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Who’s buying up flood ravaged farm land « The Radio Patriot.
I have gotten wind and whispers of this buying up by Soros and the Federal Government of flooded mid-western farm land but didn’t track down the facts. This blogger apparently did so I am bringing you the entire blog and my thanks goes to the author. I also want to thank a frequent reader and friend, Ted, for leading me to this blog.
Read the blog below and then see the news I got from Lou Dodd FOXBUSINESS last night at the bottom concern Obama’s latest Executive Order. Do you see anything to be concerned about here? I certainly do! BB
Who’s buying up flood ravaged farm land
Posted: June 24, 2011, | Author: radiopatriot | Filed under: American Spirit | Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Flood, Gavilon, Geroge Soros, Missouri River, Ospraaie Capital Management, Teays River Investments | 1 Comment »
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Double Red Alert
Posted by Ann Barnhardt – June 24, AD 2011 9:01 AM MSTMissouri River Flooding
Cattle commodities broker Ann writes:
Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I’ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts.
1. File this one under “Now It All Makes Sense”. A Missouri farming and ranching contact just got off a conference call wherein he was informed that the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to BUY THEIR LAND.
Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground. Destroy people’s communities and homes. Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap. Those evil sons of bitches.
2. Speaking of evil sons of bitches, George Soros appears to be “investing” in farmground through the same puppet company that he used to get into the grain elevator and fertilizer business. The company is called Ospraie Capital Management and is buying up farmground in a joint venture with Teays River Investments as a partner. Here is that announcement:
Okay. Here’s the connection. This Ospraie outfit was a hedge fund specializing in commodities that was started and run by some cocky child who didn’t know how to trade bear markets and got his butt kicked into next week in the grain market of 2008. He also lost a fortune trying to trade RARE EARTH METALS. In fact, it was so bad that he had to shut his fund down because he had promised his investors that he would give them all of their investment money back if the fund lost more than 30% in one year. Whoopsie.
But it appears that Soros swooped in and saved the day because this Ospraie is the “co-investor” with Soros that bought the remnants of ConAgra’s trading operation and renamed it . . . Gavilon. In the industry, it is widely acknowledged that Ospraie IS Soros. That three-page article citation is here, copy and paste the URL into your address bar:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/12/news/companies/ospraie_demos.fortune/index.htm
As you probably remember, Gavilon just recently bought both DeBruce Grain out of Kansas City and the biggest grain elevator company in the Pacific Northwest, thus making Soros (who is the money behind Gavilon through both his own Soros Fund Management AND his de facto control of Ospraie) the third-largest grain company in the U.S. with 280 million bushels of storage capacity, behind only Archer Daniels Midland (542 million bushels storage capacity) and Cargill (344 million bushels storage capacity). That citation is here:
http://www.world-grain.com/News/News%20Home/Features/2010/12/A%20powerful%20signal.aspx?p=1
Bottom line: Soros, through Ospraie, is buying up farmground. Please also note that the hotlink citation above is dated June 26, 2009. My contact says this has been going on for two years – and also remember what I told you about farmground prices inflating wildly, especially in Illinois. I have personally confirmed farmground in Illinois selling for $13,000 per acre within the last month, whereas that same kind of ground in Illinois was going for $5500 per acre the day Obama was inaugurated.
Spread the word.
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Two days ago, Ann posted the following on her website.
Missouri Basin Flooding: 100% IntentionalPosted by Ann Barnhardt – June 22, AD 2011 10:07 AM MSTThe Army Corps of Engineers in collusion with Marxist-Environmentalists have engineered a flood scenario that will, is, and already has killed people and will result in property damage in the multi-multi billions of dollars. And it is all intentional.
Read “The Purposeful Flooding of America’s Heartland” HERE at AmericanThinker.com
The excuse is saving the wetland habitat of the blue-butted water auk or some taurusfimus like that.
Two points:
1. I’ll say what no one else will about the Army Corps of Engineers: that’s where all the C- state school engineering students end up. Let that reality compound over 30-40 years and you would be FAR better off letting Terry down at the local machining shop or Ricky over t’ the diesel garage run the Missouri River dam system.
TERRY AND RICKY HAVE COMMON SENSE.
TERRY AND RICKY HAVE PRACTICAL SKILL, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY.
TERRY AND RICKY ARE DECENT HUMAN BEINGS WHO WOULD NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW PEOPLE TO BE KILLED AND DISPLACED.
TERRY AND RICKY HATE COMMUNISTS.2. None of this is ever going to stop until We The People start arresting these people, trying them for treason, and then putting them in prison for the rest of their lives. This will never, ever stop unless there are massive, massive personal consequences for these people.
Under cover of the Weiner Hot Doggin’ photos it seems our Obama was actively engaged in making sure the federal government and the planned One World Government under the United Nations Agenda 21 got it’s tentacles on our rural lands. The federal government already owns and therefore controls much of the west and south west but the deal just set up would give them control over much of the mid section of our nation and even the eastern farm lands. Couple all this with the United Nation’s LOST or Law of the Seas Treaty which would control all water resources even down to cess pools and a bad thing is being set up. You might also consider the Supreme Court’s ruling on Eminent Domain and how it would help the federal government and the thugs take American’s land from them. The web or net around our Constitutional rights and our way of life is being tightened faster and faster now.
President Obama by Executive Order set up A White House Rural Council to Promote Economic Growth. Sounds good but then one gets a look at the membership of the Council and it gets a little scary: “Twenty-five federal agencies are represented on the Rural Council including Treasury, Defense, Justice, Energy, Education, Transportation, Housing, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior. “
Go to this site for more information on what the government says this is all about: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2011/2011-06-09-091.html
I apologize for not going further for you with this latest government take over attempt but I am still a bit weak from my recent Lapp Band operation (and my very restrictive diet :). !!) Have however lost 32 pounds in the past 5 weeks so am on my way to being a slim sexy senior lady. And that’s a Good Thing. BB
In Global Warming Case, Supreme Court Reaches Correct Result But Leaves Room for Mischievous Litigation | Cato @ Liberty
Posted on: June 20, 2011
I have been generally upset with this Supreme court since the Eminent Domain case, and really upset after Obama’s appointees. However somehow for some reason they came thru today with two sane actions: they threw out the women’s class action suit against WalMart stating gender discrimination in wages and promotions. This of course let companies exhale as they are not afraid of being hit with one of these huge case action suits that generally are merely lawyers high jacking companies for big bucks. Rather than fight the companies generally pay off to just make it all go away so that their stock and other business decisions won’t be harmed. The only winners are the lawyers believe me. WalMart stayed the course and took on the big law firms. Now individual claimants can sue if they feel they have been discriminated against and this is as it should be. There are laws and many agencies to hold companies accountable for discrimination.
Next the the Judges put a big hit on the global warming crowd. The more important one for you to understand is the environmental issue so I have transferred the Cato Institute explanation over because it seemed to me to explain the issue best.
You may also want to check out the referenced articles at the end. Since the Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter on any laws that guide Americans lives we should all keep a close watch on the rulings and the ramifications of these rulings. While you are at it make a sincerely prayer that Obama doesn’t have an opportunity to name another judge! BB
In Global Warming Case, Supreme Court Reaches Correct Result But Leaves Room for Mischievous Litigation
Posted by Ilya Shapiro
In the important global warming case decided today, American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court unanimously reached the correct result but one that still leaves room for plenty of mischievous litigation. While it’s clearly true that, as the Court said, the Clean Air Act and the EPA exist to deal with the claims the plaintiffs made here—that the defendants’ carbon dioxide emissions are pollutants that cause global warming—the Court left open the possibility of claims on state common-law grounds such as nuisance. And it unfortunately said nothing about whether any such disputes, whether challenging EPA action or suing under state law, are properly “cases and controversies” ripe for judicial resolution.
The judiciary was not meant to be the sole method for resolving grievances with the government, even if everything looks like a nail to lawyers who only have a hammer. This case is the perfect example of a “political question” best left to the political branches: The science and politics of global warming is so complex and nuanced that there simply isn’t a judicial role to be had.
As Cato’s amicus brief argued, the chain of causation between the defendants’ carbon emissions and the alleged harm caused by global warming is so attenuated that it resembles the famed “butterfly effect.” Just as butterflies should not be sued for causing tsunamis, a handful of utility companies in the Northeastern United States should not be sued for the complex (and disputed) harms of global warming. Even if plaintiffs (here or in a future case) can demonstrate causation, it is unconstitutional for courts to make nuanced policy decisions that should be left to the legislature. Just as it’s improper for a legislature to pass a statute punishing a particular person (bill of attainder), it’s beyond courts’ constitutional authority to determine wide-ranging policies in which numerous considerations must be weighed in anything but an adversarial litigation process.
If a court were to adjudicate claims like those at issue in American Electric Power and issue an order dictating emissions standards, two things will happen: 1) the elected branches will be encouraged to abdicate to the courts their responsibilities for addressing complex and controversial policy issues, and 2) an already difficult situation would become nearly intractable as regulatory agencies and legislative actors butt heads with court orders issued across the country in quickly multiplying global warming cases. These inevitable outcomes are precisely why the standing and political question doctrines exist.
Dissatisfaction with the decisions and pace of government does not give someone the right to sue over anything. Or, as Chief Justice Marshall once said, “If the judicial power extended to every question under the laws of the United States … [t]he division of power [among the branches of government] could exist no longer, and the other departments would be swallowed up by the judiciary.”
March Madness: Eminent Domain Abuse Goes Coast-to-Coast | Cato @ Liberty.
The Supreme Court ruling in favor of the city and private builders four years ago was a terrible mistake! Politicians heard the gasp of the people and the states all jumped on the band wagon to enact laws that would counter this abuse of Eminent Domain ruled by the supreme Court. then the politicians all saw a great way to get money out of big developers by using the Supreme Court ruling to wipe out whole areas of cities and push the poorest of us out of our homes on the cheap and “legally” so they began watering down the laws they had previously passed to mitigate the Supreme Court’s ruling. BUT the people are fighting back and actually winning in some cases. The Tea Party Movement is bringing a lot of honor and decency and sanity back to politics and politicians actions. BB
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March Madness: Eminent Domain Abuse Goes Coast-to-Coast
Posted by Ilya Shapiro
This is a big week for private property rights. Two epic eminent domain struggles are playing out on opposite sides of the country.
First, National City, California, is ground zero for eminent domain abuse. City officials declared several hundred properties blighted even before conducting a blight study that was riddled with problems. The city wants to seize and bulldoze a youth community center (CYAC) that has transformed the lives of hundreds of low-income kids, so a wealthy developer can build high-rise luxury condos:
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CYAC has numerous volunteers, including local law enforcement officers, providing free mentoring in boxing as well as academics. The gym is famous for getting kids off the street and back into school. As Rick Reilly explained in a feature in Sports Illustrated (boy, how I miss his inside-back-page column):
You know what, Mayor? National City doesn’t need more luxury condos. It needs good men like the Barragans teaching kids respect for neighbors and property, manners you could use a little of yourself.
And if you kick the Barragans out so some slick in Armani can buy a bigger yacht, I hope your car stereo gets jacked—weekly—by a kid who would’ve otherwise been lovingly coached on their jabs and their math and their lives.
Question: Can you declare politicians blighted?
This week, the gym’s battle is in trial before the Superior Court of California. Represented by the Institute for Justice (who else?), a victory will help protect private property far beyond National City and clarify the use and misuse of blight designations.
Second, moving to the other side of the country, we go to Mount Holly, New Jersey:
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Mount Holly is another classic case of “Robin Hood-in-Reverse.” Officials have been dismantling a close-knit community known as the Gardens for the last decade so a Philadelphia developer can bulldoze the area and build more expensive residential properties.
Homeowners in the Gardens are primarily minorities and the elderly. The row-style houses are being torn down while still attached to occupied homes, and officials refuse to offer the remaining homeowners replacement housing in the new redevelopment. Further, owners are being offered less than half the amount it would cost to buy a similar home blocks away.
Here, IJ just launched a billboard campaign and did a study that concludes the eminent domain abuse project may result in a loss of a million taxpayer dollars a year, or one-tenth of the Township’s budget.
I previously wrote about eminent domain shenanigans here and you can read more from Cato on property rights here.
Ilya Shapiro • March 17, 2011 @ 2:35 pm
Filed under: Government and Politics; Law and Civil Liberties; Regulatory Studies
Tags: California, CYAC, eminent domain, Fifth Amendment, Gardens, Institute for Justice, Mount Holly, National City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, property rights, Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated,
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