Nebraska don’t want those fed $$ for food stamps: but, ahh, for this stolen land, Nebraska, more than 2 trillion thrown to corporations as welfare . . . Warren Buffet, ConAgra, Mutual of Omaha, Geico
Ahh, welfare, hmm, for the very very rich and very pretty rich.
Neighboring Iowa is also opting out of the program, with Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds announcing that decision last week and saying, “An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”
Oh, the early welfare settler-colonial-murdering cheats: Throughout this early homesteading period, conflicts between native tribes and white settlers set the stage for the final confinement of Indians on reservations. The Pawnee, the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the Omaha … all of the tribes were eventually forced to live on reservations either outside of Nebraska or on small plots of land within the territory. The Omaha, Winnebago and Santee Sioux settled in northeast Nebraska. The Pawnee, Ponca, Cheyenne, Oto and Missouri tribes were all removed to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
By 1878, the Lakota, Brule and Ogalala Sioux had been moved from their Nebraska agencies to reservations in South Dakota. So, life for the Native American on the Great Plains in the mid to late 1800s was one of increasing conflict with the white man for space, loss of their traditional lands, and the gradual destruction of their way of life.
U of Nebraska! State college!
Billions in federal farm payments flow to a select group of producers, report shows
Welfare on crack cocaine! The top 15 states with the most total farm subsidies distributed from 1995 to 2021, ranked by payments, were:
- Texas ($44.5 billion)
- Iowa ($39. 6 billion)
- Illinois ($32.7 billion)
- Minnesota ($28.1 billion)
- Kansas ($27.7 billion)
- Nebraska ($27 billion)
- North Dakota ($26.6 billion)
- South Dakota ($21 billion)
- Missouri ($17.4 billion)
- Indiana ($16.5 billion)
- California ($16.3 billion)
- Arkansas ($15.9 billion)
- Ohio ($12.8 billion)
- Wisconsin ($11.7 billion)
- Oklahoma ($11.5 billion).
Subsidy Tracker: Parent Headquarters State Summary Page
HQ State/Territory: Nebraska/ Subsidy Total: $2,620,762,072/ Number of Awards: 1,974/ Time Period: Earliest year of data: 1968. Availability of data for earlier years varies greatly from program to program. The majority of the listings for this HQ State are for the period since 2014.
Notes: The dollar total above adjusts for the fact that there is an overlap between the amounts in one or more Megadeal entries and those of one or more of the other entries. The totals here are derived only from entries matched to parent companies. Dollar totals do not include awards for which no subsidy value is disclosed.
Nebraska’s Republican governor on Friday reiterated his rejection of $18 million in federal funding to help feed children who might otherwise go hungry while school is out.
Nebraska will not participate in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children — or Summer EBT — program, Gov. Jim Pillen said in a written statement. That statement came as advocates for children and low-income families held a news conference outside the Governor’s Mansion in Lincoln to call on Pillen to change his mind before the Jan. 1 deadline to sign up for the program.
You get it, right, White Man/Woman? You understand, right, Supremacist? Only trillions for the welfare queens of big biz and Fortune 5,000, not kiddos with hourly pay parents. These are, of course, people who have been on the war path for centuries.
Fucking food, man, out of the babes’ mouths.
Ahh, get those people hooked so they never have to worry about being hungry.
The insurers argued that McKinsey worked with Purdue Pharma – the maker of OxyContin – to create and employ aggressive marketing and sales tactics to overcome doctors’ reservations about the highly addictive drugs. Insurers said that forced them to pay for prescription opioids rather than safer, non-addictive and lower-cost drugs, including over-the-counter pain medication. They also had to pay for the opioid addiction treatment that followed.
From 1999 to 2021, nearly 280,000 people in the U.S. died from overdoses of prescription opioids, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Insurers argued that McKinsey worked with Purdue Pharma even after the extent of the opioid crisis was apparent.
The settlement is the latest in a years-long effort to hold McKinsey accountable for its role in the opioid epidemic. In February 2021, the company agreed to pay nearly $600 million to U.S. states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. In September, the company announced a separate, $230 million settlement agreement with school districts and local governments.
When Pete Buttigieg Was One of McKinsey’s ‘Whiz Kids’/ What was Buttigieg doing at McKinsey for two and a half years? How many people had lost their jobs because of him? How shady was the work conveniently hidden behind a standard McKinsey nondisclosure agreement?
After graduating from Harvard and Oxford, Buttigieg went to work at McKinsey from 2007 and was there for about three years until he quit in 2010. While on the campaign trail, he often highlights a lot of parts of his bio, but this isn’t one of them.
Michael Forsythe at the New York Times recently laid out some of the basic things we know about Buttigieg’s time at the firm, including that he spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan for his job and that in his autobiography he says he also worked on “energy efficiency research” for unnamed clients. McKinsey told the Times Buttigieg worked with “several different clients” at the firm but wouldn’t specify the work.
Pete Buttigieg says he worked for McKinsey from “a safe house in Iraq.” Who did he work for? What did he do? How does that work inform his understanding of the region?
These are reasonable questions to ask someone who wants to be president.— David M. Perry
Dirty dirty outfit that makes Edward Bernays look like Fred Rogers (sort of). Take a look at the putridity of this McKinsey. List of former employees of McKinsey & Company
We are doing so well with our love of Jew Zelensky and Bibi. ‘Boil water advisory issued for City of Wellington public water supply system.’ Florida Residents Told to Boil Drinking Water out of ‘Abundance of Caution’
“The point here is that the pathogens are going to be there,” Jutla said. “Pathogens are going to be in the water system, but at this point, it is more likely that they will be infectious than not infectious.
“The idea of how the antimicrobial resistance genes are going to be present—they may be transmitted more aggressively during flood events, that is something of a concern and we have no idea how that will happen.”
Boy oh boy, how many hundreds of cities will be in need of a new Pete’s consulting talents to spin death by drinking into assisted humane suicide?
Then this green democratic party bumbling fucking fool: Meet America’s Newest Oil Trader Extraordinaire: Joe Biden. Oil prices have sputtered since the U.S. began selling its stockpiles. Head of state. Commander in chief. Oil-trading whale?
Ahh, that inflation. Food prices doubled (100percent). So, in Oregon, electric rates are going up 18 percent. You know, that Biden-economics of 4 percent Yellen Zionist First Inflation coming from the Wailing Wall White House!
So, another and another schizophrenic story while overdose deaths are skyrocketing and EV charging stations are skyrocketing and while state highway funds are plummenting because of the regressive gas tax revunes plummeting because of EVs, and we have the US’s largest welfare Queen, DoD, looking for more shekels: “One of the great things about EVs is that they can save money. Nobody’s going to save money buying the highest-end EVs, obviously, but we’re to the point where budget EVs have a lower total cost of operation than comparable ICE Vehicles. Why? Because ICE vehicles need refilled with an expensive consumable liquid, while EVs can be recharged using cheap energy that can come from a variety of sources (fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables).
But, militaries around the world are finding that they’ve got an even bigger cost problem that can be fixed by going electric. High-end weapons that protect free people from terror attacks often use a very, very expensive consumable that can’t economically compete with what terror groups are throwing at them. But, going electric can turn this situation around and take the economic advantage away from terrorists.
Oh, those Oppen-Monster-Heimers! Look at here: More baby Pete’s opting out of uniformed disservices — Global War on Terror fatigue? Call up the Jewish State of Jewish Supremacy Israel. They will get the boys and girls on ship and boots on the ground ASAP.
Much has been written about the Defense Department’s flagging efforts to address the growing challenge of military recruitment in recent years. Since 2021—GWOT’s apparent end, bannered by the ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan—DoD has consistently missed its recruiting goals across its service branches, resulting in the lowest recruiting numbers seen since 1999. It should be noted that, in every era of America’s emergence from conflict, recruiting numbers always shrink amid demobilization. The post-GWOT era, however, carries greater risk than before because of the ghost that hangs over the enterprise.
The Army missed its recruitment goal for 2022 by more than ten thousand, while the Air Force fell short of its goals across active and reserve components by just over two thousand. The Navy was approximately seven thousand recruits short. The Marines and Space Force are by far the smallest service branches with the lowest targets, but the Corps barely met its goal in 2022 while incoming Space Force guardians were short on new officers despite crossover from other services to specific roles and positions. For 2023, signs indicate it will be worse yet in terms of meeting recruitment goals.
Here’s a great marketing lie, the big lie, that the world goes better with Green Pornography — The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector – between the UK and Denmark – started commercial operations today. That’s UK, with a dying health services, flooded metros, food insecurity, love of AzovNaziZioLensky and bombing apartment buildings, but they got the connection, of course, not counting the embodied oil energy to fucking do it!
The new Viking Link electricity interconnector has a capacity of 1.4 gigawatts (GW) and stretches for 475 miles under land and sea. It joins the Bicker Fen substation in Lincolnshire with the Revsing substation in southern Jutland, Denmark.
High wind generation outputs in the UK and Denmark are unlikely to happen simultaneously, so surplus energy will be transmitted through the interconnector to where the level of demand is higher.
The £1.7 billion ($2.16 billion) project is a joint venture between the UK’s National Grid and Danish national transmission system operator Energinet. National Grid says that the world’s longest land and subsea interconnector can transport enough electricity for up to 2.5 million UK homes, bringing over £500 million ($637 million) of cumulative savings for UK consumers over the next decade, thanks to cheaper imported power from Denmark.
Initially, Viking Link will be operating at a capacity of 800 megawatts (MW) before increasing over time to 1.4 GW over the coming year.
In its first year of operation, Viking Link is expected to save around 600,000 tonnes of carbon emissions – equivalent to taking roughly 280,000 cars off the road.
From one Mengel-Goebbels-Bernays-Blinken Nazi lie, to the next: Yeah, what could go wrong here!
Scientists have just genetically modified cherry tomatoes to make them easier to grow, and the future applications could include making them more viable for indoor farming and even space travel, their creators say.
The scientists, working out of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, used a gene-editing technology called CRISPR to make changes to three key genes within the cherry tomatoes’ DNA. Two of those genes are responsible for when the plant stops growing and starts flowering and fruiting. The third controls the length of the plant’s stem.
The end result is a more compact cherry tomato plant that grows in clusters, like grapes, and also more quickly than unmodified cherry tomatoes, in only around 40 days. These changes make the tomatoes easier to grow in smaller, controlled spaces, like indoor farms, urban rooftop farms, and even spaceships. The scientists published their results in a paper in Nature Biotechnology.Scientists have just genetically modified cherry tomatoes to make them easier to grow, and the future applications could include making them more viable for indoor farming and even space travel, their creators say.
Creators. I like that, no, Oppen-Monster-Heimers as CREATORS.
Finally, the supremacist above, the multimillionaire Jewish racist (three air sickness bags needed just to listen to his bigoted monologues) gets it sort of right, like that proverbial broken clock, and then, pow, media scum, PR stenographers for the corporations, go after him. I have taught college so long that in 1983 and 1993 and 2003, students actually found great articles on vivisection and the overuse of animals in horrific experiments. Now? Main-scum media goes after Maher for what?
Bill Maher recently called the National Institute of Health “medieval barbers,” funding “pointless” testing on animals. In the past, he has urged his audience to “listen to PETA” (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
As host of the HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he has a responsibility to avoid misrepresenting scientific research to his audience.
His unscientific views aren’t just fringe. Polls reveal that support for the use of animals in science has steadily declined. But as expected, those with scientific knowledge are more supportive of animal research.
I know, I know, this is a works cited from a kiddo, high school, but:
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Glen Greenwald to the rescue! The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms: Systematic abuse of animals lies at the heart of U.S. industrial farms, which are protected by the government. Despite a crackdown on activists, the public is seeing the barbarism.
At Smithfield, like most industrial pig farms, the abuse and torture primarily comes not from rogue employees violating company procedures. Instead, the cruelty is inherent in the procedures themselves. One of the most heinous industry-wide practices is one that DxE activists encountered in abundance at Circle Four: gestational crating.
Where that technique is usedOpens in a new tab, pigs are placed in a crate made of iron bars that is the exact length and width of their bodies, so they can do nothing for their entire lives but stand on a concrete floor, never turn around, never see any outdoors, never even see their tails, never move more than an inch. That was the condition in which the activists found the rotting piglet corpses and the two ailing piglets they rescued.Female pigs give birth in this condition. They are put in so-called farrowing crates when they give birth, and their piglets run underneath them to suckle and are often trampled to death. The sows are bred repeatedly this way until their fertility declines, at which point they are slaughtered and turned into meat.
The pigs are so desperate to get out of their crates that they often spend weeks trying to bite through the iron bars until their gums gush blood, bash their heads against the walls, and suffer a disease in which their organs end up mangledOpens in a new tab in the wrong places, from the sheer physical trauma of trying to escape from a tiny space or from acute anxiety (called “organ torsion”).
So cruel is the practice that in 2014, Canada effectively banned its usageOpens in a new tab, as the European Union had done two years earlierOpens in a new tab. Nine U.S. states, most of which host very few farms, have banned gestational cratingOpens in a new tab (in 2014, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, with his eye on the GOP primary in farm-friendly Iowa, vetoed a billOpens in a new tab that would have made his state the 10th).
But in the U.S. states where factory farms actually thrive, these devices continue to be widely used, which means a vast majority of pigs in the U.S. are subjected to them. The suffering, pain, and death these crates routinely cause were in ample evidence at Smithfield Foods, as accounts, photos, and videos from DxE demonstrate.
Herr Fauci, man. The NIH funded to the tune of $1.8m – saw 44 beagle puppies undergo a ‘cordectomy,’ which saw their vocal cords cut to stop them barking.
That experiment, which took place in Menlo Park, California, saw the dogs then pumped full of drugs, before being killed and dissected.
NOTE: Amazing how we can’t get our shit together — dirty water, addiction, no food for kiddos, 200 percent inflation, no health care, shit jobs, broken minds — but we can help shit holes like Ukraine and Israel stir up some deadly shit in those occupied lands.
Paul Haeder, Author 