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U.S.

Local schools getting food from U.S. military, and demand is up!

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has many sub-programs for helping provide food for their National School Lunch Program.  One of those sub-programs is in coordination with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), it’s called the USDA DoD Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program (aka USDA DoD Fresh).

Even though it’s listed as a USDA program, it is actually operated by the DoD’s Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence supply chain.

This fiscal year, there is already a record $470-million in requests for food from USDA DoD Fresh, and in just one week of November a record 20-thousand-958 orders were shipped.  Last year, the requests for USDA-DoD supplied fresh veggies hit $371-million.  It’s all blamed on CoViD-19 overreactions by local and state governments, resulting in schools shutting down completely and food orders being canceled: “Then as they came back in March, April and May, we began to see where USDA DoD Fresh was meeting their needs because of the fact that [schools] could get weekly deliveries of fresh produce, and the vendors were able to give them individually wrapped products like baby carrots in a bag, orange slices, and apple slices.”-Katherine Staley, Chief of Program Integrity and Monitoring Branch with USDA Food Distribution Division

Katherine Staley also implied that apparently the sudden shutdown of schools and cancelation of civilian food vendor contracts caused many of those vendors to ‘go away’, and now many school districts are scrambling to find civilian food suppliers: “While states figure out how to get the other items, we are a failsafe. Our contracts are in place, our vendors are up and running and ready to go. It’s a team effort making this work.”

Staley pointed out that while many of the civilian food venders might be getting their food from foreign imports, all of the USDA DoD Fresh food “…is U.S. produced. It…supports American agriculture.”

48 states plus Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Washington DC, use the USDA DoD Fresh program.

CoViD-19:  PANDEMIC REVEALS U.S. DEPENDENCE UPON FOREIGN FOOD!

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

Influenza

Vaccine Shenanigans: U.S. military personnel join U.S. healthcare workers in refusing the shot!!!

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Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports/studies on the latest vaccine shenanigans, as of 18FEB2021:

Long term CoViD vaccine study in question because participants in placebo control group were able to get the actual vaccine!

Studies say CoViD ‘survivors’ still need at least one CoViD shot!

CANADA: At least 651 cases of coronavirus vaccine adverse reactions!

CHINA: Taiwan says mainland communist China canceled German vaccine deal due to political pressure.

Government sending more vaccines to other countries than being used domestically, accused of using vaccines as foreign policy tool.

DENMARK and SWEDEN: Creating digital registry to reveal who has been vaccinated, part of new vaccine travel passport system!

ICELAND: Herd immunity/vaccine study on hold due to lack of CoViD infections!

ISRAEL-PALESTINE:   Israel finally releases vaccines to people in Gaza!

‘Doctor’ Fauci paid $1-million by Israeli group for his  promotion of vaccines, I mean promotion of ‘science’!

Facebook shuts down Israeli anti-vax group!

Prime Minister wants a new law to allow the National Security Council to know the names of people who refuse to get vaccinated!

City of Tel Aviv now requires asylum seekers and migrant workers to be vaccinated!

JAPAN:  CoViD vaccinations begin.

PARAGUAY:  Russian Direct Investment Fund delivers vaccine.

PERU:  President admits almost 5-hundred elites got Chinese CoViD shots before national vaccine program officially began!

RUSSIA: CoViD vaccine maker ready for large scale production for European Union.

Russian influenza vaccine makers to provide Latin American countries with 6.5-million shots per year.

SOUTH AFRICA: First to use J&J vaccine.

UNITED KINGDOM:  In the name of developing better vaccines, people will be intentionally exposed to CoViD!

Being vaccinated might become requirement for employment!

COVID-19 vaccine trial to begin on children as young as six, youngest group yet to be tested.
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UNITED STATES:  By the thousands, U.S. military personnel refuse to be vaccinated!

False Flag government vaccination program that killed hundreds of people is why many don’t trust vaccinations.

Arizona;

U.S. Army National Guard photo by Specialist Thurman Snyder.

17FEB2021, state National Guard personnel direct traffic to mass-vaccination site in Chandler.

California;  University study says drones/robots should be used to distribute vaccines.

Florida;  Gov’na threatens to halt vaccination in one county because of distribution complaints!

University study says pregnant women should get CoViD vaccine.

Maine;  Mass-vaccination site studied for efficiency of operation.

Maryland;

Photo by Technical Sergeant Enjoli Saunders.

03FEB2021, state National Guard personnel conduct CoViD testing operations at the Allegany County Fairgrounds.

New York; Pregnant waitress fired for refusing to get vaccinated!

Washington DC; Remember when Biden claimed that there was no vaccine when he took office, when in reality there were several?  Part-in-parcel of Biden Admin’s forked tongue policy.

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

Vaccine Fail: CALIFORNIA

Pandemic-Food Crisis:  GLOBAL SUGAR CRISIS, BETTER STOCK UP NOW!

Influenza

Pandemic Shenanigans: Court rules not enough scientific data for curfews?

Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest pandemic lockdown shenanigans, as of 17FEB2021:

AUSTRALIA:  Cities end pandemic lockdowns.

GERMANY: Extends national lockdown.

INDIA:  Officials in Maharashtra threaten lockdown if infection rate continues to go up.

NEW ZEALAND: Auckland ends pandemic lockdown.

Waitomo District Council makes lockdown worse with bureaucratic red-tape regarding pandemic relief funding for businesses.

NETHERLANDS:  Lower court rules government imposed curfew was not justified since the infection rate was already dropping before curfew was imposed.

Upper court overturns, temporarily, lower court’s ruling on curfews.

Economy in Netherlands down in 4th quarter 2020 due to pandemic lockdown.

NORWAY:  Government rejects idea of using curfew to halt pandemic.

ROMANIA:  Economic boom due to avoiding pandemic lockdown!

UNITED KINGDOM: Man who killed his wife found not guilty of murder, ruled to have gone insane due to pandemic lockdown!

Official government reports say sexual activity down by 80%, yet homosexual men report sexual activity is up (pun intended) precisely because of lockdown isolationism.

Pandemic lockdown causing eye strain?

Pandemic lockdown destroys friendships.

UNITED STATES:  Arizona; Alcoholism skyrockets under pandemic lockdown, academic study concludes that lockdowns don’t reduce boozery.

California; UC Berkeley ends student dorm lockdown.

Florida; Federal court upholds pandemic curfew for strip joints.

Massachusetts; Shelter in place lockdown for university students is doing nothing to reduce campus infection rate, and students are at breaking point: “…we’re pretty upset in the Student Government Association that the university is expecting students to go two weeks without earning any income, especially during a time of such financial insecurity when students need to pay for rent, food and other essential items.”-Sara McKenna, a UMass senior and secretary of University Policy with UMass Amherst’s Student Government Association

Mississippi; One city imposes permanent curfew for people under the age of 18, blamed on increasing violence!

Another city extends curfew for people under 18, blamed on skyrocketing crime.

New York; Judge delays ruling on pandemic curfew imposed on restaurants.

On 23JAN2021, the liberal New York Times admitted that curfews have “never been tested against a pathogen”, in other words there is no conclusive scientific data proving that curfews stop disease.

Ohio;  Gov’na claims pandemic curfew works, without presenting scientific evidence to back up his claim (uses supposition as evidence).

Pennsylvania;  President Trump warned about it and the liberals scoffed him for it, new scientific data proves Trump correct, especially regarding lockdowns and children: “We’ve seen an upsurge in really bad suicide attempts.”-Doctor Taranjeet Jolly, an adult and pediatric psychiatrist at Penn State Health’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Tennessee; A third Knoxville bar punished for violating pandemic curfew.

ZIMBABWEA: Starvation forces people to violate pandemic lockdowns!

Pandemic Shenanigans: BIDEN ORDERS FEMA MASS-VAX SITES! NAVY BUILDING experimental FEMA COVID CAMPS!

Operation CoViD-19, April 2020: NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 OPERATIONS

Idaho, Influenza

Pandemic Shenanigans: Biden orders FEMA Mass-Vax Sites! Navy building FEMA CoViD camps!

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Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest pandemic FEMA shenanigans, as of 16FEB2021:

FEMA=Federal Emergency Management Agency

California: FEMA begins federal level mass-vaccination sites, in Los Angeles and Oakland!

U.S. Navy explainer video, from Bureau of Medicine and Surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego, insists CoViD vaccines are voluntary because they are still considered experimental/emergency use only:

U.S. Navy explainer video, from Bureau of Medicine and Surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego, stating that CoViD vaccines are not for children because vaccine testing did not include children, and the FDA did not approve the vaccines for use in children:

Delaware: FEMA begins mass-vaccinations in Dover!

Florida:  FEMA to spend at least $245-million in taxpayer funding for CoViD vaccination ops!

Hawaii: FEMA to spend at least $87-million in taxpayer funding for mass-vaccination operation!

Idaho:  The Gem State is one of as many as a dozen states that say they need more data before they accept FEMA operations!

Maryland: 

U.S. Army National Guard photo by Captain Michael Fedner.

Maryland’s gov’na toured the state’s first mass-vax site in the parking lot of Six Flags in Bowie, 05FEB2021.

Mississippi: 

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Caine Storino.

 In Gulfport, on 08FEB2021, U.S. Navy SeaBees (construction engineers) built what is being called a “CoViD Vaccine Administration Camp”.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Caine Storino.

It was a ‘proof of concept’ build to see if such vaccine administration camps were feasible.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Caine Storino.

The small camps are intended to issue 250 vaccines per day, and could also be used for ‘humanitarian assistance’ around the globe.

Missouri:

Photo by Chad Ashe.

On Fort Leonard Wood (my Army Basic  & Advanced Training alma mater), Nutter Field House was used to hold a mass vaccination event for military personnel on 05-06FEB2021.

New Hampshire:  FEMA (taxpayers) will somehow cover the cost of state/local level pandemic operations!

New Jersey: FEMA to begin mass-vaccinations!

U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Barry Riley.

14FEB2021, U.S. Army Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force-531, out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, began assisting FEMA’s mass vaccination ops in Somerset.

U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Barry Riley.

13FEB2021, Department of Defense’s Task Force North East arrived at FEMA Region 2’s Operations Center, in Earle, for what’s being called “whole-of-government CoViD-19 response”.

U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Barry Riley.

13FEB2021, at New Jersey National Guard headquarters in Sea Girt, U.S. Army Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force-531 goes through FEMA orientation for mass-vaccination operations.

New York: 

U.S. Air Force Reserve photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher S. Muncy.

The National Guard helped to open a mass-vaccination site at Yankee Stadium, 05FEB2021.

North Carolina:   

U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Corporal Isaiah Gomez.

On U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune, the Wallace Creek Fitness Center is now a mass-vaccination site for military personnel.

Oregon:  FEMA to spend $4.5-million in taxpayer funding for vaccine distribution ops in just one county!

Pennsylvania:  Convention center to become mass-vaccination site!

Texas: FEMA to open three mass-vaccination sites!

Washington:  

Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

More than 150 National Guard personnel are operating four mass-vaccination sites in Spokane, Kennewick, Wenatchee and Ridgefield.  Also, the National Guard is conducting a mobile vaccination operation targeting nursing home residents.

Washington DC: Local DC area officials ask FEMA to ‘help’ federal employees to get vaccinated!

Department of Defense says it will assist FEMA in mass-vaccination operations!

FEMA wants pharmacists to volunteer for mass-vaccination duty!

Biden wants at least 1-hundred FEMA mass-vaccination sites across the U.S.!

FEMA (taxpayers) to pay for CoViD funerals!

Pandemic Shenanigans:  RESTAURANT HELL!

Operation CoViD-19, March 2020:  NEW NORMAL NATIONAL GUARD

Idaho, Influenza

Pandemic Shenanigans: Restaurant Hell!

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Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest pandemic related restaurant shenanigans, as of 14FEB2021:

CANADA: Restaurant patron arrested for punching worker, biting customer over facemask regulations.

UNITED STATES:    Celebrity chef says “It’s the toughest time in the restaurant industry at least in the last 30 or 40 years or so”, and adds that for an unexplained reason CoViD paranoia is targeting restaurants owned by specific ethnic groups!

Close, Reopen, Repeat. Restaurants Don’t Know What Covid-19 Will Dish Out Next.

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Arizona;  Is the restaurant industry recovering?

California;  Iconic restaurant, and major contributor to San Francisco’s economy, now proclaimed to be ‘rowdy & racist’!

List of Bay Area restaurants that have shutdown since the beginning of February.

Restaurant owners beg Alameda City to ease CoViD restrictions, 80% crash in revenues!

Restaurant apologizes after getting threats for firing employee who wore racist face mask!

Apparently restaurants have been charging huge delivery fees (to cover their costs of using third party delivery services), so one city had to create a law to control it!

Los Angeles County gives restaurant workers vaccine priority.

New robot restaurant opens.

Stanislaus County restaurant shutdowns blamed on CoViD.

Riverside County inspections result in shutdown.

San Bernardino County inspections result in shutdowns.

Florida; Hot dog joint was actually an illegal drugs operation.

Central Florida Teacher Fought Students Outside Fast Food Restaurant.
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Idaho Falls restaurant Garcia’s thriving in pandemic, opens new location in Pocatello.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, December 2020.

But don’t get too excited for the economy, Garcia’s is opening in the former Chili’s location, which shutdown without warning, or explanation, towards the end of last year.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

In Pocatello, the iconic and beloved Chang’s Garden shutdown without warning last October, just confusing signs reading  “Sorry we are closed” and “Hiring server” on the door.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

It was known to loyal Chang’s fans that the husband and wife owners had been wanting to retire for several years, and they apparently used the pandemic as an excuse to sell the location to New Yorkers who created Tokyo Belly Sushi (they chose Idaho because New York is too expensive to start a restaurant). I don’t like fish.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, February 2013.

Chang’s opened in1994, and I had been eating there since 1997, 20-plus years of awesome General Tao (not Tso!) Chicken and Hot & Sour Soup, and occasionally Honey Walnut Shrimp.

CoViD-19 Shenanigans 2020:

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

Golden Corral shuts down 18 years old Pocatello location.

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New Hampshire;  Pandemic and bad weather puts restaurants “in survival mode”.

New Jersey;  Restaurant owners say despite expanded outdoor seating, reservations are way down.

New York;  Pandemic not stopping racist promotional event for restaurants owned by a specific ethnic group.

Restaurant owner declares New York “the worst run state”.

Domino’s and other food joints fail inspections with numerous violations!

North Carolina;  Local restaurant defies state order, warns customers that staff does not wear masks!

Pennsylvania; Restaurants slated to get millions in state taxpayer funded CoViD relief funding!

 Lancaster County restaurant inspections find soil and pink slime.
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Ohio;   Restaurant that managed to stay open despite pandemic, is shutdown by vandals.

Oregon;  Snow storm causes multiple outdoor restaurant tents to collapse!

List of permanent CoViD restaurant shutdowns in Eugene and Springfield.

South Carolina; Social media post sparks shooting at Spartanburg restaurant.

Texas;  A single day closure cost a Dallas restaurant “at least $100-thousand”!

List of Austin eatery shutdowns, blamed on weather.

Washington; Restaurant shifts to retail sales to stay alive!

Restaurant owner says vandalism of his eatery might be an act of racism.

Washington DC;  Bill proposed to loan restaurants as much as $10-million each for CoViD relief!  (Is it truly ‘relief’ or just kicking the can down the road?)

Wyoming; Restaurant owner says they are struggling with CoViD seating restrictions.

 

Capital Press: 110-thousand U.S. restaurants shutdown in 2020!

Pandemic Shenanigans: Anti-vaxers using CDC’s own vaccine data to support their cause, as many U.S. states stop using CDC data now that Joe Biden is President! 

Combination of pandemic, logistics, market and labor shenanigans: Global Sugar Shortage, better stock up now!

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”

Influenza

Pandemic Shenanigans: Anti-vaxers using CDC’s own vaccine data, as many U.S. states abandon CDC data!

Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports/scientific studies on the latest pandemic related shenanigans, as of 05FEB2021:

ABC News:  Major exodus among public health officials during pandemic

Aljazeera:  South African government ‘loses’ $17-million in pandemic funding!

Becker’s Hospital Review:  U.S. CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System data being used by people to justify not getting the shot!

Most U.S. states stop using the Biden admin’s CDC data for vaccinations!

Bloomberg:  Pandemic to last seven years?

Business Insider: Member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and a G7 country, Canada takes supply of vaccines meant for poor countries!

Crain’s Detroit Business:  Biden’s CDC tells Michigan it’s okay to use spoiled vaccines!!!

Cruise Industry News:  Member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Canada uses pandemic as an excuse to cancel cruise ship tours to the U.S. state of Alaska

DWTV: Doctors report that pandemic lockdowns are actually causing the health of children to deteriorate! (Gee, I think President Trump warned about that!)

New combi-CoViD mutation discovered in United Kingdom!

China uses its vaccine to take-over Africa?

Education Week: Biden’s CDC director flip-flops, says teachers don’t need to be vaccinated!

Photo by JENNIFER DEHAAN.

Fort Knox, Kentucky, gets second round of CoViD vaccine.

Photo by Senior Airman Milton Hamilton.

For the first time, U.S. Armed Forces-Europe & Africa had to use the Negative Pressure ‘flying hospital’ to transport a pandemic patient, on 04FEB2021.

Grocery Drive:  Will new U.S. CDC plans force you to get vaccinated before you can buy food? 

KABC:  Rebellion in California as lawmakers demand liberal-lockdown loving gov’na to allow theme parks to open! 

KGNS:  U.S. CDC’s flip-flop on teacher vaccinations conflicts with Texas vaccination guidelines

KIRO:  Canada jeopardizes Seattle, Washington, cruise ship industry with travel ban

KPRC:  Grocery store owner say pandemic is fake news

KTLA:  California’s liberal lockdown loving gov’na now says schools to re-open without teachers being vaccinated!

KTXS: Majority of nursing home staff refuse to get vaccinated!

NHK: Pandemic causes one thousand business bankruptcies in Japan!

Photo by Sergeant Lisa Vines.

North Carolina National Guard conducts drive-thru vaccinations at Macon County Public Health in Franklin.

Popular Science:  U.S. CDC says it’s okay for teachers to skip vaccinations, but then bans Super Bowl parties!

South China Morning Post:  Japan uses pandemic as excuse to ban singing at Olympic Games

UN WHO investigators find CoViD-19 data “not seen before” in China! (Is President Trump correct?)

USA Today: 29 U.S. state are already using their National Guard personnel to help with vaccinations, but now Biden is deploying 1-thousand plus active federal military personnel for vaccine distribution ops!

WGME: State of Maine expanding vaccine ops

WOFL: More nursing home staff in Florida refusing to get the shot!

 

Pandemic Shenanigans: U.S. Vaccine SUCKS, RUSSIAN Vaccine KICKS ASS!

Influenza

Pandemic Shenanigans: U.S. vax sucks, Russian vax kicks ass!

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Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports/scientific studies on the latest pandemic related shenanigans:

ABC News: Another study says cleaner air caused by Pandemic shutdowns is actually increasing Global Warming!

Aljazeera:  European capital cities hit by pandemic lockdown riots

Pandemic lockdown protestors in Lebanon shot with live ammo

Photo by Sergeant Laura Bauer.

Arizona Army National Guard Soldiers administer the CoViD-19 vaccine to Gila County residents, 01FEB2021.

The Atlantic: The Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells

The Bronx Chronical:  ‘Expert’ Doctor Fauci flip flops on his pandemic advice, again! 

Photo by Senior Airman Thomas Karol.

Approximately 15-tons of masks for U.S. service members across Germany arrived at Ramstein Air Base, 02FEB2021.

DWTV:  Apparently Germans think beer causes CoViD, as beer sales crash

Germany will accept CoViD vaccines from any country!

Germany deploys military medics to Portugal, to fight the pandemic

Denmark to require pandemic passports!

France24:  France says AstraZeneca vaccine not good for old people

Full Fact:  British news media misleads on Pfizer vaccine effectiveness in Israel!

Global Times: Deaths caused by Pfizer vaccine used in Spanish nursing home?

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Orthodox protesters in Israel burn bus as riots against COVID restrictions continue across the country

The Lancet: Russian vaccine 91.6% effective, no serious side effects!

Photo by Master Sergeant David Kujawa.

Michigan Army National Guard administer vaccines at the Luther Haus Senior Independent Living Center, 01FEB2021.

MIT Technology Review:  Pfizer admits it doesn’t know if its vaccine actually prevents the spread of CoViD-19! 

Nikkei Asia:  Japan’s contact tracing phone app failed back in September, but only now are people being told about it!

NHK:  Japan creates new punishments for pandemic lockdown violations

AstraZeneca vaccine only 76% effective

UN World Health Organization says new versions (variants/strains) of CoViD found in at least 75 countries

Photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

Oregon National Guard conducted a a walk-in vaccination clinic at the Oregon Convention Center, 01FEB2021.

Quartz:  Pfizer will make $15-billion from Covid-19 vaccine sales

RT: Bill Gates unveils global pandemic early warning system

From May 2020 to 02FEB2021, the South Carolina National Guard administered more than 268,095 CoViD-19 tests.

South China Morning Post:  Netherlands sees worst riots in four decades over coronavirus curbs

Successful Farming: PANDEMIC EXPOSES LOW WAGES AND UNSAFE CONDITIONS AT FOOD-DISTRIBUTION CENTERS, WORKERS ARE STRIKING

Viruses:  Plant toxin Thapsigargin could prevent viral infections ( but it is known to cause tumors)

Photo by Joseph Siemandel.

Washington National Guard now issuing vaccinations at four locations across The Evergreen State.

Vaccine Fail: CALIFORNIA

“Season of Paradoxes”: HYPOCRITE DEMOCRATS NOW SAY ECONOMY MORE IMPORTANT THAN PANDEMIC!

CoViD Shenanigans: YET ANOTHER NEW VERSION OF THE VIRUS! IDAHO INFECTIONS DROP! THAILAND ROUNDING UP TOURISTS!

U.S.

Soylent Green Pet Food? Or, are people being prepped to eat pet food?

Anybody remember when pet food industry subsidized veterinarians insisted that giving your dog or cat table scraps was bad, bad, bad?   If you go back far enough in time, to before the advent of industrialized pet food production you’ll see that ‘table scraps’ were the primary source of food for domesticated dogs and cats, after that they were expected to hunt down varmints if they were still hungry.  Fast forward to today and now the exalted pet food industry is actually using what was once considered table scraps in their pet food, and charging you a lot of money for it!

In the United States, pet food makers have been allowed to market their food for doggies and catties as being good enough for people to eat, or at least the pet food contains ingredients considered good enough for people.   There’s a lot of other oddities happening within the U.S. pet industry, here is an incomplete list of links to actual recent reports:

The Bold Italic: This Start-Up Charges $100 To Tell You If Your Dog is Happy or Sad

Business World:  Now there’s ‘wet’ human-grade pet food

The Business Journal:  A couple spent years developing ‘human-grade’ pet food  (Gee, I’ve been giving my pets human grade table scraps for decades [to supplement their dry food], and even criticized for it, and now this miscreant couple is making money off it?)

CBS News: More than 100 dogs have died after eating recalled pet food

Chicago Tribune: The best human-grade dog food

Hamilton Journal News: Pet store and customers donate 3,200 pounds to pet-food pantries

KNTV:  California complains of pet food’s carbon ‘paw print’, because of the new ‘human edible meat’!

Kokomo Perspective:  Caged dog found shot and left for dead on side of road

KTLA:  Leftist liberals Ben & Jerry’s now making frozen dog treats

Los Angeles Times: Preschool’s pet tortoise is recovering after ‘horrific’ beating

NBC News: NBC brags that most of the dog foods they ranked were also top choices among pet owners.  (What scares me is NBC’s top ranked dry dog food is also the food I buy my dog, and I don’t watch NBC News!)

Also, Study proves pet owner’s personality affects dog training (Having been caring for dogs and cats all my life I have this to say about the money/time wasting study; “No shit Sherlock!”)

Pet Age: New pet-food chain store that specializes in self-wash and grooming services to go along with that human-grade pet food.

Pet Food Industry: Spray-on chicken powder considered good enough for humans to eat!

Also, why is freeze-dried human-grade pet food now the number one seller in European Union?

Pet Food Processing: Texas puppy food maker praised for using 100% human grade ingredients!

PR Newswire: Hemp infused fish flakes for pets

Also, Petco joins the human-grade pet food trend

WFLA:  People are stealing puppies from pet stores

WTVD: Blood supplies for pets affected by pandemic

Photo by Staff Sergeant Kelly Greenwell.

In May 2020, the Arizona Army National Guard delivered at least 50 pallets of dog food to the Navajo nation, as part of the CoViD-19 response.

CoViD-19:  PANDEMIC REVEALS U.S. DEPENDENCE UPON FOREIGN FOOD!

From 2019, New York Post: My dog and I tried ‘human-grade’ pet food and this is how it went

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: California

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There’s an old saying; as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation.  I hope not.  List of links to news reports showing the vaccination campaign in leftist-liberal democrat controlled California is a failure, as of 20JAN2021:

Report that restaurant lockdowns might have actually spread CoViD!

New California-Los Angeles CoViD variant renders vaccine useless?

Mass-vax-site at Disneyland is shutdown for a second day, blamed on weather

State Auditor complains that too much money is being spent on CoViD

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Another person has adverse reaction to CoViD shot, state health experts ask that vaccinations be stopped!   

More conflicting reports of vaccine shortage

People are moving out of California, in hopes of getting the shot!

Yet, California has more than 3.2-million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, but data shows only 40% has been issued!

City of Long Beach boasts of successful vax campaign

Video report, Travis Air Force Base conducted mass flu vaccinations, and prepped for future mass CoViD vaccinations:

California pins vaccine hopes on Biden administration

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State politician gets the shot, then gets infected!

How a Well-Meaning Health Policy Created California’s Coronavirus Nightmare

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Healthcare workers being forced to work non-stop!

Photo by Senior Airman Neil Mabini.

California Air National Guard deployed a Disaster Relief Beddown System (DRBS) outside of the emergency department of PIH Health Downey Hospital.  The medical tent is equipped with electrical and HVAC.

Pandemic Samaritan: Charity delivers medical tent and supplies to High Desert hospital in California 

Vaccine Fail: U.S. VAX BANNED! SKYROCKETING NUMBER OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS REJECT THE SHOT!