JAMES CIRRONE, US NEWS REPORTER, dailymail.co.uk
For the last 115 years, the plant has operated in Lemoore, a small town deep within California's rural Central Valley.
But now more than a century of history is coming to a close, with an estimated 300 people set to lose their jobs when the plan shutters early next year.
To give people time to find new employment, Leprino announced the closure in November of last year.
'This decision is influenced by several factors, including the facility's age, anticipated capital requirements to make improvements to the facility and add or replace equipment and systems, high operating costs in California, the long-term milk supply outlook, and the increased capacity due to the opening of our Lubbock, Texas facility,' according to a statement from the company at the time.
One major factor likely driving the move is that California has a high corporate tax rate, while Texas's equivalent franchise tax is much less burdensome.
Additionally, California imposes higher payroll tax obligations on companies for things like unemployment insurance and disability insurance.
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Authored by Larry Johnson via Sonar21.com.
Sy Hersh's latest Substack article on the prospects a successful outcome of the US attempt to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is important because it reveals the pathetic incompetence of the CIA. It appears that Sy reported what senior Trump officials told him about the on going negotiations with the Russians and Ukrainians, and that those officials were sharing their understanding of the capabilities of Russia and Ukraine based on intelligence reports and intelligence analysis provided principally by CIA analysts.
So why does the CIA persist in peddling provably false information. I blame former CIA Director John Brennan. John Brennan, as CIA Director (2013–2017), initiated a major reorganization in March 2015 that integrated analysts (from the Directorate of Analysis) and operations officers (from the Directorate of Operations) into hybrid mission centers.
This “modernization plan” aimed to break down traditional silos — ie, previously analysts and operations officers worked in separate units — by creating 10 new mission centers (focused on regions/threats like counterterrorism and cyber), where analysts, operators, digital experts, and support staff would work side-by-side under unified leadership. Brennan announced the overhaul on March 6, 2015 , with implementation beginning shortly after (eg, assistant directors named April 30, 2015). The ostensible goal was better integration for modern threats like cyber warfare, modeled partly on the existing Counterterrorism Center, but the actual effect subordinated independent analysis to the covert programs directed and managed by the operations officers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-broken-can-it-be-fixed
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Massive liquidity hits markets and Bitcoin still collapses
https://citizenwatchreport.com/massive-liquidity-hits-markets-and-bitcoin-still-collapses/
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The claim that Sub-Saharan Africans "lived in Britain thousands of years ago" was, of course, a complete fabrication...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dna-evidence-proves-first-black-briton-was-actually-white-girl
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Larry Page: “Elon is one of the people who genuinely understands physics and applies it.”
Sergey Brin: “Elon is someone who thinks extremely deeply about hard technical problems.”
Eric Schmidt: “Elon is extremely smart. He thinks about problems at a fundamental physics level.”
Satya Nadella: “Elon has a deep understanding of engineering trade-offs.”
Yann LeCun: “He’s a very smart guy and I’m in awe of some of his projects.”
Jeff Dean: “Elon Musk is extremely capable technically.”
Andrew Ng: “Elon is clearly very smart and technically capable, even when I disagree with him.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Elon Musk understands engineering at a level that most CEOs do not.”
Chris Hadfield: “Elon Musk is clearly very intelligent and serious about engineering.”
Andrej Karpathy: “Elon has an incredible ability to reason from first principles. It’s very rare.”
Tom Mueller: “He’s a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He’s so sharp, he just picks it up.”
Jim Cantrell: “Elon taught himself rocket science faster than anyone I’ve ever seen. And I’ve been doing this my whole career.”
Robert Zubrin: “Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer with an extraordinary ability to cut through nonsense.”
George Church: “Elon Musk is extraordinarily intelligent and unusually well-read across sciences.”
Vaclav Smil: “Elon Musk is a very intelligent engineer, though overly optimistic.”
Miguel Nicolelis: “Elon Musk is a brilliant mind, even when he overreaches.”
George Hotz: “Elon is actually very smart. People underestimate how technical he really is.”
Sal Khan: “Elon Musk is a deeply intelligent person who genuinely understands the science behind what he’s building.”
Mark Cuban: “Elon is very smart and ahead of the curve.”
Naval Ravikant: “Elon Musk is operating at a different intellectual level.”
Rodney Brooks: “Elon Musk is smart and technically literate, even if provocative.”
Cory Doctorow: “Elon Musk is obviously very smart. That’s not in dispute.”
Tim Urban: “Elon Musk is one of the deepest first-principles thinkers I’ve ever encountered.”
Uday Kotak: “Elon Musk is a genius in the way he combines engineering with execution.”
(Jensen Huang of NVIDIA said Elon Musk put together an advanced AI using 100,000 NVIDIA chips in 19 days. He is amazing.)
https://citizenwatchreport.com/aoc-elon-musk-is-one-of-the-most-unintelligent-billionaires-ive-ever-met-or-seen/
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