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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:
www.absolutereturn-alpha.com...
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: www.world-grain.com...
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.
Originally posted by Xcathdra
reply to post by jude11
Your ability to fear monger and misrepresent facts just continues to astonish. The FEderal Government offering to buy the farm land IS the Government helping out. The farmers are not required to sell their land. Building structures etc in a flood plain is a bad idea from the begining anyways.
Maybe the farmers should go with their insruance companies first, since those are the people the farmers pay to protect their investments in addition to paying out for losses.
Why must people come up with all these conspiracy theories about the government, complaining about every single action, while ignoring everythig else?
The Government gets to involved in peoples lives... The Government abuses the people... The Government wont give me money because I was dumb enough to build in a flood plain.
Personal Responsibility..
I really wish people would get over this sense of entitlement.
Perhaps the environmentalists of the Corps grew tired of waiting decades to realize their dream of a "restored Missouri River." Perhaps these elements heard the warnings and saw in them an opportunity to force an immediate re-naturalization of the river via epic flood. At present, that is impossible to know, but to needlessly imperil the property, businesses, and lives of millions of people constitutes criminal negligence. Given the statements of Corps personnel, and the clear evidence of their mismanagement, the possibility that there is specific intent behind their failure to act must be investigated without delay.
Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
reply to post by jude11
Food grab? I think it's more like what your American Thinker link describes as acquiescing to the demands of radical environmentalists in returning the land to a pre-dam state. The Corps of Engineers has been under tremendous pressure to do this and now they have the means to do so all in one fell swoop.
Perhaps the environmentalists of the Corps grew tired of waiting decades to realize their dream of a "restored Missouri River." Perhaps these elements heard the warnings and saw in them an opportunity to force an immediate re-naturalization of the river via epic flood. At present, that is impossible to know, but to needlessly imperil the property, businesses, and lives of millions of people constitutes criminal negligence. Given the statements of Corps personnel, and the clear evidence of their mismanagement, the possibility that there is specific intent behind their failure to act must be investigated without delay.
And that from a liberal website...
Originally posted by chiefsmom
Thank you for this, I come here to learn, and I'm learning things. Didn't really see this as fear mongering at all.
Anyhoo... OP, maybe you can help me with this. My first thought was, how can the government Afford to do this?
If we are trillions of dollars in debt, how can they buy up all this land in the first place? I would think loans would make more sense, unless they are planning to sell it off, as previously mentioned, to groups like Monsanto and the like?
Originally posted by rcanem
reply to post by Xcathdra
I agree that personal responsibility is the key issue but you also have to realize that the flood plain is the best land agriculturally speaking. It is enriched by the flooding and very valuable for growing produce. Again I agree that the insurance companies are there to cover thier losses in this situation. I am just not sure buying up thier land is actually going to help them in the long run.
Originally posted by jude11
BUY? Not help? So their crops are destroyed and the Govt. solution is to just buy the land from them instead of helping the farmers. This doesn't seem right. Some will say that the purchasing is actually help but if the land is so ravaged, why would the Govt. want it at all? They're not in the habit of just giving money away with no possible returns. Future Food Control?
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
Originally posted by jude11
BUY? Not help? So their crops are destroyed and the Govt. solution is to just buy the land from them instead of helping the farmers. This doesn't seem right. Some will say that the purchasing is actually help but if the land is so ravaged, why would the Govt. want it at all? They're not in the habit of just giving money away with no possible returns. Future Food Control?
I dont know the specifics in this case in great enough detail to say with certainty, but, it may be "future flood control" in a sense.
Here in Tennessee, after the flood of May 2010, the government bought many of the homes that had been flooded, to prevent people from reoccupying the land, or selling it to someone else who would rebuild on that land. Which actually makes a lot more sense, financially, than simply bailing people out who persist on building on a flood plain over and over and over again.
Floods and other natural disasters are not only tragedies for the people whose homes (or farms) are destroyed or damaged, they are also incredibly expensive when the government, for whatever reason, helps the people out financially whose property has been destroyed. And "helping" rather than buying people out who are living, farming, etc., in places prone to flooding means that at some point in the future, you are probably going to faced with the same person coming to you with their hand out once again.
Much better to just purchase the land from them, and prohibit it from being occupied. Then you only have to pay for the damages ONCE, not multiple times, whenever nature acts up. (And many climate models seem to indicate that flooding will increase as the climate changes)
Honestly, its ridiculous that people have been allowed to rebuild over and over in areas that are constantly devastated by hurricanes and such, and imho, they should not be allowed to. It costs all of us in increased taxes and insurance premiums to cover the costs of the rich idiots who just HAVE to live right on the water.
Just my two cents.