Bill Gates. A generous benefactor interested in your well being or a snake with his own personal ideological and nefarious interests? Beware all is not as it seems. My own opinion Bill Gates is the latter. We have posted several other articles on Bill Gates and his involvement with vaccines, population, control .and a New World Order.
Only a few days ago it was Smithfield and now we learn of Tyson. If I had proof, I’d call this a secondary attack. Virus first and now the food supply.
An attack by whom? One asks. My calculations say it’s the Corporate Globals and the global power individual elites. It’s a partnership and they control the governments through their policies and demands that they make on those governments. Don’t mistake that I also think that China went along to a degree. But China should also be careful, because they will ruin China and plunder all they have. Chinese hate blacks, so why are they building rail in Africa? The Africans will build and there will be an “accident.” See how that works? China isn’t learning from the Globals. They were their instructors.
Tyson Foods processing plant in rural Iowa hit hard by coronavirus with 186 positive cases
Tommy Birch and Tyler Jett, Des Moines Register
Soaring numbers of workers at the Columbus Junction, Iowa, pork-processing plant who have been sickened by COVID-19 have sparked fears not only for the employees’ health but also for the vitality of this small town and the continuity of the nation’s meat supply.
Officials from Tyson Foods have closed the plant amid one of the state’s largest outbreaks of COVID-19: 186 employees have tested positive for the illness. The facility is one of the nation’s major pork processing plants and the rural community’s largest employer.
The Columbus Junction plant is one of several meatpacking facilities across the state and the nation where business has been suspended after they were hard-hit by the highly contagious coronavirus.
A Tyson Foods processing plant is seen, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Columbus Junction, Iowa.
In Tama County, where 108 positive COVID tests and three deaths have been reported, National Beef suspended production at Iowa Premium beef plant after an outbreak. Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, shut its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, plant over the weekend as the coronavirus spread among workers.
Meat processing plants from Colorado to Canada have similarly suspended production after the virus spread.
“The whole system is gummed up,” Iowa State University agricultural economist Dermot Hayes said. “It’s not just the farm and the packer. It’s all along the chain.”
Tyson Foods officials said Tuesday that the company would keep its Columbus Junction plant, which has about 1,400 employees in normal times, shuttered. The plant – said to be responsible for 2% of the country’s total slaughtering capacity – has been closed since April 6. The company is diverting livestock originally scheduled for delivery at Columbus Junction to its other plants, when possible.
Tyson was taking precautions to protect its employees from the spread before the closure. Staff was checking the temperature of workers at all locations before they entered facilities. But checking temperatures only ensures that symptomatic people do not engage with others; those who are not feverish can still spread the virus.
“Protecting our team members continues to be top priority for us,” the company said in a statement to the Des Moines Register. The plant will continue to pay employees and keep its doors closed while assessing the situation, officials said.
Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday that nearly half of the day’s newly confirmed cases – 86 of the 189 – were tied to the Tyson Food plant outbreak.
Testing increases, and with it positive tests
Reynolds said earlier in the week that 200 testing swabs were sent to the Columbus Junction, Iowa, plant and indicated a quick-test machine was provided. She said she hopes more testing will be the first step to getting the plant back in operation.
The extra tests will help the state “understand who was positive, who was negative, which was part of the scenario in opening the plant back up,” Reynolds said. “The plant is also putting in a lot of measures to protect the employees.”
Meanwhile, the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that nearby community health centers in southeast Iowa will be offering COVID-19 testing in the afternoons, Tuesday through Friday. The office has a limited number of tests available, so appointments are required.
Columbus Junction Mayor Mark Huston said not all of Tyson’s employees are from the town or even a part of the county. But the suspension of the plant’s work will likely have a major economic effect on his community of fewer than 2,000 people.
“Let’s say there was an employer (in Des Moines) that employed 200,000 people – one employer – and then they shut down,” Huston said to the Des Moines Register. “What do you think that would do to Des Moines and the surrounding area?”
Huston, who said he’s spoken with the plant manager, expects testing to be done on nearly all of the facility’s employees.
“We’ll all make it through this,” the mayor told the Quad-City Times. “It’s just what is the damage going to look like when it gets done. It’s kind of like high-water time. When the water goes down, you have to take a look and see what you’ve got, roll up your sleeves and figure out how to fix it. Hopefully, we will be able to fix most of it, but we won’t be able to fix all of it.”
Other Iowa plants also have cases
Tyson Foods delivered face masks to its 2,000 employees at its Waterloo, Iowa, pork processing plant Tuesday, said Bob Waters, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 431, which represents the employees.
Waters said “a couple” of workers have tested positive for coronavirus at the plant over the past couple of weeks, though the operation has continued.
According to state data, at least 78 people have tested positive for the disease in Black Hawk County, home to Waterloo.
Tyson Foods did not respond to a request for comment about the situation in Waterloo.
Guards at the Waterloo plant are also taking employees’ temperatures when they arrive, and Waters said the company suspended its attendance policy. Workers who skip work will not receive payment, but they will not get fired, either.
Like at other meat processors, Tyson officials have added plexiglass on the line to separate workers. Waters said the plant also slowed down how fast the pork moves down the line so that fewer workers have to cram into a given area. But, as is the nature of the work, Waters believes the company can separate workers only so much.
“You’re working side by side,” he said. “In order to be able to effectively (keep employees safe), you have to space them out at least 6 feet. On the lines, it’s kind of hard.”
Waters said UFCW Local 431 purchased 5,000 bottles of sprayable hand sanitizer for workers at Tyson Foods and other plants it represents. They are ordering another 5,000 shipments from a source in Wisconsin.
As dangerous as the work is, he said it must continue.
“We can’t stop the plants,” he said. “If we stop the plants from running, we stop feeding the country. We want to do everything we can to make sure the employees are safe to keep the plant running.”
Astronomers have uncovered a potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanet 300 light-years away from us.
Out of the 2,681 exoplanets spotted by NASA’s Kepler space telescope between 2009 and 2018, this one is the most similar in size, and potentially temperature, to our own planet, according to a new study.
Exoplanets are those found orbiting stars outside of our solar system. Researchers recently uncovered the planet in archival data collected by Kepler.
Kepler was retired in 2018, but its data could lead to more discoveries for years to come. Currently, NASA’s TESS mission is the latest planet-hunter seeking out exoplanets.
The planet has been dubbed Kepler-1649c. It’s 1.06 times larger than Earth and receives about 75% the amount of light that Earth gets from the sun. This suggests that the surface temperature of the exoplanet could be similar to Earth.
The planet is also located within the habitable zone of its star, existing at just the right distance where liquid water can exist on the surface. This also suggests that it could support life.
But Kepler-1649c orbits a red dwarf star, much smaller and cooler than our sun. In recent years, multiple exoplanets have been found orbiting these stars that are common in our galaxy.
The planet is much closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. It completes an orbit around its star every 19.5 Earth days. This also means that the planet could be lashed by radiation flares from the environment, threatening any potential life. But no flares have been observed so far.
Other than that, researchers don’t know much about the planet or its atmosphere, which could shift the temperature estimate. Researchers know that another planet similar in size orbits the star much closer, similar to Venus in our solar system, according to NASA.
“This intriguing, distant world gives us even greater hope that a second Earth lies among the stars, waiting to be found,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “The data gathered by missions like Kepler and our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will continue to yield amazing discoveries as the science community refines its abilities to look for promising planets year after year.”
This newest exoplanet joins other intriguing finds that are close in size to Earth, like TRAPPIST-1f in the TRAPPIST system 39 light-years from Earth. And exoplanets like TRAPPIST-1D and TOI 700d are considered similar in temperature to Kepler-1649c.
But Kepler-1649c is the most interesting exoplanet yet that is similar in size and temperature to Earth and exists within the habitable zone of its star.
Initially, Kepler-1649c was overlooked because a computer algorithm called Robovetter classified it as false positive. Computers can make mistakes, so researchers in the Kepler False Positive Working Group who analyze all the false positives took another look. And they identified it as a planet.
“Out of all the mislabeled planets we’ve recovered, this one’s particularly exciting — not just because it’s in the habitable zone and Earth-size, but because of how it might interact with this neighboring planet,” said Andrew Vanderburg, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and lead author of the study. “If we hadn’t looked over the algorithm’s work by hand, we would have missed it.”
The researchers believe there could be a third planet in the system, although they haven’t spotted it yet. The reason they think another one exists is because of the first and second planets have an orbital resonance; their orbits line up in a stable ratio. For every nine times Kepler-1649c orbits its star, the closest planet completes four orbits. A planet could exist between the two.
“The more data we get, the more signs we see pointing to the notion that potentially habitable and Earth-size exoplanets are common around these kinds of stars,” said Vanderburg. “With red dwarfs almost everywhere around our galaxy, and these small, potentially habitable and rocky planets around them, the chance one of them isn’t too different than our Earth looks a bit brighter.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has criticized President Donald Trump for a lack of preparedness of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, but last month the speaker was urging people to patron San Francisco’s Chinatown.
“It’s exciting to be here, especially at this time to be able to be unified with our community,” Pelosi said at the time. “We want to be vigilant about what is out there in other places. We want to be careful about how we deal with it, but we do want to say to people ‘Come to Chinatown. Here we are, careful, safe and come join us.’”
Other Democrats have criticized Trump for not responding to the pandemic quickly enough, including Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who’s city has been devastated by the outbreak. However, de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot repeatedly urged citizens to go about their normal lives, as recently as a couple of weeks ago.
Let them eat Ice Cream – we scream for Ice Cream during a Pandemic
Nancy during Covid lock-downs
We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer. #LateLateShowpic.twitter.com/dqA32d5lU1
Corporations that are global are NOT the same as domestics. The small to medium business that has no presence globally also has no way to lobby that government. These Global giants have the ability to sway international policies of other countries. Even Communist and other types of governments bend to the policies that these monoliths WANT. Domestically, they lobby our levers of government for the same. Then, they get treated the SAME as the small or medium business? These are NOT businesses. They CONTROL the governments that they have a presence in. They are NOT corporations. They should be RECLASSIFIED. They are INTERNATIONAL virtual countries. They are Autocracies, each one with it’s own rules and dictating the RULES that become LAWS in countries that they occupy.
They should be treated differently from that of companies that FOLLOW Laws. They MAKE the rules that countries, then fashion new LAWS from or augment the laws that are in existence. They are another animal than a Domestic company. When compared to a single proprietorship, there is little in common. What argument could a single individual make to a LAW enacted based on a lobby that pushed for it by a behemoth of a corporation that is as foreign as Mars is to him? None. These “corporations” are NOT interested in the small business. They buy them or SQUASH THEM to get rid of the competition. They sell them once they are through draining the intellectual property. Sounds good? Until one sees that THEY control the laws that become the ruling class all over the world. They are far from the ECONOMIC Capitalists. They are Tyrants of old. The Capitalist is the small business owner in ONE country. The self employed that employees others to produce their product. That is capitalism. The economy created by these corporations create a World Oligarchy controlled by policies created in their corporate partnerships. They have meetings in secret, silence, AUTONOMOUSLY. They create PRIVATE (secret) negotiations. They don’t even NEED to do it in secret, because there is no NEED to. They brandish their largess in the open. They have no rules, because they CREATE them. Meanwhile, the single proprietorship must comply with whatever rules THEY lobbied for and got.
Corporate Oligarchies, ENSLAVE any country the CHOOSES to accept their companies in to their land. And once there, just like the scorpion, they sting and kill any business unaware of their NATURE. The scorpions rule with a stinger with vicious authority and kill all that don’t conform. They are ANYTHING but Capitalists. They are locusts.
Seriously? American Companies Announce Investments In China Despite the Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic
China lied about the Wuhan coronavirus. They knew about this deadly virus six days before they alerted the rest of the world. Taiwan tried alerting the World Health Organization about the virus, but were dismissed simply because of their volatile relationship with China. And, on top of it all, both China and the WHO lied about the fact that this virus transmitted from human-to-human.
Despite what we know, American businesses are going so far as investing millions of dollars in China and moving forward with already constructed plans.
Over the next five years, Walmart plans to invest $425 million in Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic. The company plans to open four Sam’s Club stores, 15 shopping malls and an undisclosed number of community stores. As of now, the retailer has 34 stores and two distribution centers throughout the Hubei province.
Wern-Yuen Tan, President and CEO of Walmart China, said the move is considered a strategic collaboration framework with the Wuhan Municipal Government and a “win-win situation” for both parties.
In addition to investing in the ravaged city, Walmart touts what they have done to help those who live in Wuhan and the Hubei province:
During the pandemic, Walmart rolled out several initiatives to support the community and meet shopper demand:
Ensuring business continuity: its 400 stores in more than 170 cities have been kept running since the outbreak, without disruption
Keeping prices stable: participated in projects organised by the government, such as “One Yuan (CNY1) cabbage” and “Ten Yuan (CNY10) Special Vegetable Package”
Helping local farmers: adjusted its supply chain to directly source vegetables and fruits from local farms in Wuhan and Hubei to assist affected farmers
Upgrading delivery service: it was the first retailer to roll out a contactless community delivery service, leveraging its omnichannel capabilities
Waiving rent to all tenants: the retailer provided rent-free policies to all tenants during the peak of the outbreak, with the total amount worth CNY150m (US$21m)
Donating to charities: Walmart China and Walmart Foundation donated CNY10.44m (US$1.5m) to support frontline workers and their families
Starbucksis planning to invest $130 million to start a coffee complex, known as the Coffee Innovation Park (CIP), in Kunshan, just outside of Shanghai. The complex will include a roasting plant, warehouse and distribution center. The company is hoping to have the first phase of the complex completed in 2022.
This move is Starbucks’ largest manufacturing investment outside of the United States and its first in Asia. It’s part of the coffee giant’s move to “strengthen the specialty coffee industry in China.” Executives plan to open 6,000 stores in the country by 2022.
“With the CIP set to handle Starbucks largest roasting capacity outside the U.S., the investment highlights the Company’s ambition to further globalize its roasting network and reinforces Starbucks strategic focus on the U.S. and China as its two lead growth markets,” the company said in a statement. “Currently, Starbucks operates six other roasting facilities — one in Amsterdam to support European markets, and five in the U.S. The warehouse, roasting and distribution capabilities of the CIP will lay a strong foundation for continued business growth and development in China.”
Although corporations and businesses want to be global empires, they should be focused on helping the American people first. They should be focusing on investing in this country first. This is something for the American people to keep in mind the next time they go to the store or grab a cup of coffee.
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12 April 2020 – updated Chinese owned – MSM provide support to China by not reporting that they own them during this attack- Food supply disruption due to covid19 (Coronavirus)?
Some of the products of Smithfield Foods are displayed in front at a news conference on WH Group’s IPO in Hong Kong on April 14, 2014. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)
A Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was visited by representatives from its Chinese Communist Party-tied parent company one month before the first COVID-19 case was confirmed at the facility, according to three employees.
After the first illness was confirmed at the plant on March 26, the facility quickly became the epicenter of the state’s outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem wrote in an April 11 letter that 238 plant employees had contracted the virus, accounting for 38 percent of the state’s confirmed cases at the time.
The outbreak has intensified since. More than 518 employees have tested positive for the virus as of April 15, in addition to 126 non-employees who have become infected after coming into contact with a Smithfield employee, according to the South Dakota Department of Health.
Executives from WH Group, Smithfield’s parent company in China, regularly visit the plant, according to two employees. The visit preceding the first confirmed case didn’t include a plant tour and was limited to meetings in a separate building, another employee said. The visit took place roughly a month after President Donald Trump had banned travel from China, where the pandemic originated. All of the employees spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Three employees told The Epoch Times that the company offered workers a $500 bonus to keep working after the plant had its first confirmed case. One employee said he or she had informed management multiple times about feeling ill but was told to keep working. The worker eventually tested positive for the CCP virus.
“Whenever anyone felt sick or didn’t feel the best after we started becoming short-staffed, they would try [to] keep [you] there no matter what,” the employee said.
When asked about management ignoring reports of sickness, another worker said the allegation “is completely false.”
“All employees who felt a minimal symptom were sent home with a medical recommendation,” the worker said, adding that the plant had sanitary and social distancing measures in place.
Smithfield Foods declined to comment to The Epoch Times; WH Group didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The Sioux Falls plant already was under a three-day shutdown related to the outbreak when Gov. Noem asked Smithfield to close the plant—which processes 4 to 5 percent of all pork in the United States—for at least two weeks. Smithfield responded by shuttering the plant indefinitely.
Smithfield said it would pay its 3,700 employees for two weeks after the shutdown. Kenneth Sullivan, Smithfield’s CEO, described the closure of the plant in dire terms. The company didn’t say whether its Chinese parent company played a role in drafting the press release.
“The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply,” Sullivan said. “It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running.”
The 2013 purchase of Smithfield Foods by WH Group was, at the time, the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm. The purchase made WH Group—then known as Shuanghui International—the world’s largest pork producer. The Obama administration approved the takeover.
The owner of WH Group, Wan Long, holds a seat on the National People’s Congress, the legislature of the CCP. Wan’s path to dominance in China’s pork market was cleared by Li Keqiang, according to an account by the state-run news agency Xinhua, cited by The Wall Street Journal. Li is now the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP.
The connection between the CCP and the Smithfield plant fits a pattern of locales and entities with strong ties to the communist regime being hardest-hit by the pandemic. Lured by trade benefits or caving to Beijing’s pressure, governments and officials in many regions have taken accommodating stances toward the Chinese regime.
Last year, amid a hog fever outbreak in China, Smithfield shifted production in at least one U.S. plant to accommodate the Chinese market. The company did so with the knowledge that the move could create a shortage in the United States in 2020. Smithfield’s director of raw materials procurement, Arnold Silver, told an industry conference in late 2019 that sales to China could eventually create bacon and ham shortages for U.S. consumers.
“Down the road, if this continues and we ship a lot of product to China, certainly I think we could see shortages, particularly on hams and bellies,” Silver said.
Wan, also the CEO of WH Group, began his career at a state-run meat processing plant in Luohe, China. After climbing up the ranks and leading an expansion, he bought the firm from the government in 2006 for $326 million. A firm co-founded by Winston Wen, the son of former CCP head Wen Jiabao, invested in the company after the buyout and, at one time, held a 4 percent stake, according to WSJ.
While Smithfield’s Sioux Falls plant isn’t the only U.S. meat-processing facility with confirmed CCP virus cases among employees, the scale of its outbreak is by far the worst.
Sanderson Farms, the third-largest poultry producer in the U.S., reported in early April that 15 of its employees tested positive for the CCP virus. Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, on April 14, reported 30 confirmed cases at one of its Washington plants.
Maple Leaf Foods, Cargill, West Liberty Foods, and JBS have also closed some plants after employees or residents were confirmed to have the CCP virus.
Meat producers and processors have temporarily shuttered plants and reduced production as they carried out measures to prevent outbreaks. The industry is also rapidly adjusting to a massive shift in demand toward supermarkets and away from restaurants, schools, and other commercial clients that have been shut down amid the pandemic.
Meat department retail sales were 41 percent higher at the beginning of April compared to the same time last year, according to 210 Analytics.
Jack Phillips and Reuters contributed to this report
from -https://www.ntd.com/pork-plant-at-center-of-south-dakotas-virus-outbreak-had-visit-from-ccp-tied-owners_456031.html
I come from USSR – I know what Communism is and WHO they are. This is a softening agent. They will realize that it has not had enough of an effect – there will be another round and then if the conditions are favorable a full blown attack- but today, that could mean economic or military, but either way a war waged is people dead
If the appellate court finds this type of aggression against the Constitution being waged against worship, then should the leaders of that city not be removed for their illegal orders?
Judge Justin Walker, who has been nominated by Donald Trump to the D.C. Circuit and is close to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, found that the city unconstutionally prohibited drive-in religious services while not imposing such restrictions on parking at restaurants and liquor stores.
The Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, has threatened to fine anyone who attends a drive-in Easter Sunday church service, even though attendees would remain in their cars in the parking lot.
The On Fire Christian Center sought an emergency Temporary Restraining Order (TRO)(pdf.) which was granted today by federal Judge Justin Walker in the Western District of Kentucky. Walker, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and protege of Mitch McConnell, recently was nominated to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and his nomination is expected to incide a scorched-earth opposition.
The TRO, granted ex parte without giving the City of Louisville a chance to be heard, provides in part:
1. The Court GRANTS the motion for a temporary restraining order filed by On Fire Christian Center, Inc. (“On Fire”) against Mayor Greg Fischer and the City of Louisville (together, “Louisville”).
2. The Court ENTERS this Temporary Restraining Order on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 2:00 P.M.1
3. The Court ENJOINS Louisville from enforcing; attempting to enforce; threatening to enforce; or otherwise requiring compliance with any prohibition on drive-in church services at On Fire.2
4. Unless the Court enters this Temporary Restraining Order, the members of On Fire will suffer irreparable harm.3 The government plans to substantially burden their religious practice on one of the most important holidays of the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday.4
5. Notice to Louisville before entering this Temporary Restraining Order isn’t necessary.5 The facts in On Fire’s affidavit “clearly show that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to [On Fire] before [Louisville] may be heard in opposition.”6 J. Brooken Smith, On Fire’s lawyer, certified that he sent Louisville a letter yesterday detailing their potential claims but didn’t hear anything back.7
6. The Court issued this Temporary Restraining Order without notice because Easter Sunday is less than one day away.8 Providing notice to Louisville before entering this Temporary Restraining Order would be impractical in such a short period of time.
The opinion does not question the governments ability to impose restrictions on the public to fight a pandemic. The central reasoning of the opinion is that because Louisville does not impose similar restrictions on parking at drive-through restaurants or liquor stores, singling out a religious establishment for more harsh treatment is unconstitutional.
Some excerpts:
“As we are all painfully aware, our nation faces a public health emergency caused by the exponential spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.”35 Four days ago, defendant Mayor of Louisville Greg Fischer said it was “with a heavy heart” that he was banning religious services, even if congregants remain in their cars during the service.36 He asserted, “It’s not really practical or safe to accommodate drive-up services taking place in our community.”37 Drive-through restaurants and liquor stores are still open.38
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On Sunday, tomorrow, Plaintiff On Fire Christian Center wishes to hold an Easter service, as Christians have done for two thousand years. On Fire has planned a drive-in church service in accordance with the Center for Disease Control’s social distancing guidelines.49
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In this case, Louisville is violating the Free Exercise Clause “beyond all question.”53
To begin, Louisville is substantially burdening On Fire’s sincerely held religious beliefs in a manner that is not “neutral” between religious and non-religious conduct, with orders and threats that are not “generally applicable” to both religious and non-religious conduct.54 ….
Here, Louisville has targeted religious worship by prohibiting drive-in church services, while not prohibiting a multitude of other non-religious drive-ins and drive-throughs – including, for example, drive-through liquor stores. Moreover, Louisville has not prohibited parking in parking lots more broadly – including, again, the parking lots of liquor stores. When Louisville prohibits religious activity while permitting non-religious activities, its choice “must undergo the most rigorous of scrutiny.”57 That scrutiny requires Louisville to prove its interest is “compelling” and its regulation is “narrowly tailored to advance that interest.”58
Louisville will be (highly) unlikely to make the second of those two showings. To be sure, Louisville is pursuing a compelling interest of the highest order through its efforts to contain the current pandemic. But its actions violate the Free Exercise Clause “beyond all question”59 because they are not even close to being “narrowly tailored to advance that interest.”60
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I am updating this because I just realized that the company is China owned.
NONE of the MSM reports that they are Chinese owned. Why? Are the MSM purposely leaving that out? If so, then they are working FOR CHINA. And if they are in part or in any way HELPING China during this Covid-19 virus PANDEMIC, then are they not providing Aid and Support to the enemy by spreading disinformation and propaganda. This is DANGEROUS when we are under ATTACK!!!!
I’m not sure I would call this a food supply disruption. It’s a food packing plant yes, but it’s not the only food source. Thank god. This is why CAPITALISM works. Centralized anything is ALWAYS bad on many different levels. From the notion that having many competitors make prices go down and the fact that there are many distributors, the possibility that the food supply would ever be stricken by an attack or even if it was, it would not be a major crisis for the country.
Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic
FILE PHOTO: A truck arrives at Smithfield Foods’ pork plant in Smithfield, Virginia, U.S. October 17, 2019. Picture taken October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Polansek/File Photo
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving “perilously close to the edge” in supplies for grocers.
Slaughterhouse shutdowns are disrupting the U.S. food supply chain, crimping availability of meat at retail stores and leaving farmers without outlets for their livestock.
Smithfield extended the closure of its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, plant after initially saying it would idle temporarily for cleaning. The facility is one of the nation’s largest pork processing facilities, representing 4% to 5% of U.S. pork production, according to the company.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem said on Saturday that 238 Smithfield employees had active cases of the new coronavirus, accounting for 55% of the state’s total. Noem and the mayor of Sioux Falls had recommended the company shut the plant, which has about 3,700 workers, for at least two weeks.
“It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running,” Smithfield Chief Executive Ken Sullivan said in a statement on Sunday. “These facility closures will also have severe, perhaps disastrous, repercussions for many in the supply chain, first and foremost our nation’s livestock farmers.”
Smithfield said it will resume operations in Sioux Falls after further direction from local, state and federal officials. The company will pay employees for the next two weeks, according to the statement.
The company has been running its plants to supply U.S. consumers during the outbreak, Sullivan said.
“We have a stark choice as a nation: we are either going to produce food or not, even in the face of COVID-19,” he said.
Other major U.S. meat and poultry processors, including Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), Cargill Inc [CARG.UL] and JBS USA [JBS.UL] have already idled plants in other states.
The population replacement comes with a price tag even for the companies that believe that this is the ONLY way. Regardless of race or religion, a FAMILY is far more successful and less dependent on centralized government. THAT is the threat to the GLOBAL CORPORATIONS that prefer mass migration. Global Corporations DEPEND on their ability to create the policies that GOVERNMENTS execute. THEY are the governments. They are the CENTRALIZED powers ALL OVER THE WORLD. THEY are used to be known as COMMUNISTS.
Hungry decided they were not going to allow Communists to Control them. THEY decided that THEY were going to support each of themselves instead. SUPPORT the FAMILY and you SQUASH the tyranny !!!
Migration has many negative values – replacement vs assimilation- Global Corporations could NOT care less.
Hungary continues pro-family policies during coronavirus crisis, celebrates 9.4% increase in births
Hungary’s marriage rate is at a 40-year high and its fertility rate at a 20-year high
April 10, 2020
editor: Remix News
author: Dénes Albert
Instead of choosing immigration to reverse Hungary’s long-standing downward demographic trend, the country’s ruling conservative Hungarian government instead chose a society and economy conducive to higher birth rates when it first came to power in 2010.
That approach now appears to be working, with the Hungarian government continuing to implement pro-family policies even as the coronavirus crisis ravages Europe.
“In 2010, we started to build a family-friendly country… Our main goal is to eliminate the burdens that couples face when they would like to have children,” said Katalin Novák, State Secretary for Family, Youth, and International Affairs to Breitbart in an interview. The 42-year-old Novák, a lawyer by training and since 2017 the vice-president of the ruling conservative Fidesz party, has three children.
“The recent demographic figures speak for themselves, the number of marriages is at its 40-year high, the fertility rate at its 20-year high, while the divorces haven’t been as low as last year in the last six decades,” she added.
Eduard von Habsburg, Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, also touted the big year-on-year rise in births due to Hungary’s pro-family policies on social media.
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Novák said during a press conference this week that “the government will continue supporting families during the coronavirus epidemic,” with the state secretary also acknowledging the challenges the coronavirus poses every family.
She also added during the press conference that family support measures would remain in place, including the CSOK home subsidy, construction of new daycare facilities, and financial support for car purchases. She also said parental leave will be extended during the state of emergency and new programs would be implemented, including job retraining, student loans for adults and a lifting of employee contributions in certain career paths.
“Thanks to the Family Protection Action Plan, the government is giving 800 billion forints back to families,” the state secretary said.
Supporting families instead of mass migration
Novák said when Hungary launched its long-term demographic program, the international mainstream was critical to the point of ridiculing the move, especially Hungary’s decision to rely on native births instead of mass immigration.
Since then, Hungary’s pro-family program has demonstrated that relying on domestic resources was in fact a smart move.
“The Hungarian point of view is that we have to rely on our internal resources, namely supporting families and enabling young couples to have children. The other approach says that there is overpopulation in one half of the world, while there is a population decline in the other, so let’s just simply balance the difference,” she said. “[We] are lectured and stigmatized simply because we took a path that is different from the mainstream… [and] exposed to continuous attacks for years, but facts are facts, our results are clear, and we also enjoy the support of the Hungarian people.”
Novák also offered a tactful rebuke to the Swedish government, which took the extraordinary decision to summon the Hungarian ambassador when the most recent package of pro-family policies were announced, claiming they “reeked of the 1930s”.
“After the outrageous statement of their family minister, many Swedish people assured me that they would very much welcome such a supportive pro-family policy package in their own country,” Novák said.
“I won’t teach lessons to other governments, but I await them to give us the same respect.”
Title image: Dóra and Márton Joób, a couple from the south Hungarian town of Szeged with their nine children. (source: nlc.hu)
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