![]() They are a way for our farmers – the people who operate the levers of state power – to keep track of us. They amount to the same thing as those tags in a cow’s ears. Luckily, we’ve got opposable thumbs – and could (in theory) do something about the tags. ![]() If they did, they could do something about those tags that farmers put in their ears. ![]() Traffic is beginning to resume.It’s too bad – for cows – that they don’t have opposable thumbs. With concerns the salvage operation could take weeks, some ships decided not to wait, U-turning to take the long way around the southern tip of Africa, a voyage that could add weeks to the journey and cost more than $26,000 a day in fuel costs. Vessels packed with the world's goods - including cars, oil, livestock and laptops - usually flow through the waterway with ease, supplying much of the globe as they traverse the quickest path from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and the East Coast of the United States. Each day the canal was blocked put global supply chains another day closer to a full-blown crisis. It appeared to be the culmination of one of the largest and most intense salvage operations in modern history, with the smooth functioning of the entire global trading system hanging in the balance. Images on social media showed tugboat crews celebrating the victory in the predawn hours. ![]() As water levels swelled overnight, the hours spent digging and excavating millions of tons of earth around the Ever Green paid dividends as the ship slowly regained buoyancy, according to officials. ![]() From a report: Salvage teams, working on both land and water for five days and nights, were ultimately assisted by forces more powerful than any of the machines rushed to the scene to assist in the rescue: the moon the tides. The mammoth cargo ship blocking one of the world's most vital maritime arteries was wrenched from the shoreline and set partially afloat again early on Monday morning, raising hopes that traffic could soon resume in the Suez Canal and limit the economic fallout of the disruption. ![]()
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