On Thursday, June 10 at 12:00 pm CDT, host Alexis Baden-Mayer will have a live conversation with permaculture all-star Mark Shepard about the power of perennial agricultural ecosystems to produce nutritious food while restoring landscapes.

Shepard is most widely known as the founder of New Forest Farm, the 106-acre perennial agricultural savanna considered by many to be one of the most ambitious sustainable agriculture projects in the United States.

New Forest Farm is a planned conversion of a typical row-crops grain farm into a commercial-scale, perennial agricultural ecosystem using oak savanna, successional brushland and eastern woodlands as the ecological models. 

Shepard is also the award-winning author of the book, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers.

Please join us for this dynamic and inspiring conversation!

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Whitney Webb, author of “One Nation Under Blackmail,” writes for her website, Unlimited Hangout, as well as The Last American Vagabond and The Defender, covering topics on intelligence, tech, surveillance and civil liberties.

There is a “deliberate cover-up,” said Webb, of the true ties between Gates and Epstein. Many of the Silicon Valley elites “are part of something called the Edge Foundation,” which is how “Epstein was able to connect so intimately with a lot of the individuals who would later become the Silicon Valley elite,” Web told Kennedy.

Many of today’s big Silicon Valley companies have origins tied to the intelligence community, said Webb. The Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, invested in technologies deemed useful to intelligence forces, and when they did, they had a hand in the company’s product development, Webb explained. 

Listen to the Podcast interview: RFK, Jr. Interviews Investigative Journalist Whitney Webb on the ‘Deliberate Coverup’ of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein’s Relationship + More

While mainstream media outlets apparently agree that Jeffrey Epstein was a likely factor in the Gates’ recently announced divorce, what these same outlets refuse to cover is the real extent of the Bill Gates-Jeffrey Epstein relationship.

The mainstream narrative holds that Gates’ ties to Epstein began in 2011, despite the evidence pointing to their relationship beginning decades earlier. The likely reason for the continued cover-up of the true extent of Epstein’s ties to Gates has much more to do with Gates’ company Microsoft than with Bill Gates himself. 

The lack of mainstream media concern over the documented ties of the Jeffrey Epstein network to other top Microsoft executives of the past, such as Nathan Myhrvold, Linda Stone and Steven Sinofsky, makes it clear that, while it may be open season on the relationship between Bill Gates and Epstein, such is not the case for Microsoft and Epstein.

The ties between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, (charged by the U.S. federal government with the crimes of enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls in conjunction with Epstein) and the Maxwell family to Silicon Valley, not just to Microsoft, are part of a broader attempt to cover up the strong intelligence component in the origin of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies. 

The biggest reason why the military/intelligence origins and links to the current Silicon Valley oligarchy will never be honestly examined is that those very entities are working to usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution or the Great Reset which would make artificial intelligence, automation, mass electronic surveillance and transhumanism central to human society. 

Read more: The Truth About Bill Gates, Microsoft and Jeffrey Epstein

Mega-billionaire Bill Gates is arguably the most powerful person on the planet. Through his investments, control over patents, and so-called philanthropy, Gates has essentially become the world’s Health Czar, dictating public health policies and practices, including those surrounding COVID-19, on behalf of Big Pharma, Silicon Valley, the world economic elite, the GMO industry, and, although lesser-known, the military-industrial complex and the CIA.  

Now Gates has apparently set his sights on becoming global Food Czar as well, attacking organic farming as wasteful and impractical, and pushing genetic engineering, lab food, and Big Data as the solution to the world food crisis.

As Stacy Malkan writes: “If Bill Gates has his way, the food in our future will little resemble what’s on our plates today. Gates and his agribusiness industry partners are proposing to transform our food and how it is produced. 

“To the techno-food industrialists, hunger and climate change are problems to be solved with data and engineering. The core ingredients of their revolutionary plan: genetic engineering — and patenting — of everything from seeds and food animals, to microbes in the soil, to the processes we use to make food. Local food cultures and traditional diets could fade away as food production moves indoors to labs that cultivate fake meat and ultra-processed foods. 

“Gates says rich countries should shift entirely to synthetic beef. And he has the intellectual property rights to sell them. As a food that can help fix the climate, Gates touts the Impossible Burger, a plant-based patty made from genetically engineered soy and textured with engineered yeast. Its manufacturer, the Gates-funded Impossible Foods, has two dozen patents and more than 100 patents pending to artificially replicate cheese, beef and chicken and permeate these products with manufactured flavors, scents and textures.” 

Learn more: Bill Gates Food Tracker