Welcome to the fourth edition of the Qntra Not Quite News Roundup Xtend (TM)(R). The below events are alleged to have happened, but they are innocent of newsworthiness. Continue reading
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Qntra (S.QNTR) August 2016 Report
Qntra (S.QNTR) July 2016 Report
Corn Pain On Farm Plain Continues
While corn futures fell precipitously today with this years crop losing 10 billion United States dollars on paper, there were more reasons for pain in the plains. Wheat hit a nine year low reaching 4.36 United States dollars per bushel.1 Wheat plantings were estimated by the USDA to only measure 50.8 million acres, a 50 year low. Meanwhile the acreage of corn plantings surpassed early season estimates coming in around 94.1 million acres2 which projects to a potential 194 million more bushels3 of corn this year than markets were expecting.
The drought typical of the Middle West in La Nina years never materialized in spite of a dry spell from late May to early June teasing the possibility.
Soybean plantings appear to be lower than the USDA and the market expected, likely the result of reasons relating to competition obvious to farmers. The cherry on top of all this pain is that domestic use of all crops for livestock feed is continuing to fall and expected to continue to fall as imports continue their rise. Sorry for your loss.
For out less agriculturally inclined readers a bushel used to be a measure of volume equivalent to eight gallons. Now markets measure weight which varies by crop and moisture content. A market bushel of wheat is 60 pounds at a 13.5% moisture content. Or in the only metric that matters ~92,000 kilocalories. ↩
Up 550,000 over the March estimate. ↩
56 pound at a 15.5% moisture content for ~139,00 kilocalories per bushel. ↩
Public Transit Bugged For Audio In US
Public transit lines in the United States have been bugged to capture audio. Legislative action is occurring in many jurisdictions which would allow various criminal gangs masquerading as "law enforcement" agencies to admit they use these systems. Sorry for your laws.
Qntra (S.QNTR) June 2016 Report
You Aren't Ready For Smart Contracts
Chances are the contracts are smarter than you. Please take your face out of that paper bag full of sweet vitriol, and admit that you have a problem and your life has become unmanageable.
Outrage Machine Attacks Sanctity Of Marriage After Shooting
Now that gays can marry under the law outrage over a gay bar shooting is being used to weaken the definition of marriage.1 The attack on the sanctity of marriage comes as the late and lazy eyed Omar Mateen's (WOT:nonperson) wife (WOT:nonperson) disclosed she was aware he might use a gay bar as a shooting gallery. In light of this voluntary disclosure following husband's death, a death which relieved her of her matrimonial obligation to hold his confidence, the outrage industrial complex is calling for her to be criminally charged and crucified. Continue reading
The usual noise about banning the sale and possession of high capacity magazines is also being spouted, but that's not news so much as a weather phenomenon ↩
Remembering The Deadliest Spree Killing In US History
In 1890 a band of thugs associated with the criminal gang in Washington DC under the command of war criminal Samuel M Whitside were disarming a Lakota community near Wounded Knee creek. Their failure to accommodate a deaf Lakota's disability when confiscating his rifle led them to slaughter at least 1501 Lakota men, women, and children. In the thugs' bloodlust they gunned down 25 of their own men in addition to the Lakota victims. Peace in our time. #AllLivesMatter
Estimates place the number of Lakota victims of this spree killing between 150 and 300 ↩
US Loses 40% Of Women To Mayo Gender Transition
Outlets more focused on preserving feeling than stating biological fact are reporting that 40% of women in the United States are now obese (archived). In biologically correct vernacular nearly half of women in the United States transitioned away from womanhood and into the third, mayogender. While this accomplishment of the American socialist state is not quite as impressive as what the British socialist state accomplished in making its children too fat to breathe without depending upon the apparatus of the state to assist them. At least Clitler, now the presumptive presidential nominee that poor country's major socialist party, is safely insulated from being the fattest "woman"1 at any function.
Reminder: Due to her Clinton privilege, Clitler is unlikely to be prosecuted for the mishandling classified information on a grand scale. David Patraeus, lone hero of America's war to create ISIS in Iraq and one time favorite to become president of the United States, forfeited a future political career and his standing over the same oversight committed on a far smaller scale.
According to the deviant socially injust rules of the local discourse transmayos are still allowed to identify themselves as their birth gender without being corrected. ↩