They put a twist on it by using a slightly different name, but I see that this is a plot to help Trump. I know what they're up to!!
Posted on 05/23/2021 5:04:18 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A Belarusian currency speculator named Pavel Boguslavovich Belogour is buying up huge swaths of tiny Vermont—thousands of acres of the Green Mountain State, and even patches of land over the border in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
He bought a maple sugar farm, an entire marina, and a plot of undeveloped wood, where he planned to build, among other things, a Viking-themed “luxury hideaway,” which he describes as “the Disney of the North.”
“Clearly he likes the water, so he bought a marina. And clearly he likes beer, so he bought a brewery. It’s kind of like, well, if I had that kind of money, maybe I’d be doing the same thing.”
Alden Capital, the hedge fund dubbed “one of the most ruthless of the corporate strip-miners seemingly intent on destroying local journalism,” which had gradually trimmed their budgets, in one case, leaving just a single reporter to cover an entire county.
Many Vermonters are less concerned with how Belogour made his money than excited by what he has done with it since. Belogour’s supporters applaud his efforts to refurbish historical buildings and conserve woodland that might be otherwise plundered by industry.
Other boosters tout Belogour’s significant effort to hire locally—nearly all of the contractors he’s hired to renovate the properties have come from the nearby towns
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He pays the property taxes?
Keeps the property up?
Good to go!
They put a twist on it by using a slightly different name, but I see that this is a plot to help Trump. I know what they're up to!!
Fantastic movie.
Belarusian? That a bit of a surprise. I thought our new overlords were going to be Chinese.
Belarussians would far superior to Granola crunching subaru driving Socialist.
The Women are way hotter, too.
Wave enough money under some peoples noses and they lose their mind.
Buy American, sell American.
Tell him the lake where Bernie’s house is would be the ideal spot for a combination stock-car track, shooting range, and tiddybar.
He’s getting ready to flee arrest for corruption?
You know, there really is a serendipitous combination of no fast food, cold weather, walking everywhere and poor economic opportunities that make a woman want to look her best that produces some astonishingly hot women.
Many of these rich foreigners buying up America are the foreign partners of the American foreign aid scam. One billion gets appropriated and disbursed to the foreign government which then funnels 50% or more back to the politically connected American crooks running our government.
American foreign “aid” is the biggest scam ever perpetrated upon the American people.
As Bill and Ted would say...
"Bogus!"
The new prominence of the Dr. Jill Klan has brought that scam to a new light.
That the Magic Underwear, French Senator is involved too makes it even worse.
Hmmm. I have forty acres in Vermont that I have been thinking of selling. I live in Alaska now and have no plans for it...
Solzhenitsyn settled in Vermont when he came to live in the United States. I think it reminded him of Russia.
Well, if his politics is right of most Vermonters, then that’s not a bad thing.
There was a similar panic about Japan buying up all of New York a few decades back. It didn’t pan out. It’s still there.
I’ve always said, you don’t have to conquer America, we will gladly sell it to you.
Un-fortunately the people are still there.
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