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  Texas Slim With Adam Curry for November 10th 2021 Episode #8
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    Mark Cuban on in-ground sensors
      Below is a link for a podcast about climate reporting and green finance and what specific crypto is going to be involved in 3rd party reporting of CO2 emissions and other weather data. Mark Cuban is on a climate foundation board with the co-founder of Chainlink (ticker: LINK). Chainlink currently in the 30-35$ range.
      Example: on a dairy farm there will no longer be self reporting of emissions of the farm but sensors in the ground that relay the data to chainlink’s protocol and then is used to input into smart contracts that have been struck to release funds or tax incentives for the farm for meeting the emissions standards.
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    Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) | FDA
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      "GRAS" is an acronym for the phrase Generally Recognized As Safe. Under sections 201(s) and 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), any substance that is intentionally added to food is a food additive, that is subject to premarket review and approval by FDA, unless the substance is generally recognized, among qualified experts, as having been adequately shown to be safe under the conditions of its intended use, or unless the use of the substance is otherwise excepted from the definition of a food additive.
      Under sections 201(s) and 409 of the Act, and FDA's implementing regulations in 21 CFR 170.3 and 21 CFR 170.30, the use of a food substance may be GRAS either through scientific procedures or, for a substance used in food before 1958, through experience based on common use in food Under 21 CFR 170.30(b), general recognition of safety through scientific procedures requires the same quantity and quality of scientific evidence as is required to obtain approval of the substance as a food additive. General recognition of safety through scientific procedures is based upon the application of generally available and accepted scientific data, information, or methods, which ordinarily are published, as well as the application of scientific principles, and may be corroborated by the application of unpublished scientific data, information, or methods.Under 21 CFR 170.30(c) and 170.3(f), general recognition of safety through experience based on common use in foods requires a substantial history of consumption for food use by a significant number of consumers.OverviewAbout the GRAS Notification ProgramHow FDA's GRAS Notification Program WorksFDA's Approach to the GRAS Provision: A History of ProcessesGRAS Final RuleFederal Register Notice '' the GRAS Final Rule (81 FR 54960 '' August 17, 2016)Federal Register Notice - the GRAS Proposal (62 FR 18937 - April 17, 1997)Federal Register Notice - Substances Generally Recognized as Safe; Reopening of the Comment Period (75 FR 81536 - Dec 28, 2010)Inventory for Human FoodGRAS Notice InventoryRegulatory and Policy GuidanceDraft Guidance for Industry: Best Practices for Convening a GRAS PanelRegulatory Framework for Substances Intended for Use in Human Food or Animal Food on the Basis of the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) Provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic ActGuidance for Industry: Frequently Asked Questions About GRAS for Substances Intended for Use in Human or Animal FoodGuidance for Industry: Assessing the Effects of Significant Manufacturing Process Changes, Including Emerging Technologies, on the Safety and Regulatory Status of Food Ingredients and Food Contact Substances, Including Food Ingredients That Are Color AdditivesGuidance for Industry: Considerations Regarding Substances Added to Foods, Including Beverages and Dietary SupplementsDraft Guidance for Industry: Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic or Paper Format to the Office of Food Additive SafetySee also: CFSAN Online Submission Module (COSM)Guidance for Industry: Frequently Asked Questions about FDA's Regulation of Infant FormulaScientific GuidanceGuidance for Industry: Recommendations for Submission of Chemical and Technological Data for Food Additive Petitions and GRAS Notices for Enzyme PreparationsGuidance for Industry: Recommendations for Submission of Chemical and Technological Data for Direct Food Additive PetitionsGuidance for Industry: Estimating Dietary Intake of Substances in FoodGuidance for Industry: Summary Table of Recommended Toxicological Testing for Additives Used in FoodRegulations21 CFR 181 - Prior Sanctioned Food Ingredients21 CFR 182 - Substances GRAS in food21 CFR 184 - Substances Affirmed as GRAS in Food21 CFR 186 - Substances Affirmed as GRAS for Use in Food Packaging Content current as of:09/06/2019
    K&C Cattle Co.
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      OUR PROMISEK&C Cattle Co. is dedicated to raising high-quality beef & pork.We take pride in the quality of the meat we produce. Our beef is pasture raised, with no antibiotics and no growth hormones. We grain finish our cattle the last 90 days before slaughter to enhance marbling, efficiency, and consistency. Our beef is guaranteed to grade Choice or Prime.
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    Texas Beef Initative
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      The Texas Beef Initiative is A TEXAS BASED 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation founded in October 2020.
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    Cargill family - Wikipedia
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      The Cargill family, also known as the Cargill-MacMillan family, refers to the multi-generational descendants of the American business executive, William Wallace Cargill (December 15, 1844 '' October 17, 1909) and his son-in-law John H. MacMillan Sr. The Cargill-MacMillan family are the fourth wealthiest family in America.[1] Descendants of Cargill and MacMillan have owned common equity in the "agribusiness giant", Cargill Inc, one of the largest privately owned corporations in the United States,[2][3] for over 140 years. William Cargill founded the Cargill company as an Iowa grain storage business in 1865, during the post Civil War period, and was its CEO for almost 40 years.[4] Following the death of William Cargill in 1909, his son-in-law John MacMillan, steered the company out of a debt crisis and into stability. The two branches of the family'--the MacMillans and the Cargills'--continue to be represented on the board of directors of Cargill Incorporated. The most recent family members appointed to the board are fifth generation.
      By 2019, twenty three Cargill-MacMillan family members owned 88% of the family company,[1] which earned $113.5 billion in revenue in 2019.[5][6] The "family reportedly keeps 80% of Cargill Inc.'s net income inside the company for reinvestment annually."[1] Forbes listed the family's estimated net worth as $38.8 billion and the source of their wealth as Cargill Inc.[1] Each year, the Cargill-MacMillan family takes about eighteen percent of the "net profits as dividends".[7]
      The exact wealth of the family is unknown, as the Cargill company is a privately owned business entity with no obligation to disclose exact ownership. With fourteen billionaires in the family in 2019,[1][8] the Cargill family has more individual billionaires among its members than any other family anywhere in the world,[9] making them the family with the most wealthy members in history.[10]
      While the "low-profile family" owns Cargill, and there are six family members on the 17-member board, family members have not been part of running the company since 1995, when Whitney MacMillan, who had served as Cargill's chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) since 1976, stepped down as chief executive in 1995.[11][12]
      The family was also the majority owner of The Mosaic Company'--[11] the largest producer of potash and phosphate fertilizer in the United States.[13] In 2011, they sold their 64-percent stakes in Mosaic for $24.3 billion.[14]
      In 2012, the unknown heiress, Margaret Anne Cargill, posthumously earned the #1 spot in the Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of America's 50 most generous donors.[14] Margaret Anne Cargill, who died in 2006, had bequeathed all her shares in the Cargill conglomerate to two non-profits,[14] but the funds could not be liquidated from the private company. When Cargill sold Mosaic, the charities received shares of the public Mosaic stock. This represents about $6 billion, which would make these two charities "two of the wealthiest grant makers in the United States."[14]
      Overview [ edit ] The family-owned Cargill Inc., expanded from a "small-scale frontier enterprise"'--a grain storage business'--with William Cargill's acquisition in 1865 of a "grain flat house"'--a warehouse at the end of a railway line in Iowa, into a "complex international organization and a successful competitor in global markets."[15][11] W. W. Cargill, the "son of Scottish sea captain",[11] was twenty-one years old when he founded the company. He remained as Cargill CEO for 35''40 years.[4] By 1900, the Cargill Elevator Company was a major Midwestern force.[16]:'Šxxxi'Š Cargill's wealth increased, as the Great Plains were transformed into a breadbasket, providing grain to the country, and the railroads expanded east to west in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.[15]
      In 2019, Forbes described Cargill Inc as an "international producer and distributor of agricultural products such as sugar, refined oil, chocolate and turkey" that also "provides risk management, commodities trading and transportation services."[17] Cargill had 160,000 employees.[17]
      When W. W. Cargill died in 1909, Cargill Inc faced a "fiscal crisis". As the new President of Cargill Elevator Company, John H. MacMillan, Sr.'--Edna Cargill's husband'--was able to reassure the company's creditors.[18] He saved the company from bankruptcy and created a work environment that fostered a loyal and dedicated workforce.[16]:'Šxiii'Š The second generation of the Cargill family branched into the Cargills and the MacMillans.
      In 1936, when Cargill Incorporated was formed, with the merger of various Cargill businesses, John MacMillan, Sr. handed the presidency to a third generation of the Cargill-MacMillan family, his son John MacMillan, Jr.[18] By this time, Cargill Inc had offices in Canada and Italy, as well as many subsidiaries across the United States.[18] John MacMillan, Jr. was described as "mercurial", "innovating", and "difficult". His strategies were sometimes "under the scrutiny of the government".[16]:'Šxiii'Š The success of the company under his tenure from 1936 to 1960, was due in large part to the team he formed with a second generation family member, MacMillan Jr's uncle, Austin Cargill, who had joined the company in 1913,[16]:'Š245'Š and Cargill MacMillan Sr. (1900''1968).[16]:'Šxiii'Š Until 1960, when Edwin Kelm was named as president of Cargill Inc, the company's history had been marked by "family complexity".[19]:'Š249'Š Starting in 1960, "family complexity" ceased to dominate and was "replaced by a generalized professionalism."[19]:'Š249'Š The involvement of the family was more in the role of ownership, instead of management and directing.[19]:'Š249'Š
      Cargill MacMillan Jr. (1927''2011), Cargill MacMillan Sr.'s (1900''1968) oldest son and the great-grandson of W. W. Cargill, worked at Cargill for 38 years and retired in 1988. He served on the board of directors from 1963 to 1996.[20][21] His estimated net worth was $2.6 billion when he died.[20] John Hugh MacMillan worked for Cargill Inc for 35 years, from 1955 until his retirement in 1990. He served on the board of directors for many years.[22]
      His brother Whitney MacMillan, who was Cargill's chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) from 1976 to 1995,[12][23][24][25] was described by Forbes as the "patriarch of the Cargill-MacMillan clan" who "led the company to become a global conglomerate" in his tenure as CEO.[26] He is "generally credited with successfully running Cargill "when the company realized much of its growth."[27] He was the last Cargill "family member to serve as chief executive officer".[20]
      In the mid-1990s, "family factions" made an agreement, which is in the company's bylaws, stipulating that only six members of the family sit on Cargill's 17-person board,[10] four Macmillans and two Cargills.[4]
      Each year, the Cargill family "leaves 80% of the company's net income inside the company for reinvestment"[10] and "collects an estimated 18% of net profits as dividends".[7]
      From 1999 until his retirement in 2007, a nonfamily member, American investor and businessman, Warren Staley, was CEO of Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.[28][29] His career at Cargill spanned almost four decades.[28] A Star Tribune article at the time of his retirement, said that prior to Staley's tenure, Cargill was considered to be "the agricultural industry's version of the CIA".[28] The article described how Cargill had changed in the 1990s as technology improved and global markets became more open, with Cargill expanding into commodity trading and investments "from Vietnam to Argentina."[28]
      In a 2007 Forbes article on "The Richest People You've Never Heard of", Cargill Inc was 90 percent owned by the Cargill-MacMillan family and was still the "largest private company in America". The remaining 10 percent was owned by Cargill employees.[2] In 2008 the company employed over 150,000 people in 68 countries, and earned revenues of $106.30 billion.[3]
      By 2009, the Cargill family had "owned common equity in the company for over 140 years."[3] As the world economy collapsed and the price of fertilizer decreased, the "food family's fortune" suffered. Their 2009 annual earnings dropped 15% to $3.3 billion.[11] Cargill Inc revenues remained at $117 billion.[11]
      By 2009, the family company, Cargill Inc controlled "food from stable to table" including "animal feed, meat, [and] crops" and operated "large commodity trading and risk management operations".[11]
      Until 2011, the Cargill-MacMillan family also owned a "majority of fertilizer maker Mosaic."[11] also known as The Mosaic Company'--[11] which is the largest producer of potash and phosphate fertilizer in the United States.[13] In 2011, Cargill sold their 64-percent stake in Mosaic for $24.3 billion.[14]
      By 2011, Cargill had "nearly $120 billion in revenue and 130,000 employees in 63 countries."[23]
      According to a March 2, 2015 article in the Business Insider, Cargill Inc had "75 businesses employing 143,000 people in 67 countries" with a yearly revenue in 2013 of over $134 billion.[8] The Cargill family had at least 14 billionaires. The Cargill company and family'--who had at least 14 billionaires'--were "famously quiet", living "extremely private lives, many of them on ranches and farms in Montana," according to Forbes.[10]
      In 2016, there were major changes in Cargill Inc. under non-family Cargill CEO David MacLennan, which include streamlining the company, making major cuts and divestments, restructuring, and acquisitions.[30] A new generation of the Cargill family was appointed to the board of directors, according to the Wall Street Journal.[30]
      By July 2019, Business Insider ranked the Cargill-MacMillan family as the fourth richest billionaire family in the United States.[1] The magazine listed the family's estimated net worth as $38.8 billion and the source of their wealth as Cargill Inc.[1] By 2019, "23 members of the Cargill-MacMillan family own 88% of [Cargill Inc].[1] The company "generates $108 billion in annual revenues".[1] Fourteen of the family members were still billionaires in 2019.[1] The "family reportedly keeps 80% of Cargill Inc.'s net income inside the company for reinvestment annually."[1]
      Private lives and secrecy [ edit ] A review of William Duncan MacMillan's co-authored book, 1998 MacMillan: the American grain family,[31] described the MacMillans as "one of Minnesota's wealthiest clans" and "one its most doggedly secretive". W. Duncan Macmillan of Wayzata, offers the closest look yet at the private lives behind the largest privately held company in the world.[27]
      Five generations of the Cargill-MacMillan family [ edit ] Cargill married Ellen "Ella" Theresa Stowell, and they had four children'--William "Will" Samuel Cargill, Edna Clara Cargill (1871''1963),[32] Emma Cargill, and Austen Cargill (died 1957)'--the second generation on the Cargill family.
      Will Cargill married Mary MacMillan.
      Edna Clara Cargill (1871''1963) married John H. MacMillan Sr (1869''1940).[32] Edna and John H. MacMillan Sr had two sons and a daughter'--John H. MacMillan Jr, Cargill MacMillan Sr (1900''1968), and Emma Cargill married Fred M. Hanchette.
      Austen Cargill (died 1957) married Anne Ray.
      The third generation included the four children of Edna and John H. MacMillan Sr (1869''1940)'--John H. MacMillan Jr (1895''1960) and his wife Marion Dickson (1892''1980)'--John Hugh MacMillan III (1928''2008), Whitney Duncan MacMillan (1930''2006), and Marion MacMillan Pictet (1930''2009), who had a daughter, Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer who had two children.
      The four children of their second oldest son, Cargill MacMillan Sr (1900''1968) and his wife Pauline Whitney (1900''1990) are also second generation'--Cargill MacMillan Jr (1927''2011), Whitney MacMillan (1929-2020), Alice Whitney MacMillan (1932''1932), and Pauline MacMillan Keinath (born 1934 in Hennepin County, Minnesota).[33] Whitney MacMillan (1929 '' 2020)'--Cargill MacMillan Sr's second oldest son'--led the company from 1976 to 1995.[33]
      Their oldest son, Cargill MacMillan Jr (born Hennepin County, Minnesota, March 29, 1927 '' November 14, 2011) and his wife had four children.[34][35]
      The third generation also includes the daughter and son of Austen Cargill and Anne Ray. Their daughter, Margaret Anne Cargill (1920''2006), who never married, was a philanthropist. The fourth generation includes the two sons and daughter of James R. Cargill (1923''2006) and his wife Mary Janet Morse Cargill (died February 5, 2010). James died in 2006 and his widow died in 2010, had lived in her hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was on the list of billionaires in 2010.[36] The two children of their oldest son, James R. (Susan) Cargill II (born 1949), whose hometown was Birchwood, Wisconsin.[11] are part of the fourth generation.[37]
      Their second son, Austen S. (Cynthia) Cargill II (born 1951), who lives in Livingston, Montana, had two children. He attended Oregon State University and University of Minnesota.[38]
      Their daughter, a fourth generation member, Marianne Cargill Liebmann (born 1953) married Steve Liebmann. Their son, Andrew C. Liebmann, is currently on the Cargill board of directors. Marianne Liebmann studied at Montana State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree.[39]
      By 2016, the fifth generation of the Cargill family was represented on Cargill Inc's board of directors'--Andrew Cargill Liebmann and Richard Cargill.[4][40] Non-family Cargill CEO David MacLennan has taken the "next-generation family members on tours of the company's facilities and answers family members' questions weekly. Neither of the new board members, who were both in their mid-thirties, have ever worked for the company, but "they have taken corporate governance courses".[30] In 2014, 34-year-old astrophysicist, Andrew Cargill Liebmann'--the son of Marianne Cargill Liebmann'--replaced his uncle who had retired from the board.[4] Liebman's mentorship included a tour of the company's interests in India, China and Singapore.[4] Richard Cargill was also appointed to the Cargill board of directors to replace a retired Cargill relative.[40] MacLennan, who had made major changes to Cargill Inc, also moved the company's headquarters from the 85-year-old lakeside offices in a mansion by a lake in Wayzata, Minneapolis to more "mundane" office space nearby.[30]
      Forbes wealth rankings [ edit ] The Cargill-MacMillan family is the fourth richest family in the United States on Forbes' list.[1][41] In 2016 their revenue was estimated at USD$49 billion,[10] and $113.5 billion in 2019.[5][6]
      By 2019, Cargill Inc had been listed as America's largest private company since 1986, in all but two years that Forbes has maintained the list.[5]
      W. Duncan MacMillan, and James and Margaret Cargill died in 2006. In an article entitled, "The Richest People You've Never Heard Of", Forbes estimated that the fortunes of the MacMillans were worth $1.2 billion each, and that of James and Margaret Cargill were estimated at $1.8 billion each.[2]
      John Hugh MacMillan III (1928''2008), who worked for Cargill Inc for 35 years, from 1955 until his retirement in 1990 and served on the board of directors for many years,[22] was on the 2007 Forbes list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion.[42]
      Four members of the Cargill family ranked 220 on "The 400 Richest Americans 2009" list, each with a net worth of $1.6 billion.[33] Their fortunes were all listed as "inherited". Mary Janet Morse Cargill (85), who lived in Minneapolis, was the widow of James R. Cargill (1923''2006) of the second generation. The three others are third generation'--Austen S. Cargill II (58) in Livingston, Montana, James R. Cargill II (60) Birchwood, and Marianne Cargill Liebmann (56) in Bozeman.[33][39] Three of Cargill MacMillan Sr's four children Whitney MacMillan, Alice Whitney MacMillan, and Pauline MacMillan Keinath (born 1934 in Hennepin County, Minnesota),[33] were on "The 400 Richest Americans 2009" with a listed revenue of $4.3 billion each.[33] Marion MacMillan Pictet was also included on the list with an inherited fortune of $4.3 billion.[33]
      Marianne Cargill Liebmann's net worth was $3.1 billion in 2020.[7] In 2009, Forbes listed the net worth of Cargill MacMillan Jr at an estimated $4.3 billion. MacMillan Jr, who was a "longtime" member of Cargill Inc board of directors, had "no day-to-day role in the company".[34]
      Cargill heiress Marion MacMillan Pictet (1932''2009) ranked #176 on Forbes list in 2010 with a net worth of $4.5 billion,[43][44][45] an increase over $4.3 in 2009.[33] The net worth of her daughter, Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer (born 1961/62), the great-great-granddaughter of William W. Cargill, was $4.4 billion in 2020, placing her #680 on the richest people in the United States in 2020.[46][23][32] Sontheim Meyer's inheritance represented an "estimated 7% stake in food giant Cargill."[46]
      Philanthropy [ edit ] Margaret Anne Cargill, a fourth generation member of the Cargill family, who died in 2006, had bequeathed her shares of the "Minnesota-based food, agriculture and fertilizer conglomerate" Cargill Inc worth about $6 billion to two non-profits'--the Anne Ray Charitable Trust and the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation.[14] For many years the charities could not access the funds because it would mean liquidating "private Cargill stock". When Cargill sold its 64-percent stakes in Mosaic in 2011, the two nonprofits exchanged the private Cargill stock for 114.5 million shares of the public Mosaic stock. When all of these Mosaic shares are finally sold, the two charities could become "two of the wealthiest grant makers in the United States."[14] In 2012 Margaret Anne Cargill posthumously earned the #1 spot in The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of America's 50 most generous donors, beating George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and Paul Allen. In announcing the winner Forbes said that "Not only is she almost entirely unknown, but the heiress to the Cargill agribusiness fortune passed away in 2006."[14]
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CEO David MacLennan discusses reshaping the 151-year-old food giant after two years of declining profits. ^ MacMillan, William Duncan; Johnston, Patricia Condon; Gordon, John Steele (1998). MacMillan: the American grain family . Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press. p. 336. ISBN 1890434043. OCLC 38239367. ^ a b c "Cargill tree". Forbes . Retrieved 21 November 2014 . ^ a b c d e f g h "The 400 Richest Americans 2009". Forbes. Special Report. September 30, 2009 . Retrieved May 4, 2020 . This 2009 list provided the age, and net worth of 4 members of the Cargill family who ranked 220 on "The 400 Richest Americans 2009. The four, listed under Cargill Inc, each had a net worth of $1.6 billion" Austen S. Cargill II (58) in Livingston, Montana, Mary Janet Morse Cargill (85) in Minneapolis, James R. Cargill II (60) Birchwood, and Marianne Cargill Liebmann (56) in Bozeman ^ a b "Cargill MacMillan Jr., Agribusiness Heir, Dies at 84". The New York Times. November 16, 2011. ^ "2010_Cargill-MacMillan-Jr". Forbes. ^ "No 582 Mary Janet Morse Cargill". Forbes. October 3, 2010 . Retrieved May 5, 2020 . ^ "Mary Janet Morse Cargill". Obituary. 2010. Archived from the original on December 2013. ^ "Austen-Cargill-II". 2010. [dead link ] ^ a b "#220 Marianne Cargill Liebmann". Forbes.com. The Forbes 400 Richest Americans 2009. September 30, 2009 . Retrieved August 2, 2010 . ^ a b "Cargill moving out of longtime HQ, reshaping business". Family Business Magazine. April 11, 2016 . Retrieved May 4, 2020 . ^ Dolan, Kerry (June 29, 2016). "Billion-Dollar Clans: America's 25 Richest Families 2016" . Retrieved May 4, 2020 . ^ "John MacMillan III". Forbes. October 7, 2007 . Retrieved November 23, 2014 . ^ "Marion Hamilton MacMillan". Star Tribune . Retrieved 23 July 2019 . ^ "Marion MacMillan Pictet". ^ "#176 Marion MacMillan Pictet - Forbes.com". www.forbes.com. ^ a b "#680 Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer". Forbes. May 5, 2020 . Retrieved May 5, 2020 . 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    Room 641A - Wikipedia
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      Photograph of Room 641's exterior
      Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency, as part of its warrantless surveillance program as authorized by the Patriot Act. The facility commenced operations in 2003 and its purpose was publicly revealed in 2006.[1][2]
      Description [ edit ] Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco, three floors of which were occupied by AT&T before SBC purchased AT&T.[1] The room was referred to in internal AT&T documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room.
      The room measures about 24 by 48 feet (7.3 by 14.6 m) and contains several racks of equipment, including a Narus STA 6400, a device designed to intercept and analyze Internet communications at very high speeds.[1] It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic.[3] In the analysis of J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the Federal Communications Commission, it has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic."[4]
      The existence of the room was revealed by former AT&T technician Mark Klein and was the subject of a 2006 class action lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T.[5] Klein claims he was told that similar black rooms are operated at other facilities around the country.[6]
      Room 641A and the controversies surrounding it were subjects of an episode of Frontline,[7] the current affairs documentary program on PBS. It was originally broadcast on May 15, 2007. It was also featured on PBS's NOW on March 14, 2008. The room was also covered in the PBS Nova episode "The Spy Factory".
      Lawsuits [ edit ] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, 2006, accusing the telecommunication company of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in a massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications. On July 20, 2006, a federal judge denied the government's and AT&T's motions to dismiss the case, chiefly on the ground of the state secrets privilege, allowing the lawsuit to go forward. On August 15, 2007, the case was heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was dismissed on December 29, 2011, based on a retroactive grant of immunity by Congress for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.[8]
      A different case by the Electronic Frontier Foundation was filed on September 18, 2008, titled Jewel v. NSA. After many years of litigation, on April 25, 2019, ruling from the Northern District of California for Jewel v. NSA[9] concluded that the evidence presented by the plaintiff's experts was insufficient; "the Court confirms its earlier finding that Klein cannot establish the content, function, or purpose of the secure room at the AT&T site based on his own independent knowledge." The ruling noted, "Klein can only speculate about what data were actually processed and by whom in the secure room and how and for what purpose, as he was never involved in its operation." The Court further went on to discredit other experts called upon, citing their heavy reliance on the Klein declaration.
      In the Spring of 2006, over 50 other lawsuits were filed against various telecommunications companies, in response to the article.[10]
      There has been speculation that several rooms similar to this exist all over the United States.[11][12]
      Gallery [ edit ] Page 17: Basic diagram of how the alleged wiretapping was accomplished. From EFF court filings.[4]
      Page 9: More complicated diagram of how it allegedly worked. From EFF court filings.[3]
      A fiber optic tap
      See also [ edit ] Cabinet noirECHELONFairview (surveillance program)Fiber tappingHemisphere Project, mass surveillance program conducted by AT&T and paid for by the DEAMain CoreNSA warrantless surveillance controversyPresident's Surveillance ProgramPRISM (surveillance program)Signals intelligenceUpstream collectionUtah Data Center33 Thomas StreetReferences [ edit ] ^ a b c "AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence". Wired. May 17, 2006. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014 . Retrieved February 27, 2009 . CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) ^ Bamford, James (March 15, 2012). "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)". Wired . Retrieved April 23, 2012 . ^ a b "Klein Exhibit" Document from Hepting vs AT&T lawsuit from 2007. Reported by Ryan Singel in Wired Magazine, article "AT&T 'Spy Room' Documents Unsealed; You've Already Seen Them" 6/13/07, Documents posted at the Electronic Frontier Foundation File "SER_klein_exhibits.pdf website (PDF) ^ a b "Marcus Declaration" Document from Hepting vs AT&T lawsuit from 2006. Reported by Ryan Singel in Wired Magazine, article "AT&T 'Spy Room' Documents Unsealed; You've Already Seen Them" 6/13/07 , Documents posted at the Electronic Frontier Foundation File "SER marcus decl.pdf website (PDF) ^ "NSA Multi-District Litigation". Electronic Frontier Foundation . Retrieved February 27, 2009 . ^ Kravets, David (June 27, 2013). "NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower". Wired . Retrieved June 26, 2019 . ^ "Spying on the Homefront". Frontline. PBS . Retrieved August 1, 2013 . ^ "Hepting v. AT&T | Electronic Frontier Foundation". Eff.org. January 31, 2006 . Retrieved February 12, 2014 . ^ Jewel v. NSA April 2019 ruling ^ "Hepting v. AT&T". Electronic Frontier Foundation. July 1, 2011. ^ WOLFSON, STEPHEN. "The NSA, AT&T, and the Secrets of Room 641A" (PDF) . VS: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. 3:3 . Retrieved March 3, 2021 . ^ Gallagher, Ryan GallagherHenrik MoltkeRyan; MoltkeJune 25 2018, Henrik. "The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities". The Intercept . Retrieved March 4, 2021 . External links [ edit ] "Electronic Frontier Foundation's web page about NSA's domestic spying". "Technician Mark Klein discussing Room 641A". Countdown episode. November 7, 2007. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009 '' via YouTube. Kris, David (2014). "On Bulk Collection of Tangible Things" (PDF) . Journal of National Security Law & Policy. Archived from the original on 2017.
    Harvest of Deception - by Texas Slim'š--ðŸ§° - Texas Slim Initiative Newsletter
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      Introduction To begin with, I come from Texas and my grandfather farmed the land in which I have settled.
      I reside on the Llano Estacado, the Caprock of the Texas Panhandle, The Desert High Plains, and the end of the breadbasket.
      My ancestral family survived farming and was near the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. To make it simple I come from Texas dirt and thus I have lived a life of grit and with a form of strength, you find from a pioneering spirit that created me.
      Our food supply and nutritional value are being hijacked and you are paying the price for the deception. This is a fact and there is overwhelming proof that the food designed today is nothing close to what our grandparents raised and ate and the food we consumed 20yrs ago is not even close to what we choose to purchase today.
      I am an independent research analyst and have an extremely diverse background. I have worked in the intelligence labs of telecommunications, I have been a part of several big tech start companies in Austin, Texas. I have a blue-collar background with a high-tech professional career path. I have spent years studying and understanding behavioral analysis and can disseminate a situation quickly.
      In short, I have a special set of skills most people do not have access to.
      I know how to operate farming equipment and I know how to perform data analysis. I know how to embed myself into different industries and can do it anonymously.
      These days I have a goal. I am exposing the Industrial Food Complex for what they are and how they manipulate our laws, poison our food and create false commodities to increase higher yields and higher profits for the global corporations of the world.
      In short, they are providing you a slow death and using your ignorance and your consumption as a tool. To me the harvest each year has significant and spiritual meaning. From growing up and helping my grandfather and family store up food for the seasons, to working in the field weeding (hoeing) cotton. To helping raise chickens and cattle as a child and now as an adult. The harvest has meaning. It is our nutrition, it is our process in which we grow and become, the harvest allows us to reap what we have sown. These days we do not even have a clue what we are reaping.
      To begin, Bill Gates is the largest farmland owner in the United States. I am going to use him and his Investment companies and food companies as a gauge and a form of reference. It does not end with Bill Gates but in ways, it does start with Bill Gates, Monsanto, and the evolution of Genetically Engineering our food supply.
      This first article is part of a 3 part series that I and my team will be producing over the next several months. I will be publishing a book the first of 2022.
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      Region in Texas, United States
      Region in Texas, United States
      The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. It is adjacent to the Oklahoma Panhandle. The Handbook of Texas defines the southern border of Swisher County as the southern boundary of the Texas Panhandle region.
      Its land area is 25,823.89 sq mi (66,883.58 km2), or nearly 10% of the state's total. The Texas Panhandle is slightly larger in size than the US state of West Virginia. An additional 62.75 sq mi (162.53 km2) is covered by water. Its population as of the 2010 census was 427,927 residents, or 1.7% of the state's total population. As of the 2010 census, the population density for the region was 16.6 per square mile (6.4/km2). However, more than 72% of the Panhandle's residents live in the Amarillo Metropolitan Area, which is the largest and fastest-growing urban area in the region. The Panhandle is distinct from North Texas, which is further south and east.
      West of the Caprock Escarpment and North and South of the Canadian River breaks, the surface of the Llano Estacado is rather flat. South of the city of Amarillo, the level terrain gives way to Palo Duro Canyon, the second-largest canyon in the United States. This colorful canyon was carved by the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River, a tributary of the Red River. North of Amarillo lies Lake Meredith, a reservoir created by Sanford Dam constructed on the main stem of the Canadian River. Lake Meredith and the Ogallala Aquifer are the primary sources of freshwater in this semi-arid region of the High Plains.
      Interstate Highway 40 passes through the Panhandle, and also passes through Amarillo. The freeway passes through Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Donley, and Wheeler Counties.
      The Texas Panhandle has been identified in the early 21st century as one of the fastest-growing windpower-producing regions in the nation because of its strong, steady winds.[1]
      Before the rise of Amarillo, the three original towns of the Panhandle were Clarendon in Donley County, Mobeetie in Wheeler County, and Tascosa in Oldham County. Clarendon moved itself after it was overlooked by the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad. Mobeetie was reduced even below its original small size with the closure of the United States Army's Fort Elliott in 1890. Tascosa was ruined by the location of the railroad too far north of the town and the inability to build a feeder line. The Tascosa Pioneer wrote in 1890: "Truly this is a world which has no regard for the established order of things but knocks them sky west and crooked, and lo, the upstart hath the land and its fatness."[2]
      Demographics [ edit ] This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( February 2021 )
      As of the census of 2000, about 402,862 people lived in the Panhandle. Of these, 68.9% were non-Hispanic White, 23.8% were Hispanic, and 4.6% were African American. Only 2.7% were of some other ethnicity. About 92.3% of inhabitants claimed native birth, and 8.9% were veterans of the United States armed forces; 49.9% of the population was male, and 50.1% was female. Around 13.2% of the population was 65 years of age or older, whereas 27.8% of the population was under 18 years of age.
      Counties [ edit ] Twenty-six counties of the Panhandle (west to east, from the northwest corner):[3][4]
      Cities and towns [ edit ] Major cities of the Texas Panhandle with populations greater than 10,000 include:
      Some of the smaller towns with populations less than 10,000 include:
      Gallery [ edit ] Amarillo is the largest city in the Texas Panhandle.
      Politics [ edit ] Much like the rest of West Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle, the region is politically and socially very conservative. Following the pattern of other larger cities, Amarillo has the largest liberal population in the Panhandle. It was one of the first regions of the state to break away from its Democratic roots, though Democrats continued to do well at the local level well into the 1980s. However, Republicans now dominate every level of government, holding nearly every elected post above the county level.
      Nearly all of the Panhandle is in Texas's 13th congressional district , represented since 2021 by Republican Ronny Jackson. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+33, it is the most Republican district in the nation. The counties of Castro and Parmer are in Texas's 19th congressional district , which has been represented by Republican Jodey Arrington since 2016. That district is almost as Republican, with a PVI rating of R+27.
      In the 2016 Presidential election, Donald Trump received 79.9% of the vote in the 13th District, as compared with Hillary Clinton's 16.9% share of the vote.
      See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ] Panhandle from the Handbook of Texas Online Public domain images of the Llano Estacado and West Texas
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