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International

Food Crisis Canada: Alberta farms destroyed by massive hail storms!

11 August 2016 (02:12 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714

“And the storms just keep on coming, Mother Nature is your best friend or your worst enemy.”-Nikki Booth, Agriculture Financial Services Corporation

Lack of rain or massive hail storms, some that also hit parts of the United States, wiped out many of Canada’s Alberta farms!  As of 01 August 2016, 7-thousand and three insurance claims have been filed, only about half are currently being examined by insurance adjusters.  As many as 3-hundred farms were hit by crop destroying weather right before harvest.

It’s expected that insurance payouts for hail or rain damage will exceed the 2012 record payout of $450-million CAD, however that still doesn’t beat the insurance payouts for crops killed by drought.  In 2015 almost $1-billion CAD was paid for drought damage!

In neighboring Saskatchewan hail damage insurance claims are up by 60%!  The province of Manitoba also reporting “significantly higher than average” insurance claims.

JULY 2016 U.S. FOOD CRISIS

U.S.

USAF admits Reserve Airmen not getting paid!

10 August 2016 /21:12 UTC-07 Tango 01 (21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714)

The U.S. Air Force has round-a-boutly admitted that Reserve unit personnel are not getting paid for travel expenses.  The revelation was made as the USAF boasted about a new voucher program that has significantly increased payouts.

The new program is being tested at Dover AFB in Delaware, by the 512th Airlift Wing.  According to the 512th Financial Management office, in August 2015 there were 113 Airmen who were owned money for travel expenses (this is just for Reserve Airmen who drill at Dover).  Under the new system that’s been dropped to 27 in July.

The new system has been so succesfull that Technical Sergeant Nathan Rivard wrote “Since August 2015, the office has seen a drastic increase in the amount of travel vouchers. The FM team of three has pushed through an average of 500 travel vouchers a month and regularly reviews approximately 650 vouchers a month….”

Remember, this new system is only being tested at one AFB. Who knows how many Reservists at other U.S. Air Force bases aren’t getting paid?  Of course senior level personnel have been accusing lower level personnel of not properly submitting payout requests, although finance managers admitted that it was a complicated process.

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?

Business/Economics

Without warning Subaru dumps Suzuki!

10 August 2016 /19:37 UTC-07 Tango 01 (21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714)

In a surprise move Fuji Industries (known in the United States as Subaru) dumped all their shares of Suzuki stock!

Fuji dumped its Suzuki shares for about $182-million USD, making a profit.  Suzuki also stated it was about to dump its shares of Fuji.  In Japan companies conduct ‘cross-shareholding’, but critics say such cross-shareholding creates artifical conditions on the stockmarkets, and reduces corporate accountability (sounds like the unAmerican corporate America).

The neo-imperialist prime minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, has been pushing Japanese corporations to halt cross-shareholding.

SUBARU SAYS ISRAELI Advertisment of Jews using Subarus to kill Paliestinians is fake

CHINA REVEALS SUBARU ADVERTISMENT PROMOTING THE KILLING OF PALESTINIANS!

TOYOTA & SUBARU BEGIN PRODUCTION OF NEW SPORTS CAR.

Suzuki China production down 32.6%

SUZUKI SUES VW FOR DIVORCE

VW SAYS SUZUKI BROKE CONTRACT, ISSUES WARNING

11 March 2011 disaster: SUBARU HALTS PRODUCTION IN UNITED STATES

11 March 2011 disaster: SUZUKI WARNS THAT IT MAY CLOSE

Technology

3rd self-drive crash for Tesla!

10 August 2016 /19:07 UTC-07 Tango 01 (21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714)

For at least the third time a Tesla being operated on autopilot crashed, this time it was in China, and this time the driver lived.

The self-drive ‘Autosteer’ crash happened in Bejing, last week.  For some reason the Tesla sideswiped a car that pulled off the road.  Arrogant Tesla apparently blames the driver for not having his hands on the streering wheel.  However, the real reason for the crash is that the Autosteer did not identify the car on the side of the road.

Reuters reports that many people in China, including the driver involved in the latest crash, say Tesla sales staff are telling potential customers that the Autosteer is no longer experimental and is fully autonomous!

The main reason people who want an autopilot is so they can take their hands off the steering wheel, because they don’t really like driving a car!

Tesla caught directly importing illegal migrants to work in California!

Tesla will cut employee numbers in China by 30%, due to down sales

TESLAs spontaneously combust?

$$ TESLA $$ BITES THE ELECTRIC DUST ON RELIABILITY!

U.S.

More of your taxes going out-of-country: U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster!

10 August 2016 (09:39 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Mordad 1395/06 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/08 Bing-Shen 4714

Near Miami, Florida, there’s a warehouse full of food and even vehicles paid for with your tax dollars, but none of it’s for you!

This is a pic of USAID ops being directed through DoD’s U.S. AfriCom (Africa Command)

It’s USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) warehouse for Latin American countries.  But it’s not the only OFDA warehouse, the OFDA’s website boasts that during fiscal year 2015 your tax dollars were spent sending brand new products to 45 countries, including countries hit by wars instigated by the Obama-Bush regimes (like Iraq, Syria and Ukraine)!

In 2015, USAID-OFDA spent $717-million U.S. tax dollars on West African countries in the name of fighting ebola.   $303-million went to help refugees (supposedly) from Syria.  In total, USAID says its OFDA spent “more than $1.9 billion in assistance in FY 2015”, imagine if that money was spent here at home!

This video shows the Department of Defense’s U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom) inspecting the USAID-OFDA warehouse in Miami:

South Africa accuses Obama regime USAID of coup attempt!

USAID and Coca-Cola’s Africa Foundation spend millions on Nigerian Shadow Government?  

USAID global drug dealer?

Idaho, U.S.

World War Three: 116th Snake River’s 2015 NTC Rotation

Video

Oregon National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

D Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT), Oregon Army National Guard. Oregon National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

In August 2015, the 116th Cavalry (Cav-al-ry, not Cal-vary) Brigade Combat Team (Idaho, Montana & Oregon) deployed to Fort Irwin, California, for Total Force Warfare training.

Oregon National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.

126th Engineers, backhoes & bulldozers:

126th Engineers explainer:

M113 based M106 mortar carrier. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.

M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicle. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.

Logistics (lots-o-trucks), M2s and M1A2s arrive at Fort Irwin:

M2A3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Germundson.

Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

Idaho National Guard COLT (Combat Observation Lasing Teams) of the 1-148 FA (HQ in Pocatello), identified by the AN/TVQ-2 Ground/Vehicular Laser Locator Designator (G/VLLD, usually called a ‘glid’) mounted next to the .50 cal machine gun. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne. In 1998, I was at NTC representing the 1-148 FA as a FiST/V (Fire Support Team Vehicle) crewman.

Maneuvers:

Idaho Army National Guard UH-60, M240 door gunner with A Company, 1st Battalion, 183rd Aviation Reconnaissance Battalion. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

The August 2015 NTC rotation (15-09) also included National Guard units from six other states, providing air support through Task Force Talon:

Arkansas Army National Guard’s 1036th Engineer Company supports the 116th CBCT by detonating an M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MCLC, pronounced mic-lic). Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

Video, Combined Arms Live Fire, “On the way!”:

The last time the 116th went to NTC was in 1998, with yours truly.

1998 Desert Avenger certificate of appreciation

“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD

Technology

Vehicle I-D: 60 years, the KC-135 flies through the Cold War & beyond!

09 August 2016 (13:15 UTC-07 Tango 01) 19 Mordad 1395/05 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/07 Bing-Shen 4714

60 years ago Boeing created the cargo hauler/airborne fueler for the U.S. Air Force, called the KC-135 (it is not a 707, its development was actually started before the 707).  

Here’s a USAF ‘remember when’ and current operations video about the KC-135:

45 YEARS OF C-130 MAFFS OPS. WHO WOULD’VE KNOWN WILDFIRES WOULD BECOME SUCH A PROBLEM?