Boots on the ground news

 

Every Friday at 11:00 am we will be reporting news from the country and around the world.  Why you ask? America has gone off the deep end and we the people must bring her a new glory.  I cannot do this alone.  My desire is to invite anyone who has a story that needs attention called to the problem.

 Government over reach is at an all-time highest level, with 22 million federal employees. (They would like to grow it more) That is like New York ruling all of America.  Together we stand or divided we fall.  Wake-up America!!!  Wake-up world!!! Government is out of control.  The new war is on America people.  What is it going to take for America to realize freedom is fleeing and power is given to the elite?  The race card has been played time after time to destroy hopes and dreams of any one that holds different view.

South Dakota

What caught my attention this week was a news story I heard on the radio about the anticipated shortage of rail cars to ship Urea which is used as a fertilizer for corn crops and is applied prior to or early in the planting phase. The newscast ended with the dire prediction that this would mean a record drop In corn production in SD for 2014. To give you an idea of how large an impact this would be, SD is the ranks 7th in the US for corn production (4.2%) and ND ranks 15th (1.2%).

I immediately thought of the risk of food shortage. While most of the corn grown in the State goes towards ethanol production, some is produced for livestock feed and human consumption. The thought was, reduce the supply, reduce the feed, reduce the livestock, limit beef and other meat production, and with limited supply comes rising prices. Interesting as well, SD is ranked 8th in total cattle on hand.

Tie this in with the deliberate draining of the reservoirs in CA’s breadbasket area which will not only reduce produce amounts this year, no one can even estimate the damage to the orchards which take decades to recover from drought conditions.

The following are three articles I have found discussing this topic. You could consider this an issue affecting all of us in the northern plains states. And, I have yet to find the reason why there is a rail car shortage.

 

Where did this happen?

I had just started school when it was rudely brought home to me that the great life that we had was about to be turned on its head.  My mother, who was pregnant with my youngest brother, was driving home from town (Bulawayo) when her car was stoned by a furious crowd of protestors and she barely got out of there alive.  She gave premature birth to my brother at home that night as we could not risk taking her to the hospital.  My father, an ex-navy man, was a member of the neighborhood watch.  About a week after my mother’s harrowing experience, he was out in the early hours of the morning on neighborhood patrol.  The dogs warned us that something was amiss and grandpa bravely went to see what was wrong.  He found my father, barely alive, having been beaten severely and dropped on our front porch.  At the time this served as a warning that “we know who you are and where you live and can get you any time we want”.  My parents felt that, as they had 5 children all under the age of 10, it would be best if they took us to safety!  So, they started the long, heartbreaking business of TRYING to leave the country.  They were told that “of course” they could leave BUT – they could take no money with them, no furniture, could not sell their home, had to give up their pension funds – in fact they were allowed to take only what fitted into their vehicle.  7 people in even the biggest car does not allow for much luggage.  So we left literally with one change of clothes each.  My grandparents left some years later and were far worse off as even their car was taken from them at the border.  So much for lifetime of working, saving and attempting to take care of their old age. 

 

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