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From: Eddie NWO Censored (268579829)
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Date: 11/5/2009 3:25:33 PM
Subject: 36 Million Americans On Food Stamps - USA Mass Starvation
Eddie NWO Censored
CLICK TO READ ALL OF EDDIE NWO CENSORED RECENT BULLETINS3 years ago while I was traveling in Brazil, a shaman friend of mine warned me of mass starvation, inundations, wars, riots and extreme violence all over USA, then at the end of the conversation, he stared into my eyes and said, ‘YOU WILL BE EATING YOUR NEIGHBORS!’ – I chuckled nervously at his statement and changed the subject
Tracy Vaughn, foreground, Lachelle Peeples, center, and Derek Hodge, left, wait in line at the State of Michigan Wayne County Family Independence Agency office in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. State social workers struggling with mounting welfare, food stamp and Medicaid caseloads say they fear for their lives after being assaulted or threatened by recipients frustrated with long lines and delays in aid.
Food stamp use on the rise
WVEC Norfolk VA
Nov. 03, 2009
New research shows nearly half of all American children will use food stamps at least once.
Americans on food stamps tops 36 million, new record
ReutersWed Nov 4, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans receiving food stamp assistance soared above 36 million for the first time in August, the eighth month in a row that enrollment set a record, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
USDA said 36.492 million people were receiving food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. In July, enrollment stood at 35.851 million. At the current rate, an estimated one in eight Americans receive benefits.
The program, which helps poor people buy food, has seen enrollment jump by 4.707 million during 2009 amid a lingering economic downturn in the United States. Participation grew by 2 million people from May to August.
In the latest data, the average person received $132.99 in August, compared with $101.31 in August 2008.
(Reporting by Christopher Doering; Editing by Walter Bagley)
Heavy Rains Stall Farmer's Harvest
Oct. 30, 2009
Piper City, Ill., farmer Larry Thorndyke says an unusually wet fall is causing one of the latest harvests in recent memory. WSJ's Joe Barrett.
Stacks of shopping carts are lined up waiting for customers outside a Costco store in Carlsbad, California October 5, 2009. Costco Wholesale Corp, the No 1 U.S. warehouse club operator, will report results for its fourth quarter on Oct 7. Profit is expected to fall from a year ago as shoppers shun purchases of its discretionary items, like jewelry or televisions, and deflationary pressures sap sales.
In this Oct. 6, 2009 photo, people shop at the Costco Wholesale Burbank store in Burbank, Calif. Costco said Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, it will start accepting food stamps at its warehouse clubs nationwide after testing them at stores in New York.
Bloomberg news brief - Mortgage Rates May Get More Volative as Fed Ends Program; Costco to Start Accepting Food Stamps; Wal-Mart to Sell Caskets Online Oct. 29, 2009
Costco to Begin Accepting Food Stamps
Wall Street JournalBy Ann Zimmerman
Costco Wholesale Corp., one of the country's largest warehouse-club chains, said it will start accepting food stamps at its 420 stores nationwide, as the number of Americans receiving government assistance continues to soar.
Under pressure from politicians, Costco began accepting food stamps at six New York City stores earlier this year and was surprised to discover that this led to a rise in memberships and sales. Other warehouse-club chains began accepting food stamps within the last year.
"Given the economy and layoffs, this was a positive for our members and the right thing to do," said Richard Galanti, chief financial officer of Costco, which is based in Issaquah, Wash.
Read The Rest HERE October 16, 2009 Lines getting longer at New York's soup kitchens
Seen here in California's Westland Water District of the Central Valley, a sign in a dried almond crop reads "Congress created dust bowl." The lack of water in the states reservoirs, and prioritized irrigation water, is contributing to tens of thousands of acres of dried farm lands. Friday Oct. 2, 2009.
In California's Westland Water District of the Central Valley, the lack of water in the states reservoirs is contributing to tens of thousands of acres of un-irrigated farm lands. Seen here is a dead almond crop. Friday Oct. 2, 2009. As California prepares for its fourth year of drought, farmers are nervous in California's San Joaquin Valley, whose eight counties, if they were their own state, would be the top producing in the nation.
In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, Peter Hunn, left, and his cousin, John Merwin, are seen in field of safflower on the family farm near Clarksburg, Calif. Hunn and his cousin are among the landowners fighting a lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office for denying the state access to survey their property as a potential site for a new canal to move water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Southern California.
Sunlight is see reflecting on water flowing south in the California Aqueduct near Patterson, Calif. , Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Legislative leaders, Thursday, that he will veto hundreds of bills, passed by lawmakers in the closing days of this years session, unless a plan to solve the state's water problems is reached by Friday.
Water uncertainty frustrates busy Calif. farmers
Associated PressBy TRACIE CONE (AP)
10-15-09
FRESNO, Calif. — Farmers in the most prolific agricultural region in the country should be planting winter romaine lettuce and calculating spring cantaloupe acreage at this time of year.
Instead the romaine packing company left this year for the searing Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where there is more reliable water. And cantaloupe? Who knows whether there will be water to irrigate it.
"How bad does it have to get for people to take action?" farmer Jeremy Freitas asked a panel of state agricultural officials Wednesday, choking back tears.
They had come to California's agricultural heartland for an update on the state's water crisis. They left hearing that — even after a year of discussing possible quick fixes to the delivery problems that have fallowed tens of thousands of acres, forced bankruptcies and contributed to record unemployment — farmers are no more certain about their water supplies.
As California prepares for its fourth year of drought, farmers are nervous in California's San Joaquin Valley. The valley's eight counties, if they were their own state, would be the top producing one in the nation. Nearly all the U.S. cantaloupes, garlic, almonds and processing tomatoes come from here. And so do nearly 400 other commodities — more than anywhere else.
The lack of water in the state's reservoirs, coupled with the environmental collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta where water from the state's wet north is pumped south to irrigate fields, has restricted the amount of water some of the state's most prolific farmers receive to as little as 10 percent of normal.
"It's October going to March quickly and we can't seem to get an agency to move," said farmer Dan Errotabere, who lost his romaine contract when the local packinghouse moved to Yuma. "We need action. We need agreements now. We need certainty in the Central Valley now."
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a special legislative session this fall to look at issues surrounding California's aging water infrastructure,.. built 50 years ago for a population one-third the size. The most ambitious, a peripheral canal to move water from the north around the Delta, is at least 15 years away.
Meanwhile, farmers have been begging for several quick fixes so they count on water in 2010, including temporary suspension of the Endangered Species Act so water can be pumped to them even if it kills threatened smelt. Congress once granted a temporary reprieve to New Mexico but so far has declined to do for California.
Also unresolved after a year of discussions: environmental issues related to transferring water from wet regions to dry ones; a clear sense of how much agriculture contributes to the environmental degradation killing smelt and salmon in the Delta compared to urban impacts; and a "two-gates" project that would block fish from the large pumps that transfer water from the Delta into delivery canals but would allow farmers water in the spring.
This year nearly 500,000 acres were left fallowed across the valley, half of that in the Westlands Water District, where farmers historically have created the state's highest yields of almonds, garlic and tomatoes with the most junior water rights. Several thousand acres of almonds and pomegranates died, though canals carrying water to Southern California passes by them.
Across the region farmworkers were idle, hardware stores suffered lost sales and tractor dealers didn't move John Deeres. Food banks turned away hungry families.
University researchers estimate $700 million in farm losses in 2009 alone, not counting taxes or the loss of value on farmland where water is no longer reliable.
"You think we had a tough year this year?" said Marvin Meyers, an almond grower on Fresno County's dry west side. "Wait 'til next year."
Farmers and the advisory board of the California Department of Agriculture said the state's $36 billion agriculture industry cannot afford another season of uncertainty. More packing houses they depend on to send their fruits, nuts and vegetables around the world will move to more reliable areas — across the border into Mexico they fear — if they cannot count on a reliable supply.
Another year of pumping salt-laden water from underground aquifers could kill their soil, they say. Board members warned that the Westlands Water District on the valley's west side is the first to be hit by the crisis, but the water problems are spreading to the state's other agricultural regions.
Some avocado growers in San Diego County are cutting trees back to stumps because the limited available water is too expensive.
"Where will the next shoe drop?" said board member Adan Ortega Jr.
Jul. 21 2009 - California farmers are struggling
Water Crisis Hits Southern California Farmers – Feburary 2009
July 11, 2009 Calif 2009 in Water Draught , 41% Unemployment
Water Wasters Beware, Drought Busters Are Here 8/23/2009
Los Angeles is still suffering from drought even after three years and having tried everything to reduce water use. LA is now cracking down by sending out the water cops. WSJ's Sabrina Shankman reports.
California's water worries
(03:32) Rough Cut
Mar 11, 2009- California is in the midst of a 3-year drought and farmers and cities alike are trying to cope
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a drought emergency last month, and Los Angeles plans to ration water for the first time in 15 years
The San Joaquin Valley is the most productive agricultural region in the world and is home to California's $35-billion farm industry -- source of half of U.S. fruit, vegetables and nuts, 80 percent of the world almond crop and one-third of its canned tomatoes
June 05, 2008 - Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide droughtand order the state Department of Water Resources to quickly transfer water
to areas with the most severe water shortages
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Southern California water crisisCargado por Channel_Zero..
The Los Angeles Aqueduct, carries water from the snowcapped Sierra Nevada Mountains, which hold less snow than normal, to major urban areas of Southern California
Associated Press May 16, 2008 - Using treated wastewater for drinking is back on the table - Restrictions, recycling in Los Angeles water plan - LOS ANGELES — Faced with drought and a jump in consumption, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has called for cleansing SEWAGE for drinking water and imposing restrictions for watering lawns and washing driveways- HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT MY FRIENDS IN LOS ANGELES ITS COMING!!New York Times - May 16, 2008 - Los Angeles Eyes Sewage as a Source of Water RE- Faced with a persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies, Los Angeles plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies, joining a growing number of cities considering similar measures California water conservation TV spot – Oct 2008
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger takes part in a conversation on leadership and the economy at The Women's Conference 2008 in Long Beach, California October 22, 2008
California to cut water deliveries to cities, farms
Associated Press
Samantha Young
Thu Oct 30, 2008
http://news. yahoo. com/..s/..ap/..20081031/..ap_..on_..re_..us/..california_..waterSACRAMENTO, Calif. – California said Thursday that it plans to cut water deliveries to their second-lowest level ever next year, raising the prospect of rationing for cities and less planting by farmers
The Department of Water Resources projects that it will deliver just 15 percent of the amount that local water agencies throughout California request every year
Since the first State Water Project deliveries were made in 1962, the only time less water was promised was in 1993, but heavy precipitation that year ultimately allowed agencies to receive their full requests
The reservoirs that are most crucial to the state's water delivery system are at their lowest levels since 1977, after two years of dry weather and court-ordered restrictions on water pumping out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This year, water agencies received just 35 percent of the water they requested
Farmers in the Central Valley say they'll be forced to fallow fields, while cities from the San Francisco Bay area to San Diego might have to require residents to ration water
Mike Young, a fourth-..generation farmer in Kern County, called the projections disastrous
"For the amount of acres we've got, we're not going to have enough water to farm," he said
Young said he will be forced to fallow a fifth of his 5,000 acres. Water will go to his permanent crops — pistachio, almond and cherry trees — but most of his tomatoes and alfalfa will not get planted
"We've got to start spending money on next year's crop now," Young said
Jim Beck, general manager of the Kern County Water Agency, noted that fewer plantings would yield fewer crops and a decrease in the number of farm hands hired
"We're seeing a phenomenon in the Central Valley where growers who have been in the business of agriculture are laying off workers who have been with them for 20 or 30 years because they don't have the water," Beck said. "It's one thing to see brown lawns and shorter showers in urban areas. The real impact in the Central Valley is people are having to find new jobs"
In Southern California, the Metropolitan Water District — the agency that supplies water to about half the state's population — has depleted more than a third of its water reserves. The agency's general manager, Jeff Kightlinger, said Californians must immediately reduce their water use to stretch what little water is available
"We are preparing for the very real possibility of water shortages and rationing throughout the region in 2009," Kightlinger said, adding that his board will consider rationing during its meeting next month
The State Water Project delivers water to more than 25 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland
In 2006, water agencies received their full allotment, in part because of heavy rains and a thick Sierra snow pack that year. But last year, a federal court limited water pumping out of the delta to protect the threatened delta smelt
Even with Thursday's dire projection, a wet and snowy winter could mean that cities and farms ultimately get more water, said Ted Thomas, a spokesman for the state water department. But that wouldn't affect the court order
"We are anticipating drastically reduced water supplies, regardless of weather conditions," Laura King Moon, assistant general manager of the State Water Contractors, said in a statement
Department of Water Resources Director Lester Snow said the bleak outlook underscores the governor's call to retool California's massive water storage and delivery system
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger favors building more dams and designing a new way to funnel water through or around the environmentally.. fragile delta. The proposals have failed to gain traction in the Legislature
Schwarzenegger this year called on water agencies to voluntarily cut water use 20 percent by 2020. He stopped short of issuing a mandatory conservation order, a strategy yet to used by the state, Snow said
"The governor has sounded the wake-up call, and the clock is ticking," Snow said in a statement
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Watch CBS Videos OnlineFood Stamps, Economic Spark?
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Families on food stamps have been reaping the benefits of the stimulus package which gave poor families more food stamp money. As Terrell Brown reports, this could be a spark that ignites businesses.
Food stamp list soars past 35 million: USDA
ReutersThu Sep 3, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country continued to grapple with the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The food stamp program, which helps cover the cost of groceries for one in nine Americans, has grown in step with the U.S. unemployment rate which stood at 9.4 percent in July.
The Labor Department will release August employment figures on Friday.
June was the seventh straight month in which food stamp rolls set a record. The average benefit in June was $133.12 per person.
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Chuck
Potential food shortages...in America?
Cincinnati Christian ExaminerAugust 14, 2009
In a strange type of deja vu reminiscent of the spring of 2008, states ranging from Maryland all the way down to North Carolina are experiencing a damaged wheat harvest according to a
Washington Post article from Thursday. Some of the crops were so badly damaged by excessive rain that not only can much of it not be sold for flour, but it can’t be used for animal feed, either.
Back in 2008, the Midwest had an overabundance of rain that led to shortages of rice, flour and cooking oil in some states. The shortages then brought about rationing. The rationing of grocery items in America: that all by itself seems surreal. And with the present damage being reported in a new region, it leaves me wondering if we will see shortages and rationing again in the coming months in some states.
To make matters even more interesting, The
Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that various large American food companies are warning that there could be a sugar shortage, "if the Obama administration doesn’t ease import restrictions amid soaring prices for the key commodities. " Since many preprocessed food items purchased in the typical grocery store use sugar as an ingredient (sometimes within the top 5 listed on the label) this has the potential to affect more than just your typical bag of sugar or bakery item.
Then there is the coming climate bill -- also known as cap and trade. In a nutshell, this bill will tax companies based on their carbon emissions. And Senate will start working on this again in September when they return from their August recess -- along with the healthcare bill. According to The Wall Street Journal , companies such as Tyson foods, General Mills, and Cargill Inc., are planning to release studies that reveal that cap and trade will lead to higher prices. And if the price of transporting that food goes up because of their carbon emissions, and / or if the price of diesel should spike again, that is not going to be a good combination.
Now a shortage of things such as wheat, rice and oil in developing countries is one thing. We hear about that on a relatively regular basis and our country is typically the one to step in and try to bring those countries relief. But for that to happen in America, a country that is supposed to be something of a land of plenty and a land of opportunity and freedom; a country that is supposed to be strong and financially secure and has always had God’s blessings in so many ways, that strikes me as significant and worthy of attention. And for it to happen two years in a row suggests a need for some self-..introspection and a willingness to seek the Lord in prayer and ask Him if He’s trying to get our attention. Perhaps part of what He is trying to communicate to us may have something to do with the choices that we have made in relation to whom we are voting into office as the leaders of this country. But that opinion aside for a moment, it would also seem that there is at least an opportunity to choose the severity of potential price hikes. However, it’s going to require speaking out and letting congress know that we don’t want the cap and trade bill either.
Drought slows growing season
Doyle declares state of emergency in 41 counties
Wiscconsin - Wausau Daily HeraldAugust 13, 2009
Gov. Jim Doyle has declared a state of emergency in 41 counties Wednesday because of drought conditions.
The declaration includes Portage, Wood and Marathon counties, and most of the state north of Adams County.
Portage and Wood counties are about 6 inches below normal for rainfall, said Jack Bourget, manager for Portage and Wood counties' Farm Service Agency office. The area is also about 100 growing days behind normal, mostly because of a lack of heat and humidity.
The latest crop progress report issued by the USDA found that more than half of the state's soil moisture is considered low.
Wheat Harvest Hurt by Rainfall
Damage From Fungi Diminishes Profits for Md. Farmers
Washington PostBy Rick Rojas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 9, 2009
The frequent downpours of rain from May into late June -- and the cool and overcast conditions that followed -- drenched the region's grain crops, leaving them susceptible to damaging fungi and farmers with diminished profits, agriculture experts say.
The fungi, known as vomitoxins, thrived in the dampness and spread across the region. Grain farmers from Maryland to North Carolina reported crops with too high a fungi count to be sold for flour -- the market in which they could make the most money -- and, in some cases, too high to be used for animal feed, which farmers sell at a heavily discounted rate.
Read The Rest HERE Growing lines at food pantries WLFI CBS 18 Lafayette Jul. 27, 2009
Help for hard times WANE CBS 14 Fort Wayne Jul. 27, 2009. 05:06 PM EST
Farms in California - aerial view
California’s Drought Threatens US-wide Food Shortage
SourceThe entire United States faces the threat of a shortage of food because of the severe drought in California, the state which meets about a third of the country’s food needs.
The farmlands of California are irrigated by diverted rivers and streams that are filled yearly with runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack and by pumping of groundwater as well through some other less-reliable methods. But, the snowpack is disappearing fast.
The cruel drought is now in its third year. In California’s central valley – which is home to a majority of the state’s agricultural output – farmers are leaving hundreds of thousands of acres fallow.
In April 2009, a series of spring showers and storms had raised the snowpack to 80% of normal, but, at the beginning of May, it fell to 66%, compared to 72% the year before.
Matters have been complicated by the recent federal directives requiring reductions of water deliveries to farmers and urban users of California by 5% to 7% – this was done hoping to preserve the Pacific Coast’s salmon fishery.
And, salmon fishery, like the Sierra Nevada snowpack, is on the verge of extinction.
What next?
Jul. 21 2009 - California farmers are struggling
Water Crisis Hits Southern California Farmers – Feburary 2009
July 11, 2009 Calif 2009 in Water Draught , 41% Unemployment
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Paul Light, a professor of Public Service at New York University, has warned that some 100,000 nonprofit organizations may be wiped out in the next few years. At a minimum. The financial crisis comes on the heels of a presidential campaign that drained the coffers of many big donors. The ACLU alone is facing a $19 million hole in its budget and has had to cancel various projects as well as dismiss 10 percent of its staff nationwide. Eyal Press in The Nation Magazine writes that, "Now, with foundations watching their endowments shrivel, many individual donors maxed out and states across the country staring at massive budget deficits, nonprofits are scaling back their services at the very moment when the need for them is escalating." Eyal Press, Marjorie Fine of the Center for Community Change, Talia Schank of Community Voices Heard, and Katherine Acey of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice discuss the fate of nonprofits in a world of falling profits.
In this May 20, 2009 file photo Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,.. left, talks with Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, right, before the start of his meeting with legislative leaders concerning the state budget at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.
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Mercury News
By Karen de Sá
Posted: 05/27/2009 06:19:07 PM PDT
http:../../..www...mercurynews...com/ci_12463488In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton announced a historic shift in government support for the poor. By requiring parents to work instead of merely handing them checks, Clinton vowed to "end welfare as we know it."
This week, California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking that goal quite literally, proposing to eliminate cash assistance for the state's poorest families altogether. Legislators, poverty researchers and poor parents alike greeted with astonishment his unprecedented call to drop the state's welfare-..to-work program, known as CalWORKs.
The governor's proposal would make California the only state in the nation to reject Temporary Assistance to Needy Families block grants, the federal program that allows states to draw funds as long as they impose strict time limits and work requirements on recipients.
Rejecting the $3.7 billion federal grant would save the state its matching portion of $1.8 billion. But it also would result in the loss of $600 million in federal stimulus funds — money economists and poverty watchers say is desperately needed to invigorate a moribund economy.
The proposal landed in uncharted territory in the Capitol and beyond, with no one able to predict what legislators ultimately will do as the extraordinary recession deepens.
As of late Wednesday afternoon, Schwarzenegger'..s proposal to eliminate CalWORKs appeared to be, if not dead on arrival in the Democrat-..controlled Legislature, then on life support. Legislators from both parties signaled they would oppose a wholesale elimination of programs serving California's neediest, including CalWORKs and the Healthy Families insurance program for the children of the working poor.
Even a leading conservative suggested a more surgical approach. "There can be a phasing down, a scaling back" that might over time result in equal savings, said Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Redding, who has been tapped to help lead the Republican Caucus in negotiations to close the state's $24 billion deficit.
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