Posted on 10/15/2023 4:13:09 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Here, Vanguard, et al are doing for real what Stalin and the USSR were accused of doing. Except it is all of Ukraine that is being "liquidated" - physically, and before the eyes of the world.
When people talk about "Ukrainian grain" they're actually talking about grain that is now owned by US and EU mega-corporations such as Vanguard Group, Kopernik Global Investors, BNP Asset Management Holding, Goldman Sachs-owned NN Investment Partners Holdings, and Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund.
Several large US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are also invested in Ukrainian land through NCH Capital – a US-based private equity fund, which is the fifth largest landholder in the country.
How is the takeover of agricultural land happening?
Whereas at least 4.3 million hectares are (as of March of last year) already controlled by agribusinesses in Ukraine, a law passed in March 2020 lifted the country’s 19-year moratorium on sales of agricultural land, allowing such transactions since July 2021.
This law was rejected by a vast majority of Ukrainians, who massively protested against it in 2019 and 2020. The measure, imposed by Western financial institutions that have become major lenders to the country since 2014, was passed at a time when mandatory COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were in place across the country, effectively quelling further protests or demonstrations.
The stated objective of this law was to ensure the exit of “less productive farmers” from agriculture and promote further concentration of land…
(Excerpt) Read more at dondebar.blogspot.com ...
Those damn capitalists.
That’s partly what this war was all about
I agree.
Now we know why Ukraine is so important to some American politicians.
Globalist Capitalism != National Free Markets
Helps to explain why the NeverTrumpers here were so angry with Russia ending the Grain Deal. Different than another theory, which was the ‘empty’ grain ships arriving in Ukrainian ports were not quite, fully, ‘empty’.
If there wasn’t big bucks to be made off of that place, Mrs Clinton and their ...uh ...”foundation” along with the Pritzgers would have nothing to do with that place. It is totally globalist owned.
Please elucidate. Do you mean to imply that they were smuggling in meth or something?
Or, to be more precise, do you mean to describe a conspiracy theory about whatever it was, with the not quite empty grain ships? Just axin’. :)
I think this apt. The "takeover" was planned well before this. As early as 2015, I recall when in Germany reading about the "digital pass" plans of the EU's European Commission. What was sought was a way to digitally track not only people, per se, but such as "health status" and such.
Over time, I think the great themes arrayed across the headlines for decades now are interlocked.
"Net Zero" and "decarbonize" Climate change™, Big Pharma's Pandemic™ with the now tested Lockdowns™, Big medicine's Transsexual Confusion™, Big Migration™ and of course all coupled to the Big Daddy, War™ and its financier, Debt™
Coupling these together can either be dismissed as the "clever" empty assertion game of "conspiracy theory," or alternatively and more likely it is indeed a supportable theory about a globalist conspiracy. Words matter. So often they are used against people, because the social phenomenon of lying itself is best conducted in the medium of words, numbers being a poor but allied second.
The antidotes to these above are simple: liberty and transparency in governance worldwide. Pray for "liberty for all," which we should wish for all men of goodwill.
Best wishes.
We used to enforce anti-trust laws.
“Or, to be more precise, do you mean to describe a conspiracy theory about whatever it was, with the not quite empty grain ships? Just axin’.”
True, the Neocons have not yet announced such, but given the track record of ‘conspiracy theories’ these days, it’s as good as true, and also explains the ABJECT PANIC that the West had when the shipments were stopped...far more than what would make sense for a measly $6B per year revenue for Ukraine, when the ‘world community’ is dumping at least 20 times that amount just in announced aid.
You apparently missed my sarcasm.
Post war analysis will show this US alliance with their pet Nazis ( unholy alliance) to be the world’s largest CORRUPTION scheme in the history of the world.
This also explains why the west refused to turn on the Russian agricultural bank for Russia to export fertilizer and grain as agreed to. They didn’t want to enable competition.
You may very well be right. Gazillions of dollars and thousands of deaths.
And why other countries...including some of our “allies” don’t like the US very much. We all point our fingers at China for their expansion into other countries and the USA has been doing that for decades under the guise of “Democracy”. We don’t like it when China starts buying up a bunch of our farmland and pushes the small farmers out but our politicians and big corps have been doing that for years. All around us the farmland is owned by Warren and Gates. They grow mostly corn for ethanol. And the price of corn on the cob here is close to $1 ea. Truth.
You’re right about Big Agra and the dangers that come with it. Corn got up to 25¢ in my part of NC.
Ukie farmlands polluted, not farmable. Besides the EOD cleanup, the soil is polluted. If like the aftermath of WW1, it may remain so for centuries….buyers of farmland ( waste land) beware.
A snippet from the WW1 artillery fields.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34284473
“ Farmers in northern France have been ordered to destroy this year’s produce because of pollution caused by World War One armaments left in the soil, according to French media.” 2015.
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