THIS LIST SHOWS MILLIONS OF JOBS LOST, FARMS, AND BUSINESSES CLOSED AND PROPERTY ILLEGALLY SEIZED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT
by Judith Westerfield·
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS FRIGHTENING BUSINESS OWNERS WITH MILITARISTIC SWAT STYLE RAIDS, CLOSING BUSINESSES, AND ILLEGALLY SEIZING PROPERTY ALL OVER AMERICA!!!!! CLOSING DOWN ORGANIC FARMS, DAIRIES, PIG FARMS, ETC. & PASSING LAWS MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR CITIZENS TO BOARD COWS OR SHEEP!!!
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS FRIGHTENING BUSINESS OWNERS WITH MILITARISTIC SWAT STYLE RAIDS, CLOSING BUSINESSES, AND ILLEGALLY SEIZING PROPERTY ALL OVER AMERICA!!!!! CLOSING DOWN ORGANIC FARMS, DAIRIES, PIG FARMS, ETC. & PASSING LAWS MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR CITIZENS TO BOARD COWS OR SHEEP!!!
MORNINGLAND DAIRY, ESTRELLA FAMILY CREAMERY, SHARON PALMERS VENTURA COUNTY FARMHOUSE, RAWSOME FOODS, TRADITIONAL FOODS WAREHOUSE, VERNON HERSHBERGER DAIRY & FARM, TRAUTMAN DAIRY FARM, EVERGREEN ACRES, ORGANIC PASTURES DAIRY, RAINBOW ACRES FARM, BAKERS GREEN ACRES .
Michael Taylor, a former attorney for the US Department of Agriculture and lobbyist for Monsanto was recently appointed to a federal role as the deputy commissioner for foods at the U.S. FDA. Last year, over 300,000 organic farmers from around 60 family farms were put out of business because of Monsanto and Taylor on trumped up charges that the farmers were stealing Monsanto's GMO seeds. Birds naturally pick up seeds from one area and drop them in another.
There are many others, these are just a few to show food destroyed or confiscated and hard workings farmers and their children held at gunpoint like criminals and a loss of millions of jobs that we so desperately need.
BUSINESSES ALL OVER AMERICA ARE BEING SHUT DOWN IN THE SAME MANNER WITH SWAT TEAMS. LISTED BELOW ARE JUST A FEW.
“I MANAGED A BUSINESS COMPLEX AND THE GOVERNMENT WAS THERE ALMOST DAILY HARASSING BUSINESSES."
GIBSON GUITAR: (told by agents they should be paying India to do the finish on their wood not Americans and after closing them down and confiscating their inventory 3 times were told if they moved their operations to Madagascar the government would not bother them again! Never charged, did everything by the book!) , GREAT BROOK FARM ICE CREAM STAND & DAIRY: (He redecorated and was shut down by a swat team putting himself and 14 other employees out of work), CENTRAL RADIO COMPANY: (Federal Government declared Eminent Domain to take over his property for a mall. After 75 years in business, with over 140 employees)! RICK REESE GUN SHOP: (A task force led by Homeland Security Investigations – including hundreds of federal, state, county and local officers, helicopters, armored personnel carriers and numerous police cruisers – stormed the Reese property where the store and the Reese home is located. Officers broke into the store and the basement storage space where they confiscated the store’s inventory, hundreds of guns, almost 2 million rounds of ammunition and more than a dozen empty gun safes. Officers also broke into the Reese home and seized firearms, jewelry, cash and a coin collection Rick Reese had been building since he was a young boy. Vehicles, bank accounts and real estate were also seized), ILLINOIS GUN WORKS: (OSHA issued a citation, along with a proposed fine of $111,000 Among the “violations” noted in the citation: An instructor on the range wore Howard Leight Impact Sport Electronic Earmuffs, which allegedly provided insufficient noise protection. Another violation: “A gun range instructor conducting shooter instruction was observed reaching down on the range floor to collect a loaded handgun cartridge. The employee was not wearing any hand protection such as gloves.
KEYSTONE PIPELINE: "TENS OF THOUSANDS" OF JOBS-TO CHINA NOT THE U.S.!!! When President Barack Obama blocked the Keystone Pipeline, Republicans said the move would encourage Canada to pursue oil deals with China instead of the United States and cede a massive chunk of North American oil assets to the communist nation. Now, China’s state-run oil company CNOOC is poised to cut a $15.1 billion deal–the largest ever foreign acquisition for a Chinese company–with Canadian oil company Nexen. How many jobs and resources were lost because of this assault to our livelihood???
CALIFORNIA SMELT FISH: California's Central Valley is considered by many to be the richest and most productive farmland in the nation. At least 300,000 jobs have been lost because of a minnow called the delta smelt. Recently, it has landed on the endangered species list, causing a federal court to shut down vital pumps to farmers to help preserve this little fish protected by theEndangered Species Act. Now hundreds of citizens are starving and vast amounts of food has been lost.
BRIDGE WORK: THOUSANDS OF JOBS & DOLLARS –TO CHINA NOT THE U.S.
TEXAS: $5 BILLION (Obama contracted the job to China. I-635 is being rebuilt with underground tolls from I-35 to I-45).
NEW YORK: $400 MILLION (Obama contracted the job to China. The Alexander Hamilton Bridge).
CALIFORNIA: $7.2 BILLION (Obama contracted the job to China. Bridge to connect San Francisco & Oakland).
ALASKA: $190 MILLION (Obama contracted the job to China).
OUTSOURCED VETERANS JOBS: Under the Obama Administration, the illegal outsourcing of entry-level VA jobs has become more prevalent. The VA hires more veterans than any other federal agency except the Department of Defense. However, according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the AFL-CIO union that represents over 205,000 VA employees, the agency continues to violate federal law by contracting out work that has been traditionally performed by veterans.
GOVERNMENT JOBS OUTSOURCED: Currently, about 40 state governments are outsourcing government jobs like issuing welfare checks and food stamps throughoverseas call centers.
NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: Since the (NAFTA) was signed in 1993, the rise in the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and Mexico through 2002 has caused the displacement of production that supported 879,280 U.S. jobs. Most of those lost jobs were high-wage positions in manufacturing industries. The loss of these jobs is just the most visible tip of NAFTA’s impact on the U.S. economy. More than 1.3 million additional Western jobs will vanish by 2014 due to "the accelerated movement of work to India and other offshore locations.
GULF OIL SPILL: Cumberland Advisers, a Sarasota, Florida-based investment advisory firm, has projected that the “Gulf Oil” spill will cost 1 million permanent jobs in the next five years.
CASH FOR CLUNKERS: The governments “Cash For Clunkers” program was the cause of hundredsof car dealers to go out of business waiting for payment from the government. Under the program, people who scrap their gas guzzlers can get a voucher worth up to $4,500 toward a new, more fuel-efficient vehicle. Dealers essentially front the money for the cash incentive with the understanding that the government will reimburse them once they file the necessary paperwork online and the deal is approved. The rules assured that participating dealers will be reimbursed within ten days, but that just didn’t happen. Under this program 2,200 Auto Dealerships closed and in excess of 120,000 jobs were lost.
U.S. JOBS OUTSOURCED: U.S. jobs are lost as a direct result of overseas outsourcing. Forrester Research estimates that 3.3 MILLION white collar jobs will be outsourced by the year 2015 (Drezner, 2004).
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: which represents the likes of Time Warner, Dell, KPMG LLP, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Verizon. Since 2000, more than 2 MILLION jobs have been lost to countries like India and Mexico, where labor is cheaper.
TRADE WITH CHINA COST U.S. 2.7 MILLION JOBS: Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, the massive increase in Chinese exports to America and China’s unfair trade practices have cost Americans more than 2.7 million jobs, according to a new report. “The growing trade deficit with China has been a prime contributor to the crisis in U.S. manufacturing employment,” states the report from the Economic Policy Institute. U.S. imports from China have soared from $102 billion in 2001 to $398.5 billion last year. Meanwhile American exports to China have grown from $18 billion in 2001 to $96.9 billion in 2011, producing a trade deficit last year of more than $300 billion.
Eminent domain rule could take his business - Central Radio Company NORFOLK, Va. Over 100 employees and in business 75 years, with 50 years on 39th street and Hampton Boulevard; fixing communication systems for the Navy for decades, but now Old Dominion University, through the Norfolk Redevelopment Housing Authority (NRHA), wants the property on 39th Street for retail shopping. Bob Wilson, owner of Central Radio, will begin to fight in court to keep his business. The timing of the court battle coincides with a new Virginia law that takes effect on July 1: You cannot take property that is not blighted. So NRHA and ODU want to begin the eminent domain case to take a Norfolk business before that deadline.
Reese Gun Shop: Rick Reese and his family ran a gun shop outside of Deming, N.M., for more than 17 years. A task force led by Homeland Security Investigations – including hundreds of federal, state, county and local officers, helicopters, armored personnel carriers and numerous police cruisers – stormed the Reese property where the store and the Reese home is located. Officers broke into the store and the basement storage space where they confiscated the store’s inventory, hundreds of guns, almost 2 million rounds of ammunition and more than a dozen empty gun safes. Officers also broke into the Reese home and seized firearms, jewelry, cash and a coin collection Rick Reese had been building since he was a young boy. Vehicles, bank accounts and real estate were also seized. Federal prosecutors initiated forfeiture proceedings last December in an effort to make the seizures permanent before the family even went to trial, which locked up most of the family’s assets leaving them with little means to pay for legal assistance to fight the charges and the forfeiture efforts. All of this happened to the backdrop of breaking news about agents of the ATF and Department of Justice instructing firearms dealers to sell large numbers of guns and ammunition to known Mexican arms traffickers in an operation called “Fast and Furious.” In all, about 2,000 guns were allowed to “walk” out of federal control or monitoring, and most of them ended up in the hands of criminals in Mexico. U.S. Attorney Ken Gonzales declared: “This case serves to put firearms dealers on notice that they will be held accountable for any failure to comply with federal firearms laws.” Observers who have been following the “Fast and Furious” debacle, which has led to a “contempt of Congress” charge against Attorney General Eric Holder – yet led to no serious personnel actions against those responsible, much less criminal charges – marveled that U.S. Attorney Gonzales could make that statement with a straight face. Absent an accounting for “Fast and Furious, ”aggressively going after gun dealers whose primary crimes appear to have been either paperwork errors or a lack of a psychic ability to read a buyer’s mind is an outrage.” There is a provision in federal law specifically designed to protect gun dealers from having their inventory confiscated. That protection was included in the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act, or FOPA. The Reese family lawyers filed a motion for the trial judge to enforce those protections, but he rejected the motion. After almost a year in jail and a three-week trial, a jury has declared the members of the Reese family not guilty on 24 of the 28 counts against them.
ILLINOIS GUN WORKS: The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a citation, along with a proposed fine of $111,000 fine (OSHA), against Illinois Gun Works–a gun store and gunsmith business which has a shooting range and teaches safety classes. Many of alleged OSHA violations at the safety training range involved noise exposure for the instructors. Among OSHA’s suggestions were to eliminate training in “larger caliber” handguns such as “9 mm Luger and/or .45 Colt” and substitute “handguns of smaller caliber,” such as .22LR. And “Prohibition of any shotguns and/or rifles firing in the firing range.” (p. 6). In other words, eliminate training for all firearms except those which are least likely to have the stopping power to be effective for self-defense. And ensure that the range can never provide students with personal instruction in the use of the firearms which constitute the vast majority of firearms which people actually own. Among the “violations” noted in the citation: An instructor on the range wore Howard Leight Impact Sport Electronic Earmuffs, which allegedly provided insufficient noise protection. Another violation: “A gun range instructor conducting shooter instruction was observed reaching down on the range floor to collect a loaded handgun cartridge. The employee was not wearing any hand protection such as gloves.
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The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still No Charges Filed - "They...come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything," says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, referring to the August 2011 raid on his Nashville and Memphis factories by agents from the Departments of Homeland Security and Fish & Wildlife. At issue is whether the wood was the correct level of thickness and finish before being exported from India. They were told after three raids that if they move their operation to Madagascar they would be left alone.
Obama seizes control over all food, farms, livestock, farm equipment, fertilizer and food production across America
California Moves to Take Away Citizens Right to Board Cows, Goats
Kalkaska County Pig Farmer Forced to Kill Pigs Due to DNR Ban - Northern Michigan's News Leader
Michigan Invasive Swine Species Order Leaves Farm Families in Legal Limbo, on Verge of Financial Ruin
Factory Farms Behind Pig Genocide in Michigan-RT America Network Digs Out the Truth about Michigan Swine ISO
NaturalNews exclusive: Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs
Bakers Green Acres vs. Michigan DNR - Family Farm Under Attack
MASS ANIMAL SLAUGHTER TO SEND FOOD PRICES SOARING
Farmers are being forced to slaughter their animals on mass around the world, leading to what experts believe will be the biggest meat and dairy price hike on record.
HOGOCAUST? Farmers forced to slaughter healthy swine or face jail time
Price Of Pork Products Under Threat As UK Pig Farmers Exit The Market
American’s Wake Up! The Rest of the World is Free to Drink Raw Milk
Federal Government Wants Michigan Dairy Shut Down
California's Man-Made Drought
Farmers vs. Fish Amid the California Drought (FOOD & JOB LOSS)
FNC: Drought-Stricken Farmers Lose Fight for Water to Endangered Fish - A federal court which ordered that one of their sources of water be shut down due to fears that irrigation would harm an endangered species of fish, the delta smelt. Earhardt began: "California's Central Valley is considered by many to be the richest and most productive farmland in the nation. But this land is being threatened by the small, harmless-looking minnow called the delta smelt. Recently, it has landed on the endangered species list, causing a federal court to shut down vital pumps to farmers to help preserve it."
It's Fish Versus Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley
FDA Blasted for Sting Operation Against Pennsylvania Amish Farmer
Morningland Dairy's Uncheese Party
Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese
John Stossel on Food Police and Rawesome Raid
Brave Dairy Farmer Takes a Stand for Personal Liberty and Private Contracts-U.S. Government is Out to Destroy this Family Farm
History of the Estrella Family Creamery
Stop the CDFA closing California Raw Milk Farms
California regulators frame Organic Pastures and force raw milk shut down over fabricated E. Coli scare
Obama continues War on Raw Milk
Fantome Farm
The Last Farm in San Jose, California
Joshua’s Farm vs. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Trautman Dairy Farm Shut Down
Raids are increasing on farms and private food-supply clubs
Cedar Grove Cheese
Alleged Armed Officers Shut Down Mass. Ice Cream Stand Indefinitely
Debut of New Food Documentary Farmageddon Announced
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U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms
Cities hire Chinese instead of American workers for building projects.
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Obama Didn’t Save the Auto Industry: He Took Away 2,200 Dealerships and 120,000 Jobs
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Gun dealer Reese takes defense stand in firearms smuggling case
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Facts and Figures on Outsourcing
States Tackle Outsourcing
The Effects of U.S. Outsourcing to China - Made in America” is quickly becoming a lost phrase
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Google cutting 4,000 workers at Motorola Mobility: Dominance, profit, or safety?
G.E., moving it's 115 year old X-ray division to China. They are investing 2 billion in China and training over 65 engineers to create 6 research centers. This is the same G.E. that made 5.1 billion in the U.S. last year but paid no taxes. The same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the United States. President Obama appointed G.E. Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs.
Obama to ban sport fishing (Newer Video's on You-tube and ESPN were removed)
If Obama was successful at banning recreational fishing it would mean a loss of over one million jobs!
Obama "may" ban public fishing by executive order
Obama Admin Jumps to Squelch Rumors of U.S. Fishing Ban The Obama administration is trying to dash rumors that it planned to ban recreational fishing in marine waters and the Great Lakes in the wake of a series of Internet posts warning that such a prohibition was imminent. The administration is drafting plans for a new ocean policy and marine planning system. The inter-agency ocean task force has released draft plans that would set ocean conservation as a top national priority and lay the groundwork for marine planning.
