We will discuss this week the policy of SOVEREIGN CITIZENS as a tool to advance CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR by WORLD BANK/IMF when a sovereign nation is being taken over---sacked and looted, raped and pillaged with new politicians installed----this is what several decades of installing FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES overseas has looked like---now happening here in US/Canada/Western Europe/UK.




We discuss this often because the term SOVEREIGN CITIZEN changes over centuries as global geo----eco----political changes occur. We spent last week discussing just comparing the mechanisms of global banking 1% bringing nations to war----using ROBBER BARON frauds and corruption to spur population tensions. Last week we took one issue FOOD as the top tool---energy being next---infrastructure being next.



'NewsChannel5 reporters noted that every corner of Rondon’s home and its foundation was spray-painted with words and numbers from U.S. code: “Title 18 1581-241 USC”. That particular code – dealing with slavery, peonage, and forced labor – is frequently cited by sovereign citizens, who believe that such citations release them from obligations as citizens of the United States, including paying their taxes or obeying traffic codes'.



This discussion today in US NATIONAL FAKE NEWS media describing a US SOVEREIGN CITIZEN is the same discussion which happened in LATIN AMERICA, in SOUTHEAST ASIA, in ARABIA when WORLD BANK/IMF would take over a nation and kill all that nations' sovereign wealth and assets.



This article shows the face of a white 99% WE THE PEOPLE brought to poverty being pushed into what we know is enslavement and and forced labor ---two things we discuss often as goals of MOVING FORWARD US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.....


‘Sovereign Citizen’ With History of Bogus Lawsuits Shot Dead by Ohio Deputies
March 28, 2014
Bill Morlin


An armed, 65-year-old, self-described “sovereign citizen” was fatally shot in the head this week during what’s being described as a gunfight with local sheriff’s deputies in a suburb of Cleveland.


Israel Rondon’s death came after a 5-year legal battle he waged in a fruitless attempt to convince various courts of his belief that government agencies and laws have no control over so-called sovereign citizens – or a freeman, as he liked to call himself.






As numerous other law enforcement encounters with activists in the United States have shown, the seemingly harmless paperwork filings favored by antigovernment sovereigns can escalate into deadly violence very quickly. Seven law enforcement officers have been killed in the United States since 2000 by members of the sovereign citizens movement, which has been deemed a “domestic terrorist” movement by the FBI.
When six deputies went to Rondon’s residence in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, on Tuesday to arrest him for probation violation, “he came after the deputies with a rifle and opened fire,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported in Thursday’s editions.




NewsChannel5 reporters noted that every corner of Rondon’s home and its foundation was spray-painted with words and numbers from U.S. code: “Title 18 1581-241 USC”.  That particular code – dealing with slavery, peonage, and forced labor – is frequently cited by sovereign citizens, who believe that such citations release them from obligations as citizens of the United States, including paying their taxes or obeying traffic codes.


A preliminary investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation found that two deputies fired shots, at least one of which struck Rondon in the head, the newspaper reported. No deputies were injured.


Like so many sovereign citizens who believe they don’t need a driver’s license to operate a vehicle, Rondon’s first encounter with the law came during a traffic stop on Sept. 9, 2009, according to the Cleveland newspaper.


During that stop, a deputy found a loaded .38 caliber handgun under the car seat and a large military-style knife attached to Rondon’s belt. He pleaded no contest to resulting weapons charges in summit County Common Pleas Court, and got two years probation.


But then, the newspaper reported, Rondon filed an appeal, claiming Ohio’s concealed handgun law was unconstitutional because it doesn’t contain provisions to waive fees for indigent persons. His appeal was tossed when judges ruled his constitutional challenge of the law came too late, only after he entered his plea.
In November 2011, a warrant for Rondon’s arrest was issued when he failed to show up for a court hearing.


Middleburg Heights Police Lt. Kevin Hoover initially wasn’t aware of that warrant on Feb. 8, 2012, when he encountered Rondon while responding to a report that people were illegally shooting deer. When the police officer later went to Rondon's home to arrest him on the warrant, Rondon resisted, striking Hoover, the newspaper reported.


Rondon subsequently was charged with assaulting a police officer and carrying concealed weapons in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, court records show.


Acting as his own attorney, he was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading no contest to those charges in September 2012.
In April 2013, when Rondon was cited in Berea Municipal Court with misdemeanor zoning and building code violations, he responded, as sovereign citizens frequently do, with lengthy handwritten motions questioning the court's jurisdiction.


While those cases were unfolding, Rondon filed eight lawsuits in U.S. District Court seeking millions in damages from various government officials, agencies and banks. Those kinds of filings have come to be known as “paper terrorism,” an antigovernment tactic that has clogged many courts with legal filings that countless judges have found are nonsensical and without legal basis.


All eight of Rondon’s suits were dismissed within week by judges who held that the suits “were difficult to understand and lacked factual evidence,” the Cleveland newspaper reported. But those rejections didn’t stop Rondon.


In January 2012, he filed three more lawsuits against three banks, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the governor of Ohio and the state Legislature. He accused the assorted defendants of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.


Rondon said in his filing that he was bringing the suits because the defendants had attempted to “humiliate, diminish and negation of authority [sic] from which sovereign citizen without political lien or venue takes severe injury.” Less than a month later his suits were dismissed as baseless.


Rondon was back in court again on Jan. 3, 2013, that time accusing the Social Security Administration of withholding payments to him while he was in jail.  That suit was dismissed a month later by a judge who ruled it “lacks plausibility.”


Rondon filed three more lawsuits on Aug. 2, 2013, naming as defendants the District Court, the Middleburg Heights Building Department and the Social Security Administration. The newspaper account says all three suits were dismissed by Oct. 16.


Judge John R. Adams wrote that Rondon’s suits were “rambling and incoherent” and his contention that he had been denied due process by the courts was “devoid of any factual support for such assertions.”
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The article we just shared about the US SOVEREIGN CITIZEN a white man angry about a US FEDERAL government taken over by global banking 1% stealing all our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE wealth and assets telling us we are no longer SOVEREIGN CITIZENS.  Our US CONSTITUTION and FEDERAL RULINGS for 300 years tells us this man is CORRECT.


'That particular code – dealing with slavery, peonage, and forced labor – is frequently cited by sovereign citizens, who believe that such citations release them from obligations as citizens of the United States''.

The article below is global banking 1% FAKE NEWS media telling the 99% of WE THE ISRAELI citizens that NETANYAHU fought for NATION-STATE status for STATE OF ISRAEL when in fact NETANYAHU is a global banking 1% ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE working to KILL the status of nation-state.  This is how we know this article is FAKE NEWS.

1. The end of a world of nation-states may be upon us | Aeon Essaysaeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation... Yes, there are dictatorships and democracies, but the whole world is made up of nation-states. This means a blend of ‘nation’ (people with common attributes and characteristics) and ‘state’ (an organised political system with sovereignty over a defined space, with borders agreed by other nation-states).
2. One world government - RationalWikirationalwiki.org/wiki/One_world_government One world government refers to the idea of a central government whose authority extends across the entirety of this planet. The idea is generally that the many countries of the world would join together in a federation under one central government, similar to how federal states such as the United States, Australia, Canada or Switzerland were formed.
3. Does the Bible prophesy a one-world government and a one ...www.gotquestions.org/one-world-government.html Answer: The Bible does not use the phrase “one-world government” or “one-world currency” in referring to the end times. It does, however, provide ample evidence to enable us to draw the conclusion that both will exist under the rule of the Antichrist in the last days.
4. Corporate Feudalism: The End of Nation States — Steve Lovelacesteve-lovelace.com/corporate-feudalism-the-end-of-nation... Corporate Feudalism: The End of Nation States. There’s an emperor balanced against a council of noble families. Then there are powerful interests that control trade, interstellar travel and religious mysticism. The interplay between these factions makes for a damn good story, but it also foreshadows a real-life future of corporate feudalism.
5. Tourists falling prey to dysfunctional state approaching end ...www.oneworldofnations.com/2014/09/tourists... Tourists falling prey to dysfunctional state approaching end of days - civil asset forfeitures - One World of Nations Civil asset forfeiture allows police to confiscate cash with impunity from suspects of drug crime. Another sign of a dysfunctional state approaching end of days. Take and run policies.
6. The End of the Nation-State | Foreign Affairswww.foreignaffairs.com/.../end-nation-stateThe End of the Nation-State. It argues that the territorial nation-state is giving way: from without, to a welter of overlapping, transnational networks fueled by information technology; from within, to subnational ethnic communities. At stake is the future of democracy, for the transition from the former "institutional" to the coming "imperial" age...
7. THE UN PREPARES TO IMPLEMENT ONE WORLDwww.cuttingedge.org/news/n1394.cfm The United Nations Millennium Assembly in September will gather more heads of state than at any other time in history. Their purpose--gain consensus for the Charter for Global Democracy, which would in effect, transform the UN into a World Government.As if that were not enough, the United Nations is also sponsoring the Millennium World Peace Summit.
8. Opinion | The End of the Nation-State? - The New York Timeswww.nytimes.com/.../the-end-of-the-nation-state.htmlThe same is true for mayors elsewhere in the world, which is why at least eight former mayors are now heads of state. Scotland and Wales in Britain, the Basque Country and Catalonia in Spain, British Columbia in Canada, Western Australia and just about every Indian state — all are places seeking maximum fiscal...
   
   This article shows photos of 99% of ISRAELIS feeling empowered with this NATION-STATE status just as global banking 1% KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH are manufacturing a WORLD WAR 3 which will encompass the LEVANT and we are sure this status of NATION-STATE for ISRAEL will disappear as global banking 1% TRIBE OF JUDAH see the KIEVAN KINGDOM OF CRIMEA as the next JEWISH STATE.
   
   Those protesting JEWISH RABBIS against ZIONISM KNOW this is FAKE NEWS.
   
   

Israel’s hugely controversial “nation-state” law, explained

Supporters call Israel’s new Jewish nation-state law a “defining moment.” Critics say it’s “apartheid.”




By Miriam Berger Updated Jul 31, 2018, 8:57am EDT


Demonstrators attend a rally to protest the “Jewish nation-state bill” in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on July 14, 2018.


Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images


JERUSALEM — Israel passed a controversial new “nation-state law” last week that’s sparking both celebration and fierce debate over the very nature of Israel itself.
The law does three big things:

1. It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”
2. It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and downgrades Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis — to a “special status.”
3. It establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” and mandates that the state “will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.”

Each of these statements would be contentious on its own, but taken together, they’re a clear, unequivocal statement of how the Jewish state’s current leaders see both the country and the diverse people who call it home.



Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government backed the legislation and was overjoyed at the law’s passing. Netanyahu lauded the law as “a defining moment in the history of the state” — a phrase that was splashed across the front pages of Israel Hayom, the country’s most-read newspaper, which is often described as Netanyahu’s Fox News for its favorable coverage of his government.



But for Israeli Arabs, who make up one-fifth of Israel’s 9 million citizens, the new law was a slap in the face. When the law passed, Arab parliamentary members ripped up copies of the bill and shouted, “Apartheid,” on the floor of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament).



Ayman Odeh, the leader of a coalition of primarily Arab parties currently in the opposition, said in a statement that Israel had “passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citizens.”



Palestinians, liberal American Jews, and many Israelis on the left also denounced the law as racist and undemocratic. Yohanan Plesner, the head of the nonpartisan Jerusalem-based Israel Democracy Institute, called the new law “jingoistic and divisive” and an “unnecessary embarrassment to Israel.”


But at the core of the new law is a deep, existential debate that Israelis have grappled with almost since the country’s founding: Can Israel be both a “Jewish state” that protects and celebrates Jewish identity, and a liberal democracy that protects the rights of all minorities, including non-Jews?


The new law is about longstanding disputes over borders and identity


Founded in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust, Israel has long struggled with its self-identification as both a Western-style democracy that affords equal rights to all citizens regardless of race or religion and a country envisioned as a refuge for Jews.


Waves of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries as well as from Russia and Eastern Europe, South America, and Ethiopia have kept Israel’s Jewish population growing. Under Israel’s law of return, any Jew can easily become an Israeli citizen.



But during Israel’s war for independence, which Palestinians call the nakba, or catastrophe, 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled their homes. Today, their descendants remain refugees, and many still live in urban, slumlike refugee camps across the Middle East. Palestinians who remained in Israel in 1948 were offered citizenship and now make up 21 percent of the population.


In the decades since its founding, Israel has fought several wars with its Arab neighbors, and battled Palestinian uprisings and terror attacks.
Today, Arab Israelis have a different legal status from the 350,000 Palestinians who live under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem, the 2.5 million who live in the Palestinian Authority-administered West Bank, and the 1.9 million who live in the blockaded Gaza Strip under the rule of Hamas, which the US and several other Western countries have designated a terrorist organization.


Those populations of Palestinians are technically stateless. This means that, for instance, Palestinians in East Jerusalem can’t vote in Israeli national elections or obtain Israeli passports, among other restrictions. For Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, it means that major parts of their lives are controlled by Israel — a country they have no direct voice in.


Arab Israelis, on the other hand, are citizens of Israel and therefore, at least in theory, have access to the same passports, elections, education, health care, infrastructure, and security as Jewish Israelis.



But while they certainly enjoy more rights than Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who in turn have it better than Palestinians in the West Bank, who have it far better than Palestinians in Gaza, Arab Israelis say that since the state’s founding, in practice they have not been afforded the same rights as Jewish Israelis. This is one reason why many Arab Israelis refer to themselves as Palestinians with Israeli citizenship.



The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, an Israeli human rights organization, has documented entrenched discrimination and socioeconomic differences in “land, urban planning, housing, infrastructure, economic development, and education.” More than half the poor families in Israel are Arab, and Arab municipalities are the poorest in Israel, according to ACRI.


What’s more, ACRI says that Arab Israelis are treated with “hostility and mistrust” and that “large sections of the Israeli public [view] the Arab minority as both a fifth column and a demographic threat.”



For Arab Israelis, then, the new nation-state law is merely the culmination of years of institutional discrimination. Only now the discrimination is officially enshrined in Israel’s basic law — the country’s constitutional equivalent.


Here’s what the new law actually says


It’s worth breaking down the three parts of the law and examining each one individually to get a better sense of what the law actually says, and what it all means:


1) “The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”


This declaration doesn’t just say that Israel is the historic homeland of Jews, which is a core part of Zionist ideology and the argument for the Jewish state’s existence in what’s now Israel.

Instead, this goes further to unequivocally state that Jews — and only Jews — have the exclusive right to “self-determination” within Israel.



In other words, only Jews have the right to determine what kind of state and society they live under. Which means that by default, non-Jews — such as Palestinian citizens of Israel, some of whom are Muslim and some of whom are Christian — don’t have that same right.



Supporters of this declaration say that Jews have the right to a place of their own just like other people have, and that enshrining this principle in the law is necessary to ensure that Israel remains under Jewish control.


Critics, on the other hand, say this measure is undemocratic and essentially enshrines two separate classes of citizens: Jews, and everyone else. Some even liken it to the strict racial segregation in South Africa under apartheid, in which the indigenous black African population was ruled by a colonial regime based on white supremacy.


2) “Hebrew is the language of the state,” while the Arabic language “has a special status in the state.”For 70 years, both Hebrew and Arabic were designated as official languages in Israel. This law just changed that.
Arabic is widely spoken by Palestinians in Israel, as well as by some Jewish Israelis with roots in Arab countries. Yet the assumption in Israel has long been that you need to know Hebrew to get a good education and job, and to be able to interact with official government bureaucracies, which largely conduct business only in Hebrew.



Arabic’s “special status” under the new law ensures that some things, like road signs, will remain in both languages.


But Arab Israelis say that stripping Arabic of its official status is meant to erase their identities and histories. They also say it will put them at an economic disadvantage, because Hebrew is often not taught well in schools in Arab Israeli communities.


3) The law mandates that the “state views Jewish settlement as a national value and will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development,” without specifying where.This clause, interestingly, has angered both the law’s supporters and its opponents. The former say it doesn’t go far enough because it doesn’t specify Jewish settlements in the West Bank.



This is a fundamental issue for many religious and religious nationalist Israelis. They argue that the West Bank is part of Israel, both because Israel captured the land in 1967 and because it’s part of the biblical Holy Land. And since it belongs to Israel, the argument goes, Jewish Israelis are free to build settlements — small enclaves — in the West Bank.


Most of the international community, as well as Palestinians and more than a few Israelis, disagree. They say that the West Bank belongs to a future Palestinian state, and that Israel has been illegally occupying it since it seized the territory in 1967. As such, Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law.


So by not specifically mentioning the West Bank, this provision in the new law walks a fine line, enshrining “Jewish settlement as a national value” without explicitly saying where those settlements might be.


Even so, opponents of this measure say it’s damaging not just with respect to West Bank settlements but also for Arab Israelis, as the law appears to create a legal right to separate Arabs from living in Jewish communities.


Supporters of the law say this is what a strong Jewish state looks like


The nation-state bill passed on July 19 with a vote of 62 to 55, after years of political debate (the law was first proposed in 2011).


Netanyahu was ecstatic.
“Today we made it law: This is our nation, language, and flag,” he said in a statement. “In recent years there have been some who have attempted to put this in doubt, to undercut the core of our being.”



In an age of hyperpopulism, where identity politics has made a resurgence as the liberal democracies of the post-World War II order face fundamental challenges from within, the nation-state law is a perfect power play for Netanyahu’s kind of nationalism — even if its actual application remains unclear.
But it’s the sentiment, rather than the specifics, that’s attracted much of the public’s attention.


Niran Dishin, a secular 24-year-old electrician and construction worker in southern Israel, told me he supports Netanyahu and the law, though he admitted that he didn’t really know the details of the legislation, as they didn’t directly impact him.



Like most Jewish Israelis, Dishin served in the Israeli Army for his compulsory duty, which he said has shaped his outlook and disenchantment about peace talks with Arabs. He is “proudly” Mizrachi, a term used to describe Jews who came from Arab countries and who have historically been marginalized by the Ashkenazi, or Eastern European, founders of Israel. Today, Mizrachim are a core Netanyahu voting bloc.



Dishin described Israel as both Jewish and democratic — but in his view of democracy, non-Jews, including Arab citizens, need to meet certain conditions to be given the same rights as him.


“This is a place of Jews,” Dishin said, citing the Bible. “I’m not saying that non-Jews can’t live here. But it’s a Jewish country. One who wants to get rights like every Jew has to give something to the country … has to prove himself.”

The new law reflects a deeper political shift in Israel and abroad


Some supporters of Israel have dismissed criticism of the nation-state law as just another opportunity to bash the country while bigger abuses happen elsewhere. But others see it as an indication that the Jewish state, and the values it claims to represent, are fundamentally shifting.


Netanyahu has aligned himself with illiberal leaders like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and has even established relations with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

And just hours before the nation-state law was passed, Netanyahu met with Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Israel. The two have bonded over their shared loathing of anything connected to the liberal, Jewish, Hungarian-born financier George Soros, as well as their shared anti-refugee views.

But Orbán and his government have also been accused of anti-Semitism over some of the language and images used in their attacks on Soros and Orbán’s praise of Hungarian Nazi collaborators. Netanyahu, though, has publicly painted a different picture of Orbán, calling him a “true friend of Israel” who has pledged to combat anti-Semitism and support Netanyahu’s brand of nationalism.



Internally, Netanyahu’s government has also restricted the space for political criticism, such as promoting laws that make it harder to fund human rights groups and forbidding groups that criticize the military or occupation of Palestinian land from speaking in schools.


In this context, the nation-state law has shone a light on the deep polarization in Israeli politics and society over the future direction of the country.


This divide was perfectly captured in a pair of images.
After the law’s passage, a lawmaker who supported it snapped a congratulatory selfie of himself, Netanyahu, and other colleagues. Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s second-leading newspaper, put it on the front page with the caption, “The selfie of the nation.”


A cartoonist from another paper, however, depicted the selfie instead as a scene from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, with Netanyahu and others drawn as pigs standing above the iconic phrase, “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.”

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Below we see in ISRAEL they are saying the same thing we say here in US------only a few are now EXTREMELY RICH after ROBBER BARON NETANYAHU sent all wealth to those very few TRIBE OF JUDAH-----and this says that this concentration of wealth in ISRAEL was worse than anywhere in the world.

So, our 99% of WE THE ISRAELIS are feeling the same way about those global banking 1% TRIBE OF JUDAH as we are.


'Much of Israel’s wealth is concentrated among a few families that own newspapers, banks and leading companies'. 

'A 2009 Bank of Israel report found that Israel has among the highest such concentration of wealth in the Western world and that much of it was familial. The concentration of wealth could become problematic for the country, the report said'.

Here in US this ROBBER BARON few decades of sacking and looting was done by both global banking 1%---TRIBE OF JUDAH and KNIGHTS OF MALTA. 



Israel

Israeli wealthy class grows, transforming a country

By Dina Kraft June 15, 2010 7:27 pm

HERZLIYA PITUACH, Israel (JTA) — Some of the wealthiest Israelis live on Galei Tchelet Street in this coastal town on a narrow road that seems to groan under the weight of its many mansions.


Rooftops and balconies of the grand homes peek out from beyond the walls covered in oleander and bougainvillea and the security gates that surround them, an eclectic mix of boxy white modern structures and sprawling Tuscan-style villas perched on a bluff overlooking the Mediterranean.


That such streets and tony neighborhoods exist in Tel Aviv suburbs such as the one in Herzliya Pituach, Kfar Shmaryahu and others — along with the new wave of luxury residential skyscrapers in Tel Aviv itself — attest to the new level of wealth bring achieved by a small but growing pool of Israelis.



Money, much of it fueled by Israel’s technology boom, is transforming a country once considered a bastion of socialist, even Spartan values.


“There is a real race on here now to make money,” said Amir Kurz, a writer for the business magazine Calcalist.



“If we once thought we lived the life of a socialist country, today everyone wants to study business and earn big,” Kurz told JTA. “Once the Israeli role models were figures from the army or cultural scene. Today it is businesspeople, the allure of joining the ranks of the wealthy. The goal is to be among those lucky few who, for example, are part of the high-tech boom and cashed in.”



Wealth watching has become something of a national sport in the last decade.


The Marker, Haaretz’s financial section, now publishes an annual magazine detailing the fortunes of the 500 richest people in Israel. The magazine estimates the accumulated wealth of this elite group at $75 billion. Israel’s overall gross domestic product is about $194 billion.


Between 2005 and 2007, Israel produced more millionaires per capita than any other country, although the rate has since slowed. The 2009 Merrill Lynch World Wealth report found that Israel now has 5,900 people with at least $1 million in liquid financial assets.


Israel never truly was the egalitarian utopia envisioned by its founders. But for most of its history, Israelis tended to earn and live modestly, and there was a sense of camaraderie in the country based on the perception that people lived basically on the same playing field, said Tal Shavit, head of the finance department at the College of Management in Rishon Le-Zion.



Now, however, there is a class of Israelis for whom horse farms, private jets, pool parties, vacation homes in Italy and yachting are a part of life.


Israel’s acceptance in May into the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — the OECD, a European-based forum of top developed economies and democracies — represented a milestone in the country’s economic development.


At the same time, however, Israel has one of the highest rich-poor gaps in the developed world, with poverty rates exceeding 20 percent. Of Western countries, only the United States has higher poverty levels.



Research from the Adva Institute of Policy Research, an Israeli think tank that focuses on social policy, has shown that higher income groups have been the main beneficiaries of Israel’s economic growth, but not the middle and lower income groups.


“Israel is getting wealthier, but there is also much more poverty and crime,” Shavit said.


“I think we are slowly becoming more like America, for good and bad. But unlike America, we are in a daily crisis for survival, and so perhaps we are not ready to be like everybody else. A large socioeconomic divide weakens us as a society. What has helped us until now to be resilient as a nation was our sense of solidarity. Today there is a growing ethos of the individual before society, and once it was the other way around.”


Much of Israel’s wealth is concentrated among a few families that own newspapers, banks and leading companies. The wealthiest 16 families own 20 percent of the top 500 companies in Israel, according to a recent Israel Channel 10 report.


Nochi Dankner, for example, is the CEO of the cellular phone giant Cellcom, the Israeli insurance giant Clal and a major Israeli supermarket chain, Supersol.
“When we Israelis go out in the morning, there is no chance we will not, throughout the course of the day, put money in Yochi Dankner’s pocket,” said Kurz, the financial journalist. 


Sheri Arison, Israel’s richest woman with $3.4 billion in net worth, inherited two of the largest companies in Israel, Bank Hapoalim and the construction company Shikun & Binui. She recently paid $4.3 million for a 2,045 square-foot apartment along the Tel Aviv beach, according to the business daily Globes. At $2,100 per square foot, it was one of the most expensive residential real estate deals in Israeli history.


Gil Shwed, founder and chairman of Check Point, the first company to market firewall products for securing computers, is an example of Israel’s new moneyed class; he is worth some $650 million.


Another Israeli who made millions in high tech is Avi Naor, a former CEO of Amdocs, one of Israel’s most successful high-tech ventures. Today he devotes his time to charity, focusing his efforts on improving road safety in Israel. Naor founded the organization Or Yarok (Hebrew for “green light”) after his teenage son was killed in a traffic accident.
Naor’s work is an example of the philanthropy that some among Israel’s new wealthy class have taken on in recent years.


Despite Israelis’ fascination and even pride in the growing ranks of the wealthy, there is also some resentment, as seen in calls to cap executive salaries. Tapping into that, a Knesset bill co-sponsored by Likud and Labor lawmakers was introduced this spring that seeks to keep CEO salaries at no more than 50 times the salary of the lowest-paid employee in the company.
Top managers can earn as much as $523,000 a month, compared to the $1,440 monthly income earned by the average Israeli, according to the Adva Institute. 


“Israel now worships the golden calf of the free market: privatization and sink-or-swim competition,” Yossi Melman, a senior writer for Israel’s daily Haaretz, wrote in a blog for the Washington Post.


The government and analysts like Melman have concerns that so much wealth concentrated in the hands of so few gives the few too much political influence and is unhealthy for the Israeli economy.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that one of his administration’s priorities is trying to fight the concentration of wealth.


A 2009 Bank of Israel report found that Israel has among the highest such concentration of wealth in the Western world and that much of it was familial. The concentration of wealth could become problematic for the country, the report said.


“That could have ramifications for the stability of the financial system and for economic activity,” the report said, “because both the control and ownership of the firms, and their performance and effect on the public’s well-being, depend on the nature of relationships within the families, and the strategies and tastes ‏(and whims‏) of a few people.”

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We will start our discussion on SOVEREIGN CITIZEN public policy by looking at ISRAEL and its 99% of WE THE ISRAELI citizens black, white, and brown citizens.  We discuss often ZIONISM and how it is defined differently by different population groups.  We shared that after WW2 and creation of STATE OF ISRAEL in LEVANT many RABBIS were against this stating it was SECULAR in goals----those goals being IMPERIALISM ---counter to what REAL JEWISH religious tenets enshrine.  When we look at US SOVEREIGN CITIZENS and look at these same movement around the world we see the sovereign citizens are always the 99% being killed by these global banking 1% WORLD BANK structures.

This is current example of RABBIS protesting global banking 1% TRIBE OF JUDAH----these same protests were happening back in 1940s when STATE OF ISRAEL was created by TRIBE OF JUDAH KNIGHTS OF MALTA after WW 2.  Those RABBIS back then KNEW freemasonry and secularism would KILL REAL JEWISH RELIGION.   This is exactly what we are shouting today happening to our US CHRISTIAN religions.

Any protest movement getting space in national FAKE NEWS media can make one question if these this may be global banking 5% FAKE civil unrest----but we know JEWISH RABBIS were protesting in 1940s as this group is protesting today.

STATE OF ISRAEL UNDER NETANYAHU OPERATED ROBBER  BARON FEW DECADES JUST AS CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA DID IN US AND ALL THAT MONEY ENDED IN THE HANDS OF GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH-----that is .00014 % of people.  




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Israel’s hugely controversial "nation-state" law, explained
Supporters call Israel’s new Jewish nation-state law a "defining moment."…'



So, today in Israel the 99% of WE THE ISRAELI citizens are hit as hard with being brought down in wealth and assets as our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE.  


THERE ARE NO HATERS WITH OUR 99% ---WHETHER IN US OR ISRAEL----PEOPLE ARE MAD AT THOSE 5% FREEMASON/GREEK PLAYERS HELPING GLOBAL BANKING 1% SACK AND LOOT RAPE AND PILLAGE THEIR SOVEREIGN NATION.

As we say often there is NOTHING RELIGIOUS about global banking 1% TRIBE OF JUDAH KNIGHTS OF MALTA-----they are simply 1000BC wealthy banking families.


Rebel Rabbis: Anti-Zionist Jews Against Israel
•Sep 7, 2016


VICE embeds with the London branch of the Neturei Karta, a group of controversial Ultra Orthodox Jews who campaign against Zionism and for the immediate dismantling of the state of Israel. Because of their unusual views, and support of people like ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad and groups like the Hungarian far right Jobbik party, other Jewish people often label them as extremists. Reporter Milène Larsson goes behind the closed doors of this secretive community to understand why this Jewish group's anti-Israel sentiment has led them to join Palestinians protesting Israeli occupation and burn Israeli flags.


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This week we want go back to the original definition of SOVEREIGN CITIZEN in THE AMERICAS as our 99% WE THE NATIVE AMERICAN citizens were declaring themselves as SOVEREIGN against global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS sending in what are today 99% WHITE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS as settlers.


So, our NATIVE citizens are the earliest of SOVEREIGN CITIZEN groups labeled as TERRORISTS ------today losing even that TRIBAL LAND.



'Are Native Americans Dual Citizens? (with pictures)
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Native Americans are American citizens, however the U.S. government does not recognize their tribes as having separate sovereignity. Native American reservations, such as land in the Navajo tribal reservations, is considered to be held in trust by the U.S. government. Native Americans were not officially granted US citizenship until 1924.


Native Americans Sovereign Citizens -

Below we see what was discussed as LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL----AND MOORISH claims to being SOVEREIGN CITIZENS----NATIVE AMERICANS and creating their brand of SOVEREIGN CITIZENS' MOVEMENT.  So, now in US we have BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN SOVEREIGN CITIZENS' MOVEMENTS-----all pretending to HATE each other when we are pretty sure they are all 5% freemason/Greek civil unrest civil war PLAYERS.



    Who are the original Native Americans | The Millenium


    Original Pechanga's Blog: The Right of Tribal Sovereignty ...
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    Jabbar Gaines-El | MOORISH SCIENCE | Moorish science ...

'More Native Americans Sovereign Citizens


What is Tribal Sovereignty? - Native American, American ...


blog.nativepartnership.org/what-is-tribal-sovereignty

From the U.S. viewpoint, tribes do not exist as truly sovereign and independent nations. Because of this disconnect about what tribal sovereignty means, there are those non-Natives that feel Native Americans are “super citizens” or have special rights that they themselves do not have. This could not be further from the truth'.


All this definition of SOVEREIGN CITIZENS is coming from the SOUTHERN POVERTY CENTER-----in the south attitudes towards poverty is far different then with REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE LIBERALS.

So, today we have HOME-GROWN TERRORISTS as sovereign citizens being black, white, and brown citizens.

‘Sovereigns’ in Black

2011
Fall Issue
August 24, 2011


Leah Nelson


Members of ‘Moorish’ groups and other black Americans are taking up the ideas of the radical ‘sovereign citizens’ movement


On March 29, John McGauley, county recorder for Allen County, Ind., came home to find a disturbing message on his answering machine.



“Mr. McGauley, this is Jabbar Gaines-El. I’m calling about your article about the Moorish Americans,” it said. “I just wanted to let you know that if you ever have any problem with members of the Moorish Nation, you can call me.”


As it happens, McGauley, whose county encompasses the city of Fort Wayne, was having trouble with members of the “Moorish Nation.”


Starting in December 2010, nearly a dozen black men had come into his office and recorded bogus documents purporting to change their names, grant themselves “power of attorney general” over themselves, and proclaim their “Unalienable and Substantive Rights to Be, to Enjoy, and to Act, distinct in my aboriginal customs and culture; and determining my own political, social, and economic status of the state.”


McGauley was not thrilled to learn that their leader, who calls himself “Sheik” Jabbar Gaines-El, had uncovered his home number. “I got a very distinct impression from the phone call that they wanted me to know that they know where I live,” he told the Intelligence Report. “I’ve never wanted to own a gun in my life, but the phone call I got made me think about it for a second.”

Jabbar Gaines-El carries a “Nationality and Right to Travel” card that includes a “Tax Immune Number.”


The situation never turned violent, but McGauley’s gut sense that something was amiss was correct. Gaines-El, who politely declined the Report’s request for comment, is a 38-year-old Indiana native whose real name is Jabbar C. Gaines. He’s one of a growing number of black Americans who, as members of outlandishly named “nations” or as individuals, subscribe to an antigovernment philosophy so extreme that some of its techniques, though nonviolent, have earned the moniker “paper terrorism.” Communicating through social media and learning from an ever-expanding network of websites and online forums, they perplex and often harass law enforcement officials, courts, and local governments across the country.


What may be even stranger about Gaines and his black Fort Wayne cohorts is that the “sovereign citizens” ideology to which they adhere — a conspiratorial belief system that argues that most Americans are not subject to most tax and criminal laws promulgated by the government — was originally thoroughly anti-black. But its racist roots have been virtually forgotten by increasing numbers of black Americans who have melded it with selective interpretations of the teachings of pioneer black nationalist Noble Drew Ali, who founded the exclusively black Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA) almost 100 years ago.


The core ideas of the sovereign citizens movement originated in the racist and anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus group, which roiled the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s and believed that the county sheriff is the highest legitimate law enforcement authority. Posse ideologues argued, in effect, that God gave America to the white man and therefore the government cannot abridge most rights of whites unless they submit to a “contract” with that government. But black people were only made citizens by the 14th Amendment, they argued, meaning that they have permanently contracted with the government and therefore must obey all its dictates.


The movement of sovereign citizens — most of whom are clearly unaware of the ideology’s racist roots — has grown extremely rapidly in the last two or three years. And, while black Americans remain a relatively small fraction of the estimated 300,000 sovereign citizens nationwide, it seems clear that their numbers are growing. In the last year, more and more black sovereigns, including several arrested in Georgia and elsewhere for using bogus documents to try to steal houses, have been implementing the movement’s basic ideas and techniques, which have spread into a number of radical black nationalist groups.


That convergence may not be entirely surprising, given that the MSTA’s Noble Drew Ali taught that black “Moors” were America’s original inhabitants and are therefore entitled to self-governing, nation-within-a-nation status. (Many American black nationalist groups refer mistakenly to the people of northern Africa as black; in fact, the Moors were a mix of Arabs, Berbers and black people.) Today, black nationalists who see themselves as Moors and white sovereign citizens both believe they have key rights that pre-date by eons the present government.


‘Paper Terrorism’


In practice, the conduct of “Moors” can be nearly identical to that of their white counterparts in the sovereign citizen movement.


The weapon of choice for both is paper. A simple traffic violation or pet-licensing case can provoke dozens of court filings containing hundreds of pages of pseudo-legal nonsense. These fake documents typically are written in nonsensical language that is all but incomprehensible to non-sovereigns.


“The first five or six or eight times we saw these guys, they were belligerent, they were hard to get along with,” McGauley recalled. “They came in here and immediately said, ‘We aren’t subject to these rules.’ They’re standing there at the counter lecturing my staff on their independence from the recording statutes and the fees that go along with them, and basically saying, ‘We aren’t governed by the laws of Indiana.’”



They refused to pay the fees associated with filing the documents, McGauley said, and seemed unconcerned when he explained that their name-change and other documents had no legal validity.


But McGauley’s alarm bells really went off when he learned that at least one Moor had used his “Power of Attorney General” document to open a bank account and pass a number of bad checks. Concerned that the others would use similar bogus papers to commit fraud, he contacted law enforcement and the local media.


Soon afterward, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette published an article describing what the Moors were doing and warning locals to be on alert for official-looking documents that seemed “off.” The article quoted McGauley extensively. Two days later, he found Gaines’ message on his answering machine.


A few weeks after that, Frost Illustrated, a weekly newspaper aimed at black readers in Fort Wayne, turned over its front page to Gaines, who accused McGauley of racism and excoriated him for “spewing” what Gaines characterized as “negative propaganda.”


“It is my contention there exists a conspiracy within the local halls of government to deliver ‘smear’ tactics against the Moorish Republic with the aim and attempts to discourage unregistered Moors … from declaring their true and authentic nationality,” Gaines wrote in an editorial laced with sovereign theory.


Roots of the Moors


The Moorish Science Temple of America was founded in Newark, N.J., in 1913 by Timothy Drew, a North Carolina native who changed his name to Noble Drew Ali and proclaimed himself a prophet. Drew Ali taught that the earth’s original single continent, called Amexem, was inhabited entirely by Moors. A massive earthquake split the continent and created the Atlantic Ocean, leaving those in what became the Americas as that continent’s first inhabitants, long before the arrival of the ancestors of American Indians.


God eventually sent European colonists to enslave the Moors as punishment for their forgetting their history and ways, Drew Ali said. The only way for black Americans to regain their heritage, he preached, was to “proclaim their nationality and their Divine Creed … and know that they are not Negroes, Colored Folks, Black People or Ethiopians, because these names were given to slaves by slave holders.” Instead, MSTA members were given cards and passports identifying them as Moorish Americans.



Unlike the white-dominated sovereign citizen movement today, however, MSTA was explicitly not antigovernment. Asserting their noble Moorish heritage was supposed to enable blacks to gain the government’s recognition and respect as full citizens rather than second-class descendants of slaves. Drew Ali exhorted young MSTA members to “see the duty and wisdom of at all times upholding … obedience to law, respect and loyalty to government,” and “not to use any assertion against the American flag.”



Many white sovereign citizens today also carry fake IDs proclaiming themselves members of imaginary nations, but these are supposed to show that they are outside U.S. jurisdiction and therefore not subject to codes, statutes or courts.


The MSTA fragmented rapidly after Drew Ali’s death in 1929, but his call for reclaiming a proud heritage has captured the imagination of tens of thousands of black Americans — including Jabbar Gaines-El and his fellow travelers in Fort Wayne. They, like those in many MSTA offshoots and other black nationalist and black Muslim groups, took to adding suffixes like “Ali,” “El,” “Dey,” “Bey,” and “Al,” to their last names.


Today, the head of MSTA is none too happy to see its prophet’s words used to encourage antigovernment activity.
MSTA’s grand sheik, Brother R. Jones Bey, is arbiter of orthodoxy for the movement’s members. He believes the behavior of groups like Gaines’ is utterly out of line with the prophet’s teachings.


“We do not follow ‘sovereignty.’ The prophet never talked about that,” he told the Intelligence Report. “Our organization has been misunderstood by people who see the value of our religion but don’t want to conform,” he said. “They are not members of our organization.

I don’t know what they’re doing, because they’re misrepresenting the Moorish Science Temple of America.”


Jones Bey said that the proliferation of non-members claiming ties to the MSTA and Noble Drew Ali and imbued with sovereign ideas came to his attention about a year ago. MSTA immediately added to its website a note stating that it does not endorse sovereign ideas or behavior. “We are citizens of the United States of America, and we want to make our contribution to the United States of America, not tear it down,” Jones Bey said.


That’s not how Gaines-El sees it. He predicates his argument that Moors are not U.S. citizens on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott ruling, which described black people as “beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

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We shout ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE ----WORLD CITIZEN is only for the global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS and these terms WORLD CITIZEN directed at 99% of WE THE GLOBAL CITIZENS whether living in ISRAEL or US-------is FAKE NEWS------there will be no sovereign rights for any of our global 99%.

As SOVEREIGN CITIZEN MOVEMENTS in US being BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN are sold on US national FAKE NEWS media as civil unrest civil war -----those behind these FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT groups work for global banking 1% and goals of WORLD CITIZENS for only the global 1%.


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MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE has been happening all last century.  It started as a marginal group then taking more and more and more of our political establishment until today these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have literally used HITTING-------ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE BLACK MARKET VIDEO PORN as a tool in bringing an end to our US SOVEREIGN RIGHTS AS CITIZENS black, white, and brown citizens.






World Citizen / Global Granny

Posted on October 22, 2018 by elspethc



Having a great time at the Block Island Peace Project, and doing online research, I discover that my self appointed name of world citizen is in fact already something that is possible. I am going to get myself a World Passport – from the World Service Authority which is validated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and is reported to have sometimes worked for exit and entry to various countries. Click here to read the rationale: You too can be a World Citizen- in fact, you are one already, you just have not got your passport yet.




Although I believe the UDHR is one of the best documents ever produced [better even than the US constitution and that one is pretty good too] I am of course not convinced that  the World Passport will be a very useful acquisition, even though Einstein apparently said it was a great idea. And even though these great documents are regrettably too often ignored rather than heeded. Getting the passport seems to be mainly rich celebrities feeling progressive, and thus supporting the over 10 million stateless people in the world today. UNCHR says the number of displaced people and refugees has never been greater. It is in fact shocking, so the use of the World Passport is really that if I get one, it enables someone stateless to get at least something that says who they are. [I hope. It is worth it for that alone, as not being very rich, I have to work out what charities to support with my tiny donations.]


One thing leads to another and I remembered that in 2009 – that was 9 years ago – I wrote a poem about being a global granny. 2009 was the one and only time my grandchildren happened to be in the same place – it was their grandfather’s 70th birthday celebration. So, here is the poem, and the photo of Rory, Fiona, Ali, Louis and Ruby, the Crawford cousins – together. The chinese branch have since commuted between China and New Zealand, as readers of this blog know. This year they have finally left China and are settled in Palmerston North… I think…



21st Century Global Grandmother


Once upon a time
one could arrange
a marriage
for good or ill.
Make some choice
of future in-law family.
At least
introduce some girls
known to one
to one’s sons.
No more.
Hoist by one’s own encouragement
of independence,
celebration of diversity,
exhortations
to live life to the full.
Sons make their own choices
and thereby
it seems
expectations and reality diverge
Twenty-first century grannyhood
is strange.
Third son has not given me the title.
I wait to hear if he ever will.
Second, age fifteen, went to America.
Not then, but there,
he found his independent glorious girl
and founded his dynasty.
Disney focussed
ferociously vocal
upfront, in your face,
all three american:
My beautiful granddaughters
Teach me assertiveness.
My first born travelled east,
teaching English as a foreign language.
Fell in love with China
and all things chinese
including Xin Yan,
bright swallow bird
offering her admiration
engaging his happiness,
and less predictably,
producing non-identical twins
my grandsons.
The unintentional consequence
being, unlike in America,
my vocal capacity
for in-law communication
diminished
faster than lettuce in a hotpot.
Defeated under an onslaught of difficulties
learning chinese
later in life.
Xin yan and my son
both speak good chinglish
and my chinese is better
than the other grandparents’
non-existent english
but nevertheless my voice
is a trigger for laughter
undermining already shaky
diction and well-meant advice.
And sometimes, regrettably,
a trigger for tears
as I mind what happens too much.
I also suspect
non-verbal communication
in defence of a daughter
who should now belong
to her husband’s family,
but being western, that family
Me, myself, alone in China,
neglected to claim
the expected authority.
Which is confusing.
Though unexpectedly
I am the most important
granny, the Father’s mother.
My helpful co-granny
is only mother’s mother
A lesser role.
This reversal of american experience
upset learned grannyhood.
In america mother’s mother
is offered a natural due.
Father’s mother respected
though vote of confidence.
has to be earned.
Helpfully, I remembered my mother
our occasional clashes,
and how much I came to love
the thoughtful regard of my own mother-in-law
the other granny to my
crash course mothering.
The rule is let them learn somehow
without much bothering.
Except that twins defy the rules
while everyone learns.
To have both sons and twins
wins the lottery of parenthood
in China.
Present and future fortune,
Immediate elevation of all grandparents
to very superior status.
Mixed parentage apparently doubles the luck
Strangers point to my pushchair.
I learn to understand chinese,
unwhispered awestruck voices,
nainai hun xue shuang bao tai
“that’s her, the western granny,
grandmother of the mixed blood twins”.
Some dilemmas of grandparenthood
are shared in either place
though stretched even more by the
chinese branch
deciding to move to New Zealand
which is even further away.
How long to stay,
how much to help,
Let them find their own way.
Balance with one’s own life
Feel the distance daily.
I am a travelling granny.
Always separated from someone,
family or friend.
I decide on separations
made regularly and often
in child sized remembrance.
The bewilderment of language
and culture shocks
both sides of the world
are transcended by excited welcome.
Armswinging hugs from
already bilingual boys
who know which granny they are talking to
and girls old enough to email
when I am not there
and come to my place for sleepovers
when I am.
Twenty first century
global grandparenting
brings newness every day.
Experience beyond imagining
joins age, grey aches and pains,
joy, gratitude, good fortune.
As long as I can, I will be:
A global grandmother.




They have all grown up, the girls more likely to be playing soccer instead of Disney. I found some more recent photos. Wish they might be together again one day. Until then, I travel, the families have work and school, too many commitments.
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ben ISRAEL is an very old OLD WORLD KINGS TRIBE OF JUDAH who works with NETANYAHU et al about ending the status of nation-states like that in STATE OF ISRAEL for our 99% of WE THE JEWISH citizens.


'Responsibilities of Global Citizens | The Classroom
www.theclassroom.com/responsibilities-of-global...
As Ronald C. Israel, co-founder of the Global Citizens' Initiative, explains, it does not mean that you forsake your own country, but rather that you are concerned about the care, proper treatment and sustainability of your global neighbors, in addition to your literal ones'.



This ONE WORLD ONE PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING is behind all these continuous wars----WORLD BANK ONE CENTRAL BANK -----

'The Last Days of Israel

by Barry Chamish



Barry Chamish is changing Israel’s perspective as no other journalist in his field. His previous books, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land, and Israel Betrayed have documented an Israeli leadership controlled by dangerous and secre-tive European and American power brokers, using murder to push “peace” down an un-willing Israeli public’s throat'.


This takes us back to MY CASE against NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG illegal surveillance and 24/7 video PORN getting a start in CLINTON 1990s to kill 99% REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES in Democratic Party replacing them with global banking 1% CLINTON neo-liberals---those dastardly ONE WORLD WORLD CITIZENS only for the global 1%.

This article would make one believe this surveillance structure is just getting underway when this the external piece of HITTING-----where these same surveillance cameras and microphones are placed INSIDE HOUSES AND APARTMENTS so this CITIZENS GROUP of community associations tied to CITY HALL tied to GLOBAL BANKING 1% -----act to get rid of US 99% of SOVEREIGN CITIZENS white, black, and brown and these surveillance structures are driven by what I call 5% freemason/Greek players/pols -----working for those POLITICAL MACHINES.

This VIRTUAL NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH is what has my apartment wired inside with NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG illegally surveilling ME 24/7 inside my house----able to use PSYCHO-SEXUAL TORTURE upon people unaware that these DEEP DEEP REALLY DEEP STATE surveillance structures are ALREADY IN PLACE.

'IT EMPOWERS THE NEIGHBORHOOD' at a time that all US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are becoming GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUSES ------with no US SOVEREIGN CITIZENS.

We have discussed AMAZON as that global private military corporation bringing DRONES as surveillance---drones in the sky-----AMAZON cameras outside houses and residential buildings---with SPYING happening inside people's HOMES.





'Related: A 'virtual neighborhood watch' with help from Amazon Ring »

“It empowers the neighborhood,” Hopkins said. “Anytime we can have the video cameras is definitely a bonus for my detectives."

McKown said that in some cases, residents prefer to deal with one another instead of police. He said the participation is voluntary, meaning only residents have access and can choose to retrieve images from their own cameras and share it with neighbors or police.

Other Baltimore neighborhoods are embarking on similar projects, part of a nationwide surge. Earlier this year, the Northwest Faith-Based Community Partnership received a $15,000 grant to build a network of private surveillance cameras with the help of Amazon’s Ring'.


This structure is ONE WORLD WORLD CITIZEN where only the global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS---foreign KINGS from Asia, Arabia, Europe will have those SOVEREIGN RIGHTS AS CITIZENS.


This Baltimore neighborhood has built an informal home camera network to fight crime. Police say it’s working.

By Jessica Anderson
Baltimore Sun |
Oct 21, 2019 | 5:00 AM



Arch McKown and his wife were out walking their dog one evening this summer when they came across a neighbor who told them he had recently been attacked by two young boys.


The man recalled how the boys threw rocks and food containers at him, and that he unsuccessfully tried chasing them down. He called police.



McKown, the Patterson Park Neighborhood Association safety chair, went home and pulled footage from his own security cameras. There it was: video of the boys fleeing. He recognized one by his shoes.



McKown’s devices are part of a broad, informal network of about 500 home cameras operating around Patterson Park. Neighbors regularly share images from their Amazon Ring, Nest or other home cameras that have become increasingly common and capture activity on porches, stoops and alleyways. The residents compare images of package thieves, carjackers, street robbers and burglars.



In some cases, the group has been able to track a criminal’s path through the neighborhood, McKown said. Neighbors’ observations have sometimes contributed to arrests. In other instances, neighbors have worked to intervene with young culprits without involving police.


As burglaries plummet around Patterson Park, police say the community watch has helped.
Neighbors often see the same faces and see patterns, McKown said.


“We realized pretty quickly that a lot of theft and crime was committed by repeat actors, so you can start to see trends," said McKown, who works in biotech sales.


“It empowers the neighborhood. Anytime we can have the video cameras is definitely a bonus for my detectives.”
McKown said more then 200 people participate, and some houses have multiple cameras for about 500 total throughout the neighborhoods around Patterson Park.


In 2017 he and others from the community association began piecing together images using social media, information from police and crime data from the city’s Open Baltimore website. Now, when they receive information about an incident, McKown reaches out to neighbors with cameras, asking them to check their devices and whether they are willing to send footage.
“You can kind of overlay where the crimes are happening,” he said.



McKown estimated that in the past two years the network has contributed to solving dozens of cases and connected potential suspects to additional cases.

Arch McKown, safety chair of the Patterson Park Neighborhood Association, speaks at his home about a network of residents with security cameras that have helped identify people perpetrating crimes in the neighborhood.“Tangentially, it’s hundreds of cases,” McKown said.



Capt. Brian Hopkins of the Southeast District said the community has played a role in solving and preventing burglary and package theft cases.


“There’s definitely been a positive movement forward," he said. "It’s definitely been a help ... but I also think it’s a deterrent.”


Across the Southeast District, police data shows larceny is down 8% while burglaries are up 4% this year compared with the same time last year. However, McKown and Hopkins said that burglaries in neighborhoods surrounding Patterson Park are down to about half of what they were at the same time last year.



“It empowers the neighborhood,” Hopkins said. “Anytime we can have the video cameras is definitely a bonus for my detectives."


McKown said that in some cases, residents prefer to deal with one another instead of police. He said the participation is voluntary, meaning only residents have access and can choose to retrieve images from their own cameras and share it with neighbors or police.
Other Baltimore neighborhoods are embarking on similar projects, part of a nationwide surge. Earlier this year, the Northwest Faith-Based Community Partnership received a $15,000 grant to build a network of private surveillance cameras with the help of Amazon’s Ring.


But such government-backed programs concern civil liberties advocates, who worry about who will have access to any tapes, and how long they will be preserved. Locally, Baltimore officials continue to debate using a surveillance plane, which would allow detectives to track individuals and follow up using street-level cameras from the CitiWatch system.

The American Civil Liberties Union has said individuals have a right to record on their property. When people collect footage, they decide whether to share it with law enforcement, which is less concerning, the privacy advocates have said.


ACLU officials did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
McKown stresses the neighborhoods — and the participants in the group — are diverse, and that the alleged perpetrators come from both the city and its suburbs. McKown said the effort is about community members looking out for one another. “It’s not at all a vigilante thing,” he said. He also emphasized that the group’s remedies don’t necessarily include police.


Desiree Peterkin, 40, an educator who has lived in the neighborhood for 14 years, said she is proactive in the community association and sees value in neighbors swapping information.
“As with the rest of the neighborhood, we keep each other informed of suspicious activity,” she said. Peterkin, who is African American, is aware of the concerns of stereotyping minorities — “I’ve been on the receiving end of people feeling uncomfortable. I am very cognizant of stereotyping" — but she believes in the information-sharing approach.



The communication led to her recovering her expensive Fuji Gran Fondo road bike after it had been stolen from her car.
“It’s important to get to know your neighbors," she said. “I don’t think a lot of neighborhoods are like ours.”
If other blocks were as close-knit, it would create a safer community, she said.
In 2018 the neighborhood experienced a rash of carjackings and robberies, with the attackers stealing car keys as they robbed locals on the streets. Jeeps were a particularly big target.


“People were really on edge,” McKown recalled.
Members began looking at police reports, pulling their own footage and identifying patterns. Together the network figured out where the carjacking crew stashed its cars, and passed that information on to police. About a dozen people were charged, including teenager Dawnta Harris, McKown said.
Weeks later, Harris — while on home confinement for the carjackings — was arrested and charged with running over and killing Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio, who was struck while responding to a burglary call at a Perry Hall home.
The Jeep Wrangler driven by Harris and three other teens had been stolen from one of McKown’s neighbors, whose home was burglarized. During the burglary, the thief stole a spare car key that had been stored in a dresser.



McKown said many of the younger kids who are involved in crimes often lack basic needs, and the neighborhood tries to help.


“They need direction, they need structure. The parents have whatever challenges they have," McKown said. In some cases, when a child is identified, McKown said, he will walk down to the house and talk to the parents.
"I ask, “How can I help you? That’s what I start with,” he said. Sometimes that leads to neighbors mentoring the kids; other times it might be directed to more concrete activities, he said.



He said the community association also works with Banner Neighborhoods, a nonprofit that takes at-risk, lower-income kids and involves them in after-school sports and other activities.

“A lot of our kids are hopeless. Their idols are the local drug dealers," said Waverly Carter, who served as a coach at Banner. "We provide another alternative to help them see their full potential.”


After McKown identified the 9-year-old boy who threw a rock at his neighbor’s arm, McKown offered to hold a mediation between the neighbor and the boys, and their parents.
“I was pretty furious," the neighbor said. He asked not to be identified citing safety concerns. He said he told the boys, “What you did hurt me. What you did is wrong and you have to understand what impact it has on people.”


The neighbor said one kid did seem moved, though the other didn’t seem to listen.
“I just hope that they hear something,” he said. The neighbor said he’s seen the kids since the July incident but hasn’t had any problems, and has said hello to them.


McKown said it’s not just the cameras that’s benefiting the community — it’s the attitude of residents who want to see positive changes.
“It’s about building a stronger social fabric,” he said.

Yesterday, we discussed the mergers and acquisitions taking LAND O LAKE from being a small co-op farmer/dairy----those LUTHERAN BACHELOR FARMERS of MINNESOTA-----to being GLOBAL MILITARIZED FOOD.

The long list of mergers beginning in 1990s CLINTON era basically finished with OBAMA era and this bill signed and passed by CLINTON NEO-LIBERALS and BUSH NEO-CONS.

LAND O LAKES merged with UNITED SUPPLIERS which merged with MONSANTO rebranded as ARMOR SEEDS. No mention that ARMOR SEEDS is MONSANTO. So, when FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT activists say their activism killed MONSANTO----they are LYING -----a REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE environmental activist would be now protesting against LAND O LAKES as global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA militarized food.


'croplife.com
Land O’Lakes, United Suppliers To Merge Crop Inputs Businesses'

'WinField United has acquired Solum, Inc., a soil testing lab in Ames, Iowa, as well as Armor Seed, an Arkansas-based seed provider with a stronger presence in the mid-South'.


'Stewardship - Armor Seed
www.armorseed.com/stewardship

Monsanto Company is a member of Excellence Through Stewardship® (ETS). Monsanto products are commercialized in accordance with ETS Product Launch Stewardship Guidance, and in compliance with Monsanto’s Policy for Commercialization of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products in Commodity Crops'.

This MONSANTO-PROTECTION ACT was simply part of the larger FARM BILL REFORM touted as helping to protect SMALL PRIVATE FARMERS.

We already know there are HEALTH consequences---there are CROP FAILURE and FAMINE consequences----and we know there is the ability to make these GMO SEEDS too expensive for anyone other than the RICH to afford to FARM.


“But Obama ignored [the petition],”IB Times’ Connor Sheets writes, “instead choosing to sign a bill that effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of GMO or GE crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future.”

This was 2013------and MONSANTO merged with LAND O LAKES in 2017.

Obama signs 'Monsanto Protection Act' written by Monsanto-sponsored senator


28 Mar, 2013 19:04

United States President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation.


On Tuesday, Pres. Obama inked his name to H.R. 933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier. Buried 78 pages within the bill exists a provision that grossly protects biotech corporations such as the Missouri-based Monsanto Company from litigation.



With the president’s signature, agriculture giants that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds are given the go-ahead to continue to plant and sell man-made crops, even as questions remain largely unanswered about the health risks these types of products pose to consumers.


In light of approval from the House and Senate, more than 250,000 people signed a petition asking the president to veto the spending bill over the biotech rider tacked on, an item that has since been widely referred to as the “Monsanto Protection Act.”



“But Obama ignored [the petition],”IB Times’ Connor Sheets writes, “instead choosing to sign a bill that effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of GMO or GE crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future.”



James Brumley, a reporter for Investor Place, explains a little more thoroughly just how dangerous the rider is now that biotech companies are allowed to bypass judicial scrutiny.


Up until it was signed, he writes, “the USDA [US Department of Agriculture] oversaw and approved (or denied) the testing of genetically modified seeds, while the federal courts retained the authority to halt the testing or sale of these plants if it felt that public health was being jeopardized. With HR 933 now a law, however, the court system no longer has the right to step in and protect the consumer.”



If the president’s signature isn’t all that surprising, though, consider the genesis of the bill itself. According to an article published Monday in the New York Daily News, US Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) “worked with Monsanto to craft the language in the bill.”

Sen. Blunt defended his bill to the News, shrugging off suggestions that it set a startling precedent that will affect all US agriculture by firing back, “What it says is if you plant a crop that is legal to plant when you plant it, you get to harvest it. But it is only a one-year protection in that bill.”



One year could be all it takes to cause catastrophic damage to the environment by allowing laboratory-produced organisms to be planted into the earth without oversight. Under the Monsanto Protection Act, health concerns that arise in the immediate future involving the planting of GMO crops won’t be able to be heard by a judge. Blunt, a junior senator that has held elected office since the late ‘90s, has good reason to whitewash the very bill he helped craft. The Center for Responsive Politics notes that Sen. Blunt received $64,250 from Monsanto to go towards his campaign committee between 2008 and 2012. The Money Monocle website adds that Blunt has been the largest Republican Party recipient of Monsanto funding as of late.


On the lawmaker’s official website, a statement explains a little more as to why he favored HR 933 and the rider within it.


“As the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Senator Blunt played a vital role in writing the fiscal year 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill. This legislation maintained vital support for research and extension at land grant universities, capacity building grants for non-land grant colleges of agriculture, and competitive funding under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). The bill also included funding for conservation activities, housing and business loan programs for rural communities, domestic and international nutrition programs.”



Nowhere does the senator’s site mention the Monsanto Protection Act by name, although it claims Blunt “supports continued investments in agricultural research and engineering.”



“Did Blunt not realize that Monsanto would stand to gain significantly if section 735 survived and HR 933 was signed into law?” asks Brumley. “Not likely,”


“There’s no way of getting around the fact this is an abusive conflict of interest,” he says.



Clearly isn’t Brumley the only one that feels that way either: Blunt’s Wikipedia page was vandalized this week to read in the first paragraph, “His Senate seat was previously held by Republican Kit Bond, until Bond's retirement, and will be sold by Blunt to Monsanto Corporation upon his retirement.”

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We discuss often the FAKE FOOD attack on our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE happening these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA. FAKE GREEN REVOLUTION ----NOT LEFT ENVIRONMENTAL-------created FAKE FOOD with junk food---processed can food-----and FAKE DAIRY to include fake cheeses in a can and coffee creamers. SILK brought a SOY or protein fake milk to market.


These were called INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS expanding our US DAIRY FARMS into FAKE FOOD.



'Global liquid milk replacers market'

'Global liquid milk replacers market Strategic Insights and key Business Influencing Factors - Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland Company, CHS Inc., Land O'Lakes, Inc., Glanbia, Nutreco, Lactalis Group, PetAg, Inc.'

As national FAKE NEWS media back in GREAT DEPRESSION had HOLLYWOOD creating global banking 1% freemason STAR movies claiming DROUGHT was the driving factor---so too today, headlines pretend a natural cause is pushing our US 99% small farmers off their land.

Now, all those small farmers are said to have become OPIUM ADDICTS-----


Our US farmers and dairy were how we identified as ALL-AMERICAN----they were moral, high value on family and community------killed by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA installing global banking 1% militarized FOOD for OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH.

This is the same land and food policies used by STALIN/MAO to bring down small farmers in USSR and CHINA.


About DFS

Low milk production

Low milk production can challenge dairy farmers anywhere in the world, especially in Africa, where the heat can negatively influence milk productivity in cow dairy farms.


Many things can influence milk production, even in high tech farms. Among the most common and well known causes are:- A wide range of health problems can cause a decrease in milk production, including feet and leg problems, lung or intestinal problems, parasites anemia (as a result of deficiencies in protein, iron, calcium, copper, cobalt or selenium. Parasites can also cause severe anemia).


- Feeding issues: ration deficiencies including insufficient or under or over-feeding, toxic weed intake, lack of water intake, or insufficient water quality.

PERHAPS GMO ANIMAL FEED!


- External conditions such as excessive heat that dairy farms in Africa may experience.
- Physical conditions in a cow dairy farm, including insufficient sanitation, overcrowding and excessive standing may cause fatigue and stress.


Additional possible causes for low milk production:Besides the above mentioned causes of low milk production, we would like to draw attention to two additional less commonly known causes:


Inadequate rest: Some researchers suggest that milk production rises when cows lay down because of increased blood flow compared to when they are standing.



However, this theory has not been proven, and it may be more likely that all cows, regardless of yield, require a minimum period of rest. It is quite likely that the true cost of failing to provide cows with the proper conditions for rest may cause an increase in lameness, which has a significant impact on milk production.


The solution: Dairy farmers in Africa will be wise to ensure there is enough time for the cows to rest by limiting the milking time out of the shed, minimizing the distance cows need to walk to the milking parlor, providing enough cow sheds for cows to rest, limiting overstocking and making sure that the sheds are comfortable.


Inadequate stall surface: A recent analysis in the United States emphasized the influence of stall surface on the time cows spend eating and resting (two important factors affecting higher milk production). As it turns out, sand-bedded free stalls have significantly fewer lame cows. The explanation given for this is that on a firm surface cows have a more difficult time rising and lying down.


Another interesting conclusion from this analysis is that stall surface not only influences the amount of milk produced in a dairy farm but also the quality of the milk.


The solution: This American study by the Food Animal Production Medicine group recommends that dairy farms utilize sand-bedded frees stalls but it is important to manage this kind of surface properly in order to prevent organic material build up over time. Fresh sand must be added weekly, the bed must be leveled daily, and other measures must be taken in order to benefit from the effect of sand surface on milk quality.




From Concept Planning to Turn-Key Design

Dairy Farming Solutions, from ABT Planners, offers over 30 years of international dairy farm implementation experience.  If you are renovating an existing dairy farm or building from scratch, we can assist you with one or all stages, from concept to a full Turnkey solution. Our process aims to minimize errors in the short and long term – developing an enduring operation that will take into account key factors from the start.  With our global experience with dairy farming, our team can often forecast revisions to environmental or operational concerns, and address these in dairy farm planning stages.

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What LAND O LAKES as a former SMALL FARM CO-OP now merged to global BIG AG/MEAT/DAIRY corporation thinks is INNOVATIVE is FAKE FOOD. This is why global banking 5% freemason/Greek players are promoting VEGAN-------fake meat ----plant-based food replacing REAL MEAT and this is supposed to be SUSTAINABILITY.

Remember, UNITED NATIONS/WORLD BANK defines SUSTAINABILITY as policies protecting the structures of GLOBAL CORPORATIONS and global profits. It is the OPPOSITE of 99% WE THE PEOPLE sustainability.

So, this is NOT social benefit and these products will NOT be healthy. Now, our US food market is filled with FAKE DAIRY----now FAKE MEAT------and FAKE PLANT with MONSANTO.

Global banking 1% sells this FAKE MEAT as GREEN because it removes the need for ANIMALS and they say ANIMALS are what is causing CLIMATE CHANGE and environmental devastation. Get rid of MCDONALD'S COWS and we save MOTHER EARTH.

Meanwhile, these same people are burning and destroying all our rain forests/boreal forests and all that environment which DOES actually FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE and create HEALTHY NATURAL FOODS.

This is what global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA is calling THE NEW GREEN DEAL ----corrupting what was an FDR-era REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE small farm bill.  We knew FDR was a global banking 1% OLD WORLD KING player ---but the policies from NEW DEAL did indeed help our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE become strong, stable, quality of life CITIZENS.

This NEW GREEN DEAL seeks to kill all those gains and take our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE back to DARK AGES tenet farmers getting SCRAP FOOD thrown at us from the ROYAL GROANING TABLE FEASTS which will not contain ANY FAKE FOOD.


Investing In A Plant-Based Future


Jun. 16, 2015 8:54 AM ET
|


Bernardo Teixeira
Value, portfolio strategy, long-term horizon, Deep Value
(123 followers)


Summary


With an increasing need for society to change to a vegan diet, and a surge in health awareness, we believe there is a compelling story for vegan food manufacturers.


WhiteWave Foods and Hain Celestial Group seem to be the best investment vehicles available for public investors willing to invest in a plant-based future.



Both WWAV and HAIN are expected to see incredible growth and profitability rates in the near future.



This article was written by Bernardo Teixeira from EAC Management




Investment Theme:



Presently it is widely known that human society has been using natural resources at an unsustainable scale. Whether one believes that climate change is real or not, one fact that should not be questioned is Earth's incapability of sustaining human development growth at the rates expected by economists and scientists. On the bright side, one recent trend that is helping to slow this non-maintainable situation is the population's increasing shift from animal-based protein towards plant-based ones.


In general, plant-based protein is significantly more sustainable than its animal counterpart, as it requires less water, land, and other resources to be produced. Plant-based diets are those in which the ingredients are not derived from animals, also known as vegan diets.

NATURAL PLANT BASED DIETS ARE KNOWN AS VEGAN---MANUFACTURED PLANT OR PROTEIN IS CALLED FAKE FOOD.


While this includes vegetables, legumes, grains, etc. the recent trend in the growth of "fake meats" provides even more options for those seeking to eat more sustainably. These "fake meats" act as substitutes to animal meat by closely resembling animal protein's taste and texture. In addition to this environmental and economic motivation, there are numerous studies highlighting the health benefits of plant protein-based diet.


With an increasingly more health and environmentally conscious society, some plant-based food producers are expected to grow significantly in the foreseeable future. Many startups and some corporations have seen large growth rates in their plant-based product line. Start-ups like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat have raised millions of dollars in venture capital respectively over the last couple of years from noteworthy investors like Bill Gates.

THESE START UPS ARE OWNED BY THE GLOBAL BANKING INVESTORS---NOT THE PLAYERS.



However, for everyday investors willing to take advantage of the shift towards plant-based food from public corporations, there are only a handful of options available in today's market. Furthermore out of the companies that sell vegan products that are publicly traded today, the majority of them are not the most shareholder friendly type. The purpose of this article is to provide a pathway for investors willing to take advantage of this investment theme.



The Environmental and Geopolitical Case for Plant-Based Food Manufacturers


While there are ethical debates on reasons for adapting to a plant-based diet, researchers have been discovering a myriad of scientific motives for reducing animal protein consumption. According to a United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) report, one of the authors, Edgar Hertwich, reports that not only are animal products as harmful as burning fossil fuels, they also cause more damage to the environment than producing all construction minerals.

'Edgar Hertwich - Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science ...'

It is estimated that as of last year, there were around 17 billion livestock in the world2, which is close to 3x as many humans as there are in the world. In UNEP's view, a global shift towards a vegetarian diet is key to saving the world from hunger, poverty and the worst impacts of climate change.



The report describes that meat and dairy products account for 70% of global freshwater consumption. In addition, animal products account for around 38% of total land use and 19% of the world's greenhouse emissions.


WE ARE PRETTY SURE GLOBAL FACTORIES AND GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS ARE THE ONES USING 70% OF FRESH WATER.


One of the biggest downsides of the absurdly high land use to raise livestock is the fact that the majority of these areas were once part of rainforests, hence the massive rates of deforestation.

NOW, GLOBAL BANKING IS KILLING THESE SAME FORESTS FOR TIMBER, MINING, OIL AND GAS -------YES, THOSE MCDONALD COWS DID HARM RAINFORESTS.


Assuming that the human population is expected to grow to 9.1 billion people by 2050, there is a compelling long-term economic, geopolitical and environmental case for corporations that produce meat/dairy product substitutes.


Source: UNEP: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Consumption and Production


Regarding the United States, it is estimated that the support of livestock consumed around 40% of total fresh water (this includes how much water was spent to grow the livestock's food). According to the Water Education Foundation, it takes around 2,464 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef in California. This is contrasted with a mere 25 gallons of water needed to produce one pound of wheat or 320 gallons to produce one pound of tofu.



Furthermore, animal protein is tremendously ineffective in terms of transformation of energy as it takes 6 kilograms of plant protein in order to produce one kilogram of animal protein4. Ultimately, the economic cost of energy ($/kcal) of most plant-based products is drastically smaller than the animal counterpart.



For example, it takes $0.050 for every calorie of milk at the retail price, but it takes $0.017 for a calorie of peanuts/almonds, which is the main ingredient in some dairy alternatives. A similar price difference can also be seen in cattle ($0.041 $/kcal at retail level) and soybeans ($0.009 $/kcal at retail level), the ingredient of widest use in meat substitute products.



This shows that in general there is an economical case for vegan products. In theory, as technology progresses, vegan food should be cheaper and healthier thus more competitive than animal products


Some of The Challenges Plant-Based Firms Face Today

Why hasn't society already moved to a more economically efficient and environmentally friendly way of life? Much of "fake meat" and dairy substitute's failures towards capturing a larger portion of the market has been due to the fact that changing human behavior is extremely difficult, especially when it comes to someone's diet.




There are many social and religious stigma factors that act against the introduction of revolutionary food products.

Therefore, a new vegetable-based product can't just be a little bit healthier and/or cheaper than its animal counterpart to be competitive, it has to be better by an order of magnitude.



The biggest challenge in the animal protein substitute industry has been to produce products that resemble and taste exactly like meat in a scalable and economic manner. Many of the corporations that have tried to succeed in the field have accomplished either meat resemblance or scalability, but not both. As of late, the expectation of many food entrepreneurs and scientists is that the next wave of plant-based protein will be both affordable and tasteful.



On top of the demand issues described above, there are other supply barriers that prevent plant-based protein from taking off. In the food production chain, there are several major stakeholders in the process of transforming raw materials into food. Usually, these stakeholders can be divided into farmers, who are the producers of the plants, and food manufacturers, who are responsible for transforming plants into food.



There is a major supply issue in the profitability of plant-based products for farmers in general. On the one side for most animal-based food products, there is little transformation after the product leaves the farm. But on the other side most plant-based products pass through an exhaustive transformation before reaching its final product.



For example, soybeans have to be processed through a food manufacturer for it to become a soy hamburger or chicken. Thus, a large part of the retail price of plants are in fact left for the food transformation businesses instead of the farmers. It is estimated that merely 5.7% of the retail price of soy or wheat are absorbed by farmers, which can be contrasted with a 31% and 47% for milk and cattle respectively4.



In addition, operating profit margins of animal-based products for farmers are meaningfully higher than for vegetable-based ones. This price difference creates a very strong incentive for farmers to continue to produce an unsustainably large amount of animal food products, which has kept the price of animal products down over the last decades. Ultimately, with the large supply of animal-based food, it is incredibly hard for plant-based food manufacturers to be very competitive in the food marketplace.



Investment Vehicles Available Today


There are several companies that have gained some attention in the media for creating animal-free competitive food products recently. Tomato Sushi is developing tasty fake tuna, Hampton Creek is using a synthetic substitute to replace eggs, and Beyond Meat is selling plant-based ground beef and chicken strips nation-wide through Whole Foods5 (WFM). However, all of these groundbreaking start-ups are not currently available for public investors. As of today, there are only a handful of vegan firms that are public, they are:



1. Tofutti Brands (NYSEMKT:TOF)
2. Solazyme (SZYM)
4. WhiteWave Foods (NYSE:WWAV)
5. Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ:HAIN)



This author argues that the first two firms should not be considered a viable investment option. None of them have ever demonstrated any sort of operational profitability, and are likely to go bankrupt in the near future. In contrast, WWAV and HAIN are incredibly profitable today, and are expected to continue to grow significantly in the near future.



White Wave Foods


WhiteWave Foods is a food manufacturer that focuses primarily on plant-based dairy substitutes and some organic dairy products. Some of the firm's most notable brands are Silk, SO Delicious, Alpro, International Delight, Land Lakes, and Horizon Organic. According to WhiteWave's last annual financial report around 36% of the company's revenue comes from their plant-based dairy division and 28% from coffee and creamer products, and the rest from the organic dairy/fruits and vegetables part of the business. Given the company's innovative product line, it has seen a dramatic increase in sales over the past few years with a CAGR of 13% since 2010.




Analysts expect that the company will continue to grow exponentially in the next few years, well above industry averages. On top of the extensive revenue growth, one very interesting aspect about White Wave is that the company delivers EBITDA margins and return on invested capital that are higher than industry averages, something very surprising for a company that just recently opened its capital for public investors and is devoted to a series of social causes.







Conclusion


In conclusion, we believe that despite being traded at high multiples, WWAV and HAIN still are the best investment vehicles for investing in a plant-based future. We believe that there is a compelling long-term story for these companies that will help them drive excess return/growth rates. Nonetheless, we view this sort of investment as the growth at a reasonable price type as these companies are being traded for a premium.




Disclosure: The author has no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. The author wrote this article themselves, and it expresses their own opinions. The author is not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). The author has no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.




Additional disclosure:


Please note that both WWAV and HAIL's product line are not entirely vegetarian/vegan. Both companies have some organic animal based products. Anyhow, out of the companies that are being publicly traded, WWAV and HAIN are the ones that have the most comprehensive vegetarian product line.



Editor's Note: This article covers one or more microcap stocks. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.
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We have discussed in detail how these global banking 1% FAKE MEAT food structures PRETENDING TO BE PLANT-BASED and VEGAN have corrupted the REAL VEGAN movement because much of this is not REAL PLANT ingredients that bring DIGESTIBLE plant nutrients into our body.


“We now know how to make meat better – by making it directly from plants,” Brown has said. Indeed, for some consumers, these fake meats are what they have long been craving – a sustainable answer to our meat-obsessed food culture that simultaneously offers different flavours and textures other than lentils and vegetables'.

So, global banking 1% uses SOCIAL BENEFIT in ending the slaughter of animals for meat---which left social progressives worked all last century to MAKE HUMANE-------now all that SINCLAIR LEWIS slaughterhouse policy of making animal husbandry HUMANE is being replaced by ARTIFICIAL FOODS.

REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES RECOGNIZE PEOPLE EAT TOO MUCH MEAT-----THAT SMALL FARMERS TEND TO TREAT THEIR ANIMAL MORE HUMANELY------ERGO, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST GLOBAL CORPORATE FARMING/MEAT/DAIRY.

REAL VEGANS do eat GMO PLANTS or LAB-MANUFACTURED PLANT PROTEINS.


The trouble with fake meat

Observer special report
Vegan food and drink


From beetroot burgers to hoisin ‘duck’, imitation meats are everywhere. But are these substitutes any healthier for us to eat?
Bee Wilson
Sun 27 Jan 2019 00.59 EST Last modified on Thu 21 Feb 2019 10.55 EST

From beetroot burgers to hoisin ‘duck’, imitation meats are everywhere.

But are these substitutes any healthier for us to eat?
Bee Wilson


Sun 27 Jan 2019 00.59 EST


Last modified on Thu 21 Feb 2019 10.55 EST



Bee Wilson prepares to try a “fake meat” burger at DoppleGanger in Cambridge. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer




It looked like a burger from the cartoon Scooby-Doo: frilly green lettuce, neon-red slices of tomato, a yellow square of melted cheese, darkly caramelised onions, homemade ranch sauce and thick pieces of roasted portobello mushroom. The bun was as puffy as a pillow. The whole comforting edifice was so tall it needed to be held in place with a wooden skewer. There was so much savouriness going on in this burger – all of it good – that I hardly noticed the thick brown patty at the centre.




I was having dinner with my family at a hip new burger place in Cambridge called DoppleGanger. You order your food on touch screens as if you were at McDonald’s. From the thin fries to the craft beers and homemade ketchup, you could be in a cool West Coast burger shack. The difference is that everything at DoppleGanger – from the hoisin “duck” strewn over a plate of fries to the rashers of “bacon” – is vegan. Taking the first juicy bite of burger, my nose and mouth were telling me “beef”, even though I knew that I was eating textured soy protein.



As a meat eater, I have never been especially interested in fake vegetarian burgers. When I am trying to eat less meat (which is often) I’d rather have a grilled flat mushroom in a bun, which is delicious in its own right, than some weird slab of fakery. But this burger at DoppleGanger made me think again. If my senses could be fooled into thinking that I was eating a meat burger – and a very delicious one at that – then why should I ever need to eat a “real” burger again?



Alfy Fowler, the chef and owner of DoppleGanger, is a 28-year-old former art designer who sees vegan burgers as one way to rethink our relationship with food. And he is not alone. His is one of a new wave of eateries not only marketing themselves as vegan but doing so via “fake meat” offerings. These are part of a wider, rapidly growing fake-meat sector, driven by a population that is increasingly turning to veganism for both health reasons and ethical ones.



The takeaway service Just Eat reported that demand for vegetarian options among its customers grew by 987% in 2017. When Greggs launched its mass-market vegan sausage roll – containing a “bespoke” Quorn filling – at the start of January (or Veganuary), it created such a stir that for a few days there seemed to be something that people on social media cared about more than Brexit. The Greggs vegan roll achieved the distinction of being spat out by Piers Morgan on breakfast TV.



Walk into the average supermarket and you will now see a bizarre array of processed vegan products that never used to be there – from pasties to imitation “chorizo” sausages. Quorn – a fake meat made from mycoprotein – has been sold in Britain since 1985, but only in the past few years has it started to be sold in such a gallimaufry of versions, from vegetarian “ham” to nuggets, from fake turkey and stuffing to steak and gravy pies.

In the chilled vegetarian aisle there are now plant-based “meatballs”, “burgers” and “goujons”. You could wear your hands out making all the air quotes required to cover these vegan “meats”. Quorn has also replaced the meat versions of nuggets and hot dogs on many school dinner menus.

It’s not that the concept of imitation meat is anything new. For as long as there have been vegetarians – or people too poor to buy meat – there have been mock meats of one kind or another. For centuries in Russia cooks have made an aubergine puree that goes by the name of “caviar”. Or consider the Welsh Glamorgan sausage made from cheese, leeks and bread crumbs, which became popular during the second world war when meat was rationed.

THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT THESE MEAT SUBSTITUTES ARE REAL NATURAL FOOD PLANTS AND BEANS.



The difference with the new fake meats is that, thanks to developments in food technology, many of them have become uncannily realistic in both texture and appearance. All the major supermarkets are now pushing increasingly plausible meat-free versions of animal proteins, from “flaky’” fish to burgers oozing with beetroot juice.



Advocates of the new fake meats such as the Beyond Burger – and its main rival in the US, the Impossible Burger – claim they are a boon for the environment and for human health. One of the founders of Impossible Foods, Dr Patrick Brown, has said that his vision is to eliminate the inefficient and cruel demand for animals as food. “We now know how to make meat better – by making it directly from plants,” Brown has said. Indeed, for some consumers, these fake meats are what they have long been craving – a sustainable answer to our meat-obsessed food culture that simultaneously offers different flavours and textures other than lentils and vegetables.



The existence of realistic fake meat products raises interesting questions about what meat really is. When we say we love meat are we really talking about a set of nutrients? A certain flavour or texture? Or a set of cultural memories of shared meals such as Christmas turkey and Easter lamb? A culture that is much more advanced along the fake meat route is China, where for centuries Buddhist cooks have made ingenious “roast goose” and “duck” and even “intestines” from layers of wheat gluten and tofu.

ALL OF THESE ARE REAL PLANT AND BEAN FOOD

Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop tells me that the “bleeding’ burgers” of modern-day Britain “have the same purpose as Chinese Buddhist imitation meats”, of enabling people to eat vegan food without making dramatic changes to their eating habits. The difference, she notes, is that traditional Chinese fake meats tend to be made from tofu, mushrooms and other ordinary ingredients, whereas some of the new fake meats of the west “are manufactured with possibly unhealthy additives”. And this is where the huge and ever-growing enthusiasm for fake meat becomes somewhat tricky.

Concern for our health is one of the main reasons we are now buying vegetarian sausages and burgers in such quantities, according to survey data. The catch is that there is not necessarily anything particularly healthy about a vegan hotdog. Many see them as just another set of overly processed industrial foods in a world that is already awash with what food writer Michael Pollan calls “food-like substances”.




Jenny Rosborough is a registered nutritionist who worries that vegan “meats” are perceived as automatically being healthier. Rosborough points out that meat-free burgers contain on average even more salt than meat burgers: 0.89g per serving as against 0.75g. Rosborough also notes that when switching to these products you also need to consider what nutrients might then be missing from your diet, such as iron and B vitamins.




“A vegan hotdog is probably no better for you than a meat one,” says Renee McGregor, a registered dietitian who works with athletes and is the author of Training Food. As a vegetarian, McGregor sometimes uses tofu sausages but feels they do not deserve the “health halo effect” they sometimes get, just on account of being vegan. “The key thing is that any food that has been highly processed should be eaten mindfully – so not necessarily avoided completely, but I wouldn’t recommend a vegan sausage weekly due to the high salt content and most likely list of additives and preservatives,” says McGregor.



I started to question the healthiness of some of the new generation of vegan burgers after I ate a Beyond Burger, as served at the Honest Burger chain. While eating the burger – which came with guacamole and “pulled” barbecued jackfruit – I was stunned by how close it felt to meat in my mouth, with its rosy pink hue and fragile flesh-like texture. But it felt nothing like meat to my digestive system.




Half an hour after lunch, I started to have griping stomach pains and a horrible junk-food aftertaste. When I looked up the ingredients, it occurred to me that had they not been marketed as quasi-meat I would never have chosen to lunch on “pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, water, yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavours, gum Arabic …”




Clearly not everyone reacts to the Beyond Burger this way. Plenty of vegans will have enjoyed it without any ill-effects. But I can’t help feeling that the novelty of these products means that their effects on human digestion are relatively untested. Quorn products warn you on the packet that the mycoprotein “may cause intolerance” in some people.


So can we actually say whether these fake meat products are healthier than meat?


I consult Dr Fumiaki Imamura, an epidemiologist at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge. He notes that there is “no evidence” from large-scale studies that specifically looks at such products. He directed me to a Harvard study from 2016 which suggested that people who ate more plant protein and less animal protein had lower overall risk of death, but the plant protein in the study was mostly beans, pulses and nuts rather than Quorn “bacon” strips.



Then again, maybe the consumers of fake meats do not expect them to be particularly healthy, any more than I am prioritising health on those hurried nights when I sling fish fingers in the oven for my children. My sister, who lives in the US, is a big fan of frozen vegan nuggets of various kinds, but for her they are mostly about convenience (and animal rights).




She is one of the busiest people I know and has three kids, two of whom are vegetarian, as is she. If health were her only consideration, she would make wholesome dinners of lentil dal or vegetable chilli. But her younger girls won’t eat most cooked vegetables and she would find it exhausting to cook different meals to suit their different preferences every night alongside homework. “So I give them raw veg with whatever quick thing, and that’s often vegan hotdog.”




Fry’s vegan artisan smoked hotdog. What is real? Photograph: Nigel Deary


Maybe the most pressing question raised by vegan fake meats is not why they aren’t better or healthier, but why the meat that they are choosing to ape is itself so highly processed and poor in quality.



Faced with the choice between a “regular” frankfurter and a vegan one, can we really say which one is “real” and which is not? Herta, the leading brand of pork frankfurters boasts that it is 74.5% pork. The rest of it includes wheat fibre, pea protein and dextrose – the same kind of industrial ingredients you would find in many fake meat products.



Back at DoppleGanger, Alfy Fowler tells me that he feels that the soy patties he serves are more authentic in their way than most of what is consumed as “meat” in modern Britain. In one of the bars where Fowler used to cook, they served a bar snack of “chicken goujons”. He could see on the packet that these goujons were only 50% chicken with the rest made up of wheat gluten and various additives, yet the customers who bought them believed they were eating meat. “Meat has become so cheap that it isn’t really meat any more,” Fowler observes.

Defenders of meat will say – with good reason – that an unprocessed home-cooked grass-fed leg of lamb is a far more “natural” and nourishing thing than a Quorn burger. But the question is what to do if you lack the cash for grass-fed lamb.



In the developed countries of the world, including Britain, about half of all meat consumed is now made up of processed meat products, from pork pies to kebabs, because this is the kind of meat the average person can afford. If your idea of “meat” is a nugget, I increasingly agree with my sister that it might as well be a vegetarian one.


The bigger question is why we remain so hung up on this thing – “meat” as the yardstick for our meals. Given that most meat is so highly processed and cruelly produced, why do we still prize its flavours and textures?



The rise of fake meat is not yet a true food revolution because it leaves our preferences untouched. The real change to our food culture will come the day that someone designs a steak that tastes like a carrot.



Bee Wilson is the author of The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change, to be published by Fourth Estate in March



Real v fake: a taste testBee Wilson tried a range of products with her daughter and her daughter’s friend, both aged 15, plus her nine-year-old son.


Fry’s Vegan Artisan Smoked Hotdogs Photograph: Fry'sFry’s Vegan Artisan Smoked Hot Dogs (£2.50 for six from Sainsbury’s) v Herta Frankfurter hot dogs (£2 for 10 from Sainsbury’s)



HEALTH The vegan hotdogs are lower in fat.
TASTE There wasn’t much in it. The teenagers loved the pork hot dogs but agreed that if they were smothered in fried onions and mustard in a bun, the vegan ones would be fine, even if the skin was a bit thick and the texture a tiny bit grainy.


Cauldron Lincolnshire Vegetarian Sausages.Cauldron Lincolnshire Sausages (£2.50 for six) v Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Lincolnshire Pork Sausages (£2.50 for six)
HEALTH The pork was markedly higher in saturated fat (8.4g as against 0.8g per 100g) and also high in salt.
TASTE We all preferred the pork ones, but only just. “The veggie one tastes like stuffing,” said one of the teenagers. The nine-year-old couldn’t tell which was which at first. The Cauldron ones had a pleasant sagey quality but lacked the sticky mouthfeel of pork.


Quorn Crispy Nuggets.Quorn Crispy Nuggets
(£2 for 300g) v Birds Eye Wholegrain Crumb Chicken Nuggets (£2 for 458g)
AdvertisementHEALTH The Quorn nuggets were much higher in salt, which may explain why they were tastier.
TASTE The Quorn nuggets were a revelation. All four of us preferred them to the chicken ones both for texture and flavour.



“It’s nice and moist,” said one of the teenagers. The chicken nuggets tasted dry and bland by comparison.

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You know your FOOD supply is in trouble when global MINING CORPORATION ELON MUSK and global TECHNOLOGY ONE WORLD ONE INTERNET GRID IN THE CLOUDS AND GLOBAL PHARMA BILL GATES----

gets into these FAKE FOODS---FAKE MEAT markets.

GATES/BRANSON/MUSK are simply global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA killing our US sovereign food supply tying it to GLOBAL MILITARIZED FOOD MOVING FORWARD STALIN/MAO famine and starvation policies.

The BASIC SCIENCE to human body intake of manufactured foods/vitamins and minerals---has always been and is now THE BODY REQUIRES NATURAL FOOD sources ----whether FOOD or LIQUID.

Aren't our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown quite the WINNERS eating FAKE FOIS DE GRAS?

Wait until they come out with FAKE CAVIAR ---then those 99% will really be WINNERS as they die early from lack of NUTRIENT UPTAKE.

Hmmmmm, isn't CLEAN MEAT like CLEAN COAL? Absolutely----FAKE MARKETING

'Both Tyson Foods and Cargill have invested in clean-meat company Memphis Meats, alongside billionaires Gates and Branson'.



Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future


Published Fri, Mar 23 20189:52 AM EDTUpdated Fri, Mar 23 20187:23 PM EDT


Rick Morgan@RickAnselMorgan


Vegetarians have long touted the ethical and environmental problems with meat production and consumption. Start-ups such as MosaMeat, JUST and Memphis Meats are tissue-engineering meat in a lab to allow people to enjoy being a carnivore without any of the environmental or ethical hang-ups.



Dubbed clean meat, the efforts are distinct from “fake meat,” like the soy protein “chicken” you can find in your grocery store today. Unlike Morningstar or Boca Burgers, clean meat really is meat; it just grows in a lab instead of being part of an animal. But lab-grown meat leads most skeptical diners to think of a big hurdle: taste.


“When they taste the product, they have to have the experience of meat, not the experience of a product that looks like meat and comes close to meat or has the distinct hints of something that looks like meat,” said Peter Verstrate, the CEO of MosaMeat. “It just has to be meat.”



“The ultimate filter is, ‘Does it taste exactly like the meat you’re used to?’” said Josh Tetrick, CEO of clean meat start-up JUST, who already tasted success with JUST Mayo.


There are two business-world barometers for clean-meat products that are make-or-break as well: price and scale.



Right now clean meat is much more expensive to produce than traditional meat because of scaling and infrastructure. The land, feed, farmers, slaughterhouses and transportation are already in place to produce meat from dead animals. Growing clean meat may be more efficient and will require less total marginal costs in the end, but until the systems needed to grow clean meat on a large scale exist, it will be more expensive.



Bill Gates: No way to produce enough meat for 9 billion people


Investors aren’t deterred by the challenges, with sustainability forecasts chief among their concerns and motivations. Scientists estimate the world population will reach 9.6 billion by the year 2050. This population will increasingly live in urban areas and have a rising middle class, both of which mean more meat consumption. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, world food production will need to increase 70 percent. Feeding that many people with traditional meat production will require double the amount of deforestation, which will increase greenhouse-gas emissions by 77 percent.

THESE GLOBAL BANKING 1% KEEP TALKING ABOUT 9 BILLION PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME THEY HAVE GOALS OF DE-POPULATING TO STONE AGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.  THIS IS A FAKE REASON.



Bill Gates has invested in lab-grown meat companies, as has Richard Branson. “Raising meat takes a great deal of land and water and has a substantial environmental impact,” Gates wrote on his personal blog, Gatesnotes.com, a few years ago. “Put simply, there’s no way to produce enough meat for 9 billion people. Yet we can’t ask everyone to become vegetarians. That’s why we need more options for producing meat without depleting our resources.”





Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future


Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future


Published Fri, Mar 23 20189:52 AM EDT

Updated Fri, Mar 23 20187:23 PM EDT
Rick Morgan@RickAnselMorgan
Key Points

• Investors like Tyson and Cargill could put ‘clean meat’ on grocery shelves within three years.
• Traditional meat production is ecologically devastating, and a growing world population could make farm-raised animal meat unfeasible by 2050.
• Billionaires, including Bill Gates, say there is no way to produce enough meat traditionally to feed the world population of the future.
• For lab-grown meat start-ups, going after $50-per-pound foie gras makes as much sense as grocery-store staples like burgers and chicken nuggets.

Duck à l’Orange made by Memphis Meats


Photo courtesy Memphis Meats


Vegetarians have long touted the ethical and environmental problems with meat production and consumption. Start-ups such as MosaMeat, JUST and Memphis Meats are tissue-engineering meat in a lab to allow people to enjoy being a carnivore without any of the environmental or ethical hang-ups.




Dubbed clean meat, the efforts are distinct from “fake meat,” like the soy protein “chicken” you can find in your grocery store today. Unlike Morningstar or Boca Burgers, clean meat really is meat; it just grows in a lab instead of being part of an animal. But lab-grown meat leads most skeptical diners to think of a big hurdle: taste.





Bill Gates


Meat production is wildly inefficient. It takes more than 38 pounds of feed to produce 1 pound of beef. That same pound of beef requires 1,799 gallons of water. We give 20 times the amount of grain needed to eliminate world hunger to farm animals instead. If the population grows according to forecasts and land disappears, the simple fact is we won’t be able to keep producing meat. There won’t be enough water to feed 2 billion more people eating meat. Lab-grown meat requires 100 times less land and 5.5 times less water than traditional meat.


Paul Shapiro, author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, says the first clean burger in 2013 cost about $300,000 dollars. Although the price is closing in on around $11 a burger, there is still a ways to go.



At $50 a pound, foie gras is made for the lab The price and scale issues have led clean-meat companies to aim in both directions, developing laboratory-grown replacements for cheaper grocery-store staples, like ground meat products — burgers, chicken nuggets — and also steak tips. Current versions already contain filler (some of which are unsettling), so clean-meat companies will have an easier time making them. But foie gras, the incredibly expensive and controversial dish made from fatty duck liver, is also a potential success story.


In addition to more conventional products, JUST (formerly Hampton Creek) is experimenting with foie gras. Animal rights activists have fought foie gras production for years, because the luxury food requires producers to force-feed ducks with a pipe so they eat enough to enlarge the liver. (The duck livers must be 10 times larger than normal.)



Foie gras costs an estimated $50 per pound. Because the meat is so expensive, it is a good industry for clean-meat companies to start disrupting. “That is something we’re looking at,” Tetrick said.


It doesn’t cost JUST any more to make gourmet foods than it does to make chicken nuggets. The company’s high prices won’t make as much of a difference if it’s competing with a food that’s already very expensive.


Bruce Friedrich, the CEO and co-founder of a think tank accelerator called The Good Food Institute, estimates clean-meat products will be available at a high price within two to three years, and he believes they will be cost-competitive within 10 years.



Friedrich knows that until the infrastructure for clean meat is in place, companies will have to stay creative. “The soft opening will absolutely be at high price points,” he said. “Certainly, foie gras is one way of going about that.”


The problem, however, may be that the type of person willing to pay top dollar for such a controversial food is probably not likely to be interested in an environmentally and ethically friendly alternative. Verstrate understands the foie gras strategy but has different plans.


“Foie gras is a really emotional product for meat eaters,” Verstrate said. “I don’t think you would stand much chance in France or Spain with foie gras from a lab.”



MosaMeat plans to start with burgers in high-end restaurants, where it can be price-competitive.



Both Tyson Foods and Cargill have invested in clean-meat company Memphis Meats, alongside billionaires Gates and Branson.


“It’s a train that’s leaving the station,” Verstrate said of the need for the established meat giants to invest early. “It’s relatively cheap to buy a train ticket today.”



Tom Hayes, the president and CEO of Tyson Foods, said in a statement earlier this year: “A protein strategy inclusive of alternative forms is intuitive for Tyson Foods. It’s another step toward giving today’s consumers what they want and feeding tomorrow’s consumers sustainably for years to come.”






How clean meat is made

Clean meat requires a biopsy from an animal. Scientists can then grow the muscle cells and develop them in a lab the same way the cells would grow on a living organism. To grow clean meat requires what companies call “growth media,” a mixture of sugars, amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Verstrate compares it to baby food. Clean meat will grow in factories that will resemble a sort of meat brewery. Clean meat will not require the land, water or crops of traditional meat production.



“This is not magic; this is what they’re [the cells] made to do,” Verstrate said.

Surveys show about a third of the population across the United States and U.K. are willing to try clean meat, but that number could increase if it became more prevalent. Friedrich said the powerful antibiotics in live animals should turn people toward clean meat.



“People are eating meat now despite how it’s produced; they’re not eating meat because of how it’s produced,” he said. He believes that when the public can choose between two identical products and one is produced safely and humanely while the other is produced in a slaughterhouse, people will choose the former.

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY FAKE DATA AND NEWS----LAB-GROWN PROTEIN IS NOT IDENTICAL TO NATURAL MEAT OR MEAT PROTEIN.



Clean-meat advocates and companies believe history is on their side, and it’s just a matter of time until people come around. Ice used to come only in frozen blocks taken from lakes; now we produce ice in the comfort of our kitchen. “We call it a freezer,” Shapiro said. “We don’t think there’s anything artificial about it at all.”



Others, even among the lab start-ups, are more skeptical. Tetrick thinks meat is trickier than egg-free mayonnaise — JUST’s first product — or dairy-free chocolate chips. It’s tied to a societal image of toughness. “Meat is too ensconced in our identity,” he said. “We’re trying to decouple that.”



For now, JUST’s plan is to start small and win people over with a few products. Even if one of those first products, foie gras, is associated with luxury dining, Tetrick said that early success doesn’t equal big success.



“If you make meat that only people who shop at Whole Foods can afford, you’ve done nothing,” Tetrick said.

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It is getting harder for a LAND O LAKES to sell itself as a CO-OP of small farmers as these mergers since CLINTON through OBAMA have led to eliminating all that is THE FARMER. These SMART TECHNOLOGIES self-driving tractors----self-driving harvesters------self-watering irrigation----self-applying chemical treatments----all tied to a GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY FARMING MEGA-DATA super-computer controlling all of this and VOILA----

THOSE LUTHERAN BACHELOR FARMERS WITH ALL THAT OLD SCHOOL SMALL FAMILY FARMING/DAIRY/MEAT-----WILL NOT BE FOUND IN GLOBAL CORPORATE PLANTATION FOOD.

Here is LAND O LAKE leading that MOVING FORWARD DIGITAL FARM-----remember, LAND O LAKE has expanded overseas to CHINA/AFRICA/EAST INDIA as our US MINNESOTA----the original LAND O LAKES becomes global energy ----FRACKING, CRUDE OIL, and global factories which will have all those fresh water lakes -----DRY AND/OR TOXIC.

ALL THAT IS LAND O LAKES PROPERTY IN US------WILL BE HANDED OVER TO GLOBAL MINING, OIL AND GAS, AND GLOBAL FACTORY.


Land O'Lakes CIO Mike Macrie Enables The Digital Farm
Peter High Contributor
Enterprise & Cloud

This article is more than 2 years old.




Mike Macrie was in the inaugural class of the Forbes CIO Innovation Award. Learning about his remarkable story as a revenue-driving chief information officer of the $15 billion agricultural-cooperative was fascinating. I recently spent more time with him in his office just north of St. Paul, Minnesota, and learned more about his remarkable rise.



Macrie became CIO of Land O'Lakes in his mid-30s, and his progressive use of technology befits someone of his young age. He has embraced digital technologies both as a means to render the operation more efficient, but also to aid farmers, as he details in this interview. In this wide ranging interview, he highlights his priorities, and the trends he thinks will drive ongoing innovation at his company and in the industry more broadly.



(To listen to an unabridged audio version of my conversation with Mike Macrie, please click this link.)


Peter High: Mike, your CEO, Christopher Policinski mentioned that the digital transformation of the business "Demonstrates Land O'Lakes leadership and is helping to build the farm of the future with cutting edge concepts and technologies". Can you tell us a bit about the methods you are using and the roles that IT is playing in that digitization.



Mike Macrie: In our IT organization here at Land O'Lakes we are working with our business leaders and everyone out in the field to help our membership-which is farmers and agricultural retailers-transform the way they think about technology. Everything from operations to the way they trade, and deal with their customer. It effects every aspect of everything they do, and many aspects of everything we do here. The one that's the most exciting though, is how technology is transforming what happens on the farm. I think we are just at the beginning of that, but at Land O'Lakes we want to be a leader in that space. We believe we help farmers with decisions in agriculture-in the way they grow, make decisions in planting, and make decisions in environmental questions. We believe that technology is going to radically change the way they make those decisions in the future and we want to be in the forefront of that



High: You mentioned a variety of constituents here, you have growers, agricultural retailers and your colleagues. Can you talk about the process of leading them through some of the changes you are describing?


Macrie:  Just like any diverse environment, you have people who are trying to do what is best for them and make the most out of the position they play. Each group has different priorities, and it is closely working with each group to help them understand what is in it for them. What do they need, what are their expectations out of technology, and how it is going to help them grow or change their business? As one of the largest farmer on co-operatives, one of the things that gives us a guiding principle no matter who we are working with is how does it impact the farmer? How does it make his life better? And I think that is different from other companies who are going after this market space because if we cannot find a value proposition in what we are doing that helps that grower in some way, shape or form. We tend to take it back to this focus area, and figure out how it is going to work with them and focus on those issues.



High:  Structurally, How do you and your team have connections into the various constituent groups you have just described?


Macrie: I have 6 business that I like to say operate, a couple of them are focused internally, mainly traditional enterprise IT. We have to keep the systems and networks humming as well as projects. We are always implementing projects to support our business leadership team and those are focused internally, not a whole lot different from any other enterprise. Then I have four other businesses where I am focused externally. I am focused on how do we generate growth for our company first, how do we generate growth from our retailers, and how do we generate growth for our members. They are small businesses for us and they are small in our portfolio, but they have different goals, values, and metrics. We separate them from the enterprise IT to give them the flexibility to innovate, and the flexibility to go out and talk to customers on a more regular basis. We usually come up with different solutions and then we look at how those solutions can incorporate or leverage what we have at the enterprise levels.

THESE 'SMALL BUSINESSES' ARE GLOBAL CORPORATE SUBSIDIARIES OF LAND O LAKE ---THEY ARE NOT REAL SMALL BUSINESSES FOR 99% WE THE PEOPLE.



High: Taken two themes that we have already described-digital transformation and the certain skillsets that are necessary in order to enact that, together with the resources that you have that are reaching out into the six businesses. Are there certain skills that in recent years that have become more important as a result of the newer styles of business that you are enacting here?


Macrie: One set of skills that has always been important, but is magnified now is business relationship skills. Hiring technologists that can think like business leaders and help our business leaders solve complex problems. This is something that has always been there, but the focus and need is just so much greater. Add into that all the new technology that is out there that is needed to support that vision. I would say that it is on two ends of the spectrum, there is a critical need for business leaders who understand this technology, and there is a critical need of specialists in this new technology to help apply it to new problems and areas.


High: Mike, you joined me at the Forbes CIO summit recently and rewarded as one of the inaugural Forbes CIO innovation award winners. The submission that you had and the topic that you described was the R7 tool. Can you give an overview of that, as well as some of the value that the enterprise has derived from it?


Macrie: In our marketplace, farmers are faced with 40 to 50 decisions everyday over the course of the working season. One of the things that we set out to do five years ago was identify what are the most critical decision that these farmers have to make and how do we help them make them in real-time or in near-real time. For hundreds of years, a lot of farmers used to plant, nurture it with water to the best they can, and then harvest. The world has changed, especially with all the genetic potential of seed and all of the other investments that are out there in the market place. When we started on this journey, it was all about helping the farmer make better real-time decisions.



What the R7 tool does, which is almost like magic when you think about it, is use satellite imagery to help farmers first make a decision on what he is going to plant, second, choose the seed that he is going to plant, third, do it in a way that is the most economically sustainable and has the highest economic returns for him, and fourth, help him determine the amounts of nitrogen to apply. All of that then goes into a computer in the cloud, gets crunched, and in less than ten seconds prescriptions are delivered down to their iPad or Microsoft device in the field, assuming they have a networking connection- which is one of the biggest challenges that we have still, and then we port those prescriptions straight to planters which drive themselves and plant these seeds in two to three inch increments with enormous accuracy all driven by themselves with GPS.



When you describe that scenario for a lot of people who are not familiar with what is going on in America's farms it sounds almost like magic. What we have been able to bring is the true agronomic expertise on making those decisions and we believe that that's key to helping farmers become profitable, helping them to become more sustainable and doing it in the most efficient manner.  Altogether, of those 40-50 decisions, we are probably helping them do three to four and we would love to get after all the other decision and that is where our vision is to expand upon that platform and help make other decisions in real-time. We are not sure if we can do it all ourselves and we are looking for a lot of partners in that space but we are excited about it.


High:  What you described requires a lot of data. As you are beginning that journey and the data is just seeping in, presumably this is the sort of thing that gets richer as time goes on, is that a fair way to frame it?


Macrie: In agriculture it is, there is certain data elements you want as long as you can get your hands on and it makes those models better. What is also different about agriculture and what we are dealing with is we are so dependent on weather, we are so dependent on a biologic system that reacts with so many different variables, that reacting to real world observations faster is a better outcome then trying to model or predict far into the future. Weather is the number one impact, so we are more focused on how to react to weather events, how to react to changes in your environments to help those farmers make the best decisions. This is a little different approach then others and it is not your traditional big data approach either. We are look forward to how to better react to different markets and different weather events quicker.


High: You begin to talk about the need for an ecosystem of partners to deliver what you have described and it sounds like one that is growing. Can you talk about where it stands now? And how you have thought about building this ecosystem



Macrie: We have a program called AnswerTech where we help distribute other companies’ technologies. One thing that we determine early on is that we are not going to have all the best ideas in the marketplace. Through our AnswerTech program we help other companies who have complimentary technologies distribute them to the farm. What we are also doing with our Winfield Data Silo is we are developing a program which is going to be released later this year that firstly, ties all the data together and secondly, does it in a way that protects the privacy of farmers and retailers, and in agriculture that is important. Between those two programs, Data Silo and AnswerTech, we are out there generating interest, educating farmers on how to use the latest and greatest technologies, and then we are enabling them to bring the data together to use it for their benefit and create that ecosystem of development. Right now I believe we have about seven partners in our AnswerTech program but we are pleased to say that there are about 30-50 lining up to work with us and go to the farms.




High: How do you think about engaging them, is there much that your IT team needs to put in place in order to gauge the success of each relationship? Are there connections out to each of those to ensure that the information is collected in an appropriated way or that they are engaged in the various areas that they are experts in?




Macrie: We have a dedicated team who work on these partnerships now, and that was an investment we had to make once we started to get traction and momentum. We look at these partnerships in a lot of ways. Some are startups so they need a little bit more handholding because they may not understand the full marketplace. While others are established agricultural technology companies, and some of our biggest partners on the manufacturing side as well who may have an innovation they may want to bring to market. We work differently with all shapes and sizes, and I wish I can tell you a standard methodology, but it is about pushing them through, educating them on how we sell and working with them to ensure that the data is protected, private and controlled through all pieces of that technological supply chain.




High: I am sure several things we have talked about are the things that are noted in your strategic priorities for the foreseeable future. Are there other aspects that we have not discussed that make up some of the things that are on your roadmap right now?



Macrie: For us, we have talked a lot about agriculture-tech here but I have the traditional enterprise objectives as well. We have things like big data which is important to start leaning into and see where that technology can take us. We also have investments in mobile, we are trying to make everything mobile as fast as possible which will have a huge impact on our company as well. I would say those two areas are interesting for us.



High: Can you share with us a little bit on how your IT team is structured?


Macrie: We have a hybrid model here, and we are heavily centralized in all the execution. However, what I do have federated is control of the projects, funding and the project management. That sits usually with our business leadership, and I have a great relationship with them where we have a matrix responsibility. I have what I call "Mini-CIOs" sit with the business, and they set strategies, plans, and funding with the business. The difference is that everything that gets executed gets executed centrally, so we have tight cost controls, standard ways of executing the things we do, everything from standard Images to standard datacenters to standard platforms and that is the hybrid model in which we use. As it relates to how we go to market and work with the other business depends on the market opportunities, we tend to change and adapt. When it comes to insource versus outsource, the relationships that we have there is that I want the best person for the jobs at the lowest prices, and whose willing to adapt, change, and develop. Right now we have about 60 percent of all of our IT work effort done internally and 40 percent externally. That 40 percent externally is also split between near shore, on shore providers, big consulting firms, innovative firms in the digital area, and offshore firms who help us do the night time work to keep the guts of the system working.




High: Given the sanctity of data and its growing importance to IT specifically and the company more generally speaking, can you talk a little bit about the topic of security and how that is evolving?



Macrie: Security and cybersecurity is a huge issue for any firm or CIO to deal with. At Land O'Lakes we have made conscious investments over the past three years to improve our security profile, take more notice of it, and take more upgrades and things like that just to make sure that we are covering all of our basis. Also, I am in a little bit of a better position than my peers out in the workforce because we do not have a ton of intellectual property and we are not a high target. While we have to pay attention more, stay on top of it, and do the basics right, despite all that I am a bit luckier than most guys. In the end, it is all about staying on top of the trends and reacting to challenges faster. I think having a more dynamic and creative workforce in that space has benefited us quite well
High: We have talked about a whole range of trends across the conversation, are there others as you look in the future that are exciting you personally or professionally?


Macrie: The one we are starting to explore is the Internet of Things, connected to Artificial Intelligence, connected to automation, and where does that go? Even in the areas of other types of business back-office responsibilities. Automation has been at the factory floor for years, there has always been robots on the factory floor, but where else is it going to go with all this new technology and Internet of Things investments that are coming out, and that is one that fascinates us. I do not think we know exactly where we are going to experiment and apply with it yet, but it is something we are keeping our eye on because it is definitely going to change lots of things, for lots of people. It is about where do you pick and choose your bets to go after in that space.


High: As you think about that topic among others, when you are beginning to investigate how a new technology will apply back to the company, what methods do you use?


Macrie: I am highly engaged with several members of the venture community in the areas that are more specific to our company here. There are so many and I cannot engage with all of them, but I try to make a point of getting out and seeing their portfolio at least once a year and with a number of venture community partners. I took our team out there last week, we reviewed around 80 companies in two days. These were not the beginning seed stage companies, these are companies that are in the later stages and have some momentum. There are about four or five of those companies that we will probably do business with in the next two years that I believe can save us significant dollars, so staying on top of that is critical. Also, working with your strategic partners that you already have, getting embedded in their customer advisory boards, networking with your peer groups, and going out talking to your core strategic partners annually about what their strategic plans are. Understanding where they are making their big investments so that you can get access to that information and access to their capabilities earlier than maybe some others. For me it is a combination of strategic partnerships that we invest in and the venture capital community, and the combination of the two gives us a good view of the marketplace and where it is headed.


High: Mike, we have been talking about the digital transformation that you and the team have been leading. I know that there is also a broader transformation that the company has been going through across the 6 years you have been with the company. Can you talk a bit about that?




Macrie: When I came to Land O'Lakes in 2009-2010, the company had just finished a portfolio re-organization and was focused on our three core business that we have today. During that reorganization a lot of things happened, costs were controlled, companies left, and things were changed out. This was a tough time for the company to reset its balance sheet, directions, and goals. At that point the IT organization was in a unique state. Everything had been centralized which was great because you did not have to go through that piece of the transformation, but it had been starved for capital for quite a bit of time. As the company began to grow and performed better, the expectation on the IT organization were radically different. They were asking for growth projects, new innovation, digital investments, and we went from an area with capabilities that were just not equipped yet to deal with enormous growth we have seen over the last six years.




Going through that change was challenging, we had to start off with encouraging people to think different within the IT organization. We brought in a ton of outside talent, invested over a 100 million dollars in our core platforms just to upgrade them and get them to a place where they would not fail every week, upgrading our technologies, and reducing our cost footprints while at the same time gaining value. What this did was created a lot of confidence in our business leadership that we could pull off the big projects. From there, we started experimenting, we invested in a product called Endeca, at the time it was a startup but now it is owned by oracle. That product did so many things for us in the eyes of our business leadership, it was almost compared to magic. Once you pull off a project like that, where they could get insights and information in a way that they never could have imagined before, it just started to snowball. They started to look at the team differently, inviting them to different types of strategic meetings, and from there we made that next jump to invest in digital and create a team that focuses on working with the marketing and sales department on growth.




When you think of a typical IT organization, it is focused on running the day to day and keeping the lights on, and all of a sudden in a six year time period we are talking about precision agriculture, generating revenues, and helping our member solve their problem on the farm. It did not happen overnight. It came with steps and a lot of hard work but it is something that I would encourage other leadership to think of how are going to get there, how are we going to make that transformation like we did. For my career this has been one of the most exciting journeys that I had ever been on and it is just exceptional to think about.


High: in transformations like that, often times there is a cost to do a lot of the process and technology changes necessary, but then yields benefit after the initial curve of investment. This for a lot of organizations can be an intimidating thing. How do you overcome that?


Macrie: That is one of the biggest challenges, but one of the things that I am super and hyper-focused on is that it’s the business leadership vision which we are achieving. What we do is spend an enormous amount of time working with them day to day in lots of different ways to help them see the path to getting to what they would like. They want insight, innovation, and real-time analytics and market responses to market dynamics. We can talk about the path to how to get from point A to point B, it is never a perfect task where you have to adjust it every six months in the world we live in today, but that type of relationship is critical. It is not my path or a technology path for the sake of technology. It is how do we leverage technology to achieve those business outcomes and business goals and objectives in a way that is more compelling than the other investments that they can make. Let’s face it, we are all capital constrained, all have profit targets, so it is about creating a vision, working with them and having it be their goal, their objective and that is what funded the extra dollars. It is taking it from other investments which they could make to see one that generates more return or a longer term return and they are going to sacrifice things in the short term to get there. That partnership right there is critical.

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We often say our US CATHOLIC AND JEWISH structures over these few decades were made HYPER-NEO-LIBERAL FREEMASONRY---that is what we call PRE-CHRISTIAN NERO/CATO/SENECA.

Below we the documents from 1967 tied to EISENHOWER AVIATION ACT of 1958 where our US PRESIDENTS started tying our US FEDERAL agencies to GLOBAL MITRE CORPORATIONS----that is the Catholic Bishop's CAP------where TAKING OFF THE VEIL supposedly allows these CATHOLIC institutions to go HOG WILD---doing anything for wealth and power====

THE NEED TO REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH.



'I mean there’s a whole lot in the Bible about personal charity and individual responsibility for taking care of the widow and the orphan, but I gotta say there’s nothing in there about government programs and the need to redistribute wealth'.

While this article tries to pin these actions upon a single set of Catholic institutions like NOTRE DAME in LAND O LAKES -----and not tied to VATICAN----OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA-----that would be FAKE NEWS.



'Although not yet accepted in its entirety, Ex corde Ecclesiae turned the tide toward renewal of Catholic identity and gave prominence to those faithful institutions that never accepted the Land O’ Lakes mentality'.


No hindsight needed in these 1967 stances----global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA knew all this was sacking and looting---raping and pillaging----making US Catholic institutions FREEMASONRY-------------as HARVARD NEO-LIBERALISM

'In hindsight, what they did was appalling'.

This statement is coming out at the END of ROBBER BARON few decades of SACKING AND LOOTING...FORDHAM UNIVERSITY is that hyper-neo-liberal Catholic freemasonry 'university'.


When we say global banking 5% freemason/Greek players black, white, and brown that includes the GREEKS graduating from these CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES.


The Land O’ Lakes Statement Has Caused Devastation For 50 Years



Patrick Reilly / July 20, 2017




In hindsight, what they did was appalling.

But when several Catholic university leaders gathered in the summer of 1967 at a remote retreat in Land O’ Lakes, Wisconsin, did they fully anticipate the consequences of their vision for “modern” Catholic education? Hopefully not.



It was 50 years ago, on July 20-23, when Notre Dame’s Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., gathered his peers to draft and sign the “Land O’ Lakes Statement,” a declaration of the independence of Catholic universities from “authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself.”




Over the course of just a few years following the statement, most Catholic colleges and universities in America shed their legal ties to the Church and handed their institutions over to independent boards of trustees. In the quest for secular prestige and government funding, many went so far as to remove the crucifixes from their classroom walls and to represent their Catholic identity in historical terms (such as, “in the Jesuit tradition”).



The wound of secularization deepened over the next few decades: many Catholic colleges and universities weakened their core curricula in favor of the Harvard model of electives and specialization, adopted a radical notion of academic freedom, embraced relativism and political correctness, and largely abandoned the project of forming young people for Christ outside the classroom.



It wasn’t until 1990 that the “Land O’ Lakes Statement” was soundly repudiated by Saint Pope John Paul II in Ex corde Ecclesiae, the apostolic constitution for Catholic universities. Although not yet accepted in its entirety, Ex corde Ecclesiae turned the tide toward renewal of Catholic identity and gave prominence to those faithful institutions that never accepted the Land O’ Lakes mentality. In the meantime, however, Fr. Hesburgh’s declaration did much damage.



It’s for good reason, then, that the “Land O’ Lakes Statement” has become a focal point in American Church history. It’s sometimes described as an explosive, revolutionary act that changed the trajectory of Catholic higher education, which may be an exaggeration. But it certainly was a watershed moment, evidenced by the rapid changes that followed the statement. It was also the culmination of years of unrest in Catholic universities--in many respects, a moral struggle with the temptation to pride and prestige at the expense of Catholic identity.



With the “Land O’ Lakes Statement,” that struggle was momentarily lost. It represented a public, deliberate choice for opportunity over mission, resulting in a voluntary exile from the once-lush gardens of truth and wisdom that had distinguished the world’s Catholic universities.

WE CALL THIS ---HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF AS EVERY ROBBER BARON CENTURY IS FILLED WITH THIS TAKING OFF THE VEIL FOR OUR OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH----SACKING AND LOOTING CIVIL SOCIETIES CALLED 'PRESTIGE'.




The allure of prestige


For most Catholic university graduates and educators before the late 1960s, alma mater was still as much Mother Church as her academic institutions. But more than a decade before the “Land O’ Lakes Statement,” influential academics were already expressing disappointment with the public status of Catholic universities in the United States.


This was argued forcefully by Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, a Church history professor at the Catholic University of America, whose lament was published and disseminated by Fordham University:



“…in no western society is the intellectual prestige of Catholicism lower than in the country where, in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful. …Admittedly, the weakest aspect of the Church in this country lies in its failure to produce national leaders and to exercise commanding influence in intellectual circles, and this at a time when the numbers of Catholics in the United States… and their material resources are incomparably superior to those of any other branch of the universal Church.”


Note that Msgr. Ellis did not claim that Catholics were intellectually lacking, but only that they lacked academic “influence” and “prestige.” The prior claim would have been astonishing, given that Ellis’ university colleagues included (until 1950) then-Bishop Fulton Sheen—who not only was known for his radio and television preaching, but also was described as a highly gifted philosopher.

Hmmmm, HOLLYWOOD AND TV global banking 1% freemason STARS ------MARTIN/CHARLIE SHEEN?


The Thomas Reeves biography of the Venerable Sheen reveals a much earlier battle, in which the saintly professor testified to Catholic University’s board of trustees against attempts to make the institution a “Catholic Harvard,” with emphasis on secular prestige. At a 1935 trustees meeting, Sheen called for the “primacy of the spiritual” in Catholic education:



“The task of integrating the supernatural with the natural, of infusing human knowledge with the divine, of complementing our knowledge of things with our knowledge of God, of making all things Theocentric, is the business of a Catholic university.”



He added that the bishops’ national university:
“…is to education what the Catholic Church is to religion, namely, the leaven in the mass. The Church is not one of the sects, it is the unique life of Christ; the Catholic University is not one of the American Universities, it is their soul.”



The deck is stacked
It would be wrong, then, to assume that Catholic identity was suddenly under assault by the participants in the 1967 retreat at Land O’ Lakes. It had endured through many trials. The appeal for academic independence from “all authority” had perhaps found its time, when society itself seemed to have turned against tradition and values.



Two other false notions about the Land O’ Lakes meeting deserve to be corrected. For one thing, the retreat was not an isolated gathering of independent reformers; it was surprisingly “official,” one of several regional meetings around the world to help draft a statement by the Vatican-affiliated International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), of which Fr. Hesburgh was then president. The final Vatican-influenced document, “The Catholic University in the Modern World,” was far more traditional in its understanding of Catholic education, and in fact it is quoted in Ex corde Ecclesiae.



Second, although the Land O’ Lakes meeting was identified as the North American regional delegation to the IFCU, it was never truly intended to represent all of the region’s Catholic colleges and universities. Subsequent histories and Notre Dame’s own description indicate that the participants were focused on large, research institutions—an odd emphasis, since none of the represented universities had truly attained that status, but perhaps they aspired to it.



Moreover, it seems the deck was stacked with Fr. Hesburgh’s allies: only 10 universities were represented, including six from the U.S.: Boston College, Catholic University of America, Fordham, Georgetown, Notre Dame and Saint Louis. (The rector of the Catholic University of America was alone in publicly criticizing the resulting statement.) Of the 26 signers, seven were from Notre Dame and its sponsoring Holy Cross Fathers, and ten were Jesuits or leaders of Jesuit institutions.



Some of the signers were especially notable: Archbishop Paul Hallinan of Atlanta, Father Theodore McCarrick (then president of the Pontifical University of Puerto Rico and later Archbishop of Washington) and Father Vincent O’Keefe, S.J. (later Vicar General of the Society of Jesus).



Also intriguing is the signature by John Cogley, a leftist scholar representing the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. It’s not clear what he was doing at Land O’ Lakes, except that he was a celebrated intellectual in certain circles. He had been religion editor of the New York Times and a principal writer of John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech advocating the separation of church and state. He later dissented from Humanae Vitae and became an Episcopalian.


For a few coins
I leave it to the reader to explore more of the statement itself, but I’ll make one more claim about the motivations behind it. Above I accused the signers of succumbing to the temptation for worldly prestige. But closely tied to secular prestige is the desire for money, which seems also to have been a related factor.
In 1987, Sister Brigid Driscoll, former president of Marymount College in New York, offered a defense of the “Land O’ Lakes” mentality:
“In the 1960s and early 1970s, most Catholic colleges severed even tenuous ties to the Church…
“We became independent and named lay trustees because of accreditation, the increased sophistication of higher education as a major enterprise and because of the demands of growth…
“Those decisions meant a windfall for the schools a few years later when the federal government offered financial aid to independent colleges…
“Any indication that these schools were under ecclesiastical authority could cast doubt on their independence and thus jeopardize that aid…”
The same year, in the New York Times (Jan. 16, 1987), Fr. Hesburgh made a similar claim:
“Catholic colleges and universities receive a large amount of financial help in different forms from the public monies of the state.


“…if there were no academic freedom and institutional autonomy for Catholic higher education, it might very well be that the [U.S. Supreme] Court would rule that public funding for Catholic institutions of higher learning is unconstitutional.”



In fact, however, the Supreme Court has ruled quite differently in support of religious institutions. Today some of the most faithful Catholic colleges like Franciscan University of Steubenville and Thomas Aquinas College participate freely in federal student aid programs, as does the “ecclesiastical” Catholic University of America.


It’s sadly true that, for the Catholic universities that embraced Land O’ Lakes, secularization has been rewarded with large endowments and state aid. But it’s simply not true that federal aid would have been unavailable to universities that maintained formal ties to the Church. Ironically, Notre Dame still is under some legal control by the Holy Cross Fathers; its students receive grants and loans, and it has received numerous federal grants from the Obama administration (albeit after giving the President an honorary degree).



For many smaller Catholic colleges, secularization has not benefited them financially. They struggle to distinguish themselves from state universities that provide the same job training at less cost.


Marymount College in New York is a case in point. Recall that Sr. Driscoll seemed proud of her institution’s choice to sever “tenuous ties to the Church,” bringing a “windfall” of taxpayer funds. The College closed its doors in 2007 for financial reasons.

As we discuss in detail today's capture of US FARMLAND/DAIRY LAND by global banking 1% LAND O LAKES or UNILEVER/DEANS FOOD------we bring history into play to see why these brutal, devastating events repeat themselves. We brought UKRAINE/CRIMEA and STALIN into discussions of how FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL 1% CORPORATE MARXISM killed REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE CAPITALISM small private farm owners in Ukraine/Crimea/USSR-----well, the same was done in CHINA by MAO selling the idea to our 99% WE THE PEASANT CHINESE he was doing it to empower them. Taking that land from LAND OWNERS collectivizing into large LAND GRABS under the name of COLLECTIVIZING. So, the Chinese peasants like Ukraine's peasant having been called 'LAND-OWNERS' in these co-op structures had a few decades of actual empowerment before that land was seized to become CHINESE FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES filled with global factories----killing those peasants as co-op land owners. Same happened in UKRAINE/CRIMEA---those collective peasant land-owners had a few decades of feeling empowered and then global banking 1% came in and claimed all that land.



Here we have the same in US. Much is made of the dust bowl-----droughts having pushed small farmers in mid-west off their farms. Very little is said about POLITICIANS AND POLICIES passed that forced them to surrender their small farms.



THAT IS WHY THE OKIES FROM MUSKOGIE LEFT OKLAHOMA ----WHY DOROTHY'S AUNT EMMA TALKED ABOUT LOSING THE FARM TO POLITICIANS AND THEIR LAWS IN KANSAS.


National FAKE NEWS MEDIA sells the idea that DROUGHT/A DUST BOWL was the reason as the GREAT DEPRESSION from ROBBER BARON sacking and looting in ROARING 20s ----brought down the US economy and small farmers.



SAME HAPPENED IN UKRAINE/CRIMEA----SAME HAPPENED IN CHINA UNDER MAO-----SAME HAPPENED IN US ALL MANUFACTURED COLLAPSE OF FOOD SYSTEM.



Okies
Migrant Mother



As the "double whammy" of drought and depression deepened on the Great Plains, more and more farmers gave up or were forced off of their land. In addition, the relentless march of new tractors meant that the farmers who were able to scrape together enough money to buy a tractor could buy out their neighbors. Fewer farmers could farm more land. But where would those who left go?



Some went to cities. But many decided to head west. In fact, during the 30s hundreds of thousands left the plains for the West Coast. So many migrated from Oklahoma that they were dubbed "Okies" in the popular press. For years, California, Oregon and Washington had been growing. Many who were pushed off of the plains were pulled west because they had relatives who had moved to the coastal areas. And the boosters of California had advertised that the state offered a perfect climate and an abundance of work in the agricultural industry.


Florence Thompson (above) says she was one of the Okies. She and her family had left Oklahoma in 1925, before the Depression. The 30s made their situation worse. She and the family were following the migrant trail moving from place to place as crops became ready for harvest.


"It was very hard and cheap," Florence said. "We just existed! We survived, let's put it that way."


California – the state that had once advertised for more migrant workers – found themselves overwhelmed by up to 7,000 new migrants a month, more migrants than they needed. So for several months in 1936, the Los Angeles Police Department sent 136 deputies to the state lines to turn back migrants who didn't have any money. Bordering states like Arizona were angry that California was trying to "dump hoboes" back on them. Eventually, the police were returned to Los Angeles, but the migrants kept coming.



There was some work, especially in the new fields of cotton that were being planted in California – a crop that southern plains people knew a lot about. But there was not enough work for everyone who came. Instead of immediate riches, they often found squalor in roadside ditch encampments.
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No one knows better than our global banking 1% freemason STARS singing about these small mid-west farmers pushed off their land so global banking 1% BIG AG could consolidate all that mid-west land to become today's GLOBAL BIG AG BIG MEAT BIG DAIRY-----that the economics of GREAT DEPRESSION from massive ROBBER BARON frauds of ROARING 20s and public policies FORCED them off their farmland.

Same happening today ----CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA as global banking 1% neo-liberals/neo cons turned our US domestic farming into MILITARIZED FOOD-------FAKE GREEN REVOLUTION farming and dairy CORRUPTED healthy food in US and then exported this CORRUPTION overseas.

LAND O LAKES/UNILEVER---DEANS FOODS ARE THAT GLOBAL BANKING 1% MECHANISM HAVING GOALS OF DOING IN US WHAT WAS DONE OVERSEAS IN FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES-----CONTROL THE FOOD BECOMES FASCIST----THEN TOTALITARIAN.


COMMUNES, LAND REFORM AND COLLECTIVISM IN CHINA
AGRICULTURE IN CHINA UNDER MAO


Land reform poster



As is true with all land, farm land is owned by state in China. In the Mao-era most farming was done at collective farms and state farms. Food produced by farms was sold to the state at fixed prices that were generally lower than the prices of the same food sold on the open market. As a result the farms were dependent on government subsidies to remain afloat. Agricultural productivity was low. Farmers lacked incentives to be productive; infrastructure and transportation problems prevented food from getting from the fields to people's homes before it spoiled; poor land management exhausted soils and water supplies. There were also weather problems. The low productivity resulted in shortages and even famines. To increase productivity, chemical fertilizer plants were built, hybrid-seed programs were developed, insecticides were used, rivers were irrigated. Many of these programs had negative effects on the environment.


During the war to take power, the Communists promised land to the poor. When the Communists came to power they began seizing land from landowners and distributing it among the poor. Each family got no more than 1.3 acres. Land owners that resisted giving up their land, even as little as two thirds of an acre, were often executed.



Before the early 1980s, most of the agricultural sector was organized according to the three-tier commune system. There were over 50,000 people's communes, most containing around 30,000 members. Each commune was made up of about sixteen production brigades, and each production brigade was composed of around seven production teams. The production teams were the basic agricultural collective units. They corresponded to small villages and typically included about 30 households and 100 to 250 members. The communes, brigades, and teams owned all major rural productive assets and provided nearly all administrative, social, and commercial services in the countryside. The largest part of farm family incomes consisted of shares of net team income, distributed to members according to the amount of work each had contributed to the collective effort. Farm families also worked small private plots and were free to sell or consume their products. [Source: Library of Congress]
“Four percent of the nation's farmland was cultivated by state farms, which employed 4.9 million people in 1985. State farms were owned and operated by the government much in the same way as an industrial enterprise. Management was the responsibility of a director, and workers were paid set wages, although some elements of the responsibility system were introduced in the mid-1980s.


State farms were scattered throughout China, but the largest numbers were located in frontier or remote areas, including Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region in the northwest, Inner Mongolia, Autonomous Region, the three northeastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning and the southeastern provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi. *

Hmmmmmm, the UIGHUR AND MONGOLIA REGIONS------sounds familiar!




"Mao Zedong's legacy to Chinese agriculture is mixed," scholar Richard Critchfield writes, "He gave agriculture and the peasant top priority in investment, something India has failed to do. Yet the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, along with forced collectivization, set back scientific research for years and in 1959-61 an estimated 30 million Chinese died of famine. [Source: "The Villagers" by Richard Critchfield, Anchor Books]


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Here in Baltimore THE NETWORK public surveillance filled with CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA MOVING FORWARD these goals of collectivized land privatized to OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH----

SEND THOSE REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL DISSIDENTS TO THOSE COLLECTIVE FARMS

Collective farms ARE used by far-right wing global banking 1% corporate FASCISTS HITLER/STALIN/MAO as PRISON---FORCED SLAVE LABOR.

This is why NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG illegal surveillance and streaming video PORN wanting me out of my living space to get NEW STUFF to HIT-----are saying SEND HER TO THOSE FARMS.



'During the Cultural Revolution, some collective farms doubled as Chinese gulags for intellectuals and political prisoners'.

Global banking 1% CULTURAL ARTS send in freemason STARS to sell FADS making these MARXIST structures sound 99% POPLIST---PRO-WORKER.

MERLE HAGGARD in the 1980s REAGAN knew LAND O LAKES collectivization policies were MOVING FORWARD today's massive loss of US small farmers and their land-----OBAMA-ERA FARM BILL created the policies which will FORCE small farmers from their land.


MONSANTO AND FAKE GREEN REVOLUTION started when this song was released ------mass turnover of farm and dairy to what is now global BIG AG/BIG MEAT/INDUSTRIAL BIG DAIRY.

Land Reform in China Under Mao


Paper for right to use land



The Communist Party's greatest legacy arguably has been taking land from wealthy landlords and rich farmers and redistributing it in rural areas among the poorest peasants under the principal of “land of the tiller." During the war to take power, the Communists promised land to the poor. When the Communists came to power they began seizing land from landowners and distributing it among the poor. Each family got no more than 1.3 acres. Land owners that resisted giving up their land, even as little as two thirds of an acre, were often executed.


After 1949, farmers classified as "poor peasants" by the Communists were given ownership to land taken away from local landlords and rich farmers. Estates and large farms were divided and peasants got small parcels of land. One farmer told the New York Times, "Of course we were extremely happy---everyone was happy we got land!"



The seizure of land was not always easy. In some cases “certain necessary steps” had to be taken and this resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people. In many cases villagers were executed or beaten to death by fellow villagers to get their land. See Violence in the Early Years of the People's Republic Below.


The peasants didn't hold on to their land for long. By the late 1950s, private land ownership was eliminated and peasants were given usage rights to the land but not ownership. The land from then on was owned by the state. Peasants were organized into teams and then collectives and became property-less members of “people's communes."


Similar scenarios were played in the cities. Rich families who stayed in Shanghai after Communist Revolution were told they had nothing to worry about, but in the end their land and property was expropriated. The Communists also confiscated their art. One Hong Kong art dealer told the New York Times. "The Shanghai museum's best pieces are all from those private collections."



Top down economic plans after independence bore fruit. The national income rose at rate of 8.9 percent a year between 1953 and 1957 bu created problems down the road. Giving peasants usages rights rather than ownership paved the way for the seizures of land by local officials and businesses that is taking place today.


Collectivism in China redistributing land


In the early 1950s the Communists helped form mutual aid teams, the precursors to cooperatives. In 1955, Mao decreed that all farmers should "voluntarily" organize into large cooperatives. The cooperatives were overseen by party cadres and large portions of the output was turned over to the state.


In the early 1950s, in one of the largest peacetime mobilizations in history, prisoners of war, decommissioned Red Army soldiers and “reform through labor” convicts were sent to the Gobi Desert and western China as members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, to build roads, canals, bridges and dams and transform a wasteland into a rich agricultural area of cotton, maize and rice, complete with its own cities. In some cases the condition were so sever that participants made furniture from sod bricks and used their own hair keep arm in the frigid winters.



Large centrally planned People's Communes were established in late 1950s. The Communists had hoped that collectivism would help the huge Chinese population feed itself, but collectivism did not increase agricultural production.


Within a short time it was clear this system wasn't workable. Distribution was always a problem. Even during the Cultural Revolution when every able-bodied person in the country was put to the task of rasing food, food rotted in the fields and people starved.


Scholar William McNeil once wrote: "The problem is the Chinese have never been able to organize collective effort with the sort of enthusiasm and efficiency of the Japanese. There is a kind of ruthless individualism in Chinese life, a competitiveness and acquisitiveness, that may make modern large-scale industrial organization difficult."


Mao initially followed the Soviet model but became impatient with the slow pace of development and turned to radical mass movements like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. See History
In the 1960s and 70s, the land in effect belonged to a production team---made up of 20 to 40 households---whose members were compensated in shares of the collective harvest by a complex system of shared points.

redistributing land



Implementing Collectivization in

The first major action to alter village society was the land reform of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in which the party sent work teams to every village to carry out its land reform policy. This in itself was an unprecedented display of administrative and political power. The land reform had several related goals. The work teams were to redistribute some (though not all) land from the wealthier families or land-owning trusts to the poorest segments of the population and so to effect a more equitable distribution of the basic means of production; to overthrow the village elites, who might be expected to oppose the party and its programs; to recruit new village leaders from among those who demonstrated the most commitment to the party's goals; and to teach everyone to think in terms of class status rather than kinship group or patron-client ties. [Source: Library of Congress *]



“In pursuit of the last goal, the party work teams convened extensive series of meetings, and they classified all the village families either as landlords, rich peasants, middle peasants, or poor peasants. These labels, based on family landholdings and overall economic position roughly between 1945 and 1950, became a permanent and hereditary part of every family's identity and, as late as 1980, still affected, for example, such things as chances for admission to the armed forces, colleges, universities, and local administrative posts and even marriage prospects. *



“The collectivization of agriculture was essentially completed with the establishment of the people's communes in 1958. Communes were large, embracing scores of villages. They were intended to be multipurpose organizations, combining economic and local administrative functions. Under the commune system the household remained the basic unit of consumption, and some differences in standards of living remained, although they were not as marked as they had been before land reform. Under such a system, however, upward mobility required becoming a team or commune cadre or obtaining a scarce technical position such as a truck driver's. *


Collective Farms, Communes and State Farms in China

Collectives were cooperative organizations in which farmers joined together to collectively raise crops on land worked in common. The farmers were paid in food (grain, vegetables, milk and meat) and money earned by the collective. Sometimes the term collective farm and commune was used interchangeably.



Dazhai commune poster

A commune is a groups of many cooperatives. A typical one embraced 60 villages and 20,000 members. All buildings, tools, machines, land and dwellings were owned by the commune. People worked in teams of 150 to 600 people and were paid a small wage a given clothing, food and housing. A typical rural Chinese family working on a agricultural commune earned about US$700 a year.



Communes were intended to function like small cities or towns. They had their own manufacturing capabilities and worked farmers like factory workers and kept people from migrating to the cities. If needed people on communes could be mobilized for large labor-intensive projects.


State farms were "factory type" farms that specialized mainly in one kind of crop or one kind of animal. They were set up and run by the state. Workers are treated the same as factory workers and paid a regular salary.


Large Collective Farms and Communes in China

Some collective farms in China were massive. "That commune was so large," one saying went, "that the person has to take a train to see the head of the committee." During the Cultural Revolution, some collective farms doubled as Chinese gulags for intellectuals and political prisoners.




Some 26,578 communes were established by 1958. One of the largest, State Farm No. 128 of the No. 7 Division (85 miles northwest of Urumqi) employed 17,000 people (almost all Han Chinese) and had military-style checkpoints, irrigated orchards and cotton fields as well as its own foreign affairs office, television station, oil refinery and enterprises for marketing crops and forestry products.

The Dazhai Commune in Shanxi province was one of the most famous communes in China. Reportedly built up from the ruins of great flood by 500 peasants, it boasted record grain productions and it provided a model for other communes across China. Over the years Danzhai was visited three times by Zhou Enai, twice by Deng Xiaoping as well as by Queen Beatrice of Netherlands, Pol Pot from Cambodia and leaders from Africa, Albania and East Germany. Later it was revealed that Dazhai was a sham. The record grain reports were fiction, production figures were exaggerated and the commune was subsidized. According to one writer, "Nowdays to many people the whole thing about Dazhai looks like a joke."



Another Dazhai poster



Collective Farm Organization in China

Authority for collective farms was determined by national laws or by rules drawn up by the collective farm. Each collective was run by a chairman-manager and board made up of Communist party loyalists theoretically elected by members of the collective. The collective farm chairman controlled all the resources and incomes.


Collectives, state farms and communes were often very inefficient. They often had armies of administrators, bookkeepers, veterinarians, dentists along with farmers that often wouldn't hit the fields until 11:00am and sometimes did the threshing and winnowing by hand when their machines broke down.
Workers who followed the Soviet model worked in units called brigades or links that were directed brigade or link leaders. They often worked in teams of "labor-day" units, with certain tasks regarded as requiring more labor than others. A day of harvesting for example might be worth a whole labor day while a day of milking might be worth only half a day. Workers "earnings" were drawn against their future "income" of labor days.



Yet another Dazhai poster

At the end of each labor day units were tallied up by the brigade or link leader. At the end of the year, earnings and labor days are added up. If there was a surplus of labor days, a workers might receive a bonus of some sort.


As was true with factory workers, farm workers lacked incentives. A worker on a collective farm told the New York Times, since farmland belongs to the state "nobody is interested in working and producing on it." The man said he hated working on a the collective because his bosses were always telling him what to do.


Frank Dikötter, author of The Great Famine told Evan Osnos of The New Yorker: “The farmers who were herded into giant people's communes had very few incentives to work. The land belonged to the state. The grain they produced was procured at a price that was often below the cost of production. Their livestock, tools, and utensils were no longer theirs. Often even their homes were confiscated."

“Local cadres faced ever greater pressure to fulfill and over-fulfill the plan, having to drive the workforce in one merciless campaign after another," Dikötter said. “In some places both villagers and cadres became so brutalized that the scope and degree of coercion had to be constantly expanded, resulting in an orgy of violence. People were tied up, beaten, stripped, drowned in ponds, covered in excrement, branded with sizzling tools, mutilated, and buried alive. The most common tool in this arsenal of horror was food, which was used as a weapon: entire groups of people considered to be too old, too weak, or too sick to work were deliberately banned from the canteen and starved to death. As Lenin put it, “He who does not work shall not eat."


Benefits on a Collective in China working on a collective in the 1950s



Collectives provided education, housing and transportation. Workers enjoyed a lifestyle similar to that of industrial workers, receiving paid vacation and social benefits such as maternity leave, health insurance, pensions and access to cultural events and continuing education.



Each farm family usually had a small plot of land on which it was allowed to grow vegetables and raise animals. The food produced was supposed to be for the family's consumption. Sometimes extra food was sold for extra cash on the black market or authorized private markets. Farmers who had access to urban markets could earn a considerable amount of money.



People who lived in communes sometimes slept in dormitories and ate in mess halls. But mostly they lived in one- or two-room houses or huts they sometimes built themselves. Until the 1970s these homes often lacked indoor plumbing and electricity. In forested areas these were made of wood. In the steppes they were made of mud brick. In other places they were often made of concrete slabs or brick. They houses often had thatch or sheet metal roofs.




Men only had two days off a week and women had three days off. Women were given a month off after the gave birth. There were special tasks for children and old people. Students often studied at school for five hours in the morning and worked in the afternoons. Measures were taken to keep people from migrating to the cities.


Life in a Chinese Commune

At communes and collectives the traditional family system was broken down. Some people slept in dormitories and ate in mess halls. Children were cared for in day care centers so their mothers could work. Old people were placed in special dwellings called "happy homes." To escape from this system many commune residents lived in small single-story brick houses they built themselves. Chinese peasant were generally allowed to have pigs and garden plots to raise food for themselves but not to sell.

commune life in the 1950s Workers typically worked eight or nine hours a day and had weekends off. Sometimes when there was a lot of work to do they worked on the weekends. A typical day began at 5:00am when loudspeaker woke everyone up. After roll call, calisthenics and breakfast of dark bread and grits, people worked in the fields. Around 12:00noon the workers took a break for lunch, which was often made in a barn near the fields and served to workers near where they were working. It often consisted of stew or borscht served from a common pot served with potatoes, black bread and salted pork.




Work usually ended around 5:00pm. Dinner was served around 6:00. If there was time workers often worked their family garden plots. For entertainment there were self-criticism sessions, propaganda films, discussions of Marxism and gatherings and singing parties held in the collective's recreation hall.



The work was often very tough. A woman told him, "After giving birth to first son I still had to keep working, making shoes for the soldiers, twenty shoes everyday for the soldiers. I kept my son in the corner and had to keep working." On first arrival to collective farm, one peasant told National Geographic, "We came here in March, walking from Urumqi. Nine days. We shot wild pigs and wild sheep for food."


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1988 Wembley UK Merle Haggard & Tammy Wynette "Okie from Muskogee"

As the MERLE HAGGARD song remembering the last round of small farm seizures during GREAT DEPRESSION------LAND O LAKES was expanding ----was merging with GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY corporations-----was tied to global expansion of what was still being called a COLLECTIVE FARM/DAIRY industry.

BEATRICE CHEESE was owned by KKR----that is BROWN AND ROOT---global private military corporation-----expanded MINNESOTA ---then IOWA-----then KANSAS -----into CALIFORNIA.


'Land O’Lakes buys Beatrice cheese plant

Land O’Lakes Inc. has purchased a California-based Beatrice Group cheese plant as part of'

Bringing in WINFIELD UNITED and then MONSANTO GMO SEEDS and farming identified its global industrial foods goal.

Do those 'LAND-OWNERS' as collective workers REALLY have any power over LAND O LAKES driven by global TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONS? Of course not.

LAND O LAKES never went public ---no stock market profits which is not bad---but collective workers from farm/dairy are now competing with global private corporation employees for a piece of that PROFIT.

Once those mergers with global corporations occurred ------these COLLECTIVE FARM/DAIRY structures eliminate any money-making from rank and file farm/dairy members.

Merger finalized between Winfield and United Suppliers


WinField United has acquired Solum, Inc., a soil testing lab in Ames, Iowa, as well as Armor Seed, an Arkansas-based seed provider with a stronger presence in the mid-South.Nov 16, 2017



WinField United has expanded its offerings in soil and tissue analysis, crop nutrients, seed, and insights capabilities.



“These investments were purposefully designed to deliver a total agronomy solution for our customers,” said Mike Vande Logt, executive vice president and chief operating officer, WinField United. “Our portfolio will now include seed, crop protection products and crop nutrients, in addition to data, technology tools and agronomic expertise — all focused on helping farmers compete and succeed.”



WinField United has acquired Solum, Inc., a soil testing lab in Ames, Iowa, as well as Armor Seed, an Arkansas-based seed provider with a stronger presence in the mid-South. WinField United’s Canadian extension has been fully integrated into the business, enabling the company to help provide insights and products to a growing network of retailers. The merger of WinField and United Suppliers became final Oct. 1.

ARMOR SEED IS  MONSANTO.
'Stewardship - Armor Seedwww.armorseed.com/stewardship Monsanto Company is a member of Excellence Through Stewardship® (ETS). Monsanto products are commercialized in accordance with ETS Product Launch Stewardship Guidance, and in compliance with Monsanto’s Policy for Commercialization of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products in Commodity Crops'.

New nutrients, broader seed portfolio


With the finalization of the merger between WinField and United Suppliers, the macronutrient products previously offered by United Suppliers are now available in the WinField United crop nutrient portfolio. This expanded range of both macronutrients and micronutrients helps provide farmers with a one-stop shop for all of their crop nutrient needs and expert agronomic advice on crop nutrients from boron to zinc. 



The acquisition of Armor Seed brings new varieties and hybrids to the Croplan seed portfolio in soybeans, corn and wheat. Armor’s geography also extends the reach of Croplan into more of the southern United States. Adding Armor Seed to the WinField United portfolio will help enable faster growth in the competitive seed market and provide farmers with expanded seed purchasing options. 



Moving soil testing forward


WinField United adds to its testing services with the purchase of Solum, Inc., a company that has introduced new measurement techniques to agriculture. Innovations in development at Solum include soil health testing and DNA testing. WinField United also has upgraded and expanded its capabilities at SureTech Laboratories, its agricultural testing company in Indianapolis that specializes in tissue and soil testing.
Collectively, these endeavors, along with the new WinField United Innovation Center — a hub for product and technology testing and development that opened in September — transition the company to the next level of innovation.




“One of the most important lessons we’ve learned moving through this process is that we need to be open to possibilities and new ways of working,” said Vande Logt. “That, paired with our deep commitment to helping farmers succeed, our passion for agriculture and our grit, will ensure our mutual success as we achieve, and move beyond, another milestone together.”
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Below we see the term OWNER CUSTOMER replacing OWNER FARMER as these once small farm/dairy co-ops grew to regional then national size and partnered with GLOBAL JOHN DEERE/CATIPILLAR tractors ---GLOBAL TRUCKING ----GLOBAL WAREHOUSING----GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION corporations.  These support corporations were then called STAKEHOLDERS----being the OWNER CUSTOMERS.

'Together, the two organizations will provide owner customers’

Below we see global banking 1% CORPORATE FEMINISM in selling the idea that being a sharecropper is EQUALITY for women.

'During the Cultural Revolution, some collective farms doubled as Chinese gulags for intellectuals and political prisoners'.

'Land O'Lakes and The Martin Agency reimagine "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" as "She-I-O" to honor female farmers for Women's Equality Day.


Maggie Rose


Old MacDonald may have had a farm with a dog, cows and some chickens, but he also had something far more important to keeping said farm running—a daughter. At least according to Land O’Lakes’ “She-I-O,” a reimagined (albeit slightly hokey) version of the classic children’s nursery rhyme sung by country artist Maggie Rose'.



During 1990s Clinton era what were functioning small farms/dairies in this collective were CORPORATIZED.  The goal MOVING FORWARD SMART GRID has technology replacing FARMERS/WORKERS.  Flash forward to today the GREEN REVOLUTION of using tons of chemicals on farmland has killed the fertile soil----the GMO ANIMAL FOOD has made dairy cows unable to give MILK----but the good news is DRIVELESS TRACTORS AND REAPERS.


Land O’Lakes, United Suppliers To Merge Crop Inputs Businesses

Posted by Matthew J. Grassi|June 29, 2015



Land O’Lakes, Inc. and United Suppliers, Inc. of Ames, IA, today announced their intent to merge their crop inputs businesses. Together, the two organizations will provide owner customers’ expanded product offerings, enhanced precision agriculture services, tools and technologies, improved product insights, consulting services and more.

“This move comes at a time when scale is increasingly important in addressing changing industry dynamics, including rapid consolidation on the supplier, retailer and grower levels, fast-paced technological innovation and the need for increasing and expanded service offerings for customers,” said Chris Policinski, President and CEO of Land O’Lakes, Inc. “We are excited to come together with United Suppliers and expect our members, owners and customers will benefit greatly from this merger.”



Under this agreement, the intention is to merge United Suppliers, Inc. and Land O’Lakes, Inc. The first step of the merger will be to combine the two companies’ seed and crop protection businesses, and a second step to follow will bring in the crop nutrient business. This merger builds on the recent successes of the two companies and aims to create a single, strong, relevant and competitive entity. In 2014, WinField had $4.9B in seed and crop protection product sales and United Suppliers had $2.6B in crop protection, seed and crop nutrient sales.



“United Suppliers is excited to join with Land O’Lakes, Inc.,” said Brad Oelmann, President and CEO of United Suppliers. “We are both experiencing great growth in this industry and together we view this merger as a continuation of that journey.”


Going forward, both organizations will continue with their existing go-to-market strategies and will draw upon each other’s expertise to better meet customer needs. Before the deal is final, both United Suppliers’ owners and Land O’Lakes, Inc. members will need to vote on the details surrounding the merger. Those votes are slated for August 2015, with the closing anticipated in October 2015.
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'with a membership of over 4,500 farm owners'.

These 4500 farm owners are said to be LEVERAGING their profits by bringing in more and more global technology corporations taking all farm operations away from them-----placing it onto a internet grid which operates IN THE CLOUDS. But, these guys are really active in being DECIDERS.

Like CRIMEA ---like MAOIST CHINA ---and those FARM COLLECTIVES---these 4500 farm owners thinking themselves PARTNERS in all these mergers-----will be thrown under the bus by global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS---KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH who own all these global TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONS and are the original CO-OP LAND OWNERS of LAND O LAKES.



BUT WE ARE GETTING STOCK DIVIDENDS FROM THESE NEW GLOBAL CORPORATIONS AND THIS PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK HAS CREATED UNION JOBS!


'Land O’Lakes wants to also test the feasibility of autonomous trucks. Their partner here is Uber Advanced Technologies. Self-driving trucks are not legal yet, but some states are allowing pilots to be run.  Land O’Lakes would like to work with the Department of Transportation in Minnesota and Uber to begin testing certain lanes. “This might not happen for years,” Mr. Dewberry admits, “but we have to start somewhere.”'



This is where our US LABOR UNIONS thinking they are WINNING-----they are 'US' not 'THEM' promote all these BRUTAL MARXIST structures always ending with DEATH, DEMOLITION OF CIVIL SOCIETIES.  Small farmers are not unionized they get some dividend checks.

LABOR UNIONS have support CLINTON and MONSANTO because the greater network of these BIG AG BIG MEAT create union jobs FOR NOW.


Most Active Large Agribusiness Corporations In The AgTech Domain

Ivanov Igor
Mar 14, 2018 · 7 min read


For this post, we conducted a thorough analysis of the entire agricultural value chain to identify the largest agribusiness corporations who are most active in the AgTech domain. Our list includes 1 to 2 of the most involved companies for each category in the agribusiness industry.


Agriculture Machinery Producers


John Deere.

John Deere is one of the most recognizable corporations within the agribusiness industry, so it makes sense that they would be one of the most active companies in the AgTech domain. John Deere started all the way back in 1837 and provided simple tools like shovels and plows. Now, they are a company making several billions in revenues each year.



In terms of their AgTech activity, they recently acquired Blue River Robotics for $305 million so that they can focus on integrating machine learning into their agricultural solutions. Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that focuses on a computer’s ability to learn by itself. It does this through algorithms that dictate how the computer should process information and ultimately leads to an AI that can learn without explicit directions.



Machine learning is key for several of John Deere’s AgTech solutions like variable rate application, data management, automated guidance systems for tractors, and field/water management. All of these solutions are made available through the John Deere Operations Center, which is found at www.MyJohnDeere.com. Here, you can connect your machinery, manage your fields and operations, and view analytics and reports. Another added benefit of working with John Deere is that you know they are handling your data responsibly, considering they just received their AgData Transparent seal of approval.



Agrochemical Producers


Monsanto + Bayer



In September of 2016, Monsanto and Bayer announced that they signed a merger agreement where Bayer would acquire all of Monsanto’s shares in cash. The deal, which is set to close sometime this year, is worth a staggering $66 billion. The goal for these companies is to provide enhanced solutions in seeds and traits, digital agriculture, and crop protection. Together, this newly formed partnership will account for more than 25% of the world market for seeds and pesticides in the farm supplies industry.



Outside of this merger, Monsanto and Bayer were already quite active in the AgTech industry. The Climate Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Monsanto, has been providing the Climate FieldView platform to help farmers centralize their data, gain insights about their operations, and optimize their work. Monsanto also has a venture capital wing, the Monsanto Growth Network, where they have been funding a diverse range of businesses from pharmaceutical to agricultural software/hardware companies.



Bayer has also been involved in the AgTech industry, with one of their most recent ventures, Xarvio. Xarvio is a digital farming platform that allows farmers to optimize their fields, increase efficiency and production, save time, and produce healthier crops.



Syngenta


Syngenta was established in 2000 when Novartis, a crop protection and seed agribusiness, merged with Zeneca Agrochemicals. The result was a company that became the world’s biggest crop chemical producer, with a very strong presence in Europe.



Syngenta Ventures, their venture capital fund, is one of the most active global investors in agricultural businesses and have injected capital into many companies from pest and weed management platforms to satellite imaging solutions. Additionally, Syngenta acquired two AgTech companies (Ag Connections and Farmshots) to continue to develop their precision farming solutions.




Fertilizer Producers


Yara N sensor installed on machineryYara


Yara is the world’s leading supplier of mineral fertilizers for the agricultural industry. Their products and services are not just limited to crop nutrition however, and also include numerous precision farming technologies like variable rate application, sensors, hand-held testers, and more.



Their N sensor, for example, is a tool that allows farmers to make use of variable rate application. The N Sensor is mounted to a tractor and measures the nitrogen requirements of the crops that it passes over. This data influences the rate and quantity of fertilizer applied to the crops.


As with most industry leaders, Yara is very active in investments and acquisitions. One notable agribusiness acquisition was their takeover of Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC), which was completed in November of 2017. Agronomic Technology Corp had a nutrient recommendation platform, Adapt-N, which Yara plans to use to strengthen their digital farming offerings within the AgTech domain.



Commodity Traders Cargill


Cargill is an American company that was founded in 1865. It is now the largest US privately owned corporation in terms of revenue and focuses on providing end-to-end solutions for agricultural businesses. They recently became much more active in the AgTech domain and launched a digital suite equipped with farm analysis and data management products. Cargill has made several investments through their venture capital fund in agribusinesses like Descartes Labs, Cainthus and more.



Descartes Labs is an imagery and intelligence platform that analyzes and makes meaning out of satellite and drone imagery, and Cainthus provides facial recognition software for monitoring the wellbeing of livestock. Overall, Cargill is putting a large emphasis on high tech, digital solutions for their agribusiness offerings.



Ag Retailers



Ag Retailer and Grower WinField United

Wilbur Ellis


Wilbur Ellis is a multibillion-dollar corporation that consists of three main businesses: the Agribusiness division, Connell Brothers Specialty Chemicals and Ingredients division, and the Feed division. Although their main focus is on selling agricultural retail products like chemicals, seeds, nutrients, etc., they also have been stepping up their activity within the AgTech domain. This is evident through the investment history of their venture capital fund, Cavallo Ventures.


Specifically, their investments in AgCode and AgVerdict show clear signs of their interest in this domain. AgCode is a software management platform for vineyards and other types of crops. It includes tracking systems and also integrates features for billing and payroll. AgVerdict is another software solution that is focused on more general farm management and optimization tools.



Land O’Lakes


Although more commonly known for their butter, Land O’Lakes is an agricultural cooperative with a membership of over 4,500 farm owners. They pool resources together to ensure that their crop production can be maximized, and this is why they are also focusing on the integration of precision agriculture technologies.



Some of the AgTech solutions that they offer include Answer Plot, AnswerTech, and their own ATLAS web portal where their customers can easily access these tools and more. Their activity in the AgTech domain is funneled through their own venture capital fund, Thrive AgTech, and through WinField® United, which is their seed and crop protection products business.



Inspection and Testing ServicesSGS


SGS is the global leader for inspections, verifications, testing and certifications. They provide solutions that help businesses improve their product quality and safety while at the same time reducing risks. Their business covers a huge variety of industries, but for the agricultural industry, they provide an end-to-end range of services for the entire supply chain.



They are also active in their AgTech investments and acquisitions. Less than two years ago, SGS acquired a 75% share of Unigeo, which is software platform that helps with crop production and overall productivity. Another AgTech initiative that SGS is involved with is drone-based inspection services. They recently entered a partnership with BAFA to focus on this initiative.



AgFlow is another interesting platform that SGS invested in.

AgFlow provides trade intelligence for the grains, oilseeds/proteins and edible oils markets, and generates transparency and insight for these markets.



Food Producers

General Mills

General Mills is famous for their brands like Cheerios, Häagen-Dazs, Yoplait, and countless others, but what they are less famous for is their venture fund, 301 Inc. Through this fund, they have invested in numerous startups and businesses alike. These investments have all been focused towards food producers. The type of technology used in food production can be quite different than the traditional software platforms that you expect to see in precision agriculture, but this sector of the industry is just as important.



One such company is Kite Hill, who produces cheese from nuts. The types of technology used in this production process are important because they can pave the way for increased sustainability for food production in general. Their other investments also can help influence how crops are used after the harvest.



Kellogg


Kellogg is another company with a handful of iconic brands. They also have a venture fund that is dedicated to investing in food startups. Their first investment was in the company Kuli Kuli, who produces moringa-based products. Moringa is a type of plant-based protein that is found in the leaves, pods and oils of certain plants and trees. Overall, Moringa can provide a new source of non-animal protein, which is always important for environmental sustainability.




What is important to note about the investments into food production is that they have an indirect effect on the supply chain for farmers who are involved in producing those crops. For example, because Kuli Kuli received this funding, they are now able to pay the crop producers more money and help develop this measure further.

The Entire Value Chain

From the beginning stages of field analysis to the final stages of food production, the entire agribusiness value chain is covered by some of the largest companies in the industry. The capital and man-hours that these companies are contributing will continue to change the AgTech domain for the future.


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'The reporter persisted with the follow up question: “But are they going to survive as they have in the past as a small operation, or are they going to have to get big or get out?”

(So… the words “get big or get out” were used in this interview, but not by Secretary Perdue.)'


As much as national FAKE NEWS media tries to sell GEORGIA GOV PERDUE now TRUMP AG SECRETARY as not same family as global CHICKEN PERDUE----that would be FAKE NEWS.

This article and interview of global BIG MEAT saying these Wisconsin dairy and beef ranchers don't need to worry is LYING, CHEATING, AND KILLING OUR SMALL US AG AND MEAT FARMERS/RANCHERS.

'Perdue Farms
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Perdue Farms is the parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness, based in Salisbury, Maryland.

Perdue Foods is a major chicken, turkey, and pork processing company in the United States. Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top United States grain companies. Perdue Farms has 2016 annual sales of $6.7 billion'.





October 6, 2019




Opinion: Get the 'Get Big Or Get Out' Outta Here


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 |  By: Chip Flory



Stressful financial conditions throughout the ag industry are… stressful.



That stress leaves many (most) more sensitive to messaging from leaders in the industry. It also leaves industry leaders vulnerable to misinterpretation of what they said… and to misrepresentation from the media. I believe that happened to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue earlier this week.




Secretary Perdue was at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. In a question-and-answer session, a reporter asked the Secretary about the hard financial times in Wisconsin’s dairy farming. Secretary Perdue answered the question with comments about “efficiencies of scale” – which included a reference to U.S. dairy herds getting bigger, smaller operations exiting the business and the cows from those smaller operations changing an address rather than leaving production. Secretary Perdue also explained that he felt there were provisions in the 2018 Farm Bill that will give “smaller operations” a better chance at success.



The reporter persisted with the follow up question: “But are they going to survive as they have in the past as a small operation, or are they going to have to get big or get out?”



(So… the words “get big or get out” were used in this interview, but not by Secretary Perdue.)




“That remains to be seen,” said Secretary Perdue. “Everyone will have to make their own decisions economically whether they can survive. I don’t think in America we, or any small business, have a guaranteed income or a guaranteed profitability of survival. That depends on each and every farmer and dairy farmer. Farmers are pretty good at managing and managing through tough times. I think those that have survived the ’14 Farm Bill should do well in the ’18 Farm Bill.”



That seems to be a fair assessment. And not nearly as inflammatory as “Secretary Sonny said, ‘get big or get out.’” But the inflammatory message made it out of Madison and across the Midwest.



I had an opportunity to talk with Secretary Perdue about the Administration’s biofuels plan Friday morning. I couldn’t let the conversation with him get away without addressing “his comments” at World Dairy Expo. Please listen…