This article was originally posted on January 4, 2008 on my old website. A friend of mine got a visit from the farm census people. She was told she was required to complete the survey even though her property was not being used commercially. It was their home on five acres. What she did was to contact Senator Mike Crapo to complain about it. She was not engaged in interstate commerce and the census takers had no authority to require her to participate in their survey. The census takers went away. But, you’ll see near the bottom of the page, it was the intent of Ag census takers to include both commercial and non-commercial properties.
Internationalization and Cartelization (Market) of the American Government was treasonous theft of the country. End of Story.
You think filing out the IRS forms for your taxes is bad? You thought the American Community Survey was bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Take a look at the 2007 Census of Agriculture survey. It’s 24 pages long – and the instruction book is 155 pages long. The form to be completed depends upon the region in which the property and animals reside.
2007 Agricultural Survey – Region 5
Agricultural Survey Instruction Book (large pdf)
USDA Regional Map for the Agricultural Survey
The animal information being collected is reminiscent of another program the USDA tried to implement a few years ago. That system was the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) premises and animal registration system. The NAIS was made voluntary when there was a massive citizen revolt against the registration of premises and animals. It seems to this writer that the USDA is using the Agricultural Survey as a backdoor to the NAIS with the only piece missing – the chipping of the animals and owners.
- +Penalty for Failure to Report
Page 1, fine print at the bottom tells the recipient that they are require by law to complete the form
PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO REPORT
NOTICE: Response to this inquiry is required by law (Title 7, U.S. Code). By the same law, YOUR REPORT IS CONFIDENTIAL and it will only be used for statistical purposes. Your report CANNOT be used for purposes of taxation, investigation, or regulation. The law also provides that copies retained in your files are immune from legal process.
U.S. Code, Title 7, Chapter 55, Section 2204g. specifies a $500 fine for giving false information and a $100 fine for failure to complete the form. But… didn’t it say above “immune from legal process” and cannot be used for regulation? Isn’t the requirement to complete the form a regulation? So confusing.
Here’s where it gets fun. The Secretary of Commerce may request the survey information:
(2) Information provided to Secretary of Commerce
On a written request by the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Agriculture may provide to the Secretary of Commerce any information collected in a census taken under this section that the Secretary of Commerce considers necessary for the taking of a census or survey under title 13.So what does Title 13 say? The Bureau of the Census SHALL exchange with the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce Information collected….augment and improve quality of data collected under International Investment and Trade in Services Act…. (hmmmm)
CHAPTER 10 – Exchange of Census Information
(a) Exchange of Information. — The Bureau of the Census shall exchange with the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce information collected under this title, and under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act . . .
So they had the Bureau of the Census collect agricultural statistics for the Bureau of Economic Analysis for the Department of Commerce. The purpose was for the International Investment Trade in Services Act.
The statistics are actually held by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The NASS webpage has the information about the 2007 Census. On the bottom right of the screen, you’ll see the 2007 Census logo. If you click on it, it will take you to the Census information page as described above. However, as I was searching around for info, I hit the back button from the Census information page to go back to the main page. Rather than the Census graphic however, there was a different graphic – the one you see on the right below. (Note: it was apparently a bug but they fixed it). When I clicked on it, it took me to the North American Tripartite Committee on Agricultural Statistics.
North American Tripartite Committee on Agriculture
Mandate for Joint Statistical Report on Ag Statistics
The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) contracted with NASS for the services of Enumerators. A copy of the MOU was found on the NASDA website.
“Since it’s founding, NASDA has entered strategic and focused federal partnerships in areas across agriculture. These partnerships often focus on connecting farmers to new markets, inspiring change across the supply chain, or preserving the environment while maintaining agricultural viability.”
NASDA – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
NASDA believes that diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental principles of a sustainable agricultural community and necessary to advance the agricultural industry in the United States. NASDA has a strong commitment to inclusion, outreach and engagement to embrace diversity within the agriculture sector.
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA)
NASDA is a private, non-profit organization even though they claim to represent State Departments of Agriculture. To be perfectly blunt, these (government) outside of government officials are the mechanism of legalized bribery, payoffs and corruption. Where are the interests of the American people represented in this non-profit that is comprised of government officials? As you can see from the organization, they are a lobbying group that can take money from private sector including multinationals, foreign countries, foundations, etc. as well as grants and contracts from government. In effect, they are using the imprimatur of government to sell out the people of this country to an international system. The arrangement of government officials working through a private organization allows for the cooperative participation in violation of the Constitution and the bounds of law within which government employees work. Treason under cover.
CRS Report for Congress – Privatization and the Federal Government: An Introduction. December 28, 2006
Market-Based Governance and the Architecture of Accountability, John D. Donohue; (“The Market” has no loyalty to a country or to the people of the country. It is a government sponsored and protected mafia enterprise. For example, think about the pharmaceuticals mafia.
“Government of the Future“, Prepared remarks by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Speech by Chief of Staff Janice Lachance, National Academy of Public Administration, June 25, 1997. Reinvention of Government – corrupt and rotten to the core.
Key Principles of a Cooperative Relationship “Partnership Agreements”, September 1998. Fascist partnerships engaged in treason against the American people.
NASDA Overview – Regional Associations, 2012 – see page 4
NASDA – Marketing and International Trade; note: foreign market development, World Trade Organization, Codex Alimentarius; Jurisdiction – Tri-National Agricultural Accord.
U.S. – Mexico – Canada Agreement
NASDA Committees
On the NASDA website, under the heading of NASDA Committees, it describes the Marketing and International Trade Committee as follows – keeping in mind that NASDA is a private, non-profit organization:
Marketing and International Trade Committee
Focus on issues related to domestic marketing and promotion programs; marketing orders; specialty crops; global and regional international trade agreements; harmonization of technical standards, inspection and regulatory programs; marketing of agricultural biotechnology products; programs to provide food aid and technical assistance regarding agricultural matters to other countries; and other similar matters. The committee also oversees the activities of the working groups established under the Tri-National Agricultural Accord.
In 2008, the Tri-National Agricultural Accord meeting was held in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Notice Rural Development.
Statistics for the United Nations
In 2007, the FAO Fourth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics was held in Bejing. The Powerpoint Presentation indicated that the presentation was about ‘Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS), but as everybody who has ever studied the UN Agenda and Programmes understands, the UN is a Communist organization and that which applies to one country applies to all countries regardless of size – except when it comes to funding and accommodations. And in fact, the same concepts in the Bejing document were discussed at the Mexsai conference a few years earlier and the USDA participated in that conference.
There was a powerpoint. It was taken down but a pdf was captured before that happened.
FAO Conference on Agricultural Statistics
[Note: All page references are to the above report.]
Excerpts:
Resource – funding challenges… “One solution is to conduct a ‘national census programme’ and to plan the census of agriculture and the census of population and housing as a joint exercise under one funding envelope” p4 (note: the reason this webpage was written is because the 24-page agricultural survey was sent to a person who resides in a rural area – but is not engaged in commercial agricultural activities – and never has been so effectively the USDA is combining Census and Agricultural collection of statistics – lumping non-commercial and commercial statistics together creating “an integrated system of food and agricultural statistics”.
[Note: I wasn’t able to find some links via the Archive. When I couldn’t find a page, I found one as similar as I could find.
“In considering the institutional arrangements, it should be noted that the census of agriculture as made up of a statistical component (census) and a thematic component (agriculture)” pg. 6 (See Title 13 above. Also, at the 3rd Conference in Mexsai, a paper was presented explaining the ‘thematic approach‘)
“The need to institutionalize this relationship between the NSO [National Statistics Office] and the line ministry in developing and implementing an integrated system of food and agricultural statistics, within the broader context of the National Statistics System, is considered an essential pre-requisite for the success of the census of agriculture. pg. 6
“The new FAO guidelines for WCA2010 adopts a new approach to agricultural census taking with emphasis on conducting a ‘core’ module through complete enumeration and ‘supplementary’ modules(s) on a sample basis.” (In other words, combined census and agricultural statistics).
“The bulk of the human resource skills, to the extent they do exist, will be found in the NSO” P6 (Note: In the U.S. human resource skills are being reported and aggregated through the integrated school-workforce development system)
Mary, Mary. Quite Contrary. How Does Your Garden Grow?
“The issues of scattered plantings, inter-planting and mixed planting can be addressed by collecting both numbers of plants and areas and identifying the planting pattern for each planting.” p10 (And don’t you dare miss that volunteer onion plant!)
“The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), could be a vehicle for measuring such production for own consumption. Limitations include small sample size for the HIES limiting any geographical breakdown and the data reliability for the less common items.” p11
Relationship between Census of Population and Housing and the Census of Agriculture: made, through the unique household identification number, to provide a much richer data set than would be possible through two separate statistical exercises… Lastly, by institutionalising the arrangements for the conduct of the two censuses as an integrated exercise will ensure that the census of agriculture is conducted on a regular basis in future rounds. p18 (Unique household identifier – sounds a lot like NAIS premises registration doesn’t it? And what would the unique household identification number be? How about the GPS coordinates linked to the 911 address.)
Establishing a much closer relationship between the census of population and housing and the census of agriculture is recommended both by the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in their respective census programmes for the 2010 round of censuses. p19