Archive for the ‘Agriculture’ Category
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Two WSJ articles regarding California are included in this email. The first, California is Coming for You and the second, is California’s Radical Indoctrination. Both are alarming and need to be stopped before the rest of the country is subjected to the radicalism that has overtaken California. Nancy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
California Is Coming for You
Its energy, tax and regulatory failures are the Democrats’ ideal for national policy.
by Andy Kessler August 30, 2020
I didn’t have to read the entire Democratic Party platform, let alone the spend-tasmagoric Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force recommendations. Sitting here in California, I’m already living it. If polls are to be believed, left-coast policies are coming to you soon—and you’re not going to like it. California is an early glimpse for the rest of the country of a blackout-rolling, water-deprived, tax-hiking, spending-spiking one-party state longing for its old incandescent glow.
The U.S. may flip to one party rule; California is already there. Democrats have controlled the state Assembly since 1997 and the governorship since 2011—or 1999 if you ignore Arnold the Governator, as most do. Single-party rule means single-party rules. We’re No. 1 in the top marginal income tax rate at 13.3%, including for capital gains. That beats New York City. We’re also No. 1 in state sales tax, but only ninth when you include local levies. Still impressive! Everything else follows.
This month Californians have been subjected to rolling blackouts because of the state’s renewable energy mandates—33% today, 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2045. When the sun goes down, which I understand happens every evening, solar cells are worthless. So California has to buy energy on the spot market—sometimes for 10 times normal prices when it’s hot. So we get rolling blackouts. This craziness could be yours too in the near future. Get used to higher bills and resetting your clocks.
California is No. 3 in the nation in water prices. Sad, since it grows 90% of America’s broccoli, 95% of its garlic, 71% of spinach, 69% of carrots and two-thirds of fruits and nuts. Your prices are going up. And kiss incandescent lightbulbs goodbye—most were outlawed in California as of Jan. 1. Someone please send a box of 60-watt flame-tip candelabra base bulbs my way. I’m getting desperate.
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
VIDEO – WION NEWS CHINA BUILDING 87,000 DAMS TO CONTROL WATER DISTRIBUTION TO 8 COUNTRIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA – CHINA IS WEAPONIZING WATER
July 21, 2020
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Saturday, August 1st, 2020
China Seeds: A Biological Attack on America?
by Gordon G. Chang
Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China, a Gatestone Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow, and member of its Advisory Board.
July 30, 2020
- Some think the packages [of seeds marked as “jewelry”] could be part of a “brushing scam” — an effort to create fake customer reviews on online retail platforms — but that appears unlikely. For one thing, there is no indication these seeds — there are several varieties of them — are either branded or are offered for sale.
- “DO NOT plant them,” officials in every state have warned.
- There is also an infamous statement attributed to General Chi Haotian. In a secret speech to senior Communist Party officials sometime around 2002, Chi, then the Chinese defense minister, stated there was a need for “new living space” because of the exhaustion of existing Chinese territory. Chi suggested the “mass colonization” of the land occupied by United States as the best option.
- “We are not as foolish as to want to perish together with America by using nuclear weapons,” he said. The way to “clean up” the U.S., Chi argued, would be through biological attacks.
- “For forty years, the Chinese have used unconventional tactics to further their ambitious goal of defeating the United States,” said Brandon Weichert of the Weichert Report to this publication. “They employed economic warfare, lawfare, information warfare, and cyber warfare. Beijing looks like it attempted biowarfare with the novel coronavirus from Wuhan. Now, they may be trying their hand at ecological warfare.”
- Residents in all 50 states have received packages of seeds, sent unsolicited from China. Many of the packages, mailed through the Chinese state-run postal system, were mislabeled as “jewelry” for U.S. Customs purposes.
“DO NOT plant them,” officials in every state have warned.
“They could be invasive, meaning they may have the potential to introduce diseases to local plants, or could be harmful to livestock,” the Montana Department of Agriculture noted in a statement on Monday, referring to the Chinese seeds. “Treat them like they are radioactive, like they are Kryptonite,” said Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
Trump administration officials now need to ask one question: Are the seeds a biological-warfare attack on the United States?
- China acceded to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1984 but today is almost certainly in violation of its obligations.
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
This is the first article that I have read that clearly discusses how the USMCA will help American farmers. It also points out the differences between NAFTA and the USMCA. Nancy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Got Trade? Dairy Farmers Stand to Gain From the USMCA
The newly signed deal is sweet relief to farmers in rural districts like mine in North Carolina.
By Ted Budd Mr. Budd, a Republican, represents North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District. December 14, 2019
The trade agreement negotiated in 2018 by the U.S., Mexico and Canada languished for more than a year as congressional Democrats pressed the Trump administration to extract concessions from Mexico on labor regulations and pharmaceutical patents. The amended USMCA, successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement, was signed this week, putting an end to 14 months of political wrangling. But to those of us who live in farm country, the pact means a lot more than politics.
To Sam Dobson, whose farm in Statesville, N.C., has been in his family for 150 years, the USMCA represents hope. He is a seventh-generation dairy farmer, and the USMCA boosts the chances that his son Chase will be the eighth. “In agriculture, your goal is to leave a legacy and not a liability, and the No. 1 goal for us on our farm is to leave our farm and our legacy just a little bit better than we found it when we got it,” says Mr. Dobson.
Since Nafta came into force, U.S. agricultural exports to Canada and Mexico have quadrupled, from $9 billion in 1993 to $39 billion in 2017, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. But dairy farmers were left behind as other agricultural exports boomed. U.S. milk prices are in the fourth year of a slump due to chronic oversupply. Canada has historically restricted how much U.S. milk it imports, putting U.S. dairy farmers at a disadvantage.
Farmers in Iredell County, N.C., which I represent in Congress, produce more than 3 billion gallons of milk a year, according to the American Dairy Association of North Carolina. In the 1970s, there were more than 200 dairy farms in Iredell County. Now there are 22. This is a trend that goes far beyond North Carolina. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that 2,731 dairy farms across the U.S. closed last year due to a combination of low profit margins and a gradual decline in milk consumption. “Without these agreements,” Mr. Dobson says, “you’re going to see a disappearance of the industry.”
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
Why have the Democrats changed 180 degrees on Illegal immigration?
This is an enlightening quick overview on the changing landscape in American politics. We used to all be together on this matter of border security but the Democrats have changed their tune – why? Click below to understand the change
VIDEO – TUCKER CARLSON
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Illegal Immigration It’s About Power
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Sunday, March 4th, 2018
Thanks to Dee Sams for sharing this information with us. Nancy
Some of you may have heard that the South African govt recently voted to take all land and property from all WHITE land owners, without compensation – mostly Dutch (Boer) who have been there for many many generations. The terrorizing and murdering of white farmers in Africa has gone on for a long time, and as they are run off the land, the land is ruined and people are starving. Now they want to expand that. I heard years ago of many blacks in Africa saying things were much better under Apartheid. There are many highly educated whites unable to work because of laws restricting them, living is squalor in refugee camps – many of these folks are engineers. IF EVER we needed to help some refugees, these are the people who need our help. I am so sorry to always be the bearer of awfulness, but this is the world today. Please get this to your church or synagogue, maybe they can raise money to airlift these people out. J please send this to Peter…This is a MUST WATCH. DS
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2017
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Saturday, March 29th, 2014
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BROCOLI TO THE RESCUE
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
New Federal Diet Guidelines for methane reduction
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Vegetarian evangelists like Kate Clancy, a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, testified to the evils of meat before the advisory committee. Plant-based diets, she says, have a “smaller ecological impact” on “drought, climate change, soil erosion, pesticides and antibiotics in water supplies.” She told the committee that “methane production by cattle has a much stronger effect on climate change than carbon dioxide does per unit of methane.” A committee member, Miriam Nelson, praises Ms. Clancy for confirming her anti-meat belief that less meat in the national diet could reduce America’s carbon — and perhaps methane — footprint.
President Obama and the first lady have embraced the latest nutritional fads in their own home, and now insist that everyone else follow their lead. The government’s 2015 “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” weren’t cooked up by scientists in white coats, evaluating the perfect combination of proteins, carbohydrates and fats to achieve good health, but by a committee stacked with ideological nutritionists looking for converts to vegetarianism. They’re desperate to save the world from global warming, even if it kills everybody.
The scheme is not so much about health but changing behavior for political reasons. Though they’re voluntary (so far), the guidelines shape school lunches and other programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. School kids will be forced soon enough to reduce their “carbon footprint” by trading in their turkey sandwiches for tofu cubes.
As first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, a recent meeting of the federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee spent more time on “climate change” than on the science of food and diet. The committee is infatuated with the notion that unless everyone stops eating meat and shifts to a plant-based diet, the planet is done for. (more…)
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
HOW THE OTHER CALIFORNIA LIVES
Tulare, Calif.
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: When Americans think of California, they tend to think of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the golden coast—”a place where the grass is really greener, warm, wet and wild” as Santa Barbara native Katy Perry swoons in “California Gurls.” Or they think of the liberals and environmentalists who dominate state government.
Yet there’s another California, set back from the left coast, in the abundantly fertile Central Valley, which produces half of America’s fruits and vegetables; more than 98% of its almonds, pistachios and walnuts; a third of U.S. dairy exports—and Trader Joe’s Two Buck Chuck wine. This California has come under siege from the California of politicians and regulators, a siege that has been especially harmful during the current prolonged period of drought and water shortages. The storms that hit the state a couple of weeks ago didn’t make a dent in the water shortfall or in the farmers’ larger problems.
When Americans think of California, they tend to think of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the golden coast—”a place where the grass is really greener, warm, wet and wild” as Santa Barbara native Katy Perry swoons in “California Gurls.” Or they think of the liberals and environmentalists who dominate state government.
Yet there’s another California, set back from the left coast, in the abundantly fertile Central Valley, which produces half of America’s fruits and vegetables; more than 98% of its almonds, pistachios and walnuts; a third of U.S. dairy exports—and Trader Joe’s Two Buck Chuck wine. This California has come under siege from the California of politicians and regulators, a siege that has been especially harmful during the current prolonged period of drought and water shortages. The storms that hit the state a couple of weeks ago didn’t make a dent in the water shortfall or in the farmers’ larger problems.
Just ask Mark Watte, a second-generation dairyman and nut grower from rural Tulare, who doesn’t mince words. “Everywhere you turn, they are coming at us with this nonsensical b.s.!” he says. Who are “they”? Environmentalists, though the beleaguered California farmer cautions against using that word: “Most of them don’t really care about the environment. They are obstructionists.” (more…)
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Monday, January 27th, 2014
THE DAILY CALLER
January 27, 2014
Rep. Ellmers backs conditional amnesty, fuels primary challenge
North Carolina Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers says the federal government should allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States, and should welcome a new inflow of foreign guest workers.
Her support for foreign workers is fueling a primary bid by Frank Roche, an economics lecturer at nearby Elon University.
At campaign events, any mention of Ellmers’ support for amnesty, Roche told The Daily Caller, ”always gets the crowd roiled up — they do not want it.”
“I’m advocating for a low level of immigration [and] no amnesty,” he said, adding that a good reform should minimize the impact on employers.
“We have significant portions of our economy that are dependent on immigrant labor,” said Roche, who worked in New York’s international banking sector for 20 years. “We need to move away from that via [greater] mechanization and a change in language to emphasize that all work is good.”
The race between Ellmers and Roche is one consequence of the push by top GOP leaders and business lobbies for an immigration bill that would sharply increase the inflow of low-wage foreign workers, despite the huge numbers of unemployed or non-working Americans. (more…)
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