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Update from Ukraine | Counterattack goes according to Plan | Ruzzia Runs | Ukraine goes in
Youtube.com ^ | 7-28-2023 | Denys Davydov

Posted on 07/28/2023 6:07:28 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Update from Ukraine | Counterattack goes according to Plan | Ruzzia Runs | Ukraine goes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPfb-Ctz_OY

Reports of repelled Russian attacks by Ukrainian General Staff are for the last 48 hours. https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-520-summary/

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To: linMcHlp

“Ukraine, under burdens of OECD, OSCE, Blackrock land grabbers and such, is why my view remains, that Ukraine must consider that cost”

I agree with your stance. In the U.S., we have same issue.

Bill Gates:
“He started small in 2004, he bought 11 properties, including nine houses, that surround his 5-acre Medina, Wash., estate, creating a buffer zone that is increasingly turning a small hillside neighborhood into a private holding.

“There’s not too many non-Gates property owners left here,” said Herb Schwartz, a former insurance executive who moved into the Medina neighborhood 13 years ago.”The properties, totaling 4.2 acres, were acquired by a representative for the Microsoft co-founder between 1994 and 2003 at a cost of nearly $14.4 million, according to property records.
Now he is buying massive acreage in multiple states using different corporations: corporate mailing address for Angelina is the same as that for Cottonwood Ag Management, an agriculture asset management team for BMGI / Cascade Investment, the private holding company for Bill and Melinda.
Gates. i.e. 14,500-acre farmland property in southern Washington for $171 million: focus on sweetcorn and wheat. Also, AZ, LA WA, GA FL & probably more. Also, buyer of a group of farmland assets sold by the C$366.3 billion ($258 billion; €221 billion) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $520 million.

Apparently, he is interested in everything:
“A source familiar with US farmland markets told Agri Investor they believed Angelina Ag to contain a 26,000-acre property in Monterey, Louisiana formerly owned by Bernard Ebbers, a co-founder of failed communications company WorldCom, and reportedly sold for $31 million in 2006.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Caroline Orlowski, who currently serves as an asset manager at Cottonwood, previously worked as an assistant general manager for farm and grain at Oak River Farms, a role described as managing a 25,000-acre farming operation in Monterey, Louisiana.

Acknowledging that a great degree of uncertainty surrounds the corporate structure behind Gates’s farmland investments and stressing their view was based on second-hand information, the source said the 2006 purchase had been among the first significant agriculture investments by the Microsoft founder. The source said they believed Cottonwood to be a broader management company currently overseen by former MetLife managing director Peter Headley, under which subsidiaries like Angelina have been established around specific regions or portfolios of acquired properties.”

Alan Busacca, a wine industry consultant who was formerly a professor of soil science and agriculture at Washington State University, told Agri Investor that the Horse Heaven Hills region where Angelina reportedly made its purchase is among the most productive in Washington for irrigated agriculture. Among the crops grown in the region, according to Busacca, are apples, cherries, carrots and potatoes, though the land purchased by Angelina is best suited to irrigated row and field crops.
“It [the property acquired by Angelina] does not have the rolling-hill character and the higher elevations that are commonly needed for permanent crops like tree-fruit and wine grapes,” he explained.

Investor interest in the region has grown significantly in recent years, said Busacca, who added that land prices in the area have been heavily influenced by water access. People began converting what had previously been cattle-grazing land near the Columbia River during the 1960s and 1970s, said Busacca. Because the elevation increases to the north of the river, he added, as the water table has dropped over recent decades, farmland buyers have increasingly prioritized reliable access to water.

Busacca said the property purchased by Angelina sits within what today constitutes a growing nexus of processing plants, transportation infrastructure and low-cost hydropower and wind electricity that is facilitating a regional transition from irrigated wheat and field corn to higher-value crops such as carrots, onions and tree-fruit.
“Having lived in Washington State for 35 years, every time I drive through the area of Horse Haven Hills, I’m stunned by the continued intensification of development, going from lower-value crops to higher-value crops,” said Busacca. “They’re [Cottonwood / Angelina] making a very smart play for those being reliable money makers.” He added that, similarly to how access to water has helped determine land values for farmland in the region surrounding the Columbia River, he is also aware of growing interest in large properties drawing from southern Idaho’s Snake River, a tributary of the Columbia.

“I do think – based on my gut and the little bit of scuttlebutt I hear now and again – that there is an increased in Washington State and Idaho ag.”

Meanwhile, Bill Gates owns Cascade Investment LLC, which owns Los Arboles LLC, which changed its name to Cottonwood Ag Management LLC, which bought land in Echols County on the Alapahoochee River, a year after Bill Gates said he was going to fix agriculture in conjunction with Monsanto and Syngenta.

Matthew Herper wrote for Forbes 24 Jan 2012 Bill Gates’ Next
Target: Revolutionize Farming,
“America’s richest man says that it is a terrible irony that most of the billion people, 15% of the world population, who live in extreme poverty and must worry about where they will get their next meal are suffering on farms.

He says that the world needs to repeat the “Green Revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s, when new farming technologies, including new seed varieties of rice, wheat, and corn, increased the amount of food available and decreased its price.

It’s not clear to me the world really has a food shortage. It has a food distribution problem, which has a lot to do with massive amounts of U.S. midwest corn fields being grown for fuel rather than food, with SAUDIS and CHINESE buying up farmland in AFRICA displacing the locals, and with MONSANTO-STYLE pesticided agriculture replacing lots of small farmers with MEGA-FARMS dependent on massive amounts of petrochemical pesticides.”

Cottonwood Ag, a privately-owned Agricultural Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of a highly-regarded, multi-billion dollar private investment company, is seeking an exceptional candidate for a Senior Asset Manager position, reporting to the Head of Agriculture. The company manages an agribusiness portfolio both domestically and internationally that encompasses approximately 250k acreas across multiple states with growing ..

That’s right, 250,000 acres across multiple states. Why?
IF I let my mind wander: will Gates control gov’ts with mandatory vaccintions, food supply

BTW, Check-out the Big-Box Food Chains bragging about their World-wide’ grocery products. Publix, Walmart, Target, etc.
Our small farmers are hurting in FL because even if they sell their product cheaper, these chains but from Mexico! Example: strawberries.


41 posted on 07/28/2023 9:22:45 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine)
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To: Widget Jr

VIDEOS

1. Russian minister descends to the very depths of hell | Break the Fake | TVP World
TVP World - TVP is a Polish public broadcast service
402K subscribers
7-28-2023 Premiered 7 hours ago- 5:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBS-1Wk7crA

2. Russians troops are undermined by their own landmines
Kanal13
1.59M subscribers
7-27-2023 7:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjSpflN_UOE


42 posted on 07/28/2023 9:50:19 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWkb89RgG8


43 posted on 07/28/2023 10:46:25 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: AdmSmith; AmericanInTokyo; amnestynone; Apparatchik; AZJeep; babble-on; TheBattman; BeauBo; bert; ..

VIDEO WITH SUMMARIZED COMMENTARY

28 Jul: Point of no return. RUSSIAN FORCES GOT TRAPPED | War in Ukraine Explained

Reporting from Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNA8FGwXQoM

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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the five hundred twentieth day of the war.

Day 520: Jul 28

Today there are a lot of updates from the Velyka Novosilka direction.

FIRST OF ALL, more information became available about the storming operation that took place in Staromaiorske, as Ukrainian marines from the 35th Marine Brigade finally released more combat footage. After Russian troops were forced out of the outer edge of the village with intense artillery fire, Ukrainians immediately got a toehold and started clearing the houses. After establishing positions, Ukrainians started applying pressure on the Russians in the southern part of the village. The main goal was to wait until the second group conducted a flank attack from the hills and left Russians with only two options: retreat or get cut off from the rest. In the meantime, a tough tank battle took place on the hills. As reported last time, Ukrainians destroyed a lot of Russian tanks and armored fighting vehicles prior to this attack, but as Ukrainians got deep into the region, they faced more armored vehicles.

TODAY RUSSIAN SOURCES reported that Ukrainians had already launched the next phase of the operation, namely, storming Urozhaine. Right now, Urozhaine is in a salient, and Russians have significant issues with providing supplies to the soldiers on the ground. Moreover, if we look at the topographic map, we can see that, like all other settlements along the river, Urozhaine is located in the lowlands, while Ukrainians are holding positions on the hills around this settlement. Russian sources reported that Ukrainians attacked with several assault units reinforced with 2 armored fighting vehicles. Russian analysts concluded that the attacks will definitely intensify, and Urozhaine may fall within the next 48 hours.

THE FALL OF UROZHAINE will allow Ukrainians to push the front line a little south and get close to Kremenchuk. Even though some analysts predicted that the next Ukrainian targets are Kremenchuk and Novodonetske, it is highly unlikely that Ukrainians will devote a significant amount of forces to this offensive effort. First of all, Novodonetske is protected by the river from one side and by the gully from another side, which makes it very difficult to attack. Kremenchuk is located on the hill, making it difficult to attack in front, and even if Ukrainians try to move around it, they will put themselves at the crossfire. It is more likely that Ukrainians will focus on establishing control over the eastern bank, and establishing fire control over the settlements on the western bank, aggravating Russian problems with supplies and logistics, and setting conditions for an attack on Zavitne Bazhannia and Staromlynivka.

AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, Staromlynivka is surrounded by 2 rivers. And even though one of the rivers is actually a gully with several swamps, such a setting still presents limitations when planning an assault. Nonetheless, storming the settlement itself may not be necessary if Ukrainians take all the heights around it. This way, Russian forces will appear in operational encirclement and, with no prospects of changes, will abandon the town as quickly as possible.

UKRAINIANS UNDERSTAND THIS, and this is exactly what they are trying to realize right now. Today Russian sources reported that Ukrainians resumed their attacks in the direction of Pryiutne, but what is more important is that they launched their attacks between Rivnopil and Staromaiorske. By developing their bridgehead further, Russians in Pryiutne will appear in operational encirclement and will have to step back. If previously they still counted on holding this settlement, then after the fall of Staromairske, it is just a matter of time until their defense is undermined to the point where it automatically collapses further down the line.

IN THE MEANTIME, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited the southern line and held a meeting with Ukrainians generals. Zelensky congratulated Commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny on his recent birthday and gifted him a personalized firearm, and also congratulated Commander of the Ground Forces Oleksandr Syrsky, who also had a birthday several days ago, and gifted him a painting. Shortly after the headquarter meeting, the generals returned to the front to continue overseeing the counteroffensive operation.

*** Select the 3 horizontal dots to view the Complete Transcript [Below video/ top right corner]


44 posted on 07/29/2023 12:16:27 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine)
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To: Widget Jr
--- "Why make a big deal out of it?"

"...successful channels make more money," so do you opine, and so I give you and others the opportunity to see just how much money all those clicks garner for the few who are obviously busy, busy, busy making videos -- for you and those who are enthused to watch and listen, and repost that other may watch and listen. Click.

Detailing their "success" shouldn't be a problem for you, since it's all "normal."

45 posted on 07/29/2023 2:02:51 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: CatHerd

Thanks all for the info on the YouTube posts. I had no idea some made in the millions posting on YT.


46 posted on 07/29/2023 9:26:23 AM PDT by Edison (I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
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