[Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Flow Kana and Gotham Green Partners

[DANIEL BAKER]

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From: John Sakowicz <sako4 at comcast.net>
Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:43 PM
Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Flow Kana and Gotham Green Partners
To: announce <announce at lists.mcn.org>


WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT FLOW KANA'S REAL OWNER, GOTHAM GREEN PARTNERS?


Flow Kana's biggest equity stake is owned by Gotham Green Partners, a
private equity firm based in New York. Flow Kana has raised a total of $175
million from Gotham Green Partners, $125 million of which was a round of
financing in February, 2019. It was the largest private funding round of a
cannabis company in the United States to date.


But who are Gotham Green Partners?


I did some digging.


The managing partner of Gotham Green Partners seems to be a guy named Jason
Adler.


Jason Adler was  the Chief Executive Officer of Saiers Capital, LLC (
(formerly Alphabet Management, LLC). It's a quantitative hedge fund, also
known as a quant fund.


Quants make their money on trading in the volatility of global financial
markets. In fact, their massive, computer-driven, "flash" trading creates
much of this volatility.


Quant hedge funds specifically target risk-adverse institutional investors,
like big pension funds, interested in hedging against the very risk that
quant hedge funds create. It's ironic, but true.


Let's be clear: Hedge funds do not create value. They destroy value. Hedge
funds are the true robber barons of Wall Street. And Jason Adler is one of
those robber  barons.


In large part, due to hedge funds and something called "derivatives", which
leverage hedge funds trading, global financial markets are now are a
dangerous world wrought with turbulence and unpredictability.


To think that Jason Adler is in our backyard, right here in Redwood Valley,
makes my skin crawl.


There's more.


Jason Adler is on the board of directors at a biotech company called Pebble
Labs, located near the U.S. nuclear weapons lab in Los Alamos, NM.


Pebble Labs has a patented recombinant gene technology that makes it
possible to insert "engineered" genes into the genetic material of bacteria
that live inside host plants or animals.


Keep in mind that recombinant micro-organisms can potentially produce any
protein encoded by any gene. For example, Monsanto has already figured out
how to insert a gene in its seed corn that produces Bt toxin, designed to
protect the plant by rupturing the stomach of any insect that feeds on it.
Monsanto claims the toxin will break down before the corn makes it to your
dinner table, but rats fed the GMO corn showed organ failure and the toxin
has been detected in the bodies of pregnant women.


Pebble Labs plans on running away with this technology. It has an in-house,
proprietary advanced analytics and computational technology called
"Parallax Analytics" that uses uniquely developed algorithms, software, and
data sources to design and drive accelerated research initiatives.


Freaked out yet?


There's more.


Pebble Labs' Chairman and CEO is a guy named Michael Harrison, who also
currently serves as CEO to a large private Ag Biotech company. This is
another irony, of course. Mendocino County was the first place in the
United States to ban GMOs with a county ordinance.


Heard enough?


If you've heard enough, write to Jason Adler at Gotham Green Partners, 489
5th Avenue, Suite 29A, New York, NY 10017. Ask him what he's doing here in
Mendocino County.


While you're at it, also write to Michael Steinmetz, Flow Kana’s co-founder
and CEO.


BTW, Michael Steinmetz is another interesting dude. Originally from
Caracas, Steinmetz built and sold a Venezuelan national food marketing and
distribution company, and worked as an investment analyst at Merrill Lynch
and a data analyst at NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory.


Thanks.


John Sakowicz, Candidate 1st District Supervisor, Mendocino County
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