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Not in the news (anywhere): Heirloom seed company suffers catastrophic fire

seedsforgenerations.com
Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:42 UTC

Seed For Generations warehouse goes up in smoke

No one was seriously hurt, but on Saturday, January 28, 2023 we had a devastating fire in our shop building that houses our seed business. It looks like an electrical source started it and it was out of control by the time it was noticed and we could get to it.

There may be a few tools and hardware and other farm stuff that might be savageable, but it looks like most all of our seeds and other products, and office equipment for our business have been destroyed and we will have to start over again. Please pray for us as we get our business back up and running again!

Comment: Not many will care about a small family farm supply business, but it is possible for those with eyes to see to discern an overall pattern. The fight to control the food supply is relentless. Crippling a small business is not beneath the PTB.

Ukraine purges libraries of Russian-language books - official

RT
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:27 UTC

Ukraine has removed millions of copies of Russian-language books from its public libraries, Yevgeniya Kravchuk, a senior member of the country's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, said on Monday.

She stated that the Culture Ministry had provided recommendations on what titles should be taken off the shelves.

This move was provoked by an initiative declared by the Ukrainian government to "overcome the consequences of Russification," which in practice means purging schools of certain literature, renaming streets, and dismantling monuments to Russian historical figures.

According to Kravchuk, the deputy chair of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, 19 million books had been removed as of November, including 11 million in Russian.

Poll reveals Republican attitudes to Ukraine ceding territory

RT
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:23 UTC

© Ben Birchall / POOL / AFP
Ukrainian soldiers take part in a training session during a visit by Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.

Four out of 10 Republicans would like Washington to do whatever it can to resolve the conflict in Ukraine quickly, even if that entails making concessions to Russia, according to a poll released on Monday.

In a survey conducted by Gallup, respondents were asked what they would "prefer the US to do in the Russia-Ukraine conflict." Overall, 31% of respondents said they want Washington "to end the conflict quickly, even if Russia keeps territory." Meanwhile, 65% believe that the US should "support Ukraine reclaiming territory," even if it prolongs the hostilities. The results are almost identical to those from a similar poll conducted in August 2022.

The territories in question are the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, which overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in autumn 2022. Ukraine still claims the areas as its own, as it does with Crimea, which chose to rejoin Russia in 2014 following the Western-backed coup in Kiev.

Dell to dismiss 5% of workforce as tech layoff bloodbath continues

Ben Zeisloft
The Daily Wire
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:52 UTC

Dell announced intentions to reduce headcount by 5% as a result of economic tumult, marking the latest of several companies in the technology sector to dismiss a significant portion of its workforce.

Dell Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke wrote in a memo to staff members on Monday that the company, which previously paused external hiring and limited travel expenditures, would downsize to improve cost structures and reduce organizational complexity.

"Unfortunately, with changes like this, some members of our team will be leaving the company. There is no tougher decision, but one we had to make for our long-term health and success," the executive wrote. "Remember, we've navigated economic downturns before and we've emerged stronger. We'll prevail as we always do, for our customers, partners and each other. We'll be more competitive, more focused and find a new level of operational performance."

The 5% reduction will correspond to approximately 6,700 employees losing their jobs, according to an annual report and current report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The data that show lockdowns are deadly

Nick Rendell
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:00 UTC

Three years down the line from when Covid first hit our consciousness and with the release of more time series data in digestible form some lessons can be learned from the Government's capitulation to the 'blob's' panicked measures in early 2020.

Undoubtedly the 'one size fits all' approach of Government at the start of the pandemic led to unnecessary deaths. I suspect the extent of these unnecessary excess deaths skewed the perception of many people about the risk they faced from Covid and also skewed the data which led, in turn, to bad decisions.

Back in March 2020, in anticipation of a wave of ill people it was decided to empty the hospitals. Go walk around a hospital, it's full of ill people, they're there for a reason. In England we expect about 225,000 people to die in hospital in any given year. The data in Table 1 come from my new favourite website produced by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (its staff have got their work cut out!). They show deaths in English hospitals over the past three years.

Table 1. Deaths in hospitals in England

New bill in Congress may finally eliminate Covid "vaccine" requirement for US visitors

Jordan Schachtel
dossier.substack.com
Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:17 UTC

I know that I generally stay away from getting too much into the weeds about politics.

But there's a very important piece of legislation moving through Congress right now that can be very impactful for those who want to travel to the United States and did not take the mRNA experimental gene injections.

Rep. Thomas Massie's — who has been terrific on the Covid issue — bill, HR 185, "To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes," is scheduled to get a vote in the House of Representatives next week.

Comment: See also:

Huge fire at farm kills 50,000 hens, exacerbating New Zealand's egg shortage

Tess McClure
The Guardian
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 23:28 UTC

There are concerns the blaze at the Zeagold facility will exacerbate a dearth of eggs caused by a ban on battery farming

The fire at a Zeagold farm broke out on Monday morning and had "taken better part of the day to contain", a spokesperson for the company said. Twelve workers who were on site were "unharmed but very distressed", the spokesperson said. Work was under way to assess how many hens had died, but Zeagold estimated it to be about 75,000. The company later revised that number down to 50,000.

The fire may have ripple effects beyond the immediate demise of the hens, with concerns it may worsen a national scarcity of eggs.

Zeagold's spokesperson said it was still too early to say how much of an effect the fire would have on the overall supply chain, saying: "There will be some impact obviously - it's not a great thing to happen in the middle of a shortage."

Comment: As governments make concerted efforts to force farmers out of business and try to convince people to eat parasite-ridden bugs, it's surely no coincidence that major farms and food processing facilities across the West are 'mysteriously' bursting into flames.

The following food plant fires happened today, and just over a week ago:

Fire breaks out at US-owned drone factory in Latvia

Amanda Rivkin
Deutsche Welle
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:00 UTC

Large plumes of black smoke were seen at the "Edge Autonomy" drone production plant on the outskirts of Riga. The cause of the fire is unknown

A US-owned drone factory near Riga airport in the Baltic nation of Latvia was ablaze Tuesday, according to emergency services in the small Baltic nation.

The Edge Autonomy unmanned aerial vehicle production plant was partially engulfed in flames, with large plumes of dark smoke reaching towards the sky.

The AFP news agency reported more than 20 police cars, nine fire engines and five ambulances were at the scene of the blaze. Latvian broadcaster LTV shared video taken from the road showing black smoke belowing out of the burning factory.

Comment:

The majority of the unusual fires reported recently have been on Russian territory - and it's reasonable to suppose some of those were sabotage - and one wonders if this one, being in Latvia, was just an accident, or whether there's another explanation: ANOTHER large-scale fire in Russia, this time at an oil and gas field

Florida lawmakers to finalize plans to strip Disney of its special self-governing powers

James Gordon
The Daily Mail
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:50 UTC

© Associated Press
Since 1967, Disney has been responsible for the governance of an area known as Reedy Creek, which is partly within Orange and Osceola counties. The new bill would put a state-run board in charge of governance

Florida lawmakers will hold a special session to debate a proposal regarding Walt Disney World's special taxing district next week

Florida lawmakers are to meet next week as they decide on whether Disney World's self-governing power should be replaced with a state-run board under radical plans backed by Governor Ron DeSantis.

The session will focus on whether to reverse the previous decision to dissolve the district and Disney's special governing privileges, which it has held for 55 years.

The overhaul - part of an ongoing row between Disney and state officials which began over the 'Don't Say Gay' bill - would also force the company to pay $700 million dollars in unsecured debt that might otherwise have been paid by taxpayers.

It is not clear how a state-directed oversight board might work and what kind of financial control it would have over the Disney-run operation.

Comment: Randy Fine has a point:

More background:

Seafood processing plant goes up in violent blaze - it's a total loss

Jack Davis
The Western Journal
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 08:52 UTC

A food processing plant in the Canadian province of New Brunswick went up in flames Friday.

Jim LeBlanc, owner of W.E. Acres Crabmeal Ltd., said the structure was a "total loss," according to the Canadian Television Network.

The fire erupted at about 2 p.m.

LeBlanc told CTV News the fire was started by an explosion in an oil drum. However, Ronald Cormier, fire chief of the village of Cap-Pelé, said the cause of the fire is still unknown, but that it did not appear to have been arson, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Comment: Sabotaging the food chain has become a priority:

I just had two dear friends die both were vaccinated both were more robust than I

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Not in the news (anywhere): Heirloom seed company suffers catastrophic fire

Ukraine purges libraries of Russian-language books - official

Poll reveals Republican attitudes to Ukraine ceding territory

Dell to dismiss 5% of workforce as tech layoff bloodbath continues

The data that show lockdowns are deadly

New bill in Congress may finally eliminate Covid "vaccine" requirement for US visitors

Huge fire at farm kills 50,000 hens, exacerbating New Zealand's egg shortage

Fire breaks out at US-owned drone factory in Latvia

Florida lawmakers to finalize plans to strip Disney of its special self-governing powers

Seafood processing plant goes up in violent blaze - it's a total loss

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