"In Kan., an RV lot for the end of days; Developer offers spaces in former underground base" by Bill Draper | Associated Press, June 21, 2013
ATCHISON, Kan. — After most of the world’s population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine.
Who would want to live in that world, but besides that these are the same people the propaganda pre$$ used to make fun of and now they have their own TV shows. Still presented by the jewsmedia as a little kooky, but....
That is the vision of a California man who is creating what he calls the world’s largest private underground survivor shelter, using a complex of limestone caves dug more than 100 years ago beneath gently rolling hills overlooking the Missouri River.
Government pukes that looted you all in service to corporations and the Israeli war machine already have their spots reserved.
‘‘I do believe I am on a mission and doing a spiritual thing,’’ said Robert Vicino, who has purchased a large portion of the former US Army storage facility on the southeast edge of Atchison, 50 miles northwest of Kansas City, Mo. ‘‘We will certainly be part of the genesis.’’
Before it comes time to ride out Armageddon or a deadly global pandemic, though, Vicino says the Vivos Survival Shelter and Resort will be a fun place for members to take vacations and learn assorted survival skills to prepare them for whatever world-changing catastrophe awaits....
Like certain groups trying to get a world war going or the Fukushima leak?
Better hit those bunkers now!
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"Kansas ends waiver on food stamps" Associated Press, September 05, 2013
WICHITA — A federal waiver offering about 20,000 unemployed Kansas residents food assistance will be allowed to expire at the end of the month, state officials revealed Wednesday, saying they wanted to encourage work over welfare dependency.
Where is the f***ing work?
The Kansas Department for Children and Families said able-bodied adults with no dependents would need to work no less than 20 hours per week to qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP or food stamps....
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Don't worry; the food stamps won't be arriving anyway:
"With time short, Congress tries to craft new farm bill; House, Senate at odds over cuts in food stamps" by Ron Nixon | New York Times, September 25, 2013
WASHINGTON — House leaders said Tuesday that they were working with their Senate counterparts toward a new five-year farm bill, just days after the House pushed through a bill that would slash billions of dollars from the food stamp program.
This as more and more people are in hunger and need.
But with only a few days left before the current farm bill expires at the end of the fiscal year, and with a fight over the debt ceiling looming, few lawmakers see any chance of getting a new farm bill done....
Then why all this print?
Last year, Congress voted to extend the most current farm bill, which was passed in 2008. Although the bill expires Monday, most farm programs will continue until the end of the year because such programs extend through the crop year.
The farm bill, a 1,000-page measure that sets the nation’s food and nutrition policy, was formerly a bipartisan piece of legislation. But it has been mired in partisan gridlock for nearly two years. Most of the acrimony has been over cuts to the food stamp program, formally known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
Like I have said time and again, if it is something the American people need it is blocked by partisanship; if it is something Wall Street, Israel, the war machine, and well-connected corporations want, they get biparti$an$hip.
House Republicans, led by the majority leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, have pushed for nearly $40 billion in cuts to the program, a move opposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.
In July, House Republicans passed a stand-alone farm bill that separated the nutrition programs from the overall bill for the first time since 1973. Last week, the House passed the bill, 217-210, with no Democrats voting for the measure.
Related: Eating Anger For Lunch
I think sending food overseas to feed refugees created by war policy while Americans at home starve should make you angry, American.
Speaker John A. Boehner signaled this week that he expects to appoint conferees in the coming weeks to meet with senators to iron out the significant differences between the two versions of the farm bill.
The Senate passed a $955 billion farm bill in May. Its bill was expected to save $23 billion during the next 10 years by eliminating or consolidating hundreds of agriculture programs.
Yeah, the DEMOCRATICALLY-CONTROLLED Senate CUT FOOD STAMPS, too!
House leaders say they would like to have a farm bill conference report before the end of the year so that both chambers can vote on the measure....
It remains unclear how the two chambers will deal with the split House farm and nutrition bills. The House is expected to vote — possibly this week — to join the two before sending a full farm bill to the Senate for consideration.
Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said she welcomed meeting with the House to bridge the differences on the farm programs.
But she called the House food stamp bill a “monumental” waste of time and added that it had no chance of passing in the Senate. Obama has threatened a veto.
Kind of like what I am doing blogging about the Boston Globe.
While the House and the Senate prepare to work through their differences on the bill, antihunger activists are increasing their lobbying efforts to forestall cuts to the food stamp program. Advocates have inundated lawmakers with hundreds of phone calls and thousands of e-mails.
The Food Bank for New York City, the country’s largest food bank, has started a social media campaign through a website, HungerCliff.org.
“The farm bill must protect our vital antihunger resources,” said Triada Stampas, the senior director of government relations for the food bank. “No cuts are acceptable.”
With time running out to pass a farm bill this year, some members of Congress have raised the possibility of extending the previous legislation for another year.
But Stabenow said she was opposed to another extension.
Why?
“I do not support an extension because it is bad policy that yields no deficit reduction, no reform, and does nothing to help American agriculture create jobs,” she said. “It’s time to do the work we were sent here to do and finally finish this farm bill.”
I thought this was about food stamps!
And you just NEVER MIND DEMOCRAP INTRANSIGENCE! Government shut down or no, it will be blamed on the Republicans!
Food stamps are financed through an annual appropriations bill, and their funding will continue despite the uncertainty surrounding the farm bill.
????? Then WTF is the point of this article and why is in my newspaper?
But the coming battle over the debt ceiling and a possible government shutdown does threaten financing for farm and nutrition programs....
They are going to take meals away from children to feed the banking and war beasts!
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Globe always leaves me feeling empty.
