White tech oligarchs, including Bill Gates, are loading up on farm land near military bases and fueling anti-Chinese sentiment through oligarch-owned news.
The oligarch media, which mostly lies to and gaslights Americans, who are vulnerable to repetitions of false statements which even use identical wording over and over again, has been spewing a narrative about Chinese people buying farm land near American military bases, as a front for the Communist Party to spy on us.
That hysteria has led to dozens of American states to pass racist anti-Asian laws stopping foreign citizens from owning property. In some cases, these laws are flat-out illegal, since Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) can have as much land as they can buy.
Even my father, a man who spent his life working as an educated man. An engineer, with 9 US patents on television components, who has recently suffered two heart attacks and may not be around very much longer, is wasting what time he has left, ranting about the “Chinese farm land” issue.
It’s a fiction being given to us as a distraction, with very real and gruesome consequences which I will get to.
Now state legislators have embraceda novel, locally focused tactic aimed at China’s domestic investments: restrictions on Chinese land ownership.
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Lawmakers in 33 states have introduced 81 bills this yearthat would prohibit the Chinese government, some China-based businesses and many Chinese citizens from buying agricultural land or property near military bases, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by Asian Pacific American Justice, an advocacy group. A dozen of the bills are now law in states such as Alabama, Idaho and Virginia.
The Washington Post
In the case out of California, where a “shadowy” and “even possibly Chinese” acquisition of all of the farm land around Travis Air Force Base, it turned out that Flannery Associates was actually a group of White tech oligarchs, and the media has been foaming at the mouth with anti-Asian sentiment for weeks, sparking a federal investigation which turned up nothing, except an actual problem, which I will return to in a moment.
A mysterious investment company is buying up large tracts of land around a California Air Force base, raising questions about who is behind the firm — and its intentions — amid growing fears about Chinese businesses acquiring land near American military sites.
The investment firm Flannery Associates has bought around $800 million worth of land around Travis Air Force Base in northern California’s Solano County, which is midway between Sacramento and San Francisco.
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Garamendi, a House Armed Services Committee member, told The Hill that he has been investigating the land acquisitions for nearly two years and has come up with few answers to his questions.
“We have no idea who they are,” Garamendi said. “Flannery Associates is opaque. We have no idea where the nearly $900 million dollars has come from. They bought well over 55,000 acres of land in the area and [the purchase] raises a major concern.”
The Hill could not immediately contact Flannery Associates for comment. The firm claims that 97 percent of its investors are U.S.-based, but Garamendi said there is no way to verify that claim.
-The Hill
Well, in the end, it turned out to be mostly backed by these people.
The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.
-The Guardian
Yes, Marc Andreeson, who made his money in the DotCom Bubble, largely from Netscape Communications, and a bunch of other rich White people, are definitely “invaders from China”.
Most of the rest of these people are affiliated with Microsoft (Nat Friedman, GitHub, Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn, and of course there’s someone from Goldman Sachs, a megabank that got bailed out by your tax money in 2008 and pretty much continuously since then while you lost your jobs).
After months of stirring up racist anti-Asian, and particularly anti-Chinese sentiment among Americans, many of whom are so stupid at this point that they don’t even know there’s a difference, the media admits it was a bunch of rich White dudes.
But the damage is already done. These anti-Asian laws are now on the books in many states, and the Republican Party in particular isn’t going to let the revelation that it’s not even Chinese people who are a threat stop them from passing more.
What is a threat is that “Creepy Uncle” Bill Gates has been “investing” in farm land. A lot of it, and now his rich buddies are joining him.
Why? Are they going to get some tractors and start milking cows and harvesting the corn?
I’m so glad you asked. Nope. They’re basically planning to just own it and sponge off of tenant farmers and drive up your grocery and fast food bills while they get you hopping mad at Asian people.
Sam Waterston who played Prosecutor Jack McCoy, a favorite of mine on Law & Order, gave one of his best lines ever in one episode, which bears repeating here.
“Today’s ‘philanthropists’ are yesterday’s robber-barons.”
-Jack McCoy, Law & Order
Only he was wrong. Bill Gates never “retired” from being a robber-baron, none of them really do. They figure out a way to rape and exploit hard-working every day Americans with more Gordon Gekko business tactics.
“I create nothing. I own.”
-Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
If you thought that Creepy Uncle did most of the damage he would ever do to humanity while he was aggressively and illegally hawking terrible software at Microsoft, you need to guess again.
This farm land thing really is a problem. Maybe states can ban rich White people from buying so much of it.
Then after that, they can make the news apologize for the anti-Chinese lies they’ve been spreading so much of, which are getting people killed.
It’s not just a reckless and racist disregard for the truth, it’s deliberate and it is vile!
An 18-year-old Indiana University student was stabbed multiple times in the head while riding a local bus in Bloomington, Ind., this past week.
The suspect told police she stabbed the victim because the victim was “Chinese,” adding that it “would be one less person to blow up our country,” according to an affidavit shared with NPR.
Indiana University in Bloomington confirmed that the victim was a student enrolled there and said it was an incident of “anti-Asian hate.” Police did not provide details about the victim except that she was from Carmel, a city north of Indianapolis.
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The suspect, Billie R. Davis, 56, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery with a deadly weapon, according to court documents.
Since the attack, Asian American students and staff at Indiana University have been grappling with grief, anger, anxiety, and fear, according to Melanie Castillo-Cullather, the director of the school’s Asian Culture Center.
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Local police said surveillance footage from the Bloomington Transit bus showed that the suspect and the victim had no interactions prior to the assault. The victim appeared to be getting off the bus when another passenger struck her repeatedly in the head with a knife, according to the affidavit. The attacker then left the bus and walked away.
-NPR
I am aware that I’ve quoted at least three oligarch-affiliated media sources along the way, because if you read closely and monitor them enough, some truth permeates for those who can follow what they are doing, and the real story starts to emerge.
There is a national crisis involving farm land, and the unprovoked and murderous attacks on Asian people in America are simply a byproduct of a revolting distraction.
The crisis is….Bill Gates and his rich criminal buddies, and the farm land they buy. ⬆