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“Long hours, employee turnover, equipment failures, wage hikes”: U.S. Food Crisis, February 2019

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Incomplete main-stream-news links of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of February, 2019:

Over one weekend, 03-04FEB2019, three USAFR C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft delivered food to three of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants;  Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras.  The U.S. Air Force Reserve described the food aid mission as occurring periodically through out the year.  The food is supposedly donated, but the cost of flying it to the recipients rests on the U.S. taxpayers.

In Djibouti, Africa, taxpayer funded U.S. Army veterinarians were deployed to help locals improve their livestock. It’s called a Veterinary Civic Action Project (VetCAP).

A very small number of crops are dominating globally: That’s bad news

Climate change is cooking salmon in the Pacific Northwest

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: As much as $150-million will be spent building the Alabama Farm Center (an events center) in the hope of attracting 4-hundred jobs

$43.3 million in federal taxes awarded to Auburn for agriculture facility

ALASKA: Proposed state budget includes elimination of Division of Agriculture

Taxpayer subsidized fishing towns could lose millions under new governor

Bering Sea Pacific cod fishery could move toward quota system

Tribe takes state to court in attempt to protect herring

As the Bering Sea warms, this skipper is chasing pollock to new places

98% of Alaska’s fish are exported for use by non-Alaskans

ARIZONA: lawmakers exempt farmers from paying sales taxes…

Family farms made Phoenix livable, so why are so many going away?

State Department of Water Resources claims less water is being used now than in 1957, despite a 6-million person increase in the population

If the above is true, then why are farmers being cut off from river water?

ARKANSAS: Al’s Bar-B-Q shutdown after 47 years 

Plant Board Votes To Loosen Dicamba herbicide Restrictions

CALIFORNIA: Germany based maker of containers for food, Bericap, issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Ontario, 30 jobs gone by mid-April.  TGI Friday’s issued yet another shutdown WARN, this time for its restaurant in El Cajon, 48 jobs gone by mid-April.  Iconic maker of restaurant coffee makers, Bunn-O-Matic, issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Cerritos, 20 jobs gone by mid-April.

Nantucket Restaurant shutdown after 89 years, no reason given

After 102 years,  Estrada’s Fine Mexican and Caribbean Cuisine shutdown

Le Cheval, one of the largest Vietnamese restaurants, shutdown due to skyrocketing rent and crashing sales

Chicken-killing Newcastle disease prompts widespread quarantines

‘dry farmers’ grow crops without irrigation

California must abandon 535,000 acres of prized farmland to meet water conservation goals

California expecting smallest avocado crop in a decade

In the leftist-liberal socialist ‘Golden State’, U.S. Navy sailors still have to help deliver food for the Meals on Wheels program in San Diego.  Since January 2018, Makin Island Sailors delivered more than 550 meals to the local San Diego community.

CONNECTICUT: After at least 40 years Lynn’s Restaurant and Delicatessen shutdown 

Compost heat recovery helps cut costs, boost revenue

DELAWARE: Federal prisoners to be used to operate Vertical Farms?

FLORIDA: Hamburger Mary’s closing two more locations due to Hep A investigation

Jacksonville based Southeastern Grocers decided to shutdown an additional 22 Bi-Lo grocery stores across several states, affecting thousands of employees

Krewe De Gras shutdown after ten years

After 32 years Connie’s Hams & Catering shutdown by a greedy landlord

farmers plot new course after Hurricane Michael

hemp production still a cloud of smoke

Farmworker vs Robot

GEORGIA: Months after Hurricane Michael, farmers still trying to recoverU.S. Army Officer Cadet School trainees took part in a 16FEB2019 food drive, in partnership with the Midland Feeding the Valley Food Bank, and Columbus Community Warriors Incorporated.

GUAM: Ban on scuba fishing proposed

Marine life at risk in U.S. Navy’s 2019 environmental impact statement

HAWAII:Still Lacks Enough Local Food Production

Indigenous agriculture has potential to contribute to food needs

Costco considers farming in Hawaii

Since July 2018, the U.S. Coast Guard and the British empire’s Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans joined forces to enforce international fishing laws across the Indo-Pacific: “Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing threatens food security, impacts the sustainability of fisheries, and causes irreparable damage to marine and freshwater ecosystems across the globe. Partnerships, like this one with Canada’s Department of National Defence and the United States Coast Guard, are the key to tackling IUU fishing that threatens many vulnerable coastal communities. We will continue to work with other countries and assist small island developing states in combating IUU fishing to increase security and protect the health of fish stocks around the world.”-Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard

IDAHO:  Legislation adds up costs of new hemp program

Land purchase paves way for nation’s largest research dairy

Idaho proposes requiring farmer consent for annexation

once-low-key Idaho Hop Growers Association is getting more active

ILLINOIS:  Next money ‘crop’ for Illinois farmers, Solar panels?

Prisoners are prepped for farming

INDIANA: The Scotty’s Brewhouse chain shutdown yet another restaurant, this time without fair warning and blaming it on a ‘3rd party’ 

Taxpayer funded Grants Awarded to Grow Specialty Crop

IOWA: Pizza chain Old Chicago shutdown one of its seven locations in Iowa

After four years and $1.75-million in tax incentives, Lucky’s Market shutdown its ‘organic’ grocery store in Iowa City

Iowa’s first $260-million ‘agrihood’ promises farm-like living conditions in a congested metro area

loan delinquencies reach highest point in 9 years as crops prices slump (no thanks to capitalistic globalization markets)

KENTUCKY:  Long John Silver’s suddenly laid off 20 people at its Louisville HQ

As tobacco sales dry up, farmers look to the state’s original crop; hemp

‘canine like’ attack kills six Llamas, the Llama farm just happens to be located next-door to a metro area zoo

LOUISIANA: Dean of Southern University’s Agricultural College Resigns

Company sues state agriculture agency over faulty marijuana testing

MAINE:  British empire Canada based Future Farm Technologies Extends 100-Acre Lease for CBD-Producing Hemp

MARYLAND: Long Beach Oyster House suddenly shutdown because “the new management had to walk away.”

farmers demand to use toxic pesticides despite warnings

MASSACHUSETTS:  Papa Gino’s is closing six locations in Massachusetts and one in New Hampshire.

Big Y shutting down its grocery store in Adams, 90 jobs gone

After three years restaurant Roadworthy suddenly shutdown

nonprofits face eviction from taxpayer-owned farmland

Residents Urged To Check Plants For Invasive Lanternfly

MICHIGAN:  ‘Taste’ and nutrition company Kerry issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Kentwood, 107 jobs gone by the end of April!

Tom’s Food Markets shutdown its 36 years old location south of Grand Travis Resort

D&W Fresh Market sutting down its location in Portage, 50 jobs gone in March

A place used by local school bowling teams, Candlelite Bowling and Banquet Center, suddenly shutdown after five decades with no reason given 

Seventh Day Adventist founded food giant Kellogg laying off 67 people at its Battle Creek HQ, and another 12 corporate jobs elsewhere, as part of its globalization plans

Two men sentenced to prison time for conspiring to commit bank fraud and making false statements to attain loans and crop insurance for Decatur based Stamp Farms

A $30 million eel-fish farm in Michigan?

MINNESOTA: ‘Senior Dinning’ service Morrison Community Living issued WARNs for several locations, more than 250 jobs threatened by the end of April!

After six years Crave Burger shutdown

MISSISSIPPI: Taxpayer funded vaccines equal bigger catfish?

MISSOURI: After nearly 90 years of serving food in the River Market, Cascone’s Grill shutdown

For the first time in more than 100 years, there’s no grocery / convenience store in Thornfield, following the closing of the Heriford Store due to no longer being feasible (despite being the last food store in the area)!

 The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City warned that farm incomes would likely have a weak start in 2019

MONTANA: Five Loaves Coffee House & Bakery shutdown after 14 years

6500 Montanan farmers sign up for $14 million in taxpayer funded tariff relief payments

NEBRASKA:  After more than 60 years Conroy’s Family Bakery shutdown 

Asian jumping worm poses future threat

loan delinquencies highest in 9 years

Man Killed by Bull While Checking Cattle

NEVADA:  Farmers challenge new ‘water market’

Strangles disease killing horses

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Local ‘organic’ Farmers Frustrated by Recent USDA Labeling Decisions

Labor Shortage, Climate Change  Challenges

NEW JERSEY:  Belgium owned Anheuser-Busch issued a WARN for its Jersey City sales ops, 80 jobs gone by the end of April.

Why North Carolinian boats are fishing off New Jersey’s coast

NEW MEXICO: Local dairies now ground zero for PFAS contamination by the USAF

Air Force pollution forces dairy to kill 4-thousand cows!

NEW YORK:  Raul’s Candy Store shutdown after 40 years 

Purchase based Pepsi announced massive layoffs and factory shutdowns as part of a plan to “leverage new technology and business models.”

Restaurant Black Forest Adler shutdown after seven years, the owner blaming it on “Long hours, employee turnover, equipment failures, wage hikes … and little time for a personal life.”

Farmworkers in leftist-liberal socialist taxpayer funded New York are excluded from labor protections!

Local ag economy faces low profits, big risks

NORTH CAROLINA: Restaurant chain owner Monica Eats now chapter 11 bankrupt busted 

That trendy CBD product in your smoothie is still illegal in North Carolina

NC State Study: Aquaculture Does Little, if Anything, to Conserve Wild Fisheries

NORTH DAKOTA:  Senator misleads with her claim of record number of bankruptcies in ‘farm country’

State House passes bill that expands the strange ‘family’ corporate farm law

State Senate passes revised trespassing bill

State law’s definition of ‘farmer’ makes it almost impossible for farmers to get a tax exemption

OHIO:  Actual Brewing now bankrupt dead after losing $558-thousand in 2018, due to low sales

Without warning grocery giant Kroger shutdown a bakery in Columbus (known as the Columbus Bakery) saying it was not worth upgrading the equipment, supposedly the now jobless 405 employees (according to the official WARN) will get 60 days severance

After more than 43 years the Golden Dawn grocery store shutdown, the owners refused to comment 

Farm Bureau members are disappointed with the results of the LEBOR vote

OKLAHOMA: Reasor’s Grocery shutting down a store in Broken Arrow, despite efforts by city leaders to keep it open

Popular Oklahoma City restaurant Chelino’s shutdown after 25 years

New chicken farming rules 

OREGON:  BridgePort Brewing, at one point Portland’s preeminent brewery, announced it will immediately halt brewing operations and shutdown in early March, due to crashing sales 

Bill would allow Oregon farmland to be rezoned along border with Idaho

Organic farms want taxpayer support

PENNSYLVANIA:  The owners of La Trattoria suddenly halted the renovations to their restaurant and quit to focus on another business

After eight years Redhound Grille suddenly shutdown, the owner blaming increasing competition and lack of people who want to work a crappy restaurant job

After 13 years restaurant Nine-on-Nine shutdown, local news media say restaurant shutdowns are now the norm

Mexico based Bimbo Bakeries shutting down operations in West Hazelton, 157 jobs gone by September due to consolidation ops!

Mosteller’s Seafood shutdown

Dairy Price Plateau

PUERTO RICO:  Chef José Andrés fights for an independent Agricultural Sector

1.4 million Puerto Ricans will face food aid cuts

Midwest states Look to Puerto Rico for Workers

RHODE ISLAND:  Criminal Probe of Slaughterhouse Sought After Cows Shot and stabbed Multiple Times

Rhode Island farmland has the highest national average cost per acre at $13,800

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Lincoln Park Bar and Grill suddenly shutdown

State House removes hemp lid

SOUTH DAKOTA: foreclosure case could involve more than 31-thousand head of cattle

TENNESSEE: After only a year Taco Garage shutdown

After 44 years the Gold Rush Bar shutdown due to expenses going through the roof

Top ten agriculture plants in Tennessee

TEXAS: Boiler Nine Bar + Grill shutdown due to not being able to pay management fees

Virtual kitchen Blue Apron shutting down its distribution center in Arlington, more than 450 jobs affected by April, due to crashing online orders!

Grocery giant Kroger shutdown its 59 years old store in Denison, 60 jobs affected

Taylor Farms Recalls Chicken Products Due To wrong labels

UTAH: Newcastle chicken disease found in Utah home

Controversy over water reform rules

VERMONT: Renewable energy growing among animals and crops

tiered system of fees imposed on hemp growers

VIRGINIA: About 25 Navy and Air Force culinary students, instructors and support staff lent their skills to the lunchtime feeding operation at The Hope Center, with the goal of easing hunger and financial stress for less-fortunate citizens: “This is the first time since I’ve been down here that we’ve had the military come down in a volunteer capacity to cook.”-Scott Fisher, executive director The Hope Center

After only one year Smokey T’s Southern Kitchen shutdown

Ledo Pizza suddenly shutdown its Short Pump location

Virginia Diner Shoppe shutdown its Richmond-Carytown location, not willing to renew the lease 

WASHINGTON:  Food service company HMS Host issued a mass-layoff WARN for its ops at SeaTac, 202 jobs gone by the end of March!   Legacy Fruit Packers suddenly shutdown its ops in Wapato, 199 jobs instantly gone! Also in Wapato, Valley Fruit suddenly shutdown, 1-thousand and nine jobs instantly gone!  In Seleh, Larson Orchard Management suddenly shutdown, 807 jobs instantly gone!  Last year the above fruit growing/packing companies were sued by H-2A immigrant workers (Larson Orchard settles lawsuit with H-2A workers), as a result the above affected fruit growing/packing farms were forced to shutdown and sell-out (confirms purchase of Washington fruit companies) to several companies, including a company partly owned by billionaire Bill Gates!

Washington DC: U.S. farm debt soars: “Farm debt has been rising more rapidly over the last five years, increasing by 30% since 2013 – up from $315 billion to $409 billion, according to USDA data, and up from $385 billion in just the last year, to levels seen in the 1980s.”-Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 

Area farm production decline threatens food security for DC residents: “Our production is declining in things like apples, chicken, pork, tomatoes, potatoes.”-Lindsay Smith, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Dairy farmers get more taxpayer funded help under new farm bill

WEST VIRGINIA: State Department of Agriculture employees get into a physical fight

WISCONSIN:  After 27 years an Aldi grocery store suddenly shutdown, shoppers told local news media they were tired of stores they rely-on for food shutting down

Dairy farmers are in crisis

A volunteer with the Fort McCoy Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers group helps distribute food 4FEB2019, at the Oasis Church in Tomah.

WYOMING: Earliest known seed-eating perching bird originated in Wyoming

Bison learn to avoid hunters

Highway shutdown due to badly behaving bison

Wyoming ranch manager goes missing in Canada

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, January 2019: “WE ARE BEATING A DEAD HORSE!”

Influenza

Operation Jupiter: Military’s secret flu imitating virus exposed, vaccinations for military only!

29JAN2018, 20:41 UTC-07 Tango 06  (10 Bahman 1396/13 Jumada l-Ula 1439/14 Xin-Chou 4715)

“On the basis of the severity of the clinical presentation of some cases in this study, the vaccine currently licensed for military use should be considered a potentially valuable resource to prevent disease in susceptible populations living in closed communities, such as college settings, summer camps, and long-term care facilities.”-Adriana Kajon, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that a previously secret viral infection is spreading, and it mimics influenza.  It’s called adenovirus and was first identified in the 1950s, specifically infecting U.S. Army personnel.

Initial U.S. Army experiments with vaccines seemed successful, but after a few years the adenovirus resurfaced stronger than before, even re-infecting personnel that had been vaccinated.   One study showed that two damaged adenovirus cells will join together to form a new healthier, stronger cell (a process known as multiplicity reactivation).

In August 2017, the Naval Health Research Center revealed a vaccine that supposedly works against five version of adenovirus: “In the mid-1990s, the adenovirus vaccine was discontinued at military recruit training commands throughout the Department of Defense (DoD), resulting in frequent respiratory illness outbreaks. Adenovirus was the most prevalent and widely spread virus in military training environments, infecting up to 80 percent of recruits and resulting in lost training time and increased medical care. 

In 2011, the adenovirus vaccine was reinstated for military recruits after NHRC and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research conducted a clinical trial that demonstrated its safety and efficacy. According to researchers with NHRC’s operational infectious diseases team, after the live, oral vaccine for adenovirus types 4 and 7 was resumed, rates of adenovirus among recruits declined dramatically—cases went from 250 each week to two, on average. To date, other adenovirus serotypes—3, 14, and 21—that had previously caused illness in recruits have not reemerged.”  

(also read Naval Medical R&D News, August 27-30 Special Edition)

The virus mimics influenza and is so unheard of in the silly-vilian world that most clinics and hospitals don’t have the test to identify it.  Many silly-vilians are incorrectly diagnosed with having the flu.

Human adenovirus is a cause of Acute Respiratory Disease (ARD) and can also cause gastroenteritis (often incorrectly called stomach flu), even tonsillitis (my adult son just had a tonsillectomy due to a mystery infection which ‘shredded’ his left tonsil, literally nothing remaining but shreds, uh oh, I used the word literally guess I’m gonna be kicked outta that NYC bar).  There are more than 50 versions of adenovirus.  Transmission is thought to be through the air and in your crap, but adenoviruses are also resistant to cleaning chemicals and other liquids, so washing your hands all day long won’t get rid of them.  There is no treatment for it.

There are also adenoviruses that attack seals, bats, canines, reptiles, birds, monkeys and all domesticated farm animals.   I didn’t see any mention of felines being affected.

Here’s where what I call Operation Jupiter comes in; adenoviruses are used by scientists to genetically modify organisms, under the guise of gene therapy!  Adenoviruses are used as ‘delivery platforms’ for externally created (GMOed) antigens into humans suffering from things like cystic fibrosis or cancer.

CDC Reports: “In May 1997, a large, persistent epidemic of adenovirus type 4-associated acute respiratory disease began at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the largest army basic training center. The epidemic lasted until December and declined when vaccine administration resumed. More than 1,000 male and female trainees were hospitalized; 66.1% of those hospitalized had an adenovirus type 4 isolate.”

“Adenoviruses are frequent causes of respiratory disease in the US military population. A successful immunization program against adenovirus types 4 and 7 was terminated in 1999. Review of records in the Mortality Surveillance Division, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, identified 8 deaths attributed to adenovirus infections in service members during 1999–2010.“

“An outbreak of respiratory illness occurred in a long-term care facility in New York City. Investigation of the outbreak identified confirmed or suspected adenoviral infection in 84% of the residents from October 19 to December 18, 1999. Further identification by type-specific neutralization and restriction analysis identified a new genomic variant of adenovirus type 7.”

“Antibodies were more common in humans residing in sub-Saharan Africa…..This finding suggests cross-species transmission of chimpanzee adenoviruses.”

“In mid-May 2007, a respiratory disease outbreak associated with adenovirus, serotype B14 (Ad14), was recognized at a large military basic training facility in Texas. The affected population was highly mobile…………Ad14 was identified at 8 sites in California, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, and South Korea. Ad14 spread readily to secondary sites after the initial outbreak. Military and civilian planners must consider how best to control the spread of infectious respiratory diseases in highly mobile populations traveling between diverse geographic locations.”

“…isolates collected in Iowa from 1992 to 2002 and found that genome type Ad7d2 became increasingly prevalent. By 2002, it had supplanted all other Ad7 genome types. The association of Ad7d2 with severe illness and death calls for heightened public health concern.”

“In March 2011, an outbreak of acute respiratory disease was reported at the Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Police Training Centre. Approximately 100 trainees were hospitalized and 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit. Three of these 5 trainees died.”

“During April 2011–March 2012, we retrospectively reviewed medical records for South Korea soldiers to assess the etiology and epidemiology of acute viral lower respiratory tract infections. Adenovirus was the most commonly identified virus (63.2%) and the most common cause of pneumonia (79.3%) and hospitalization (76.6%); 3 soldiers died of adenovirus-related illness.”

“During October 2013–July 2014, Oregon health authorities identified 198 persons with respiratory symptoms and an HAdV-positive respiratory tract specimen. Among 136 (69%) hospitalized persons, 31% were admitted to the intensive care unit and 18% required mechanical ventilation; 5 patients died.”

OPERATION JUPITER: CASH REGISTER RECEIPTS LACED WITH CHEMICAL WEAPON?

OPERATION JUPITER: U.S. NAVY HIT BY H7N9 FLU PANDEMIC!

OPERATION JUPITER: CDC STUDY ADMITS FLU VACCINE CAN KILL!

OPERATION JUPITER: A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU

Business/Economics

China & Mexico join forces! Form anti-GMO anti-Monsanto alliance!

10 August 2016 /20:35 UTC-07 Tango 01 (21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714)

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong paid a visit to Mexico, vowing to boost economic relations.  In 2013 China and Mexico declared a ‘strategic’ partnership.

Chinese state news media said China and Mexico will “boost their cooperation in industrial investment, infrastructure, telecommunications, energy and innovation and increase their exchanges in education, culture, sports and tourism”.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong also signed a memorandum of understanding with the anti-GMO/anti-Monsanto International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Texcoco.

Next year Mexico will host the Year of Chinese Culture. Mexico has also established five Confucius Institutes claiming to have 30-thousand students.  And all that while fighting a U.S. instigated drugs war!

IDAHO FARM INDUSTRY REVEALS ADDICTION TO MEXICO!

BLAME CHINA FOR JACKED-UP U.S. RENTS!

CHINA TO ELIMINATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS BY 2019!

GLOBAL DEPRESSION AS CHINA KILLS 1.8 MILLION JOBS

TOTAL GUN BAN TOTAL FAILURE: MEXICO!

500 YEARS OF GERMAN BEER PURITY FLUSHED BY MONSANTO, Oh Ja! Angela Merkel liebt ihr Glyphosate Bier!

TOTAL GUN BAN FAILURE: CHINA!

AGOSTO-12: MEXICO’S OIL INDUSTRY TURNS TO CHINA FOR HELP!

WORLD WAR 3, NORTH AMERICAN FRONT: UNITED STATES ‘THE’ DRUG LORD IN MEXICO’S DRUG WAR?

International

New study says Goat’s milk really can kill cancer? It’s not what you think!

10 March 2016 (03:53 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Esfand 1394/30 Jumada al-Ula 1437/02 Xin Mao (2nd month) 4714

For years there’s been advise for cancer sufferers to drop cows milk and start drinking unpasteurized goat’s milk.  Now a study out of New Zealand says goat’s milk really can fight cancer, and it’s far cheaper and effective that those expensive corporate drugs.

But wait, the Kiwi scientists aren’t talking about natural unpasteurized goat’s milk, but GMOed milk.  They claim their genetically modified goat’s milk produces mono-clonal antibodies (MCA), which are known to fight cancer.  The MCAs can then be extracted and used to make cheap anti-cancer drugs.

MCAs are known to prevent cancerous cells from growing bigger and help your immune system better identify a cancerous cell.  They also starve cancer tumors of oxygen and other nutrients.

This is not the first time goats have been genetically modified, there’s the goats modified to produce BioSteel with spider web proteins.

 

International

Nigeria admits Shadow Government, taxpayers screwed over by $12-million monthly!

29 February 2016 (07:33 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Esfand 1394/20 Jumada al-Ula 1437/22 Geng Yin 4714

The largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa (thanks to oil and GMO crops) has admitted to a shadow government operation!  However, the  Nigerian lawmaker’s shadow government wasn’t created to spread False Flag attacks or anything like that, instead it was meant to ripoff taxpayers to the tune of $12-million USD per month!

 

The new Nigerian  President Muhammadu Buhari launched a corruption investigation, which so far has revealed 24-thousand shadow, or ghost, employees who existed only on paper yet were being issued government paychecks!

The election of the anti-corruption Buhari, in 2015, is a direct result of crashing oil prices and skyrocketing inflation.  Investigators said it was easy to find the fake employees because the government paychecks were going to bank accounts that didn’t match the names on the checks.  This should also mean it’ll be easy to find the government crooks.

But wait, there’s more!  Nigeria receives millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year through the terrorist organization USAID.  On top of that Nigeria gets millions of U.S. consumer/investor dollars through the Coca-Cola operated Africa Foundation!   Combine that with the oil revenues from the past decade and you have to ask, “Where is all that money really going?”

Nigeria: Targeted for Destruction

Idaho, U.S.

Food Crisis: Wake up, U.S. farmers caught selling modified seeds as ‘organic’!

24 February 2016 /18:36 UTC-07 Tango 01 (06 Esfand 1394/16 Jumada al-Ula 1437/18 Geng Yin 4714)

“Since May 5, 2015, I have been investigating what appears to be a scheme to defraud farms and seed companies that purchase organic alfalfa seed for use or resale.”-Drew McCandless, FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is about to search a southern Idaho farm after a state investigation caught the ‘farmer’ selling non-‘organic’ (conventional) alfalfa seed as ‘organic’.

The farmer in Buhl promoted his operation as organic, yet to boost his profits he sold less desired conventional seed as organic.  The FBI is also investigating how the farmer came up with $1.7-million USD to buy his farm.  Accounting books provided to state inspectors, in 2014, did not match with bank deposit records.  Another concern is that records show the ‘organic farm’ was selling for more seed than what could actually be grown on the farm’s 177 hectares (438 acres).   Interestingly, just days after the farm owner was interviewed by federal investigators he filed documents to have the farm transferred out of his name. However, investigators discovered the names listed on the transfer request are previously used aliases of the owner!

The federal investigation began last year, after an Idaho Department of Agriculture investigation.  The state was tipped off by a farm manager turned whistleblower.  The farm owner would buy conventional seed then sell it to ignorant buyers from out of state, mainly east of the Rocky Mountains.  The fake organic seed sales have taken place since at least 2010!

At this point nobody has been arrested.  If a federal judge approves the warrant to search the farm in Buhl, the FBI has implied that it expects to find evidence of illegal activity that will allow them to seize all property and assets of the owner.

Food Crisis: Deflation will cause 1 in 5 dairy farms to fail! 

International

Food Crisis: Plastic food containers Genetically Engineer your offspring! Don’t eat that Ramen?

09 December 2015 (08:35 UTC-07 Tango 01)/18 Azar 1394/26 Safar 1437/28 Wu Zi 4713

“Plastic is a way of life; it’s hard to get around that. Every day we could be ingesting tiny amounts of these compounds which, over time, can build up in the body and cause problems.”-Asif Zia, doctor who developed new system for detecting DEHP in food

Researchers from New Zealand’s Massey University have created a detection system for a plastic chemical that could actually alter DNA.  The chemical di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, or DEHP, is classified by the UN’s World Health Organization as an endocrine-disrupter that interferes with the body’s natural hormonal system.

Skin lesions appear on a lab rat’s ear after being injected with DEHP

The biggest concern is that DEHP is found in plastic food containers and is even been used in food and drinks.  Companies in the U.S. ally Taiwan have been caught using DEHP to color mass produced beverages.  DEHP is also known as a plasticizer and some countries (like the United States) allow food makers to use plastic as a ‘filler’ in mass produced foods (it reduces their costs).

The current DEHP detection systems can take weeks to produce results, and is very expensive so it’s rarely done.  The researchers at Massey University claim their new DEHP detection system takes only a few days and is much cheaper.

In 2011, Chinese food regulators forced instant noodle companies in China, Korea and Japan to test their ramen because one brand of noodles tested positive for DEHP.   The testing was done by the companies themselves (supposedly through third party testers), and of course they claimed their results were negative.  That included  Japanese company Nissan and the Korean company NongShim, both make and sell ramen in the United States.

Effects of Maternal Exposure to Di-(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate during Fetal and/or Neonatal Periods on Atopic Dermatitis in Male Offspring

Food Crisis: Home juicing machines & soy milking machines contain carcinogens 

Food Crisis: Plasticizer melamine in milk!  U.S. FDA does not regulate!

Food Crisis: Remnant of Soviet Union driving minimum wage through the floor, blames hyper deflation! 

U.S. Food Crisis: Farmers told to “dispose” of crops if hit by floods! Against the law to sell flooded vegetables! 

Business/Economics

“Times have caught up with us…” GMO corn killing jobs! Politicians lose 8-million tax dollars playing the stock market!: U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 25 July 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California:  Yet another not-so Golden State tech company killing jobs.  Santa Rosa based Keysight Technologies is eliminating at least 1-hundred jobs globally in an attempt to cut costs by $25-million USD!  Administrators claim that by killing jobs now it will somehow result in new jobs later.  In Napa Valley, after 45 years Tip Top Shoe Repair shutdown due to the landlord refusing to renew the lease.  The space will now be used to allow a neighboring business to expand.  After 71 years of “Made with Love & Lard” Oakland’s  La Borinquena Mex-icatessen shutdown.  The owners also shutdown their La Snackeria operation.  They said they need to retire to “catch our breath”.

Connecticut: Norwalk based Xerox announced 3-thousand more job cuts, due to the never ending drop in revenues!  In the past few months Xerox has already announced the shutdown of a call center in Texas and a warehouse in New York.

Georgia: Restaurant Timone’s shutdown: “Unfortunately, we’ve arrived at a tough crossroads, and I’ve decided to close Timone’s.”-Ron Eyester

Idaho:  “We dodged a bullet last year. But we’re not going to dodge it this year. We’re going to go down.” so says southeast Idaho economist Ben Eborn who warns that the strong USD and 15 years long drought might finally kill off Idaho’s farmers.    The exalted republican controlled government of The Gem State has finally given up playing the stock markets with taxpayer dollars, but only after losing a grand total of $8-million!  Since 2008 the state treasurer “transferred the loss arbitrarily to protect one fund over another”, in other words they ‘cooked the books’.   State administrators hope to recover money from a federal level settlement with Standards & Poor.

 Illinois: Decatur based container shipper Trans Coastal Supply blaming GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) corn for forcing it into chapter 11 bankruptcy.  Last year massive shipments of GMO corn from the U.S. were rejected by China, costing Trans Coastal Supply big money.  They tried to sue the Switzerland based company that made the GMO corn.  The 2014 lawsuit alleged that U.S. farmers, who grow corn for China, were sold the GMO corn by Syngenta even though China bans GMO corn.  Leonard Bo Peep Preschool Academy shutdown due to taxpayer funding cuts. The Franklin-Williamson Bi-County Health Department laid off a total of 12 people since March.  Should we blame ObamaCare?  “We were already losing money on these programs, and it just can’t continue…..we’re going to be operating with fewer staff for many, many more months to come…..Times have caught up with us there. ….We will begin to increase those fees, we have no choice.”-Robin Koehl

Massachusetts: God refuses to stop ‘his’ 60 years old Saint Paul School in Wellesley from shutting down: “Over the past several years, St. Paul School has faced a steady decline in enrollment. An attempt to secure solid commitments from parents for the upcoming school year was not sufficient.” 

Michigan: In Pontiac, ObamaCare forced Doctors Hospital-Oakland Physicians Medical Center to go bankrupt.  Adminstrators blame the growing trend of ObamaCare mergers and the threat of losing Medicare  payments due to ObamaCare rules.  Reports said the hospital employed, at one point, 690 people!

Minnesota: What housing market recovery? After 16 years Moorhead Flooring and More (previously known as 5 to 9 Carpet) shutdown.  The owner laid off all his employees a few years ago, but says the economy is so bad that “It’s just me and now it is time to cut back some more.”

Oklahoma: First National Bank & Trust Company of Broken Arrow shutting down its 28 years old South Elm Place office by December.

Texas: After 26 years Austin based restaurant chain Z’Tejas now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The company is in debt by $9.3-million, and even owes the city of Austin more than $17-thousand for utilities!  Administrators say they hope to sell-off their Cornbread Ventures, if they can’t then they’re shutting it all down forever!

Utah: In Saint George, Paul Mitchell the school shutting down in August.  A spokesperson said Saint George is “not able to support as large of a school as is needed for Paul Mitchell”.

Virginia: After 21 years Sneak Reviews video store shutdown.

24 July 2015: “Blood bath happening….”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

International

Global Food Crisis: Major insurance company says prepare for World War F!

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F = Food

“Food security has a major influence on national and international politics. A globalised world and food system means that it is a system particularly vulnerable to governments and businesses succumbing to panic, hoarding foods or limiting exports. In the past, non-governmental/ intergovernmental organisations have measured and managed the risks faced by vulnerable populations. Now, insurance is well placed to play a large role in progress and in enhancing food production, processing and trading systems – by providing effective risk management advice and expertise, as well as risk transfer.”-Feast or Famine: Business and Insurance Implications of Food Safety and Security

Milan, Italy, is hosting the Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life expo until October.  One organization attending is the iconic British empire Lloyd’s of London who recently issued a dire warning, titled Feast or Famine: Business and Insurance Implications of Food Safety and Security.

Lloyd’s analyst warn of skyrocketing food prices and crashing economies caused by population booms, lack of water and other resources, and the threat of a new form of terrorism that targets food supplies.  The result, they say, will be food riots around the World.

As an insurance company Lloyd’s is concerned with the growing risk of providing agricultural insurance, yet is so arrogant about their service that they think insurance is “vital to increasing agricultural production”.

Another danger that Lloyd’s is pushing as the answer to all our prayers is the creation of more and more GMO crops!  (surprisingly there are a vast number of sheeple who still don’t know what GMO is)

Lloyd’s is pushing the idea of forcing everybody involved in the food supply chain to have insurance.  But how does Lloyd’s propose replacing damaged or destroyed or lost food stuffs?  With money?  If there ain’t no food it doesn’t matter how much money you have.

Idaho wheat unfit for human consumption?!

When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a Black Horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Business/Economics, Idaho

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 23 – 26 November 2014: “unprecedented financial challenges” California based HP kills 41-thousand+ jobs! More massive healthcare cuts! More foreign companies funded with U.S. taxes killing jobs!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: Reports revealed that Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard will kill off 41-thousand jobs by the end of 2014!!!  As many as 32-thousand people around the World have already been rendered jobless!!!  But wait there’s more!  Those same reports say evil Meg Whitman is planning on killing off more jobs in 2015, and splitting the company into two smaller operations, which usually means at least one will be sold off!   In Mountain View, software company Symantec issued a WARN saying at least 12 people will become unemployed in January 2015.  In Monterey, Aramark Sports issued a WARN saying they are shutting down in February 2015, at least 119 people to become jobless!

Florida: In Miami, RBC Wealth Management issued a WARN saying it will render 115 employees jobless between now and August 2015!  Also in Miami, healthcare and social assistance company CHARLEE of Dade County issued a WARN saying they will layoff 67 employees between January and February 2015.  In Port Saint Lucie, diabetes testing supply company Liberty Medical issued a WARN saying they’re shutting down in January 2015, at least 417 jobs lost!  In Fort Lauderdale, Senior Healthcare Services issued a WARN saying they will shutdown between January and February 2015, at least 348 jobs lost!

Idaho: School District 25, in Bannock County, warned they could be  $1.5-million USD in the hole, with the ending of current levies.  But wait, there’s more bull-shit!  District 25 administrators want new levies valued at $10-million!   This despite decades of levy and bond issues burdening tax payers, as well as decades of lottery payments which school district administrators can’t seem to account for!   It’s interesting the school levies and bonds always pass ‘elections’ no matter how many people publicly oppose them.

Illinois:  Exelon administrators warned they are considering shutting down three aged nuclear power plants sometime after Summer 2015.  They blame little or no growth in electricity demand since 2008 (gee, isn’t that when the ‘recession’ began?).

Kansas: After 91 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Jilka Furniture announced it will shutdown in December: “With the many changes taking place in the furniture industry, we felt it was a wise decision to close our store.”-Bud and Loretta Jilka

Kentucky: God refuses to stop layoffs at ‘his’ Lexington Quest Community Church, at least 15 people will be let go due to “unprecedented financial challenges”, never mind that the two head pastors were engaged in “crossing of physical boundaries while stopping short of sexual intercourse.”  The two perfect examples of Christian morality are married, but not to each other!

Michigan: In Liberty Township, more than four decades old Yukon Jack Food & Spirits restaurant shutdown. Before it was a restaurant (starting in 1970) it was a grocery store. Local news media said the owners refused to talk.

New York: After only a year neighborhood grocery store Delancey Market shutdown.  In Brooklyn, nursing home Shorefront Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Care amended their WARN saying they will shutdown in December due to sale of the business, 482 jobs affected!  In NYC, rapid response healthcare provider Rivington House shutdown, 231 jobs lost!   Also in NYC, Too Big to Jail Bank of America issued a WARN saying they are rendering jobless 95 people by Febraury 2015.  Also in NYC, after 44 years Lea’s Dress Shop shutdown.  Is it because the monthly rent for the small space is $8-thousand?  And fashion designer Ralph Rucci abandoned his snooty upscale fashion house and the new operators laid off at least 15 employees.  The new operators say that because of the bad economy (which appears to affect even the pocketbooks of the wanna-be 1%) Ralph Rucci LLC will now focus on “a more accessible designer product assortment for a wider audience.”  Holiday Inn issued a WARN saying they are shutting down their operations at the Latham hotel in February 2015, at least 50 jobs lost due to loss of contract. In Troy, city administrators warned they will have to eliminated 18 fire fighter and police  jobs.  However, fire fighters and cops say the plan would result in lots of overtime pay, so the layoffs don’t make sense.   However, they might make sense if you’re looking at trying to reduce the amount of money per employee going to the jacked up Obama Care health insurance and retirement plans (wake up people!).

North Carolina: Switzerland based evil GMO seeds and agrochemicals company Syngenta announced it will kill off 18-hundred jobs between 2015 and 2018 (note they obviously don’t expect any recovery until after 2018)!  The job culling will be felt within the United States, like Greensboro where the company is getting a state taxpayer grant of $2.98-million!

Ohio: All 14 Ohio Friendly’s Restaurants shutdown! The francisee blamed the bad economy: “These closings are regrettable, however continuing operation was no longer viable.”-Apex Eagle Hospitality

Tennessee: In Chattanooga, the owners of SturmHaus Beer Market announced it will shutdown in December, blaming the bad economy: “Craft beer share is not enough to sustain our vision for a quaint, downtown on-premise, off-premise gathering place.”

Wisconsin: Water management company Pentair Flow Tech. issued a WARN saying they’re halting a production line at their Delavan operations, 60 jobs lost.

21 – 22 november 2014: “any worker who loses their income will have an impact”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.