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"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 30 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The U.S. Government Fails - President Obama Holds A 'Bipartisan' Meeting This Morning But Will The Republican 'Part' Care? [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 13:25 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Obama is meeting behind the closed doors of the Roosevelt Room with the top eight congressional leaders: Pelosi and Hoyer from the House Democrats, Boehner and Cantor from the House GOP, Reid and Durbin from the Senate Democrats, and McConnell and Kyl from the Senate Republicans. Also in the room: Biden, Geithner and new OMB chief Jack Lew [Free Subscription]
The incident occurred in Pachir Wagam district of eastern Nangarhar province, according to an Afghan official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information was not officially released.
It was not immediately clear if the gunman was a police officer or someone who had infiltrated the training mission. In the past, insurgents have donned police or army uniforms to attack Afghan government installations.
There have also been a number of incidents in which Afghan police officers turned on their trainers in deadly shootouts.
NATO is investigating an incident in which two U.S. Marines were killed earlier this month in southern Helmand province, allegedly at the hands of an Afghan army soldier.
On July 20, an Afghan army sergeant got into an argument at a shooting range in northern Afghanistan and shot dead two American civilian trainers before being killed. Another Afghan soldier was killed in the crossfire. In a July 13 attack, an Afghan soldier stationed in the south killed three British troopers, including the company commander, with gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade in the middle of the night.
Also, in November 2009, an Afghan policeman killed five British soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand. A month earlier, an Afghan policeman on patrol with U.S. soldiers fired on the Americans, killing two. [In Full AP @ WaPo]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied yesterday that the release of 250,000 secret diplomatic cables -- on a few hundred of which have been published so far -- will adversely affect U.S. diplomatic relations. Nonetheless, she called the leaks "not just an attack on America's foreign policy interests," but "an attack on the international community-the alliances and partnerships." Regarding the unflattering descriptions of many foreign leaders and diplomats contained in the leaks, Clinton says one of her foreign counterparts told her, "You should see what we say about you.” [In Full @ Foreign Policy Magazine]It's notable, as the cables are parsed by the citizens of the world and the information assembled into useful data, that the US WAS SUPPORTING the Honduran coup in July last year.
Bombs Strike Iranian Atomic Experts, Killing OneValidating my statement at the top of this story...
Bombs thrashed the vehicles of two Iranian nuclear scientists as they commuted to work today, killing one of the men and injuring the other, the Los Angeles Times reported (see GSN, Nov. 24).
Attackers on motorcycles threw the explosives or affixed them to the cars of the two men, both of whom taught at Shahid Behesti University in Tehran.
"A Pulsar motorbike drove close to Dr. Shahriari's car and stuck a bomb on his car which after a few seconds exploded," Iran's Fars News Agency quoted Tehran police chief Hossein Sajednia as saying.
"Experts are examining the incidents," the police official said. "The type of the bombs and explosive materials and the extent of damage have not been determined yet" (Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29).
Scientist Majid Shahriari "was killed and his wife and driver were injured. [Fereydoon Abbasi Davani] and his wife have been injured," Agence France-Presse quoted Sajednia as saying.
Top Iranian officials accused U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies of orchestrating the attack... [Source, Global Security Newswire]
"IF we succeed in shutting down it's (nuclear) development it will undoubtedly make it MUCH MORE LIKELY that Iran's oil exports will be redirected towards their own usage,"
TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Iran's Oil Ministry is setting the stage for a new era in energy despite international attempts to hamstring the country through sanctions, a minister said.
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Iran in the wake of the sanctions switched its petrochemical processing plants over to gasoline production to cope with any potential shortages. The oil minister said Iran has so far produced 264 million gallons of gasoline, which he said took Iran's adversaries "by surprise." [In Full @ UPI]
Saddam Hussein’s longtime foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was convicted on Monday by an Iraqi court of terrorizing Shiite Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Mr. Aziz, 74, the only Christian in Mr. Hussein’s inner circle, already faces an execution sentence from another case. [More @ the NY Times]
"In exclusive interviews, high-ranking Taliban commanders in Afghanistan respond to recent revelations that NATO officials were negotiating with an impostor.
Taliban commanders in Afghanistan reacted with amusement this weekend to news of an impostor who, by claiming he was a senior Taliban leader, managed to fool NATO officials and get invited to high-level peace talks.
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Taliban commanders also emphasized that the story of the impostor showed that the much-touted peace talks weren’t real.
“The U.S. and its allies claimed to be having negotiations with the Taliban,” senior Taliban commander Maulvi Rahmanullah said. “This impersonator exposed their inadequate knowledge of the Taliban and their poor intelligence.”
He added that U.S. military officials should have more thoroughly checked the man’s identity before showering him with money.
“If a shopkeeper from Quetta can make a fool of them and keep them engaged in talks for months, how do they believe they can defeat the Taliban?”
The impersonator was reportedly given large amounts of money for himself and others to persuade them to break ranks with the Taliban. He was also given safe passage to Kabul, flew on NATO aircrafts, and was received as an honored guest in the palace in the Afghan capital, even meeting with President Hamid Karzai..." [In Full @ The Daily Beast]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 29 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Yemen... A History - Still 'Bandit Country Of The 'Old School'... That's What The Place Is All About [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 15:53 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.
The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret.
The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.
The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them.
This document release reveals the contradictions between the US’s public persona and what it says behind closed doors – and shows that if citizens in a democracy want their governments to reflect their wishes, they should ask to see what’s going on behind the scenes.
Every American schoolchild is taught that George Washington – the country’s first President – could not tell a lie. If the administrations of his successors lived up to the same principle, today’s document flood would be a mere embarrassment. Instead, the US Government has been warning governments -- even the most corrupt -- around the world about the coming leaks and is bracing itself for the exposures.
The full set consists of 251,287 documents, comprising 261,276,536 words (seven times the size of "The Iraq War Logs", the world's previously largest classified information release).
The cables cover from 28th December 1966 to 28th February 2010 and originate from 274 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions...
The data usage coordination site, CableGate, is HERE
One thing I've noticed is that they no longer just SET people up... They set them up SPECIFICALLY for the certain homeland security laws they've created... My take... It give them test cases to check the validity and ease of conviction under those laws.
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 24 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Groping For The $$$ - On The TSA's Security Procedures And The Homeland Security Industrial Complex [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 15:56 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Morning Brief: U.S. aircraft carrier headed to KoreaMeanwhile, in an apparently un-noticed and unintended show of utter hypocrisy, the US Secretary of Defense was busy with talking points about that incident while he was in Bolivia, a country which has tossed our military out of the country and refused to be complicit in America's war on the CIA's drug-running competition.
U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak have agreed to stage joint naval exercises as a first response to North Korea's shelling of a South Korean military installation today. The exercises will include the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington.
The U.S. faces few attractive options in responding to North Korea's latest aggression. It's clear from recent revelations of the progress North Korea's nuclear program that sanctions have not been fully effective. But more aggressive responses, such as a naval quarantine, would require thousands of troops and could result in a new war with Seoul on the front lines.
[In Full @ Foreign Policy Magazine]
The TSA's Panic Searches & PETN: Quite Simply There Are More Ways To Blow Things Up Than You Could Ever Possibly Prevent
Just in case anyone was wondering what the TSA's panic mode search procedures are all about...
Quite simply there are more ways to blow things up than you could ever possibly prevent.
Your government doesn't want you to know that.
Further, there only seem to be two solutions to the dilemma of non-state actor terrorism.
A: Learn to live in a totalitarian police state.
B: Do something (anything!) to ameliorate the reasons WHY someone from that region of (or anyplace in the world) would want to blow up airliners with civilians on board or commit other terror acts.
I fear most Americans will opt-in to the do-nothing method... "A", than sacrifice an inch, a second, of affluent lifestyle...
...a lifestyle BTW that could not possibly last very long under a totalitarian regime and an economy necessary to prevent terror attacks.
Your government doesn't want you to be aware of that last little detail either.
Let me state this ANOTHER way..
[In Full @ Auntie Imperial's News & Blog Review]
Congressman Dennis Kucinich slams fake Afghan elections, fake withdrawal, fake Taliban, fake everything
"The war in Afghanistan is taking place in a netherworld where facts and common sense have no place," Kucinich said Tuesday. "Elections are fake. Our deadline to withdraw is a fake. Now, we learn that a fake Taliban leader has been leading us to believe that NATO was facilitating high-level talks between Taliban leadership and the corrupt Afghan central government we're propping up."
"The only real thing about this war is the dead and wounded soldiers and civilians, the wasted tax dollars and the mounting evidence telling us to get out," [In Full]
"This is another guest post from Yevgeny, which he wrote in response to my article How (not) to Organize a Community.Let that be food for thought over this 'holiday', Indigenous Annihilation Day, and let it be noted that this commenter thinks the Indigenous peoples of this continent STILL have more sense of community that ANY of the invading peoples who currently believe they own this land.
He poses what, to a Russian, seems an obvious question:
“How (not) to organize a WHAT?”
You see, upon close examination the English word “community” turns out to be all but meaningless...
English speakers all assume that they know what they are talking about when they say it, but a Russian speaker who tries to translate it ends up with the following list:
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"The level of poverty sometimes looked quite frightening, but there was something about it that provided a sense of safety and security. I remember watching news reports of street demonstrations in Moscow in 1991: a crowd chanting “Yeltsin is a traitor” marches menacingly toward a line of riot police, and a melée ensues. But we couldn't care less, because none of this had any effect on us. We were poor under the Soviets, and we were poor afterward, but we stuck together. Whenever we need to marry one of us, bury one of us, get one of us a government job, a solution always presented itself. Family celebrations never involve just the nuclear family. The house is always open, the food is brought in by the guests, and there is always a musician or two present, because after eating and drinking Russians like to sing. At moments like this you can forget that you are living in a third world country and that life is really hard."
[Read 'But what is "Community"?' @ ClubOrlov]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Too Corrupt To Survive In A Democracy - The Obama Administration Goes After The Wall Street Hedge Fund 'Wolves In The Hen House' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 10:29 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
FBI agents searched the offices of three hedge fund operators Monday, two of which were started by former executives of SAC Capital Advisors, one of the most profitable and secretive hedge fund managers in the country.
One of the firms, Level Global Investors, is partly owned by an arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the most successful and controversial investment bank on Wall Street. The broad insider-trading investigation is also reportedly looking at whether low-level Goldman employees leaked information about pending corporate acquisitions to select clients of the bank.
[More @ the Los Angeles Times]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 22 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: SOMETHING Happened Years Ago Today And As Time Passes The Powers That Be Will Manipulate Your Memory To Erase Those Past Events [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 11:35 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
"We are a nation which invades other nations and then resents the idea that the natives shoot back at us."The Kennedy Assassination is the mind-wipe discussed in today's commentary, but something ELSE has been erased from the American mind, and it happened just a couple of days ago... 41 years ago: The Cleveland Plain Dealer Publishes Photos Of The My Lai Massacre
COAL POWER DOWNSIZING
Is coal power headed for a downsizing in US?
"Coal power, with about 340,000 megawatts of generating capacity, today produces about half of US electricity. After expected (ed. Now federally required) emissions upgrades, the coal fleet will continue to have plants, producing about 103,000 megawatts, that are still "lacking any major emission controls," the study says. The oldest, smallest coal plants with few emissions controls make up an "at-risk" (of closure) portion that account for about 20 percent of total US coal-fired generating capacity, or 69,000 megawatts."
Utilities may close up to 1 in 5 coal-fired power plants after tougher EPA air pollution rules go into effect next year, Wall Street investment banker Credit Suisse recently reported. Coal power is losing its price edge to natural gas, too. In Full @ Christian Science MonitorAlso See: Pipelineistan Poker: It All Comes Down To The Top Two Global Players In A Global "Grand Game".
"(Texas Governor Rick) Perry said that it’s important to “devolve power out of Washington, D.C., back to the states,” which he called the “laboratories of innovation.” ... Perry pointed to the fact that Texas created 850,000 jobs during the last decade." [Source, Washington Post]Auntie's response...
Yeah, if privatized prison jobs and a 'foster care' industry which detains children forcibly, and many times illegally, when snatched from their parents by an archaic court system and then drugs (2/3rds plus) of the state's 'foster care' children using so-called 'medical' personnel, could be considered "Job Creation"
"From 1984-1996 private prisons spread like wildfire across Texas. In 1984 the first private prison opened in Texas, and by 1996 there were 38 private prisons either operating or soon to open in the state."More, including an interactive map of all private prisons in the state of Texas with info about their operators at Auntie Imperial's News & Blog Review
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 19 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: There Is A Point Where Partisanship Becomes Treason - Let's Get A New S.T.A.R.T. By Calling The Republicans What They've Become [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 11:54 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
"The time has come ... to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life. We'd like to have a long-term relationship with America... But we'd like the Afghan countryside ... not to be so overwhelmed with the military presence." [More @ Newsys]
No Really, We Should Abandon Afghanistan
Afghanistan: No Withdrawal, No Reconciliation
By: Josh Mull
Thursday November 18, 2010I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own.Back in the summer of 2007, there was a debate in the Democratic presidential primaries over whether or not the United States ought to negotiate without preconditions with our enemies. Senator Obama said he would meet with Iranian president Ahmadinejad, among others, and Senator Clinton replied that this was naive, that it would be used for propaganda purposes, and so on.
Obama eventually won out, but the criticism of his position continued into the 2008 general election. The McCain campaign doubled down on the Bush policy of negotiations as a "reward", and they relentlessly attacked Obama as weak on national defense, cozying up with dictators - you remember the commercials.
Despite all that, candidate Obama held firm in his position that the US should negotiate with its enemies. And not just dictators and foreign leaders, mind you, but even militant groups like the Taliban. Here Obama explains his rationale to NBC's Brian Williams:
So far, so good. He uses some really unhelpful language (what the heck is a "moderate Taliban"?) but he admits that the process will not be easy or quick. . . .
Fast forward a year or so to late 2009, candidate Obama is now President Obama, and we're hearing whispers out of Afghanistan that the Taliban and Hamid Karzai have begun very quiet, very preliminary discussions. Nothing really exciting, just an intermediary or two meeting secretly in Pakistan, the UAE, and elsewhere. President Obama orders a massive military escalation in order to "break Taliban momentum" (the same Taliban who were at the time negotiating an end to hostilities), and General McChrystal (and now Petraeus) instituted his ultimately disastrous counter-insurgency campaign in the south and east of the country.... [In Full with links]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 18 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Political Polls Are A Shuck & Jive Contributing To A Lazy News Media And It's Time To Undermine/Destroy That Process [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 10:31 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Landmark terror trial ends in not-guilty verdict on all but one count
Deborah Feyerick, CNN
November 17, 2010
(CNN) -- Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was acquitted Wednesday of all but one count of conspiracy-related charges, in a landmark civilian trial involving the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in civilian court.
Ghailani was convicted by a federal jury on a charge of conspiracy to destroy buildings and U.S. property, in connection with his role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
The trial had been widely considered a testing ground for the Obama administration, which has said that it could try some terrorism suspects outside military tribunals and in civilian courts.
Ghailani's lawyer, Peter Quijano, said Wednesday's verdict was "a reaffirmation that this nation's judicial system is the greatest ever devised."
"It is a truly a system of laws and not men," he said.
The U.S. Justice Department responded in a written statement, referring to the one guilty finding by saying, "We respect the jury's verdict and are pleased that Ahmed Ghailani now faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and a potential life sentence for his role in the embassy bombings."
Ghailani faced charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [In Full @ CNN]
...And In Razer's home town, Santa Cruz California, the Veterans who run the VFW Hall made a Holiday Dinner AnnouncementIn other words the county has mysteriously declared the building that VFW Post #1588 (Bill Motto, ANTI-war) has used for at least the thirty five years of Razer's residence here a 'seismic hazard' because of an un-level floor and some loose plaster. [More Here]
There will be none.
The County closed the building, alleging it is unsafe, a situation which has prompted the United Veterans Council – of which VFW Post 5888 is a part – to bring suit against the County in Superior Court, jury trial is scheduled to commence November 15th. The eviction, and lack of offers by the County for substitute facilities, resulted in a regrettable decline of in services for veterans and the community at large. At the last Post meeting, October 6, the decision was made that the Post is unable to hold the Holiday Dinners, this year.
Jury says Santa Cruz County didn't do right by displaced veteransNOW, to work on the city's mistreatment and criminalization-by-rafts-of-anti-homeless-cum-vagrancy laws of their massive number (per-capita) of DISPLACED WORKERS in a city that INTENTIONALLY created a situation where only college students, the upper middle class and out of town computer industry contract workers can afford a place to live.
By Kurtis Alexander
11/18/2010
SANTA CRUZ -- A jury has found Santa Cruz County negligent in its obligation to accommodate local veterans in the wake of the closure of the downtown Veterans Memorial Building in January.
The verdict reached Wednesday, which followed two days of court testimony, caps a high-profile dispute over whether the county's effort to provide space for veterans at a satellite government campus was sufficient.
"Obviously the county is going to have to go back to the drawing board now ... and rethink our location," said Bob Patton, president of the United Veterans Council of Santa Cruz County. Patton said he was pleased jurors agreed the county had been "cold-hearted and unreceptive" to vets by seeking to relocate them at facilities that didn't meet their "honest needs."
The mess began when county officials closed the Vets Hall because of seismic safety concerns. The Veterans Council responded with a lawsuit, alleging the new Emeline Avenue facility offered as a substitute for the veterans benefits office and meeting space downtown was hard for elderly vets to reach and didn't have adequate features, such as a kitchen.
Wednesday's decision in favor of the vets did not come with a directive for the county. Superior Court Judge Timothy Volkmann is expected to take up the matter Jan. 7." [In Full]
There are children being orphaned, maimed or killed every day, in our name, with our tax dollars; there are soldiers and civilians dying or being maimed for life in order to generate profits for the most odious imperialistic corporate war machine ever, again in our name. How long are we going to let this go on? Until it is too late, until this destructive machine destroys all of us and the planet to boot?
Wikileaks has revealed the documented horror of U.S. war-making, beyond what any of us imagined. It's time veterans and others express our resistance directly and powerfully by putting ourselves on the line, once again--honestly, courageously and without one drop of apology for doing so. It is not we who are the murderers, torturers or pillagers of the earth.
Profit and power-hungry warmongers are destroying everything we hold dear and sacred.
In the early thirties, WW1 vets descended on Washington, D.C, (Historic Footage @ Youtube, 2:39 minutes) to demand their promised bonuses, it being the depths of the Depression. General Douglas MacArthur and his sidekick Dwight Eisenhower disregarded President Herbert Hoover's order and burned their encampment down and drove the vets out of town at bayonet point.
We are today's bonus marchers, and we've come to claim our bonus--PEACE. [In Full]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 17 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Better Get Used To 'Thinking Locally' - Two More Years Like This And The US Government Will Be 'Out Of Gas' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 9:13 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
BP oil spill Corexit dispersants suspected in widespread crop damageBut our food crops, specifically our grain harvests, are already in decline, and the USDA is so confused about what to tell the public that they are literally delivering conflicting data regarding the harvests across Amreica.UPDATED POST: August 10, 2010It seems like damage brought by the oil gusher has spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches. Collateral damage now appears to include agricultural damage way inland Mississippi.
The US EPA contacted me and said the suspected "Corexit rain" was in fact jet fuel dumped by a Fedex plane (NICE!)
A mysterious "disease" has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage or "disease".
There is no other explanation for the crop damage. It's conjecture on my part but everything points to something that has a widespread effect on plants and crops. Studies on Corexit and its effects on plants are consistent with the damage sustained in the lower Mississippi area. Check out the table on page 877 of the study. While no one precisely knows, all the signs point to BP's use of aerosolized Corexit brought inland by the ocean winds or rain.
HERE IS AN EXTRACT OF THE PLANT STUDY TITLED I REFERENCED: Morphological changes observed in Paspalum vaginatum after treatment with Abura heavy crude oil (AC) or Oredo light crude oil (OC) and Corexit 9527/Gold crew. [More @ SFGate]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
You Are Being Lied To, Part 2: US Department of Agriculture Edition"All someone needs to do to know the world is headed is for food crisis is to stop reading USDA’s crop reports predicting a record soybean and corn harvests and listen to what else the USDA saying.
Specifically, the USDA has declared half the counties in the Midwest to be primary disaster areas, including 274 counties in the last 30 days alone. These designations are based on the criteria of a minimum of 30 percent loss in the value of at least one crop in the county. The chart below shows counties declared primary disaster areas by the secretary of Agriculture and the president of the United States.
For a list of Secretarial disaster declarations, see here.
For a list of Presidential disaster declarations, see here.
The same USDA that is predicting record harvests is also declaring disaster areas across half the Midwest because of catastrophic crop losses!
To eliminate any doubt that this might be an innocent mistake, the USDA is even predicting record soybean harvests in the same states (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama) where it has declared virtually all counties to have experienced 30 percent production losses. It isn’t rocket scientist to realize something is horribly wrong." [In Full]
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