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honest.abe's JournalMaersk considers suspending container shipments to Russia
Source: Reuters
COPENHAGEN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Shipping group Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) said on Monday it was considering suspending all container bookings in and out of Russia in response to Western economic sanctions on Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine.
The company said it was closely monitoring the fast-evolving sanctions and restrictions imposed against Russia, and making preparations to comply with them.
"Our preparations include a possible suspension of Maersk bookings to and from Russia on ocean and inland," Maersk said in a statement.
Maersk, which handles roughly one in six containers shipped worldwide, said it was focusing on safeguarding types of containers and cold chain operations that "include important goods such as groceries and pharmaceuticals."
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/maersk-considers-suspending-all-shipments-russia-2022-02-28/
This would be a significant blow to Russia in many ways.
Mark Warner on MSNBC: Last year Senate election he didnt take the lead in the vote until 10:30pm
Patience!!
NoVA numbers looking good so far.
MSNBC: McAuliffe support slightly lower than Biden last year in NoVA vote so far. That might be good enough win this.
Fingers crossed.
Roanoke College Poll: McAuliffe 47% Youngkin 46%
https://www.roanoke.edu/about/news/rc_poll_politics_oct_2021
This election will be decided by turnout on Tuesday.
VA early vote estimate: Dem voters: 54.7% Repub voters: 30.4%
But the overall share of voters casting early votes is likely to be lower than the share who did so in 2020.
Last year, the 2.8 million early votes cast represented almost 63 percent of total ballots cast. This year, the total early vote — likely to land somewhere around 850,000 votes — is probably going to wind up as closer to a third of total ballots cast.
So McAuliffe has probably built a higher wall among early voters, but the Election Day wave is going to be taller than it was last year.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/579010-what-virginias-early-vote-tells-us-about-a-tight-as-a-tick-governors-race
That's a huge lead going into election day, but lets hope VA Dems who havent voted yet also show up on election day to make sure we win this thing.
Senate voting now on infrastructure bill
This is the final vote and is expected to pass. If passed it goes to the House. Then to Biden.
I have heard a few R's voting "aye". All we need is 51 votes so looks good.
Verizon Fios Internet outage affecting Northeastern US
Source: BleepingComputer.com
Verizon Fios is experiencing an outage making it impossible to access many websites or causing them too operate to slowly to use properly use.
Starting at approximately 11:00 AM EST, Verizon Fios users found they were no longer able to access popular services, such as Google, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Azure, and even Verizon's own website and My verizon app to check for known outages.
Read more: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/verizon-fios-internet-outage-affecting-northeastern-us/
Its really bad here near Wash DC. I switched to using my ATT IPhone hotspot.
Drivng along H street in front of Whitehouse today.
We drove around DC today and passed by the WH on H street which is the closest anyone can get to the WH these days. Here are a few shots of the fence on H street.
There were also lots of police cars everywhere. But no issues. It was a different vibe today in DC. People seemed to be upbeat for obvious reasons. There were lots of folks like us driving around and walking around the city just to take in the new feeling of optimism. It was a refreshing and uplifting feeling.
I wonder if the FBI relocation plan is back on the table now that Trump is gone.
I think the only reason it stalled was due to Trump not wanting a big hotel built on the current FBI location that would compete with his hotel and I think also to penalize the FBI for not doing what he wanted. It appeared to be entirely personal. Seems to me with Trump out the picture the plan will get revived.
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