[Wash Times] About 1.7 million chickens have been killed in flooding from Florence as rising North Carolina rivers swamped at least 60 farm buildings where the animals were being raised for market, according to a major poultry producer.
Sanderson Farms said Tuesday the losses occurred at independent farms that supply its poultry processing plants. The company said its facilities suffered no major damage, but supply disruptions and flooded roadways had caused shutdowns at some plants.
In addition, about 30 farms near Lumberton have been isolated by flood waters, hampering the delivery of feed to animals. The lack of food could cause additional birds to die if access isn’t restored quickly, the company said.
The N.C. Pork Council says some hogs also may have died when farms flooded, but that mortality figures are not yet available. The pork industry trade group says farmers have been working before and after the storm to move at-risk animals to higher ground. The industry lost about 2,800 hogs during flooding from Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
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Yet more proof Hurricane Florence was orchestrated by Trump. Savvy soup investors (wealthiest 2%) are set to profit from Wilbur's market guidance. The evidence is absolutely compelling.
Opium and derivatives travel by different routes, so of course are not included in these numbers.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan officials are saying that goods worth around 56 million US Dollars have been exported to various countries via air corridors.
The head of the Public Relations of the senior Presidential Adviser for Banking and Financial Affairs Samir Rasa said the goods have been exported over a period of almost a year, since the establishment of the air corridors.
Rasa further added that the goods have been exported from Kabul and Kandahar airfields in 169 flights.
He said the goods have been exported to New Delhi and Mumbai cities of India, Kazakhstan, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... According to Rasa, the Memorandums of Understanding have been signed for the establishment of similar air corridors with China, Dubai, and other cities of India.
Rasa says the main purpose of the establishment of further air corridors is to boost the exports of the Afghan goods to the international markets.
In the meantime, Rasa said the High Economic Council has also approved the policy for the Industrial parks.
He said the approval of the policy has paved the way for the distribution of lands to the entrepreneurs in 13 industrial parks in 11 provinces.
Rasa also added that the distribution of lands in Barikab industrial park will soon commence for the 16 factories.
As U.S.-China trade tensions are escalating, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday his government is able to help the domestic economy withstand challenges.
"China is confronted with a host of difficulties and challenges in economic development," Li acknowledged during an address speaking at a World Economic Forum conference in Tianjin, China.
"Deeply integrated into the world economy, the Chinese economy is inevitably affected by notable changes in the global economic and trade context," he said. "Indeed, we're facing greater difficulties in keeping stable performance of the Chinese economy."
But Li insisted his country was comfortable with its economic situation. Li said Beijing has "prepared sufficient tools for us to deal with risks and challenges" and added that "these policy tools will boost China's resilience to cope with various challenges and difficulties."
Going forward, the Chinese premier said, his country did not expect to make any major changes to its macroeconomic policy, but would instead be "giving more attentions to preemptive measures and fine tunings."
'More harm than good'
Li, who is second-in-command to Chinese President Xi Jinping, did not specifically mention the trade dispute between China and the U.S. but he echoed a frequent Beijing refrain that "free trade" benefits the world overall, and that countries should make decisions together.
"It is essential that we uphold the basic principles of multilateralism and free trade," he said. "Irrespective of the rooms for improvement for these rules, we believe that these rules have first and foremost benefited the progress of all mankind. And for any existing problems, they need to be worked out through consultation: No unilateralism will offer a viable solution." Keep the screws tight, Donald.
[TIME] President Trump expressed his support Wednesday after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to reduce his country’s nuclear capabilities at a summit this week with southern counterpart, at which denuclearization is high on the agenda.
Kim agreed Wednesday to permanently dismantle his Nyongbyon nuclear facility pending reciprocal measures from the U.S., according to South Korean President Moon Jae In.
"Very exciting!" Trump said at the end of a pair of late-night tweets, which also touted the return of the remains of American Korean War casualties and an announced proposal for North and South Korea to jointly host the 2032 Summer Olympics.
Big news here isn’t so much that the Japanese successfully shot down a missile in the test, but that they’re getting ready to deploy ground-based aegis systems so that their missile defense destroyers can do other things. http://t.co/hj7WfL3Wdu
[The Hill] A Republican candidate won an upset victory Tuesday night in the runoff for a Texas state Senate seat that had been held by Democrats for more than a decade.
Pete Flores (R), a conservative former leader of the state Parks and Wildlife Department’s law enforcement division, won a surprise victory over Democrat Pete Gallego.
The runoff election was held following the resignation of the seat's previous holder, state Sen. Carlos Uresti (D), after Uresti was found guilty of charges related to defrauding investors in an oil services company and sentenced to prison.
Uresti previously defeated Flores in 2016 by double digits. Flores won won in an eight-way special election encompassing both parties earlier this year, with Gallego trailing him by single digits.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) congratulated Flores on his victory in a statement. Republicans now control 21 of the state's 31 Senate seats.
That’ll make life interesting on both sides of the border.
[KhaamaPress] The Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... has said all Pakistain-born Afghan and Bangladeshi refugees would be granted Pak nationality.
Imran Khan made the remarks during his maiden visit to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... city on Sunday.
Calling it a established practice in countries around the world, Imran Khan said Afghans whose children have been raised and born in Pakistain will be granted citizenship.
He said the refugees have been unable to find decent legal jobs or get a quality which eventually forces them to indulge in criminal activities.
The Pak Prime Minister vowed that he will instruct his staff to make efforts without further delay for offering passports and National Identity Cards to the refugees who have come from Afghanistan and whose children are raised and born in Pakistain.
According to reports, millions of Afghan refugees are still based in Pakistain out of which around 1.5 million legally reside in the country.
According to the survey reports by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , at least 60 percent of Afghan refugees were either born in Pakistain or were minors when their parents migrated to the country.
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SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell speaks to audiences around the world and gets lots of questions.
During an appearance on Monday at the Air Force Association’s annual symposium, Shotwell was thrown a question she said she had never heard before: “Would SpaceX launch military weapons?”
“I’ve never been asked that question,” Shotwell said somewhat surprised. Her response: “If it’s for the defense of this country, yes, I think we would.”
The room packed with Air Force service members and military contractors burst into applause. They seemed impressed that SpaceX is one of the world’s coolest companies and also a staunch patriot.
[Free Beacon] The National Science Foundation is spending over $1 million to train two-dozen "social justice" math teachers in Philadelphia.
The Drexel University project will promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) high school curriculums that are "steeped in the context of social justice."
The project, which began this summer, is recruiting 24 Drexel students earning a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, which they will train to teach in school districts in Philadelphia.
"The project will use recent scientific, mathematical, and educational knowledge to prepare and support the twenty-four pre-service teacher candidates with an emphasis on understanding the culture and life experiences of students in high-need schools," according to the grant for the study.
The stated goal of the study is to "promote social justice teaching."
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"No equations were solved during the making of this movie..."
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A tiny little droplet in the bucket of a $20 trillion federal debt. Kinda makes you wonder how many other bogus little projects like this are in existence, how many other ways our politicians can find to squander our money.
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"Vote or die." Unless, it’s too hard to find a stamp.
A Fairfax County focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee ballot simply fail to send it back because a U.S. Postal Service stamp seems to be a foreign concept to them.
"One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where to get stamps," Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said.
Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said, they don’t know [students] where to get stamps.... The focus group included college interns from across numerous [Fairfax] county departments.
Which college is she talking about in Fairfax, George Mason or University of Route 1 NOVA? If she is referring to University of Phoenix alumni, she wins.
I'm call it how I see: Mrs. Connors is an idiot and needs to buy a vowel to catch a clue.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Yet more proof Hurricane Florence was orchestrated by Trump. Savvy soup investors (wealthiest 2%) are set to profit from Wilbur's market guidance. The evidence is absolutely compelling. 
As U.S.-China trade tensions are escalating, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday his government is able to help the domestic economy withstand challenges.
