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    Default Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    So, Bill Gates has been revealed as the biggest private owner of farmland in the US, after buying up 242,000 acres in 18 states and now apparently with a net worth of $121billion.

    In 2018, he paid $171 million in one of the largest real estate transactions in recent memory.

    Is he following China's lead in wanting to build large covid quarantine camps to house thousands of people for rounding them up to ensure they get their vaccines?

    Afterall, China has begun building a massive makeshift Covid quarantine camp designed to hold at least 3,000 people that will be constructed in 3 days with hundreds of workers and machines are working 24 hours non-stop to complete the new facility in Hebei.

    The new China emergency site occupies 82 acres and will comprise 3,000 housing units for suspected virus carriers. Authorities said the 'basic construction' would be completed within three days to curb a new wave of cases.

    Any interesting planning applications submitted yet across the states?
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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    This is a visual representation of the size of the land Gates has purchased, the phrase 'vast swathes' comes to mind!

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    I think 242000 acres is about a 1000 km2. That would be a square from 32 by 32 km. That is a hardly visable dot on the map above in pueblos post. Correct me if im wrong but i think im right.

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

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    I think 242000 acres is about a 1000 km2. That would be a square from 32 by 32 km. That is a hardly visable dot on the map above in pueblos post. Correct me if im wrong but i think im right.
    He is now the biggest private landowner in the US, this hardly visible spot is just one of many, the more important question is, why those plots. Guess Elizabeth II doesn't count as a private landowner in the US for some reason (head of state and all that).


    Quote He is the son of William H. Gates Sr. (1925–2020) and Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994). His ancestry includes English, German, and Irish/Scots-Irish. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way of America.
    William Henry Gates III.

    Meaning off Name.

    William - Protector
    Henry - Home
    Gates - Gate

    I always found that intriguing me a little.
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    Quote Posted by Samson (here)
    I think 242000 acres is about a 1000 km2. That would be a square from 32 by 32 km. That is a hardly visable dot on the map above in pueblos post. Correct me if im wrong but i think im right.
    I am a mathsphobe and really bad at it so I may well be wrong, I am sure someone with a better understanding could clarify...

    Here is what I have worked out...

    Quote If a circle has an area of 1km what is the radius of that circle?

    Area of a circle is (pi)r^2. For the given circle the area in 1 sq km = 1000*1000 m^2. Now equating the formula to the value

    (pi)r^2 = 1000000 or

    (22/7)r^2 = 1000000 or

    r^2 = 1000000 *7/22, or

    r = (1000000 *7/22)^0.5 = 564.9769748 m.

    Hence the radius is 564.9769748 m.
    Based on the above calculation 1,000 sq km would have a radius of 565,000 metres....

    Now go to https://www.calcmaps.com/map-radius/ and draw a circle with a radius of 565,000 metres....

    Based on all the above the image I posted looks reasonably accurate?

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    How's his "SMART CITY coming along in Arizona (and his plans in Florida)?

    "A few years ago, Bill Gates hasd announced plans to build a smart city outside of Buckeye in Arizona. Through his subsidiary Mt. Lemmon Holdings, the billionaire spent $80 million to purchase more than 24,000 acres of land with plans to build a smart city, which will include housing, schools, offices and retail. Since the purchase, there has been limited information on the development of the project."

    More HERE: https://www.globest.com/2020/03/05/a...ty-in-arizona/

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    "...Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so...." Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1952)

    Bill Gates already has the injections market cornered, now he's aiming for food supply/diet. God only knows what kind of genetic manipulation of the food supply he has in store for we plebs.

    Injunctions are next--but that's the easy part in a world totalitarian regime.

    In the old days they called this system feudalism; I call it slavery.
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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    According to Wikipedia Wyoming is 253.554 km². So if Gates has 1000 km2 it is really just a minuscule dot on pueblos map.

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    Hey, at a 1000 km2 in just one state that he has - he could build more than one city, or community to vaccinate sheeple, monitor, feed, webucate and roll out across the country... (just saying)

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    In New York City over 10 million people live on 1000 km2 but its still a dot on that map above.

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    This is extremely intriguing, not so much the amount of land, but the diversity in the geographical locale of the land. Believe it or not, 268K acres (108,455 hectares) is not all the much. The largest private landowner in the USA is John Malone, he owns 2.2 million acres. And........of course, he owns Liberty Media.

    There is little doubt that Gates has some very specific purpose for owning this land and it most likely is not for farming. Gates has an extremely quiet but large ego, he seems to be on a crusade to save mankind. It is an admirable goal but makes him a potentially very dangerous person. It warrants close scrutiny on what he intends to do with the land.



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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    Quote Posted by pueblo (here)
    Quote Posted by Samson (here)
    I think 242000 acres is about a 1000 km2. That would be a square from 32 by 32 km. That is a hardly visable dot on the map above in pueblos post. Correct me if im wrong but i think im right.
    I am a mathsphobe and really bad at it so I may well be wrong, I am sure someone with a better understanding could clarify...

    Here is what I have worked out...

    Quote If a circle has an area of 1km what is the radius of that circle?

    Area of a circle is (pi)r^2. For the given circle the area in 1 sq km = 1000*1000 m^2. Now equating the formula to the value

    (pi)r^2 = 1000000 or

    (22/7)r^2 = 1000000 or

    r^2 = 1000000 *7/22, or

    r = (1000000 *7/22)^0.5 = 564.9769748 m.

    Hence the radius is 564.9769748 m.
    Based on the above calculation 1,000 sq km would have a radius of 565,000 metres....

    Now go to https://www.calcmaps.com/map-radius/ and draw a circle with a radius of 565,000 metres....

    Based on all the above the image I posted looks reasonably accurate?
    No, you forgot to square the Area. So when you increase the radius by 1000 fold, the area doesnt increase by 1000, it increases by 1 million = 1000^2.

    So, 1,000 sq km is about 17.83 km radius = 17,830 m. Not 565 km radius.

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    Quote Posted by Merkaba360 (here)
    Quote Posted by pueblo (here)
    Quote Posted by Samson (here)
    I think 242000 acres is about a 1000 km2. That would be a square from 32 by 32 km. That is a hardly visable dot on the map above in pueblos post. Correct me if im wrong but i think im right.
    I am a mathsphobe and really bad at it so I may well be wrong, I am sure someone with a better understanding could clarify...

    Here is what I have worked out...

    Quote If a circle has an area of 1km what is the radius of that circle?

    Area of a circle is (pi)r^2. For the given circle the area in 1 sq km = 1000*1000 m^2. Now equating the formula to the value

    (pi)r^2 = 1000000 or

    (22/7)r^2 = 1000000 or

    r^2 = 1000000 *7/22, or

    r = (1000000 *7/22)^0.5 = 564.9769748 m.

    Hence the radius is 564.9769748 m.
    Based on the above calculation 1,000 sq km would have a radius of 565,000 metres....

    Now go to https://www.calcmaps.com/map-radius/ and draw a circle with a radius of 565,000 metres....

    Based on all the above the image I posted looks reasonably accurate?
    No, you forgot to square the Area. So when you increase the radius by 1000 fold, the area doesnt increase by 1000, it increases by 1 million = 1000^2.

    So, 1,000 sq km is about 17.83 km radius = 17,830 m. Not 565 km radius.
    Thanks so much, I knew something wasn't adding up, just wasn't sure what!

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    I was watching The Dark Journalist & the host, DJ, pulled together two interesting points...Gate's land acquisition & a report titled "GMO tomato as edible covid vaccine? Mexican scientists work to make it a reality"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPg8zWMWSk @ 47:00 mark

    As for where this farmland is positioned, I am wondering how it lines up with a past map (was it a fema map? Sorry, don't remember where I saw it) of a supposed segmented USA... i think there were 5 zones.

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    Quote Posted by Ami (here)
    I was watching The Dark Journalist & the host, DJ, pulled together two interesting points...Gate's land acquisition & a report titled "GMO tomato as edible covid vaccine? Mexican scientists work to make it a reality"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPg8zWMWSk @ 47:00 mark

    As for where this farmland is positioned, I am wondering how it lines up with a past map (was it a fema map? Sorry, don't remember where I saw it) of a supposed segmented USA... i think there were 5 zones.
    Ami: have a look here in the Avalon Library.

    This may be included in what you refer to, here - https://avalonlibrary.net/?dir=Agend..._maps_%28US%29
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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    Quote Posted by Constance (here)
    Just for perspective

    https://herdsy.com/the-5-biggest-farms-in-world/

    The 5 Biggest Farms in The World

    1 Mudanjiang City Mega Farm, Heilongjiang, China 22,500,000 acres
    2 Modern Dairy, Anhui, China 11,000,000 acres
    3 Anna Creek, South Australia, Australia 6,000,000 acres
    4 Clifton Hills, South Australia, Australia 4,200,000 acres
    5 Alexandria, Northern Territory, Australia 4,000,000 acres
    Yes

    I was pondering that earlier funnily enough. Comparatively speaking, not really that large. Sizeable enough for him to (continue to) wreak his own brand of satanic havoc of course, but....
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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    Another theory is to buy up good farmland & then don't plant anything thus fueling a food shortage - Martin Armstrong mentions in a post from today.... https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/m...of-bill-gates/

    Side note, if the soil is very fertile you do not need a lots & lots of land to raise animals on. Big cattle ranches are usually large because the forage is of a lower quality & you need more space for the number of animals.

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    Default Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?

    Mike Adams says Gates and Bezos are spending their pre-reset dollars on something real.

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