You know they will blame Trump for this some how.. that climate change thing and if only he was a ecofeminist

Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us

The last 12 months have been the wettest in all of U.S. history, and this has created absolutely horrific conditions for U.S. farmers. Thanks to endless rain and historic flooding that has stretched on for months, many farmers have not been able to plant crops at all, and a lot of the crops that have actually been planted are deeply struggling. What this means is that U.S. agricultural production is going to be way, way down this year. The numbers that I am about to share with you are deeply alarming, and they should serve as a wake up call for all of us. The food that each one of us eats every day is produced by our farmers, and right now our farmers are truly facing a nightmare scenario.

You can view the latest USDA crop progress report right here. According to that report, corn and soybean production is way behind expectations.

Last year, 78 percent of all corn acreage had been planted by now. This year, that number is sitting at just 49 percent.

And the percentage of corn that has emerged from the ground is at a paltry 19 percent compared to 47 percent at this time last year.

http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/crop-catastrophe-in-the-midwest-latest-usda-crop-progress-report-indicates-that-a-nightmare-scenario-is-upon-us

>>6600722

"The common enemy of humanity is man.

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up

with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,

water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these

dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through

changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.

The real enemy then, is humanity itself."

• Club of Rome,

premier environmental think-tank,

consultants to the United Nations

"We need to get some broad based support,

to capture the public's imagination…

So we have to offer up scary scenarios,

make simplified, dramatic statements

and make little mention of any doubts…

Each of us has to decide what the right balance

is between being effective and being honest."

• Prof. Stephen Schneider,

Stanford Professor of Climatology,

lead author of many IPCC reports

"We've got to ride this global warming issue.

Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,

we will be doing the right thing in terms of

economic and environmental policy."

• Timothy Wirth,

President of the UN Foundation

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…

climate change provides the greatest opportunity to

bring about justice and equality in the world."

• Christine Stewart,

former Canadian Minister of the Environment

“The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations

on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”

• Prof. Chris Folland,

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

>>6600777

You know they will find a way to blame Trump and climate change

Weak corn crop and gas prices

The worst drought in recent memory is having an impact on several industries besides agriculture. The ethanol industry is also expected to suffer from rising corn prices.

According to the Energy Information Administration, U.S. ethanol exports will drop this year because of the weak corn crop. However, the E.I.A. also says, the supply of corn isn't expected to effect gas prices. Currently most gasoline in the United States contains about 10% ethanol.

Officials at Guardian Ethanol in Lima agree with both statements. Livestock farmers are also petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency to waive requirements for corn-based ethanol. Government mandates require 13.2 billion gallons of corn based bio fuel to be made in 2012. The goal was to reduce pollution and dependence on foreign oil. However, some livestock producers say competing with ethanol producers for corn is too expensive. Estimates vary, but studies from economists in Iowa show removing the quota would decrease corn prices by less than 5%.

>>6600783

Notice the date a three year old article and also find conflicting articles.. not going to post them

Farm policy opponents love to rail against “corporate farms.” These operations, they say, have run family farmers out of rural America. But is it true? Not according to a recent report by the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS).

It is true that modern-day farms in America are no longer one-or-two acre plots plowed by oxen and planted by hand — the inefficient, gothic scenes of yesteryear.

Instead, farms now operate like small businesses that must borrow capital and use the latest technologies and farming practices to maximize efficiencies and offset stagnant commodity prices. But being an efficient small business doesn’t mean you are a “corporate farm.”

In fact, the ERS found that 99 percent of U.S. farms were still structured as family farms in 2015, and they account for about 90 percent of farm production.

The report further noted that the few farms organized as nonfamily corporations generally have less than 10 stockholders — in other words, they are more Main Street than Wall Street. Hardly the sinister tale being spun by farm foes.

So how do agriculture’s political opponents spin arguments that paint such a different picture? It all boils down to the definition of a farm, and ERS sheds a lot of light about that topic, too.

“USDA defines a farm as any place that produced and sold — or normally would have produced and sold — at least $1,000 of agricultural products during a given year,” the agency explained.

https://www.farmpolicyfacts.org/2016/12/fact-check-corporate-farms-vs-family-farms/

Here's your gun free zone Chicago

31 shot, 5 fatally, so far in Chicago during Memorial Day weekend

As Memorial Day weekend wore on, by Sunday afternoon Chicago police had responded to the shootings of 31 people, five of whom died from their injuries, officials said.

The grim tallies grew as a shooting Sunday about 6 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street left two dead and two injured. The shooting was possibly in retaliation for an earlier one in the same University Village neighborhood, which also left a man dead, investigators said.

Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said detectives believe there is a connection between the two shootings — on the same block, hours apart — that in total killed three people and injured another three.

“We do believe that the two shootings from 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. are connected,” Guglielmi wrote in an email to the Tribune.

Guglielmi said detectives are questioning four people of interest in connection with the shooting of four people on Hastings, in the ABLA Homes public housing community.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/05/31-shot-5-fatally-so-far-in-chicago-during-memorial-day-weekend/

>>6600835

Like I said conflicting stories.. I'm pretty sure the corporations own a majority of it

Who really owns American farmland?

Today, USDA estimates that at least 30 percent of American farmland is owned by non-operators who lease it out to farmers.

Foreign investment in U.S. farmland on the rise

In 2013, the Chinese firm Shuanghui received wide public attention when it purchased U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods for a record $4.7 billion.

In an overlooked part of the deal, Shuanghui also acquired more than 146,000 acres of farmland across the United States, worth more than $500 million, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.

The deal made Shuanghui, now the WH Group Limited, into one of the biggest foreign owners of U.S. agricultural land, according to an analysis of that same data.

That purchase was just a part of a continuing surge in foreign investment in American farmland and food that has raised concerns in Congress and among rural advocacy groups.

https://investigatemidwest.org/2017/06/22/foreign-investment-into-u-s-farmland-on-the-rise/

Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On (Live with Orchestra)

great version of their best song.

>>6600915

Whatever happened with this

New Mexico observatory shut down amid FBI child porn investigation: documents

A New Mexico solar observatory reopened Monday after an 11-day FBI investigation of a janitor who was suspected of using the facility’s internet to download child pornography, federal court documents revealed Wednesday.

The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, abruptly closed Sept. 6 over an undisclosed security issue. The lack of explanation fueled conspiracy theories, given the facility’s close proximity to Roswell – the location of a supposed UFO sighting in 1947.

An FBI officer said she was “investigating the activities of an individual who was utilizing the wireless internet service of the National Solar Observatory … to download and distribute child pornography.”

Officials on Monday said the observatory did not communicate with the public during the investigation because they didn’t want the suspect to be tipped off.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-observatory-shut-down-amid-fbi-child-porn-investigation-documents

Police Found Complicit in Conspiracy to Cover Up Massive Child Sex Ring in Catholic Church

Philadelphia, PA — For those who have been keeping up with the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church that erupted late last year in Pennsylvania, many have been wondering how it was allowed to go on for so long without anyone getting charged or arrested. Now, it appears that we have the answer—the police were complicit. But it wasn’t just in Pennsylvania, we are also learning it was elsewhere in places like Buffalo, New York.

“Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all,” according to the report of the Pennsylvania grand jury. And police went along with it.

During a grand jury report into the child sex abuse by priests in Pennsylvania last year, the state Attorney General, Josh Shapiro provided insight into how priests were allowed to go on for decades preying on children. He singled out the two groups responsible for covering up the crimes of the church.

One of the groups named by the AG was the Catholic Church hierarchy like the archbishops and cardinals who reacted to allegations of child rape by simply transferring the priest to a new church or failing to act at all. The other group Shapiro named was law enforcement, who he says acted in tandem with the abusive priests to keep their horrific habits from ever reaching the public eye.

“The abuse scarred every diocese,” he said. “The cover-up was sophisticated. The church protected the institution at all costs.”

Not only did the church protect pedophile priests, but the investigation revealed a “failure of law enforcement,” according to Shapiro.

According to the investigation, at the same time the church was covering up the abuse by protecting the pedophiles, it also had assistance from police or district attorneys who aided in covering it up as well. Sometimes this aid was in the form of looking the other way, while other times, it involved actively thwarting investigations.

One District Attorney was even caught on record deliberately blocking investigations into the rape of young boys by priests. In 1964, Beaver County district attorney Robert Masters was presented with evidence that a Catholic priest was raping several young boys. However, he blocked the investigation to prevent “unfavorable publicity.”

“I have, in order to prevent unfavorable publicity, halted all investigations into similar incidents with other young boys,” Masters wrote in an Aug. 4, 1964, letter to Pittsburgh Diocese Bishop Vincent Leonard.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/05/police-found-complicit-in-conspiracy-to-cover-up-massive-child-sex-ring-in-catholic-church.html

>>6600989

Neil Young & Willie Nelson - Heart of Gold (Live at Farm Aid 1995)

As today's Democratic Party morphs into the Socialist Democratic Party

Socialist Street Signs align with Today's Democrats

Tracking the DNA of street protest movements requires reading the signage. And, understanding the results of polling requires knowing the questions pollsters ask.

First, here’s the intro to the Gallup piece:

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“WASHINGTON, D.C.—Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some form of socialism would be a good or bad thing for the country. While 51% of U.S. adults say socialism would be a bad thing for the country, 43% believe it would be a good thing. Those results contrast with a 1942 Roper/Fortune survey that found 40% describing socialism as a bad thing, 25% a good thing and 34% not having an opinion.”

No surprises there, except that in 1942 one-of-four Americans either didn’t attach socialism to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis), or took into consideration that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was fighting the Nazis.

The key words in the Gallup title are “some form of socialism.” It leaves much room for elaboration. By analogy, as cancer comes in a many different forms, not all forms of socialism are alike.

One of the key questions Gallop posters asked was: “Would some form of socialism be a good thing or a bad thing for the country as a whole?”

Like a can of tuna with an expiration date of Aug 2005, it’s an out-of-date question. America already has “some form of socialism.” For example, we have Social Security, Medicare, and over 80 other federal welfare programs of various sizes and purposes.

Likewise, not all polls are equally accurate. We learned that’s true in the 2016 Presidential Election when Clinton was the projected winner, right up until she lost. For example, Gallup’s Presidential Election 2016: Key Indicators for October 8-14, 2016, shortly before the election, had Clinton well in the lead with these stats: “Candidates’ Image Among National Adults: Trump %Fav. 30, %Unfav. 65; Clinton %Fav. 40, %Unfav. 55.”

Then came the voting and—Oops.

Look at the signage in the picture above. It features, in the foreground and in the background, pro-Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) signs, with a pile of fresh ones waiting to be hoisted.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/socialist-street-signs-align-with-todays-democrats

Closer Everyday

This Tech Is Making Sci-Fi Fantasies a Reality

These sci-fi fantasies are becoming a reality… Meet the technology making it possible… In the mailbag: “The book 1984 told us this would all come”…

It could be Trump’s path to victory in 2020…

The president draws big crowds at his rallies. He holds them up and down the country.

Since Trump took office, he’s appeared at dozens of rallies – more than any other president in recent memory. It’s a way to stay connected with his fans.

But what if Trump could project a virtual 3D version of himself to packed stadiums in every state… at the same time… to hold nationwide rallies?

It would be a major tailwind for his reelection campaign… even a key advantage in a tight race.

It sounds like a sci-fi movie…

But the technology has already been tried out.

And as you’ll learn in today’s dispatch, its widespread adoption is just one of several sci-fi technologies that will be made possible by the rollout of 5G wireless communications networks.

5G is one of the big tech trends we’ve been following. In fact, it’s so critical for the next leap forward in technology… it’s sparked a battle between the U.S. and its overseas rivals.

We’ll get to that tomorrow. But first, you need to understand what makes 5G technology so revolutionary…

https://www.legacyresearch.com/the-daily-cut/this-tech-is-making-sci-fi-fantasies-a-reality/

2020 Democrats promise new gun controls. How far can they go?

WASHINGTON — California Sen. Kamala Harris and other Democrats running for president have promised aggressive action to stem the nation’s epidemic of gun violence if they win the White House in 2020.

But when it comes to restricting gun access, experts say executive action is unlikely to make a significant dent in the problem, and any steps the president takes unilaterally are likely to be embroiled in legal challenges.

The reality is it’s Congress — not the president — that holds most of the power on gun policy.

The executive branch has “limited discretion” on guns, University of California, Los Angeles Law professor Adam Winkler told McClatchy.

Former Democratic President Barack Obama “looked at all these things and had a list of 20 executive actions. Even with 20 executive actions, it didn’t add up to much,” said Winkler, an expert in constitutional law. “The real takeaway of these campaign promises is how gun control has surged … as a way to energize Democratic voters.”

While Democrats even a decade ago mostly avoided talking about guns, fearing it could alienate swing voters, the party’s 2020 presidential candidates are making a different calculation. Most in the primary field have unveiled proposals to tighten restrictions on guns or made promises to do so on the campaign trail. The latest: former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who penned an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle over the weekend laying out his four-point plan to stop gun violence.

The candidates tend to downplay how much they would rely on Congress to achieve their goals.

https://personalliberty.com/2020-democrats-promise-new-gun-controls-how-far-can-they-go/

>>6601176

Name one time they told us the truth about any of the dangerous products they sold us and called it new and improved or passed laws taking away our rights and freedoms and say it for our own good/safety/benefit ….with fake and phony co-called experts// climate change comes to mind

>>6601214

Ever hear of the 25th frame affect or flicker rate.. here i'll help you out because this is a research board

On the Hypnotic Effects of Television

When I was a kid, we only received 3 television channels on a small, black and white television. Those channels were; WAGM, MPBN and CBC. There really wasn’t much on television, but I didn’t care because I was usually outside doing something else, anyway.

I can remember when our family got cable for the first time and while it was an interesting change, I didn’t see much more on that was really worth watching. Later on, we got a color TV—now that was progress.

Today, you can notice in just about every house in your neighborhood, after dark, the dim blue flicker of a television through their windows. That flicker has intensified over the years and exhibits some pretty interesting psychological effects.

It is no secret that rapidly changing contrasting images on a television screen will affect those suffering from epilepsy, sometimes to the point of inducing a seizure. The way a television works is similar to the old 24 frame-per-second movie cameras. What appears to be full motion video is really a series of still pictures run rapidly together over time in order to create the appearance of motion. As for the old movie cameras, there were 24 pictures taken every second, with a shutter opening and closing to advance to the next picture in the sequence. Televisions and computer monitors use the same principle, only they call it a “refresh rate.” Dr. G.A. Harding conducted a study for the International League against Epilepsy in the mid-1990’s. He concluded that using a television or monitor with a higher refresh rate of around 100 Hz (100 frame changes per second) over the older 50 Hz models significantly reduced the occurrences of epileptic seizures by those viewing. This was likely because the moving picture was more defined and seamless.

Other uses of flickering images are being pioneered by Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) from Torrence, California. IOS has received a contract from the American State Police (AMSTAPO), to develop a multi-colored LED flashlight that when flashed with a certain sequence of colors will make its victim nauseous, disoriented, or vomit.

Needless to say, humans are very visually-oriented creatures and flickering images have a pretty enormous impact on us,

Advertisers and marketing engineers also understand the importance of flicker rate imagery when it comes to selling their products on television. If one were to sit in a darkened room, facing away from a television and watch the light pattern on the opposite wall, a distinct series of flickering light patterns can be discerned as the television rapidly transitions from one edited scene to another. By varying the intensity of the contrast between lights and darks and the rate of switching (flickering) from one scene to another, an advertiser can lull the TV viewer into a mildly hypnotic state. Once hypnotized by the screen flicker, various forms of Neuro Linguistic Programming cues are introduced in order to steer the viewer’s thoughts, making them either calm and accepting of the product being sold, or openly hostile and uncomfortable with the competitor’s product.

Compare some of the older television commercials from 50 years ago, which were pasty whitish-gray and had very little or no flicker at all to today’s, which sometimes alternate from light to dark multiple times per second.

http://fortfairfieldjournal.com/ffj_fte_television.htm

>>6601248

I live in Wisconsin and Farmers markets are my favorite food suppliers…I laugh when at a store and they have a health food section.. that begs the question ,,Then what's the rest of it

The world today is such a wicked place

Fighting going on between the human race

People got to work just to earn their bread

While people just across the sea are counting their dead

A politician's job, they say, is very high

For he has to choose who's got to go and die

They can put a man on the moon quite easy

While people here on earth are dying of old diseases

A woman goes to work every day after day

She just goes to work just to earn her pay

Child sitting crying by a life that's harder

He doesn't even know who is his father

Black sabbath - A bit of finger, Sleeping village, Warning, Wicked world

>>6601336

China's State-Run Media Unveils 'AI Anchors' to Read the News

China claims to have created the world’s first non-human news anchor and debuted the new virtual host on state-run Xinhua news agency Wednesday.

The so-called “Artificial Intelligence Anchor” was developed by Xinhua in conjunction with Chinese search engine Sogou.com and is based on images of real, human news presenters, Xinhua reports.

The novel newsreader was introduced at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China in artificial intelligence’s eerie foray into the television news industry.

“This is my very first day in Xinhua news agency,” the AI anchor said in the inaugural broadcast, noting that “the development of the media industry calls for continuous innovation and deep integration with the international advanced technologies.”

http://time.com/5450141/china-xinhua-artificial-intelligence-news-anchor/

>>6601405