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DeSantis, 1: Florida Law Enforcement: $200 Million In The Hole

April 18, 2023April 26, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american-made drones, chinese communist party, chinese drones, desantis, dji, dji mavic, dji mavic pro, drones, drones made in the usa, florida, florida law enforcement, international trade, junior varsity fascist, law enforcement, made in usa drones, police departments, quad, quadricopter, ron desantis, trade, trade deficit

Ron DeSantis’ ill-advised effort to purge the state of Chinese-made drone technology has had an unexpected effect on law enforcement and state agencies, who own hundreds of millions of dollars worth of technology that is now prohibited by state law.

Business & Economics Consumer Products

AliExpress: The New Amazon? Or, Close, But No Cigar?

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ali, ali cloud, alibaba, alibaba vs. aliexpress, aliexpress, amazon, amazon distribution center, backmarket, cainiao, capitalism, china, consumer culture, consumerism, coupang, distribution, ecommerce, eRetail, free market, late capitalism, logistics, mass consumption, PRC, products, retailers, supply chain, TPP, trade, trade relations, trans-pacific partnership, US China relations, us china trade war, US-China trade, value density, value density by volume, value density by weight, value density per volume, warehouse, world trade organization, WTO

An exhaustive review of AliExpress, the Chinese Amazon and the “foreign office” of global giant AliBaba.

Mobility Energy

The “Mobility” Council’s Report: Buy A Car, Peasants

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alisyn malek, big gretch, bob babik, borgwarner, canals, cavnue, CFME, cory connolly, council on future mobility and electrification, electrification, electrified vehicles, emily frascaroli, energy innovation business council, Ford, ford motor company, general motors, google, governor whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, international trade, leland stanford, liberapay, london crossrail, luo yang, mark de la vergne, mdot, MEDC, mobility initiatives, mongol invasion of japan, monumental infrastructure, moon landing, moon landing hoax, NASA, panama canal, patreon, paul ajegba, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, siege of constantinople, siege of tyre, supercruise, trade, transcontinental railroad, tremaine phillips, trevor pawl, tupac shakur, wsp

The Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification said that Google’s Cavnue project is “one of the most ambitious mobility initiatives in history.” We looked through the history books and picked our top four competitors.

There Is No Public Transit Across One Of The Busiest Border Crossings In The World And That’s Kind Of Problematic

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, customs and border patrol, Detroit, detroit department of transportation, detroit river, gordie howe bridge, matty moroun, michigan, ontario, public transit, regional transit, trade, transit, transit windsor, US-Canada border, via rail, windsor

The corner of Wyandotte Avenue West and Patricia Road in the west end of Windsor, Ontario, is an odd nexus,