[Daily Caller] Multiple Iowan farmers accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Thursday of arranging the theft of valuable genetically-modified seeds in the U.S., according to Newsweek.
The farmers alleged that Chinese nationals have been known to dig up genetically modified seeds, which are the product of scientific research and improve crop yields, making the seeds a valuable trade secret for the American agricultural sector, according to Newsweek. The farmers conveyed the allegations to a bipartisan delegation of congressional lawmakers who sat for a Thursday roundtable meeting in Dysart, Iowa.
Farmers pay a fee in order to use the genetically modified seeds, one farmer explained to Newsweek. When Chinese nationals steal those seeds so that they can be used in China and allow Chinese firms to skip research and development, they are stealing American intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets in order to gain an advantage, the farmer elaborated.
"In my opinion, it’s part of a much larger, country-wide, slow-motion heist of American intellectual property," Republican Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, said during the roundtable meeting, according to Newsweek. "We have a duty to protect all our technology, whether it’s in Silicon Valley or in a cornfield here in Iowa."
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As we already know the CCP
has bought up 100's of 1000's of acres of US Farmland and 100's of 1000's of acres of US land around DOD sites.
CCP has bought up or into a number of major meat supplying / producing companies. Note: Suddenly the media with its own silent to the CCP is trying to sell the LSD minded in the US, into going Vegan and eating Insects.
As we know the CCP has bought up or into a number of Food processing companies, and is shipping a large percentage of the product out of the USA.
So is the CCP now trying to control the Vegetable seed industry,?
Plus, now we are also seeing more and more Hybrid / modified plant seeds on the shelves at stores and farm supply centers.
Notes:
Many hybrid/modified seeds are less nutritious and less flavorful.
Many grown hybrid/modified plants are designed to produce seedless fruits and vegetables. eg. Seedless Watermelons, grapes ... so there is no saving seeds to replant, without buying more seeds each year.
Why go lurking around fields with a shovel. Just buy a bag or pallet or steal one from a warehouse. If they wanted genetic material from a research facility, send in a mole. Half the staff is probably foreign anyway. Bill Clinton let them walk all around high end military labs! Our real problem is not China or the CCP. It is traitors among us who look like us.
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#1 spot on! This is a serious problem for the private citizen. Get yourself a seed vault immediately. This year I'm on my 3rd generation of green onions that originated in Osaka.
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Chinese farmers already reuse the GMO crops harvested for next year's seed planting. A big no-no in their contracts w/ the GMO seed companies. Not like the CCP will enforce contracts if it is not in their interest to do so.
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Is America becoming China's Ireland as more food processing plants and food production acreage become Chinese owned? I read recently that China has no arable land left fallow, and almost half their population now overweight. Good thing they don't seem to like potatoes...yet.
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Give 'em credit. They know what to steal and they do not hesitate to steal it. They have zeroed in on what is valuable in America and they move aggressively to take it.
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BBC Follow-up to yesterday’s Fox News posting. [BBC] Jinchao Wei, 22, a naturalised US citizen, is accused of conspiring to send national defence information to a Chinese agent.
Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, was arrested on charges of accepting money for sensitive photos and videos. "Diversity is our strength."
It is unclear if the same Chinese agent is alleged to have contacted the pair.
Both men were arrested on Wednesday in California, Mr Wei while on his way to work at Naval Base San Diego.
Prosecutors announced the charges during a news conference in San Diego on Thursday.
They said Mr Wei, who served as a machinist's mate on the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, held a security clearance and had access to sensitive information about the ship.
He was allegedly approached by a Chinese agent in February 2022 while he was going through the process of becoming a US citizen.
The agent paid Mr Wei, who also goes by the name Patrick Wei, thousands of dollars for photographs, videos, technical manuals and blueprints of the ship, the indictment said.
Justice department officials said Mr Wei also gave the agent details of US Marines who were on a maritime training exercise.
"When a soldier or sailor chooses cash over country and hands over national defence information in an ultimate act of betrayal, we have to be ready to act," said US Attorney Randy Grossman.
China, so far, has denied any knowledge of the alleged activity. "So far" you say?
#1
How about Invoking 18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death,.......
Come to think of it,wouldn't it also apply to some in the DC Swamp Coup and their Elite Controllers?
[NYP] A newspaper publisher set to stand trial in federal court next week for allegedly promoting prostitution on his now-defunct online classified ads site Backpage has died by suicide, according to local reports.
James Larkin, 74, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Superior, Ariz., on Monday, according to the Superior Police Department.
Investigators told the Phoenix New Times, the alternative weekly newspaper that Larkin co-founded, that no foul play was suspected in his death.
Calls to the family went unanswered on Friday.
Larkin is survived by his wife, Molly, and their six children.
Larkin, New Times co-founder Michael Lacey, and four other Backpage employees were due to be retried in Phoenix federal court on Tuesday for allegedly facilitating prostitution and money laundering.
In September 2021, a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case after ruling that prosecutors improperly invoked sex trafficking even though none of the defendants were ever charged with the crime.
Larkin, Lacey and four others were accused of taking part in a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the site.
[FoxNews] NYC police say a level four mobilization has been issued
Violence erupted in New York City's Union Square on Friday afternoon when at least 1,000 kids and teenagers swarmed the area for a PlayStation giveaway and police officers were injured and had bottles, rocks and fireworks thrown at them.
A spokesperson for the New York City Police Department told Fox News Digital that at least 1,000 kids gathered in the area of Union Square Park for a PlayStation giveaway organized by a social media influencer.
Twitch streamer Kai Cenat tweeted around 2:00 p.m. Friday that there would be a giveaway at 3:30 p.m. at Union Square Park.
Video from the incident shows several people throwing bottles at police officers. New York Police Chief Department Jeffrey Maddrey said during a press conference that multiple arrests were made, stating that police and members of the public sustained injuries. He said the gathering was declared unlawful.
Police said that Cenat is being charged with inciting a riot, unlawful assembly, and a few other charges, but didn't elaborate.
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Feral morons. Look at the ethnic group of the people "rioting" in the video and they match up with all the other flash mobs, shoplifters and troublemakers.
[Defense] China's "space weaponry" arsenal "includes missiles that launch from the Earth that go up and destroy satellites, it includes lasers, it includes jammers, it includes a whole magazine of diversity for that," a top Space Force officer said.
The Space Force is concentrating fully half of its intelligence-gathering activities on China to keep tabs on Beijing’s rapid evolution as a space power to reckon with, according to the service’s senior intelligence officer.
"From an intelligence perspective ... about half of what we do is focused on China. About 25 percent of what we do is focused on Russia, and a lot of that has to do because of the current conflict [i.e., in Ukraine]," Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, Space Force deputy chief of space operations for intelligence, told the Space Force Association yesterday.
"And about 25 percent of what we do is focused on what we call the rest of world, or the commercial sector — not spying on the commercial sector, but just understanding the commercial sector from an intelligence perspective."
Gagnon said that there are now "1,500-plus space intelligence professionals" in the Space Force, and that the service is already seeing benefits, particularly with regards to educating the Defense Department writ large about the growing threats to US space systems.
The Space Force’s key intelligence operation is the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC), also known as Delta 18 under Space Operations Command, which was stood up in June 2022, at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.
"NSIC ... does an excellent job of understanding kind of that that broader portfolio China, Russia, rest of world plus commercial so that we can not be surprised," Gagnon noted.
Referencing Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s focus on China as the US military’s key peer adversary, Gagnon explained that the Chinese government in particular bears persistent monitoring because of the pace at which it has been improving its space capabilities across the board.
[Press Gazette] Dan Wootton’s Mail Online column has been paused while allegations made against him are investigated. Because the Daily Mail has a following here...
The allegations, published in a series of stories by independent outlet Byline Times, include claims around payments for explicit images and videos and others in relation to alleged behaviour while working at The Sun.
Wootton has denied any criminal wrongdoing although he has admitted to "errors of judgment in the past".
A spokesperson for DMG Media, which publishes Mail Online, told Press Gazette on Thursday: "We are continuing to consider a series of allegations which Dan Wootton — who has written columns for Mail Online since 2021 as one of several outside freelance contributors — has strenuously denied.
"The allegations are obviously serious but also complex and historic and there is an independent investigation underway at the media group which employed him during the relevant period.
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Yes, but where did this happen? Is she a victim of British National Health Service incompetence, Canadian health service incompetence, American medical incompetence, or somewhere else where English is the native tongue?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Chloe Reid was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin's Lymphoma in May
Her doctor had told her it was a lingering infection from tonsillitis
She has shared her cancer journey and symptoms on TikTok
#4
It's called "Practicing Medicine" for a reason.
Some bat a 1000, and some bat 300.
But when you are forced to a use an assigned doctor by the Government. Where do you think those batting 900 to 1000 doctors are assigned and what social/wealth class do they treat?
#5
But when you are forced to a use an assigned doctor by the Government.
PPO, HMO, 'in network'...
My misdiagnosing, pedophile PCP referred me to a ENT tumor trophy hunting butcher for lab sample collection who then referred me to an alcoholic oncologist that botched a bone marrow collection [DTs] and 'called around' for time in a pet scanner, and a surgeon to put in a subclavian port. The oncologist 'announced' the selected treatment regimen before the definitive lab report was released.
AMA, two weeks later I was enrolled in the integrated treatment center at MD Anderson and under treatment.
[FoxNews] Pinellas County Sheriff Office, Coast Guard team up to bring boat to safety.
Police say the driver of the boat had "fallen off and was rescued by a good Samaritan."
Video released by the Pinellas County Sheriff Office began with one of its boats racing alongside the empty boat, where nobody was seen behind its controls.
"You got it, I don’t care about getting wet, you got it," Deputy Fernandes said.
He then jumped onto the runaway boat and brought it to a stop.
The deputy and the Coast Guard were later seen working to untangle a line that got wrapped up in the boat’s propeller.
[AlAhram] Three major international oil companies have announced a resumption of their operations in Libya after a 10-year absence, the Libyan National Oil Company said on Thursday.
The NOC said in a blurb it "received official notifications from the Italian company Eni and the British company British Petroleum regarding the lifting of force majeure and the resumption of exploration and contractual obligations in the blocks awarded to them in the Ghadames Basin (A-B) and offshore Block C".
It said it had also been notified by Algeria's Sonatrach that "exploration and fulfilment of contractual obligations in blocks 065 and 96/95 in the Ghadames Basin" had resumed.
The Ghadames Basin is in southwest Libya in an area rich in oil and gas on the border with Algeria and Tunisia.
In December, the NOC called on foreign companies with which it had hydrocarbon exploration and production agreements to lift the force majeure they had invoked, arguing that the security situation had improved.
Force majeure is a measure invoked in exceptional circumstances, allowing exemption from liability in the event of non-compliance with contractual obligations.
Crude oil is the main revenue source for Libya, which has been torn by more than a decade of stop-start conflict, involving foreign powers and a myriad of militias, since a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed revolt toppled strongman Moamer Qadaffy in 2011.
Over the past decade, Libya has been regularly plagued by festivities between rival factions from the east and the west, badly affecting oil and gas operations.
The country sits on Africa's biggest oil reserves but the wedge between the eastern government and a United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... -recognised administration in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... has hampered Libya's efforts to sharply ramp up output in response to a surge in European demand for non-Russian oil and gas.
Production has recovered in recent months to reach 1.2 million barrels per day, most of which is for export.
[Aljazeera] Harare, Zimbabwe — For convening what the police called an illegal gathering in Harare’s central business district, Parere Kunyenzura stayed 187 days in a prison cell last year without trial. Inmates came and left, but his enduring if unwanted companion was the powerful stench of human faeces and urine.
It was the worst at night when he and more than 100 other inmates were all locked up from 3pm to 6am. They piled up on the floor next to each other to share lice-infested blankets left behind by previous inmates.
During his time in jail, Kunyenzura frequently saw many inmates resort to defecating in plastic buckets. "The toilets don’t have a flushing system or don’t have the sitting bowls. Of the few that do, the flushing system doesn’t work," he told Al Jazeera.
Kunyezura, a clergyman and leader of the Zimbabwe Transformative Party (ZTP), would silently pray that no one would suffer bouts of diarrhoea. But one night, a case of badly cooked spinach triggered a messy episode, and the inmates had to endure the putrid smell of faecal waste for up to 15 hours before it was cleaned.
"It was a crisis," he told Al Jazeera. The buckets were not enough."
Misheck Nyembe, a 72-year-old pensioner who spent 13 days behind bars in January for attending a political meeting the police had not given a permit for, told Al Jazeera that the prison was "infested with lice" and his body was itchy for weeks after his release. Nyembe, who ate only food provided by his family during his detention, said the prison meals were only "fit for pigs".
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Didn’t Brits spend last winter in the cold and dark because of blackouts? How, then, will these extra electric cars be powered in winters to come?
Some 143,921 new vehicles were registered in July, up 28.3% on a year ago
Electric vehicles (BEVs) registrations jumped by almost 88% to 23,010
Demand for fleet and business vehicles was biggest driver of sales
UK car sales have now risen for 12 months in a row, despite the ongoing consumer squeeze, with demand for electric vehicles gathering pace, industry figures show.
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Demand for fleet and business vehicles was biggest driver of sales
UK and EU tax incentives plus 'back door' (Nice company you have there -- better buy EVs, capiche?) prodding by same ...sounds almost fascist, ecofacist.
Given the UK had about 2.1+ million registered vehicles of which less than 110,000 were EV's in 2022
Consider adding 2+ Million more EV's. That would demand about 11.52 TWh more power a year from the UK power grid, currently generating about 340TWh at a 74+% load. g .
Considering, about 176TWh of the UK's 340TWh power( 51+/-%) currently comes from NON-Green sources, and it also imports another 6+TWh from the EU Power Grid via under sea cables now.
The UK had better get off it's A$$ and start building Power Generating stations to replace the approx 51% it will shut down.
Given the generally poorly thought out plans and demands, to dump all coal, nukes, oil and gas and go 100% Green in 10 years.
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Uptake by large fleets increased 61.9 per cent to 80,961 vehicles, and business registrations rose 28.7 per cent to 2,915.
Cars bought by privates remained stable at 60,045, up only 0.3 per cent compared to a year ago.
A bit earlier in the article, to go with @#1 magpie:
'Government must pull every lever, therefore, to make buying, running and, especially, charging an EV, affordable and practical for every driver in every part of the country.'
Every lever other than power generation I guess, as NN2N1 points out.
#5
I've seen so many Teslas in my North Texas neighborhood I feel the temperature dropping. Only 105 degrees today.
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Can't wait for the 'Restricted to District' orders to be handed down and implemented wirelessly.
"It's for the Children".
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The History of Technology is the search for more power. Human power, animal power, water powered machinery and then the thing that started to end the practice of human chattel slavery: steam powering the Industrial Age.
What the ecofascists seem to want is a greener™ future where the nomenklatura ride in human-powered rickshaws.
[WND] A new video has been released by a team that is working to find the truth about American elections, and specific catastrophes like the prosecutions over the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol, and post them online for the world to see.
It already has detailed its war with Konnech, an elections systems company described as having links to China. It sued for defamation, but then abruptly dropped its legal action when details about the dispute were posted online.
The new video details the lifetime of John Trump, the uncle of President Donald Trump and a key player in many of America's technological advances in the years after World War II.
The group releasing the video is Catherine Engelbrecht's True the Vote organization, which is working with her right hand researcher Gregg Phillips, to make sure elections are open and fair across America. 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?'
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The only reason the CA high speed boondoggle passed and hasn't been shut down yet (all promises are/were lies) is the massive political donations by large Construction and Engineering companies as well as construction unions.
The LA to Vegas (park in Victorville? Yeah, riiigghht) HS rail is being done by private parties IIRC
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[EAA] Fifty years ago, in March 1973, U.S. military forces officially withdrew from South Vietnam after eight long years of conflict. This year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023, we’re honoring the aircraft and veterans of the Vietnam War. If you take a stroll out to the Warbirds area, you’ll see a number of Hueys, Skyraiders, and other aircraft of the era. Parked on the far northern end of Warbirds is a rare sight — a C-123 Provider, believed to be one of the few, if not the only one, still flying.
Originally designed by Chase Aircraft in the late 1940s, the C-123 was introduced in the mid-1950s and built by Fairchild. The U.S. Air Force used it primarily as a cargo and military transport aircraft for operation on short and unimproved runways, and it was used exactly for those purposes during the Vietnam War. It also took part in Operation Ranch Hand, defoliating the South Vietnamese jungle. The C-123 attending AirVenture, Thunderpig, is a K-model Provider and is owned and operated by the Air Heritage Museum in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
Air Heritage’s C-123 was operated primarily as a training aircraft and went to the boneyard in 1981. In the early 1990s, the museum acquired the airplane and spent
about a year getting it into flying condition. Since then, the museum has flown it around the country for air shows, and it’s been featured in a number of TV shows and movies, including American Made, starring Tom Cruise.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BBC] Jinchao Wei, 22, a naturalised US citizen, is accused of conspiring to send national defence information to a Chinese agent.
[NYP] A newspaper publisher set to stand trial in federal court next week for allegedly promoting prostitution on his now-defunct online classified ads site Backpage has died by suicide, according to local reports.
[Defense] China's "space weaponry" arsenal "includes missiles that launch from the Earth that go up and destroy satellites, it includes lasers, it includes jammers, it includes a whole magazine of diversity for that," a top Space Force officer said.
