'EcoFascism' and related Acts of Criminality.

[Belligerent Savant]

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What entities? Who is pulling her strings and for what purpose?

Who? The shadowy cabal, of course. (yes, this is sarcasm). This "Who" refrain doesn't in any way dispel the notion that narrative framers are involved. I haven't opened a formal investigation, though, so the plausible deniability game can technically work for a while longer.

And having a savvy marketing strategy doesn't mean she's now compromised. Example: she started out small, became wildly popular and decided she wanted help spreading her still genuine message.

Indeed, it may be nothing more than what you're suggesting here. It's certainly possible. Additional digging would offer more clarity, but that usually only happens when one is aiming for a closer approximation of what's actually happening vs.keeping to one's preferred story.

[DrEvil]

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What entities? Who is pulling her strings and for what purpose?

Who? The shadowy cabal, of course. (yes, this is sarcasm). This "Who" refrain doesn't in any way dispel the notion that narrative framers are involved. I haven't opened a formal investigation, though, so the plausible deniability game can technically work for a while longer.

Translation: you haven't looked into it, but you already know what you'll find so there's no point in looking into it.

And having a savvy marketing strategy doesn't mean she's now compromised. Example: she started out small, became wildly popular and decided she wanted help spreading her still genuine message.

Indeed, it may be nothing more than what you're suggesting here. It's certainly possible. Additional digging would offer more clarity, but that usually only happens when one is aiming for a closer approximation of what's actually happening vs.keeping to one's preferred story.

My preferred story is to look at what's in front of me, assess it, and then hopefully change my mind if new information is presented. What I try not to do is jump to conclusions with no evidence to back them up, because that way lie flimsy narratives built on quicksand. If said flimsy narrative turns out to be true after all that's just dumb luck on the narrator's part.

[Belligerent Savant]

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Oh, I've looked into it. Have you? What I share here are breadcrumbs, not "evidence". It's presumptuous to assume snippets presented here, by themselves, are the only data points considered.

How often do you challenge your positions?

On this topic alone, my position has evolved over the past ~year.

When this "pandemic" first hit, while I had certain reservations from the onset, I largely subscribed to the precautions/mandates doled out (understandably so).

Now, some remain stuck in place. In some cases, doubling down on absurdities.

[DrEvil]

Yet you keep not posting those data points. What are these other data points you have considered? You must have some inkling who is behind Thunberg and what the real agenda is.

Bread crumbs are all well and good, but they should lead somewhere.

[Belligerent Savant]

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I didn't notice the above at the time, but as I mentioned before, my role here [well, I have no formal 'role', of course] is not to spoon feed. More often than not, the 'smoking gun' will not be available to be offered on a platter. We are increasingly challenged by 'the helpers' as well: the "fact checkers" that are at the ready to frame (and/or distort) talking points on behalf of Empire. What's real? What's legit? Indeed, for the casual researcher/investigator, it becomes more challenging to discern without earnest due diligence. There are far more weeds obstructing passage than in years past.

All that is to say: believe what you wish. Don't expect me to provide you the answers you aren't really aiming to obtain.

One reply to the above can be, "then there's no substance to your inferences", and you're certainly entitled to this opinion.

That aside, I bumped this thread for the following:

@TessaMakesLove

Don't get the news I just tweeted get under your radar.

"The Biden administration announced a 10-year, voluntary and locally led drive to conserve 30% of U.S. land and coastal waters by 2030."

They are also doing it in the UK etc. To my great dismay, this has nothing to do with tree hugging or love of nature. This is a part of a very cynical and coordinated campaign to consolidate ownership of land and water, very much not in the favor of the little guy.

https://twitter.com/TessaMakesLove/stat ... 97512?s=20


https://www.agriculture.com/news/busine ... -and-water

National conservation goal: 30% of U.S. land and water

More on this at a later time.

[DrEvil]

There is nothing at those links to explain:

This is a part of a very cynical and coordinated campaign to consolidate ownership of land and water, very much not in the favor of the little guy.

How does voluntary conservation consolidate ownership?

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, in which case I would appreciate someone explaining it to me.

[Karmamatterz]

Interesting to note in this thread, for those who worship Bill Gates as your hero and savior who helped get the Covid vaccines produced, you'll be happy to see Gates is now America's largest farmland owner. I find it incredibly ironic this is also the same person who is promoting (yesssh phluck mechpuke) "lab-grown" meat. Maybe these are simply investments, just like his foundation's investments in big pharma are simply investments. Right? Bill Gates never ever ever would come up crackpot phucked up ideas like blocking sunlight on the Earth.
https://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-backi ... 01437.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/0 ... microsoft/


https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gat ... and-owner/

The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife rank as America’s largest private farmland owners.
Call it a hunch, but the story did not jibe. I scanned the headline for the umpteenth time and then read and reread the pertinent details. Something was missing. Either that or I had a screw loose. According to the Tri-City Herald, a 14,500-acre swath of choice Eastern Washington farmland in the Horse Heaven Hills of Benton County had just traded hands for almost $171 million. That’s a ginormous deal, one that pencils out to almost $12,000 per acre for a whole lot of acres. Pretty pricey dirt, right? That’s exactly what I thought. Especially when it comes to row crops like sweet corn and wheat, which were grown in rotation with potatoes on 100 Circles, which is the name of the property that changed hands. Then again, farmers and investors in the Mid-Columbia River market expect to pay $10,000 to $15,000 for good ground. Anyone who has ever studied the Columbia River Basin knows that the tillable acreage there is coveted ground, a geologic wonder. The soil profile and underlying silty loess are in a league of their own.

I had gained this smidgen of geologic proficiency while researching our 2018 Farmland Deal of the Year, Weidert Farm, in neighboring Walla Walla County. One of the most telling moments in the field that summer came when a soil scientist by the name of Alan Busacca grabbed a shovel and stepped into a 10-foot trench that had been ripped open on the farm by a Caterpillar 336. Dusky layers of silt and sand towered over the 6-foot-tall retired Washington State professor. There wasn’t a rock, let alone a pebble, or even a root to be seen in the soil. Busacca was in his element: It was some of the richest farmland in the Lower 48. And from an agricultural perspective, the region surrounding Walla Walla and the Horse Heaven Hills has evolved into a commercial hub, complete with controlled atmosphere (CA) storage, state-of-the-art transportation infrastructure, and ready access to low-cost hydropower.

These are a few of the reasons why savvy investors have been plowing millions of dollars into farmland on both the Oregon and the Washington sides of the Columbia River Gorge. At current valuations, it’s one of the nation’s best farmland opportunities. In 2018, when 100 Circles sold, it was even better.

More often than not, farmland sales involve hundreds of acres. Thousand-acre transactions — such as the sale of 6,000- acre Weidert Farm to Farmland L.P. two years ago and the 6,175-acre Broetje Orchards acquisition by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan last year — are blue-moon events.

Tens of thousands of acres? Only sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors can stroke a check for tracts in that league, which is exactly what occurred on the sell side of the 100 Circles transaction: The seller was John Hancock Life Insurance, a multibillion-dollar asset manager with key holdings in all the major US markets as well as Canada and Australia.

The story went dark on the buy side, however. The Tri-City Herald reported that the purchaser was a “Louisiana investor,” a limited liability company associated with Angelina Agriculture of Monterey, Louisiana. Sorry, but that didn’t pass the sniff test.

The Land Report tracks numerous Louisiana landowners; Angelina Agriculture is not one of them. Let’s call that strike one. The burgeoning metropolis of Monterey, population 462, rang a bell, but despite my best efforts, I couldn’t connect the dots to anyone whom we had profiled in The Land Report or, for that matter, anyone who was on our watch list. So I took a look at Dun & Bradstreet. At its listed headquarters — 8318 Highway 565 — Angelina Agriculture boasted two employees and reported annual revenues just north of $300,000. Given the size and cost of 100 Circles, both of those figures made no sense at all. Strike two. How about Google Maps? An aerial image of the Highway 565 address revealed a small metal-sided building off by itself in the woods. Strike three, right?

One of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies is the 1999 mystery/thriller True Crime. In it, the four-time Academy Award winner plays an over-the-hill journalist who has “a nose” for a story. I am quite confident that Eastwood’s character, Steve Everett, would have picked up the stench from this setup a mile off: a $171 million acquisition by an LLC with two employees in a metal-sided building down a dirt road off the Bayou Teche? I forwarded the lead to our Land Report 100 Research Team. Minutes later, a terse response arrived:

“Ever hear of Bill Gates?”

THE PAPER TRAIL
Actually, when it comes to the extensive farmland portfolio of Bill and Melinda Gates, the question should be, “Ever hear of Michael Larson?” For the last 25 years, the Claremont McKenna College alum has managed the Gateses’ personal portfolio as well as the considerable holdings of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Although our researchers identified dozens of different entities that own the Gateses’ assets, Larson himself operates primarily through an entity called Cascade Investment LLC.)

In 1994, the Gateses hired the former Putnam Investments bond-fund manager to diversify the couple’s portfolio away from the Microsoft co-founder’s 45 percent stake in the technology giant while maintaining comparable or better returns. According to a 2014 profile of Larson in the Wall Street Journal, these investments include a substantial stake in AutoNation, hospitality interests such as the Charles Hotel in Cambridge and the Four Seasons in San Francisco, and “at least 100,000 acres of farmland in California, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, and other states … .” According to the Land Report 100 Research Team, that figure is currently more than twice that amount, which means Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, has an alter ego: Farmer Bill, the guy who owns more farmland than anyone else in America.

The Gateses’ largest single block of dirt was acquired in 2017: a group of farmland assets owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Based in Toronto, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board began assembling an agricultural portfolio in 2013, when it acquired AgCoA, aka, Agricultural Company of America. This private US farmland REIT was a joint venture between Duquesne Capital Management and Goldman Sachs that launched in 2007. Over the next five years, AgCoA acquired more than 100,000 acres in nine states. By the time it was sold to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in 2013, AgCoA ranked as one of the leading institutional owners of row crop farmland in the US.

After AgCoA, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board acquired a second tranche of farmland assets when it paid $2.5 billion for a 40 percent stake in Glencore Agricultural Products in 2016. The very next year, however, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board began shedding these very same farmland assets as quickly as it had acquired them. And it did this so quietly one might even say it was done in secret.

There was no public announcement, and no notice in the business press. Instead, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board revealed in the fine print of a quarterly statement that it had sold $520 million in US farmland assets held by Agriculture Company of America. Credit Chris Janiec at Agri Investor for this eagle-eyed investigating. The Americas Editor at Agri Investor, Janiec reported that the assets had been offered as a single block and “that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is thought to be the buyer of CPPIB’s farmland.” Janiec stayed on the story, and the following year, he confirmed the parameters of sale when he reported the addition of 61 properties valued at approximately $500 million to the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries’ (NCREIF) US Farmland Index. This half-billion-dollar figure corroborated the AgCoA acquisition, and the paper trail led directly to Cascade Investment LLC.

All told, the 2017 acquisition of AgCoA and the 2018 acquisition of the 100 Circles tract in the Horse Heaven Hills of Eastern Washington total an investment in farmland assets of more than $690 million. Janiec’s sources said some of the AgCoA assets were quickly sold off, but according to the Land Report 100 Research Team, an estimated 242,000 acres of farmland remained.

Yet farmland assets aren’t the sole component of the Gateses’ landholdings. In 2017, Cascade Investment bought a “significant stake” in 24,800 acres of transitional land on the western edge of Phoenix, the most populous city in Arizona and the 10th largest metropolitan area in the country. The acreage sits off Interstate 10, and it is poised to be accessible by Interstate 11, a proposed highway that would traverse 5 miles of the 40-square-mile holding. At buildout, the Belmont development will create a brand-new metropolis, one similar in size to the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, home to Arizona State University and almost 200,000 residents. According to The Arizona Republic, Belmont is projected to include up to 80,000 homes; 3,800 acres of industrial, office, and retail space; 3,400 acres of open space; and 470 acres for public schools.

Cascade Investment doubled down on Phoenix transitional land two years later when it made a second major investment by acquiring more than 2,800 acres known as Spurlock Ranch in Buckeye for $25 million.

SUSTAINABLE INVESTING
A spokesman for Cascade Investment declined to comment on any of the details associated with these transactions or the Gateses’ holdings, other than to say that Cascade is very supportive of sustainable farming.

Much like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation uses science and technology to achieve a number of worthy goals — including transitioning millions of people out of poverty, improving people’s health and well-being, and ensuring that all people have access to opportunities necessary to succeed in school and in life — Cascade’s farmland holdings also aim to further laudable objectives.

In January 2020, The Land Report announced the launch of a sustainability standard that was developed by US farmland owners and operators. Called Leading Harvest, the organization’s goal is to create a sustainability standard thatcan be implemented across the greatest swath of agricultural acreage. Currently, more than 2 million acres in 22 states and an additional 2 million acres in seven countries are represented. Among the participants in the 13-member Sustainable Agriculture Working Group are Ceres Partners, Hancock Natural Resources Group, The Rohaytn Group, and UBS Farmland Investors.

Not surprisingly, one of Leading Harvest’s other inaugural members is a Cascade entity called Cottonwood Ag Management. Committing the resources to launch this all-important standard validates the assertion that Cascade supports sustainable strategies that advance resiliency and efficiency, retain talent, and reduce regulatory burdens.

Although the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has no ties whatsoever to Cascade or its investments, it also has a farmland initiative: Gates Ag One, which has established its headquarters in the Greater St. Louis area. According to the St. Louis Business Journal, Gates Ag One will focus on research that helps “smallholder farmers adapt to climate change and make food production in low- and middle-income countries more productive, resilient, and sustainable.”

A CLOSING NOTE
Remember that metal-sided building down near the Bayou Teche? Turns out that very same property had caught my eye way back when The Land Report was preparing to launch in 2006. Does the name Bernie Ebbers ring a bell? Once upon a time, the business press dubbed the colorful entrepreneur “the telecom cowboy.” That was before the Edmonton native was put on trial for his role in what was, at the time, the largest corporate bankruptcy filing in US history.

In 2005, the former WorldCom CEO was convicted of securities fraud, conspiracy, and filing false reports that were instrumental in WorldCom’s $11 billion dollar accounting fraud. After losing his appeal in 2006, Ebbers spent most of the rest of his life in a federal prison before being granted compassionate release by a federal judge earlier this year. He died on February 2 surrounded by his family.

Ebbers was many things — a dreamer, a liar, a swindler — and he loved land. In 1998 when he was the toast of Wall Street, the telecom cowboy paid British Columbia’s Woodward family the astronomical sum of $73 million for Canada’s largest ranch: 500,000-acre Douglas Lake, a 22,000-head cattle operation. Ebbers subsequently pledged Douglas Lake as collateral for $400 million he ended up borrowing from WorldCom, and in 2003, WorldCom sold Douglas Lake to Kroenke Ranches. The $68.5 million that Kroenke Ranches paid was applied to Ebbers’s IOU. He also owned a 26,236-acre Louisiana farm. It, too, was sold, on September 25, 2006, the day before Ebbers began serving his sentence at the Oakdale Federal Correctional Institution. It was his last deal as a free man.

When Ebbers owned this Louisiana farm, it was known as Angelina Plantation. And its headquarters was in — you guessed it — Monterey, Louisiana. That was the missing piece of the puzzle I had been searching for as I read the Tri-City Herald story. In a former life, Angelina Agriculture, the purchaser that paid $171 million for 100 Circles in 2018, was, in fact, Bernie Ebbers’s Angelina Plantation. The day before he went to prison, Ebbers sold Angelina for $32 million. The farm was subsequently sold to AgCoA, which was acquired by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. In 2017, Angelina Plantation changed hands one more time and became one of the principal farmland assets in the Gateses’ Cascade Investment’s portfolio.

It took a dozen years, but the ownership of that Louisiana farmland went from Bernie Ebbers to Bill Gates with a couple of stops in between. I readily admit forgetting where and when I first caught wind of it, but the moment I read that Tri-City Herald story, I knew the ending definitely needed a rewrite. Steve Everett would be proud.

[DrEvil]

Not sure who you're referring to with "worship Bill Gates as your hero and savior". I despise the man myself, I just don't think he's the Antichrist.

As an investment his land purchases make sense. With climate change rampaging on good soil will be at a premium. He shouldn't be allowed to own that much land, but there's really not much I can do about that.

Personally I think farms should be small enough that the farmer can run it him/herself, and it should be illegal to own a farm without also living there. It shouldn't be an asset for funds and vultures, or vacation homes, or anything else but a farm.

[JackRiddler]

Nor will there ever be one, but Gates is among the leading candidates aspiring to embody him.

[dada]

Isn't the antichrist supposed to be charismatic?

Anyway, it's no business of mine who you throw your pies at. I'm no anti-pie elitist.

You know, it makes me think. Instead of throwing bodies on the gears, and pies at the boss, why not throw the pies in the gears, and the bodies at the boss.

People don't think these strategies through. But I'm certainly not against hybrid meat on a vine, grown in a rich, chemical broth. Might actually be the answer to a lot of things. Change the relationship between humans and farm animals. No need for all the assembly line raising and slaughter, with the accompanying waste and pollution.

And maybe feed more people, of course. Also, space travel potential.

So maybe don't be so quick to judge what is on your plate. Who knows, might taste good.

[Belligerent Savant]

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https://www.ecosophia.net/the-dream-of- ... d-society/

My essay here two weeks ago on the way that the industrial world’s elites are beginning to back away from environmentalism, using chatter about “ecofascism” as a convenient excuse, got the lively response I expected. To be fair, there was also a certain amount of noise, and a certain number of exasperated demands that I stop disagreeing with the corporate media’s narrative du jour; I’m thinking here especially of three comments, apparently by three different people, which denounced my lack of adulation for media darling Greta Thunberg not only in identical language but in the identical faux-friendly chiding tone. Those readers familiar with ShareBlue and its sister troll farms would have recognized the style instantly if the comments in question had gone anywhere but the trash.

Fortunately most of the responses came from people who weren’t rehashing somebody else’s canned talking points, and quite a few of them raised important issues. One that was especially good came from a regular commenter—tip of the hat to Mog—who noted that the reason why elites have embraced anthropogenic climate change, as a cause for which they’re ready to spend the last penny of everyone else’s money, may have quite a bit to do with the way that schemes for carbon reduction almost always involve setting up markets where carbon credits or the like can be traded, in exactly the same way that other speculative vehicles are traded today.

It’s a valid point. The global economy these days is dominated by a vast superstructure of what might best be called hallucinatory finance, in which investment vehicles that have no noticeable connection to actual goods or services are assigned arbitrary values and traded feverishly in worldwide markets. It so happens that in order to keep that superstructure propped up, a steady flow of actual wealth—modest in terms of the gargantuan notional values of the superstructure, but much less so in human terms—has to be added to the mix. Up until recently, most of that was extracted from the productive economies of the industrial nations by way of various gimmicks linked to the so-disant “global economy,” with results you can see quite readily if you walk down Main Street in any American city or town outside a few wealthy coastal enclaves.

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Carbon taxes, and the resulting carbon credits, can thus be seen as an attempt to keep the game going a little longer, by extracting more blood from the well-squeezed stone of Main Street using a different set of excuses. The serene lack of elite interest in doing anything to decrease their own carbon footprints makes perfect sense in this context, since the whole point of the gimmick is to give the absurdly privileged the wherewithal to maintain their preferred lifestyles of obscene extravagance for at least a little longer. I suspect that Mog is quite correct in suggesting that this explains why the very rich parade a level of concern about anthropogenic global warming that they don’t display when it comes to any other environmental issue.

Some of the way that mainstream intellectuals have fallen into line behind the same banner, no doubt, has the same cause at second hand. For as long as there has been an intellectual class, a significant number of its members have figured out that parroting whatever the rich want to hear is one fairly reliable way to make a living. That sort of parrot song can also be enforced; I’ve heard from far too many scientists in far too many fields who’ve told me that for quite some years now, if you wanted to get grants for your research, you had to pitch your project to the granting agency by spinning it so that it would feed the global warming narrative. (Yes, anthropogenic climate change is a reality; yes, that reality is being used as an excuse for various manipulative political games. I’m not sure why so few people seem to be able to hold both these ideas in their minds at the same time.)

That said, I think there’s more going on here. I’m thinking here of the way that the Democratic Party in Washington State shot down a well-designed carbon tax initiative, as discussed in the post two weeks ago, because it was designed to be revenue-neutral instead of providing the state government with a huge slush fund for the purposes of social engineering. I’m thinking of the reports to the Club of Rome you never hear about these days, which we also discussed two weeks ago—you know, the ones that insisted that the limits to growth wouldn’t be a problem if only the global economy was handed over to a cadre of unelected experts. I’m thinking more generally about one of the pervasive themes of a certain kind of highbrow pop culture, the notion of global management, of the world as a passive object that humanity (or rather, as it always turns out, certain selected members of our species) should control.

more at link.

[DrEvil]

Not really a surprise that the rich and powerful will do anything in their power to stay rich and powerful. That's why they're rich and powerful in the first place. They're not going to suddenly become saints.

All the more reason to get our shit together now before we end up in a green dictatorship, which is what will happen if things get bad enough. Problem is of course that humans are creatures of habit. We don't want to do anything that puts us outside our comfort zones, so we vote for politicians who will maintain the status quo, we take part in meaningless rituals like turning off the lights for one hour once a year, and we keep on consuming, maybe with some locally grown vegetables to go with that beef to soothe that tiny subconscious voice screaming "wake up you stupid motherfucker!", and our media, conveniently owned by the very same people benefiting from the system as is, helpfully demonizes anyone who tries to rock the boat.

We'll be arguing about what to do until the planet burns down around us, then act shocked that it happened and fight over the ashes.

[PufPuf93]

Here is a list of the 100 largest landowners in the USA. Gates is 49th and new to the list. The largest landowners are privately held timber and ranching families. Much of the timberland was originally in private ownership from federal grants associated with expansion of the railroads. The list does not include large ownerships traded as corporate shares (this may not be true at present but at one time Chevron was largest owner of ag and in California) or REITs (for example the largest ownership of timberland in the USA, about 7 million acres, is Weyerhaeuser, that is described in wiki as a REIT and not the world's largest lumber producer). For various reasons, I once knew way more about large timberland transactions in the western USA than anyone should.

http://landreport.com/americas-100-largest-landowners/

Large timberland owning families at the top of the list

#2 Emmerson (Sierra Pacific Industries)

"owns 1.9 million acres of woodland in northern California and western Washington. He was the third largest landowner in the US in 2016"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Aldis_Emmerson

#3 Reed (Simpson Investment / Green Diamond)

"The Reed family is an American business family who focuses on landownership. The family currently controls Simpson Investment Company, established 1890, and its spin-off Green Diamond Resource. The family owns 1.37 million acres across California, Washington and Oregon and is currently the fifth-largest private landowner in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_family

#15 Ford (Roseburg Resources / Lumber)

"Kenneth W. Ford (August 4, 1908 – February 8, 1997) was an American businessman and lumber mill owner from Asotin, Washington, who founded Roseburg Forest Products in 1936. As of 2017, his family was the 12th largest private landowners in the United States owning 783,000 acres in the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina and Virginia"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_W ... usinessman)

#18 Stimson

"Today, Stimson Lumber Company stretches across Oregon, Idaho and Montana. We employ more than 750 people; operate seven mills in Oregon and Idaho; and own and sustainably manage over 500,000 acres of forest land in the western United States. We are proud to be active partners in the communities where we live and do business."

https://www.stimsonlumber.com/company/about-us/

#23 Fisher (Humboldt and Mendocino Redwoods, The Gap)

"“The Fisher family's roughly $10 billion in assets are spread across an opaque web of globe-spanning investments. One of their main money vehicles is Sansome Partners, the San Francisco- and Seattle-based investment firm that owns Mendocino Redwood Company and its northerly affiliate, Humboldt Redwood Company. The purpose of Sansome Partners, the company's web site proclaims, is to make “long-term investments in high-quality businesses and assets.”

Best known as owners of The Gap and Banana Republic retail clothing empire, family matriarch Doris Fisher and her sons Robert, William, and John (best known in some circles as the majority owner of the Oakland A's) are all billionaires. Within the Fishers' 440,000 acres of forestland in Humboldt, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties, the family may own more coastal redwood forest than any private entity ever has."

https://www.savethemattolesancientfores ... sherfamily

Note Simpson is and was the largest owner of redwood. Simpson owned about 400,000 acres of north coast redwood land (formerly Hammond Lumber, Arcata Barrel, etc) and added the 300,000 acres of Arcata Redwood in late 1980s plus some former Louisiana Pacific lands in Humboldt county. The Fisher's bought Maxxum / Pacific Lumber (minus the Headwaters Forest) and the former Georgia Pacific / Union Lumber tracts in Mendocino and Sonoma.

#33 Collins (Collins Pine, etc)

Know that Collins Pine has about 250,000 acres associated with Collins Pine (once part of Red River Lumber / Walker ownership) in California plus timberland in PA and OR.

"Collins is a family-owned American forest products company that began in operations July 28, 1855. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Collins was the first privately owned forest products company in the United States to have all of its hardwood and softwood forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). In addition to its forests and sawmills, Collins also manufactures siding and trim, particleboard, hardwood, and softwood lumber, and operates retail hardware and lumber yards in northern California. Divisions include: Collins Pine Company, Kane Hardwood, Collins Hardwood LLC, Collins Products LLC, Collins Builders Supply, and the Almanor Railroad."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collins_Companies

?? Walker Family (should be listed, formerly Red River Lumber and while most lands were sold, some remain to present managed in family trust relationships)

The Walker family came to prominence via its progenitor, T. B. Walker (Thomas Barlow Walker), a highly successful American businessperson who acquired timber in Minnesota and California and built one of the largest forest products corporations in the nation at the time. He collected art that he made available to the public, and founded the Minneapolis Public Library.[1] He is also the founder and namesake of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Descendants of his son, Clinton Walker, continue to live in Northern California and own 142,500 acres of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified sustainable timberland known as Shasta Forests.[2]

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The Walker family's flagship business, the Red River Lumber Company (RRLC), was formed in 1884. It built and operated mills in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Northern California. RRLC was also the "home" of legendary character Paul Bunyan. Stories about Bunyan, a mythical lumber jack, were created by RRLC's publicist using local lumber jack stories. Bunyan eventually became synonymous with RRLC products. Walker's sons took control of RRLC soon after the first mill in California was built in 1912. Walker built several company towns during this time including Akeley, Minnesota, and Westwood, California.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_family

[Belligerent Savant]

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Haven't yet properly vetted the site (limited hangout potential), but the video clip is worthy of consideration.

Geoengineer David Keith Admits to Dangers of Spraying Aluminum ( Geoengineering Watch )

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

[Iamwhomiam]

Chronic aluminium oxide inhalation may cause pneumoconiosis with cough and exertional dyspnoea, diffuse reticulonodular shadowing on chest X-ray and a restrictive pattern of pulmonary function. In severe cases death may result from respiratory failure or corpulmonale.

There is evidence from controlled studies among aluminium workers that chronic aluminium oxide exposure with an increased body aluminium burden may be associated with neurocognitive dysfunction but not increased mortality.
http://www.inchem.org/documents/ukpids/ukpids/ukpid33.htm

Scholarly articles for human health impacts from alumina inhalation