Thursday, January 9, 2025

Panama Canal chief rejects Trump's accusations of biased use of canal

(As more countries are talking to China about joining BRICS and the threat of the looming devaluation of the dollar hangs over his head, Trump figures we can take the canal and keep China or anyone in  BRICS from using it as a bludgeon to punish and threaten nation states to stay with us and our neoliberal ways. He also figures the added revenue will come in handy when he announces his historic tax break he is going to give Big Business and billionaires like himself and half of his cabinet.)

from al Mayadeen English

Ricaurte Vasquez Morales, head of the Panama Canal Authority, has rejected US President-elect Donald Trump's claims that China allegedly controls the canal and is increasing tariffs on US ships.

Vasquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal newspaper on Wednesday, "The accusations that China is running the Canal are unfounded. China has no involvement whatsoever in our operations. Rules are rules, and there are no exceptions. We cannot discriminate against the Chinese, the Americans, or anyone else. This will violate the neutrality treaty and international law, and it will lead to chaos."

The report stated that the average cost for ships to transit the canal is approximately $750,000, with fees ranging between $300,000 and $1 million.

Morales added, "They [tariffs] apply to all ships from around the world and there are no exceptions."...

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5 comments:

  1. All effort all hands to set up Mr. T.'s 'Fortress Amerika', akin to Telly Savalas setting up the defense for the desert fort for the FFL before the raving hordes come a-knocking! (chinee, evil muzzies...who knows!)
    We'll assume da veep will play the role of his sidekick Beau Geste.

    We can only hope in his wildest psychotic delusions he doesn't build a deep DUMB Ice Station Zebra in Greenland, and stock it with his own chosen one buddies, a competing counterweight to the Shining Ones living under the Antarctica icecap, waiting their turn!
    Aldous Huxley's brave new northern world, where the dreams never end, but neither does the psychosis nor the desert mirages (yes, it's a giant desert there, by definition).
    Sound like a plan??

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    Polar view of northern Americas, Greenland, etc, where the Northwest Passage would be the American arctic shipping route to deliver all that LNG to europe, and the southern route would of course be the Panama canal:

    https://youtu.be/AwKRMiCIb-A?t=61

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  2. 2day's laff.
    Agenda2030 psychotic eco-Tards and wacko geeks writ L-A-R-G-E!
    "Hybrid " eV oceanliners, using batteries of course but get this....for redundancy/backup, they will have SOLAR and some will have sails!!!
    AND they "plan" tohave mega-gigantic charging stations built/running at all ports of call, remember the battery pack would be 100- 1000 times the mass of even that in a big suv ev.
    H-F-S!
    Course, that in no way explains how they will imagineer away the fire risk, which would be far out at sea of course, plus the corrosive, CONDUCTIVE seawater.

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  3. VERY big something looks finally to be coming to a head in europe.
    First, Z-Man (UNLELECTED not even officially leader because that term expired last June and uke parliament hasn't renewed/extended it) arbitrarily cancelled a planned JAN7 meeting on NGAS between him, Fico (Slovakia, the one who nearly was offed just months ago) and the (UNELECTED ALSO) EU "energy minister".

    Transnistria running on coal reserves only to emergency run power plants there end of FEB, then no electricity, because uke cut off export to them.

    Now this:
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    and this:
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  4. More BS.
    With a super-metro pop of 7.5MM, the Big TO our biggest $hitty easily has more homeless by itself than this 80,000 number.
    Ontario has 14MM.
    Vancouver, the homeless "tent row" notorious Hasting Street been there for 40 years easy was 1 block long in 2019. Guy went back there just a week ago, just caught his vid, says it's now appx 9 blocks long uninterrupted, goes almost to Gsslight district now.

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  5. Yeah, why E-lon, why!
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