The Jones Act forces Hawaiian ranchers to ship calves via Canada, while US and South Korea discuss shipbuilding cooperation and India condemns an attack on a Panama-flagged oil tanker.
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Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-15 00:34Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
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A calm Hawaiian rancher stands beside a penned group of calves on a dock, looking out at a cargo ship in the distance with a Canadian flag, as a stormy sky with dark clouds looms behind, with a subtle hint of a US and South Korean flag intertwined in the ship's rigging.
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Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A calm Hawaiian rancher stands beside a penned group of calves on a dock, looking out at a cargo ship in the distance with a Canadian flag, as a stormy sky with dark clouds looms behind, with a subtle hint of a US and South Korean flag intertwined in the ship's rigging. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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The Jones Act sends Hawaii calves through Canada. That is absurd.
A 1920 law meant to protect U.S. shipping forces Hawaiian ranchers to ship live calves via British Columbia because no American-built cattle vessel exists.
By Marin Whitlock · 3wThe Jones Act forbids foreign-built vessels from sailing between U.S. ports. That rule, Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, has a direct cost for Hawaiian ranchers.
No U.S.-built cattle transporting vessels exist. So ranchers rent foreign-built ships. But they cannot sail those ships directly from Hawaii to a mainland U.S. port. The calves travel via British Columbia instead.
This is not an edge case. It is the law at work. The Jones Act created a monopoly for a small number of U.S.-owned, U.S.-flagged vessels. That monopoly has weakened the merchant fleet, not strengthened it. U.S. shipyards are less efficient and more costly than foreign yards. Many U.S. vessels are old and inefficient because there is no competition.
The law was supposed to protect American shipping. On the evidence here, it forces a detour through a foreign country to move cattle between two American ports. That is the case for repeal.
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