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A crisis looming as the global food supply chains begin to erode

Tom Lewis
The Gold Telegraph
Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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As the coronavirus continues to infect more and more people, food supply chains have started to become more strained in recent days. It was announced yesterday; the world's biggest pork producer is closing a primary U.S plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak amongst employees.

Smithfield Foods Inc. will halt its pork-processing facility in South Dakota, which accounts for 4% to 5% of U.S pork production. The company also warned that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies "perilously close to the edge" of shortfalls. This is just one of the latest examples of the coronavirus beginning to disrupt food chains at a more significant scale rapidly.
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We anticipated this, as we reported on April 1 that food supply chains were in the early stages of being strained. Many countries were preparing many weeks ago by cutting back on exports to begin stockpiling.

Comment: See also: U.S. food lines are now measured in miles as desperation sets in all over the country

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Video shows British police officer threatening he'll "make something up" to arrest man


Liverpool Echo
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:09 UTC
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Video footage captured a police officer telling a man in Accrington he'd 'make something up'
A police officer has been filmed appearing to tell a member of the public he will "make something up" to arrest him.

A police officer has been filmed appearing to tell a member of the public he will "make something up" to arrest him.

In footage circulating online, a Lancashire Police officer shouts at a man before asking him "who are they going to believe, me or you?"

Comment: The friendly, neighborhood British 'bobby on the beat' is long gone:

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Los Angeles fills Venice skate park with sand to keep skateboarders out

Erika Martin
KTLA
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:06 UTC
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An oceanfront skate park at the Venice Beach Boardwalk has been covered in sand to deter people from visiting during state and county stay-at-home orders.

By Friday afternoon, the ramps and bowls at the park located at 1800 Ocean Front Walk were buried beneath enough sand to make them unrideable.

All parks, beaches, bike paths and trails in Los Angeles County are closed until at least May 15 to support social distancing under the county's Safer at Home order.

At Venice Beach, all parking lots, bathrooms, piers and beach access points are also shuttered, along with the boardwalk and Ocean Front Walk. There is some access in the area to essential businesses.

While the fate of such public spaces beyond May 15 remains unclear, the county's public health director, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, has said she expects some orders to be lifted by the end of next month.

Ferrer says retail stores will likely be among the first to reopen, but social distancing will remain key.

Comment: So have they thought how they are going to get the sand out of there when the parks reopen? Considering this is another idiotic government idea, it's likely no one has thought that far ahead.

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Possibly 'deepest since Great Depression': UN chief Guterres warns about pandemic-induced economic downturn


RT
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:01 UTC
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic will massively increase poverty worldwide, as the number of confirmed cases continues to grow.

Guterres has held a virtual meeting with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). For the teleconference, the UN presented the secretary-general's policy brief, in which he said the depth of the current global recession could be "the deepest since the Great Depression."

In his brief, Guterres cited a grim report from the IMF from earlier this week, which noted that the worldwide economic downturn makes the "Great Lockdown" not only the worst blow to the world economy since the depression of 1929-39, but "far worse than the Global Financial Crisis," citing data from 2009.
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34 more US-backed militants surrender, turn over weapons to Syrian Army


Sputnik
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 20:42 UTC
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© AP Photo / Hammurabi's Justice NewsUS-backed anti-government Syrian fighter from Maghaweer al-Thawra stands on a vehicle with a heavy automatic machine gun, left; an American soldier also stands on his armoured vehicle, right, as they take their position at the Syrian-Iraqi border crossing point of Tanf in southern Syria
Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry's Centre for Syrian Reconciliation confirmed that over two dozen militants trained at a US military base in Syria had surrendered to the Syrian Army after breaking out of the US-controlled At-Tanf area and engaging in a shootout with other militia members.

28 militants and six drivers from the Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra ('Revolutionary Commando Army') rebel group arrived in Palmyra, handed over all their weapons and equipment and surrendered to take advantage of the Syrian government's recent amnesty decrees, SANA has reported, citing a source said to be involved in the process.

The group's evacuation from the At-Tanf area, a blob of US-held territory in southern Syria near the Jordanian and Iraqi border, was facilitated following over four months of planning, according to authorities.
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So one Swedish academic quotes another Swedish academic on flaws of Sweden's Covid-19 policy... and that's RUSSIAN propaganda?

Marcello Ferrada de Noli
RT
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 20:11 UTC
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A Swedish professor Cecilia Soderberg-Naucler has been harshly criticized for sharing an article on Sweden's failed coronavirus strategy not because of its content, but because it was published by RT.

An exceptionally talented Swedish journalist, Lisa Magnusson, made an insightful dive into Swedish behavioral patterns in the current coronavirus crisis. The author compared state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell's followers with the flock in Monty Python's Life of Brian. This is my interpretation of that: Brian says, "You are all confident in the authorities" the followers echo "We are all confident in the authorities." He says, "you may go to bars and keep social distance, and travel in buses, keep children mingled in schools, etc." The flock: "We'll do this." But the number of Covid-19 cases duplicates, and then triplicates, etc. So, Brian says, "You didn't understand, so now go to hell." The flock: "How shall we go to hell, Master?"

Amidst this chaotic scenario where the mortality in Sweden due to coronavirus is five times higher than in neighbouring Finland, and the Swedish case-fatality rate by far the highest among the Scandinavian countries, conscious scientists and scholars from Sweden's top research universities began to react, and criticize, suggesting alternative paths to combat the virus.
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Sweden to roll out mass Covid-19 testing but is still refusing to implement destructive lockdown measures


RT
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:31 UTC
Malmo
© Reuters / TT News Agency / Johan NilssenResidents enjoying the sun in Malmo, Sweden, amid the Covid-19 outbreak. April 5, 2020.
Sweden plans to drastically ramp up testing for coronavirus after its previous approach has left it with more confirmed cases and deaths than fellow Nordic countries.

The government's new goal is carrying out 50,000 to 100,000 tests per week, Health and Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren told reporters on Friday.

She added that it is "hard to accurately forecast when we can reach these numbers," and the process itself will take"weeks." Hallengren said that mass testing will reveal the extent of the outbreak in Sweden, while also helping individuals decide whether they should go to work or stay at home.

Nearly 74,600 people had been tested as of Wednesday in Sweden - a country of 10.2 million. Although the government has managed to gradually increase the testing rate to almost 19,900 people per week, it is still a far cry from the new target set by the health minister.

Comment: Fort Russ reports that the WHO has been pressuring Sweden for fear that the baseless hysteria over Covid-19's mortality rates would be exposed:
The New York Times and others are out in full force to defend Bill Gates, their savior of the world. They distort everything and try to pretend he is this wonderful man who only our best interests at heart. They also refuse to address how the World Health Organization has carried out the greatest fraud perhaps in modern history and the links of the United States to the drive for Climate Change also go back to Bill Gates.

The press refuses to expose the World Health Organization (WHO) which called for Sweden to take more action, telling CNN that it is "imperative" that Sweden "increase measures to control spread of the virus, prepare and increase capacity of the health system to cope, ensure physical distancing and communicate the why and how of all measures to the population."

Note that the entire theory for the lockdown was that they agreed with Neil Ferguson of Imperial College, also a target for donations from the Gates Foundation, that 2 million Americans would die and we would not have enough bed space to accommodate the people.
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The WHO has tried to ignore Sweden where they did not lockdown everyone and the death rate was no worse than any other country and in fact. Sweden stands as a testament that this has been the greatest scam of all time which has used a virus to achieve the very same goals as Climate Change.

UNDER NO CONDITIONS should President Trump resume any support for WHO. All health organizations that want to pretend to be unbiased governmental agencies MUST stop taking private donations. That includes the CDC, NIH, and the WHO. Any university that accepts donations from the Gates Foundation should be PROHIBITED from providing any such studies whatsoever given that they have ALL been wrong concerning this staged viral Plandemic (a more realistic term for what they have done). (see also Business Insider regarding WHO demands against Sweden)


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U.S. food lines are now measured in miles as desperation sets in all over the country

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Getty Images/Joe RaedleDumped zucchini and squash, Florida City, FL
When I repeatedly warned that a large portion of the population was completely and utterly unprepared for any sort of a serious economic downturn, I was not exaggerating one bit. A survey that was taken last August found that 59 percent of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck at that time, and that wasn't going to be a major problem as long as the paychecks kept rolling in. But now we have seen the biggest spike in unemployment in the history of our country, and millions of workers suddenly don't have paychecks coming in anymore. In just a matter of weeks, economic desperation on a massive scale has erupted from coast to coast, and the stress that this is putting on food banks and other charities that work with the poor has been unprecedented.

Everyone has seen photos of the "bread lines" during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but in many instances the lines of vehicles that are lining up for free food here in 2020 are even longer.

Comment: Desperate measures to mitigate food shortages may reach the magnitude of global concern. Going forward, there is no guarantee America will achieve stability any time soon.

What's it like out there?






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Lawsuit alleges Wisconsin teen, parents were threatened with jail by cops over COVID-19 Instagram posts


Chicago Tribune
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:52 UTC
Amyiah Cohoon
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A 16-year-old high school sophomore alleged in a federal lawsuit against a Wisconsin sheriff on Thursday that she was threatened with jail if she didn't remove social media posts saying she had COVID-19.

The Wisconsin Institute for Liberty and Law filed the lawsuit against Marquette County Sheriff Joseph Konrath and a patrol sergeant. The lawsuit alleges that the sergeant went to the home of Amyiah Cohoon of Oxford, Wisconsin, last month and demanded that her Instagram posts be deleted or she and her parents would face arrest.

No one was threatened with arrest, and an "aggressive defense" is planned, said Samuel Hall, attorney for the sheriff and the Marquette County Sheriff's Department. Hall said the girl's messages "caused distress and panic within the school system and law enforcement acted at the request of school health officials in a good faith effort to avoid unfounded panic."
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Best of the Web: Germans decry 'out of proportion' Covid-19 lockdown measures with multiple protests against 'social distancing'


RT
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
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German citizens expressed their anger with what they call extreme Covid-19 lockdown measures in several demonstrations that included cages, empty chairs and sit-ins, yet all were carried out to keep safe distances.

At a demonstration in Munich's Marienplatz on Friday, citizens in medical masks and all adhering to social distancing guidelines under the watchful eye of police protested what they called the "absurdity" of the measures.

"I actually protested an absurdity, I sat on a park bench, that was at a time, i.e. last week, when it was still forbidden and that's why I was arrested," Thomas Prudlo, a member of the Ecological Democratic Party (ODP), said. "I almost see a piece of cabaret there, because a million joggers could jog past me, but an old grandmother was not allowed to sit on the park bench." He explained that he protested these "out of proportion" measures and got arrested.

Comment: In the US citizens are also getting restless and upset about the draconian lockdown measures being employed against them. The governor of Minnesota eased lockdown rules after outraged residents took to the streets to demand an end to the lockdown.

Trump called for multiple states governed by Democrats to be 'liberated' from strict stay-at-home orders. The vague message earned heated reactions, with everyone reading their own meaning into it.

Trump called on residents of Minnesota, Michigan, and Virgina to "liberate" their states, according to a tweetstorm sent out on Friday.

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