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“The fire breathing dragon of clouds.”: Pacific Ring of Fire, 12-18 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 12 to 18 of Gregorian January 2020.

According to the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program, the overwhelming majority of volcanic eruptions taking place the third week of January are on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

ARGENTINA: 5.0 quake near border with Chile

AUSTRALIA: ‘Experts’ say murderous Mega Fire was preventable!

Fires followed by floods

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CHILE:   “It is clear to many of us that the Coquimbo region has an unusual, increasing seismicity that may be preparing the area for a very large earthquake near the end of the present century.” 

ECUADOR: Galapagos volcano eruption spews lava 

FIJI: 5.2 mag quake recorded in Ono-i-Lau region

INDONESIA:  Krakatau volcano explosive activity continues

JAPAN: Slow-motion interplate slip detected in the Nankai Trough

 Japan military planes arrive in Australia to help fight bushfires

Court halts nuclear reactor restart citing volcano, earthquake risks

Wildlife Is Still Reeling from the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

MEXICO:  Yet another quake hits the Oaxaca area

NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand Volcano Eruption Death Toll Rises to 20

What will the next decade of quakes look like?

PHILIPPINES:  Taal;

Gray pineapples: Volcano devastates farms

Imagine this is what SuperVolcano Yellowstone will do to most of the entire North American continent!

RUSSIA:  5.5 quake hits near Kamchatka

THAILAND: Japanese scientists observe ‘plasma bubbles’ in upper atmosphere

UNITED STATES:

Pic by Cassandra Eichner of a Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud (PyroCB) taken over the Pacific Northwest on 08AUG2019, during the FIREX-AQ field campaign from the cockpit of the NASA DC-8 aircraft. 

Between July and September 2019 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, NASA, and other federal agencies, conducted studies of pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCbs) clouds.  The PyroCbs (pyro means fire) are formed by intense wildfires, NASA calls them “the fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”  

PyroCbs were first identified in the late 1990s, while scientists were trying to find out what was causing clouds in the upper atmosphere when the ‘natural’ weather conditions weren’t correct for such formations and there was no volcanic activity.  Since then studies show such dragon clouds can pump as much particulates into the upper atmosphere as a volcano: “They act as giant chimneys, transporting smoke from the ground to high altitudes. Intense PyroCbs can inject smoke into the lower stratosphere, where it can persist for weeks or months.”-Dave Peterson, Naval Research Laboratory, one of the first meteorologists to notice the PryoCbs phenomenon in the late 1990s

The data collected from the 2019 FIREX-AQ missions is now being studied to see how cloud water droplets and ice particles change in the presence of smoke.

Alaska;  3.7 quake 15JAN2020

  School district considers rejecting millions in FEMA earthquake funding due to required insurance!

California; Tech company spent U.S.$30-million to see if ‘earthquake lights’ could warn of temblors. It didn’t work

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Warnings of future flooding in burn areas of Santa Barbara County

Hawaii; Flooding Event Greatest Since Hurricane Lane

Oregon;  Can Scappoose Industrial Airpark survive a major disaster?

Sneaky ‘Sneaker’ Waves?

Utah;  4.0 quake in Beaver County

Washington; PacifiCorp to lower Yale Reservoir because earthen dam is “likely to liquefy in the event of an earthquake” 

Despite threat from Cascadia Event, Seattle has big plans for a new city extension, right along the coast line!

VANUATA:  What is Early Action Rainfall Watch?

Disposable diapers were banned at the end of 2019 (to “save the world”), now there’s a push to re-educate people how to use old fashioned washable diapers!

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 06-11 JANUARY 2020: MEGA-FIRE!

CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”

“on scale we’ve not seen before”: Climate Change, 12-18 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the third week of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

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Proof evolution is working; study reveals human body temp is adjusting downward, in possible anticipation of a warmer planet?

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UN warns hunger crisis in southern African continent “on scale we’ve not seen before”

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Asia’s Great Rivers: Climate crisis, pollution put billions of people at risk of losing food source

As many climate freaks freak-out about losing food sources, scientists discover the warmer temps are actually causing more plants to grow at higher altitudes

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AUSTRALIA:  Why Australia’s fires are linked to floods in Africa

 Aussies to become climate change refugees?

BRAZIL: Brazil rebuilds burned-out base in Antarctica

Revealed; it was actually China that rebuilt the base

CHINA: Second death reported from mystery virus

COLOMBIA: Farmers blame ‘global warming’ for unusually low temps, which are killing off their crops

EGYPT:  More rain expected, but less will end up in Nile River

Tourism industry the biggest climate change fear-monger?

GERMANY: Taxpayers forced to pay coal mines to shutdown, tens of thousands of jobs will be lost

Long convoys of farm vehicles blocked roads in the states of Bavaria, Baden Württemberg and Bremen, as well as the city of Berlin. Farmers are angry at ever increasing environmental regulations.

GREENLAND:  The real reason why President Trump, and even China, want to buy the giant island; climate change is making it easier to get at the resources, like rare earth metals, such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium, as well as the usual stuff. 

HAITI:  Revealed; comments by U.S. ‘christian’ evangelical leaders resulted in Haitian Voodoo (Vodou) practitioners being denied medical help, and were even attacked, after the earthquake of 2010.

ITALY:  Video; U.S. Army personnel thanked for helping clean-up sinking Venice:

ISRAEL: Why have at least 350 people from U.S., European Union, Japan, Australia, and the African continent, converged on Israel for a massive earthquake drill?

MEXICO:  NGO works to ensure food security and seed diversity

NIGERIA: Climate change could be prime motivator for violent extremism

PHILIPPINES: Was the Taal volcano eruption large enough to influence the climate?

UNITED KINGDOM:  Hackney Council criticize Thames Water over repeated floods

UNITED STATES: As climate change freaks freak out about losing food sources, Idahoans are complaining about an explosion of non-native/invasive wild turkeys!

As many climate change freaks freak out about losing food sources, the new Marine Recreational Information Program surprisingly discovered that ocean fish stocks are actually much larger than first thought.

California City Bans Coal, Blocking Key Export Route to Asia

Teens’ Climate Change Suit Against U.S. Blocked by Judges

 Group rescues dogs from Puerto Rico

 NASA’s ARIA Team Helps in Puerto Rico Quake Response

NEW YORK DEPLOYS ITS MILITIA TO SAVE PUERTO RICO!

ARMY RESERVE DEPLOYS FOR PUERTO RICO QUAKE RECOVERY

Earthquake hits South Carolina, fourth in past two months

Earthquake hits New York

New York insurance sellers review changes to flood insurance policies

New flood risk model reviewed by academia will negatively affect home prices and insurance

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control creates new flood map for New Castle County, negatively affecting property owners, takes effect next week

Mississippi River threatens three cities with flooding

Pear River also threatens people in Mississippi

Idiot property developers in Missouri want to build in known flood zone

Nebraska’s governor promises to extend flood relief

Iowa’s governor begs for U.S.$20-million for flood relief

Texas releases U.S.$1.4-billion to start-up the newly created Flood Infrastructure Fund

On 12JAN202, the USAF at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, evacuated personnel on at least five C-130 aircraft due to an impending storm.  The operation is known as a Weather Evacuation (WX Evac).

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CLIMATE CHANGE, 06-11 JANUARY 2020: MONEY IS BEING MADE!

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 06-11 JANUARY 2020: MEGA-FIRE!:

Mega-Fire!: Pacific Ring of Fire, 06-11 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 06 to 11 of Gregorian January 2020.

AUSTRALIA: Mega Fire Forms Spanning 1.5 Million Acres!

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CANADA: 4.8 quake off-coast of BC

CHILE: 4.5 earthquake – Near North Coast 

COSTA RICA: 3.4 quake and strong winds hit tropical country

According to the National Emergency Commission (CNE), Costa Rica averages 350 earthquakes each month, or about 12 each day.

EL SALVADOR:  Minor quake 11JAN2020

FIJI:  4.8 quake 11JAN2020

GUATEMALA:  4.9 quake 11JAN2020

4.0 quake 10JAN2020

INDONESIA: It’s not just Australia — Indonesia is facing its own climate disaster

JAPAN: New study says climate change might actually reduce the speed of typhoons/hurricanes in mid-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere, which in turn would cause the storms to linger longer wreaking greater havoc!

Teachers in Japan form disaster relief teams, as a result of past disaster experiences (including the fact that you can’t rely on the government) 

MEXICO: Spectacular eruption at El Popo but alert level remains unchanged

NEW ZEALAND:  White Island volcano elevated activity continues

NICARAGUA: 5.0 quake 07jan2020

RUSSIA: Siberian towns flood after winter ice suddenly melts!

6.0 quake, Siberia 

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UNITED STATES:

California; ‘King Tides’ are now rising high enough to flood homeless camps

Oregon; Research uncovers a new way to identify a rare earthquake

Student housing to be build outside projected tsunami zone

VANUATA: 5.5 quake hits Lakatoro

Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-05 January 2020: ZOMBIE WHALES!

Climate Change, 06-11 January 2020: MONEY IS BEING MADE!

Zombie Whales!: Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-05 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 01 to 05 of Gregorian January 2020.

AUSTRALIA:  If you look at my past Pacific Ring of Fire postings you’ll realize that the U.S. and Aussie militaries conduct disaster training operations through out the year.  The question I have is why does the deployment of the Aussie military, during these unprecedented fires, seem so ineffective?

Here’s an economic reality check to Australia’s disaster preparedness: 70-thousand Aussie firefighters are not paid, not even for food or fuel!!!

Apparently humans should be blamed for the unprecedented fires because they were operating under the same bogus ‘save the forest’ mentality as the U.S.; don’t touch anything and let everything grow unchecked (the natives in the U.S. didn’t do that, that’s why the landscape seemed so pristine to the invading Europeans): There’s only one way to make bushfires less powerful: take out the stuff that burns

Aussie PM defends response to fires

U.S. TAXPAYERS SEND AUSSIE PRIME MINISTER A MODEL BOAT!

CANADA: Abbotsford’s airport a potential staging area in case of ‘catastrophic’ earthquake

At the end of December 2019, Canadian biologists used a new phrase to describe what was causing a whale extinction event; “Zombie Whales” (eaten alive by parasites, or perhaps a radical change in their food source?).

CHINA: Hong Kong rattled by 3.4 quake

ECUADOR:  5.0 quake

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EL SALVADOR:  4.6 quake – 71km SSW of Intipuca

FIJI: 5.0 quake

INDONESIA:  5.1 quake Java

5.0 quake Sumatra

JAPAN:  Fukushima unveils plans to become renewable energy hub

 

5.9 quake off Chiba Prefecture 

Shinmoe-dake waking up

MEXICO: 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits Oaxaca

NEW ZEALAND: More than 1000 North Islanders rattled by 5.5-quake

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NICARAGUA: 5.5 quake

PHILIPPINES: 5.4 quake

RUSSIA:  Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Registered Near Sakhalin Island

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 

 Shisaldin volcano, largest in Aleutians, briefly erupts

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California; 3.0 quake centered in Brea

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4.0 QUAKE FELT IN LOS ANGELES, OTHER CALIFORNIA AREAS

Colorado; Rumbles On The Colorado/Utah Border Spark New Water Plan

Hawaii;  Scientists look to Hawaiian chants for mention of past crater lakes

Wyoming; Team Rubicon recruits volunteers for disaster relief

Pacific Ring of Fire, December 2019: XMAS BELLS ARE RINGING!

Climate Change, 01-05 January 2020: NO MORE GOATS?

Xmas bells are ringing!: Pacific Ring of Fire, December 2019

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, December 2019.

 

Scientist say it snows in the center of the Earth; snow made out of Iron!

AUSTRALIA:  The perfect (fire) storm

Small earthquake at South West Rocks on (western christian) Christmas day

  Residents rocked by earthquakes at Muswellbrook and Denman

CANADA:  Forget a bus shutdown — here’s what getting around could be like after a major earthquake

Burst of earthquakes on (western christian) Christmas day near Vancouver Island raise fears of the Big One

320 years since the last Cascadia Megathrust doesn’t mean it’s overdue

CHILE: Explosive activity of Nicanor Crater continues 

4.2 quake 29DEC2019

6.0 quake 03DEC2019

CHINA:  4.9 quake, Hubei Province

Over 2,000 earthquake monitor stations to be built

5.2 quake injures 18 people

4.5 quake, Hebei Province

4.6 quake, Sichuan Province

COLOMBIA: The Christmas Eve (western christian Gregorian calendar) gift from the Earth to the people of Colombia was a reminder of Earth’s immense power and destructive potential. A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck near the town of Mesetas.

COSTA RICA:   northwest shakes with magnitude 5.5 quake

ECUADOR: 4.23 quake

Reventador erupts again

EL SALVADOR:  Quake reported in San Salvador

FIJI:  5.2 quake near Lambasa, 27DEC2019

  5.1-magnitude quake hits 116km W of Ceva-i-Ra, on the western christian day of Christmas

INDONESIA: Anak Krakatau erupts, spewing out 200-meter-high column of ash

Since just before the western christian day of
Christmas (eastern christian Christmas is in January) the area around Indonesia has been hit by swarms of quakes.  Check website Volcano Discovery, at least 140 quakes greater than 2.6.

JAPAN:  5.2 quake, 30DEC2019

4.4 quake, 28DEC2019

 Meteorological Agency says the country was hit by nearly double the usual number of typhoons this year.

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolts Aomori Prefecture 

 

Cost of the never ending recovery from the 2011 quake/tsunami to hit U.S.$14-billion by 2025!

KOREA:  U.S. personnel at Osan Air Base practiced emergency responder training, 19DEC2019.

LAOS:  The Lao National Earthquake Data Center is now operational after funding assistance from the People’s Republic of China.

MEXICO:  Popocatepetl volcano spews smoke and ‘incandescent material’ on western christian Christmas Day

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NEW ZEALAND:  5.2 quake, 29DEC2019

American woman dies from burns suffered in volcano eruption

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NICARAGUA: 4.2 quake, 08DEC2019

PANAMA:  4.0 quake, 20DEC2019

4.1 quake, 14DEC2019

U.S. Joint Task Force-Bravo personnel and Panamanian forces joined for an emergency response and humanitarian assistance exercise in the Darien Province, called Exercise Mercury.  Panama is a highly valued regional security partner to the U.S. and the only country in Central America with a humanitarian assistance hub.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 4.8 quake, 30DEC2019

4.5 quake, 21DEC2019

PERU: 4.6 quake, 30DEC2019

PHILIPPINES:  5.2-magnitude quake hits 85km south of Sarangani

35 dead after typhoon hit on (western christian) Christmas day

RUSSIA: 4.4 quake, 29DEC2019

5.4 quake, 27DEC2019

Activity with Bezymianny’s lava dome, inside its summit caldera, has increased.

 

SINGAPORE: U.S. taxes spent on a  Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) Course at the U.S. Navy’s Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific Headquarters in Singapore.  Also in attendance were the Canadians and Singaporeans.

TONGA: 4.8 quake, 24DEC2019

6.4 quake, 06DEC2019

UNITED STATES: 

Alaska;  Low-Level Eruption At Shishaldin Volcano Continues

 More taxpayer Funding Needed to Maintain Earthquake Sensors

 

Magnitude 5.2 quake hits Southeast Alaska

Aleutian volcano erupts sending ash 25,000 feet

California;  9 earthquakes shake residents on (western christian) Christmas Eve and Christmas

New USGS Seismic Hazard Map Shows Increased Risks in East Bay, San Jose

Californians living with ‘backyard volcanoes’?

Colorado;  Earthquakes trigger new plans for salt water injection well 

Hawaii;  Geothermal company almost done with volcano repairs

A Tiny Leak Led to a Massive, Unexpected Collapse at Kilauea

Idaho;  East Idaho quake connected to Yellowstone

Nevada;  2.7 quake, 26DEC2019 

Oregon;  Undersea volcano, off Oregon’s coast, has a giant magma chamber!

 City of Portland issues teenagers Earthquake Kits

 

Utah; 50% chance that “A large earthquake could result in thousands of deaths and life-threatening injuries….”

 

Washington;  Whatcom Sheriff’s Office monitoring earthquake cluster activity

Satellites can sense when the ground shifts

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VANUATU (New Caledonia):  5.0 quake, 26DEC2019 

 

Pacific Ring of Fire, November 2019: POLITICIANS SPEND TAX MONEY ON BAKA HELMETS, FOR THEMSELVES!

“we are losing customers everyday” More than 11-thousand jobs killed!: U.S. Food Crisis, March 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of March, 2018: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.

Many individual farmers are suffering from low prices caused by oversupply.  Oversupply can be caused by overproduction, but I believe there’s another factor creating the oversupply situation; more and more consumers are buying less food because they have less money.  Domestic demand could be falling because the U.S. economy, for working class people, has not recovered.

Alaska: In Juneau, vegan food truck Happy Camper shutdown.  State Department of Fish and Game  is warning that more wild sheep and goats are being found with mycoplasma ovipneumonia (a respiratory bacteria).

Arizona: In Tucson, after about 25 years cafe Chocolate Iguana being kicked out by the building’s new owner, who just happens to be connected to a competing coffee shop chain.

Arkansas: The evil Monsanto’s lawsuit against the Arkansas Plant Board has been dismissed.  Tyson Foods suddenly laid off 150 people in Van Buren due to “changes in production needs”!  Flying Burrito shutdown its 15 years old Fayetteville restaurant, without giving a reason. Also in Fayetteville, CV’s Family Foods shutting down when the inventory is gone, blaming it on competition from a new Walmart Neighborhood Market. In Humnoke, flooding farm fields required a response by the National Guard:

California: After 45 years Bracken Bird Farm suddenly shutdown blaming five years of low sales, but the recent theft of some parrots was the final straw.  In Santa Barbara, after 34 years Max’s Restaurant and Cucina shutdown blaming a bad economy coupled with wildfires and mudslides.  In Lafayette, after five years Rustic Tavern shutdown due to a dispute over the lease.  La Brea Bakery shutting down its distribution center in Vernon, 109 jobs gone by the end of April!  San Diego based brewery Green Flash announced it halted distribution to an additional ten U.S. states, in January Green Flash laid off 15% of its employees and halted ops in 32 states.   Boyd Coffee Company shutting down its San Diego ops in May.  In Fresno, after 18 years Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory suddenly shutdown due to losing the lease.  In Long Beach, after at least three decades Paradise Bar & Restaurant shutdown.  In Napa, after 71 years Vallerga’s Market shutdown, the owner saying “The grocery industry has changed. It’s a very competitive industry and Napa does have a lot of grocery stores.”  Claim Jumper issued a shutdown WARN for its restaurant in Temecula, 77 jobs gone by mid-May.  Raley’s Supermarkets issued a temporary shutdown WARN for its Windsor location, 63 jobs gone by June. Switzerland owned Nestlé continues killing California jobs, this time it was revealed that 89 jobs were eliminated in February. Switzerland owned ARYZTA shutting down its Los Angeles ops, 109 jobs gone by the end of April!  Seneca Foods issued a shutdown WARN for its massive ops in Modesto, 1-thousand-975 jobs gone by September!  Yet another reason for not living in The Golden State; Proposition 65 forces business to tell you that coffee causes cancer.  The Cheesecake Factory issued a shutdown WARN for its Palo Alto location, 140 jobs gone by the end of May!  Texas based Claim Jumper issued a shutdown WARN for its Temecula restaurant, 77 jobs gone by the end of May.

Colorado:  Even though marijuana is legal in The Centennial State,  firefighters found an illegal ganja farm while fighting a wildfire in El Paso County.  The state’s largest producer of meat products, JBC Agricultural Management-Crystal River Meats, chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to a cattle purchase deal that went bad last year.

Connecticut: “Falling milk prices have hit farmers in my state hard….  …farm milk prices are forecasted to drop in 2018, and Connecticut’s already struggling dairy farmers would be in dire straits without immediate federal action.”Chris Murphy, U.S. senator

Florida: Jacksonville based Southeastern Grocers/BI-LO/ Harveys/ Winn-Dixie/Fresco y Más now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and shutting down 94 stores, potentially more than 8-thousand jobs lost!  In October 2017, an anonymous Southeastern Grocers employee posted on glassdoor.com “We are losing customers everyday.”  Don’t forget that Winn-Dixie has been killing jobs for several years now.  H.I. Development eliminating 88 jobs at Miami International Airport by June.

Georgia: Farmers expressing concerns over what they call ‘dumping’ of crops onto the U.S. Market by Canada and Mexico, due to NAFTA.  This is another cause of oversupply.

Hawaii: In a confusing situation, a restaurant customer complained of finding bug parts in their lettuce, the restaurant said the lettuce came from an aquaponics farm, state Health Department decided to shutdown all aquaponics farms, then suddenly reversed its decision.

Idaho: Sandpoint based supplement maker Thorne issued a layoff WARN, 136 jobs gone by the end of April!   A Texas billionaire is behind the recent changes to The Gem State’s farm trespass law.   West of Hidden Springs, residents are upset over plans to sell 1-thousand acres (404 hectares) of farmland to people who want to build almost 2-thousand houses.  A federal judge ruled that the federal government illegally quarantined potato farms, some farmers went out of business as a result.  Despite that the state Farm Bureau still boasts that more potatoes are grown in Idaho than in any other state.

Illinois: In Champaign, Wedge Tequila Bar and Grill shutdown after a weeks notice. In Chicago, popular Cemitas Puebla suddenly shutdown its Hyde Park location, so the owners can focus on a new project.  In Collinsville, after more than 40 years, after two years attempting to sell it, The Sandwich Shop shutdown, the owners saying “We’ve all decided it’s been enough.”

Indiana: In New Albanay, the popular Feast BBQ suddenly shutdown, not because of lack of sales but because “Feast BBQ outgrew our space in New Albany the day we opened the doors……We have been faced with the challenge of operating a restaurant in too small of a space, with nowhere to expand…..”  In Indianapolis, after 18 years Santorini Greek Kitchen, the owners blaming health problems “beyond their control.”

Iowa:  “The added costs due to our county regulations have put some of our new business ideas on hold as we had to shift our focus to regulatory compliance rather than enhancing our business endeavors.”-Jenny Quiner, urban farmer

Kansas: In Valley Center, after 50 years Leeker’s Family Foods shutting down in April due to the greedy landlord.

Kentucky: In Louisville, after 72 years Dundee Candy Shop has been sold to competitor Sweet Spot Candy Shop, who plans on consolidating the Dundee brand within its own shop (the original Dundee Candy Shop will shutdown in April).

Louisiana: In Monroe, Restaurant Sage suddenly shutdown after a little more than ten years, the owners didn’t say why.

Maine: In Portland, Big J’s Chicken Shack shutdown due to being ‘bought-out’ in that location, the owners of the Big J’s brand say they’re looking for new locations.

Maryland: Humane Society of Wicomico County reports efforts to rescue more than 32 horses from a Quantico farm, where more than 24 horses were found dead.  The dire situation was revealed by a local TV station, which aired video of the dead horses rotting on the farmland.

Massachusetts: Seekonk Police arrested two people for stealing chickens and ducks, the cops followed a trail of feathers to a vehicle filled with poultry, and the two suspects.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that from 2007 to 2012 the area lost 50 farms (mainly family farms). 

Michigan: With only a few days warning Cold Stone Creamery shutdown its Grand Blanc location, eight jobs suddenly gone due to lack of sales. Coca Cola shutting down its distribution center in Port Huron, 25 jobs affected by consolidation ops.  An article by Marketplace reveals that the hugely successful urban farm projects operated by poor people in Detroit are becoming a threat to traditional/industrial farming.

Minnesota: In Minneapolis, Kings Wine Bar shutdown due to the owners getting an offer for the property they couldn’t refuse.  Rainbow Foods shutdown its Richfield store with only a week-long notice blaming crashed sales on “competitive changes and two summers of road construction.”  Buffalo Wild Wings suddenly laid off 132 people at its HQ in Minneapolis (Golden Valley), due to being taken over by Arby’s!

Mississippi: Cooper Restaurants shutting down its ten years old Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Ridgeland, “due to changing market dynamics.”

Missouri: USDA reports H7N1 (bird flu) on a turkey farm in Jasper County, it is now quarantined.  U.S. Department of Commerce data shows low personal incomes in The Show Me State might have contributed to a 72% decline in agricultural income in 2017.

Montana: State taxpayers are now the owners of a farm after the State Land Board spent the most money ever ($11-million USD) buying the Angela Farm. The opioid problem has farmers on edge: “If you would have told me a year ago that it was a problem, I would have said no, but when you start looking at the numbers and we’ve actually had instances of people we know that have been involved with some problems with opioid addictions.”– John Youngberg, Montana Farm Bureau Federation

“…opioids can spell disaster for a farm family and ranch family so we’re trying our best to educate and communicate the ways we can help if you are addicted to it.”-Alan Merrill, Montana Farmers Union

Nebraska: The University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s (UNL) Ag Economics Department discovered that 77% of ‘farmers’ said they were concerned about making enough money, 45% said they expect their incomes to decline.  And that survey had nothing to do with the possibility of tariffs on dealing with China. Communist China (People’s Republic of China) is threatening to impose tariffs on pork products coming from the United States, which is scaring the poop out of Nebraska’s pig farmers: “We know that most of our pork that is variety meats, such as the hearts, the livers, and things we don’t eat here in the United States, 82% of that goes outside the United States and that’s incredibly important for us as pork producers to have a market for that and a lot of that goes to the country of China.”-Terry O’Neel

Nevada: University of Nevada has split-off 104 acres (42 hectares) of its Main Station Farm land to be sold for ‘unit development’, because the university needs money for ‘capital improvement projects’.  Administrators claim the remaining farmland will be maintained. Minimum bid for a 40 acres (16 hectares) parcel is $20-million USD.

New Mexico:  USDA reporting that chile crop acreage declined by 12% in 2017, and has been declining for the past ten years.  It’s blamed on drought and on competition from the more profitable pecan, but that might change if China imposes tariffs on pecans.

New York: Grocery store Stop & Shop shutting down its Hempstead location, 1-hundred jobs gone by mid-June due to “under-performing” sales!  In Syracuse, J. Ryan’s Pub forced to shutdown when the lease was suddenly “terminated”.   In NYC, after six years North End Grill shutting down by Xmas, local news media reported the restaurant has suffered from complaints of inappropriate behavior by management towards employees.  After 50 years New Beer Distributors shutting down due to “a lot” of reasons, including a doubling of rent and increased taxes.  After 116 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Glaser’s Bake Shop shutting down in July.  In Liverpool, after 22 years Bruegger’s Bagels suddenly shutdown.Last year the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that U.S. farmers lead the country in suicides, by more than twice that of veterans!  It’s blamed mainly on the fact that individual farmers never truly ‘get-ahead’ financially.  This year New York dairy cooperatives are issuing suicide letters with the milk payments!

North Carolina: Loco for Coco is halting its more than ten years old brick-n-mortar chocolate shop ops and selling online only.

North Dakota:  Farmers are fretting over a possible trade war with China, as it could kill-off their $1.5-billion USD soybean sales to that communist country.

Ohio:  In Leroy, about a dozen 4-H animals were killed in a barn fire.  A tractor was destroyed as well as feed for surviving animals.  In Dayton, Buffalo Wild Wings shutting down its restaurant on North Main Street “later in 2018”, but swears they’re opening a new restaurant in another location. Buffalo Wild Wings also shutting down its location in West Carrollton , “later in 2018”.

Oregon: Boyd’s Coffee Company shutting down “Due to the asset purchase acquisition of Boyd’s by Farmer Bros.”, at least 76 employees in Portland and Eugene unemployed between April and October 2018.   On 16MAR2018, beef processor Bartel’s Packing suddenly went out of business leaving 142 people suddenly jobless!  Bartel’s administrators said that after the “unexpected loss of one of our largest customers”, and a failed attempt to sell the business, debts came due and there was no money to pay them.

Pennsylvania: In Pittsburgh, after 16 years of free drinks for students Qdoba restaurant suddenly shutdown, without warning, due to a corporate decision. After 71 years McGinnis Sisters Special Food Stores shutting down its last two stores, in Monroeville and Brentwood, the owners saying “…at the end of the day, there was just too much pressure. We couldn’t keep up.”  Specialty Bakers suddenly shutdown its Lititz location, 102 jobs gone!  Riverbend Foods issued a shutdown WARN for its Pittsburgh location, 512 jobs gone in May!

Rhode Island: After getting taxpayer incentives in 2015, Ireland based food producer Greencore broke its promise and is shutting down its North Kingstown factory, hundreds of jobs gone!  One of it’s major clients is Amazon.

  South Carolina: The growth of mega-farms is creating concerns over the groundwater supply.  The $44-billion USD aqua-farming/mari-culture industry is going down, but not because of declining sales, it’s because of over harvesting resulting in strict federal regulations which are killing jobs for commercial fisher-people.

Tennessee: Panera Bread suddenly shutdown its Oxmoor Center location. For those who buy their food from a store prices are actually good for them, but bad for farmers:  “It’s a difficult time for agriculture in Tennessee. We’re in a transitional period in Tennessee with prices. It could be better, and I sure hope it gets better soon. Nationally, we have 150,000 too many cattle producing milk. This oversupply happens from time to time, and it’s not good for farmers. They are severely hurting right now. We’re also down in beef prices, grain prices, almost everything. It’s not looking good at the moment.”-Julius Johnson, state Department of Agriculture Commissioner

Texas: The state Farm Bureau confirms that farm oversupply is dropping prices in grocery stores, specifically for meat and dairy.  This oversupply is happening despite that fact that 61% of Texas is in a drought and parts of east Texas are flooding!   Iola Food Market suddenly shutdown, it was reported by residents to local news media, the news media was unable to get a comment from the store owner.

Virginia: In Leesburg, music-BBQ venue Smokehouse Live shutting down. Ornery Beer Company shutdown its Woodbridge public house (pub) because the landlord was “unwilling to work with us to reduce the size or our rent”.  California based Green Flash brewery shutdown its Virginia Beach location just six months after opening, 43 jobs gone.   Supervalu owned Farm Fresh issued a massive shutdown WARN for 38 stores (21 of which are currently for sale), easily more than 3-thousand jobs gone by mid-May!

Washington: Twin Cities Foods issued a shutdown WARN for its Stanwoods ‘rabbit food’ (frozen veggies) factory, 92 jobs gone by mid-May due to a new factory being built in Pasco.   State leaders have banned fish farming.

Washington DC:  Greedy city officials sold-off massive amounts of land for a massive gentrification project, which will result in the destruction of the popular K Street Urban Farm project in 2019.

Wisconsin: In Madison, after 14 years the Silly Yak bakery shutdown, the owner saying “it’s just become harder and harder to source ingredients for gluten free”.  In Manitowoc, after 20 years Capone’s Pub & Grill suddenly shutdown.  In Milwaukee, restaurants Wolf Peach, and Supper shutdown because the property owner suddenly sold-off the buildings. In Edgerton, Craving Burgers shutdown after three years, supposedly being replaced in April by Craving Tacos. Foremost Farms selling-off its operations in Rothschild, 110 jobs gone in May!  In Barron County, a father and son were killed when a silo collapsed on them.  A Washington County deer farm is under quarantine after a dead deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD, mad-cow).  The deer was found dead from what appeared to be wounds from a fight with other deer, but testing revealed CWD. This also resulted in the quarantine of a deer farm 2-hundred miles away in Bayfield County, because 24 deer from the Washington County deer farm were transferred to the farm in Bayfield County.  So far none of the Bayfield deer have tested positive for CWD.  Small scale dairy producers in Wisconsin are being hurt by Texas mega-farms.

Wyoming: In Cheyenne, after five years Steamboat’s Steak & Smokehouse being kicked out by the landlord, who found a new tenant willing to pay higher rent. Popular Steamboat’s is looking for a new location.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

U.S. Food Crisis, February 2018: “I’M NOT SURE WE CAN SUPPORT ALL THESE STORES. OBVIOUSLY, WE CAN’T.”

Puerto Rico Militia deployed to Virgin Islands when Maria struck!

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One reason help for residents of Puerto Rico (Pwhere-to Ree-ko) is seemingly delayed, according to federal officials, is a lack of local personnel to deliver it.  Well, part of that problem is that Puerto Rico’s own National Guard was deployed to the U.S. Virgin Islands to help with Hurricane Irma recovery.

On 26 SEP 2017, more than 3-hundred Puerto Rico National Guard personnel left the U.S. Virgin Islands to return home to help with Hurricane Maria recovery.  They were originally sent to the U.S. Virgin Islands to help establish food and supplies distribution points, maintain security checkpoints and perform high volume water purification, something now desperately needed in Puerto Rico.

The fact that many of Puerto Rico’s National Guard were deployed to the U.S. Virgin Islands indicates that disaster response planners were not expecting another hurricane to come through the area so soon after Irma.

Video, Puerto Rico National Guard boarding C-130 to return home from U.S. Virgin islands:

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, SEPTEMBER 2017:  IRMA & MARIA KILL 80% OF CROPS!

MARIA: MOTHER EARTH SAYS ‘NO MORE DRUGS FOR YOU, HUMANS!’

Maria: Mother Earth says ‘No more drugs for you, Humans!’

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“The island is home to a substantial base of manufacturing for critical medical products that supply the entire world…..  …we may soon face critical shortages if we don’t find a path for removal or ways to get production back up and running.”Scott Gottlieb, U.S. FDA commissioner

The prescription drug addicted United States of America, along with the rest of the World as well, are gonna get a wake-up call courtesy Hurricane Maria, according to the U.S. FDA.

A main-stream TV news personality doing a report on Maria’s aftermath in Puerto Rico, 25 SEP 2017

“Since Friday, we have undertaken swift and extensive efforts to prevent or limit the loss or shortage of multiple drugs critical to American patients…..”-Scott Gottlieb, U.S. FDA commissioner

The Food & Drug Administration revealing just how important Puerto Rico (Pwhere-to Ree-co) is, not only to main-land U.S.A. but the entire drug addicted World; at least 50 drugs making factories on the U.S. territory are shutdown because of Maria.

The Empire State’s gov-na Andrew Cuomo toured PR on 22 SEP 2017

Is this the true reason why the gov-na of New York toured the hurricane devastated island?

Becker’s Hospital Review: FDA takes action against 500 websites illegally selling prescription medicine

MARIA: VERMONT MILITIA DEPLOYED TO VIRGIN ISLANDS!

PHARMA PHAIL: ANTACID DRUGS CAUSING STOMACH ‘FLU’?

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? OBAMA!

FALSE FLAG: DALLAS POLICE NOW SAY IT WAS A “LONE SHOOTER”! ARE THE COPS ON DRUGS?

NOVARTIS CAUGHT ILLEGALLY PUSHING DRUGS IN IDAHO, AGAIN! 

Grocery chain VONS INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS? 

YET AGAIN, ANOTHER U.S. ALLY SAUDI PRINCE ARRESTED FOR DRUGS TRAFFICKING!

California: BULLIED ISLE VISTA SHOOTER DERANGED BY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS?

Maria: Vermont Militia deployed to Virgin Islands!

This is what hurricane Irma did to the only hospital on Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Vermont National Guard medical personnel deployed to the U.S. Virgin Islands on 16 SEP 2017, originally to support Hurricane Irma recovery efforts, but now to help with Hurricane Maria recovery:

U.S. Army & Air Force medical personnel provide medical care to people on U.S. Virgin Islands