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Business/Economics, Idaho

Economic Reality finally hits Boise-area Realty Market with 920% cuts!

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For years now, politicians and local business leaders have sworn up-and-down that Idaho’s economy was booming. One of the ‘proofs’ these exalted leaders used was the skyrocketing price of real estate, but those of use working class long term residents knew that was bogus; how can the economy be booming when most working class people are working less hours and making less money? Now it looks like reality is finally pricking the real estate bubble, will it explode or just slowly leak until nothing is left?

Incomplete list of links to recent reports about the reality of Idaho’s realty market:

29SEP2021: Pocatello family sues the city for $21-million, because the city will not allow them to develop their 380 acres farmland! It’s a scandal involving the three years old taxpayer funded Northgate project: “…has knowingly and willingly engaged in a fraudulent and illegal scheme to deprive the Rupp family trust of much of the value of the Rupp property…. its accomplices have conspired with developers including in particular a Utah company Millennial Development Partners LLC to breach an agreement based upon the original design of the intersection that would allow for sufficient access to the Rupp property….”

 CoreLogic/insurance industry says Idaho’s existing home market cannot support catastrophic loss due to wildfires, will result in homelessness and prolonged economic problems!

Reventure Consulting video using Realtor.com data which reveals that Boise leads the U.S. with 920% increase in home price cuts, predicts average house price to go down 40%!:

28SEP2021: Housing developer backs out of multi-million dollar state land purchase, near Caldwell, forfeits $600-thousand rather than go through with the deal. Another housing developer refused a second chance opportunity, property now returns to the auction block!

Idaho’s gov’na wants employers to build affordable housing for employees!!!

09SEP2021: Median price of a home drops in Boise-area

Boise-area home prices decrease for first time

07SEP2021: Four decades after lead based paint was banned from home use, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) just gave Pocatello $2.6-million to remove lead-based paint from Pocatello homes!

31AUG2021: Boise-area is the most overvalued market in the United States!

09AUG2021: Boise home prices rising faster than any other U.S. city

Housing inventory up, sales down

02AUG2021: Boise leaders try to take advantage of overpriced home properties, taxes home owners way more than commercial property owners!

07JUN2021: Bannock County admits home owners are getting hit hard for property taxes!

21MAY2021: Amazingly, the ‘experts’ say prices in Boise will continue to skyrocket into 2022

My Immigrant Idaho: CHOBANI TO HIRE AFGHAN REFUGEES, PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR BIDEN, AND A TURKISH OWNED COMPANY!

More Economic Decline for Idaho, 2020: COVID-19 SHUTS DOWN 24HRS WINCO?

02FEB2020: More than 3-thousand home owners appeal outrageous property taxes imposed by Bannock County!

2019:  NO MORE IDAHO SHOPKO? THERE NEVER WAS A SHOPKO IN POCATELLO!

Bannock County, Idaho…

This is the new part of Siphon Road, which still doesn’t go anywhere. The Road Closed sign has been run over numerous times.

ROAD TO NOWHERE (taxpayer funded Northgate scandal)

07JUL2019: Bannock County suddenly imposes outrageous assessments/taxes on home owners!

East Idaho News, 2018: “There was no action taken on the Hoku property. They entered into an executive session where they discussed a number of different things and unfortunately as much as I wish I could, I cannot speak about or respond to anything, disclose anything that happened in the executive session.”-Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad

Idaho State Journal, 2018: Two years later, lease with Indian company amounts to nothing for abandoned Hoku 

IDAHO’S CONTINUED ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION, 2017: “CLOSED INDEFINITELY” Incomplete list of economic related events in the U.S. Gem State of Idaho, 2017.

IDAHO’S ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION 2016: “WE PLAN TO SELL IT DOWN TO THE BONES.” “…IT’S CRAPPY…!”

IDAHO’S ECONOMIC DECLINE 2015: “WE’RE GOING TO GO DOWN.”

IDAHO WOMAN DIES AFTER SELLING HERSELF TO FOREIGNERS FOR GESTATIONAL SURROGACY! IDAHO TURNS TO NOW DEADLY BABY FARMING FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL!

ONE FINAL LOOK AT THE IDAHO POSTAL PROCESSING CENTER MOST EAST IDAHOANS DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT!

IDAHO’S FAILED HOKU LEADS TO 1ST CHINESE COMPANY TO DEFAULT ON LOAN PAYMENTS? EVIDENCE OF ECONOMIC WARFARE BY UNITED STATES?

IDAHO’S ECONOMIC DECLINE 2014: “WE’VE LOST A LOT…SINCE 2007.”

STATE Department of Labor REVEALS TRUE REASON FOR LOW UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN IDAHO; THE UNEMPLOYED ARE LEAVING THE GEM STATE! 

IDAHO POLITICIANS GIVE AWAY MORE THAN $18-MILLION IN IDAHO TAXES, TO OUT-O-STATE LAWYERS!

IDAHO POLITICIANS GIVE AWAY MORE THAN $1-MILLION IN IDAHO TAXES, TO FRANCE!

IDAHO, ECONOMIC DECLINE 2013: “IT WAS A BLOW, CUT US OFF AT THE KNEES.”

HEINZ PULLS STAKE, WARREN BUFFETT ABANDONS POCATELLO, IDAHO! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 700 MILLION+ DOLLAR WHITE ELEPHANT CALLED HOKU FOR SALE IN IDAHO! I’VE BEEN WARNING YOU!

A History Lesson in Economic Decline: POCATELLO’S OLD FRED MEYER & ALBERTSONS ON YELLOWSTONE AVE, DID NOT CLOSE DOWN IN THE 1990S

2011: IDAHO’S ECONOMIC FORECAST GOOD ON ONE HAND, BAD ON THE OTHER, AND COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON A U.S. ECONOMIC RECOVERY

2010: U.S. BASED HOKU TURNING TO CHINA TO HELP FINISH POCATELLO, IDAHO, PLANT

Business/Economics, Idaho

My Immigrant Idaho: Chobani to hire Afghan refugees, par for the course for Biden, and a Turkish owned company!

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A company with the world’s largest yogurt operation (located in Idaho), accused in the past of favoring immigrant and refugees over U.S. citizens, as employees, and of course denying those accusations, has announced (on 21SEP2021) that it wants Afghan refugees to fill their vacant positions, and is creating a coalition of more than 30 companies that will do the same!

The owner of Chobani is also not a U.S. citizen (just like Elon Musk is not), even though he has been living in the United States since 1994!  Hamdi Ulukaya is described by Wikipedia as “a Turkish businessman, activist, and philanthropist of Kurdish descent based in the United States.”

In 2005, using a U.S. Small Business Administration loan, Ulukaya bought a defunct Kraft yogurt factory in New York.  He called his new business Agro Farma.  By 2007 he had changed the name to Chobani.

Chobani yogurt facility, Twin Falls, Idaho, December 2012.

In 2012, Chobani opened what was then called the largest yogurt factory in the world, in Twin Falls, Idaho.

In 2014, Ulukaya began funding refugee operations around the world, starting with a $2-million donation to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

It should also be known that Ulukaya has made huge donations within the United States, helping local communities struggling with the never recovering bad economy.  He has also expressed concern and support for the U.S. dairy farmers.

2015, CNN report saying Ulukaya wants all U.S. corporations to hire refugees:

In 2016, a New York Times article stated that Chobani was “employing more than 300 refugees”.

2016, Fox News reports that people want to boycott Chobani for hiring refugees over citizens:

Gov’na Brad Little attends a Chobani grand opening ceremony.

2017, Idaho’s current gov’na, Brad Little, praised Chobani saying “Chobani has worked hard to make itself an integral part of the Magic Valley community. Chobani’s latest investment in its state-of-the-art Innovation & Community Center underscores its commitment to Idaho. We are grateful to the leadership and employees at Chobani for their continued dedication to excellence, which only serves to help us in our goal to make Idaho a place where our children and grandchildren choose to stay.” Really? Then why are so many of Idaho’s youth leaving The Gem State?

In 2018, pro-British empire CNN called Ulukaya a “US billionaire” (note CNN doesn’t punctuate US, which is typical British grammar, not U.S. grammar) even though his official citizenship is still with Turkey, and claims the number of refugees and immigrants employed by Chobani is only 30% of Chobani’s total number of workers. 

2019, Ulukaya explains why he hires refugees:

February 2021, WKTVNEWSChannel2 report on Chobani and Utica’s refugee population:

May 2021, KTVB report on why Idaho refugee organizations are expecting a flood of refugees:

Read on indeed.com what employees at Chobani’s Twin Falls, Idaho, operation think.

Read on glassdoor.com what Chobani employees around the world think.

A new documentary claims Chobani puts employees before profit.  Do an internet search for all the food donations Chobani makes around the world every year and you will wonder how does Chobani have anything left over to sell, and, how can it afford to pay its employees?

Chobani Australia to sell yogurt for dogs.

Chobani makes vegan yogurt.

Chobani goes public, makes 2021 debut on stockmarket.

In 2012, Ulukaya’s ex-wife sued him, saying she was owned money from previous investments.

In 2013, a Californian sued Chobani after an outbreak of mold.  The U.S. FDA confirmed 220 people reported they were sickened after eating Chobani products. 

In 2014, Chobani was sued for copyright infringement.

Also in 2014, Chobani sued over its claim of being Greek yogurt.

The only time I’ve had Chobani yogurt was about five years ago when I was totally reliant upon food from charities.  It was slimy and tasted bad, but then again it could have been sitting on a shelf for a long time, which in the case of donated foods is typical, I was routinely given food products that were several months past their ‘use by’ dates.  If I can’t find a job soon (and I’ve been told by several HR managers that it is because of my age) I’ll be forced to return to relying on food pantries/banks.  Oh by the way, in 2017, lawsuits filed by former employees at the Twin Falls, Idaho, Chobani factory claimed the company discriminated based on sex and age.

Also in 2017, Chobani lawyers stated that claims against Chobani of employment of violent refugees “…have caused and continue to cause harm to Idaho residents…”

In 2018, a former employee of the Twin Falls factory sued Chobani, saying the company discriminated against her because of her disability.

Also in 2018, Chobani itself filed a lawsuit against the Twin Falls School District, saying the school district overcharged Chobani for property tax/fees.

In October 2019, New York’s Unadilla Valley Central School District was given additional time, by a judge, to justify the property tax/fees for the Chenango County Chobani factory. In 2017, Chobani itself filed a lawsuit against the Unadilla Valley Central District, saying the school district overcharged Chobani for property tax/fees.

In October 2020, Chobani was sued for false advertising regarding its vanilla yogurt.

Also in 2020, Chobani was sued regarding its claim of 45% less sugar.

In May 2021, Chobani was sued for false advertising regarding its low-fat Greek yogurt.

In July 2021, Chobani was accused of misrepresenting certification by Fair Trade USA (a non-profit organization).

My Immigrant Idaho:

Idaho Office of Resettlement reveals that Afghans are the second largest refugee group in Idaho, and that’s before Biden’s Afghanistan SNAFU!

MORMON FARMERS SUFFER UNDER TRUMP’S ILLEGALS POLICY!

 UNEMPLOYMENT SERVICES NOW IN SPANISH!

 FEDERALES (say it in Spanish, it means federal government officials) SAY IDAHO DOMINATED BY POOR IMMIGRANTS!

IDAHO BURDENED BY $187-MILLION WORTH OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! 

Photo by Jack Dempsey-Invision for Chobani.

Right to Work (you over) Idaho governor Butch Otter gives praise at the Chobani immigrant employment alter!

Biden’s War, July 2021: SECRET NEW AFGHAN-AFRICAN REFUGEE OPERATION REVEALED!

Business/Economics, Technology

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: Global Car Sales Crash? Why is electric car production/sales up? Don’t blame the pandemic, blame govt. mandates!

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Incomplete list of links to news reports which should cause you to question the main stream excuse that automotive industry problems are due to pandemic caused computer chip shortages.  The biggest proof that it isn’t computer chip shortages, is that electric car sales and production are at record levels, partly because of government mandates and partly because the car makers themselves are shifting to only electric vehicle production!  Perhaps the shutdown of combustion engine vehicle production is just a false flag operation to re-tool factories for electric car production?

Intel claims it will expand computer chip production to meet skyrocketing demand!  (I bet that demand is for electric cars, not traditional cars)

Electric parts maker Bosch says pandemic has revealed the current global supply chain is a failure!

Vehicle production in United Kingdom to crash to 1950s levels, car makers blame pandemic supply chain!

New combustion engine car sales in United Kingdom crash to 2013 levels, blamed on computer chip shortage, yet new electric car sales skyrocket! Don’t electric cars rely on computer chips as well?

Toyota cuts global production in September by 40%, blames lack of parts!

Toyota warns of 40% cut in October production!

Electric Viking video report, 200% increase in e-car sales in European Union (EU) despite so called pandemic shortages, also explains how Toyotas’ booming e-car sales in Europe might be the true cause for its halt to combustion car production, also, the EU is banning non-electric cars:

New combustion engine car sales in China crash for four straight months, blamed on electronic parts shortage, yet at the same time electric car sales are up!  This brings up an interesting point; how can computer chip shortages bring combustion engine car production/sales down, while at the same time computer chip dependent electric car production/sales are going up? Is it because governments around the world are banning non-electric cars and the car makers are shifting supplies of computer chips to their e-car production?

Encouraged by booming sales in China, computer chip dependent Tesla just jacked up the price of its e-cars in China!

XPeng Motors e-car sales skyrocket 172% in China! The Chinese e-car company is apparently not having a problem getting parts and is expanding production to more than 16-thousand vehicles per month!

KITCO video report, New York state bans non-electric vehicles and the electrics industry loves it:

Did Audi admit its production cuts are part of its shift to electric vehicle production only?

Volkswagen (VW) warns of more production cuts!

CNBC video report, Ford sales crash 33% year over year, ignorantly blamed on supply problems:

Ford halts pick-up truck production, again!

At the end of 2020, Ford secretly stockpiled more than 6-thousand pick-ups!

By May 2021, the pick-up stockpile was so big it could be seen from space!

Why is Ford stockpiling its new Bronco, despite high orders?

Is Ford’s halt to combustion engine pick-up truck production part of Ford’s plan to shift to only electric pick-up trucks?

Electric car battery maker Solid Power expands production for BMW and Ford!

Ford halts production in India!

Ford is pushing potential customers to skip the local dealership and buy online!

Entire U.S. car dealerships are for sale!

Virginia car dealership blames shortages not on the pandemic but on new global ‘just in time’ supply system!

KPIX video report, U.S. Labor Day combustion engine car sales crashed and burned in mandated electric car California, of course ignorantly blamed on computer chip shortage:

BMW puts electric vehicle production expert in charge of its Spartanburg, South Carolina, factory!

KVVU video report, fewer people are looking to buy new cars in Las Vegas, ignorantly blames lack of customers on lack of parts (maybe it’s actually about price?):

General Motors (Chevrolet) halts production of pick-up trucks!

Wentzville GM factory shutdown, blames lack of computer chips (in 2019 GM spent $1.6-billion upgrading the factory)!

Video report, U.S. new car shortage is causing U.S. used car price bubble never seen before:

AS Vlog video report, showing that skyrocketing demand for used combustion cars is not just a U.S. phenomena:

CBS17 video report, Hurricane Ida flood damaged cars about to flood the U.S. used car market:

Used cars are in such a high demand that 17 of them were stolen from a dealership in Minnesota!

Missouri car dealerships hit by vandals!

Prime Automotive Group wants to sell all 31 of its dealerships!

Renault shifting to electric car production in France!

Renault makes deal with Qualcomm! This report correctly points out that the computer chip shortage is actually caused by vehicle makers shifting production to all electric vehicles!

U.S. Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans, August 2021: HOLY CRAP BATMAN, ANOTHER BUTT-WIPER & FOOD SHORTAGE!?!

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans, July 2021:  “A SUPPLY/DEMAND MISMATCH” “NEW NORMAL”

False Flag 2015: VW INTENTIONALLY SACRIFICES DIESEL IN FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT CONTROLLABLE ELECTRIC CARS! ROCKEFELLERS BEHIND GLOBAL PUSH FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES! ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES ARE PROPPED UP BY GOVERNMENT MANDATES AND TAXPAYER FUNDING!

2014: MAZDA’S NEW 65+ MPG DIESEL, BUT DON’T EXPECT TO SEE IT IN THE ANTI-DIESEL CAR UNITED STATES!

Corporate Evil 2014: FORD HYBRID FUEL ECONOMY A LIE! HYUNDAI & KIA BEING SUED! OBAMA REGIME EPA IN ON THE SCAM? DIESELS RULE!

Business/Economics, Influenza

Paying the Pandemic Piper: “My family is starving, I have to sell my daughter.” Get ready for real Hunger Games!

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“…you’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession, or depression. You’re going to lose people.  You’re going to have suicides by the thousands….. You’re going to have instability, you can’t just come in and say ‘let’s close-up the United States of America’!”–President Donald Trump, Fox News interview 24 March 2020

In the age of pandemic perfidy, food is now a major tool for government control of the global population.  Incomplete list of links to news reports and food industry articles as of 09SEP2021:

African organizations accuse the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other donors, of destroying agriculture through out the African continent under the guise of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa!

AFGHANISTAN: Because the United States froze $7-billion worth of Afghanistan’s assets, and the International Monetary Fund halting financing, the United Nations says the country’s economy is collapsing and already there is a food shortage!

“My family is starving, I have to sell my daughter.”

AUSTRALIA: Fake meat food producers are tricking consumers by using words like beef and meat, and putting the fact that it is vegan in small print!

ETHIOPIA: United Nations warns 7-million people are going hungry!

150 people starved to death last month!

GERMANY: Food poisoning at a university makes students sick and turns their skin blue!

Do you know what Campylobacter is?

Why does Germany have such a high rate of Listeria?

Once an Afghan government official, now just a food delivery-man in Germany.

INDIA: Scammers are convincing investors to pump money into food industry brands that are fake!

Cattle die due to extreme drought, cattle feed prices skyrocket 150%!

ITALY: Italy accuses the United States of selling Europeans fake pasta!

JAPAN: Australia donates more than 8-thousand meals to Japan’s national food bank!

Tokyo-based Space Foodsphere wants to build farms on the Moon.

Uber Eats halts hiring foreigners for food delivery operations, after being accused of employing illegals!

LEBANNON:

KENYA: 63-thousand people starving to death!

KOREA:  North Korea blames climate disasters, not pandemic, for famines:

NETHERLANDS: Massive automated food factory to be built, in operation by 2024.

SRI LANKA:

SPAIN: 

U.S. Navy photo by Yeoman Third Class Sarah Weaver.

Volunteers on U.S. Naval Station Rota greeted Afghan refugees with food, 02SEP2021.

SINGAPORE: Fake chicken is served to rich people in upscale restaurants.

UNITED KINGDOM: Trucker strike results in food shortages!

Brexit reveals that the U.K. became dependent upon the EU for food.

Food logistics company decides to use air-conditioned conex boxes (shipping containers) as mini-food warehouses through out London, because there is no more space to build traditional warehouses to meet growing food demand.

UNITED STATES:  

USN photo by Valerie Maigue.

U.S. Naval Hospital Guam delivered nearly 2-thousand pounds of food and paper products to the Kamalen Karidat soup kitchen, 31AUG2021.

Walmart expands pandemic inspired Ghost Kitchen operations.

Kroger joins pandemic inspired Ghost Kitchen concept.

Why one chain cafe refuses to adopt pandemic Ghost Kitchen concept.

Arizona pecan processor shuts down, 130 jobs lost, blamed on trade wars and the pandemic!

King 5 video report, Washington state schools don’t have enough food:

KCTV5 video report, Kansas City schools lack food, blames pandemic logistics:

 2020 Census reveals U.S. citizens are getting the hell outta farming!

Biden to give migrant farm workers $700-million in additional taxpayer pandemic funding!

The USDA releases 2020 pandemic lockdown food insecurity data.

New Jersey’s largest dairy farm ripped by tornado.

Lawsuit says national restaurant chain’s onion rings use no onions!

Local Illinois restaurant halts sale of onion rings due to no available onions!

Fake fish made out of plants, or grown in laboratories!

Fake milk products are creating new flavor challenges for scientists.

Yet another fake chicken nugget is being forced down your throat.

Better Business Bureau warning of false online food delivery services!

Costs to ship food by train are going up!

Charity food farm in Missouri issues a warning; not enough volunteers to harvest all the crops!

Louisiana Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Ryan J. Sonnier.

Louisiana National Guard conducts food operations after Hurricane Ida, 01SEP2021.

Orange County, California, warns that even with improving economy food insecurity is only going to get worse!

California’s San Mateo County (5th wealthiest in the state) blames pandemic for leading the state in applications for taxpayer funded food program!

Food insecurity for Kentucky 50-year-olds is the worst in the nation!

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia reports 18% increase in people who cannot buy food!

The NFL continues its 19th season fighting hunger in Wisconsin!

Afghan refugee trolled for complaining about food in Texas!

People are using food availability as the deciding factor when moving to a new city.

More lawsuits aimed at lax U.S. food labeling regulations.

Ireland owned Dole hired an Arizona company to design a cloud-based system to attempt to manage its global food delivery operations.

Uber to sell part of its stake in Russian food delivery company!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued more than $350-million in penalties to several companies involved in illegally shipping seafood from Alaska to the eastern United States!

A California food bank is expanding its food storage by 1200 square feet!

Edwardsville, Indiana, considering allowing food trucks to operate in a greater area through out the city.

Global food industry growth credited to “The rapid rise in the prevalence of e-commerce in the food and retail sectors….” 

Food transportation and warehouse operators are blaming the pandemic for major problems with shipping/delivery!

VIETNAM: Pandemic blamed for shutting down food industry.

Military deployed to deliver food!

U.S. Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans, August 2021: HOLY CRAP BATMAN, ANOTHER BUTT-WIPER & FOOD SHORTAGE!?!

U.S. Medical & Food Disaster, July 2021: THIS IS NOT A DRILL! MILITARY DRUG DEALERS TAKE OVER LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIAS?

U.S. Food Crisis, June 2021: “EXPONENTIALLY BIGGER” “GHOSTS IN THE LAND.”

U.S. Food Crisis, March 2021: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Pandemic Shenanigans, February 2021: RESTAURANT HELL!

Operation CoViD-19, April 2020: COVERT OPERATION TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

U.S. Food Crisis, March 2019: “NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY”

Control through Chaos: USING THE BIBLE AS YOUR GUIDE TO DESTROY SOCIETY!

“I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”-Revelation 6:8, New International Bible

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: Holy Crap Batman, another Butt-Wiper & food shortage!?!

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The 26th of August is national toilet paper day in the United States.  Here are some links to the latest butt-wiper and mouth-stuffer shenanigans:

The Arizona National Guard has been directly involved with food distribution operations since the pandemic officially started in the U.S., and they still are directly involved, here is their latest year-n-half in review video as of 13AUG2021:

Computer chip shortage now causing kitchen appliance shortage!

Costco shoppers return to panic buying of butt-wipers and bottled water?

Costco limits food purchases!

One of the largest food distributors in North America halts shipments!

Shortages of pet food still plagues parts of North America!

Walmart recalling five food items!

Video report, new food supplier for Colorado school district under fire for delivering disgusting food:

Video report, another Colorado school district blames food problems on lack of people willing to work for peanuts in the school food system:

Photo by Valerie Maigue.

On 09AUG2021, U.S. Navy and Marines conducted an Emergency Food Assistance operation on the U.S. territory of Guam.

Video report, “unprecedented” food shortage for South Carolina schools:

There is so much food waste in Florida (at least 90 tons) that private efforts to deal with it have expanded!

Hillsborough County, Florida, warning that it cannot treat the water supply due to lack of liquid oxygen!

Louisiana farmers warn of food shortage due to Delta Pandemic panic!

Is it about the money? Analysts predict ecologically friendly global recycled butt-wiper market.

Global butt-wiper industry expected to be worth U.S.$39.5-billion by 2028!

Penny pincher blames pandemic, and cost of living in NYC, for why she stopped buying butt-wipers.

Pumpkin spice scented butt-wipers!

Bear caught on video stealing box of butt-wipers in Connecticut!

Florida high school student arrested for setting fire to butt-wipers in school toilet room!

Video report about East Idaho school district getting shorted at both ends; not enough food and not enough butt-wipers (‘paper products’):

Idaho man wastes 101 butt-wiper rolls to set world record!

Idahoans are panic buying ice!

Video report, food service industry in Idaho’s Treasure Valley say they can’t get the supplies required to serve food:

Indiana school district reports lack of food!

Pennsylvania school system blames food shortage on labor shortage.

On 30JUL2021, the Washington National Guard halted their CoViD-19 food operations, calling it a success.

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: CANNED PET FOOD? CONSPIRACY TO JACK-UP PRICES? BLAME CHINA?

Pandemic Panic-Attack: HOSPITAL SHORTAGE? DON’T BLAME PANDEMIC, BLAME OBAMACARE!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: SHOPPING MAYHEM AT POCATELLO WINCO!

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: Canned Pet Food? Conspiracy to jack-up prices? Blame China?

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Photo by AAron Hutchins, 25APR2021.

A recent visit to the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer revealed that not only are they still out of cat litter, but now they are out of canned cat food!  Notice the blue stickers all over the shelf fronts, they say “Sorry for the inconvenience”.

Across the street at Winco, they are still low on the top selling cat litters, but are also showing fewer stock of canned cat and dog food.  Fred Meyer is also showing a declining stock of canned dog food, but they’re not out of stock, yet.

It doesn’t help that in the past month several brands of pet food, in the U.S., were recalled due to salmonella.

A quick check of the inter-web and I discovered that shortages of pet food is making way more international news than shortages of cat litter, and this time most of the international news media isn’t blaming the pandemic (except for a Fox TV station and other news outlets in New York).

India:  Government orders pet food makers to boost production.

New Zealand:  Global supply issues and shipping delays hit the family cat’s dinner plate.

Whiskas among big-brand pet foods hit by global shipping issues.
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United States: Cat Food Shortage Leaves Pet Owners in a Bind.

Pet food shortage: Fancy Feast, Friskies and 9 Lives.

These Three Beloved Pet Food Brands Are About to Skyrocket in Price.

I also checked for news regarding the logistics industry.

An interesting report out of India revealed that several India airline companies are now contracting to be CoViD-19 oxygen and vaccine cargo haulers in Hong Kong, India and for “private entities” in the United States.  Also, Singapore government-owned Temasek has partnered with Air India and Amazon to airlift oxygen concentrators.

The fact that so many shipping companies are shifting to more profitable CoViD operations can only negatively affect the supplies of everything else.

Siddharth Jain of Inox Air Products, revealed in a recent interview why the current craze of shipping liquid oxygen to CoViD hospitals is screwing up the supply chain, at least in India: “….this has never been done anywhere in the world. Liquid oxygen is not designed to travel thousands of kilometers. Usually, plants are set up where there is a requirement…” 

In New Zealand, University of Auckland Centre for Supply Chain Management director Tava Olsen said supply chains were supposed to flow smoothly like water, but the whole chain had become ‘lumpy’….blames it partly on China.

Covenant Logistics Group just revealed they’ve been restructuring their operations, and admitted that “…supply chain disruptions, and an intensifying national driver shortage, all of which have continued into the second quarter.”

Crain’s New York Business interviewed an ‘expert’ who stated that the pandemic shift to more e-commerce revealed that there is not enough warehouses (believe it or not) dedicated to stocking merchandise for e-commerce sales.  The expert also said the logistics industry is ramping up its use of A-I and robots.

A new article by Logistics Manager says the advent of the pandemic, Brexit, China trade problems, and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal, revealed that the shift to a logistical system operated more with A-I and robots, and less humans, doesn’t work!  It also agrees with the Crain’s New York Business ‘expert’ who says there just aren’t enough warehouses to support the new logistics system.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, November 2013.

At the end of last year the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer began operating as a ‘fulfilment’ center for their e-commerce and pandemic ‘pick-up’ sales.  The brick-n-mortar store is now serving double duty as an e-commerce warehouse, but that doesn’t mean they’re carrying more stock.

I’ve written several times in the past that the so-called pandemic panic attack buying is actually a major problem with the globalized supply system, in which bigger logistics companies were taking over and shutting down smaller competitors, and switching to a new A-I system with robot workers instead of humans, just before the pandemic hit.

March 2021: PANDEMIC PANIC-ATTACK HITS CAT LITTER? BLAME LOGISTICS COMPETITION AND ROBOTS!

February 2021: GLOBAL SUGAR CRISIS, BETTER STOCK UP NOW!

U.S. Food Crisis: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT OP TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

Business/Economics, Influenza

Pandemic Shenanigans: More false positives! J&J vax under study for infertility! Shutdowns falsely blamed on CoViD!

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Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest pandemic panic-attack shenanigans, as of 14MAR2021:

Hotel tries to attract tourists by offering free CoViD testing across Caribbean and Mexico.

Why has Covid’s toll been surprisingly low across much of Africa and Asia?

AUSTRALIA: Supposedly the residents of Western Australia re-elected their state government, by a landslide, despite crazy-strict pandemic panic-attack restrictions.

Government allows pharmacies to substitute medications due to shortages blamed on pandemic panic-attack!

BRAZIL: Why did Brazil greatly reduce testing for CoViD when supposedly infections and deaths were skyrocketing?

CANADA: “As of March 11, a total of 2,986 variants of concern have been reported across Canada…”

Variant versus Strain

New cross-border CoViD testing operation run by hotel chain, for Canada and United States.

Trucking associations oppose mandatory CoViD testing at Canada-U.S. border.
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Travelers hit with big fine for providing false CoViD test results.

‘Free’ CoViD test in Nova Scotia cost Canadian woman more than CAD$1-thousand!

Amazon ordered to shutdown distribution center due to skyrocketing infections!

CZECH REPUBLIC: Businesses are backing government mandated CoViD testing in the hopes the government won’t shut them down!

ITALY: Red Zone panic-attack restrictions tightened!

JAPAN: Government officials beg China not to butt-test people visiting from Japan!

Health officials report new Philippine strain of CoViD, amid 60% increase in variants, a total of 271 cases of variant-strains!

KOREA: CoViD tests are now mandatory for foreigners!

MEXICO: CoViD testing conducted by dogs!

U.S. health ‘expert’ Fauci admits, in detailed interview by Eugenio Derbez, that CoViD ‘vaccines’ are not vaccines, but experimental technology! Admits studies do not show that vaccines actually stop infection, they just prevent symptoms, that’s why you must still comply with pandemic panic-attack restrictions! Admits vaccines will turn people into ‘carriers’! Admits the vaccines are not working on new strains/variants of CoViD! At end of interview reveals that a third CoViD ‘booster’ vaccine is on the way!  The intro is in Spanish, the interview is in English.

Also in the Fauci interview he refers to “a fund” to compensate people injured by vaccines.  That fund was established by the U.S. government decades ago due to the fact that people are being injured or killed by vaccines, it’s called National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

THAILAND: Bang Kae Market shutdown due to high positive test rate!

UNITED KINGDOM:  Police raided a workout joint and forcefully shut it down, for violating the city of Preston’s pandemic panic-attack closure order!  Ten people inside the gym were also fined £200 each.

UNITED STATES: 45% of laboratories testing for CoViD-19 cannot properly test due to lack of supplies, and this is an improvement from 2020: “Access to testing supplies ultimately affects our ability to provide an accurate, timely diagnosis.”-Patrick Godbey, College of American Pathologists

Canadian TV news reports new problem in the United States with CoViD infections, ‘sudden onset diabetes’!

U.S. Marines Corps Logistics Command explains “known” risks of mRNA vaccines:

California; Continued problems with CoViD testing shuts down high school football!

CoViD testing being expanded in The Golden State.

Major CoViD testing lab found to have “significant deficiencies” by state inspectors!

Florida; Health clinics in Tampa Bay now require an expensive vitamin deficiency test before getting a CoViD vaccine, no specific reason given but reading the article you get the sense that there is concern about giving the vaccine to people who are not considered healthy!

University of Miami suspects Johnson & Johnson vaccine might cause infertility in men because: “The J&J vaccine is the actual virus. And so now all of the concerns about the potential virus binding to the testes and impacting sperm count remains….”-Ranjith Ramasamy, University of Miami 

Georgia; Steady decrease in demand for CoViD testing results in future testing being canceled!

Idaho;  In Chubbuck, the 27 years old Red Lobster suddenly shutdown on 13Mar2021, posting a note on the door blaming pandemic panic-attack restrictions (of which there are none mandated in Chubbuck!), and despite the fact they are crowded at the lunch and diner hours (local reports say the restaurant was packed as usual the night before the sudden shutdown)!   While the corporate statement partly blames “government actions” regarding CoViD-19, it actually shutdown due to a failed attempt at a new rent scheme with the owners of Pine Ridge Mall: “This is without question the most challenging time Red Lobster has faced in our 53 years of operation. Like many other full-service restaurants, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change the way we are able to operate, and because of the crisis and consequent government actions, our restaurants, including our restaurant in Pocatello [it’s actually in Chubbuck] have been significantly impacted. After more than 27 years of being part of the Pocatello [Chubbuck, damn it!] community, we have made the incredibly difficult decision to close our restaurant at 4105 Yellowstone Highway. This decision was not made lightly, but it is necessary after being unable to reach an agreement with our landlord. We understand the impact this situation has on our guests as well as our employees’ ability to work. These decisions have not been taken lightly, but they are necessary for our business in these unprecedented times.”

Iowa; CoViD testing revealed operations at the State Hygienic Laboratory, in the University of Iowa Research Park, was a joke!

After more than ten years, live events ticket seller Tickly shutdown blaming pandemic panic-attack restrictions!

Minnesota; Gym that refused to follow state pandemic panic-attack shutdown orders will pay USD$5-thousand fine.  If caught open again, the fine goes up to $25-thousand.

Nevada; Positive CoViD test results at only 5.8%

New Mexico; Otero County reports only 4.98% positive test rate.

North Carolina;  All Duke University undergrads must quarantine!

Oregon; Oregon State University conducting random CoViD testing of people and wastewater in Corvallis.

A Running List of Portland’s Restaurant, Bar, and Cafe Closures.
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Pennsylvania;  Five counties demand permanent/long term CoViD test operations!

Tennessee; University of Tennessee students refuse to take CoViD test, school administrators refuse to relax pandemic restrictions as a result!

Texas; Without warning Red Lobster suddenly shutdown its restaurant in Sugar Land, blaming pandemic panic-attack restrictions.  It should be noted that at the beginning of 2020 the Florida based Red Lobster chain was in trouble financially, yet denied rumors that it would soon begin mass shutdowns of restaurants.  However by Spring 2020 dozens of Red Lobsters were shutdown across the U.S., blamed on pandemic panic-attack restrictions.  Red Lobster administrators claimed they were temporary shutdowns, but many are still closed and now in 2021 there are have permanent shutdowns taking place.

CoViD testing rates for The Lone Star State at lowest level since Autumn 2020.

Nine migrants test positive for CoViD-19 in El Paso.
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Vermont; National Guard’s Task Force Coyote halts CoViD testing, switches to vaccinations!

Washington; Skagit County shuts down USD$1.4-million drive-thru CoViD test site, saying they’re not able to conduct mass-testing and mass-vaccinations at the same time!

Despite free CoViD-19 testing many people are reporting that they are getting hit with bills (as much as $300 per test!) for said ‘free’ tests!

Despite claims that CoViD vaccines are issued free of charge, people in The Evergreen State are getting bills for said ‘free’ vaccines!

Washington DC; Biden to make White House news media pay for their own CoViD testing?

The U.S. Food Drug Administration now says a popular test for CoViD and influenza doesn’t work!  Roche’s cobas test gives high number of false positives!

FDA pushes new T-cell CoViD test.

Biden admin begs China not to butt-test Biden staff!

Wisconsin; Waukesha County halts CoViD testing?

Amusement park indefinitely shuts down, blaming pandemic panic-attack!

UZBEHKISTAN: Ends mandatory CoViD testing at border crossings.

Pandemic Shenanigans: COURT RULES NOT ENOUGH SCIENTIFIC DATA FOR CURFEWS?

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology

Pandemic Panic-Attack hits Cat Litter? Blame logistics competition and Robots!

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For the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed a growing shortage of cat litter products at stores in Bannock County, Idaho.

Photo by AAron Hutchins.

I took this photo in the Pocatello Fred Meyer, on 05MAR2021 at about 22:50, just before they closed for the night.  Notice that even litter boxes and some other litter accessories are short supply as well.

Across the street at Winco, they’ve been shifting around slow selling basic clay litter to fill in the empty spaces of the faster selling clumping litter.  Is the litter shortage due to panic buying, or continued problems with a new global logistical supply system that still doesn’t work?

In September 2020, a Canadian news report suggested that cat litter shortages were the result of panic buying and that ‘experts’ expected high demand to last long after the ‘pandemic’ ended!

However, in April 2020, a possibly ignorant Alabama Public Radio stated that pet products were not subject to panic buying, but at the same time encouraged their listeners to stock up on pet supplies!

That Alabama Public Radio report came a few months after a report out of the United Kingdom, in January 2020, which stated that a big supplier of cat litter had “collapsed”, leaving British stores without litter!

But what about now, in 2021?  On 06MAR2021, a study was made available regarding the global cat litter market, saying pandemic panic-attacks had changed the dynamics of the litter market.  The ‘pay-per-view’ study gives predictions through 2025.

Another cat litter market study, also released in March, gives predictions through 2027.

Yet another litter market study predicts that post-pandemic litter sales will hit $5.37-billion by 2027!

And yet another study says it’s not just litter but litter boxes that are experiencing skyrocketing demand!

There are dozens of cat litter market studies out there, all saying demand is only going to go up, and it’s blamed on what I call pandemic panic-attack syndrome.

Recently, a cat litter company called Dr. Elsey’s moved production from Colorado to Wyoming, into a bigger factory to meet high demand for their products.

Pretty Litter recently joined up with Marquee Brands/Martha Stewart in an attempt to increase sales.

Logistics, better known as the supply chain, is partly to blame for random shortages as well.  It’s one reason why Arizona has been relying on its National Guard to deliver food to grocery stores ever since the pandemic panic-attack began.

An article by DHL, about the difficulties of distributing the CoViD vaccines, indicates that such global vaccine operations are impacting the supply of everything else!

In Pennsylvania, a large trucking company just shutdown a distribution operation, affecting at least one thousand employees!  The reason was that the client they were serving dumped them and signed a new contract with a new supplier.

Globally, a lot of bigger supply companies are taking over smaller logistics providers, and whenever that happens operations are shutdown and people lose their jobs, and that has to affect supply chain.

An article by Logistics Management says the pandemic panic-attack “amplified existing logistics challenges around the world”.  Meaning the global supply system was already in trouble.

But even more importantly, the logistics industry is actually getting rid of human labor.  Recently, Swiss logistics company CEVA announced it is replacing human labor in Canada with robots, those robots are made by a Massachusetts company called Berkshire Grey.  This is very important because according to another article, Berkshire Grey’s sudden involvement in automating the North American logistics industry began just before the pandemic panic-attack: “When I visited its Massachusetts headquarters last year, following a massive $263 million Series B, the company discussed some pretty aggressive growth plans. Mind you, that was before the pandemic had really touched down in the U.S. in a meaningful way.

If anything, COVID-19 has accelerated interest in automation….”-Brian Heater, TechCrunch

Manufacturing.net: The Future of Warehouse Logistics

Shipping Watch UK: Logistics chain bottlenecks trigger longer contracts for container carriers

U.S. Food Crisis: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: GLOBAL SUGAR CRISIS, BETTER STOCK UP NOW!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: HOSPITAL SHORTAGE? DON’T BLAME PANDEMIC, BLAME OBAMACARE!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: SHOPPING MAYHEM AT POCATELLO WINCO!

Business/Economics, Idaho, International

Global Sugar Crisis, better stock up now!

Since the end of 2019, agricultural analysts have been warning of a global sugar shortage and thanks to a combination of pandemic, logistics, market and labor shenanigans, it is now upon us.  Here’s a list of links to news reports and food industry analysis, as of 10FEB2021.

New medical study says sugar promotes cancer killing Gamma-Delta T-cells!

Sugar shortage results in massive growth of sugar free chocolate market!

Global organic coconut sugar market expect to be worth U.S.-$442.8-million by 2027.

Monk Fruit sugar market expects steady growth until 2026.

Pandemic to affect organic sugar markets until 2025?

Predictions for the future of the global sugar market.

Brown sugar market predictions until 2029.

Powdered sugar market predictions until 2026.

Is there demand for sugar made from Dates?

Myths about sugar health risks debunked

European Food Agency:  Decades of logistical and government policy failures of European Union’s sugar industry, and now global shortages, results in a massive taxpayer funded study to solve the EU’s sugar supply chain problem.

AUSTRALIA: Aussie farmers told to focus on sugar production, to profit off the sugar shortage in Europe!

INDIA: Sugar farmers go on strike saying they haven’t been paid for their last sugar harvest!

Shipping container shortage and skyrocketing transportation costs halt sugar exports: “India has exported around 70,000 tonne [metric tons] so far. The container shortage, however, is affecting exports. Sri Lanka consumes around 60,000 tonne of sugar from India every month. But the freight costs have gone up from $250 per container to $1,000 between January 2020 and January 2021. Afghanistan consumes 60,000 tonne of sugar from India every month and freight costs for Afghanistan have gone up from $125 per container to $550 per container. There has been a sharp increase in freight rates and shipping is pretty tight at the moment.”-Rahil Shaikh, ‎MEIR Commodities India

INDONESIA: Government tries to expand sugar production by relaxing sugar licensing regulations, it fails due to lack of technologies and skyrocketing costs of operations.

KOREA: North Korea blames food shortages, including sugar, on the pandemic.

PAKISTAN: Government to attempt to import another 0.5m tonnes of sugar to overcome shortage.

PHILIPPINES:  Long term sugar shortage expected.

THAILAND: Black Sugar (the result of farmers burning sugarcane fields, not to be confused with Japanese Kuru Sato) increases due to lack of migrant farm workers caused by pandemic restrictions!

UNITED STATES: Sugar Processors Raise Prices as U.S. Faces Possible Sugar Shortage.

Florida; NASA releases images of Florida’s burning sugarcane farms (black sugar)

Georgia; Coca-Cola reports largest drop in volume production since World War Two, blames it on the pandemic!

Idaho; I live in Southeastern Idaho and since last year soda-pops made with 100% sugar (instead of 100% high fructose corn syrup, which is what the overwhelming majority of sodas are made with) have been disappearing.  In the past two weeks 100% sugar sodas have all but completely disappeared from local grocery store shelves (except for some very expensive gourmet sodas sold in individual bottles).

Amalgamated Sugar 2020 crop comes in at just over 40 tons per acre.

Idaho sugar beet growers report 29% increase in sugar beet revenues.

New York; Sugar High On Wall Street As White-Sugar Futures Climb On Container Shipping Worries.

 

Food Crisis:  SOYLENT GREEN PET FOOD? OR, ARE PEOPLE BEING PREPPED TO EAT PET FOOD?

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT OP TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

U.S. Food Crisis, February 2019: “LONG HOURS, EMPLOYEE TURNOVER, EQUIPMENT FAILURES, WAGE HIKES”

Business/Economics, Technology

Winglets, or Once again NASA saves the Private Sector!

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In another fine example that the capitalist country of United States spends taxpayer money to help-out private sector corporations; between 1979 and 1980, NASA used a KC-135 to special-test the use of winglets in reducing drag and thus reducing fuel consumption.  The study led to the use of winglets on commercial aircraft.

The winglets were developed by NASA’s Richard Whitcomb, who discovered through wind-tunnel testing that winglets could actually produce forward thrust.  Whitcomb is also credited with developing the supercritical wing, also used by commercial airliners (F-8 SUPER-CRITICAL-CRUSADER, FATHER OF MODERN AIRLINER WING DESIGN).

Silent NASA video:

The winglets used by NASA were much bigger than the winglets being used by the commercial sector.

The U.S. Air Force’s -135 family of aircraft are not modified Boeing 707s!!!   It’s amazing to me that even aviation periodicals will refer to the -135 as having evolved from the 707.  Both the -135 and the 707 evolved from the earlier prototype 367-80 (first flight 1954), the -135 (first flight 1956) was actually created before the 707 (first flight 1957).  The -135, also known as the Boeing 717, is smaller than the 707 and structurally there is nothing similar about the two aircraft (like the fuselages having totally different cross sections, the 707 being taller and wider), the major components cannot be interchanged.

Some confusion can be blamed on Boeing itself, as the manufacturer offered militarized 707s to other countries’ air forces, such as Iran (which got both 707s and 747s converted for use as airborne fuelers).  Boeing’s militarized 707 production continued into the 1990s, they are nothing like the -135.

 

KC-135:   BATS & BEARS, OH MY!

Bare Metal: NASA TRUCKS saving the trucking industry