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• Happiness is Just Chemistry, and Its Absence

• The surveillance state will be a power hog

• Truth or CONsequences?

• Russia Confiscates €800 Million From Deutsche Bank, Unicredit And Commerzbank

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• Tornadoes strike across 7 states with more severe weather on the way

• Living with/in Fear

• Why Unregulated Capitalism Always Leads to Enshittification

• Notes from the edge of civilization: May 12, 2024

• Wall Street Journal Boosts Gold FOMO

• Weekend reads: The American press gets its groove back

• A Concise History of the Global Empire

• The Biggest Risks of This Decade

• Because We’re Still Not Sufficiently Indebted…

• I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This

• Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal “Worsening Financial Distress”, Fed Warns

• Inflation is a Policy. Gold Does Not Reflect Monetary Destruction, Yet

• Does Inflation Lead To Civilizational Collapse? A Look At Rome

• Tree rings reveal summer 2023 was the hottest in 2 millennia

• It’s Not Just Gold. This Is A Full-On Commodities Bull Market

• Yoyo Fed and Yoyo Markets

• Watch: Pelosi Dismantled In Real Time In Masterclass On Populism

• Orange Juice Prices Primed For Breakout After Forecast Warns Brazil Set For Worst Harvest In Decades 

• Musings on the Nature of Technology

• Even The Millionaires Are Fed Up

• The Jig Is Up: It’s Time for Accountability for the Origin of COVID-19

• A Renewable Energy Transition Violates The Maximum Power Principle

• EU Investigates Meta in Crackdown on Alleged “Rabbit Hole” Effects, Wants It To Push Digital ID

• Dear Jerome Powell, Is Everything Under Control? Spotlight Gold and Silver

• We All Need to Be Tree Huggers Now

• The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?

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• Medical Elites’ Disgrace Over Ivermectin

• Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire

• Drought fuels wildfire concerns as Canada braces for another intense summer

• Belgium and Hungary Launch Controversial Digital IDs, Vaccine Passport, Ahead of EU Regulations

• Is China Dumping US Treasuries and Buying Gold? Bloomberg Says Yes, Pettis Uncertain

• Doug Casey on the Relentless Rise of Taxes, Regulations, and Inflation

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• US Power Grid May Become Unreliable This Summer, Watchdog Warns

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• Precarious: One Misfortune Away from Insolvency

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• How Powell Destroyed His Inflation War as he Eats the Poor

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• Germany’s Dark Future

• China Unveils A Housing Market Bailout: Here’s What’s In It, And Why It Is Still Not Enough

• Controversial FAA Bill Passes Senate, Promotes Digital IDs and Mobile Licenses, Facial Recognition Concerns Ignored

• Academic Psychosis: ‘Epistemological Violence’

• The Decay of Everyday Life

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• Hezbollah launches first-ever Lebanese airstrike on Israeli base

• Why the dollar will lose its status as the global reserve currency

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• Mike Walden: Is it ‘greedflation’ or something more keeping prices high?

• The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy

• Future Gas Strategy is a betrayal of promised Climate and Environmental Policies

• Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change?

• The Great Ukraine Robbery Is Not Over Yet. Ron Paul

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• An Urgent Matter

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• Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers 

• How Powell Destroyed His Inflation War as he Eats the Poor

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• YouTube Removes 35,000 EU Videos for “Misinformation,” Enhances Content Censorship Ahead of 2024 Elections

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• Links of the Month: May 2024

• Diesel takes another hit and may be driving down broader oil market

• Shocking Headline of the Day: Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery

• Our Curious Propensity to Ignore New Evidence

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• US Producer Prices Accelerating At Fastest Rate In 12 Months, Wall Street Reacts…

• Transitioning Fleet Trucks to Electric Raises Costs by up to 114 Percent, Report Warns Mandating EV trucks in today’s market leads to even ‘more supply chain disruptions,’ said an industry expert. Friends Read Free 596 291 Save Transitioning Fleet Trucks to Electric Raises Costs by up to 114 Percent, Report Warns Trucks sit idle as they block the entrance to a container terminal at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on July 21, 2022. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Naveen Athrappully By Naveen Athrappully 5/11/2024 Updated: 5/12/2024 Print X 1 0:00 Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from transportation and logistics firm Ryder. Florida-based Ryder analyzed the potential cost of transportation if internal combustion engine trucks are converted to EVs. There is a 5 percent cost increase for light-duty EVs and a 94–114 percent increase for heavy-duty trucks, the May 8 report states. For a fleet of 25 mixed vehicles—light-, medium-, and heavy-duty trucks—costs surge by 56–67 percent. As transportation costs have a direct bearing on the price of goods sold in markets across the country, Ryder estimates such increases to eventually add about 0.5–1 percent to overall price inflation in the economy. “There are specific applications where EV adoption makes sense today, but the use cases are still limited. Yet we’re facing regulations aimed at accelerating broader EV adoption when the technology and infrastructure are still developing,” said Karen Jones, executive vice president and head of new product development for Ryder. “Until the gap in TCT [total cost to transport] for heavier duty vehicles is narrowed or closed, we cannot expect many companies to make the transition; and, if required to convert in today’s market, we face more supply chain disruptions, transportation cost increases, and additional inflationary pressure.” In California, the annual TCT increase for a heavy-duty EV tractor was approximately $315,000, with the number rising to more than $330,000 in Georgia. In both cases, equipment costs were the biggest contributor to the increase, rising by 500 percent. RELATED STORIES Amazon to Roll Out New Fleet of Electric Trucks in Southern California 5/8/2024 Amazon to Roll Out New Fleet of Electric Trucks in Southern California China Benefits From Unscientific Electric Vehicle Mandates 5/3/2024 China Benefits From Unscientific Electric Vehicle Mandates Ryder noted there were 16.4 million Class 3 to Class 8 commercial vehicles in operation in the United States, out of which only an estimated 18,000 EVs have been deployed. “Therefore, if companies are required to convert to EVs in the near future, availability and production of EVs may be far less than the vehicles needed to run America’s supply chains,” the report states. The report points to a statement made by Clean Freight Coalition (CFC) that there is currently no network in the United States where truck drivers can take rest breaks and charge their EV batteries at the same time. Despite Plummeting Electric Vehicle Sales, Biden Administration Will Not Change EV Policy: Jean-Pierre Play Video CFC estimates that electrifying the United States’ current commercial vehicle fleet would necessitate a $1 trillion investment. Moreover, the International Council on Clean Transportation calculates that almost 700,000 chargers will be required to accommodate the 1 million Class 4, 6, and 8 electric trucks expected to be deployed by 2030. This alone will consume 140,000 megawatts of electricity per day, which is equivalent to the daily electricity needs of roughly 5 million U.S. homes. “Ryder’s analysis underscores the reasons EV adoption for commercial vehicles remains in its infancy. In addition to the limited support infrastructure and EV availability, the business case for converting to EV for most payload and mileage applications, is extremely challenging,” the report reads.

• Recent study finds ‘garbage lasagnas’ forming in open landfills across US release staggering amount of air pollution: ‘Decades of trash that’s sitting under the landfill’

• Why The Establishment Fears a Trump-led Fed

• Globalists Plot Worldwide Genocide Via WHO Pandemic Treaty

• NASA Shares Photos Of Massive Explosions On Sun That Unleashed Solar Flares

• Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

• Tracking toward mass extinction

• Canada’s Online Harms Act Bill C-63: Life in Prison for Thought Criminals

• The All-Important Doorman

• Europe and the Middle East, Two Scenarios of the Same War

• David Stockman on Why There is No Noticeable Benefit from the Fed’s Policies

• Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden’s Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024

• Satellite images reveal devastating flooding in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations

• Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat

• Bidenomics At Work: Ford Slashing Battery Orders As Losses Per EV Approach $100,000

• The World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked by a Storm Just Before Launch

• World’s Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm on Fragility of Cashless Economies. Are Other Central Banks Listening?

• The Escalating Threat Of Avian Influenza H5N1 And The Ethical Quandary Of Gain-of-Function Research

• Costa Rica to ration electricity as drought bites

• Texas Spot Power Prices Jump Almost 100-Fold on Tight Supply

• North America’s biggest city is running out of water

• Floods and flooding ‘will be part of our lives,’ says Brazilian architect and urbanist

• The Militarization of Space: Report to U.S. Congress Outlines U.S. Determination to Establish “Space Command and Control”

• Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?

• Asia Embraces Coal as the U.S. Rejects It

• The top 10% are the main beneficiaries of globalization, says study

• ‘Desperate’ rescues under way as Brazil floods kill 90, displace thousands

• Medicine shortages in England ‘beyond critical’, pharmacists warn

• UK farmers consider quitting after extreme wet weather and low profits

• Three Russian grain regions declare emergency over cold weather, frost damage

• Israel shuts down Al Jazeera operations in the country

• The Proof of Censorship is…Censored

• Biden Wants EVs so Badly That He Will Quadruple Tariffs on Them

• Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine

• FDA Preparing for Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner

• Ukraine War “Spins Out of Control”: Putin Is “Letting It Get Too Late:” to Turn Aside from Nuclear Armageddon

• Visualizing The Copper Investment Opportunity In One Chart

• Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S.

• I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops

• Welcome to the Warfare State

• Video: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Dress Rehearsal. The Dangers of Nuclear War. Michel Chossudovsky with James Corbett

• CISA, FBI resuming talks with social media firms over disinformation removal, Senate Intel chair says

• NATO’s Entry Into the Ukraine War?

• You Need 2 Years of Food – Martin Armstrong

• Israel’s Battle Against Free Speech: The Shuttering of Al Jazeera

• Peter Schiff: Rate Hikes on the Horizon? 

• West Fueling Global Conflicts, Trying To Topple Moscow, Putin Says On WW2 Victory Day

• Turkiye Suspends All Trade With Israel in Surprise New Blow; Israel Threatens Retaliation

• Republic First seizure signals more bank failures to come, expert warns

• “Economics Works In Mysterious Ways”: Is China’s Wealth Effect Being Substituted?

• Sacrifice Zones

• Al Jazeera’s Israeli HQ Raided By Police After Netanyahu Called It “Hamas Mouthpiece”

• Flashback: When Newt Gingrich Demanded Internet Censorship For Terror War

• Sudan’s Conflict and Resulting Starvation