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  • Soros Sued by Fellow Billionaire in $10 Billion Mine Brawl

    04/15/2017 9:04:35 AM PDT · by libstripper · 13 replies
    Bloomberg, L.P ^ | April 14, 2017 | Franz Wild
    Companies controlled by Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz sued fellow billionaire George Soros, claiming he cost them at least $10 billion through a defamation campaign that stripped them of rights to an iron ore deposit in Guinea and other business opportunities around the world. Soros funded law firms, transparency groups, investigators and government officials in Guinea in a coordinated effort to ensure BSG Resources Ltd. lost the rights to the Simandou deposit in April 2014, BSGR said in a complaint filed Friday in Manhattan federal court.
  • Farmers already out of water near Vale, Oregon

    08/21/2003 8:34:06 AM PDT · by bedolido · 8 replies · 209+ views
    KTVB ^ | 08/21/03 | ROBBIE JOHNSON
    VALE, Oregon - Typically, the irrigation water in Malheur County lasts until mid-October. But not this year. The water supply is being cut off two months early. A three-year drought has already forced some farmers near Vale, Oregon out of business. The 500 farmers using the Vale Irrigation District have seen the water sources dry up early before, and it will happen in about 4 days. And for the third year, it's happening in mid-august. Crops such as hay, potatoes, and sugar beets can't survive with the water cut off this early. "This year and last year farmers had to...