Blackrock

[Suffolk Serf]

With our inglorious leader Kier Stalin, pledging undying loyalty to Blackrock inc. having hosted their ceo Larry Fink, along with Bill Gates at no 10 a few days before the start of the armageddon (budget day), am I terribly surprised to find that they are the largest shareholder in both Tesco PLC and my personal nemesis C...swick PLC? It wouldn't take Sherlock-Holmes to find others.
Are we right to be afraid...... very afraid?

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Further to the above, just found this on another thread, (thanks @principal skinner and X)
Watch out British Farmers, This is how @Keir_Starmer 's new best buddies at BlackRock are going to screw you over in 7 steps ...

1. They will start buying up small plots of agricultural land at double the normal price. They will issue a directive to all of their energy companies simultaneously to aggressively acquire plots for carbon capture. These third parties will start bidding against each other and force the value of agricultural land up.

2. Initially farmers won't believe their luck - "these city folks are mad! if they want to buy an acre for £50K, who am I to say no to these fools" is what you'll hear down the pub.

3. These crazy prices will set record high comparisons for agricultural land. When a farmer dies, their farm will be valued using these new metrics and the next generation will discover the farm they thought was worth £3M is worth £9M and they don't have anything close to the money needed to cover the tax.

4. In swoops a BlackRock subsidiary with a "Agri Debt Finance Tax Relief" product to lend them 20% the "value" of their farm so they can pay the taxes.

5. The debt will come with conditions (a covenant) that the farm has to adopt and maintain certain practices. It has to use certain BlackRock owned fertilisers, software, machinery and labour solutions that get the farm ready to interface with a larger conglomerate.

6. When a farm cannot make its debt payments, it is sold at auction. BlackRock subsidiaries are instructed NOT to buy these farms at auction. They have a special arrangement to buy the unsold farms at a rate that covers the unpaid debt plus outstanding fees and taxes to government... basically what the farm was originally worth.

7. A BlackRock subsidiary then takes over the farm, consolidates it with a massive group of farms and uses illegal immigrant labour to staff the farm (which will be another government program they institute to deal with the immigration crisis). The government will literally pay for the labour costs as part of this plan making the farms wildly profitable and making small family farms unable to compete.

 

[valtraman]

Corrupt old world innit

 

[Boohoo]

Further to the above, just found this on another thread, (thanks @priciple skinner and X)
Watch out British Farmers, This is how @Keir_Starmer 's new best buddies at BlackRock are going to screw you over in 7 steps ...

1. They will start buying up small plots of agricultural land at double the normal price. They will issue a directive to all of their energy companies simultaneously to aggressively acquire plots for carbon capture. These third parties will start bidding against each other and force the value of agricultural land up.

2. Initially farmers won't believe their luck - "these city folks are mad! if they want to buy an acre for £50K, who am I to say no to these fools" is what you'll hear down the pub.

3. These crazy prices will set record high comparisons for agricultural land. When a farmer dies, their farm will be valued using these new metrics and the next generation will discover the farm they thought was worth £3M is worth £9M and they don't have anything close to the money needed to cover the tax.

4. In swoops a BlackRock subsidiary with a "Agri Debt Finance Tax Relief" product to lend them 20% the "value" of their farm so they can pay the taxes.

5. The debt will come with conditions (a covenant) that the farm has to adopt and maintain certain practices. It has to use certain BlackRock owned fertilisers, software, machinery and labour solutions that get the farm ready to interface with a larger conglomerate.

6. When a farm cannot make its debt payments, it is sold at auction. BlackRock subsidiaries are instructed NOT to buy these farms at auction. They have a special arrangement to buy the unsold farms at a rate that covers the unpaid debt plus outstanding fees and taxes to government... basically what the farm was originally worth.

7. A BlackRock subsidiary then takes over the farm, consolidates it with a massive group of farms and uses illegal immigrant labour to staff the farm (which will be another government program they institute to deal with the immigration crisis). The government will literally pay for the labour costs as part of this plan making the farms wildly profitable and making small family farms unable to compete.

Have you got a source for that?
At a time I would've said it was a far fetched conspiracy theory but with the way things are going it wouldn't surprise me if that's the plan

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Have you got a source for that?
At a time I would've said it was a far fetched conspiracy theory but with the way things are going it wouldn't surprise me if that's the plan

Original source was on X, formerly known as Twitter, @principal skinner cleverly copied it to a post of his on another thread and I pinched it.

 

[Spencer]

Further to the above, just found this on another thread, (thanks @principal skinner and X)
Watch out British Farmers, This is how @Keir_Starmer 's new best buddies at BlackRock are going to screw you over in 7 steps ...

1. They will start buying up small plots of agricultural land at double the normal price. They will issue a directive to all of their energy companies simultaneously to aggressively acquire plots for carbon capture. These third parties will start bidding against each other and force the value of agricultural land up.

2. Initially farmers won't believe their luck - "these city folks are mad! if they want to buy an acre for £50K, who am I to say no to these fools" is what you'll hear down the pub.

3. These crazy prices will set record high comparisons for agricultural land. When a farmer dies, their farm will be valued using these new metrics and the next generation will discover the farm they thought was worth £3M is worth £9M and they don't have anything close to the money needed to cover the tax.

4. In swoops a BlackRock subsidiary with a "Agri Debt Finance Tax Relief" product to lend them 20% the "value" of their farm so they can pay the taxes.

5. The debt will come with conditions (a covenant) that the farm has to adopt and maintain certain practices. It has to use certain BlackRock owned fertilisers, software, machinery and labour solutions that get the farm ready to interface with a larger conglomerate.

6. When a farm cannot make its debt payments, it is sold at auction. BlackRock subsidiaries are instructed NOT to buy these farms at auction. They have a special arrangement to buy the unsold farms at a rate that covers the unpaid debt plus outstanding fees and taxes to government... basically what the farm was originally worth.

7. A BlackRock subsidiary then takes over the farm, consolidates it with a massive group of farms and uses illegal immigrant labour to staff the farm (which will be another government program they institute to deal with the immigration crisis). The government will literally pay for the labour costs as part of this plan making the farms wildly profitable and making small family farms unable to compete.

Sister in Law works for Black Rock.. I’ll ask her..

 

[topground]

All sounds plausible but spoilt by the addition of item 7.

 

[delilah]

they are the largest shareholder in both Tesco PLC and my personal nemesis C...swick PLC.

ie they have already got the consolidation they need at the retail and processing level, meaning this....

Further to the above, just found this on another thread, (thanks @principal skinner and X)
Watch out British Farmers, This is how @Keir_Starmer 's new best buddies at BlackRock are going to screw you over in 7 steps ...

1. They will start buying up small plots of agricultural land at double the normal price. They will issue a directive to all of their energy companies simultaneously to aggressively acquire plots for carbon capture. These third parties will start bidding against each other and force the value of agricultural land up.

2. Initially farmers won't believe their luck - "these city folks are mad! if they want to buy an acre for £50K, who am I to say no to these fools" is what you'll hear down the pub.

3. These crazy prices will set record high comparisons for agricultural land. When a farmer dies, their farm will be valued using these new metrics and the next generation will discover the farm they thought was worth £3M is worth £9M and they don't have anything close to the money needed to cover the tax.

4. In swoops a BlackRock subsidiary with a "Agri Debt Finance Tax Relief" product to lend them 20% the "value" of their farm so they can pay the taxes.

5. The debt will come with conditions (a covenant) that the farm has to adopt and maintain certain practices. It has to use certain BlackRock owned fertilisers, software, machinery and labour solutions that get the farm ready to interface with a larger conglomerate.

6. When a farm cannot make its debt payments, it is sold at auction. BlackRock subsidiaries are instructed NOT to buy these farms at auction. They have a special arrangement to buy the unsold farms at a rate that covers the unpaid debt plus outstanding fees and taxes to government... basically what the farm was originally worth.

7. A BlackRock subsidiary then takes over the farm, consolidates it with a massive group of farms and uses illegal immigrant labour to staff the farm (which will be another government program they institute to deal with the immigration crisis). The government will literally pay for the labour costs as part of this plan making the farms wildly profitable and making small family farms unable to compete.

....is the logical next step; consolidation of the means of production.

As I said on the other thread on this, the lentil knitters have been warning for decades where all this was headed. Rather than taking the p!ss, mainstream ag should have listened.

 

[delilah]

Oh, and @Clive , any chance you could unpixilate xxxxxxxxx , because censorship of this sort does no favours to the suggestion that TFF is on the side of the farmer and against corporate control.

 

[DrWazzock]

Isn’t this why we are firing rockets into Russia?
To save various global corporations investments in Ukraine?
Don’t worry though. We’ve no iron dome, but the home guard at Gibraltar Point should be able to shoot down a Mach 10 missile with .22 rim fire.

 

[oil barron]

Isn’t this why we are firing rockets into Russia?
To save various global corporations investments in Ukraine?
Don’t worry though. We’ve no iron dome, but the home guard at Gibraltar Point should be able to shoot down a Mach 10 missile with .22 rim fire.

It was a bit of a coincidence that the land reforms came in just as this was kicking off

 

[principal skinner]

I pulled that off Twitter, I also think no7 could be very plausible

 

[Ted M]

Reminds me of a slightly less elaborate plan the developer in season one of Yellowstone had to inflate the property taxes to a point where the ranchers couldn't afford them, so they could hoover up the land when they had to sell. Truth stranger than fiction?

 

[stroller]

Is it any good putting in a freedom of information request for the minutes of the meeting between starmlin, gates and fink just before the budget?

 

[Yale]

Reminds me of a slightly less elaborate plan the developer in season one of Yellowstone had to inflate the property taxes to a point where the ranchers couldn't afford them, so they could hoover up the land when they had to sell. Truth stranger than fiction?

It’s occurred to me that by pushing our kids to get good careers off the farm it may even save the farm. If they are wealthy enough they may never have to sell. The farm will become an amenity and not their income. Maybe farmers kids should all be pushed for good careers to help them come back and keep it in the family.

If we were all Clarksons big business couldn’t touch us.

 

[Hilly]

All sounds plausible but spoilt by the addition of item 7.

Why which bit of 7 is not plausible ?

 

[Suffolk Serf]

If you think that the above is a bit far fetched, look at what has happened in the pig and poultry sectors, where there are now very few independent operators.
The ups and downs of the pig sector had almost always been via the ups and downs of prices, following the ups and downs of supply, in an almost predictable cycle. The efficient and financially strong producers managed to survive. Some managed to grow substantial businesses by cleverly operating counter cyclicly- expanding when times were bad and standing still and consolidating when things were good.
Astute producers managed to reduce the price risk through risk managed contracts, prices linked to cost of production, or with bases to the price in the contract.
This led to the processors needing a new weapon to keep producers in line, as they couldn't dominate by manipulation of price- they invented the "rolling" of pigs, refusing to take independent producers finished pigs at the contracted numbers, taking them at a much reduced volume, meaning that the pigs on the farms quickly got over crowded as they continued to grow and young pigs continued to add to the farms population. The finished pigs got heavier, swiftly growing out of the required specification. The processors would then, most magnanimously, buy the pigs at a much reduced price, from the increasingly desperate farmers.
Financial losses and cashflow pressures swiftly accumulated on even the most efficient farms. Eventually many producers saw a way through- to let the processor "buy" their herds, retain the ownership of the family farm and become "contractors" to the processor, a much more stable way to scratch a living but a much less independent one.
One processor now owns approaching 100,000 breeding sows and all the grow/finish pigs from those. The UK sow herd is little over 300,000 sows.
The two other processors are also in pig production at a very large scale.
As outlined in the first post, BlackRock is the largest shareholder in the largest processor, their main customer is Tesco, whose largest shareholder is......
It can and does happen.

 

[hendrebc]

Further to the above, just found this on another thread, (thanks @principal skinner and X)
Watch out British Farmers, This is how @Keir_Starmer 's new best buddies at BlackRock are going to screw you over in 7 steps ...

1. They will start buying up small plots of agricultural land at double the normal price. They will issue a directive to all of their energy companies simultaneously to aggressively acquire plots for carbon capture. These third parties will start bidding against each other and force the value of agricultural land up.

2. Initially farmers won't believe their luck - "these city folks are mad! if they want to buy an acre for £50K, who am I to say no to these fools" is what you'll hear down the pub.

3. These crazy prices will set record high comparisons for agricultural land. When a farmer dies, their farm will be valued using these new metrics and the next generation will discover the farm they thought was worth £3M is worth £9M and they don't have anything close to the money needed to cover the tax.

4. In swoops a BlackRock subsidiary with a "Agri Debt Finance Tax Relief" product to lend them 20% the "value" of their farm so they can pay the taxes.

5. The debt will come with conditions (a covenant) that the farm has to adopt and maintain certain practices. It has to use certain BlackRock owned fertilisers, software, machinery and labour solutions that get the farm ready to interface with a larger conglomerate.

6. When a farm cannot make its debt payments, it is sold at auction. BlackRock subsidiaries are instructed NOT to buy these farms at auction. They have a special arrangement to buy the unsold farms at a rate that covers the unpaid debt plus outstanding fees and taxes to government... basically what the farm was originally worth.

7. A BlackRock subsidiary then takes over the farm, consolidates it with a massive group of farms and uses illegal immigrant labour to staff the farm (which will be another government program they institute to deal with the immigration crisis). The government will literally pay for the labour costs as part of this plan making the farms wildly profitable and making small family farms unable to compete.

I'm with you up to no6. They will buy the farms to use for rewilding, carbon sequestration, carbon offsetting or whatever else.
Control of food is somewhere on the list but the carbon thing is the important one for now that's tje next gold rush.

 

[Yale]

I'm with you up to no6. They will buy the farms to use for rewilding, carbon sequestration, carbon offsetting or whatever else.
Control of food is somewhere on the list but the carbon thing is the important one for now that's tje next gold rush.

And Bill Gates will see to food supply from his gloop factories!

 

[Suffolk Serf]

They might buy your land and "allow" you to contract for them.