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It is becoming 'really hard' for young Americans to break into farming, experts say

Will Kessler
Daily Caller
Thu, 12 Oct 2023 02:33 UTC
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  • The path for young Americans starting a career in farming is becoming increasingly narrow as prohibitive capital costs and greater innovation mean larger farms and older farmers working more land.
  • The average age of farmers rose from 56.3 years in 2012 to 57.5 years in 2017, following a long-standing trend of aging farmers as labor continues to be mechanized, according to a census from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  • "I think it's really hard if they are not coming into an existing farm operation," Howard Halderman, CEO of Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management and fellow at the Farm Foundation, said about a young person getting into farming without an existing family farm to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Farming is becoming increasingly inaccessible for young Americans as capital costs rise and large family-owned farming operations grow, agricultural experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Large-scale farms, which are those with yearly gross profits above $1 million, have increased over the last decade, rising from 35% of the total amount of production value to 46% from 2011 to 2020, and in that same time frame, rising in the total share of farms from 16% to 24%, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) most recent America's Diverse Family Farms report. Farms are consolidating among families and creating more large-scale operations, leaving the profession inaccessible to the vast majority of younger people looking to make it in farming, according to experts who spoke to the DCNF.
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Star of David

Hamas says IDF strikes hit Gaza evacuation convoys


RT
Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:40 UTC
gaza evacuation convoy
© AP / Hatem MoussaPalestinians flee from northern Gaza after the Israeli Army issued an evacuation warning ahead of a potential ground invasion, October 13, 2023. It was bombed by the IDF enroute.
The UN has called Israel's forced relocation order impossible and disastrous

Dozens of people, mostly women and children, have been injured and killed in Israeli airstrikes on evacuation convoys fleeing Gaza City, according to Hamas officials. The IDF has yet to respond to the accusations, after ordering more than 1 million people to leave the northern part of the enclave "to save their lives."

The UN humanitarian body, OCHA, said several "vehicles of those evacuating the north were hit, killing more than 40 people and injuring 150 others," citing data from health officials in the Hamas-governed Palestinian enclave.

"These incidents prompted many people to abandon their evacuation efforts and return home," the UN agency added, as "heavy Israeli bombardments, from the air, sea and land, have continued almost uninterrupted."

Comment: RT also reports from the UN:
UN warns of mass ethnic cleansing as refugee shelters overflow

Palestinians in Gaza face mass ethnic cleansing as Israel orders half the population of the densely populated strip to evacuate amid continued aerial bombardment and dwindling resources on the ground, UN human rights experts warned on Saturday.

"In the name of self-defense, Israel is seeking to justify what would amount to ethnic cleansing," UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said, noting that "Israel has already carried out mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under the fog of war."

"There is a grave danger that what we are witnessing may be a repeat of the 1948 Nakba, and the 1967 Naksa, yet on a larger scale," she warned, referring to Israel's mass expulsions of at least 1 million Palestinians from their homes and land in 1947-48 and 1967. "The international community must do everything to stop this from happening again."

The UN's agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Saturday that its shelters in Gaza "are not safe anymore," adding that the area's 2.3 million residents were rapidly running out of water. Israel shut off electricity to Gaza following Hamas' attack last Saturday, compounding the humanitarian crisis in the territory.

The UN on Friday warned that Israel's evacuation order targeting the 1.1 million Palestinians living in northern Gaza would create a "humanitarian catastrophe" amount to a certain "death sentence" for the sick and hospitalized, given the hospital system is already barely operational and several have been bombed.

"Moving more than one million people across a densely populated warzone to a place with no food, water, or accommodation, when the entire territory is under siege, is extremely dangerous - and in some cases, simply not possible," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters on Friday ahead of a meeting with the Security Council.

Urging the government to rescind the order, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Paula Gaviria Betancur explained that "forcible population transfers constitute a crime against humanity, and collective punishment is prohibited under international humanitarian law."

On Thursday, Israel ordered the population of northern Gaza to move to the south in order to "save their lives." The entire territory remains blockaded, with the exit via Egypt closed since Tuesday due to ongoing Israeli airstrikes.
So of course, this:


And why? Well, by Israeli logic:


Three are no words . . . .

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Propaganda

No, Hamas did not behead 40 babies at an Israeli kibbutz last Saturday

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00 UTC
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There is still no proof that Hamas militants beheaded 40 babies at an Israeli kibbutz last Saturday. There is no physical evidence, no forensic evidence, and no photographic evidence. Zilch. The entire story is based on the unverified claims of an "Israeli settler leader who incited riots to 'wipe out' Palestinian village." (Max Blumenthal) Naturally, one would expect that a professional journalist would question the credibility of a witness whose bias was so transparently obvious. But that is not the case with i24NEWS reporter Nicole Zedek who regurgitated what she had been told as if it were the Gospel Truth. In fact, Zedek still sticks by her story today despite the glaring lack of evidence and the testimony of a person who has a clear motive for distorting the truth. Here's part of Zedek's report from the kibbutz where the incidence is alleged to have taken place:
"David, it's hard to even explain the mass casualties that happened right here, in fact, the Israeli military says they still don't have a clear number. But I'm talking to some of the soldiers and they say that what they've witnessesd as they've been walking through these different houses and communities; babies, their heads cut off. That's what they said. Families completely gunned down in their beds. You can see many of these soldiers right now, comforting each other... Many of them are reservists who jumped into action, leaving their own families behind as well, not knowing the sheer horror they were about to come to....They say they've never experienced anything like this. This is nothing anyone could have imagined...." @vtchakarova
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Iran warns Israel of regional 'earthquake'


RT
Sun, 15 Oct 2023 06:56 UTC
Khirbet Selm Lebanon
© Daniel Carde/Getty ImagesKhirbet Selm Lebanon - October 10: Hezbollah buries three militants after Israeli strike.
There is still a chance to prevent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from spilling over, Tehran believes.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has urged Israel to end its airstrikes on Gaza, warning that the conflict with Hamas could spread across the region if Israel sends ground forces into the enclave, and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah enters the fray.

"I know about the scenarios that Hezbollah has put in place," Amir-Abdollahian said in a briefing with reporters in Beirut on Saturday. "Any step the resistance will take will cause a huge earthquake for Israel."

Comment: See also:

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Snakes in Suits

House GOP selects Jordan as speaker candidate, teeing up House-wide vote

Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:07 UTC
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© Sean Rayford/Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc AP/ Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesCandidates for Speaker of the House: Rep Jim Jordan • Rep Austin Scott
House Republicans selected a new candidate for speaker on Friday after days of disarray kicked off by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's historic ouster from the job.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was nominated for the position in a closed-door House GOP conference earlier Friday. Jordan won 124 votes to Rep. Austin Scott's 81 — an underwhelming show for the race's frontrunner.

Scott, a member with a comparatively lower profile, jumped into the race minutes before it began.

After Jordan's nomination, Republicans launched into a second secret ballot vote, this time gauging support on who will support Jordan on the House floor now that he's the nominee.

Fifty-five House Republicans said they would vote against Jordan on that vote. He can only afford to lose four Republican votes to still win the speakership.



Comment: This news video offers a good explanation of the dilemmas involved in this selection process.

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Star of David

Shoe's on the other foot: Rocket hits Israeli hospital and supermarket in new wave of strikes from Gaza

Harriet Alexander and David Averre
The Daily Mail
Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:47 UTC
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Ashkelon's Barzilai Medical Center was struck rocket fire from Gaza on October 11, 2023

Comment: Comment: Be on the lookout for emotive language biased towards 'poor l'il Israel.' The article is loaded with it.


Hamas launched a fresh wave of rocket attacks in Israel this afternoon, destroying a children's hospital and a supermarket.

Shocking footage from the southern city of Ashkelon shows the Barzilai Medical Centre in ruins with the children's wing taking a direct hit.


Comment: Yet somehow Palestinians hospitals in ruins are not 'shocking'?


Pictures also show the remains of a supermarket in the city, surrounded by debris and marked by a large crater.

The strikes were among many launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who targeted multiple locations across the country.
israel supermarket hamas rocket
© AFPThe remains of a supermarket which was struck by Hamas rocket attacks October 11, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later shared a harrowing image of a child's bed with its sheets soaked in blood, along with the caption: 'Hamas is worse than ISIS.'

Israeli airstrikes demolished entire Palestinian neighbourhoods on Wednesday as hospitals struggled to treat the injured with dwindling medical supplies.

Comment: Compare and contrast:
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© reutersShattered glass and window panes litter an Ashkelon street after a series of rocket attacks October 11, 2023
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Destruction from Israeli aerial bombardment is seen in Gaza City, October 2023


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Stormtrooper

DOD brass accused of 'obfuscation' in midst of recruiting crisis

J.M. Phelps
American Family News
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:28 UTC
New u.s. Army recruits
© Gregory Bull/APNew Army recruits take part in a swearing-in ceremony on June 4, 2017, in San Diego.
Several senior officers in the U.S. military are calling for accountability and warning of the dangers resulting from decades of failures by the Department of Defense.

On October 3, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth announced an overhaul of Army recruiting in the face of a severe recruiting crisis. This comes as the U.S. Navy also missed its recruiting target by as many as 7,000 sailors.

A group of senior military officers - one of them being Navy Commander Robert A. Green Jr. - has publicly called out senior Pentagon officials, including Wormuth, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendell III. The officers cite what they feel are betrayals of trust for failures by the military during the global war on terror, the Afghanistan withdrawal, and the Pentagon's vaccine mandate.

Green has demanded accountability for what he calls "critical betrayals" while demonstrating the hypocrisy of the service secretaries' response to Senator Tommy Tuberville's hold on promotions.

Comment: The problem has been brewing for a long time. Unfortunately the moronic "leadership" at the DOD have implemented policies that were sure to alienate the very people that would be a good fit for the military: those with a traditional, conservative upbringing. Plus, those potential recruits can see how badly those already enlisted are treated.The brass are now in quiet panic mode.

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Bad Guys

Cheaters: Transgender cyclists take gold AND silver medals at Chicago women's race

Rachel Bowman
The Daily Mail
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:11 UTC
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© XTessa Johnson (center), 25, and Evelyn Williamson (right), 30, place first and second respectively in the Women's SingleSpeed contest of the Chicago CycloCross Cup
Critics insist pair had considerable biological advantage over female rivals

Two transgender cyclists have taken the top spots on the podium at the Chicago CycloCross Cup after triumphing in a women's race.

Tessa Johnson, 25, won first place in the women's SingleSpeed while Evelyn Williamson, 30, placed second in the race on October 7.

The transgender pair made headlines earlier this year for sweeping the competition at several women's races amid debate over the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports.

In the women's SingleSpeed race, Johnson took the gold and Williamson took silver, leaving only one biological female on the podium, Allison Zmuda, who won bronze.

Johnson also placed first in the women's Cat Half, winning $150 in prize money. Williamson placed fourth in that race, receiving a $75 prize.
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Israeli intelligence suddenly knows exactly where Hamas is

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin's Newsletter
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 06:02 UTC
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It's interesting how last week Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to, and yet this week they know every mosque, school and hospital that Hamas is hiding in.

When you live under an empire of lies you'll be asked to believe a lot of very stupid things. The dumbest thing we're being asked to believe this week is that Israel's intelligence services are simultaneously so incompetent that Saturday's Hamas attack took them completely by surprise, but also so competent that all the buildings they're destroying with their relentless bombing campaign on Gaza are directed solely at Hamas.

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https://twitter.com/StilichoReads/status/1711923465291509793?s=20


The phrase "Hamas targets" has been all over the news media the last few days in reference to the ongoing attacks on Gaza, which have as of this writing killed over 1,500 Palestinians, a third of them children.
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We cannot stand by and watch Israel commit atrocities

Karen Attiah
The Washington Post
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:28 UTC
Palestinian man and child
© Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty ImagesA Palestinian man with a child outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Oct. 12.
"We are witnessing the worst of humanity, in all ways," a friend of mine texted me this week.

Last Saturday, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing more than 1,300 people, including 247 soldiers. Israel vowed to retaliate, cut off water and electricity to Gaza and began bombardment of the strip. The Gaza Health Ministry said Friday that the death toll in Gaza from Israel's military actions stood at roughly 1,800 people, including more than 580 children and more than 350 women.

As Israelis and Jewish people express their terror, shock and grief, Palestinians are (rightfully) pointing out that their own pain and deaths under the actions of the Israeli state have been ignored for years. Outside the battle arena, in the public and private spheres and especially on social media, there has been appalling commentary by people openly endorsing violence and genocide. People who support safety for Israel's citizens are accused of being Zionist colonizers, while those who support safety and human rights for Palestinians are accused of being Hamas sympathizers and cool with the slaughter of innocents.

Language is being hijacked. People using the terms "decolonization" and "liberation" in describing Palestinians' struggle for human rights have had their remarks taken out of context and have been accused of championing Hamas's brand of terrorism. This not only silences debate on the illegal, morally unjust occupation of Palestinian territory, but also implies a subconscious, irrational fear of oppressed minorities anywhere rising up and exacting violent revenge.
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