/ world today news/ “Forbes” published a material stating that the billionaire globalist Bill Gates, in addition to his main assets, is also a large landowner.
After years of reports that he was buying up farmland in places like Florida and Washington, Land Report, a private farming magazine, revealed that Gates, with a net worth of nearly $121 billion, has built up a huge portfolio of farmland , covering 18 states. His largest holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres), and Nebraska (20,588 acres). He also owns 25,750 acres outside of Phoenix, Arizona, which is being developed as a new suburb.
According to the Land Report study, the land is owned by Bill Gates directly and through third-party entities such as Cascade Investments, which is Gates’ personal investment vehicle. Cascade’s other investments include food safety company Ecolab, used car retailer Vroom and Canadian National Railways.
“Forbes” writes that “although it may seem surprising that the billionaire is also the largest owner of agricultural land in the country, this is not the only case of Gates’ involvement in agriculture. In 2008, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced $306 million in grants to promote high-income, sustainable agriculture for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The fund has also invested in the development and dissemination of climate-resilient “supercrops” and higher-yielding dairy cows. “
Also in the top three are Ron Offutt’s company with an area of 190,000 acres, as well as Steward and Linda Resnick with the same area. The first is a family business related to growing potatoes. And in the second case, the couple earns from fruits and nuts. That is, it is a traditional agricultural economy.
In terms of individual landowners, Gates still trails well behind media mogul John S. Malone, who tops the list with 2.2 million acres of fields and forests, and CNN founder Ted Turner, who owns 2 million acres.
However, if the media moguls and the aforementioned agricultural businessmen are engaged in business, then Bill Gates with his numerous initiatives is considered one of the active supporters of globalism – many of his projects have a dubious reputation, but like George Soros, he invests millions of his funds in a practical field of activity that almost always overlaps with world politics.
Tellingly, another IT entrepreneur, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, is also buying up land. And he also dabbles in politics. His company’s media regularly criticizes US President Donald Trump, and he himself has over 300,000 acres in Texas and is among the top ten landowners in the US.
There is another method of controlling natural resources. It is indirect, but the following case shows that this approach is also quite effective and dangerous from the point of view of citizens’ interests.
In the US, the Walton Family Foundation has invested billions of dollars in the Colorado River Basin. It is run by the heirs of Walmart founder Sam Walton and donates $25 million each year to Colorado River-related nonprofits. Officially, the foundation takes care of the river, especially in the context of the rational use of water resources. Part of the money goes to restoring the river or to more efficient irrigation.
But the main interest of the foundation is to promote “demand management”, ie. specific water marketing scheme. Under this concept, cash grants are paid to farmers for temporary cessation of irrigation.
In November 2020, the Colorado Water Conservation Board approved this “demand management” program, creating a work plan for the second step and formally aligning the concept with current policies in the states of New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah. Officially, this is billed as drought-fighting planning.
However, this approach, which borders on turning water into a commodity, raises questions. How effective is it for the Colorado River? And has there been a public debate involving independent conservationists since this water source is vital to 40 million people?
The foundation is known to have supported more than 60 Colorado River-related nonprofits in the region over the past four years, raising between $5,000 and $2.9 million each, with seven organizations, including the Environmental Defense Fund, The Conservation Fund and Western Resource Defenders received over a million dollars in 2019 alone. A significant portion of the Walton Foundation’s annual giving also goes toward testing the management of numerous streams and tributaries along the headwaters of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
The Walton Foundation has also paid the Environmental Defense Fund millions of dollars to implement critical aspects of a $29 million downstream demand management pilot program in the states of Nevada, California and Arizona.
But in addition, the Walton Foundation funds the media to cover stories about the Colorado River. Disturbingly, many publications miss the Walton Foundation’s role in this demand management advocacy. In other words, the Waltons buy off public opinion, politicians, and beneficiaries for their long-term goals. Although this approach does not directly or indirectly buy the land or water itself, intervention in public policy through subsidies to farmers and funding of public organizations and media can set a serious precedent.
Critics of globalism in the US note with alarm how “billionaire philanthropists and technocrats are acquiring land at an accelerating rate while telling the general public that in the future private property will virtually cease to exist.”
An example of this is the book of the founder of the World Economic Forum and globalist Klaus Schwab “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”, where he happily talks about the abolition of private property in the near future.
Obviously, however, private property will not be abolished for everyone. It’s just that the majority of citizens will live in a state of permanent dependence on a small number of wealthy families who will own everything and have the tools to control the masses.
Unlike the Middle Ages, now the feudal lords will be the billionaires who own the world’s technological giants, and the slaves will be the users of their services. All this is already happening in the US.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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