WorldPingAl Jazeera
WorldPingAl Jazeera
Palestinian landowners confront bulldozers using their hands
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Fortune
New LA Angels owner Stan Kroenke is quietly America’s largest private landowner, boasting 2.7 million acres and besting Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos
WorldPingKroenke’s purchase of nearly 1 million acres of ranchland marks a growing trend of the ultrawealthy snapping up farmland as an alternative asset.
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