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Congressman Farr wants hearing on LBAM reclassification
Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) has submitted a petition to the USDA for reclassifying the Light Brown Apple Moth to a minor pest status. He has also stated that he hopes his Agricultural Appropriations Committee will hold hearings with the USDA answering questions about making errors and correcting them. A copy of the petition is available on request.
CASS (California Alliance to Stop the Spray)
Oct. 22, 2008
Press release
Contact: Dick André, Phone 831-818-5685
Farr wants hearing on LBAM classification
Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) at a Town Hall Meeting in
Salinas Wed. night, affirmed his hope that his Agricultural Appropriations Committee will have a hearing with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) reclassification.
Farr has already submitted a 97 page petition to the US Department of Agriculture arguing to lower the classification of the LBAM from Class A (voracious pest) to Class C (minor pest).
“I am very excited about putting the USDA on the spot,” Farr had commented earlier. “I hope that we (the Appropriations Committee) can have a hearing on it.”
The USDA gets all of its money from the appropriations committee, so USDA “has to be responsive to our questions.” In his letter submitting the petition, Farr wrote, “I urge the Department to make a determination of the merits of the petition on the basis of sound science and proceed accordingly as soon as feasible.”
The petition challenges the quality of the science used by USDA in listing the moth class A and establishing trade quarantines. “The Plant Protection Act (PL 106-224:2000) . . . requires that decisions affecting trade be based on sound science.” the petition states.
In California, no damage from the moth has been found. Wherever the moth exists in the world, damage is not an issue, the petition reports. “The totality of published scientific literature suggests LBAM is at worst an episodically minor pest . . ..”
Along with three others, Roy Upton, LBAM Liaison for Citizens for Health, prepared the petition, which cites 182 sources, six from USDA and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) publications or statements.
Supporting letters with the petition are from Professors James R. Carey and Frank G. Zalom, internationally recognized University of California, Davis, entomologists, and Doctor Derrell Chambers and Doctor Hilary Lorraine, retired US agriculture officials.
“The current classification of LBAM is based on out-of-date information, incomplete understanding of LBAM biology, and does not reflect the true potential agricultural impact of LBAM on agriculture within the context of modern practices,” wrote Chambers and Lorraine.
The petition details all of the points made by Chambers and Lorraine.
Regarding classification and the associated quarantine on California produce, the petition says USDA relied on pre-1998 scientific and agricultural literature, ignoring one New Zealand scientist who changed a previous unsupported opinion that LBAM was a problem by reporting that LBAM “. . . is neither constant or endemic, nor characterized by sporadic plague-like outbursts.”
The petition also points out that some pests are classified A but without a quarantine. The USDA’s own figures show that most costs associated with LBAM in Australia and New Zealand are caused by requirements to meet the US zero-tolerance for LBAM, not for controlling LBAM.
Can the Mexico and New Zealand quarantines be lifted? Both governments have indicated that a change in US policy will be the main impetus needed for them to “harmonize” their policies. The discoverer of the first LBAM found in California in 2006, retired entomologist Jerry Powell, said, “. . . it doesn’t seem to me there’s much point to quarantining things . . ..”
Regarding LBAM biology, the petition recounts numerous errors, including the fact that USDA originally thought LBAM could not survive in coastal California, its only known home in the US.
The most frightening error was the projection of LBAM offspring provided by CDFA in 2007. It assumed that every egg laid by an LBAM would survive to maturity, increasing the California population to a range of 6.7 million to 7.8 trillion in a year.
In fact, the LBAM population has remained relatively stable. A main reason is predators. USDA and CDFA assumed no native predators would control LBAM. The petition lists 65 US LBAM predators, including six Trichogramma wasp species, a type of wasp that CDFA proposed importing.
Regarding modern agricultural practices, if LBAM were a threat, the petition offers this: “The success of New Zealand agriculture and horticulture professionals in controlling LBAM and other leafrollers using IPM (integrated pest management) techniques and few or no chemical applications is a model of best IPM practices that can readily be adopted in California.”
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Oct. 22, 2008
Press release
Contact: Dick André, Phone 831-818-5685
Farr wants hearing on LBAM classification
Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) at a Town Hall Meeting in
Salinas Wed. night, affirmed his hope that his Agricultural Appropriations Committee will have a hearing with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) reclassification.
Farr has already submitted a 97 page petition to the US Department of Agriculture arguing to lower the classification of the LBAM from Class A (voracious pest) to Class C (minor pest).
“I am very excited about putting the USDA on the spot,” Farr had commented earlier. “I hope that we (the Appropriations Committee) can have a hearing on it.”
The USDA gets all of its money from the appropriations committee, so USDA “has to be responsive to our questions.” In his letter submitting the petition, Farr wrote, “I urge the Department to make a determination of the merits of the petition on the basis of sound science and proceed accordingly as soon as feasible.”
The petition challenges the quality of the science used by USDA in listing the moth class A and establishing trade quarantines. “The Plant Protection Act (PL 106-224:2000) . . . requires that decisions affecting trade be based on sound science.” the petition states.
In California, no damage from the moth has been found. Wherever the moth exists in the world, damage is not an issue, the petition reports. “The totality of published scientific literature suggests LBAM is at worst an episodically minor pest . . ..”
Along with three others, Roy Upton, LBAM Liaison for Citizens for Health, prepared the petition, which cites 182 sources, six from USDA and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) publications or statements.
Supporting letters with the petition are from Professors James R. Carey and Frank G. Zalom, internationally recognized University of California, Davis, entomologists, and Doctor Derrell Chambers and Doctor Hilary Lorraine, retired US agriculture officials.
“The current classification of LBAM is based on out-of-date information, incomplete understanding of LBAM biology, and does not reflect the true potential agricultural impact of LBAM on agriculture within the context of modern practices,” wrote Chambers and Lorraine.
The petition details all of the points made by Chambers and Lorraine.
Regarding classification and the associated quarantine on California produce, the petition says USDA relied on pre-1998 scientific and agricultural literature, ignoring one New Zealand scientist who changed a previous unsupported opinion that LBAM was a problem by reporting that LBAM “. . . is neither constant or endemic, nor characterized by sporadic plague-like outbursts.”
The petition also points out that some pests are classified A but without a quarantine. The USDA’s own figures show that most costs associated with LBAM in Australia and New Zealand are caused by requirements to meet the US zero-tolerance for LBAM, not for controlling LBAM.
Can the Mexico and New Zealand quarantines be lifted? Both governments have indicated that a change in US policy will be the main impetus needed for them to “harmonize” their policies. The discoverer of the first LBAM found in California in 2006, retired entomologist Jerry Powell, said, “. . . it doesn’t seem to me there’s much point to quarantining things . . ..”
Regarding LBAM biology, the petition recounts numerous errors, including the fact that USDA originally thought LBAM could not survive in coastal California, its only known home in the US.
The most frightening error was the projection of LBAM offspring provided by CDFA in 2007. It assumed that every egg laid by an LBAM would survive to maturity, increasing the California population to a range of 6.7 million to 7.8 trillion in a year.
In fact, the LBAM population has remained relatively stable. A main reason is predators. USDA and CDFA assumed no native predators would control LBAM. The petition lists 65 US LBAM predators, including six Trichogramma wasp species, a type of wasp that CDFA proposed importing.
Regarding modern agricultural practices, if LBAM were a threat, the petition offers this: “The success of New Zealand agriculture and horticulture professionals in controlling LBAM and other leafrollers using IPM (integrated pest management) techniques and few or no chemical applications is a model of best IPM practices that can readily be adopted in California.”
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Secrecy Surrounds Suterra Land Sale
The City of Bend has entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Suterra for land at Juniper Ridge. According to earlier media reports, this purchase is for eight acres at $7 a square foot, a purchase price of $2,439,360. Juniper Ridge Partners will received a fee of 6% on this transaction initiated by Suterra, about $146,000, for some kind of ill defined services that have no documentation. The cost to the city to prepare the site is estimated to be $3.5 million, which will also serve future tenants of Juniper Ridge when the City/ODOT logjam over traffic on Highway 97 is solved. City Manager Eric King estimates this will happen in the spring of 2009.
Only four of the seven Councilors actually made it to the special Joint Session of the Bend Urban Renewal Agency and the City Council (BURA is the City Council), with Councilor Friedman attending via conference call. Councilors Abernethy and Clinton were not in attendance.
Once again a disheartening level of secrecy surrounded a transaction at Juniper Ridge. The meeting was called to order by Councilor Telfer and immediately recessed into Executive Session "to discuss real estate issues" for almost an hour. Suterra executives and EDCO director Roger Lee left he executive session early, and then the Suterra execs were summoned back into the Executive Session again by Economic Development Director John Russell. When the execs came back out 15 minutes later, they were complaining to each other about being questioned so strongly on the subject of being able to finance their project.
The Purchase and Sale Agreement was not available to the public before, during and after the vote on the agreement, and there was no public hearing held before the vote on the agreement, which passed 5-0 on the condition that Suterra provides adequate proof of financing capability to the City. There were public hearings held on the two topics regarding financing issues, specifically to allow the entire purchase price plus another $200,000 from the General Fund to be transferred to the BURA Juniper Ridge Construction Budget to build out the area. The City will also not pay itself over a million dollars in SDC's related to the Les Schwab purchase until some future date, will maintain it's $6 million line of credit until some future date, and will continue paying the $120,000 per year in interest on the line of credit.
No public comments were made. The meeting was not held at the normal time of Council meetings, but rather at 4 PM on the fourth Wednesday of the month, and virtually no public was in attendance. The three votes and all public discussion took about 20 minute. Most questioning was by Councilor Telfer regarding taking monies from the General Fund for this project. Telfer was the only Councilor to vote no on any of the three issues. Finance Director Sonia Andrews stated that the City could increase it's line of credit by $200,000, but that it was easier to take it out of the General Fund. None of the other Councilor's seemed to take issue with this, although we all remember several hours of discussion over using $70,000 to fund the transit system.
I was told by City Attorney Pete Schannauer that there was no requirement for a public hearing on this public land sale, and that for unspecified reasons the agreement was not made available to the public prior to the special Joint Session. ORS 221.725 states that "...when a city council considers it necessary or convenient to sell real property or any interest therein, the city council shall publish a notice of the proposed sale in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, and shall hold a public hearing concerning the sale prior to the sale." Pete and Economic Development Assistant Director Jerry Mitchell assured me that I could receive a copy of agreement the next day, today. I will update this post with a link to the agreement if and when I receive it.
Suterra seems to be an excellent tenant for Juniper Ridge. According to Suterra President Steve Hartmeier the average salary is $90,000. Five to ten new jobs will be created per year, in addition to the 50 or so employees that will move from the current Suterra facility in the Columbia/Simpson area, which has almost 200,000 square feet of space empty and available already. Suterra creates pheromone-based insect control products. Suterra claims a high level of safety, although there have been reports of extensive safety issues with aerial applications in California.
This reporter has no issue with the tenant but does take issue with the process. Secrecy and extensive Executive Sessions have no place in the public process, and in fact are tightly regulated to certain issues that the City of Bend has far exceeded. This is an issue that will be further examined in the near future, as I firmly believe that the next City Council needs to become much more open, especially as the Highway 97 issue is cleared up and further lands are sold in Juniper Ridge. Also the continued significant payments to Juniper Ridge Partners for completely undocumented "services" is very troubling.
Posted by bruce at 4:53 AM 7 comments Links to this post
Labels: Bend City Council Suterrra, Executive Sessions, Juniper Ridge
http://juniper-ridge.info/BEND-JR-Suterra-Sale_Agreement.pdf
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Secrecy Surrounds Suterra Land Sale
The City of Bend has entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Suterra for land at Juniper Ridge. According to earlier media reports, this purchase is for eight acres at $7 a square foot, a purchase price of $2,439,360. Juniper Ridge Partners will received a fee of 6% on this transaction initiated by Suterra, about $146,000, for some kind of ill defined services that have no documentation. The cost to the city to prepare the site is estimated to be $3.5 million, which will also serve future tenants of Juniper Ridge when the City/ODOT logjam over traffic on Highway 97 is solved. City Manager Eric King estimates this will happen in the spring of 2009.
Only four of the seven Councilors actually made it to the special Joint Session of the Bend Urban Renewal Agency and the City Council (BURA is the City Council), with Councilor Friedman attending via conference call. Councilors Abernethy and Clinton were not in attendance.
Once again a disheartening level of secrecy surrounded a transaction at Juniper Ridge. The meeting was called to order by Councilor Telfer and immediately recessed into Executive Session "to discuss real estate issues" for almost an hour. Suterra executives and EDCO director Roger Lee left he executive session early, and then the Suterra execs were summoned back into the Executive Session again by Economic Development Director John Russell. When the execs came back out 15 minutes later, they were complaining to each other about being questioned so strongly on the subject of being able to finance their project.
The Purchase and Sale Agreement was not available to the public before, during and after the vote on the agreement, and there was no public hearing held before the vote on the agreement, which passed 5-0 on the condition that Suterra provides adequate proof of financing capability to the City. There were public hearings held on the two topics regarding financing issues, specifically to allow the entire purchase price plus another $200,000 from the General Fund to be transferred to the BURA Juniper Ridge Construction Budget to build out the area. The City will also not pay itself over a million dollars in SDC's related to the Les Schwab purchase until some future date, will maintain it's $6 million line of credit until some future date, and will continue paying the $120,000 per year in interest on the line of credit.
No public comments were made. The meeting was not held at the normal time of Council meetings, but rather at 4 PM on the fourth Wednesday of the month, and virtually no public was in attendance. The three votes and all public discussion took about 20 minute. Most questioning was by Councilor Telfer regarding taking monies from the General Fund for this project. Telfer was the only Councilor to vote no on any of the three issues. Finance Director Sonia Andrews stated that the City could increase it's line of credit by $200,000, but that it was easier to take it out of the General Fund. None of the other Councilor's seemed to take issue with this, although we all remember several hours of discussion over using $70,000 to fund the transit system.
I was told by City Attorney Pete Schannauer that there was no requirement for a public hearing on this public land sale, and that for unspecified reasons the agreement was not made available to the public prior to the special Joint Session. ORS 221.725 states that "...when a city council considers it necessary or convenient to sell real property or any interest therein, the city council shall publish a notice of the proposed sale in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, and shall hold a public hearing concerning the sale prior to the sale." Pete and Economic Development Assistant Director Jerry Mitchell assured me that I could receive a copy of agreement the next day, today. I will update this post with a link to the agreement if and when I receive it.
Suterra seems to be an excellent tenant for Juniper Ridge. According to Suterra President Steve Hartmeier the average salary is $90,000. Five to ten new jobs will be created per year, in addition to the 50 or so employees that will move from the current Suterra facility in the Columbia/Simpson area, which has almost 200,000 square feet of space empty and available already. Suterra creates pheromone-based insect control products. Suterra claims a high level of safety, although there have been reports of extensive safety issues with aerial applications in California.
This reporter has no issue with the tenant but does take issue with the process. Secrecy and extensive Executive Sessions have no place in the public process, and in fact are tightly regulated to certain issues that the City of Bend has far exceeded. This is an issue that will be further examined in the near future, as I firmly believe that the next City Council needs to become much more open, especially as the Highway 97 issue is cleared up and further lands are sold in Juniper Ridge. Also the continued significant payments to Juniper Ridge Partners for completely undocumented "services" is very troubling.
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Suterra seems to be an excellent tenant for Juniper Ridge. According to Suterra President Steve Hartmeier the average salary is $90,000. Five to ten new jobs will be created per year, in addition to the 50 or so employees that will move from the current Suterra facility in the Columbia/Simpson area, which has almost 200,000 square feet of space empty and available already. Suterra creates pheromone-based insect control products. Suterra claims a high level of safety, although there have been reports of extensive safety issues with aerial applications in California.
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People in California LOVE Suterra.
bendbubble.blogspot.com
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People in California LOVE Suterra.
bendbubble.blogspot.com
As can be seen below, the HOME of Suterra, that makes the poison to be DUMPED on the bay-area, the majority of the residents voted for GW-BUSH, after the election Suterra got the contract to poison the bay-area.
In the 2000 election, the majority of Bend-Oregon voted for GW-BUSH, right after the election, they Suterra got the contract from Bush-Cheney to dump bio-warfare pheronomes on California.
http://www.deschutes.org/electionresults/archive/20001107.htm#US%20PRESIDENT%20&%20VICE%20PRESIDENT
US PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT [Top of Page]
BROWNE & OLIVIER -LIB 308 0.52 %
BUCHANAN & FOSTER -IND 242 0.41 %
BUSH & CHENEY -REP 32132 55.03 %
NADER & LADUKE -PAC GRN 2799 4.79 %
HAGELIN & GOLDHABER -REF 92 0.15 %
PHILLIPS & FRAZIER - CON 62 0.10 %
GORE & LIEBERMAN - DEM 22061 37.78 %
In the 2000 election, the majority of Bend-Oregon voted for GW-BUSH, right after the election, they Suterra got the contract from Bush-Cheney to dump bio-warfare pheronomes on California.
http://www.deschutes.org/electionresults/archive/20001107.htm#US%20PRESIDENT%20&%20VICE%20PRESIDENT
US PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT [Top of Page]
BROWNE & OLIVIER -LIB 308 0.52 %
BUCHANAN & FOSTER -IND 242 0.41 %
BUSH & CHENEY -REP 32132 55.03 %
NADER & LADUKE -PAC GRN 2799 4.79 %
HAGELIN & GOLDHABER -REF 92 0.15 %
PHILLIPS & FRAZIER - CON 62 0.10 %
GORE & LIEBERMAN - DEM 22061 37.78 %
Is this Suterra thing bad? Is it wrong to make poison, and spray it on people in California?
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What Bend has to say about California little chemical problem
bendbubble.blogspot.com
bendbubble2.blogspot.com
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No, it is Bend. Not Bad.
A majority of Bend voted for Bush, post 1998 HOLLERN put together the BUSH reception party, along with Bend Chamber of Commerce.
The MOST powerful liberal-environmentalists of Bend, going back to Bend-Sci, and the Harry Lonsdale day's are behind Suterra of Bend. Trouble is that today they're the #1 US producer of Aerial Bio-Warfare Agents. Then post 911, people had to take the business they were given. Roll INTL CORP ( Resnick ) had bought Suterra, and gave them the Homeland-Security contract to provide ten's of million of dollars of aerial bio-warfare chemicals to be used on Calis in the Bay Area. The BEND liberals Jumped on it.
It's only interesting TODAY, when a majority only 8 yr's ago was for BUSH, today the majority in BEND is against BUSH. That is interesting.
Bend via HOLLERN handed BUSH a big win, and BEND got lots 'cargo' in the way of FEMA, NSA, and US government business in return.
What is most interesting about Bend, is that its wealthy are the same. Not a crocodile tear in Bend from the left or right about dumping ten's of thousands of gallons of poison on Cali City's.
Is any of this 'bad'?? No it's BEND.
'Interesting' is my word, certainly not 'bad'.
For instance, if you look at Resnick, the owner of Suterra ( ROLL INTL CORP, LA-CALIF ), you'll notice that his best friend is Madeline Albright, Sec for Clinton, Resnick is a who-is-who of DEM-LIBERALS, all making ten's of millions for poisoning hippy's n the bay area.
Not sure what came first? Certainly Resnick had always positioned 'ROLL' as liberal, after all, he's the #1 provider of bottled-water in the USA, so he has to be green!!!
Certainly in the day, long ago, Bend-Scientific talked 'green' and talked 'liberal', and Lonsdale spent millions running for US-SENATE. Then out of Bend-Sci comes Suterra, then in 2000, its bought by ROLL(resnick), then a few months later Suterra win's a top-secret BUSH/CHENEY bio-war contract worth ten's of millions via state of Calif, all paid by Home-Land security.
My question is did they buy the liberal company, and turn it into defense? No actually what happened is years ago Bend-Sci lost their original contracts and had to go military, by 2000 government work was already Suterra's principle work.
Militarized Pheromones was really HOT post 2001, they get all the money they want.
Lastly, if you could DUMP 100's of TON's of iso-cyanate on hippy's for 'tuskegee' type testing in NO-Cali, you could do it anywhere. The audacity of the project is/was mind-boggling.
Sitting comfy here in Bend, in the Mtn's far from the shit storm, ... is any of this 'bad'? NO, its all insane.
Like Mark Twain says about BEND-OR everyday "Truth is stranger than fiction, fiction has to make sense".
Lastly, there is this whole liberal/environmental thing where ROLL is the #1 supplier of bottled-water in the USA, and just happens to be the #1 supplier of ground-water killing pesticides in the USA, I mean talking about a hedge bet, this is too funny to be 'bad'.
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What Bend has to say about California little chemical problem
bendbubble.blogspot.com
bendbubble2.blogspot.com
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No, it is Bend. Not Bad.
A majority of Bend voted for Bush, post 1998 HOLLERN put together the BUSH reception party, along with Bend Chamber of Commerce.
The MOST powerful liberal-environmentalists of Bend, going back to Bend-Sci, and the Harry Lonsdale day's are behind Suterra of Bend. Trouble is that today they're the #1 US producer of Aerial Bio-Warfare Agents. Then post 911, people had to take the business they were given. Roll INTL CORP ( Resnick ) had bought Suterra, and gave them the Homeland-Security contract to provide ten's of million of dollars of aerial bio-warfare chemicals to be used on Calis in the Bay Area. The BEND liberals Jumped on it.
It's only interesting TODAY, when a majority only 8 yr's ago was for BUSH, today the majority in BEND is against BUSH. That is interesting.
Bend via HOLLERN handed BUSH a big win, and BEND got lots 'cargo' in the way of FEMA, NSA, and US government business in return.
What is most interesting about Bend, is that its wealthy are the same. Not a crocodile tear in Bend from the left or right about dumping ten's of thousands of gallons of poison on Cali City's.
Is any of this 'bad'?? No it's BEND.
'Interesting' is my word, certainly not 'bad'.
For instance, if you look at Resnick, the owner of Suterra ( ROLL INTL CORP, LA-CALIF ), you'll notice that his best friend is Madeline Albright, Sec for Clinton, Resnick is a who-is-who of DEM-LIBERALS, all making ten's of millions for poisoning hippy's n the bay area.
Not sure what came first? Certainly Resnick had always positioned 'ROLL' as liberal, after all, he's the #1 provider of bottled-water in the USA, so he has to be green!!!
Certainly in the day, long ago, Bend-Scientific talked 'green' and talked 'liberal', and Lonsdale spent millions running for US-SENATE. Then out of Bend-Sci comes Suterra, then in 2000, its bought by ROLL(resnick), then a few months later Suterra win's a top-secret BUSH/CHENEY bio-war contract worth ten's of millions via state of Calif, all paid by Home-Land security.
My question is did they buy the liberal company, and turn it into defense? No actually what happened is years ago Bend-Sci lost their original contracts and had to go military, by 2000 government work was already Suterra's principle work.
Militarized Pheromones was really HOT post 2001, they get all the money they want.
Lastly, if you could DUMP 100's of TON's of iso-cyanate on hippy's for 'tuskegee' type testing in NO-Cali, you could do it anywhere. The audacity of the project is/was mind-boggling.
Sitting comfy here in Bend, in the Mtn's far from the shit storm, ... is any of this 'bad'? NO, its all insane.
Like Mark Twain says about BEND-OR everyday "Truth is stranger than fiction, fiction has to make sense".
Lastly, there is this whole liberal/environmental thing where ROLL is the #1 supplier of bottled-water in the USA, and just happens to be the #1 supplier of ground-water killing pesticides in the USA, I mean talking about a hedge bet, this is too funny to be 'bad'.
[ bendbubble2.blogspot.com ]
I think it's a brilliant move from the real estate industry. Spray the shit out of the Cali's and make more of them want to move up here (aka. the Austrian Alps)!
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A very good argument quim, let's look at the facts.
1.) Spraying only in urban.
2.) Near coast.
3.) High Value property.
It certainly can be argued that this drove a lot of people away, and created opportunity to BUY.
99% of Cali's don't know the shit is made in Bend-OR, they just assume it comes from some place 'bad'.
Note sure the 'vector' from Santa-Cruz/Monterey is to 'BEND' is not obvious, so poisoning them didn't get them to BUY our unsold real estate.
My take is that like Tuskegee the USA has a long history of poisoning its own people for scientific research. Delivering chemicals via micro 'iso-cyanate capsules' ( crazy-glue for those of you not bio-chemists ), is a big desire by the Military-Industrial-Complex.
My theory is if you can get away with aerial spray testing on liberal-bay-area types, then it can be done any where, CHOMSKY calls it manufacturing consent.
Bend Sci ( Suterra ) was already experimenting in this micro-encapsulation. They got the MIL contracts, and CHENEY said "Wouldn't it be funny if we did a Tuskegee on SF??", This is the same team that forced men to fuck each other in IRAQ, and crushed testicals of children in front of their parents.
In my old age Quim I would call the RE vector 'frosting on the cake'.
Certainly lots of people left Santa-Cruz & Monterey cuz of the spraying, and insiders bought knowing full well that it was only a test.
The REAL bad , is now that Suterra has proven this technology the Arab world is going to all die, very slowly. Who would have guessed?
I'll say one last thing. Some 30+ Years ago they used to say that Central Oregon, was the least important place in the USA, e.g. if the ruskies sent bombs to the USA cent-OR would be safe. Not anymore, we got so much HOT NSA/BIO-WAR shit here, we're NOW target #1.
Welcome to Bend Oregon.
I think it's a brilliant move from the real estate industry. Spray the shit out of the Cali's and make more of them want to move up here (aka. the Austrian Alps)!
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A very good argument quim, let's look at the facts.
1.) Spraying only in urban.
2.) Near coast.
3.) High Value property.
It certainly can be argued that this drove a lot of people away, and created opportunity to BUY.
99% of Cali's don't know the shit is made in Bend-OR, they just assume it comes from some place 'bad'.
Note sure the 'vector' from Santa-Cruz/Monterey is to 'BEND' is not obvious, so poisoning them didn't get them to BUY our unsold real estate.
My take is that like Tuskegee the USA has a long history of poisoning its own people for scientific research. Delivering chemicals via micro 'iso-cyanate capsules' ( crazy-glue for those of you not bio-chemists ), is a big desire by the Military-Industrial-Complex.
My theory is if you can get away with aerial spray testing on liberal-bay-area types, then it can be done any where, CHOMSKY calls it manufacturing consent.
Bend Sci ( Suterra ) was already experimenting in this micro-encapsulation. They got the MIL contracts, and CHENEY said "Wouldn't it be funny if we did a Tuskegee on SF??", This is the same team that forced men to fuck each other in IRAQ, and crushed testicals of children in front of their parents.
In my old age Quim I would call the RE vector 'frosting on the cake'.
Certainly lots of people left Santa-Cruz & Monterey cuz of the spraying, and insiders bought knowing full well that it was only a test.
The REAL bad , is now that Suterra has proven this technology the Arab world is going to all die, very slowly. Who would have guessed?
I'll say one last thing. Some 30+ Years ago they used to say that Central Oregon, was the least important place in the USA, e.g. if the ruskies sent bombs to the USA cent-OR would be safe. Not anymore, we got so much HOT NSA/BIO-WAR shit here, we're NOW target #1.
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