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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:

Retailers try to curb theft while not angering shoppers

Anne D'Innocenzio
MyNorthWest
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:49 UTC

© AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews
Leo Pichardo, left, a store associate at Gristedes supermarket, retrieves a container of Tide laundry soap from a locked cabinet, Tuesday Jan. 31, 2023, at the store in New York. Increasingly, retailers are locking up more products or increasing the number of security guards at their stores to curtail theft.

When the pandemic threat eased, Maureen Holohan was eager to scale back her online shopping and return to physical stores so she could more easily compare prices and scour ingredients on beauty and health care products for herself and her three children.

But that experience was short lived. In the past six months or so, CVS, Target and other retailers where Holohan shops have been locking up more everyday items like deodorant and laundry detergent as a way to reduce theft. And the 56-year-old Chevy Chase, Maryland resident is now back to shopping online or visiting stores where she doesn't have to wait for someone to retrieve products.

"I know they've got to do something, but locking the stuff up definitely just has me walking by that aisle," said Holohan, a business consultant.

'I feel like I am leaving a cult': Mother regrets transitioning her 4-year-old son

Christina Buttons
The Daily Wire
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:52 UTC

A mother of two young boys realized she made a terrible mistake after allowing her 4-year-old son to socially transition into a girl identity and described the epiphany she had as "leaving a cult."

The mother, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote two essays and recently appeared on a popular podcast to discuss her journey from a social justice organizer and "true believer" in transgender ideology to a skeptic who is deeply regretful for allowing her son to believe he was a little girl trapped in a boy's body.

"I'm texting a friend, and I'm like 'we've realized that our older son is not actually transgender and we're going to be rolling back the social transition and I feel like I am leaving a cult,' because that's what it felt like to me," she said on the podcast Triggernometry with her identity disguised by a blur filter.

The mother's first essay in August 2022, "True Believer," went viral on social media. In the Parents With Inconvenient Truths About Trans (PITT) Substack newsletter, she described how she and her wife raised their two young boys as "gender neutral" because they believed they were following the righteous path of "social justice."

RFK Jr sues BBC and big media companies for hobbling online rivals via 'Trusted News Initiative'

Chris Morrison
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:00 UTC

The British Broadcasting Corporation and many other big media companies around the world have been accused of suppressing "wholly accurate and legitimate reporting" to further their economic interests via the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a joint project designed to suppress supposedly harmful disinformation. Along with the Washington Post, Associated Press and Reuters, the BBC has been accused in a Texas court of suppressing competition in the online news market, thereby depriving people of vital information about matters of legitimate public concern. These include COVID-19 lockdowns, safety information about the mRNA vaccines and the Hunter Biden laptop story. TNI was set up in 2019 and acts as a gatekeeper on a number of issues, including Net Zero and the 'climate emergency'.

According to an antitrust suit filed by Robert Kennedy Jr., the defendants feared what they described as an "existential threat" to their economic survival. The explosion of rival online news sources is said to have threatened to take audience share away from traditional news organisations "and to undermine consumers' trust in these organisations".

The TNI is an international consortium that includes Big Media and Big Tech. It acts as a gatekeeper to stem the flow of what it deems mis- and disinformation, with its tech members removing supposedly false or misleading content from their platforms. (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Twitter are all members.) Shadow-banning and de-platforming on social media can have dire consequences for the finances of online publishers, causing their businesses to fail, and TNI is accused of contributing to the collapse of online news publishers that "simply reported" claims made by credible sources such as scientists and physicians.

The Kennedy lawsuit, which claims undefined damages for a number of aggrieved online publishers, says it's taking legal action to "defend the freedom of speech and of the press".

Hunter's biz partner busted with 1,850 boxes of classified docs

PoliticalTruth
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00 UTC

A new set of classified documents from Vice President Biden's and Senator Biden's time at the University of Delaware have surfaced amid the revelations of the boxes of documents found in President Biden's possession. Furthermore, the transfer of the questionable document boxes did not occur until 2012, though it had begun in 2010. As the strange details emerge, there have been calls for more information about the documents, their contents, and the timeline of the boxes' transfer.

Comment: It isn't the business partner who should be 'busted'!

Not so 'f**king awesome'... Bill Maher blasts 'insane arrogance' of today's 'woke revolutionaries'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:46 UTC

In 2019, comedian Bill Maher warned Americans "we are going to have to learn to live with each other or there will be blood."

Almost exactly three years ago, the HBO host reminded the world that he was the only liberal pundit on TV who will call "the tolerant" left on its BS, by daring to admit that the US media manufactures more "fake news" than Russia ever could (and ironically, in recent weeks, has been proven 100% correct on 'Russia collusion' hoax lies).

Then, two years ago, Maher first ratcheted up his honest-reality filter to '11' by refusing to follow fellow Democrats down the 'woke' abyss, exclaiming "you're the fucking nuts, this is insane" at progressive officials' relentless anti-white activism in New York schools, both public and private.

Comment: There is truth in humor...for that will they arrest him?

US airmen respond with shock, mockery as General urged service members to prepare for war with China

Wyatt Reed
Sputnik
Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:56 UTC

"I felt like a random email blast to thousands of airmen was an inappropriate way to direct them to essentially prepare for war with a near-peer adversary," one Air Force officer reportedly stated.

US Air Force officers are reacting with horror to a memo by a top general advising them to prepare for a conventional war against China within two years.

On January 27, thousands of airmen received a communique from Gen. Mike Minihan informing them that his "gut" told him the US "will fight [China] in 2025," and demanding they be prepared to "fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most."

"Aim for the head," added the memo, which also included instructions to update their virtual 'Record of Emergency Data,' which informs the military what to do in the event of a service member's death.

A number of Air Force members were left dumbfounded by the message, including an officer who recently told Military.com that many of his subordinates could not believe what they were seeing.

Comment: With commanders like Minihan, who needs a war?

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Society's Child

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

Retailers try to curb theft while not angering shoppers

'I feel like I am leaving a cult': Mother regrets transitioning her 4-year-old son

RFK Jr sues BBC and big media companies for hobbling online rivals via 'Trusted News Initiative'

Hunter's biz partner busted with 1,850 boxes of classified docs

Not so 'f**king awesome'... Bill Maher blasts 'insane arrogance' of today's 'woke revolutionaries'

US airmen respond with shock, mockery as General urged service members to prepare for war with China

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