#texas referendum act 2023

[thehiddenworld]

Texas Becoming It's own country

Texas is supposedly trying to leave the union and become its own country. This means they will no longer be apart of the United States they will be on their own. 

There will no longer be any government aid such as insurance, disability, retirement or money. They will have their own money and everything else. 

Knowing the United States will fight for Texas back if it ever did become a country only because it has a lot of resources needed for us, it will not be pretty and anyone will be drafted for the world and no one is protected from it so anyone with a disability or anything will be drafted. 

Texas already is throwing women who miscarried and had an abortion into jail. They are also throwing doctors who basically preformed the abortions in jail.

Texas is starting to sound like the countries overseas now that I am actually thinking about it since they are taking women rights. 

The only reason I feel they are doing this is because they basically support Trump and his doings all while saying Biden wasn't legitimately elected. 

This only started because Trump told everyone he was going to jail and if you look at it, he isn't in jail when he said he was going to be, they are still trailing him or whatever they are doing. 

He is basically causing chaos and riots and wanting to basically take back the white house and government control by force. 

[xtruss]

Is US Alarmism Over China's 'Grab' of American Farmland Justified?

— Sputnik International | Monday June 3, 2024

In this Sept. 22, 2015 photo, a central Illinois farmer races against the sunset to harvest his cornfield field near Farmingdale, Ill. With most of this year's corn and soybeans harvested, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is boosting its expectations for the size of the crops. Sputnik International. © AP Photo/ Seth Perlman

US Lawmakers Claim China is on a Buying Spree of American Farmland even though private investors and firms from the People's Republic are nowhere near the club of top five foreign owners of the country's land.

The US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture passed the Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2024 (Farm Bill) 33-21 on May 24. Explaining why the move is a "big win" for the US, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson told the Daily Mail that the proposed legislation would help prevent "Communist China" from grabbing American land.

"Communist China shouldn't be allowed to buy another acre of American farmland, nor should we rely upon our top foreign adversary for key parts of our food supply chain," Hinson told the media outlet.

In reality, Chinese private investors and firms possessed less than 1 percent (or 349,442 acres) of all foreign-held agricultural land in the US as of December 31, 2022, according to the Farm Service Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.

The Chinese possessions are spread across the US, including in Texas (162,167 acres); North Carolina (44,776 acres); Missouri (43,071 acres); Utah (32,447 acres); and Virginia (14,382 acres).

For comparison's sake, Canadian investors own 14.2 million acres or 32 percent of all foreign-owned US land, ranking top of the list. Thirteen million acres are held by Dutch investors (12 percent), while Italians (6 percent), Brits (6 percent), and Germans (5 percent) follow. The remaining 17.1 million acres are held by various smaller international landowners, including China.

All in all, foreign investors held a stake in over 43.4 million acres or around 3.1 percent of all US agricultural land.

There is nothing particularly new about acquiring foreign farmland. American investors routinely buy land and real estate abroad, for example. US and European companies are planning to acquire Ukrainian arable lands once hostilities are over, given that the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land in the country was lifted on July 1, 2021.

The act was passed in March 2020 and stipulated that in 2022 only natural persons would be authorized to buy land. However, starting from July 2023, corporate entities would also be allowed to buy up to 10,000 ha (24,710 acres) of land each, while foreigners would be granted the right to buy Ukrainian land only after a referendum concerning the issue.

Remarkably, the Oakland Institute – a California-based progressive think tank – revealed on February 21, 2023, that over 28 percent of Ukraine’s arable land is already in the possession of European and North American entities or Ukrainian oligarchs. The report was fiercely criticized by the Western mainstream press.

However, in April this year, Polish President Andrzej Duda appeared to confirm the think tank's findings by telling the Lithuanian press that "industrial agriculture (…) is not really run by Ukrainians; it is run by big companies from Western Europe, from the USA. If we look today at the owners of most of the land, they are not Ukrainian companies."

The trend appears to be deep-rooted. In July 2009, Der Spiegel shed light on "modern colonialism" exercised by big American and European investors who massively bought up cheap land in crisis-ridden countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

'Espionage' Accusations

While some US lawmakers and think tanks admit that China's land holdings in the US are quite modest, they accuse the Chinese of using their land to spy on the US military on behalf of Beijing. No evidence has been provided to back up the allegations, however.

The only case circulated by the Western media concerns China-based food producer, Fufeng Group, which acquired 300 acres of land 16 miles away from the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. No proof of Fufeng Group's apparent "espionage" has been presented so far.

The Heritage Foundation, a US conservative think tank, even went so far as to claim that any Chinese real estate purchases or mere leases deserve suspicion.

"Chinese ownership of any real estate may be a concern if it is near critical infrastructure, whether or not it is agricultural land," claimed the think tank. "Adding further complexity, national security concerns may be present even in non-ownership interests in real estate – for example, if a Chinese tech company leases office space across the street from the Pentagon or acquires an easement to build wind turbines near a military base."

US lawmakers and think tanks' fight against "Communist China" resembles nothing so much as a McCarthy-style crusade over a "Red Scare". The ongoing speculations about China's "land grab" coincided with the overall deterioration of US-Chinese relations. Team Biden is raising stakes in the ongoing trade war against China and is continuing to militarize the island of Taiwan and the Philippines to preserve Washington's waning hegemony in the Asia Pacific.

[soldcloak]

Sold Cloak | Episode 3 - The Unbreaking

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Dan, Ethan, and Jack actually do talk about recovering from collapse in this episode. Good on them. Points of discussion include:

Assuming there has been a collapse, how would we handle it?

Ethan’s hypocrisy in adjusting his microphone.

Just as there are stages of preparation, there are stages of recovery.

Texas’ more primed posture for secession (er, cot… oops).

Rebuilding from the smallest unit (individual, family, or homestead), and expanding.

Going Galt: the anecdote of the missing honest handymen.

The aging workforce of regular, blue collar jobs, and the shift in public education away from blue collar work.

Your group, its members, and their skill sets and locations.

Dan’s droopy mic stand.

A disadvantage of the “grab the go bag and flee to the lake house” plan compared to the homesteading plan.

The Walking Hungry – the urban fallout after instant collapse.

The unfruitful fruit of our modern produce.

“Apocalyptic” does not mean everyone is dead.

The long-term fate of the cities.

Rebuilding Republic: discerning when to connect with other groups, and when not to.

Corrections:

Ethan stated that Vermont was independent for a couple of weeks. However, the State of Vermont was technically independent for 14 years but sought to be annexed by the United States and never intended to remain independent.

Ethan was mostly correct regarding the Texas secession bill, but some of the details were wrong. The results of the referendum would have been non-binding. Even if the people voted to secede, the Texas legislature could still decide not to.

Ethan needs to catch up on the last 2,355 years of history; the city of Tyre used to be as he described: old city on the coast, new city on the island. However, Alexander the Great built a causeway that eventually became an isthmus making the island a peninsula. The city has spread beyond those ancient bounds. Minus a serious history point for Ethan.

Notes and Links:

NERC map showing the power grid regions of the U.S. and Canada; Texas has its own interconnection.

Texas Independence Referendum Act HB 3596, 88th R.S. (2023) - 2 year exit strategy. It appears almost identical to the Texas Independence Referendum Act HB 1359, 87th R.S. (2021) - 5 year strategy.

An article on state dependence on the federal government, and an article explaining why such articles can be misleading (if you have curiosity and time).

The different fates of once-similar cities: modern Ashkelon and modern Gath.

[whatbigotspost]

Ummmm. Sooooo, the Texas GOP has made talks of seceding from the Union. That's a thing

Good lord. I take a week away from news and THIS emerges? Fucking hell.

That second link outlines the key Texas GOP's platform:

On Texas seceding from the U.S.: "We urge the Texas Legislature to pass bill in its next session requiring a referendum in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."

On the 2020 election: "We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States."

On gender identity: "The official position of the Texas schools shall be that there are only two genders: biological male and biological female. We oppose transgender normalizing curriculum and pronoun use."

On voting rights: "We urge that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, codified and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized."

On abortion: "We urge lawmakers to enact legislation to abolish abortion by immediately securing the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization."

On the United Nations: "The United Nations is a detriment to the sovereignty of the United States and other countries; because of this we support ... Our withdrawal from the current United Nations."

On the new bipartisan gun proposal: "We reject the so called 'bipartisan gun agreement.'" (U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is a chief negotiator for the gun package, which emerged just weeks after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Uvalde elementary school.)

I can't even comprehend the levels of bullshit and fucked up ness here. These assholes say they oppose PRONOUN USE like that makes any GD sense.

[bearded-shepherd]

Alrighty Texas Becoming UNHINGED

“ Texas Could Vote to Secede From U.S. in 2023 as GOP Pushes for Referendum “ -Newsweek

Texas Republicans also approved a resolution declaring that President Joe Biden was "not legitimately elected," signaling the continued support for former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The Texas GOP's new party platform also called for full repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Other planks also indicated a further shift to the right for the party, giving prominence to culture issues. The platform describes homosexuality as "an abnormal lifestyle choice," and also declares that the party opposes "all efforts to validate transgender identity."

The platform also calls for a total ban on abortion and "equal protection for the Preborn." Abortion is currently prohibited after around six weeks of pregnancy in Texas, but an imminent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the decision in Roe v. Wade that guaranteed abortion rights nationwide and trigger a law in Texas making abortion illegal.

The new Texas GOP platform also states that the education system should focus on "imparting essential academic knowledge, understanding why Texas and America are exceptional and have positively contributed to our world, and while doing so, also offer enrichment subjects that bless students' lives."

It calls for students to learn about the "Humanity of the Preborn Child," including teaching that life begins at fertilization. It also demands that the state legislature pass a law prohibiting the teaching of "sex education, sexual health, or sexual choice or identity in any public school in any grade whatsoever."

Like legit, the fuck is wrong with this state

2022 TEXAS GOP PLATFORM DOCUMENT

HERE’S AN ENTIRE THREAD ON THE GOP PLATFORM DOCUMENT