Mark Zuckerberg DOUBLES size of his
Hawaii property empire after spending
$53m on 600 acres of beachfront land
despite million-person petition calling
for a ban on his 'colonization' of
paradise island
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/1/2021 9:56:27 AM
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have almost doubled the size of their estate in Hawaii, purchasing a neighboring 600 acre plot for $53 million in a move likely to further enrage his island critics. The Facebook founder, who began buying up chunks of the island in September 2014, added the additional land on March 19, according to Pacific Business News. Kauai is the fourth largest of Hawaii's eight main islands, and home to 67,000 people. The north shore land, which includes the spectacular Larsen's Beach, was bought from a nonprofit organization established by a local family, whose roots, the paper reported,
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The same Obamas, Gores, Zuckerbergs, and others who sow fears about Our Rising Seas are also purchasing as much oceanfront property as they can. Democrat voters lack the capacity to question this, and so Failed USA will overhaul the economy to fight Climate Change, with the same people poised to profit from the remedies to a nonexistent problem.