ICYMI - just ran across this
Australian National Review
February 17, 2021
Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill.
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible.
“Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case
The global lockdowns that Bill Gates helped orchestrate and cheerlead have bankrupted more than 100,000 businesses in the U.S. alone and plunged a billion people into poverty and deadly food insecurity that, among other devastating harms, kill 10,000 African children monthly — while increasing Gates’ wealth by $20 billion. His $133 billion fortune makes him the world’s fourth wealthiest man.
Gates has been using that newfound cash to expand his power over global populations by buying devalued assets at fire-sale prices and maneuvering for monopoly control over public health, privatizing prisons, online education and global communications while promoting digital currencies, high tech surveillance, data harvesting systems and artificial intelligence.
For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible.
According to the newest issue of The Land Report, Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. Gates’ portfolio now comprises about 242,000 acres of American farmland and nearly 27,000 acres of other land across Louisiana, Arkansas, Nebraska, Arizona, Florida, Washington and 18 other states.
Thomas Jefferson believed that the success of America’s exemplary struggle to supplant the yoke of European feudalism with a noble experiment in self-governance depended on the perpetual control of the nation’s land base by tens of thousands of independent farmers, each with a stake in our democracy. ...snip...
Hope ya’ll are planting your heirloom/survival gardens and learning to save seeds.
Sometimes I pray a Kennedy will become a Conservative.
Petey
The fight for a redo of the Arizona Republican Party’s elections in January is heating up.
Kelli Ward, the state GOP chairwoman who narrowly won reelection, claims a letter calling for an April 24 meeting of the party to hold a new vote for several top positions has an insufficient number of electronic “signatures.”
An unspecified number of state committee members contacted the party “claiming that their names are being used without permission by those who lost their elections in January and that any signature from them is fraudulent,” Ward’s statement on Tuesday said.
The letter was signed by roughly 350 Republicans, according to a report from KJZZ, and William Beard, a Pima County Republican, said that is above the 20% threshold of the approximately 1,400 GOP committee members to move forward with the proceedings.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kelli-ward-claims-fraud-gop-arizona-signature