Illinois Trucking Company With 480 Drivers Abruptly Ceases Operations
By Clarissa Hawes of FreightWaves,
An Illinois-based trucking and logistics company, which contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail has notified over 650 employees, including more than 480 drivers, that the carrier is ceasing operations, according to sources familiar with the closure.
Former truck drivers for Midwest Transport Inc. (MTI), headquartered in Robinson, Illinois, told FreightWaves that they received telephone calls from their regional managers late Thursday notifying them the company was winding down operations.
As of publication on Friday, MTI has not issued a formal statement about what led to the closure. However, FreightWaves confirmed with some former senior managers and truck drivers who worked for the mail contractor that the company was ending operations. They did not want to be named in the article for fear of retaliation.
According to an email sent to MTI employees and drivers about the closing late Friday, which was obtained by FreightWaves, the company stated that postal operations “will complete all trips through the trips that begin on Sunday, September 8. Freight operations should be following the instructions from your load planners on returning. Terminal and office personnel will receive information and updates from your managers as we progress through this transition.”
MTI, founded in 1980, operated key terminals in Greenup, Illinois; Harmony, Pennsylvania; Memphis, Tennessee; and two terminals in Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida, according to its website.
MTI had over 480 drivers and 428 power units, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s SAFER website.
FMCSA data shows the company’s trucks had been inspected 244 times, and 65 had been placed out of service for a 27% out-of-service rate over the preceding 24-month period. That is significantly higher than the industry’s national average of around 22%.
MTI’s drivers had been inspected 564 times, and 16 were placed out of service over a two-year period, resulting in a nearly 3% out-of-service rate. That is less than half the industry’s national average of 7%, according to FMCSA.
The trucking company had 21 injuries and 42 tow-aways over the past 24 months.
According to the SAFER database, MTI was cited for acute/critical violations in two categories: controlled substances/alcohol and driver fitness.
A check on SAFER shows that MTI’s common, contract and broker authorities remain active. MTI had two compliance reviews on July 7 and July 25, according to FMCSA data.
As of publication Friday, MTI had not filed a notice of its impending closure in Illinois, Tennessee, Pennsylvania or Florida.
One longtime former MTI driver said he was surprised by the news the company was ceasing operations but said that drivers had started receiving notices over the past few months to ensure their log books were certified after each run and to watch their speed and improve their on-time performance.
“I don’t know what happened because we had a lot of postal contracts all over the U.S.,” a former MTI driver told FreightWaves.
“I [don’t know if] the USPS is just finding out like us [that] the mail will be sitting on the docks on Monday.”
A media spokesperson with the Postal Service did not immediately return FreightWaves’ request for comment.
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Herbert Butterfield, who taught history at Cambridge, had many insights on the sea changes brought about by World War I and the collapse of the Old World Order.
The new order that followed, he realized, was not an improvement over what previously existed.
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ESG Undermines Social Welfare | Mises Institute
Politicians and hedge funds that push “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) scores and investing do so with the notion of improving social welfare.
What they fail to realize is that these concerns are accounted for in human action already.
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Harris Campaign Site Lists Policy Page Seven Weeks After Entering Race
The Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign website has released a policy page seven weeks after the Democratic nominees entered the 2024 race.
The Kamala Harris campaign has taken criticism in recent days for being big on vibes and rhetoric while being light on policy. Just seven weeks after she entered the race amid Biden’s withdrawal, the campaign site finally includes a policy page.
People took note of it online.
The policies most notably feature sections that compare and contrast Kamala’s position with that of “Project 2025,” which the Democrats have been trying to pin on former President Donald Trump for weeks now. The “Ensure Safety and Justice for All” section gets particularly spicy.
“Donald Trump is a convicted criminal who only cares about himself. He’s proven that time and time again – from caving to the gun lobby and doing nothing to address gun violence to killing the bipartisan border security deal that would secure our border and keep America safe, just to help himself politically,” the section says.
“If elected president, Trump will implement his Project 2025 agenda to consolidate power, bring the Department of Justice and the FBI under his direct control so he can give himself unchecked legal power and go after his opponents, and rule as a dictator on ‘day one,’” it continues.
While her proposals make mention, of LGBTQ rights, particularly on discrimination and housing, it makes no mention of transgender ideology, specifically for the transitioning of minors.
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On Israel, the campaign says that Kamala Harris will defend the Jewish state’s right to exist and will work to end the war in Gaza.
“Vice President Harris will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself and she will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. She and President Biden are working to end the war in Gaza, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination,” it says.
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China says to hold military drills with Russia this month
China said Monday it would hold joint military drills with Russia this month, as the allies deepen ties that have seen NATO dub Beijing an “enabler” of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Naval and air forces will take part in the “North-Joint 2024” exercises in the skies and around the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk, off Russia’s coast, China’s defence ministry said.
“This exercise aims to deepen the strategic cooperation level between the Chinese and Russian militaries and enhance their ability to jointly deal with security threats,” the ministry said.
The two sides will send naval fleets to “relevant sea areas of the Pacific Ocean” for a joint maritime patrol, and China will also participate in Russia’s “Ocean-2024” strategic exercise, it added.
The ministry did not give a specific date when the drills will take place.
In July, the two countries held joint drills in the waters and airspace around Zhanjiang, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province.
Those drills came the same week that NATO leaders warned China had “become a decisive enabler” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, prompting Beijing to warn the US-led military bloc against “provoking confrontation”.
Russia and China have ramped up military and economic cooperation in recent years, with both railing against “Western hegemony”, particularly what they see as US domination of global affairs.
They declared a “no limits” partnership shortly before Moscow launched its offensive in Ukraine in 2022.
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s economic and trade links with China were “yielding results” as he met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Moscow.
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Governments Had a Major Role in Sustaining Slavery
Given America’s history with slavery and eventual emancipation, especially the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, the average person might be left with the impression that slavery was only ended thanks to the efforts of a powerful nation-state. In fact, one might even go as far as to assume that slavery could only be brought to an end through government policy and enforcement.
What this misses is the important fact that governments were key enforcers of slavery such that slavery could never have expanded and remained to the extent it did absent government policies and enforcement. In fact, while slavery has sometimes been ended by positive law and enforcement against it, it was largely eradicated by government’s non-enforcement of the slavery system.
Slavery is an ancient institution, common to all cultures. Of course, slavery in multiple forms has existed for millennia of human history. It is true that slavery could, would, and has existed absent the political state, however, the state was necessary to socialize, maintain, and enforce the slave system through the coercive legal apparatus.
Slavery, largely because of its high enforcement costs, was always vulnerable to cronyism. Politically-connected elites, as they often do, sought to privatize their gains and socialize their losses. In other words, how could slaveholders shift the economic burden off of themselves and onto others? The answer is that the only way this could be achieved was through employing the legal and coercive apparatus of government to enforce the system. This benefitted the slaveholders at the expense of everyone else.
Writing in his Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849, Patrick Newman observes the following about the beginnings of African slavery in America,
Significantly, planters also augmented the business of corrupt African chieftains involved in the slave trade. The labor system required a panoply of subsidies to stop escaping and revolting slaves. Among others, the colonies conscripted patrols to catch runaways and put down rebellions, regulated slave meetings and travels, required the return of fugitive slaves, and restricted voluntary manumissions. England assisted by incorporating the Royal African Company with a monopoly over African land and the slave trade. Colonial feudalism, from the land grants to the coerced workforce, embodied cronyism. (emphasis added)
From the beginning, slavery as we think of it, had to be propped up by the government via cronyism—corrupt use of the government apparatus to benefit private individuals or companies at the expense of others. The non-slaveholding population had to be forced to subsidize the enforcement of the slave system. Without this, the overall slave system would have been severely weakened.
How the slaveholders, via the government, forced non-slaveholders to subsidize slavery was usually through a few methods—slave patrols, fugitive slave laws, manumission restrictions, and propping up of the slave trade.
Slave Patrols
Subsidization was needed in the form of slave patrols to catch escaped slaves, suppress slave revolts, regulate slave meetings and passes. Because of the increased costs of enforcing slavery, the slaveholding elite externalized the costs of enforcement by requiring most white males to participate in slave patrol duty. These were established in every slave state. Non-slaveholding whites were legally responsible to enforce black codes, apprehend runaways, monitor pass requirements, break up large gatherings, etc. This required the expense of time, energy, money, and resources. This burden was paid by the non-slaveholding taxpayer. According to pro-slavery theorist George Fitzhugh, these conscripted patrollers were essential to the integrity of the maintenance of the slave system,
The poor…constitute our militia and our police. They protect men in possession of property, as in other countries; and do much more, they secure men in possession of a kind of property [slaves] which they could not hold a day but for the supervision and protection of the poor. (italics added)
Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, historians critiquing the “New History of Capitalism,” explain, “Slave owners created a police state that benefited a small elite at the expense of blacks and poor whites.”
Fugitive Slave Laws
A second way governments enforced the subsidization of slavery by the non-slaveholders was through fugitive slave laws. This example is even seen in the Constitution itself. In fact, it was a chief issue in the growing sectional conflict that led to the Civil War. In this case, simply, the national government required the return of escaped-fugitive slaves by free states. Free states, where slavery was illegal, were required by federal law(s) to subsidize and enforce slavery. Again, writes Newman in Cronyism,
Slavery survived, not because of technological advancements related to agriculture, but because of the nationalizing Constitution and its fugitive slave clause (along with the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act) that socialized enforcement costs and made it harder for slaves to escape. State regulations buttressed the fugitive slave clause, most notably mandatory slave patrols composed of poor white men.
Obviously, absent fugitive slave laws, it was understood that slavery would be severely weakened. In fact, this reality, despite fugitive slave laws, caused slavery to collapse in Brazil. One of the compromises at the Philadelphia Convention (1787) was the Fugitive Slave Clause (Art. IV, Sec. 2, Clause 2). If slave states were going to join in a stronger union with free states, then national law must require that the free states return escaped slaves. Ironically, the states in which slavery was illegal would have to help enforce slavery under the federal government and the Constitution. This issue, and the nullification of it by free states, would heighten sectional tension until the 1860s.
This was why some of the most radical abolitionists even supported secession, because it would then free the free states from the federal obligation to the Constitution and any other federal fugitive slave laws. For example, the abolitionists stated during the antebellum period, “Resolved, That the Abolitionists of this country should make it one of the primary objects of this agitation to dissolve the American Union.” William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, viewed the constitutional protections of slavery as essential to the system, therefore, he believed that secession would free the free states from the obligation to enforce slavery. He wrote,
I tell you our work is the dissolution [separation] of this slavery-cursed Union, if we would have a fragment of our liberties left to us!… By the dissolution of the Union we shall give the finishing blow to the slave system;… (italics added)
From the opposite end of the spectrum, Alexander Stephens—vice president of the Confederacy—even admitted, “I consider slavery much more secure in the Union than out of it.” Whether or not this was empirically true, it is clear that Stephens, and many others, understood that by secession they were forfeiting the US federal government apparatus to enforce slavery.
Manumission Restrictions
One obvious question arises whenever discussing slavery: why didn’t slaveholders simply free the slaves? While there were many reasons why this was the case, it should be recognized that governments made laws that restricted the voluntary freeing of slaves. Simply, the government(s) made it legally harder to free slaves.
In addition to laws that forbade unlicensed slave meetings, gun control laws against free and enslaved blacks, the death penalty without benefit of clergy for conspiracy, and other laws, the Virginia legislature restricted voluntary manumission—freeing slaves. Murray Rothbard writes in Conceived in Liberty, “Moreover, even voluntary manumission of slaves by masters was restricted by the legislature and approval was required by the governor and the Council.” In other words people had to get the government’s permission—governor and Council—to free slaves.
The online Encyclopedia Britannica states that manumission was comparatively difficult in the American South—manumission was even forbidden in South Carolina (1820), Mississippi (1822), Arkansas (1858), and Maryland and Alabama (1860). Another online encyclopedia similarly explains, “On the eve of the Revolution, voluntary manumission was illegal in most of the South, and even where it was permitted, the practice was not common.”
Though many slaveholders would not have taken advantage of the opportunity to free their slaves voluntarily, had the manumission laws been eased, it is reasonable to assume that more slaves probably would have been freed than otherwise. The late economist Walter E. Williams used to point out that when there is a law restricting something—segregation laws, manumission, minimum wages, etc.—then that must imply that, absent the legal restriction, more of that restricted activity would occur than otherwise or there would be no need for the restriction.
Constitutional Slave Trade Subsidy
Another compromise made to gain agreement to the Constitution was a direct grant to slave importers and traders—the Slave Trade Clause (Art. I, Sec. 9). This subsidy required that Congress could not prohibit “importation” of persons by federal law for 20 years—until 1808. Fortunately, all states except South Carolina made laws to end the Atlantic slave trade, however, unfortunately, this also served as a market restriction that bolstered the domestic slave trade and artificially increased the prices of domestic slaves.
Thankfully, slavery did come to an end in the United States officially in 1865 through the 13th Amendment and several states had already put slavery on the road to extinction before that. Since it violates self-ownership and individual rights, kidnapping and slavery are crimes. That being said, we should not forget that slavery was largely socialized, maintained, and enforced by governments. Instead of being protectors from slavery by law and policy, governments have historically been enforcers of slavery by policy, getting non-slaveholders to pay for it.
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000 WTNT31 KNHC 090542 TCPAT1 BULLETIN Potential Tropical Cyclone Six Intermediate Advisory Number 2A NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL062024 100 AM CDT Mon Sep 09 2024 ...INCREASING RISK OF LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE AND HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS ALONG THE LOUISIANA AND UPPER TEXAS COASTS BY MID-WEEK... SUMMARY OF 100 AM CDT...0600 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...22.0N 94.7W ABOUT 320 MI...510 KM SSE OF MOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE ABOUT 550 MI...890 KM S OF CAMERON LOUISIANA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...50 MPH...85 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNW OR 340 DEGREES AT 5 MPH...7 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1003 MB...29.62 INCHES WATCHES AND WARNINGS -------------------- CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY: None. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT: A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for... * Barra del Tordo to the Mouth of the Rio Grande * Mouth of the Rio Grande to Port Mansfield A Tropical Storm Watch means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area, generally within 48 hours. Hurricane, Storm Surge, and Tropical Storm Watches will likely be required for portions of the Louisiana and Upper Texas coast later today. For storm information specific to your area in the United States, including possible inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your local National Weather Service forecast office. For storm information specific to your area outside of the United States, please monitor products issued by your national meteorological service. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK ---------------------- At 100 AM CDT (0600 UTC), the disturbance was estimated to be near latitude 22.0 North, longitude 94.7 West. The system is moving toward the north-northwest near 5 mph (7 km/h). A slow northwestward to northward motion is expected over the next day or so, followed by a faster motion to the northeast beginning late Tuesday. On the forecast track, the disturbance is expected to move just offshore of the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico through Tuesday, and approach the Louisiana and Upper Texas coastline on Wednesday. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph (85 km/h) with higher gusts. The disturbance is expected to become a tropical storm today, with more significant intensification forecast to occur on Tuesday. The system is forecast to become a hurricane before it reaches the northwestern U.S. Gulf Coast. * Formation chance through 48 hours... high...90 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles (295 km) west of the center. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1003 mb (29.62 inches). HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND ---------------------- WIND: Tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area along the northern coast of Mexico and extreme southern Texas beginning Tuesday. RAINFALL: Potential Tropical Cyclone Six is expected to bring storm total rainfall of 4 to 8 inches, with local amounts to 12 inches, from the coast of far northeast Mexico northward along portions of the Texas coast and into Louisiana through Thursday. This rainfall would lead to the risk of flash and urban flooding. For a complete depiction of forecast rainfall associated with Potential Tropical Cyclone Six, please see the National Weather Service Storm Total Rainfall Graphic, available at hurricanes.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?rainqpf and the Flash Flood Risk graphic at hurricanes.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?ero. STORM SURGE: Minor coastal flooding is possible along the coast of Mexico in areas of onshore winds. SURF: Swells generated by this system are affecting portions of the Gulf coast of Mexico and are expected to spread northwestward across the northwestern Gulf of Mexico coastline through midweek. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Please consult products from your local weather office. NEXT ADVISORY ------------- Next complete advisory at 400 AM CDT. $$ Forecaster Pasch
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ZCZC MIATCPAT1 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM BULLETIN Potential Tropical Cyclone Six Intermediate Advisory Number 2A NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL062024 100 AM CDT Mon Sep 09 2024 ...INCREASING RISK OF LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE AND HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS ALONG THE LOUISIANA AND UPPER TEXAS COASTS BY MID-WEEK... SUMMARY OF 100 AM CDT...0600 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...22.0N 94.7W ABOUT 320 MI...510 KM SSE OF MOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE ABOUT 550 MI...890 KM S OF CAMERON LOUISIANA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...50 MPH...85 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNW OR 340 DEGREES AT 5 MPH...7 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1003 MB...29.62 INCHES WATCHES AND WARNINGS -------------------- CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY: None. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT: A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for... * Barra del Tordo to the Mouth of the Rio Grande * Mouth of the Rio Grande to Port Mansfield A Tropical Storm Watch means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area, generally within 48 hours. Hurricane, Storm Surge, and Tropical Storm Watches will likely be required for portions of the Louisiana and Upper Texas coast later today. For storm information specific to your area in the United States, including possible inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your local National Weather Service forecast office. For storm information specific to your area outside of the United States, please monitor products issued by your national meteorological service. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK ---------------------- At 100 AM CDT (0600 UTC), the disturbance was estimated to be near latitude 22.0 North, longitude 94.7 West. The system is moving toward the north-northwest near 5 mph (7 km/h). A slow northwestward to northward motion is expected over the next day or so, followed by a faster motion to the northeast beginning late Tuesday. On the forecast track, the disturbance is expected to move just offshore of the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico through Tuesday, and approach the Louisiana and Upper Texas coastline on Wednesday. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph (85 km/h) with higher gusts. The disturbance is expected to become a tropical storm today, with more significant intensification forecast to occur on Tuesday. The system is forecast to become a hurricane before it reaches the northwestern U.S. Gulf Coast. * Formation chance through 48 hours... high...90 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles (295 km) west of the center. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1003 mb (29.62 inches). HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND ---------------------- WIND: Tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area along the northern coast of Mexico and extreme southern Texas beginning Tuesday. RAINFALL: Potential Tropical Cyclone Six is expected to bring storm total rainfall of 4 to 8 inches, with local amounts to 12 inches, from the coast of far northeast Mexico northward along portions of the Texas coast and into Louisiana through Thursday. This rainfall would lead to the risk of flash and urban flooding. For a complete depiction of forecast rainfall associated with Potential Tropical Cyclone Six, please see the National Weather Service Storm Total Rainfall Graphic, available at hurricanes.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?rainqpf and the Flash Flood Risk graphic at hurricanes.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?ero. STORM SURGE: Minor coastal flooding is possible along the coast of Mexico in areas of onshore winds. SURF: Swells generated by this system are affecting portions of the Gulf coast of Mexico and are expected to spread northwestward across the northwestern Gulf of Mexico coastline through midweek. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Please consult products from your local weather office. NEXT ADVISORY ------------- Next complete advisory at 400 AM CDT. $$ Forecaster Pasch NNNN
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Do Americans Prefer Equalizing Outcome Or Opportunity In 2024?
Authored by Gonzalo Schwarz via RealClearPolitics.com,
The American Dream was built on a promise of equality – a promise of equality in terms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
During the 2024 election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both working overtime to say why Republicans or Democrats are better on the equality issue.
But what kind of equality?
Harris is known for promoting “equity,” while Trump is quick to invoke the American Dream but slower to define it.
And so, voters are left wondering.
Many of the policies uttered on the campaign trail are focused on equalizing outcomes – or, at the very least, equalizing starting points.
To use a Harris quote, “Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”
She also proposes an opportunity agenda, promising to crack down on price gouging, raise the minimum wage, provide $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, and increase the child tax credit, among other proposals. Pushback has been swift among economists and policy researchers, who cite the unintended consequences of price controls and other forms of government overreach.
Meanwhile, Trump insists on continuing his tariff policy and expanding the child tax credit. Cue similar pushback: In his case, the vast majority of economists and other experts agree about the negative impact of tariffs on economic growth.
In the end, what do American voters actually want?
The candidate who is most likely to win come November is the candidate who is more adept at selling equality as most Americans actually see it.
In a recent survey on the American Dream conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, we put the question to the test. We asked people if they think equality means equality before the law and having a fair chance to pursue opportunities regardless of where they started (equality to opportunity), if equality means that everyone starts in the same with people given tools to help them catch up with others (equalizing starting points), or if equality just means people ending up in the same place like candidate Harris has said.
Not surprisingly, Americans don’t believe that equality means everyone ending in the same place.
Only 4% of U.S. adults say so, while equalizing people’s starting points only garnered 18% of the respondent vote.
On the other hand, nearly two-thirds of Americans claim equality is actually about the equality of opportunity.
This holds true across age, income level, education, and even political leanings.
Democrats and Republicans generally agree that proper policymaking is predicated upon support for equality of opportunity.
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Originally Posted at; https://www.zerohedge.com//
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