Pillen v. Flatwater Free Press

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Episode Transcript

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We had a three way collision inNebraska yesterday between government, big business,
and the third estate journalism. TheFlatwater Free Press, an online newspaper,
fired a haymaker at Nebraska Governor JimPillen over remarks he made about one of
their investigative reporters. Two months ago, intrepid reporter Yen she Shu published an

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extensive piece on high night trade levelsin groundwater across rural Nebraska. Miss Shue's
story centered on night trade levels ingroundwater very near a number of Governor Pillen's
hog production facilities. She acknowledged thatnight trades can originate from multiple sources,
but if you read the story objectively, you came away believing that his operations

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of the chief polluters. Asked aboutit on kfab, Pillin said he hadn't
read the story, won't and theauthor is from communist China, So what
else do you need to know?That triggered a scathing attack by Flatwater Free
Press publisher Matt Winn yesterday, implyingPillin as a racist and should apologize to
shoe personalities aside. How big adeal is this? Nitrate is an inorganic

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chemical used for decades fertilizing grass,trees, flower shrubs, but mostly crops.
It seeps often into groundwater, wellsreservoirs. If you drink high nitrate
water, you can get very sick, even die from. Where does it
come? Mostly fertilizer, but alsocrop residue, soil surface rocks, human
waste, and animal waste. TheShoe Story fingered Pillin family farms. It

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released a statement defending itself and itsenvironmental record, says there were nitrates in
that water long before we got here, and we're just as worried about pollution
as anybody. But what did hemean by she's from communist China? What
else do you need to know?Pillin is a farmer, His father was
a sharecropper. He knows agriculture.He's a masted a whore in swine genetics

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and technology around the world, whichmeans he's had a front row seat in
the expansive heist communist China has pulledon American farmers just like him. Their
goal is to steal or hack everyfacet of American ag technology and buy up
as much farm and ranch land aspossible. The Chinese Communist Party, the

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CCP, has stolen trillions of dollarsin American IP. We've caught Chinese nationals
trying to smuggle pilfered corn and riceseed, hiding it in the luggage on
their flights back home. Quite simply, Beijing is looting the American family farm.
They enter the country as foreign students, achieve academically, and then gain

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employment in US AG companies use theiraccess to sensitive research labs, and then
invite fellow spies over here posing asfamily friends. We've convicted dozens of them
in possession of everything from product toproprietary data. Many of the three hundred
and sixty thousand attend land grant universitiesspecializing in AG. Let's say only one

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percent of those are truly proxies ofthe CCP. That's still thirty six hundred
eighteen to twenty year old spies posingas college students. That's three hundred and
sixty thousand students every year paying outof state tuition and fees. Big business
for schools and local economies. CIAoperatives don't believe all of them are spies,

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but have evidence that upon returning toChina, most are monitored and debriefed
by the CCP. They've dropped millionson university faculty and researchers, passing out
checks for startup research firms or simplypaying them directly. In many cases,
these academics are working for tax supportedcolleges and universities, but are not required

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to disclose their outside income sources.But that's only the tip of the dinner
fork. The CCP has acquired,albeit legally large chunks of American ag technology,
investing billions just to get the dataand the land. Millions of acres
of American farm and ranch land nowbelong to the CCP. Just recently have

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states begun passing laws blocking land salesto them. Clearly, Pillin is predisposed
to believe that Shoe may not bejust a reporter. Why the trouble,
Well, there are one point fourbillion Chinese waking up every day hungry.
China is the world's number one importerof food. They think food insecurity makes

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them vulnerable and everything else, andAmerican agriculture is the best in the world
by a mile. Was Governor Pilina bit shallow and criticizing miss Shoe?
Maybe apology not a bad idea,but he's worried about we keep falling asleep
at the tractor regarding China