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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY:

What the Hell is Happening NOW?

Dorothy Philbin | Cleary’s Notebook News

Sunday, May 15, 2022
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In 2015 The Obama administration passed a law pertaining to illegal immigrant minors.  They have to be read their rights (a minor immigrant understands his rights?)  The law goes on to detail their rights as food, clothing, and shelter and a ton of other rights the average citizen doesn’t have.  Last year, 2021, The Biden Administration updated the law.  Read the next sentence very carefully!  The update specified that the government had to supply illegal immigrant children with “baby formula and milk.”  The Washington Post wrote the article with a “see, there’s no problem – we’re just following the law.”

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS RECEIVE GOLD STAR BENEFITS-Families in the United States are struggling to find formula for their babies. And, when they do find it the prices are astronomical.

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GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ (May 15, 2022)–Just about everyone knows that there is a baby formula shortage.  Many of you are experiencing it.  What is happening?  This is America and every day we look more like a third-world country rather than the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

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So, what is the story behind the story with the formula shortage?  Let’s start with a few facts.  The United States makes 98% of the formula we use.  This is a good thing; it keeps jobs in America and we have much more control over the quality and distribution of the product.  The majority of formula is used by WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) recipients.  The federal government has a contract with Abbott Company to supply the formula for WIC and SNAP (formerly food stamps) administrated through the states.  The states give a “discount” to Abbott et al. up to 85%  This is very profitable for Abbott and the federal and state governments don’t really care because it is “We, the People” who pay for it. 

Each year between and four babies are reported with infections from a bacteria called cronobacter sakazakii. Never before has a plant been closed.  The closest I was able to find for the number of babies who became ill this year was four.  Two babies recovered and two died.  So, at some point the government closed the plant for inspection.  This was the right thing to do. However, I could only come to an inspection date between January 31, 2022 and March 18, 2022.  What was the time span between the disclosure of the problem, the decision to close the Michigan plant, the inspection and conclusion?  We don’t know.

At the point it was determined to close the plant there should have also been a plan for an alternate source of formula.  There are other U.S. based companies; but there is no evidence that this was done.  We have to be more careful than usual because these are our babies, not IPhones or clothes, etc.  In the past it was found that the Chinese were putting melamine into their formula.  We grey hairs remember unbreakable dinnerware called Melmac which was taken off the market because it caused…yes, cancer.  Where we get the replacement formula is essential but did anyone look right here in America?

According to the Washington Examiner, May 13, 2022 the inspection is complete, the results are in but the Food and Drug Administration won’t specify the exact criteria for full approval to re-open Abbott’s Michigan plant.  The inspection found some of the bacteria but none in the processing area.  Samples of the formula were completely free of the bacteria.  Everything sounds good.

Bacteria, like humans and all other living things, has its own DNA.  Scientists were able to determine that the bacterial DNA in the babies did not come from the closed plant.  So why hasn’t the FDA provided a date or even criteria for a full opening?

This is where you have to take off your scientist’s hat and put on your lawyer’s hat.  On May 12, 2022 the Washington Post issued a headline about the “faux outrage” over this supposed problem.  The term “faux outrage” is outrageous in itself but the article went on to say there is no real formula shortage.  “They” were just following the law.  Fortunately, The Post printed excerpts from the law.  In my opinion, for what that’s worth, it all has to do with politics and money.  Here’s what happened:

In 2015 The Obama administration passed a law pertaining to illegal immigrant minors.  They have to be read their rights (a minor immigrant understands his rights?)  The law goes on to detail their rights as food, clothing, and shelter and a ton of other rights the average citizen doesn’t have.  Last year, 2021, The Biden Administration updated the law.  Read the next sentence very carefully!  The update specified that the government had to supply illegal immigrant children with “baby formula and milk.”  The Washington Post wrote the article with a “see, there’s no problem – we’re just following the law.”

President Biden can solve the problem with the stroke of a pen.  I am usually against Executive Orders.  I feel Presidents use them to make law that would normally not get through Congress.  In this case I am exasperated that President hasn’t already signed an executive order to alter the “formula or milk for illegal babies” to “Give the illegals formula or milk after all the citizen and legal resident babies have been fed.”  

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Filthy Fuhrer, and Four Others of the White Supremacist Gang 1488s Sentenced

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (CNBNews) February,2023– Filthy Fuhrer, formerly Timothy Lobdell, 46; Roy Naughton, aka Thumper, 44; Glen Baldwin, aka Glen Dog, 41; Colter O’Dell, 30; and Craig King, aka Oakie, 57, were sentenced this week in Alaska to life in prison without the possibility of parole. All five defendants were convicted of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy in aid of racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping resulting in death, and kidnapping conspiracy. Fuhrer and Naughton were also each convicted of an additional two counts of kidnapping conspiracy, kidnapping, and assault in aid of racketeering.

Evidence presented at trial showed that the defendants were leaders, members, and associates of the 1488s. This violent, prison-based Neo-Nazi gang operated inside and outside of state prisons throughout Alaska. The 1488s used Nazi-derived symbols to identify themselves and their affiliation with the gang, including a 1488 “patch” tattoo that depicts an Iron Cross superimposed over a swastika. The tattoo was awarded to members who gained full membership by committing acts of violence on behalf of the gang. The gang enforced discipline through written rules and a code of conduct, including the boast that “the only currency we recognize is violence and unquestionable loyalty.”

The trial testimony established that Fuhrer founded and led the 1488 gang from inside a maximum-security prison, where he was serving a 19-year sentence for the attempted murder of an Alaska State Trooper. In addition to directing acts of violence to establish the gang’s dominance in the prison hierarchy, Fuhrer ordered gang members to commit violent kidnappings and assaults in the “free world” outside of prison. As part of a plan to impose greater organization and structure among non-incarcerated members, Fuhrer insisted on punishing members that he perceived to be defying the 1488 code of conduct thereby diminishing the power, influence, and reputation of the gang. Fuhrer sent out a trusted lieutenant with a list of directives, culminating in the kidnapping and assault of two lower-level gang members on April 2, 2017, and July 20, 2017, and the kidnapping, assault, and murder of Michael Staton on Aug. 3, 2017.

According to the trial evidence, on April 2, 2017, defendant Roy Naughton and other 1488 members, acting at the direction of Fuhrer, lured a victim to a gang meeting at Naughton’s residence.  Once there, the victim was taken into a basement, held at gun point, tied up, and assaulted. As part of the assault, the gang members shattered a lightbulb in his mouth and tattooed him with a racial epithet. The victim was threatened with more violence if the incident was reported to police.

In addition, the evidence at trial demonstrated that on July 17, 2017, Fuhrer called Naughton from prison. During the call Naughton boasted about the April 2 assault and reported to Fuhrer that another member would be assaulted in the next few days. On July 20, 2017, a second victim was similarly assaulted and had his 1488 membership patch burned off.

Evidence also showed that in 2016 Naughton asked for and received permission from Fuhrer to impose exceptionally severe discipline on 1488 member Michael Staton, who held himself out as a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, for stealing from both the 1488’s and defendant Craig King.  

Naughton, King, and defendants Glen Baldwin and Colter O’Dell worked with other 1488 members to locate, kidnap, and murder Staton. On August 3, 2017, 1488 members, including Baldwin and O’Dell, lured Staton to Wasilla where they beat him and took him to King’s duplex. After arriving, Staton was taken to an empty room which had been lined with plastic sheeting. Inside the room King and the 1488s beat and tortured the victim, including cutting off his 1488 tattoo with a knife that had been heated with a propane torch. The defendants wrapped Staton in the plastic and carpeting, and Baldwin and O’Dell drove him to a remote section of Wasilla, where they shot him and set fire to his body. O’Dell was awarded full membership in the 1488s for his role in the murder.

 

The Story Behind The Story: What We Know About Gloucester City

Dorothy Philbin l CNBNews 

Research for another article led to the current Master Plan for Gloucester City.  The Master Plan contains much information which is probably new to most, if not all residents who don’t work for the city.  Over the next couple of weeks you will get to know the facts about Gloucester City.

One thing to keep in mind is that there are roughly 4,300 households in our city, of which 3,000 are apartments.  Keep that in mind when you read the following.

House Heating Fuel:

Natural Gas        2,948

Bottled Gas           109

Electricity             255

Fuel Oil/Kerosene 818

Coal                      -0-

Wood                     15

Solar                     -0-

Other                    -0-

No Fuel Used         -0-

Selected Characteristics:

Lacking Complete Plumbing Facilities        16*

Lacking Complete Kitchen Facilities            3*

No Telephone Service                               92**

*  If someone knows that people don’t have plumbing and/or kitchen facilities, why has the Board of Health not  been called?

** As difficult as it is to believe that 92 people in Gloucester City have no telephone service there are homeless and very-low income/senior residents.  One way of counting families with no phone service is to count the students in school whose parents provide no home phone number.  That doesn’t mean that there is no phone in the household, just that the parents don’t want to hear from the school.

Do you know how old your house is?  Obviously, the houses between the railroad and the river are much older than most of the other homes.  The web page datauniverse.com shows the year each house was built, though it is accurate for the older homes.  The date is “around” or “about.”  

The following are the number of houses built in each decade, according to the Gloucester City Master Plan.

Built Prior to 1939            2,031

Between 1940 – 1949         459

Between 1950 – 1959         727

Between 1960 – 1969         207

Between 1970 – 1979           38

Between 1980 – 1989         303

Between 1990 – 1999           44

Between 2000 – 2010           76

2010 or later                          0

Total Number of houses  2,498

source Gloucester City Master Plan

THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY: Where Has All The Money Gone?

Dorothy Philbin | CNBNews

GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ (JUNE 19, 2023)(CNBNews)–It seems that everyone, every company, city and state is filing for bankruptcy.  Just this week there have been bankruptcy sales at Bye, Bye Baby, Harmon Cosmetics, Bed Bath and Beyond, and David’s Bridal.  They are just the companies in the Deptford Mall area.

Let’s move onto cities.  Just the top 10 are New York City, Chicago, Honolulu, Portland, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Miami.  It shouldn’t be any surprise that most of these cities are in trouble, they have either defunded their police departments or are being over-run by illegal immigrants.

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Thank You to Gloucester City’s Board of Education

Dorothy Philbin | CNBNews

Thursday, May 19, 2022

GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ (May 19, 2022)–I don’t try to hide my disappointment in America’s public education and never will apologize for wanting today’s kids to have the high quality of education we had decades ago.  That being said, I also try to be fair and congratulate those who make changes in the right direction.  This week I read that “trades” will be reintroduced to Gloucester City schools. A sincere thank you to those who made this happen.

I read so many Facebook posts from the boys of the 1960s discussing their woodshop or metal shop adventures and telling what they made.  Girls took sewing and cooking classes. Because I took sewing classes I made all my own clothes through high school and college plus bridesmaid’s dresses and more.  There is so much value to these classes.  We learned how to make something.  We learned to take pride in what we made.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY: What the Hell is Happening NOW?

Dorothy Philbin | CNBNewsnet

GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ (May 15, 2022)–Just about everyone knows that there is a baby formula shortage.  Many of you are experiencing it.  What is happening?  This is America and every day we look more like a third-world country rather than the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

Images-3

So, what is the story behind the story with the formula shortage?  Let’s start with a few facts.  The United States makes 98% of the formula we use.  This is a good thing; it keeps jobs in America and we have much more control over the quality and distribution of the product.  The majority of formula is used by WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) recipients.  The federal government has a contract with Abbott Company to supply the formula for WIC and SNAP (formerly food stamps) administrated through the states.  The states give a “discount” to Abbott et al. up to 85%  This is very profitable for Abbott and the federal and state governments don’t really care because it is “We, the People” who pay for it. 

Each year between and four babies are reported with infections from a bacteria called cronobacter sakazakii. Never before has a plant been closed.  The closest I was able to find for the number of babies who became ill this year was four.  Two babies recovered and two died.  So, at some point the government closed the plant for inspection.  This was the right thing to do. However, I could only come to an inspection date between January 31, 2022 and March 18, 2022.  What was the time span between the disclosure of the problem, the decision to close the Michigan plant, the inspection and conclusion?  We don’t know.

At the point it was determined to close the plant there should have also been a plan for an alternate source of formula.  There are other U.S. based companies; but there is no evidence that this was done.  We have to be more careful than usual because these are our babies, not IPhones or clothes, etc.  In the past it was found that the Chinese were putting melamine into their formula.  We grey hairs remember unbreakable dinnerware called Melmac which was taken off the market because it caused…yes, cancer.  Where we get the replacement formula is essential but did anyone look right here in America?

According to the Washington Examiner, May 13, 2022 the inspection is complete, the results are in but the Food and Drug Administration won’t specify the exact criteria for full approval to re-open Abbott’s Michigan plant.  The inspection found some of the bacteria but none in the processing area.  Samples of the formula were completely free of the bacteria.  Everything sounds good.

Bacteria, like humans and all other living things, has its own DNA.  Scientists were able to determine that the bacterial DNA in the babies did not come from the closed plant.  So why hasn’t the FDA provided a date or even criteria for a full opening?

This is where you have to take off your scientist’s hat and put on your lawyer’s hat.  On May 12, 2022 the Washington Post issued a headline about the “faux outrage” over this supposed problem.  The term “faux outrage” is outrageous in itself but the article went on to say there is no real formula shortage.  “They” were just following the law.  Fortunately, The Post printed excerpts from the law.  In my opinion, for what that’s worth, it all has to do with politics and money.  Here’s what happened:

In 2015 The Obama administration passed a law pertaining to illegal immigrant minors.  They have to be read their rights (a minor immigrant understands his rights?)  The law goes on to detail their rights as food, clothing, and shelter and a ton of other rights the average citizen doesn’t have.  Last year, 2021, The Biden Administration updated the law.  Read the next sentence very carefully!  The update specified that the government had to supply illegal immigrant children with “baby formula and milk.”  The Washington Post wrote the article with a “see, there’s no problem – we’re just following the law.”

President Biden can solve the problem with the stroke of a pen.  I am usually against Executive Orders.  I feel Presidents use them to make law that would normally not get through Congress.  In this case I am exasperated that President hasn’t already signed an executive order to alter the “formula or milk for illegal babies” to “Give the illegals formula or milk after all the citizen and legal resident babies have been fed.”  

The Story Behind the Story: How Many Broken Windows in our City?

DOROTHY PHILBIN | CNBNewsnet

GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ –Years ago, I took a Criminal Justice course at St. Joseph’s University.  The instructor was a captain of the Philadelphia Police Department who brought his police-issued laptop with him to every class.  The first thing he told us was that what he was going to present was the truth and he had and would show us the documentation to prove it.  He said that if anyone was easily offended, this was the time to drop the course.

That was one of the best courses I took in my long educational career and one thing that I took away from the course and stayed with me was “The Broken Window Theory.”  Many times, I read on Gloucester City Facebook pages that this is not the city in which many of us grew up. I’ve lived here for 70 years, and I can attest that the Gloucester City of today is not the Gloucester City of years gone by.  The difference?  The Broken Window Theory.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY: Help For Unemployment Claims


Dorothy Philbin | CNBNews

TRENTON, NJ (April 27, 2022)(CNBNewsnet)–In New Jersey the Democrats and Republicans are actually working together on the unemployment problem.  They might as well hold up signs reading “election year, our friends and we want your vote.”

Many State Senators have formed a new committee to investigate the Department of Labor have said the same things.  The residents they represent, every single one, complained that they never got through on the phone and no one ever called them back. They heard everyday “There is no one [at the Dept of Labor] to talk to. After weeks of being ignored the claimants would go to their state representatives for help.  State Senator Michael Testa (R-CM) claims to have helped thousands and thousands of people and finally had to dedicate staff just to do the job of the Department of Labor.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY:What is Happening with Disney?

Dorothy Philbin | CNBNews Contributor

Is there ever a story behind the story when it comes to Disney it all started in 1967.  The story also includes other major theme parks in the Orlando, FL area.

In 1967 when Disney was buying thousands of acres of land in the Orlando area they made an “agreement” with the state of Florida that they could manage themselves.  “Manage” included zoning, planning, utilities, as well as governing themselves. If Disney wanted to build a nuclear power plant in the middle of the Magic Kingdom, they could do it and no one could do anything about it.  Again, this is not based on any law; it is based on an agreement. As time went on, the other theme parks got the same agreement.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY: $19 Per Month Charities Part II

Dorothy Philbin | CNBNews

GLOUCESTER CITY NJ (April 21, 2022)–Every year I buy a subscription to the Walnut Street Theatre and one of my favorite things to do is scan the list of supporters.  Last year I noticed that one of the financial supporters was The Shriners’ Hospital.  I think most everyone has seen the ads for Shriners’, a boy named Alec is in a wheelchair and shows you the adorable blanket you will get if you give $19 per month.

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