As Chinese Purchases Of US Farmland Soar, It's Becoming Impossible To Track How Much It Owns

The topic of China's ownership of US farmlands is starting to boil over.

Six months after we reported that a "Bipartisan Bill Aims To Block Chinese Purchase Of US Farmland", more are starting to pay attention yet as even Bloomberg notes that America "is seeing more and more of its most fertile land snapped up by China and other foreign buyers" the big problem remains: it’s difficult to know just how much farmland China has bought due to problem with how the US tracks such data.

Here's what we do know: according to Department of Agriculture data foreign ownership and investment in US farmland, pastures and forests jumped to about 40 million acres in 2021, up 40% from 2016; but an analysis conducted by the US Government Accountability Office — a non-partisan watchdog that reports to Congress — found mistakes in the data, including the largest land holding linked with China being counted twice. Other challenges include the USDA’s reliance on foreigners self-reporting their activity.

As a result, foreign ownership of US cropland is drawing attention from Washington as concern rises about possible threats to food supply chains and other national security risks. And, as we reported last summer, lawmakers have called for a crackdown on sales of farmland to China and other nations.

“Without improving its internal processes, USDA cannot report reliable information to Congress or the public about where and how much US agricultural land is held by foreign persons,” the report said.

The GAO made six recommendations, including that the USDA share more timely and complete data with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, an interagency panel led by the Treasury Department that reviews foreign business deals. And yet, with typical bureaucratic "speed", it is certain that none of these will be implemented for years, in the meantime allowing Chinese state and private oligarchs to keep snapping up fertile US farmland.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/chinese-purchases-us-farmland-soar-its-becoming-impossible-track-how-much-it-owns

Judge Orders Release of ‘Newburgh Four’ After Evidence FBI ‘Manufactured’ Terror Plot

A judge granted the release of a man convicted in a post-9/11 terrorist sting after criticizing the FBI for using a “unsavory” confidential informant to fabricate a plot to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard aircraft.

United States District Judge Colleen McMahon granted James Cromitie, 58, compassionate release from prison on Friday, six months after she ordered the release of his three co-defendants, together known as the Newburgh Four for similar reasons, the Associated Press reported.

Four individuals from the riverside city an hour’s drive north of New York City were convicted of terrorism in 2010. Cromitie had completed 15 years of his 25-year minimum sentence. The New York-based court reduced Cromitie’s sentence to time served + 90 days.

According to Judge McMahon, Cromitie was a small-time “grifter” who was destitute and jobless when he was recruited into the FBI-led operation and supplied phony explosives to place in return for $250,000 in the “jihadist mission.” Cromitie assigned the other three guys to function as lookouts.

“The three men were recruited so that Cromitie could conspire with someone,” the judge said. “The real lead conspirator was the United States. …. The FBI invented the conspiracy; identified the targets; manufactured the ordnance.”

Cromitie’s attorney, Kerry Lawrence, said Saturday that he had not yet been able to contact his client, but that Cromitie’s family was thrilled.

Prosecutors in the high-profile case claimed the Newburgh defendants spent months studying areas and obtaining what they believed to be explosives and a surface-to-air missile with the intention of shooting down aircraft at the Air National Guard installation in Newburgh and bombing synagogues in the Bronx.

They were detained after reportedly placing “bombs” with inert explosives provided by the FBI.

Critics claim that federal investigators had entrapped a vulnerable group of men who had just served time in jail.

In a harsh decision, McMahon said that the FBI manufactured the plot and designated the targets.

https://thepoliticsbrief.com/judge-orders-release-of-newburgh-four-after-evidence-fbi-manufactured-terror-plot/

Chief Rabbi says false claims of 'genocide' is a 'moral inversion' meant to tear open lingering wounds of the Holocaust

The Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth took aim at those who suggest Israel has carried out "genocide" against Gaza, noting that the move is a "moral inversion" meant to rip open the lingering wound of the Holocaust, according to a piece written by the rabbi for the Telegraph.

Nazi Germany murdered approximately six million Jews during World War II.

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the shaky allegation that the Jewish state was carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people was the "ultimate demonisation of the Jewish state." He went on to say that using the term "genocide" was offensive to the victims and families of those who suffered through the Holocaust.

Mirvis continued by saying that there have been real genocides since the Holocaust, including those in Bosnia, Cambodia, Darfur, and Rwanda, according to the Telegraph.

Pro-Palestine activists have actively sought to undermine Israel's response to Hamas' violent attack against the Jewish state on October 7. Some 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered in a single day, and another 240 Israelis were abducted and taken into Gaza as hostages.

“It is a term deployed not only to eradicate any notion that Israel has a responsibility to protect its citizens, but also to tear open the still gaping wound of the Holocaust, knowing that it will inflict more pain than any other accusation,” Ephraim wrote in the piece.

“It is a moral inversion, which undermines the memory of the worst crimes in human history.”

Mirvis addressed the recent effort by the African National Congress government in South Africa to bring a case of genocide against the Jewish state to the International Criminal Court. The development comes as major bodies have come under pressure to condemn Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

“We have watched in horror as people have rushed to invoke the crime of genocide – some within days of Oct 7," Mirvis wrote. "Fringe academics and their partisan cheerleaders have selectively quoted Israeli politicians to paint a picture of a country bent on annihilation."

“The enthusiastic clamour by some to declare it as something which belongs in a different moral category to the many other just wars with horrific humanitarian consequences, represents a moral failure built upon a foundation of hatred and disinformation.”

The conflict in the Middle East has shaken institutions around the world, including the U.S., where many students and professors in major universities have condemned Israel for its response against Hamas.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/chief-rabbi-says-false-claims-of-genocide-is-a-moral-inversion-meant-to-tear-open-lingering-wounds-of-the-holocaust

CONSPIRATORS' HIERARCHY: THE STORY OF THE COMMITTEE OF 300

https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/4A/4A92FD2FB4DAE3F773DB0B7742CF0F65_Coleman.-.CONSPIRATORS.HIERARCHY.-.THE.STORY.OF.THE.COMMITTEE.OF.300.R.pdf

Blinken: "International rules-based order" - Chatham-House

https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/London%20Conference%202015%20-%20Background%20Papers.pdf

Released NATO Military Documents Classify COVID Lockdowns As ‘Hostage Situation’ — Captives Advised To ‘Comply’

https://www.nato.int/docu/colloq/w970707/p6.pdf

Obama-era Russian Uranium One deal: What to know

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/II/II06/20190625/109694/HHRG-116-II06-20190625-SD004.pdf

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Vladimir Putin's Indictment Against the New World Order

https://youtu.be/h7Qj_bN-LWo

Not Cool – Alex Soros Tweets: “Bullet Hole, 47”

Alex Soros, the son of George Soros, sends a message via his Twitter account that is troubling.

Being subtle like a brick through a window the billionaire leftist posts a picture of a “Bullet Hole” and “$47.”

President Donald Trump is going to be the 47th President

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/21/not-cool-alex-soros-tweets-bullet-hole-47/#more-255054

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