Customs and Border Protection Crackdowns on some De Minimis Shipments into the US 02JUN2024

Customs and Border Protection Crackdowns on some De Minimis Shipments into the US

Currently, US Customs and Border Protection is cracking
down on de minimis Shipments from China into the US.
It is now currently limited to air shipments from China.
However, this crackdown could extend eventually to other
countries and ultimately to some degree to marine shipments.
  Because de minimis shipping consists of any goods that
is less than 800 dollars, this crackdown, might eventually
greatly delay the shipping of any package of goods and
lengthen the time it would to ship anything into the
United States. Also, any package of de minimis goods
shipped into the United States will be more closely scrutinized
by the CPB in terms of whether it is properly declared in
description and price by the sender.

  Although it is nothing to worry about now, the situation
could change in the future.


Below are some new articles-

Customs Brokers under scrutiny as US CPB confirms
ecommerce crackdown, the Lodestar
https://theloadstar.com/customs-brokers-under-scrutiny-as-us-cbp-confirms-ecommerce-crackdown/


"Entry Type 86 allows the import of goods into the
US without the payment of duties and taxes, if the
value of the shipment is less than $800, the de minimis
threshold."

Customs brokers caught up in US crackdown on
Chinese ecommerce traffic. the Lodestar
https://theloadstar.com/customs-brokers-caught-up-in-us-crackdown-on-chinese-ecommerce-traffic/


Customs and Border Protection Crackdowns on ECommerce De
minimis Shipments from China to the US

What is Going on With Shipping?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muTPGkhZAXk

Yours,

Paul H.

Chinese space junk falls to Earth over Southern California, creating spectacular fireball (photos, video) 03APR2024

Chinese space junk falls to Earth over Southern California, creating spectacular fireball (photos, video)
Mike Wall, Space.Com, April 7, 2024
https://www.space.com/chinese-space-junk-fall-fireball-shenzhou-15

Yours,

Paul H.

Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks

Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks
Associated Press, December 16, 2020

https://apnews.com/article/china-capsule-moon-rocks-da510a5fd9a97505296ddbdb5749c393

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteorite Hunting in China

Meteorite Hunting in China

China's meteorite hunters: Adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Man travels world to search for fragments, Nanlin Fang, CNN Sep 07, 2019
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/lifestyle/chinas-meteorite-hunters-adventurers-hoping-to-get-rich-from-rocks/1118315685

China's meteorite hunters: The adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Meet Zhang Bo, who travels to far-flung locations armed with a metal detector, hoping he'll stumble on a fallen meteorite. CNN, Sept. 7, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-meteorite-hunters-intl-hnk-scn/index.html

Yours,

Paul H.

China Building 500-meter Radio Telescope In Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

China Building 500-meter Radio Telescope In Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

China Building World's Largest Radio Telescope for
Astronomy and SET by Giulio Prisco, July 27, 2015
https://hacked.com/china-building-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-astronomy-seti/

China is Building an Absolutely Massive Radio
Telescope by George Dvorsky, July 24, 2015
http://io9.gizmodo.com/china-is-building-an-absolutely-massive-radio-telescope-1719983857

China’s Alien Life Hunt Built Online And Sparks New
‘Contest’ by Carlo Diokno, STGIST,February 20, 2016
http://stgist.com/2016/02/chinas-alien-life-hunt-built-online-and-sparks-new-contest-6994


It is interesting that they are taking advantage of
karst landforms, just as Puerto Rica’s Arecibo
Observatory's 300-meter dish does, to build their
500-meter dish.

Yours,
Paul H.

5, 300 Year-Old, Subfossil Domestic Cats, China

5, 300 Year-Old, Subfossil Domestic Cats, China

How Humans Created Cats (Following the invention
of agriculture, one thing led to another, and ta da: the
world's most popular pet by R. J. Rosen, The Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/how-humans-created-cats/282391/

Cats May Have Been On Road To Domestication
In Chinese Farming Villages 5,300 Years Ago
By Roxanne Palmer, International Business Times,
December 16 2013
http://www.ibtimes.com/cats-may-have-been-road-domestication-chinese-farming-villages-5300-years-ago-1510952

Cat domestication may date back more than 5,000
years, USA Today, December 16, 2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/cat-domestication-china/4034759/

Hu, Y., S. Hu , W. Wang, X. Wu, F. B. Marshall,
X. Chena, L. Hou, and C. Wang, 2013, Earliest
evidence for commensal processes of cat
domestication. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States.
Published online before print December 16, 2013,
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1311439110 PNAS December
16, 2013.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/12/12/1311439110

Merry Christmas,

Paul H.

"150,000 BP claim" or Geofact ??

In "150,000 BP claim" at:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2011-September/079784.html
Robert wrote,

""150,000 yrs BP" isn't a typo. The reason I pointed to this website 
(http://61.128.162.70/stone/686/686.htm) and mentioned the 
supposed antiquity of the rock with the Big Dipper configuration 
was to underscore the widespread acceptance in China of this 
concept of the evolution of the position of the stars of the Big Dipper 
[as repeated in diagrams (A), (b), and (C)]. It's used in teaching 
materials, for example. Apparently, the presence of this concept 
has led to the accommodation of exaggerated claims of antiquity 
as well as more modest claims."

A geologist, who has seen various rounded pebbles and cobbles
with identical circular markings on them, I wonder what evidence
that they have for these markings as having been carved. The 
differential weathering of animal burrows in a sedimentary rock
can easily produce circular markings that are identical to the ones
that appear on the stone. The circles with connecting bar is what 
could easily be the eroded and differentially weathered cross-
section of  animals burrows (trace fossils), of which I have 
personally seen examples examples while doing field work.

One real possibility is that someone unfamiliar with how specific
types of trace fossils look like in cross-section on the eroded 
and differentially weathered surface of a stone has confused a
natural trace fossil with manmade carvings. If so, this would not
be the first time, that a nongeologist, when finding natural circular
patterns on a stone jumped to the incorrect conclusion that it
was manmade. For an example of how trace fossils have been 
confused by nongeologists with manmade artifacts can be seen 
in "Artifacts  or Geofacts? Alternative Interpretations of Items 
from the Gulf of Cambay" at;

http://members.cox.net/pyrophyllite/geofact.html

My impression of this alleged " 8000BC Big Dipper Petroglyph: 
Evolution of star positions" is that it very well might be an geofact
that has been misidentified as a petroglyph. 

Best wishes,

Paul H.