Sadly for you, that was not BO, but me, your International Baker
You've been in the process of quitting, yet again, for how many days now?
Don't be cryptic about the "alternate board" you are returning to, either name /deepdigs/ or name /pol/ or wherever you are going off to pout.
Trash being taken out does not bother me
How many days of your drama will there be as you quit again?
Canada #51 >>20227285
America’s second-largest foreign owner of land is a CHINESE BILLIONAIRE
Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao has become the second-largest foreign owner of land in the United States.
According to the magazine The Land Report, Chen owns 198,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, making him the country's overall 82nd-largest property owner. In terms of being not a U.S. citizen, only the Irving family of Canada owns more land, with over 1.2 million acres of timberland in Maine. The Irving family is also the sixth largest overall property owner in the country. (Related: Amazon, Bill Gates, China buying up land all over the U.S. in run up to Great Reset agenda.)
Chen, 50, first started acquiring huge tracts of timberland in Oregon from title insurance-focused investment firm Fidelity National Financial Ventures back in 2015, when he acquired nearly 200,000 acres or about 300 square miles of timberland from the now-defunct Crown Pacific Partners. This initial purchase cost him $85 million, amounting to around $430 per acre.
Oregon tax records accessed by The Land Report in December 2023 found that the name of the subsidiary that holds onto the land for Chen is Shanda Asset Management, a company named after Chen's Singapore-based holding group.
Chen began his prolific business career in 1999 when he started an online gaming company, Shanda Interactive. Within five years, it had become one of the communist nation's largest internet companies and was even publicly listed on the Nasdaq for a few years before he took it private and moved his holding group's headquarters to Singapore.
Since 2014, Chen has been growing the Shanda Group's investment portfolio to include public and private equities, venture capital firms and, most importantly to U.S. national security, real estate. He even owns approximately half a million acres of timberland in Ontario, Canada.
Chen and his wife Chrissy have also spent the past few years acquiring landmark properties in the United States. In 2018, they bought the Vanderbilt Mansion on East 69th Street in Manhattan for $39 million. In 2021, they purchased the Seeley Mudd Estate in the eastern Los Angeles suburb of San Marino for $25 million.
As of 2024, Chen's net worth is currently pegged at about $1 billion, down from its peak of $1.5 billion a decade ago. He and his wife currently live in San Francisco's South Bay region.
Foreigners are snatching up tens of millions of acres of American land
The prospect of foreign ownership of American land – particularly, valuable land such as land used for farming – has become a sensitive political issue in recent years as international corporations and wealthy foreign individuals continue to buy up American land.
According to the most recent data on foreign land ownership from the Department of Agriculture, non-American interests own about 40 million acres of agricultural land in the U.S. as of 2021. Entities from communist China make up the bulk of foreign agricultural landowners, and they currently own the equivalent of 0.03 percent of all farmland in the United States.
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https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-01-10-america-second-largest-foreign-landowner-chinese-billionaire.html
Canada #51 >>20227236
Pfizer sent ‘comic book consent form’ to test COVID jab on children
The Pfizer COVID jab, BNT162b2, caused myocarditis and pericarditis predominantly in males under 30 years of age. The vaccine manufacturer sent a consent form with an eight-page comic book to minors under 12 — the target age for testing.
By Alex Dhaliwal January 08, 2024
Controversial vaccine manufacturer Pfizer received consent for children under 16 to participate in a clinical trial on heart inflammation and the COVID jab.
According to the consent form from Phase 2/3 Obtaining Serum Samples for Potential Troponin I Testing, the Pfizer study would "collect blood samples for potential troponin I testing." Troponin I is a protein that enters the bloodstream following a cardiac event, including heart muscle inflammation (myocarditis) and heart lining (pericarditis), it says.
As part of the study, participants aged 5-11 would receive either an active vaccine or placebo, whereas everyone else under 16 would get the COVID jab — the target age. Those 12 and up received a ten-page consent form that included a detailed preamble, while Pfizer made an eight-page comic book for children between five and 11 years old.
It stipulates those cardiac events occurred for some recipients of BNT162b2, the Pfizer COVID jab, especially fully vaccinated males under 30 years of age.
"Symptoms include Chest pain, shortness of breath, or feelings of having a fast-beating, fluttering or pounding heart," reads the 28-page document. "As a precaution, you should seek medical attention right away if your child has any of those symptoms after receiving the vaccine."
Pfizer reiterated the chance of contracting myocarditis or pericarditis is "very low."
As reported by the Western Standard, the form also alleged the vaccine "could make a later COVID-19 illness more severe."
"Depending on your child’s age, mental status and local laws, the study team may need to verify your child’s agreement to participate in this study," the document explained.
"Depending on local law and your child’s age, your child’s permission may be required for the study team to share some of their test results with you," it added.
https://www.rebelnews.com/pfizer_sent_comic_book_consent_form_to_test_covid_jab_on_children
Canada #51 >>20219956
US Flies F-16 Fighter Jets Over Bosnia In Threat To Serbs Who Want Secession
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Wednesday, Jan 10, 2024
The US flew two F-16 fighter jets over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday as a show of force meant as a threat to Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodnik, who wants independence for the Serb-majority area of the country he controls.
Dodnik is the president of the Republika Srpska, a semi-autonomous Serb republic within the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina that’s separate from the other part of the country that’s mainly populated by Bosniak Muslims and Croats, known as the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The boundaries were set by the 1995 Dayton Accords, which were negotiated following a US and NATO intervention against the Serbs in the ethnic conflict in the area.
The US Embassy in Sarajevo said the F-16 fighter jets flew over Bosnia to show US support for the country’s "territorial integrity."
"This bilateral training is an example of advanced military-to-military cooperation that contributes to peace and security in the Western Balkans as well as demonstrates the United States’ commitment to ensuring the territorial integrity of BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in the face of anti-Dayton and secessionist activity," the statement said, according to The Associated Press.
"The United States has underscored that the BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Constitution provides no right of secession, and it will act if anyone tries to change this basic element," the statement added.
The U.S. Army Special Forces and Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina completed a successful bilateral air-to-ground training with joint terminal attack controllers (JTAC) and two U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons today in the Tuzla and Brcko region. The training event was… pic.twitter.com/2vAJ57sgDS
— US Embassy Sarajevo (@USEmbassySJJ) January 8, 2024
Dodnik recently told AP that he will continue to pursue Serb interests despite threats from the US. "I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to use force … but I have no reason to be frightened by that into sacrificing (Serb) national interests," he said.
He further said that if there's international intervention backing Bosnian institutions then "in the next stage, we will be forced by their reaction to declare full independence" of Serb-controlled regions of Bosnia.
James O’Brien, the US assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, recently threatened that the US will "act" if anyone threatens the terms of the Dayton Accords and said nobody in the country has the right to "secession."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-flies-f-16-fighter-jets-over-bosnia-threat-serbs-who-want-secession
Canada #51 >>20226221
Iran Hijacks Oil Tanker In Gulf Of Oman
by Tyler Durden Thursday, Jan 11, 2024 - 05:11 PM
Iranian naval forces, acting under a court order, seized Marshall Islands-flagged tanker "St Nikolas," Bloomberg reports, citing Iran's semi-official Tasnim agency reports. The report said St Nikolas is a "US oil tanker."
#BREAKING: Iran seized a oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was in the center of a dispute between Iran and the US pic.twitter.com/azify6leyN
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) January 11, 2024
Earlier, research firm TankerTrackers said, "Iranians have boarded today in the Gulf of Oman is the ST NIKOLAS."
The tanker which the Iranians have boarded today in the Gulf of Oman is the ST NIKOLAS (9524475); carrying Iraqi oil. Formerly known as the SUEZ RAJAN; she was seized by the US government for having transported a million barrels of Iranian oil in connection to a US company. pic.twitter.com/0eMLbtIjwO
— TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) January 11, 2024
Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corp. chartered the tanker, which was transporting 140,00 tons of Iraqi SOMO crude. The vessel was en route to Aliaga in western Turkey.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) authority reported hours ago a vessel was boarded by "4-5 armed unauthorized persons" about 50 miles east of Sohar, Oman.
"Unauthorized boarders are reported to be wearing military-style black uniforms with black masks. CSO reports that the vessel has altered its course towards Iranian territorial waters, and communications with the vessel have been lost," UKMTO said.
Bloomberg confirmed that the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker "St Nikolas" is the vessel that was hijacked. A previous report says that St Nikolas was seized by the US last year, sailing under a different name, "Suez Rajan," for transporting unauthorized Iranian cargo.
Empire Navigation, the vessel's operator, said the tanker was loaded with 145,000 tons of crude from the Iraqi port of Basra and was en route to Aliaga in western Turkey through the Suez Canal. It noted all communication with the vessel had been lost.
St Nikolas' Automatic Identification System (AIS), a tracking system that uses transceivers on ships to identify and locate vessels, was switched off. The vessel's last known position was about 50 miles east of Sohar late Wednesday night.
The hijacking incident was near another chokepoint: the Hormuz Strait between Oman and Iran.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-tanker-hijacked-gulf-oman