.
And on the labor side, the NMB sided with unions and terminated mediation talks and that started a 90 day clock that may (probably will) result in a nation wide freight rail strike. Just before mid terms. But Congress and President can comprl them back to work, and also order RR mgmt to raise pay.
Stay tuned

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-06-22 08:51|| 2022-06-22 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Correction: Fowler’s, not Foster’s, sorry.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-06-22 08:52|| 2022-06-22 08:52|| Front Page Top

Please remain calm. I have everything under control. The Foster-Fowlers problem has a backside. I am working it.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-22 08:56|| 2022-06-22 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 It should be called the Putin Famine.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-22 09:01|| 2022-06-22 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Future Headline:
“Biden Announces US Will Sell Grain To Ukraine Customers”
Come on man, says Biden, We got the money to pay for this.

Posted by Xyz 2022-06-22 09:26|| 2022-06-22 09:26|| Front Page Top

#9 #3 - The ice cream machines still won't work

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-22 09:57|| 2022-06-22 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Always has been?

Someone I know who watches trains says transport is about fuggged. S'okay though, buttgig is wanting erected silos in Ukraine.

I do have a question about the McDonald's/Russia deal - is that an entirely different business entity which just does the same as McD's, or is this McD's with slightly different names and designs? From the articles I read I couldn't make out that distinction.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-22 10:28|| 2022-06-22 10:28|| Front Page Top

#11 buttgig is wanting erected silos

Hyuk!

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-22 10:41|| 2022-06-22 10:41|| Front Page Top

#12 I do have a question about the McDonald's/Russia deal - is that an entirely different business entity which just does the same as McD's, or is this McD's with slightly different names and designs? From the articles I read I couldn't make out that distinction.

Changed: ownership, capital structure, logo
Exact same:
- menu*
- employees & managent team, structure
- store/restaurant experience & layout
- brand image: reliably consistent quality, speed, freshness at a price ordinary families can easily afford
- suppliers (100% local before & currently, has been since the recession & shift to import substitution in 1999)

*except for disappearance of Big Mac: no "secret sauce" aka dash of paprika + loads of MSG + HFCS

Posted by Spoluter Hupusoque2135 2022-06-22 12:35|| 2022-06-22 12:35|| Front Page Top

#13 To comment about transport being fuggdd: yep: the top 4 Class 1 RRs got called on the carpet by the STB and have to submit bi-weekly reports concerning service improvements as customers are screaming, especially those smaller single car customers
If no improvement, look for process called Reciprocal Switching to be mandated. Just reading it or watching a youtube tells you it will be a goatphuque of the highest degree.
Probably Putins fault. Or Trumps.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-06-22 12:41|| 2022-06-22 12:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Thank you USN, Ret

One I found : Railway Age.

This was interesting:

In 2016, the rulemaking still pending, the STB proposed a case-by-case approach, with shippers still required to demonstrate railroad anticompetitive conduct. In a dissent, STB member and later Chairperson Ann D. Begeman asked, “How can the Board provide fair and consistent switching judgments on a case-by-case basis without creating complexity and cost impacts on the one hand, and not introducing more unpredictability to the rail network on the other?”

No further progress on changing the Reciprocal Switching remedy standards was made until July 2021 when President Joe Biden issued Executive Order No. 14036 encouraging the STB to complete this open rulemaking. It was one of 72 recommended pro-competitive actions affecting more than a dozen industries.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-22 13:09|| 2022-06-22 13:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Bill Gates Sells $940 Million of CN Rail Stock, Trimming Stake to 9%

Why Bill Gates And Warren Buffett Are Railroad Rivals

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 16:00|| 2022-06-22 16:00|| Front Page Top

#16 Alberta Canada's Premier Jason Kenney

A message to our friends in the U.S.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-22 17:48|| 2022-06-22 17:48|| Front Page Top

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