A WORM and a VIRUS bring China to its knees

DC Dirty Laundry ^ | By David L Brockett - October 30, 2019

[OrangeHoof]

Not trusting the source. If I didn’t know better, I’d say the CIA/CDC introduced these ills as part of a diabolical scheme to destroy China from within. But our government wouldn’t do anything to help Trump, would they?

We should be worried about anything that wipes out crops and nutrition sources anywhere in the world because it puts a strain on global supplies and drives up their prices.

[infool7]

But that was two thousand years ago. For better or worse, words evolve.

I run into the same problem with the words nice and democracy but

why would we want to understand what anyone is saying anyway?

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[FtrPilot]

Yes, the hogs are not imported from China.

The issue is who owns Smithfield Foods.

Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion, more than its market value. It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date.

[WASCWatch]

Devastate would be a much better and accurate word.

[Stosh]

Good point - when the distinction is consequential (like “democracy” versus “republic”), it’s worth going to the matt over (and I’ve done so on this forum); when it doesn’t matter that much, I’m not sure it’s worth the aggravation.

I put “decimate” in the latter category.

[piasa]

Apparently socialism and collective farming makes for lousy biosecurity.

[infool7]

I agree

it’s best to pick your battles

and know when and who NOT to fight with.

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[smvoice]

My issue was: Smithfield Foods. SWINE Processing Plant. Located on the PAGAN RIVER. On SPUR 666 just off Route 10.

[Carriage Hill]

Correct.

[Carriage Hill]

You should smell it in the farms south of York (PA) when the farmers spread pigsh*t slurry on the fields before planting. Beyond awful. My 20ac nursery/garden center/lscp contracting business was right in the middle of it.

[smvoice]

**😳** I can't imagine that!! NO JOKE!

[steve86]

Word usage and meanings change over time. Contract language is written to a very specific lexicon and context, like other technical dialects. Not at all relevant to general language usage. I used to lodge objections as you are, but have now lived long enough to see that an absolutist approach is inappropriate outside the specialties.

[moovova]

Thank you! I love Smithfield’s offerings.

[seowulf]

Uh, David. Look up the correct meaning of "decimated". It means to destroy every tenth one, or 10%, not 30-35%.

Tertiate?

[Zhang Fei]

[The issue is who owns Smithfield Foods.

Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion, more than its market value. It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date. ]

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In many cases, these are just private investors getting their money out of the country. Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man, was vilified as a traitor for getting his money out of China. He’s putting his money to work in the West, far out of the reach of China’s emperor and the party aristocracy, which has the power to arbitrarily seize property as part of an imperial tradition dating back thousands of years. I expect they saw large accumulations of capital as a threat to their dynasties, something that did come to fruition in Western Europe, as merchant princes stripped the royals of real power.

https://www.breakingviews.com/considered-view/china-criticism-makes-even-li-ka-shing-defensive/
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/hong-kong-s-superman-li-ka-shing-rejects-claims-he-is-abandoning-china-1.2379435

Think of the Communist Party as an oversized parasitic triad gang, and private businessmen in China as the host on which the parasites feed. A good number of foreign stock offerings are a way for Chinese businessmen to avoid the clutches of the all-encompassing countrywide shakedown racket that has been the Chinese government since time immemorial.

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https://seekingalpha.com/article/4300806-offshore-china-tech-ipo-wave-peter-next-year
[Thus, the thesis becomes that many of the IPOs now coming to market are basically being driven by company founders and backers whose main interest is opening up a channel for getting their money out of the country as other channels dry up. That explains why many of the listings now coming to market are for $100 million or less, since simply opening the channel becomes the primary objective rather than real fundraising.]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***WHAT WAS THE SMELLIEST THING IN THE WORLD.***

Absolutely correct, That is why the hog companies left the hills of Oklahoma and Arkansas and started up anew in the panhandle of Guymon Oklahoma. Lots of wide open spaces to dump pig manure. That is, until the “winds come sweeping down the plain...”

[Hiddigeigei]

I had a Chinese professor who told me growing up he ate less than a half a pound of meat a years, and most of that was during the New Years celebration. His father was a fairly high ranking Mandarin during the Manchu dynasty, in charge of the opium monopoly of a province.

[jj Ketemi]

Smithfield produces the best mass produced pork loin roasts also. I am trying to not buy them since I learned they were Chinese owned, but don’t really know if this is, after all, an American producer.

[SandwicheGuy]

Oh stop it. The term is now widely recognized to mean far more than 10%; such as “almost all”!

Sgthooper, you are correct... But only amongst the poorly educated and intellectually lazy. May I make a guess, you also believe gay means homo and liberal mean leftist. Words have morning and see misused by Communism for there own ends. Please pray attention.

May you have an unbad day.

[Missouri gal]

My dad fought hog farming in our county for a decade, but when he had to retire, the hogs got his farm through a third party. Now China owns that farm.