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Meet the New Farm, Same as the Old Farm? Occupy Seizes Berkeley's "Gill Tract"
Because the Gill Tract occupation only began a week or so ago, there was no time to grow plants from seed — not that the Occupiers would have the patience for that anyway — so their version of "farming" means buying* (with daddy's credit card) flats and six-packs of sprouts from local nurseries, and then transplanting them into the ground. Wow! That is some major farming.
( • Or "liberating" or getting donations of pre-grown six-packs. )
In response to the "occupation," the university turned off the water at the Gill Tract. As a result, the "Occupiers" have to truck in giant tanks of water, which they sprinkle from bottles onto the seedlings. Sustainable! Eco!
Out in the field, the Occupiers had placed two scarecrows; this one in particular really emulated the Occupy "style," as it were. Or maybe that was one of the Occupiers, after a really rough night?
Whether made of straw or flesh-and-blood, the scarecrow wore Occupy and Anonymous buttons.
The other wore a hat made of a big funnel. Unfortunately, it resembled a coolie hat, costing the Occupiers -15 points on their colonialist sensitivity rating.
Occupy Law #1: Smiley-faces and peace signs make theft OK.
Amendment to Law #1: Framing your crime in a heart shape transforms it into a "cause."
Occupy Law #2: Everyone — even the dorkiest dorks — instantly becomes cool with the addition of an Anarchy tattoo.
Visit Amy's tent for an individual stress-relaxation "hypnosis" session which she guarantees will have a "happy" ending.
182 Comments, 91 Threads
1. Buzzsawmonkey
Given that the University of California, which owns this now-"Occupied" farm tract, is largely responsible for teaching the "Occupiers" the idiot theories under which they've undertaken this action, isn't this really an instance of the chickens coming home to roost?
April 29, 2012 - 6:09 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The vast majority of the "Occupy the Farm" buffoons are not Cal students; it's mostly composed of losers who didn't get into Cal, so in jealousy and frustration, they're stealing the research equipment of the students who actually did well in school.
UC Berkeley is actually two completely distinct universities; the "liberal arts" half is thorough and irretrievably contaminated with Marxist ideologies; but the "STEM" half ("science, technology, engineering, math") is very rigorous, hardcore, not politicized (and mostly Asian).
The College of Natural Resources, which does research at the farm, is mostly in the STEM half of the school (though there is a politicized component). Notice that the professors who joined the occupiers are all from the Anthropology and Gender Studies departments, not from Natural Resources.
So, this may not be a clear-cut case of chickens and their roosting behavior.
April 29, 2012 - 6:30 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Maybe not a clear-cut case, but I'd argue a certain amount of proximate cause here.
The University of California's more mush-brained leftist side has had a huge effect over the years on the thinking of the country, particularly Californians. Thus, even if the Occupy crowd are not students of UC, or are from the mush-brained side of the University, they are still in some sense University products, and are certainly occupying University property.
April 29, 2012 - 6:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Most of the kids at Cal are business or STEM majors and do not have time for this nonsense. And the bulk of protesters are not actual students of any stripe (not just this protest).
What makes Cal seem so crazy are the non-students from all over the bay area that are just a bunch of radical looser anarchists. That show up at Cal to cause trouble
Most of these people are NOT native Californians. Same goes for the huge gay population across the Bay in SF.
The Occupy Motto. Anarchists for Big Government.
As far as I can tell the best attended event this semester (outside of Cal's excellent sports events) was the Ron Paul address!!!
April 29, 2012 - 7:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The Left like Muslims play the 'long game'. They infiltrated Academia decades ago and have been brainwashing the naive, gullible youth that have come under their control ever since. To successfully rid the country of Left Wing moonbattedness it is essential that the Universities and Colleges be purged first.
April 29, 2012 - 9:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
el polacko
@lester: don't know why you are dragging gay people into this…but, now that you've mentioned it…there's a "huge gay population" in the east bay too. (oakland is the unofficial lesbian capitol of the world). that said, i believe that you will find that most people that you are likely to meet, on both sides of the bay…both gay and straight…are not native californians. the bay area is filled with transplants. is that a bad thing ?
April 29, 2012 - 9:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Mike James
In the sense that California has the reputation it does, at the hands of every miserable freak who moved here because we generously acted as the kidney of the nation, trapping and holding all the refuse, yes…yes, it is.
April 30, 2012 - 3:17 pm Link to this Comment
I'm stunned that these presumably sane and intelligent STEM types didn't have barbed wire or gates to at least keep the neighborhood dogs and other critters out. Or did they? And how has this occupation lasted so long, what with the destruction of research projects evidently undertaken at the outset?
I'm just shocked at the lack of security and lack of response.
April 30, 2012 - 12:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Fred Beloit
You may not get it, ar. It is possible that doggie and critter poop are part of the Natural Fertilizer Studies Program.
April 30, 2012 - 7:22 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
The poster did mention bolt cutters. I've never used bolt cutters to garden.
April 30, 2012 - 12:36 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
According to their web site:
" there are 8 faculty members within the College of Natural Resources that are actively supporting the idea of turning the Gill Tract into an urban farm."
May 2, 2012 - 8:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
smarterthanyou, zombie
Wow, never have I heard a complete moron speak so idiotically about something that they have very little knowledge of. First off, you should try getting your facts straight. It's pretty easy if you actually know how to read… but I understand, reading is hard Poor zombie, just has to make up a bunch of uninformed drivel so that he can make assiduous claims and feel important. I'm sorry you didn't get into Cal, or you second or third option colleges, but I did and so did the many other UCBerkeley students and alums who are making a working, collective farm come into being on a piece of property that was granted to a public,land grant institution.
Maybe you have never heard of seeds. So, let me inform you. They are these little, teeny, tiny hard things that you put into the ground. You water them and in 14-20 or so days they sprout and grow into a plant. I suppose it can be easy to mistake a tilled and planted row of ground for an unused space if you've never heard of planting seeds or know nothing whatsoever ever about growing food. Indeed, this is the sad, pathetic state of most people in this country.
So, while you are pulling your smelly, unwashed and putrified foot out of your mouth,let me invite you to actually come on down to the and educate yourself on some of the most basic aspects of the action, such as the history of the property, the UC's plan of development, the conversations being held with the researchers and most importantly the food that is being grown. And for your information, a plot of land that has inedible corn growing on it is not a farm. Nor is this farm created or worked by OSF as you claim in your title.
One last suggestion, maybe it has been made to you before… Know your facts before you start spouting ignorant drivel from your deplorable pie hole.
May 3, 2012 - 12:09 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
What high-quality discourse! Clearly the author of such an intellectual rebuke should be permitted to take whatever they want and do whatever they want with it.
For the good of the people, who are in no wise benefited by agricultural research.
May 3, 2012 - 1:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Oh, and what seeds were you planting, and when did you put them in the ground?
On the day of your seizing the farm? There should have been healthy sprouts at the one-week mark if you were using any kind of useful seed.
I hear the stuff that comes from Orchard Supply and Hardware comes with a money-back guarantee if it fails to sprout and thrive, but you're gonna have to prove to them that it wasn't your own incompetence what killed those plants.
May 3, 2012 - 1:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Jerry M
Yeah dude, tell 'em. After planting these tiny seeds, farmers just sit back on the back porch, drink ice tea, whittle, do some square dancing and wait for those seeds to eat up the evil CO2 and wallah! Plants! Food! Yeah. Gaia!!
May 3, 2012 - 7:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
I'm not sure what assiduous claims are, but assiduous and Occupy are not two words that belong in the same sentence.
May 5, 2012 - 6:06 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Isn't this trespassing? Where are the police?
May 3, 2012 - 12:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Studious Citizen
If only California played host to bitterly cold winters…
Then these morons would get a swift lesson in "the tragedy of the commons" in the tradition of the Pilgrims…aka "Why socialism fails".
May 1, 2012 - 2:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Animal
Fence 'em in, post guards, and make them live or starve on what they grow, 'pour encourager les autres.'
These nitwits couldn't run a working farm in a million years.
April 29, 2012 - 6:12 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
3. Rob Crawford
I'm surprised every other plant isn't marijuana.
Or does that come later?
April 29, 2012 - 6:17 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
I must say that my first reaction to the headline was 'OK, they're growing weed'…
What a bunch of sad 'sack's…
April 29, 2012 - 8:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
P Jay Medilla
They're not organized enough, nor solvent enough, nor aware of the capitalist nature enough to grow weed, even or especially) for free. Costs money, time, effort, thought and resources to grow anything. Ask any backyard vegetable gardener.
These people are just the "free-thinker/losers" of this era. Every era has them and they've been with human society ever since humans existed. In ancient times, layabouts didn't get any food if they didn't participate in the hunt or support thereof. Elders were consulted for their wisdom and hindsight and valued and actually respected. They could no longer hunt but became the de-facto government representative as the mind was still sharp and honed with experiences that the youngers hadn't had yet.
The occupier mentality is some garbage right out of some really bad sci-fi. Or, even good sci-fi. But in sci-fi, the writer can paint the canvas of society any way they like and randomness is not a factor. IOW, there's a point to the story and the story is a means to an end.
But reality isn't scripted and people aren't "players" they are people. People who want and deserve freedom, the right to own property, the right to travel unmolested and so on. Occupiers are firmly convinced of their own intellectual superiority but in the 1950′s such people would be summarily dismissed as useless and antithetical to civilization.
But it's nothing new.
April 29, 2012 - 8:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
4. Washington76
Obama has held more re-election fundraisers than previous five Presidents combined as he visits key swing states on 'permanent campaign' Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined. Since then, Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, bringing his total to 124. Carter held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in 1984, Bush Snr 19 in 1992, Clinton 14 in 1996 and Bush Jnr 57 in 2004. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136851/O…
And think he's doing most of it on our dime is enough to make you sick!!!
April 29, 2012 - 6:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
All very fascinating…but was that comment intended for a different thread?
April 29, 2012 - 6:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
cartoon caption:
Professor: "Well yes, Stalin was 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know'. But we were discussing Lord Byron."April 29, 2012 - 8:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. Miller
What's even more incredible is that these students and faculty think their "right" in doing this. How horrible it is to see the future of our country: marxist professors teaching gullible students that they above rule of law, and can take property from others, while somehow being taken seriously when it comes to their so called righteousness. It's a sickness. The university I attend has the same disease: marxist professors leading students down the road to serfdom. I see the flyers posted all over the place for lectures on Marx's ideas, or classes dedicated to the Occupy movement, and even the arrogance of the people that espouse this trash, is sickening. This is what the academic world is coming to, and it's sad that college students are falling into this pitfall way too easily.
April 29, 2012 - 6:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The occupiers are NOT students (maybe a few). The major event at Cal this year (outside of sports) was Ron Paul's address. If Berkeley had the exact same student population but was not located in the nutty Bay Area (which is full of nutty transplants) none of this would be happening.
April 30, 2012 - 6:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Jim Baker
Not enough to do at college anymore? Sheesh, what a bunch of "useful idiots". Problem is, they took over property their mentors already controlled. Not to smart, if you will.
April 29, 2012 - 6:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
7. Buzzsawmonkey
How ya gonna keep 'em down by City Hall
After they've seen the farm?
How ya gonna stop 'em from goin' and wheedling
Nursery skids of commercial seedlings?
How ya gonna keep 'em from horticulture, that's a mystery
Although to farming life they are as green as can be
They've shown they're interested in animal husbandry
How ya gonna keep 'em down by City Hall
After they've seen the farm?April 29, 2012 - 6:36 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
8. Lucius Septimius
People who get so misty eyed about "farming" don't know shit about real farming. They want to feed a bunch of people? Garden plots won't do it — it's one thing to make a salad you can get all self-righteous about; it's another thing to actually produce enough food to feed a family, much less a community.
April 29, 2012 - 6:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Studious Citizen
What!? Nonsense! Farming is so easy, we could all do it in the afternoons for fun, and still feed the world and have time to sing songs and write poetry about it, in between our trips to the store where we buy food to supplement the crops that just died because we didn't know what the hell we were doing…
Meanwhile, the Obama DOL is busy worrying about child labor on farms…
Methinks the Mayans were right.
May 1, 2012 - 2:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply
9. Buzzsawmonkey
Oh, for a recording of Danny Kaye singing Cole Porter's song, "Farming." Alas, could not find it on YouTube.
April 29, 2012 - 6:59 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
It's here, as part of a longer video:
It starts at 2:21.
Some GREAT lyrics, btw!
April 29, 2012 - 7:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
BTW, the line from "Farming":
Don't inquire of Georgie Raft
Why his cow has never calved;
Georgie's bull is beautiful, but he's gay…is one of the earliest uses of "gay" in its modern sense in the mainstream culture; the other is Cary Grant using the term in Bringing Up Baby.
April 29, 2012 - 7:15 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
10. NC Mountain Girl
Tell them they will have to grow everything they eat. That will end it in a hurry.
Farming is both hard work and capricious. I grow a lot of my own produce. You can do everything right and have it all turn to nothing with one ill timed storm.
April 29, 2012 - 7:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Not to mention they're averse to using things like pesticides, even when an entire crop can be lost to pests. You'll be lucky you can feed just yourself if aphids decide to help themselves to your crops, there's no way you'll feed a community just sitting on your ass singing folk songs and talking about how very ~spiritual~ it all is.
May 3, 2012 - 6:14 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. Jim
The effects of hallucinogens is so very sad.
April 29, 2012 - 7:01 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
12. WellRooted
I'm surprised they didn't try to plant astroturf.
All I can say to these deluded souls, seed-flat grown is about as far from sustainable farming as you you get. These kids are the human equivalent of overly-indulged seed flat grown plants. That's why they can't handle a real world environment.
Great photos Zombie.
As a former ag student I'm pretty sure there are not many occupiers in that department. They know too much about sweat and hard work.
April 29, 2012 - 7:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
13. glenn
I want to see these mooks actually farm. Like my grandfather did a 120 years ago. 7 days a week sunup to sundown. Be good for 'em. And more important I'd like to see 'em have to.
April 29, 2012 - 7:07 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
14. Optimus Primed
Couldn't happen to a better University.
I think the funniest thing about all of this is that if the world cratered and people had to seize land for survival these losers would be the last one's you would want working anywhere near it.
April 29, 2012 - 7:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
15. elkh1
"By their logic they should be able to seize what they want if, in their minds, they have a better idea of how to use it."
That is exactly what their patron saint the Teleprompteur is doing to us: takes our tax money and dishes out to his crony capitalists under the guise of "investing" in green cars and green energy. Wonder if the Berkely officials believe it's alright to take from us, the faceless taxpayers, when it's done by the man they voted for. 99.99% sure they have voted for the Teleprompteur.
April 29, 2012 - 7:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
16. RIchard
Send them to the farm fields worked by legal and illegal aliens–but these soft handed, scrawny Libs could not do the work could they?
April 29, 2012 - 7:12 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
17. valerie
The better analogy would be leaving the door of the henhouse open and letting the coyote in. These people are trespassing, and the University is letting them, or even encouraging them, to destroy the work of a .
And the state legislature seriously thinks the taxpayers are going to let them raise the tax rates.
April 29, 2012 - 7:12 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
18. Sgt. Mom
Hmmm … in the picture of the flats of random nursery sprouts … the nearest one looks to be big-leaf basil, both red and purple varieties. The flat with the red leaves in back of it may be red-leafed lettuce. The rest of it – and I am only a dedicated back-yard gardener – but I can't tell what it is, from the picture. To me, hardly any of it save what is in the 1-gallon pots looks very healthy and ready to be planted out at all. If they paid full price at a local nursery, I'd say they got ripped off. OTO, if it was donated, it was stuff that was about three-quarters dead anyway.
April 29, 2012 - 7:21 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The honest proletarian farm workers *cough*who are probably mostly living off daddy*/cough* have no need for your decadent bourgeois plant identification! They will struggle and raise an unprecedented bounty by, well, ummm, struggling! Yeah, that's it, struggling!
April 29, 2012 - 8:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
I think you are right about the plants.
April 29, 2012 - 8:07 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
19. Dean
If any of them had the work ethic that it takes to actually make a farm successful at growing food for a lot of people, they'd already have jobs.
April 29, 2012 - 7:27 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
20. glenn
The farm was a hobby farm, it still is.
April 29, 2012 - 7:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
21. David Kramer
I suggest this fall, that all those that implemented this approach will be mandated to live off the fruits of their labor, only. Give them the site and after this fall, they are only allowed to live off the land. We will have our very own little Ukraine Stalin experiment.
April 29, 2012 - 7:37 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Brian Epps
More like the Cambodian Option AKA the Zimbabwe Plan.
April 29, 2012 - 7:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Actually, if these Occupy types took over, the historical moment most closely matching what we'd experience is The Great Leap Forward.
April 29, 2012 - 7:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
For those wondering, that is the little "experiment" Mao forced on his fiefdom that resulted in anywhere from 25-40 million starvations, the loss of 90% of the country's usable metal tools, and a generally acknowledged setback of some 30 years of development. Oh, and even today it is not officially recognized by the same ruling government.
April 29, 2012 - 8:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Two things came to mind when I saw the pics: The Great Leap Forward, and the Unabomber. Do you remember how he called in his manifesto for society to dissolve into small agricultural communes?
April 30, 2012 - 12:40 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Not only that, but it was while he was working at (can you guess?) UC Berkeley that Theodore Kasczinski made the decision to become the Unabomber.
Interestingly, however, he was in the math department, not some politicized department.
But he made the decision not because he was indoctrinated while there, but because he was disgusted by what hypocrites the Berkeley liberals were. They talked the talk, but in his opinion, they didn't walk the walk.
The Occupiers are similarly critical of wishy-washy liberals who don't take the ideology to its logical conclusion (i.e. "de-development" back to the Stone Age, as John Holdren put it).
April 30, 2012 - 1:11 am Link to this Comment
That's exactly what I said when I saw the photo of the leek just shoved into the ground. It reminded me of the cover given to Maoist central planners by local farms, who simply invented numbers for their crop yields ("This month, we harvested 30 million kajillion cabbages!"), which the central planners could then use to announce that everything was being produced way above the intended targets. Various officials would visit these farms and report that yes, everything was produced exactly as the farms had indicated. In actuality, as you know, pretty much nothing was being produced, but hey, why would a proletarian revolution-based government care about feeding the proletariat? The proletariat already put the officials into power, so they were no longer necessary . . .
April 30, 2012 - 10:02 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Studious Citizen
The useful idiots lost their usefulness…
They were the first to be executed in the period of "normalization".
I suggest checking out Yuri Bezmenov's interviews and lectures online.
May 1, 2012 - 2:38 am Link to this Comment
If they were to get their utopian fantasy, they would be the chattel picking crops all day at the farm collective. I'm guessing that detail is not included in their political sessions. They probably have some notion about being among the decision makers.
April 29, 2012 - 8:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
22. max
are you sure that is an anarchist tattoo on that guy's arm? I'm familiar with the semiotics of the major anarchy symbols, the enclosed A meaning anarchy is the beginning of order & and the A overwriting an O meaning Anarchy replacing order, nbut have never come across an O broken by A, what does that mean?
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23. Seerak
That bolded line in the University's response, while correct and to the real point, sure does betray a certain lack of self-consciousness on their part. They are state-funded, with stolen money *cough* taxes, yes? When it gets right down to it, how is their whining about their "property rights" after they had it stolen from the taxpayers for them, any different from the Occupiers doing the same thing to them? The only difference is that the Occupiers' theft, lacking the cat's paw of government theft, is more direct — one might even say "honest", in a superficial kind of way.
April 29, 2012 - 7:47 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The people of California frequently and willingly raise their own taxes to pay for the universities. It's only "theft" if the population doesn't really want it.
April 29, 2012 - 7:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
And the university research actually results in a net benefit to society (at least that's the plan). Even if it's an open question whether or not tax-payer funded universities are a good thing, I am 100% certain that these Occupiers produce ZERO benefit for society, or actually have a net negative effect.
April 29, 2012 - 8:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
24. Ted
When Victor Davis Hanson reads this, it will undoubtedly make him very angry, and his reply is going to be epic.
Another great article Zombie. You have to wonder how these people don't realize how freaking stupid they are.
April 29, 2012 - 7:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
25. SunsetDistrict,Inc.
Maybe the communists are right.
These people are incapable of surviving in a competitive capitalist system and need to be fed, clothed, housed, and medicated.
April 29, 2012 - 7:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
26. Sundog
Most of what passes for political activism on the left is really just untreated mental illness. That's what we're seeing here.
April 29, 2012 - 7:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Actually, I see it (in this case) as "flexing your power muscles." They're trying out taking things away from daddy.
April 29, 2012 - 8:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Sundog, I'm sure that you are aware that liberals feel the same way about you. The one it seems we can all agree on is that everyone that disagrees with us is an idiot. Kumbaya. Makes me proud to be an American
May 5, 2012 - 11:22 am Link to this Comment | Reply
27. pre-Boomer Marine brat
Zom, the coolie hat on the scarecrow is hardly "colonialist". It's very sheik "Viet Cong". Run into any VFW or American Legion hall carrying that sucker and you'll find out … fast.
April 29, 2012 - 7:58 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
I'm surprised they made their scarecrows "cool." I expected they'd make effigies of George Bush and other satans to scare the birds.
April 30, 2012 - 12:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Most of them are probably too young to even personally remember who George Bush was.
It must be tough being a rebellious youngster who thinks the current President of the US is kinda hip and on your side. If there is no "Man" against whom to rebel (and model your scarecrows after), then there must be this suspicious hollowness to your sensation of youthful anti-authoritarianism.
April 30, 2012 - 1:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
I'm expecting that Obama will claim that first one as looking like the son he would have had.
Does bear a resemblance, don't you think?
April 30, 2012 - 11:44 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Is "sheik" a typo (and you meant to type "chic"), or do I not get the Middle Eastern reference?
April 30, 2012 - 10:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Probably evil auto-correct. It decides what you mean.
April 30, 2012 - 8:32 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Circle-jerk or daisy chain gang?
April 29, 2012 - 8:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
29. Claire
Why are they allowed to do this? Can't the university throw them off? Why aren't they?
April 29, 2012 - 8:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
It's all part of the plan:
First you have a small meaningless protest to provoke the police; then sue; then the university is too afraid to call the cops on your subsequent protests.
This is exactly what happened, and was part of the original plan from the start. (I called it at the time, and was right.)
April 29, 2012 - 8:07 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Spiny Norman
Ah, I remember that. The "block the police until they pepper-spray us" incident. Yes, you did call it at the time, right on the money.
April 29, 2012 - 8:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
30. Jerry
The graduate students and their teachers involved in research on the Farm should occupy the residences (homes and apartments) and offices of the Marxist professors and the leaders of the Occupy movement. If experiments on the Farm have been wrecked, the papers and notes of these crazed professors should be "compromised" as well. The legal officials will have a really difficult time prosecuting those engaged in such acts of reprisal if they have taken no action against the original protesters. Reciprocity is quite underutilized in the battle for sane inter-group relations.
April 29, 2012 - 8:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Jerry, I cannot imagine (actually I don't want to) how furious I would be were I a graduate student there whose dissertation work was bing trashed by these self-important creeps. The turnabout you suggest might seem like justice, but it seems to me to be too weak. After all, research on the farm required long, hard work. Replacing/restoring it will be difficult and will require a lot more hard work. If the 'research' of the leftist professors were trashed, how long would it take them to re-create mindless drivel?
May 1, 2012 - 5:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply
31. Blacque Jacques Shellacque
I'm willing to bet that Berkeley is the only place in the country where one can find professional students and professional protesters.
April 29, 2012 - 8:17 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Ho Lee Chow
Guess again. Professional students go back to at least the 70s when I was in university – and I didn't go to school in the United States.
I suspect they are a reality at just about every major university and a whole lot of middlin' ones…..
April 30, 2012 - 2:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
32. Farm...
– I thought you meant Stanford. Anyway, do tell us more about that professor with the whiteboard.
April 29, 2012 - 8:20 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
33. Spokker
I don't get it. Why are they still there?
April 29, 2012 - 8:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
34. Brian G.
I wonder where those people learned such a twisted view of property rights. Could it have been….at Berkeley?!!!!
April 29, 2012 - 9:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
35. Jeremy
I am with Spokker. Why did the university respond with a press release rather than a call to the police to evict tresspassers?
April 29, 2012 - 9:09 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Because the University administration is populated by invertebrates.
April 30, 2012 - 3:00 am Link to this Comment | Reply
36. Thucydides
Let's fast forward to "Year Zero", when they are marched out of the cities for real and forced to farm (as capitalist profiteers and members of the bourgeois). They will either starve to death or be beaten to death as parasites who eat but don't contribute to their new masters.
They will also discover that "taking" things is only doable when you are neither facing armed property owners, or don't have to worry about the even rougher crowd coming to take from them.
The future is going to be very frightening, and they are not even aware of what is coming even as they work to create that particular future.
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37. Mr. G
You know in many parts of the country the Capitalists have stolen the land and put up polluting pieces of paper. They then shoot polluting pieces of lead through some kind of bourgeois gadget. Well anyway it has to stop. Its time for Occupy the shooting range.
Most Occupiers just have to link hands on the yellow line and we'll take care of the rest.
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38. Ringo
We have planted our seeds.
We ask that our efforts be worthy to produce simple food
for our simple taste
We ask that our efforts be rewarded.
We thank You for the food we eat from other hands…
that we may share it with our fellow man
and be even more generous when it is from our own.
Thank You for a place to make a stand.Amen.
April 29, 2012 - 9:35 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The starving commune in EASY RIDER! Funny how these dipsh!ts learn absolutely nothing from history.
April 29, 2012 - 10:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
39. trangbang68
If these glorious soldiers of the proletariat are serious, they ought to rent some buses and head for Detroit. There are acres of destitute broken neighborhoods waiting to be reclaimed by these brave pioneers.
They remind me of Stephen Gaskin's Farm commune in Summertown, Tennessee. The busloads of hippies who went there nearly starved to death in the early 70′s, kicked out the lazy useless among them, deposed Gaskin as leader and today stand as an anachronism amongst the local Amish and Mennonites. Farming is not for simple minded dreamers. It's hard work.April 29, 2012 - 10:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
41. Rosa E.
Is it strange that I find this entire thing hilarious? I'm a city kid born and bred, but my family grows its own fruit and vegetables, and even someone as urban as me knows that what these people are doing is going to be a colossal failure. They're probably farming ultra-organic, too, which means no pesticides. At this point it's just a toss-up to see whether pests ruin their 'crop' before their own mismanagement does.
Hopefully, the farm experiment will provide a rude wake-up call for at least a couple of these Occupy nitwits. Once they figure out that their almighty theories aren't everything, the reactions should be good.
Also, is it just me, or are they going through some sort of reverse-civilization cycle? First we had the busy crowded tent cities, complete with pre-industrial hygiene. Then they moved down to the 17th century, with the rat problems and cholera outbreaks. Now they're trying to invent agriculture. When do you think they'll get around to discovering fire? Should be good, anyway, since the fire we've always had is soooo bourgeois and capitalist.
April 29, 2012 - 10:40 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Rosa E, your reverse-civilization observation made me LOL. I tweeted alink to your comment. I think the whole thing is so full of fail, and I'm just the occasional gardener.
I admit to being angry on behalf of the research students – all that time & tuition money down the drain.
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I'm looking forward to the triumphant exhultations that are bound to ensue when the Occupiers discover *drum roll* THE WHEEL.
April 30, 2012 - 6:52 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Studious Citizen
I'll patiently await the day when they begin grazing and crawling on all fours. Then we can round them up and house them at the San Diego zoo, right next to the poo-flinging monkeys.
May 1, 2012 - 3:04 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Or, if the zoos are too full, there's always Soylent Green.
May 1, 2012 - 10:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply
That's the thing right there: even your average urbanite who works a plot in a community garden could tell you that there's more to gardening than simply sticking a plant in the ground and standing around feeling self-important. Even hydroponics are a lot of hard work, and it only gets harder working an entire homestead or farm.
You're absolutely right about it being a toss-up between whether the insects do them in or their own incompetence.
May 3, 2012 - 6:30 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
42. arhooley
Surprise surprise, this has been joyfully diaried at Daily Kos. One commenter asked if this wasn't a wee tad intrusive on the research activities. Answered "citisven":
It's such a fine line with any occupation, because there always seem to be good people who are intertwined with the powers that be. So anytime you try to get to the 1% you invariably cross paths with the 99%. And I have a feeling the 1%ers know it and love it, it's probably their biggest protective shield. I think the best way to protect against those kinds of run-ins is to keep communicating with everybody, inviting them in, and be willing to make compromises and be flexible to shift strategy mid-journey.
To which "wu ming" replied:
communication and negotiation with other 99%ers is the key to defusing these sorts of games the 1% plays, by pitting people against one another.
GAWD how I wish they'd try this sort of "occupation" on an Indian casino, a Mexican pot farm, an Afghani poppy field, a French vineyard, or a plain old Irish potato farm. Surely the workers at those places would compromise and negotiate away a few patches for the work of the liberators?
They also have a website: http://www.takebackthetract.com/
April 30, 2012 - 1:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I link to their web site at the very beginning of the report ("The "Occupy the Farm" group (loosely affiliated with Occupy Cal and Occupy Oakland, but a new separate group) has already put up a slick web site called "Take Back the Tract" which explains the "philosophy" justifying their behavior:…").
In their universe, their farm occupation is the most fantastic, heroic, and morally supreme action any human being has ever done. If they ever saw this PJM report (doubtful, but we're talking in theory here), they literally would not even be able to comprehend what I was talking about.
They have only ever received praise, kudos and groveling their entire lives. The very concept of "criticism" is outside their ken.
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Who is the 1 percent in this case? The University? The university owns the tract, right? Doesn't that make every student and faculty member at the university an enabler of the 1 percent? So if they had any integrity, shouldn't the professors who support the occupation quit their jobs? Otherwise, aren't they merely tools of the 1 percent?
April 30, 2012 - 4:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
43. The Sage
>a shirt that used the word "far" as a verb.
I think it's actually missing an 'o' from 'too'; but that's what happens when you stop correcting kids' spelling because it might hurt their self-esteem and creativity.
April 30, 2012 - 2:14 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I think it's actually missing an 'o' from 'too';
I know that; I was just making fun of the misspelling.
April 30, 2012 - 8:35 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Uncle Jefe
Well, as evidenced by Zombie's great work, the shirt certainly couldn't have said "We have come to FARM"…
April 30, 2012 - 12:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
44. Bill N
A thought occurred to me: This field has been used for many years as a university research lab, no? Did the occupiers take care to make sure (darn sure!) that the thousands of students that experimented here over the years took care to clean up after themselves and left no pathogenic organisms, toxins, or radioactive material behind to contaminate the occupiers? I have had many years dealing with students, both undergrads and graduates and they canNOT be relied upon in this regard. Were tests done to make sure the land is safe for the occupiers? Wouldn't it be a hoot if they ended up glowing in the dark?
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45. Dawn
If they wanted to do something useful, they could have occupied "Peoples Park" and turned it into something productive.
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46. fnord
It's not all bad. After the children get bored and wander off to pursue the next idiocy some researcher will have the opportunity to write a paper along the lines of 'Reclaiming Farmland After an Infestation of Sanctimonious A$$holes'.
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47. myiq2xu
From the SJ Murky News:
Dayaneni said the group hopes to avoid an Occupy situation where the site attracts criminals and substance abusers by imposing a rule that anyone who shows up must work.
"We're super clear about the fact that this is a farm," Dayaneni said. "Those who do the work make the decisions."
They sound like Republicans
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I'd be interested in how they define "work" then. Will only the people that are doing actual farming be considered workers? Or will those doing child care and security also be considered workers in making the decisions? After all, as Zombie pointed out, the large majority of them had nothing to do with farming.
April 30, 2012 - 2:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
48. LTC John
"We envision a future of food sovereignty"
So, they are going to pledge fealty to legumes or squash as their leige lord(s)?
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I admit I'm being naive here, but from what I gather this isn't public land, correct? This is University-owned property. So why can't they have these filthy Occupiers turfed out by the cops? It's one thing to "occupy" an ostensibly public open air space. It's another thing entirely to occupy a piece of land deeded to a particular entity. And I would assume that the interference of these occupiers in federally- and/or state-funded research would justify SOME sort of criminal, or at the very least civil, charge.
Again, I realize I'm naive of the legalities in this situation. Anyone care to put some knowledge to me?
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Of course the University could boot them out and have them all arrested; but the University is so spooked by the probability of getting bad press as a result, that they treat the Occupiers with kid gloves.
April 30, 2012 - 9:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Ah, yes. Of course.
I would recommend they try swinging the PR the other way. "While these Occupiers playact at farming on our land, thousands of taxpayer dollars are being wasted as our experiments idle, wither, and are destroyed. Student loans our agriculture students have taken out for their education are accruing interest for no purpose. Grad students are having their Master's and Doctoral degrees put at risk. Undergrads are having their Associate's and Bachelor's degrees put at risk. Professors are having their department put at risk. High school students who could use their experience at Gill Tract to springboard into a college program are having their futures put at risk.
"All because some spoiled children have decided they want to pretend to be farmers.
Forgive us if we have more respect for our students, staff, faculty, and the taxpayers in this state and across the country than to allow this handful of malcontents to continue squatting on private land."
May 1, 2012 - 7:12 am Link to this Comment | Reply
50. JD Leven
So many professors at Cal share the socialist mentality of the Occupiers it ironic to see them complaining when their property is seized.
This also shows the hilarity of having one group socialists telling another group of socialists to "Learn your place."
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51. Tina Trent
I think this is a great project. It is a concrete reminder to others of what happens when these types of people take over. An utterly inspiration object lesson in the horrors of sovietization, Mao, Castro, the re-education camps of the Vietcong, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Jim Jones — the list goes on and on and on.
Lock them in, give them loudspeakers, set up some video cameras, and come back in six months.
Hell, I'd donate to that.
April 30, 2012 - 6:56 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I like this idea. If the Occupiers are going to ruin the agricultural research that the land was being used for, then turn it around and make the Occupiers the experiment. Call in the sociologists and psychologists and anthropologists (the sane ones, not the loonies like Nader) and watch how a society of childish imbeciles deteriorates in short order.
I really, honestly would love to get that on tape.
April 30, 2012 - 7:02 am Link to this Comment | Reply
52. Paul from Hamburg
Three observations from the volunteer job board:
1. "Childcare" and "Art" are the same job. Does that reflect the trespassers lack of appreciation of art, or their lack of concern for children?
2. They apparently have a female "Corey" and a mail "Corey". Apparently, neither Corey was sufficiently cool enough to merit a nickname like "Bear" or "Wildebeast".
3. Security is also termed "Creepwatch". Zombie, please, please try to get their definition of a "creep".One more general observation: I am genuinely surprised that everyone kept their clothes on.
April 30, 2012 - 6:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
"Childcare" and "Art" are the same job. Does that reflect the trespassers lack of appreciation of art, or their lack of concern for children?
I think it relates to their belief that children should be able to express themselves openly, not be constrained by things like "rules" and "restrictions." Art is by it's very nature a method of expression. So put the kids together with art and bingo! Occupy-friendly childcare with a heaping helping of indoctrination on the side!
Of course, these occupiers have probably never had to deal with children who aren't interested in creating beautiful collages of organic materials that express the wonder and mystery of nature. They seem to think all kids will be perfectly content to sit still and do arts and crafts projects, when most children would get bored with that in about five minutes flat and be on their feet and running around before their guardians had even finished mixing the papier mache wallpaper paste.
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3. Security is also termed "Creepwatch". Zombie, please, please try to get their definition of a "creep".
In all seriousness, Occupy camps tend to attract molesters, rapists and mentally ill frustrated perverts. The Occupiers themselves acknowledge this in their meetings, and it is a frequent topic of discussion; they see it as unfair that the conservative blogosphere blames the frequent sexual crimes at Occupations on the Occupiers themselves, when in fact it is "outsiders" who join the movement as a pretext for being in close unpoliced proximity at night with a bunch of presumably loose women.
Almost every Occupation has evolved now to have a "creepwatch" squad, who monitor all the sleazy dudes in the encampment for misbehavior. As you may remember from one of my earlier reports, at Occupy Oakland it got so bad that they had to re-invent the harem, a sealed-off area with palace guards where are the women huddled to protect their honor from the innumerable "creeps" who prowled around like wolves.
April 30, 2012 - 9:26 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Beware of sensative racial overtones due to the proximity of Ogawa Plaza to numerous halfway houses.
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Paul of Alexandria
What's absolutely amazing is that these folks cannot recognize the reasons for why civilization is the way that it is and why society does what it does. Utopianism depends upon an overly optimistic view of human nature, and Utopians are always surprised when people refuse to act ideally.
May 2, 2012 - 10:05 am Link to this Comment | Reply
53. Mark v
• We take issue with the protesters' approach to property rights. By their logic they should be able to seize what they want if, in their minds, they have a better idea of how to use it.
Hmmm. That looks oddly familiar. Let's rearrange that just a bit:
• We take issue with the protesters' approach to property rights. By their logic they should be able to seize any income they want if, in their minds, they have a better idea of how to use it.
Yep, thought so. That's just standard leftist mantra, played out on a farm by a bunch of mal-educated, spoiled children, instead of in the Hallowed Halls of Congress by, uh, a bunch of mal-educated, spoiled children.
Hmmm. Is there any hope that an old idea called, "The Rule of Law" is starting to look a little better to them?
The University is reaping exactly what they've sowed.April 30, 2012 - 7:08 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
54. votermom
So Occupy's purpose is to keep farm land from being turned into commercial land. Except they pick land that is actually being kept as farm land, displacing the actual farmers (researchers & students).
Isn't this the same thing they did when they occupied a house that was about to be foreclosed? They moved a family into a house that the owner was trying to renegotiate the mortgage on, and effectively displaced him.
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55. spindok
This is good for them. You can sit around meeting discussing philosophy and planning for revolution, or have a downtown rally where reporters outnumber protesters and really feel you are "doing something".
Right now these people form a closed loop. It seems fun and meaningful because the feedback is all from the inside. They do not know they look silly because everyone else is doing the same thing.
A farm is something else. There will be no escaping reality a few months from now when the volunteers have moved on and the handful of plants are withering in the field.
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56. Dr. Frank Lippenheimer
All I can say is: Those poor plants. They're all gonna die.
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57. jcausey
My 14 year old son has a plot in our backyard – maybe 15 x 40. I'll predict he produces more from that plot than this misguided attempt at a protest.
April 30, 2012 - 8:50 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Henry Reardon
Count on it!
When Stalin collectivized agriculture, forcing everyone to share the land, tools, etc. in common, the one thing that was done as a sop to those who resisted was that small private plots owned by individuals were tolerated.
That enabled members of the collective to farm their small private plots and grow things for themselves. While the amount of land involved was very small, it proved essential in keeping millions of Soviet citizens alive. While the amount of land was only on the order of 2 or 3% of all arable land, something like 30-35% of the citizens of the Soviet Union subsisted on crops grown on that land! That would make the difference between living and dying of starvation in years with poor crop yields.
It should also have made it blindingly obvious to everyone that private property was absolutely essential to the survival of the nation. Unfortunately, that message was not deemed acceptable until Gorbachev came to power….
April 30, 2012 - 2:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
58. RebeccaH
I have come to despise the whole "liberal left" milieu with every fiber of my being. Useless pseudo-Marxist parasites, the lot of them.
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59. Farms...
– in Berkeley? Moooo! (h/t Mel Blanc ad)
April 30, 2012 - 9:24 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Goin' old school with the Bay Area knowledge.
May 1, 2012 - 10:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
I work on a horse ranch, not a crop-farm, but I can tell you how much work is involved in just what I do. Farming by hand, or even with hand-tools, is hard, back-breaking work. If these guys couldn't manage the discipline to get into college, what makes them think they have what it takes to run a farm?
"I'm the hog farmer and airfield attendant. I'm doing quite well at producing ham and bacon, without the men from whom I used to buy it. But those men cannot produce airplanes without me – and, without me, they cannot even produce their ham and bacon." – Dwight Sanders, [i]Atlas Shrugged[/i]
She smiled. "I know, this is a place where one employs nothing but aristocrats for the lousiest kind of jobs."
"They're all aristocrats, that's true," said Wyatt, "because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it."]April 30, 2012 - 9:35 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
It's only that hard and back-breaking when it's full time. For true subsistence farmers, it's only part time work because they only have to feed themselves and their immediate families. The story changes when they have to grow more and work full time to pay taxes or rents on top of that, or (as is probably the case for you) when they have to earn more to be able to get other necessities from a wider cash economy. True subsistence farmers end up poor because they aren't able to get stuff from a wider cash economy, but they don't end up over-worked.
April 30, 2012 - 6:21 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
61. kbdabear
The Occupoopers have enacted a new definition of "private property";
"Private Property" is what the 1 percent takes from the hard work of the 99 percent and therefore is there for the taking by the bien passants
"Personal Property" is an i-Pad or i-Phone stolen from an Occupooper and it's HIS/HER toy and you can't have it.
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62. Mickey Reno
I wonder if any of these idiots will learn how stupid they appear (and as a result, change into something more sensible)? If so, then this occupation will have produced at least some good.
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63. MontieR
What a NON story. I expect nothing less from Bezerkly U.
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64. Roswell Garst
Marx: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. If only these hippies could have experienced Stalinist collectivisation.
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65. Jeannette
I third the "fence 'em in" suggestion. And, at least they're pooping somewhere that has a use for manure.
April 30, 2012 - 10:52 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Somehow, I can't quite believe that they would stoop so low to actually use human manure in farming. Seems far too "hands on" to me. And these definitely don't seem the type to get their hands dirty – literally!
April 30, 2012 - 2:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
But it IS a step up from pooping on cop cars.
I'd love to see video updates from time to time. I remember my corn-detasseling years; it was back-breaking work, starting at the crack of dawn. This is just hilarious that their latest demand is to do MANUAL LABOR! It's exactly what I think they need.
May 1, 2012 - 6:06 am Link to this Comment | Reply
66. SunsetDistrict,Inc
On halloweeen they could grow some pumpkins and let the kids come in and play in the pumpkin patch.
April 30, 2012 - 10:55 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
That is exactly part of the plan — they did indeed plant a pumpkin patch, and plan to have a kids' party there on Halloween. It's part of the whole Occupy the Farm future!
I'm now taking bets on how likely it is that the Occupiers will stick it out for the next six months of unglamorous work to bring those pumpkins — and all the other crops — to fruition.
April 30, 2012 - 11:24 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
6 months? I would give them 6 weeks… once the media attention dies off, they aren't going to want to stick around and risk having to work.
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Gone before the end of May, Zombie. For $20, payable to the charity of your choice, if I lose.
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No water, no crop. That ground is already dry. They wind blowing off the bay all summer will make the place look like 1936 Oklahoma.
Maybe we will get lucky and they will all move on to Bakersfield.
May 1, 2012 - 10:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
67. Klaas Fokkema
As a tropical agronomist I have learned by experience that weeds and stupidity are difficult to combat.
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68. RealityCheck
Someone please explain why these people are not in handcuffs RIGHT NOW?
April 30, 2012 - 11:23 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
That's been addressed in previous comments upthread.
April 30, 2012 - 11:25 am Link to this Comment | Reply
69. Mark E
When I first scanned through the pics, I thought that the 3rd scare crow pic was a stylishly dressed 0th Lady standing in solidarity with the great gardening efforts and their plan to eliminate the Great Food Desert of California.
Then I remembered that Mrs. Soetoro was still (again?) on vacation
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70. Trex
I work in a plant biology lab at another large University I won't name (in a different state.) We also maintain a large tract of land, similar to this, and a greenhouse for our research. Many of our grad students were going to Occupy in our city and supporting it. The Biology Dept here is just as Marxist and out of touch with reality as any Gender Studies Dept at Berkeley, I'm afraid. I would LAUGH to see something like this happen to our land and teach them a good lesson. It would definitely be chickens coming home to roost.
Having lived and gone to school in the Bay Area also, I am going to bet that at LEAST half the students and profs who do research at Gill Tract were sympathetic to Occupy (and may now be changing their minds!)
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71. amused
On the "magnificent manifesto" posted at the front gate, in the middle/bottom of the circle, is that a KKK clansman hood i see?
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72. Evil Otto
These Occupiers need a vacation from their hard work… how about a Holiday in Cambodia?
Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stakeNow you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son:.Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crackApril 30, 2012 - 2:27 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
73. Toby Ray
"trustafarian dropouts" First time I've heard that. I like it!
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74. Toby Ray
So many of those ageing KPFA Marxists speak fondly of their long lost youth spent harvesting sugar cane in Fidel's Cuba. Now this new generation of "trustafarian dropout Marxists" no longer need visit that socialist paradise. Yep, can now do it at "Occupied Gill Tract".
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75. pst314
Need new lyrics for an iconic sixties song: "Here Comes the Sun/Dumb"
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76. Gork
Let's compare and contrast the narrative these idiots have with, say, the 4H:
"Let's OCCUPY this Farm!"
"I pledge my Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty
My Hands to larger service
and and my HEALTH to better living for my club, my community, my country and my world."Quite a difference, no?
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77. TriGeek
Some simply observations that I thought of after reviewing this article:
1) "Organic" farms take more land to grow fewer crops, and create produce that is too expensive for the under classes
2) People shopping at "Health Food" stores, are the most unattractive and least healthy people I have ever seen
3) Hard-core lefties spend much time complaining about the paving over and polluting of the planet, yet most hard-core lefties live and congregate in major cities that are polluted and filthy
4) Leftists mock conservatives who live in the country (hicks) where pollution is minimal, and property tends to be well-maintainedApril 30, 2012 - 6:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
78. jeannebodine
In reading the entire back & forth in the comments (including the UC scientist, his wife & even his son trying to reason with the occupiers) to the article linked at "royally pissed off" I feel like some might be descending into madness but I'm afraid it may be us. More & more I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode, watching what is unfolding and thinking it just can't be & wondering why everyone around me hasn't started screaming too.
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79. Skorpion
Zombie, you weren't kidding about the therapist and "happy endings" (second page, bottom photo). That phone number links to a page on "Sex counseling and coaching, sex education, and hypnotism offered by Dr. Amy Marsh, dba Nectar & Flame Consulting, San Francisco Bay Area."
Here's a bio: http://www.dramymarshsexologist.com/about.html . Among other fun facts, it says that she once conducted a "Semen Taste Survey for Carnal Nation column."
April 30, 2012 - 10:21 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
It's impossible to satirize these people. Whatever one can come up with to make fun of them, the reality is always ten times more bizarre.
Good catch.
April 30, 2012 - 11:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
80. The Redneck
"We take issue with the protesters' approach to property rights. By their logic they should be able to seize what they want if, in their minds, they have a better idea of how to use it."
–UC Berkely, on "Occupy the Farm."
Congratulations on successfully passing your values to the next generation, UC Berkely. You have met the enemy and he is y'all.May 1, 2012 - 8:54 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
82. Farmer88
I'm not a farmer, at least not yet. But I would probably do such a better job than these morons. I spent eight hours on a farm once working. It is backbreaking work and extremely exhausting and this farm isn't even a fully functioning farm, but rather just a research farm that produces a small amount of crop. I finished at 5:30, struggling staying awake for the hour long drive home, and was asleep by 7:15. However, I personally loved every single minute of it. I just do not see these protestors putting even remotely the amount of effort into farming that I did.
May 2, 2012 - 1:05 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Only eight hours because it was one shift. I work for a grocery store company and I had gotten the opportunity to spend a shift at their organic research farm. Heck, I'd love to spend more time, I absolutely loved every minute of it even though it was exhausting.
May 2, 2012 - 5:21 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
83. Bruce
About that T-shirt:
Probably had a "doper moment".
What the wearer/printer was probably trying to say was:
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84. The Climate Realist
What the university needs is a real farmer to turn up with a Massey Ferguson Combine Harvester to drive through and turn all that crap into mulch. All the farmer needs is an I am the 99% sign on his combine to make it okay with them, doesn't he?
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85. Harry_Bergeron
More great work from Zombie!
Thank you for risking your sanity yet again.May 3, 2012 - 9:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
86. ErisGuy
I don't see what there is to object to. This is tame, "people's park" nonsense: typical berserkly peaceful protestors. Not in the same league as;
Arson at a U.S. Department of Agriculture Building, Olympia, Washington, in (6/98)
Fire burns down a Boise Cascade timber management office (12/99)
Arson at Washington Horticultural Center in Seattle (05/01)
Fire at the Jefferson Poplar Farm in Clatskanie, Oregon (5/01)etc.
This isn't even violence in same league as ACT-UP's terrorism in churches.
Nothing to see here. MoveOn.org to HopeAndChange.
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Hmm, well this all worked out fine for Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, didn't it? I mean apart from the manmade genocidal famines which killed 10′s of millions.
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If their crop planting fails, they can always blame global warming
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These idiots are not the same species as I or any of my family. If my skull was run over by a truck I would still make more sense than all of these cretins put together.
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The rules for posting comments require that commenters make no ad hominem attacks. Yet the article itself is nothing but one long ad hominem diatribe.
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There's a difference between "ad hominem diatribe" and "accurate description of reality."
Besides, the rules are for comments, not for articles.
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I truly feel bad for the professors and graduate students doing legitimate research. It is difficult enough navigating the rigors and difficulties of graduate research. I would personally be livid if these Occupy clowns ruined my months of hard work.
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Measurement of pressure drop and flow resistance in microchannels with integrated micropillars
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In the present study, we investigate single phase fluid flow through microchannels with integrated micropillars to calculate the pressure drop and flow resistance. The microchannels, which contain micropillars arranged in square and staggered arrangement, are fabricated in silicon substrate using standard photolithography and deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) techniques. The DRIE technique results in precise and accurate fabrication with smooth and vertical wall profiles. Pressure drop measurements are performed on microchannels with integrated micropillars under creeping flow regime over a range of water flow rates from 50 to 600 μl/min. It is observed that the pressure drop varies linearly with increasing flow rates. Flow resistance ( \(\Updelta P/Q\) ) is calculated using the pressure drop values and is found to be decreasing as the Darcy number ( \(\sqrt{K/h^2}\) ) increases. In general, the square arrangement of pillars offers higher resistance to flow than their staggered counterparts. It is observed that the existing theoretical models fail to accurately predict the permeability of the microchannel with integrated micro-pillars, particularly for cases where the micropillars have smooth and accurate geometric conformity, as obtained in the microfabricated structures used in the present study.
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- Title
- Measurement of pressure drop and flow resistance in microchannels with integrated micropillars
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Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Volume 14, Issue 3-4 , pp 711-721
- Cover Date
- 2013-03-01
- 10.1007/s10404-012-1089-1
- Print ISSN
- 1613-4982
- Online ISSN
- 1613-4990
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Naga Siva Kumar Gunda (1)
- Jerry Joseph (1)
- Ali Tamayol (2)
- Mohsen Akbari (2)
- Sushanta K. Mitra (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Micro and Nano-scale Transport Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G2G8, Canada
- 2. Micro and Nano BioEngineering Lab, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, QC, H3A1A4, Canada


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Fires loose powder or easy-to-use pellets
Removable Accelerator Breech Plug
Built-in fiber optic sight for accuracy
Stronger flintlock with larger frizzen face
Buckhorn 209 Magnum Rifle
High-tech .50-caliber rifle
Handles 150 grain magnum charges with ease
Illuminator fiber optic sights
CVA Optima V2 Muzzleloader, Northwest Model, .50, SS/Realtree ...
Trigger-guard actuated breeching lever
Neutral "center of gravity" trigger
Quick-Release Breech Plug
DuraSight fiber optic sights
CVA Optima V2 Muzzleloading Pistol, .50, SS/Realtree Xtra
Trigger-guard actuated breeching lever
Neutral "center of gravity" trigger
Quick-Release Breech Plug
Built-in DuraSight Z2 scope rail
Traditions Deerhunter Flintlock, .50, 24" Barrel, Black/...
Features a 24" octagonal performance barrel
Lightweight, rugged stock for balance
Fires full-bore, saboted, and patched rounds
Williams fiber optic metal sights for accuracy
Hodgdon Pyrodex P Pistol Powder
For up to .45-caliber pistols and rifles
Use in place of black powder
Works as a priming charge
CVA Wolf Muzzleloader, Northwest Model, .50, SS/Black
Lightweight, easy-to-maneuver design
Quick-Release Breech Plug
Compact, quick-pointing barrel
Includes PalmSaver ramrod
IMR White Hots
Fastest Loads - loads exceeding 2,300 fps
Easy Clean-up
Long Range Reach
Shot to Shot Consistency
Dependable in Extreme Weather
Western Powders Blackhorn 209 Powder Muzzleloading Propellant
High-velocity and accuracy
Low-residue, non-hygroscopic design
Leaves no "crud ring" in barrel
No water required for cleaning
Extended shelf life
Traditions .44-Caliber Loading Stand for Black Powder Revolver ...
Fits Pietta models 1851, 1860, 1873 and 1858
.44 caliber
Barrel Blaster Quick Clean Patches, 100-count
Presaturated with solvent
Quick and easy cleaning
100 patches
Barnes .50-Caliber Spit-Fire T-EZ Bullets, 250-gr, 24-pack
Loads easier even in tight bores
Match-grade accuracy
Blooms to six razor-sharp petals
100% copper with expanding polymer tip
Effective at both short and long ranges
Traditions .44-Caliber Lead Round Balls, 100-Pack
140 grains
Pure lead
Precision swaged
.451 diameter


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Most famous for housing Queen Elizabeth II on the night of her ascension to the throne, Tree-tops Lodge offers its guests a royal treat in the heart of Kenya's Aberdare National Park. Ideal for an unforgettable wilderness romance, Treetops Lodge is sheltered by a dense forest and overlooks two waterholes and a salt lick - and on a clear day you can see the snowy peaks of Mount Kenya.
Relax in the comfort of the lodge's raised observation lounges which offer the chance to photograph animals as they come down to drink. At night, you may also ask to be alerted when rare or exciting animals appear. A unique destination in Kenya, Tree-tops is best combined with the country's more traditional savannah parks such as the Masai Mara for a well-rounded safari experience.


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