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The Enemy Within: The Billion Dollar Chinese Grow House Industry
American Thinker ^

Posted on 07/24/2025 7:54:48 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

Large greenhouses are built on ranch-sized property. The frames and equipment, including fans for cooling plants in the warmer southern states, are often shipped from China. The grow houses STEAL electricity to cut costs and avoid sudden bill increases that might attract authorities.

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Jury duty. The perps bypassed the power meter and ran the electricity 24/7 providing nonstop sunlight. Eventually the power company caught on and reported it. The defendants were provided interpreters.
1 posted on 07/24/2025 7:54:48 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

In the Chinese culture it’s considered ok to break any rule as long as you don’t get caught.

Generalizing? Too much truth.


2 posted on 07/24/2025 7:56:07 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It isn’t just the Chinese. There is an ancient Roman (Catholic) proverb that “It is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.”

I say that as a Catholic Theologian, and caution people that to recall that something is said about the easy path in the Sermon on the Mount. Those speaking the proverb generally are either universalists or have confidence in purgatory, perhaps too much confidence.

The road to hell is paved with Miters. Another good proverb.


3 posted on 07/24/2025 7:59:22 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

GET RID OF THESE CHINESE FIRST AND SEIZE THEIR LAND TOM TIRKEY NECK HOMAN.


4 posted on 07/24/2025 8:21:34 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Captainpaintball

All the solar panels they manufacture might have kept their profile lower especially if their windmills ran at night. Decent battery storage.


5 posted on 07/24/2025 8:32:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET; little jeremiah

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6 posted on 07/24/2025 8:40:26 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The honest farmer character is one born primarily of American mythology and its reality is disappearing faster than family farms.

Youve heard that integrity is doing the right thing even when nobody is watching. In rural areas there is hardly anyone ever watching, that doesnt mean that evidence of wrongdoing evaporates with the morning dew. Familiarizing oneself with present day dairy factories is enlightening.

Dishonest methods used by modern agribusiness is just another technology stolen and duplicated by the Chinese.


7 posted on 07/24/2025 8:42:52 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I live under sheriffs (which I prefer over city cops) now and I am starting to wonder what they do, they are friendly and they drive around a lot and look like they are watching everything, but nothing gets done, nothing changes.

It seems like a lot of these places could be detected if there were people driving around all the time and writing down unusual patterns and activities which one assumes deputies do, and of course they have all the computer access to everything, even to ownership and records of who is driving the cars and trucks making the unusual patterns and of course sheriffs have all the property and occupation records.

Since my teens I have often thought that local law enforcement does a little bit, but very, very little of what they could be doing if they really focused on their work and the bad guys instead of spending their entire careers on just showing up and doing their shift with the routine minutia that they so theatrically do for their 30 years.


8 posted on 07/24/2025 8:50:10 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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You really want law enforcement officers to NOT WORK. People(the low lifes) need to be afraid of breaking the law. That way the cops are more likely to be there when you really need them. The last thing they need in their entire shift is to be totally busy dealing with the worst people have to offer.


9 posted on 07/24/2025 3:53:27 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Being lazy workers doing what passes as showing up, isn’t enough, I want them to do their jobs and be more effective.


10 posted on 07/24/2025 4:06:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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“It seems like a lot of these places could be detected if there were people driving around all the time and writing down unusual patterns and activities which one assumes deputies do,”

Maybe we should send the law to snoop at your place without cause. See how you like it.


11 posted on 07/25/2025 2:33:03 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

I figured some ignorant person would misinterpret that in a stupid way.

That is what they do already, what do you think they are doing as they drive down your street and through your tiny community several times a day and stop by the side of the street as they watch the houses where the squatters live and do their admin stuff, or when sheriff’s code enforcement gives someone notice about something about their yard, such as too many weeds, or child services shows up because they know the squatters don’t have water service, or when they already know which license plates have been moving in and out of a community, or have not been there at all, or when the sheriffs know who owns which dogs and which ones routinely get out and are becoming a threat, even which ones run together.

They are doing something, but the drug houses stay there year after year, the squatters keep the houses, the neighbors and their wives start wearing guns all the time, but nothing changes.


12 posted on 07/25/2025 3:14:26 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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“I figured some ignorant person would misinterpret that in a stupid way.”

Wanna trade insults? Here ya go right back atcha. You are a kook.


13 posted on 07/25/2025 3:57:53 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

See post 11.


14 posted on 07/25/2025 4:26:48 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Hopefully, your local police are watching YOU. Kook.


15 posted on 07/25/2025 4:50:47 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

You seem clueless about all this, and haven’t even read the thread or my posts, evidently.


16 posted on 07/25/2025 4:55:41 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

I read your deranged rant. You seem to have a beef with your local law enforcement. Did you ever complain to your local governmnt or call in tips about all this nefarious activity you claim your LE is ignoring?


17 posted on 07/25/2025 5:13:11 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

LOL, you really are thick, nasty and weird, but truly thick.


18 posted on 07/25/2025 5:24:24 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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