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Ann Barnhardt: DOUBLE RED ALERT (Soros buying up farmland)
Ann Barnhardt's Capital Management Inc. ^ | 24 Jun 2011 | Ann Barnhardt

Posted on 06/25/2011 9:12:46 AM PDT by plsjr

Double Red Alert

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - June 24, AD 2011 9:01 AM MST

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:

Click Here: http://www.absolutereturn-alpha.com/Article/2242566/Ospraie-Launches-JV-Agriculture-Fund.html

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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To: NoNAIS

See post 71...Vilsack just signed on with the Global Farm Price Fixing Plan to stabilize food prices ...

Plus Executive Order 13575

Section 1. Policy. Sixteen percent of the American population lives in rural counties. Strong, sustainable rural communities are essential to winning the future and ensuring American competitiveness in the years ahead. These communities supply our food, fiber, and energy, safeguard our natural resources, and are essential in the development of science and innovation. Though rural communities face numerous challenges, they also present enormous economic potential. The Federal Government has an important role to play in order to expand access to the capital necessary for economic growth, promote innovation, improve access to health care and education, and expand outdoor recreational activities on public lands.

Things are moving very quickly. “The Plan” from the G-20 meeting this week is already in place!


81 posted on 06/25/2011 12:04:25 PM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: beebuster2000

To control our food supply, it’s pure and simple.


82 posted on 06/25/2011 12:44:05 PM PDT by Libertynotfree (Dream act, Amnesty)
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To: plsjr

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83 posted on 06/25/2011 12:48:00 PM PDT by PMAS
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To: Bob

Yes indeed.


84 posted on 06/25/2011 12:57:58 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: plsjr; All
It's part of the Global takeover puzzle - to complete the UN's Agenda 21 and O’bumbles just ‘fiated’ a new executive order to implement the plan in AMerica. (Freepers should make it a habit to watch FOREIGN news if they want to know what's happening here.)

“On June 9, 2011, an Executive Order established the White House Rural Council with 25 executive branch departments including Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, National Drug Control, Environmental Quality, Labor, Commerce, Interior, EPA, Housing, Health, Education to name just a few.

The order covers 16% of the American population who lives in rural counties because they “supply our food, fiber, and energy, “

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37561

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_agenda_21_coming_to_a_neigh.html

LOOK at the list of new departments that are going to be in control of rural America - AMERICANS! And they plan to take over farm lands and herd country folk into ‘sustainable communities - i.e. ‘pretty ghettos’. Are we going to go like lambs into 80 years of what the Russian people lived through?

WAKE THE HELL UP!

85 posted on 06/25/2011 12:58:51 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (I AM ISRAEL)
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To: Mariner

Breaks my heart every time I read or think about what they’ve done to the San Joaquin Valley. I used to live in the foothills east of Sacramento and drove down 1-5 and 99 often. Haven’t done it for about 15 years. I can’t imagine what it looks like now.


86 posted on 06/25/2011 1:01:30 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Is the Mormon church really a charitable organization?

No, but it is an organization masked as a church or religion and operates more as a corporation funded by the people who are members and required tithes which keep the hierarchy flush with funds to invest and purchase what they will and do with. Though they claim to be hoarding food stuff throughout the world for their membership it is really for those in the upper hierarchy and "appointed" to escape any pending catastrophe which might occur. The members frankly are screwed...and being screwed by this organization.

87 posted on 06/25/2011 1:04:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: LucyT

This is one of the frightening threads I’ve read in a long time.

What’s with all the deleted posts, I wonder. I’ve noticed a lot lately, actually; some seem to have been pulled for no good reason.


88 posted on 06/25/2011 1:06:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“I had no idea the mormon church owned so much farmland.)

At least the LDS folks hold the Constitution to have semi-sacred status. Rather like property rights once did, in the pre-Liberal era.


89 posted on 06/25/2011 1:07:20 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles, Kill the EPA!!!)
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To: ilovesarah2012
That's how they get the money to DO
all they do - look at the site I posted - and show us how many other churches are doing this much.

I won't wait.

This is NOT a thread about Mormons and Mormon bashing.
It's a theed about the loss of our freedoms - the road to serfdom - the REAL ‘shovel ready’ plan of O’bumbles?

Can't you save your Mormon bashing for threads devoted to that?

90 posted on 06/25/2011 1:09:30 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (I AM ISRAEL)
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To: maine-iac7; beebuster2000
"what is anyone who doesn't understand that doing on FR. Just asking."

Simple. FR is for people who want to be educated.

I'm glad the question was asked.

In my mind whenever Soros does something, I automatically label it as "panic We The People", red lights flash in my head, thus: Soros =evil, not good. I couldn't explain to anyone why what Soros is doing is bad since I experience a nervous allergic reaction to his name.

Thanks to the answers to the silly ignorant stupid question posted by beebuster2000, I can now form an intelligent answer to my clueless acquaintances.

91 posted on 06/25/2011 1:12:13 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Marty62; All
you say: “At some point I think Congress needs to open hearings on Soros and his involvement in the manipulation of the American economy. AND media for that matter.

How about them starting YESTERDAY with the newest of King O’bumbles Executive Orders - that will control RURAL America, their lands and herd them into ‘sustainable communities’ - pretty ghettos.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37561

http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/sustainable_communities.htm

no need for us peons to have cars or travel outside our village/ghetto - unless by train.

Farmland will be TILLED by ‘the people’ but they will not own it - they will grow food for the masses.

WAKE UP, folks. Put the pieces together.

92 posted on 06/25/2011 1:19:34 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (I AM ISRAEL)
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To: MsLady

“Or hey, go green, don’t grow anything, don’t allow anyone to build on that land, or grow, just let it go back to nature.”

The usual scenario is close to what you posted, with a slight but financially important difference: “Or hey, go green, don’t grow anything, don’t allow anyone to build on that land, or grow grass (protected by gangs).”


93 posted on 06/25/2011 1:27:12 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles, Kill the EPA!!!)
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To: beebuster2000

Here is a great documentary on what happens when the evil have power over the food supply.

http://www.sovietstory.com/about-the-film/

If you honestly don’t know about George Soros I would suggest searching through Free Republic, his name comes up quite frequently and you would want to be more informed to be able to follow many of the threads on this forum.


94 posted on 06/25/2011 1:27:26 PM PDT by boxlunch
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To: unkus

it amazes me that so many Americans have tolerated this guy and all his subversions and shenanigans for so long .
At what point do the mechanics go fix the truck ? It’s been broken for a long long time .


95 posted on 06/25/2011 1:39:29 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: maine-iac7; MsLady; Mamzelle; LucyT; SunkenCiv; Arthur Wildfire! March
LucyT: TY for ping; this octopus has many tentacles.

Bookmarking 78, 85, 92
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Many means; same goal
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From ARTICLE: 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.
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The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland by Joe Herring, June 22, 2011

The Missouri River basin encompasses a vast region in the central and west-central portion of our country.  This river, our nation's longest, collects the melt from Rocky Mountain snowpack and the runoff from our continents' upper plains before joining the Mississippi river above St. Louis some 2,300 miles later.  It is a mighty river, and dangerous.

Some sixty years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began the process of taming the Missouri by constructing a series of six dams.  The idea was simple: massive dams at the top moderating flow to the smaller dams below, generating electricity while providing desperately needed control of the river's devastating floods.

The stable flow of water allowed for the construction of the concrete and earthen levees that protect more than 10 million people who reside and work within the river's reach.  It allowed millions of acres of floodplain to become useful for farming and development.  In fact, these uses were encouraged by our government, which took credit for the resulting economic boom.  By nearly all measures, the project was a great success.

But after about thirty years of operation, as the environmentalist movement gained strength throughout the seventies and eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure to include some specific environmental concerns into their MWCM (Master Water Control Manual, the "bible" for the operation of the dam system).  Preservation of habitat for at-risk bird and fish populations soon became a hot issue among the burgeoning environmental lobby.  The pressure to satisfy the demands of these groups grew exponentially as politicians eagerly traded their common sense for "green" political support.

Things turned absurd from there.  An idea to restore the nation's rivers to a natural (pre-dam) state swept through the environmental movement and their allies.  Adherents enlisted the aid of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), asking for an updated "Biological Opinion" from the FWS that would make ecosystem restoration an "authorized purpose" of the dam system.  The Clinton administration threw its support behind the change, officially shifting the priorities of the Missouri River dam system from flood control, facilitation of commercial traffic, and recreation to habitat restoration, wetlands preservation, and culturally sensitive and sustainable biodiversity.

Congress created a committee to advise the Corps on how best to balance these competing priorities.  The Missouri River Recovery and Implementation Committee has seventy members.  Only four represent interests other than environmentalism.  The recommendations of the committee, as one might expect, have been somewhat less than evenhanded.

The Corps began to utilize the dam system to mimic the previous flow cycles of the original river, holding back large amounts of water upstream during the winter and early spring in order to release them rapidly as a "spring pulse."  The water flows would then be restricted to facilitate a summer drawdown of stream levels.  This new policy was highly disruptive to barge traffic and caused frequent localized flooding, but a multi-year drought masked the full impact of the dangerous risks the Corps was taking.

This year, despite more than double the usual amount of mountain and high plains snowpack (and the ever-present risk of strong spring storms), the true believers in the Corps have persisted in following the revised MWCM, recklessly endangering millions of residents downstream. 

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt agrees, calling the management plan "flawed" and "poorly thought out."  Sen. Blunt characterized the current flooding as "entirely preventable" and told reporters that he intends to force changes to the plan.

Perhaps tellingly, not everyone feels the same apprehension toward the imminent disaster.

Greg Pavelka, a wildlife biologist with the Corps of Engineers in Yankton, SD, told the Seattle Times that this event will leave the river in a "much more natural state than it has seen in decades," describing the epic flooding as a "prolonged headache for small towns and farmers along its path, but a boon for endangered species."  He went on to say, "The former function of the river is being restored in this one-year event. In the short term, it could be detrimental, but in the long term it could be very beneficial."

At the time of this writing, the Corps is scrambling for political cover, repeatedly denying that it had any advance warning of the potential for this catastrophe.  The official word is that everything was just fine until unexpectedly heavy spring rains pushed the system past the tipping point.

On February 3, 2011, a series of e-mails from Ft. Pierre SD Director of Public Works Brad Lawrence sounded the alarm loud and clear.  In correspondence to the headquarters of the American Water Works Association in Washington, D.C., Lawrence warned that "the Corps of Engineers has failed thus far to evacuate enough water from the main stem reservoirs to meet normal runoff conditions. This year's runoff will be anything but normal."

In the same e-mail, he describes the consequences of the Corps failure to act as a "flood of biblical proportions."  His e-mails were forwarded from Washington, D.C. to state emergency response coordinators nationwide.  The Corps headquarters in Omaha, NE which is responsible for the Missouri river system, claims they heard no such warning from Lawrence or anyone else.  Considering the wide distribution of this correspondence, and the likely reactions from officials in endangered states, their denials strain credulity.

Whether warned or not, the fact remains that had the Corps been true to its original mission of flood control, the dams would not have been full in preparation for a "spring pulse."  The dams could further have easily handled the additional runoff without the need to inundate a sizeable chunk of nine states.  The Corps admits in the MWCM that they deliberately embrace this risk each year in order to maximize their re-ordered priorities.

MWCM (Sec 7-07.2.6):

Releases at higher-than-normal rates early in the season that cannot be supported by runoff forecasting techniques is inconsistent with all System purposes other than flood control. All of the other authorized purposes depend upon the accumulation of water in the System rather than the availability of vacant storage space. [Emphasis added.]

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.

In recent decades, many universities have steeped their Natural Sciences curriculum in the green tea of earth-activism, producing radically eco-centric graduates who naturally seek positions with the government agencies where they can best implement their theories.  Today, many of these men and women have risen high in their fields, hiring fellow travelers to fill subordinate positions and creating a powerful echo chamber of radical environmentalist theory. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a victim/tool of the above-described process.  The horrifying consequence is water rushing from the dams on the Missouri twice as fast as the highest previous releases on record.  Floodgates that have not been opened in more than fifty years are in full operation, discharging water at a rate of 150,000 cubic feet per second toward millions of Americans downstream.

This is a mind-boggling rate of release.  Consider that 150,000 cubic feet of water would fill a football field instantly to a depth of four feet.  This amount of water, being released every second, will continue unabated for the next several months.  The levees that protect the cities and towns downstream were constructed to handle the flow rates promised at the time of the dam's construction.  None of these levees have ever been tested at these levels, yet they must hold back millions of acre-feet of floodwater for the entire summer without failing.  In the flooding of 1993, more than a thousand levees failed.  This year's event will be many orders of magnitude greater.

There are many well-publicized examples of absurd obeisance to the demands of radical environmentalists resulting in great economic harm.  The Great Missouri River Flood of 2011 is shaping up to be another -- only this time, the price will likely be paid in lives lost as well as treasure.  Ayn Rand said, "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

We need to begin the investigations immediately.  It seems that it is sanity, and not the river, that needs to be restored.

The author writes from Omaha, NE and may be reached at readmorejoe@gmail.com.

96 posted on 06/25/2011 1:54:42 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I had no idea the mormon church owned so much farmland.

You sure know a lot for somebody who has no idea.

PS Mormon is a proper noun and in English proper nouns are capitalized. Church would be capitalized also.

Here's a good site if you never graduated 4th grade in the United States or or if you went to government schools through High School or if English is your second language: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/capital.asp

97 posted on 06/25/2011 1:58:35 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: LeoWindhorse

It smells to high heavens. He should have assumed room temperature long ago.....from lead poisoning.


98 posted on 06/25/2011 2:10:29 PM PDT by unkus
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To: ilovesarah2012
I had no idea the mMormon church owned so much farmland

The Mormon Church walks the talk. Their members prepare for the worse while working toward the best.

That is excellent advice regardless of your faith when you consider the uncertainty the Obama administration has placed the nation in.

99 posted on 06/25/2011 2:14:19 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I had no idea the mMormon church owned so much farmland

The Mormon Church walks the talk. Their members prepare for the worse while working toward the best.

That is excellent advice regardless of your faith when you consider the uncertainty the Obama administration has placed the nation in.

100 posted on 06/25/2011 2:16:29 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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