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⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 2023 EOY review of commissioned surface combatants by both numbers & tonnage of USN vs. PLA/N.
🔶️ The USN numbers in the past 5 years are 2/3 LCS. Based on decommissioning rate of LCS, some of these won't be in the 2024 EOY review
🔶️ Avg age of surface combatants still in commission by year, USN v. PLA/N. We're twice as old.
🔶️ PLA/N has built nearly 3x the number of USN surface combatants in the past decade.
🔶️ Population pyramid of the two fleet's surface combatants by year commissioned (of those that haven't been decommissioned)
🔶️ Total tonnage of USN Surface Combatants commissioned 1987-2023 by class (still active)
🔶️ This will look worse next year as more CGs and LCSs are decommissioned.
🔶️ Total tonnage of PLA/N commissioned surface combatants since 1987, still in commission.
🔶️ Comparative tonnage of surface combatants commissioned since 1985 that are still active.
🔶️ Comparative total tonnage of commissioned surface combatants since 1985, still active.
🔶️ comparative of total tonnes of surface combatants commissioned in past 10 years that are still active.
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The village of Piddington has voted for independence from the United Kingdom and to become a self governing village in a landslide vote.
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This comes after news that over 3,000 illegal migrants are to be dumped in their village.
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[Sept 22, 2026 EST]
🔥 Top Stories
• Trump says US-Iran talks were “very productive” — White House/mediators signal momentum on a deal; Hormuz reopening and sanctions relief remain central
• Oil swings on Hormuz diplomacy, then settles lower — Brent/$94.59 WTI after ceasefire/deal hopes offset blockade and tanker-risk headlines
• Trump UNGA speech: hard line on Iran, AI, Greenland — urged isolation of Iran, vowed no global AI controls, signed Greenland security deal
• US stocks end mixed; Nasdaq hits fresh record — chip/AI names led, while banks lagged and rates stayed firm
⛽ Oil & Energy
• Hormuz remains the key market risk — Iran alternates between reopening talk and threats; U.S.com/Gulf push de-escalation and alternative flow routes
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📊 Markets & Macro
• Fed speakers stay hawkish-ish — Collins/Barkin ...
PN I know I disappeared for awhile. I’ve been writing a little but not much. I had a death in my family and it hit hard. I’m trying to get moving but having a hard time.
I want you to know my husband works for one of the largest trucking companies in the country driving heavy haul. He delivers feed to all the chickens out here in the pacific nw. Up and down Wa and Or. He will not be participating in the protest 10/1 due to the fact that he is company and this job was hard to find. He feels diesel is going up in a very bad way. That’s the word with the truckers. If things continue the way they are it may be $8-10 a gallon in ten days. They are trying to break us. His company subsides the diesel through the government so they don’t feel the effect except when seeing the pumps. He feels that they will be affected heavily by the end of the month, the company rigs that is. It’s going to get very nasty and with all this stuff in the middle east with both straits, as you already ...
