Monday, June 24, 2019

Neo-Feudalism and Ownership of Property


The New York Times has a interesting article about how oligarchs are "buying up the west" here
Julie Turkewitz (2019, June 22). Who Gets to Own the West. The New York Times.
...Among the nation’s top landowners are Mr. Malone, with 2.2 million acres in New Mexico, Colorado and other states; the media mogul Ted Turner, with two million acres in Montana, Nebraska and elsewhere; Peter Buck, a founder of Subway; Charles and David Koch, who run cattle outside of Lubbock, Tex.; and Jeff Bezos, who operates his space company from a West Texas outpost. William Bruce Harrison, the scion to an oil fortune, now owns 19 mountainsin Colorado.
I am not saying that public land ownership is always preferable to private land ownership given governments' history of contaminating their land with experimentation and militarization.

Still, the pattern of property ownership is rapid consolidation. We see this trend in land acquisitions in the western US, in the growth of investment firms specializing in accumulating residential properties (e.g., see here), and in the land grabs going on overseas in countries that have fresh water, good soil, and weather conducive to agriculture.

The consolidation of ownership and decision-making occurring globally derives from many institutional relationships, but its clear that the era of democratization and realization of rising expectations is through for the majority of the populace unless MAJOR changes happen fast.

Scarcity for the vast majority seems to be on the horizon.


NEO-FEUDALISM

The US is a Plutonomy: Here Comes Neo-Feudalism - Majia's Blog
Jul 30, 2011 - The first use of the term “plutonomy” to describe the evolving economic distribution was, I believe, a 2005 Citigroup document dated October 16 ...



17 comments:

  1. A lie within a halftruth. The military and government despoiling of public land, was engendered by Oligarchs.

    Robber barons and their agents in the military-industrial complexes profited handsomely from the nuclear arms race and American war empire.

    Their spawn continue to do so. The old civil war robber barons made billions off war economies as their, genocidal progeny continue to do.

    Their genocides do not merely extend internationally, they are conducted largely here.

    Open air nuclear-testing of hundreds of atomic bombs on american citizesn and multiple other atrocitiess, are solid proof of that.

    War baronism, is institionalized in America. Bezos, The Bushes, Raytheon, Boeing are some more modern, lingering-examples.

    How ironically funny, that these assholes are buying up some of the most radioactively contaminated land in the world. Take Ted Turner's investments in Santa Fe land, for example.

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    2. Hurricane, Climate change, and Nuclear unpreparedness.

      Trump Gutted Part of Their Federal Budget so They Do Not Have Enoungh Full Time Firemen. They Have 3 Fire Engines instead of the 5.


      A friend went to an annual Hurricane EduCation Day at his local Parish fairgrounds, sponsored by THE Local Walmart. He said they had storm window displays. A public health table. Free hot dogs. Gave away a Tv. Fire Dept there. How to evacuate alzeimers people and more.The parish has refineries and gambling.

      It is a town in Louisiana that is the parish seat, with 38,000 people. It is in one the most flood prone and dangerous hurricane areas in the country. It has only 3 fulltime fireman and 1 flood rescue boat. Other towns that size have, twice that many fulltime fireman but. this parrish's govt funding is cut back.

      Their greatest achievement since the last hurricane has been to get “In God we trust” inscribed on all 3 of the fire engines they have, in a large parish, where three towns have been destroyed by flooding this year. The town has three fire engines and one rescue boat. The town meeds two more Fire Trucks and, 6 full time fireman. The Parrish needs 6 rescue boats. The parish is populated by climate denialists. Climate deniers, who will tell ya, that God and the president said it would be okay to stay this last time. Ok to stay this time, even though many are homeless from flooding and, can never rebuild after 10 continuous years of flood rebuilding

      They did have free hot dogs and cheap chips!

      I told my friend to ask them about the nuclear power plant close to their town and, about Chagas the evening before he went. Chagas is now epidemic in the SE, SW and most of the Southern United States.

      He said he talked to a 21 yo girl at public health table. She said she knows chagas is epidemic in the united states . My friend, said her older boss stepped over and said she could not talk about that.

      There was a question and answer about refineries and how to evacuate for the next hurricane. My friend asked about nuclear power plants. They said there was no risk to them.

      He pressed it.
      The local cops at the hurricane expo encouraged him to press the question of nuclear plants and hurricanes. The hurricane man from DHS got irritated at my friend and had him escorted him out of the pavillion by DHS guys

      That is the REAL America now

      New Orleans has only 6 flood rescue boats.

      America is Dying Faster Than You Know it Is.

      They are gutting public education, social services, public libraries and even fire departments.

      Climate change is ravaging america with floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. Hundreds of thousands of climate refugees. Competition for housing is destroying many people. Stagnant wages.

      There is little affordable housing . Trump and congress are spending trillions on Tactical nuclear weapons new ICBM systems, and star wars. They are spending 100s of billions on cyber warfare and intelligence agencies..

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  2. Well, the real culprits are the parents and grandparents of people in your age group. Citizens who considered that voting did it, and that after they had voted their duty was done, and they could pursue happiness with a clear conscience. As for being vigilant that could be left to journalists. A serious mistake as the journalists were never angels and were themselves also pursuing happiness by going after Pulitzer Prizes and jobs at the NYT or the Washington Post. Or in lieu of the journalists the Congress folk they had voted into office. Alas their faith was ill placed quite often.

    Some years ago when Ted Turner bought up land in western Nebraska, the area where I grew up, I winced. But at least his wife at the time was Jane Fonda, and she was from Omaha. I believe he built a golf course out there. It was too desolate for Ted, and I think he forgot about it. The Mormons also did the same thing.

    Unfortunately intelligence and education do not guarantee good judgement. Most people think they have good judgement which lays a great foundation for disaster. Presently we are seeing tyranny of the minorities. Grievance politics. Etc. Nancy Pelosi should take full advantage of the fact that Trump is a real doer, and much could be constructively done were it not the Democrats deranged belief that getting Trump is of the chief importance.

    I believe you are right that the New World Order is the New Feudalism. One blessing is that Trump is not a NWO fan. He is the best friend the majority has had in many years, a great many years. America's romance with Communism may have dwindled to a few glowing embers, but socialism may be piling up tender and hoping for a blaze. Coercion looms on our horizon.

    Finally, the recent Supreme court ruling on double jeopardy seriously misreads the Constitution which states plainly what should not be the case. Ginsburg and Gorsuch were right to dissent. Now reading the Bill Of Rights one is justified in wondering what they may actually mean in the future? Holder's definition of due process several years ago was an example of lawyerly craftiness.

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    But the allegation went largely undiscussed by major TV networks on Sunday morning, clearing the path for yet another sexual assault allegation against the president to slip into the void.

    ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC ― the networks that make up the “big five” of Sunday morning talk shows ― boasted major political players in their lineups that included Vice President Mike Pence and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

    And yet not a single one of them was asked about Carroll’s allegation that, just days earlier, had prompted front-page stories and news alerts from almost all of the major media outlets.

    Carroll on Friday became the latest of more than a dozen women to have publicly accused Trump of sexually assaulting, groping or forcibly kissing them since the early 1980s.

    In an excerpt from her upcoming book, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,” published in New York magazine on Friday, Carroll described Trump shoving her against the wall of a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and forcing his penis inside her.

    She was a 52-year-old former Miss Cheerleader USA

    Trump has also been accused of attacking an underaged girl

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    1. It used to be called gossip, malicious gossip. And intelligent people avoided it. Like the plague.

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    2. Carroll on Friday became the latest of more than a dozen women to have publicly accused Trump of sexually assaulting, groping or forcibly kissing them since the early 1980s.

      In an excerpt from her upcoming book, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,” published in New York magazine on Friday, Carroll described Trump shoving her against the wall of a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and forcing his penis inside her.

      She was a 52-year-old former Miss Cheerleader USA

      Trump has also been accused of attacking an underaged girl

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      Stephen bratton
      Attribution: Harris County Sheriff's Office
      Texas Baptist pastor who advocated executing women for abortion faces child sexual assault charges
      Jun 17, 2019 9:18am PDT by Jen Hayden, Daily Kos Staff
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      Stephen Bratton, a 43-year-old recently former Southern Baptist pastor in Cypress Station, Texas, has been charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a teenage relative over several years. From the Houston Chronicle:

      Stephen Bratton, who resigned from Grace Family Baptist Church in Cypress Station last month, was charged Friday with continuous sexual abuse of a child, Senior Deputy Thomas Gilliland said Saturday. The 43-year-old is accused of inappropriate touching that escalated to “sexual intercourse multiple times a day or several times a week” from 2013 to 2015, Gilliland said.

      Bratton seemed to have a keen interest in controlling women’s bodies and their health care. Because, of course he did.

      Bratton has been an outspoken pro-life advocate, making national news recently for supporting a failed bill that would have made it possible to criminally charge women who terminate their pregnancies.

      Bratton didn’t merely want to prosecute women for abortion, he supported a bill that have made abortion a capital felony and could even carry the death penalty for women.

      The Houston Chronicle reports Bratton confessed to his wife, who called his fellow church leaders. To their credit, they notified police the same day and took steps to immediately dismiss him and excommunicate him.

      Unfortunately, Bratton paid a $50,000 bond and was released.

      https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/17/1865367/-Texas-Baptist-pastor-who-advocated-executing-women-for-abortion-faces-child-sexual-assault-charges





      We know what will happen to the thousands of refugee kids, held in cages at the border. They are treated as less than animals. Several cases of sexual abuse by guards pending right now.
      The refugee children will be sold into Foster Care to be taken care of BY Republican-Religious-Fanatic-Pedophiles like this baptist preacher monster.

      Many of the refugee children, held in cages, at the borxer
      will be sold into adoption, to Rich Republican Pedophiles to be Sexually abused and ruined. The children will be ruined. They will growup abused, ruined and discarded with no future ecxcept more abuse in the American Mass incarceration system

      They will end up in the huge american Gulag Prison System, and Justus system of private prisons where they will be used as slaves . They will be sadistically abused for the rest of their lives.

      There are 3 million in the American Prsion sytem. A couple million or more on probation or in jail, at any given time for petty crimes. Highest incarceration rate in the world by a long ways.

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    4. The Troll's lies and propaganda

      "I believe you are right that the New World Order is the New Feudalism. One blessing is that Trump is not a NWO fan. He is the best friend the majority has had in many years, a great many years."

      Nafta no Friend of the Majority. Serial Rapist. Serial liar


      1. TRUMP PROMISED TO NOT TOUCH MEDICARE TO THE MILLIONS OF RETIREES THAT VOTED FOR HIM

      Trump's $4.7 trillion budget calls for a $845 billion cut to Medicare (link: https://yhoo.it/2VO4JpL) yhoo.it/2VO4JpL


      2. Trump is Privatising the veterans Asministration and slashing services for veterans

      3. Trump promises to Forgive Studemt Loan Debt

      4. Trump just signed a new NAFTA

      5. Trumps Tarrifs are destroying american farmers

      6. U.S. Sees Largest Reduction of Protected Lands in History Under Trump
      U.S. Sees Largest Reduction of Protected Lands in History Under Trump
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      7. In 2014, there were only 400 peer-reviewed studies on the health impacts of fracking, the report notes. Now, in 2019, the group had almost 1,800 studies to analyze, more than...

      Growing body of science links fracking to harm to health
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      7. Trump Gutting pesticide regulation and poison oversights

      8. Trump is destabilizing the world while america rots

      and much much more

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    5. Trump promised to forgive student loans them did an about face and changed it's mind as it has on most everything it says. Serial liar and psychopath

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    6. Environmentally Induced Female-Reproductive-System Related Illnesses


      There have  been precipitous increases, in the incidences of womens reproductive-related, diseases and syndromes,  in the past 50 years, in America.  All of these womens-diseases and syndromes  Have Increased.
      1. Uterine fibroids
      2. Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome
      3. Endometriosis
      4. Ovarian cysts
      5. Preclampsia
      6. Dysmenorhea

      The diseases and syndromes, all involve reproductive issues. They all affect a womans ability to have children. They are all debilitiating in some way. They are painful. They can lead to much more serious complications.

      The medical establishment will not come out and say that these diseases, are related to Environmental health issues . Issues like the large increases of estrogenic chemicals in the environment, from the petroleum and chemical industries.  Chemicals that surround us in our homes , clothes,  cars and food. Chemicals that are in plastics and synthetics. Chemical that are in everyday goods and in food packaging. The chemicals are everywhere.
      The establishment will not talk about the toxic chemicals and radionuclides, that now flood our environment. Chemicals and isotopes that are highly  Toxic, in very small amounts.  Chemicals and elements, that cause Drastic Physiological Changes in women's bodies. These highly potent chemicals, pesticides, and radionuclides cause hormonal disruptions, in the delicate balance, of female reproductive systems.

      The worst chemical toxins like, Dioxins, Pthalales, Pesticides are teratogenic and can be mutagenic, as well as hormone disruptors.
      By far and a cry ahead of the chemical poisons are the radionuclides, that are mutagenic . Radionuclides can cause heritable conditions. Radionuclides disrupt physiological process in very small amounts. They alone could be accountable, for the exponential increases in uterine fibroids, in the past 50 years.

      Uterine fibroids are painful. Quite often doctors perform hysterectomies, because of them.
      Here is an example of  what the medical establishment calls environmental factors for Uterine Fibroids "Environmental factors: Uterine infections, menstruation at an early age, high blood pressure, usage of birth control pills, obesity, vitamin D deficiency, a diet high in red meat but lower in green vegetables, fruit and dairy, and alcohol intake (mainly beer)"

      The medical system in America,  blames the victims of uterine fibroids and, other female reproductive illneses.  The American medical establishment says these illneses are  from bad lifestyle choices, poor genes, or ethnicity. They study certain asian populations and south american populations, that happen to have less pollution and radionuclides, in the environment. They find that these demographies and ethnicities have lower incidence, of female reproductive illneses. Illneses like uterine fibroids. The American Medical establishment will never attribute exposure to Chemicals and Radionuclides as primary causes or, even a minimum cause, in the divergence in American and other populations.

      It is odd to me, that the scientists who study radionuclide effects,  have many  studies that document decreases in male sperm count. Studies  of male fertility and viability from radiation and radionuclides, that show direct effects.  The scientists will say that male human sperm-count is declining precipitously, in males in industrial countries. Industrial countries like China and America.

      The medical establishment and researchers, will not address environmental exposure issues, involving female reproductive illness and disease.
      It is well known in scientific communities, that hormone-disruptors and other potent toxins affect womens reproductive health and related reproductive health issues. The science communities and medical communities choose to ignore them.





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  4. Woe unto Americans who will be caste down into outer darkness for choosing Trump as their leader and for listening to false preachers who molest little girls and boys!

    Or something like that. It is done very well, these maledictions which dot the KJV. If only the Anonymi could handle Elizabethan English.

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    1. You are the only thing, that consistently wants to change the subject Troll. If you do not like it, you can go to teach your low-brow Trump buddies, whatever version of English you think suits you. Puffed-up liar and air-head. Types a lot, says nothing. Repitition of Fox memes is all it is capable of.

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    2. You are not reading the comments by your mirror images who constantly indulge in attacking someone or other whom they call fascists . . . having apparently no awareness of Communists who have a superior record for murdering people. Check out the Black Book Of Communism which will be too long for you to read but perhaps you can read the short Amazon description. I see you have no idea what Elizabethan English is or what KJV is so you need to dash to Wikipedia and get educated. Better check out Communism as well.

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    3. These are the Family Values St George admires and especially in Trump. St George States That
      These Values are the Values of The Majority of Americans. Most American Fathers would be very angry at St Georges for Pushing anything close to this around their children. They would not be using Elizabethan English while they expressed their anger at him for minimizing Rape and advocating Pedophilia

      "1.Carroll described Trump shoving her against the wall of a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and forcing his penis inside her.

      She was a 52-year-old former Miss Cheerleader USA

      Trump has also been accused of attacking an underaged girl . Thats called Pedophilia."

      2.---Stephen Bratton Has Been a Solid supporter of Donald Trump. Bratton Says Trumps is a standup Guy Like you do. Bratton Said Trump is an outstanding family Man who Represents the afamily Values Bratton Endorses
      Stephen Bratton, who resigned from Grace Family Baptist Church in Cypress Station last month, was charged Friday with continuous sexual abuse of a child, Senior Deputy Thomas Gilliland said Saturday. The 43-year-old is accused of inappropriate touching that escalated to “sexual intercourse multiple times a day or several times a week” from 2013 to 2015, Gilliland said.
      Bratton seemed to have a keen interest in controlling women’s bodies and their health care. Because, of course he did.
      Bratton has been an outspoken pro-life advocate, making national news recently for supporting a failed bill that would have made it possible to criminally charge women who terminate their pregnancies.
      Bratton didn’t merely want to prosecute women for abortion, he supported a bill that have made abortion a capital felony and could even carry the death penalty for women. "

      3. There are hundreds of cases of Child Sexual Abuse Charges Filed against agents since Trump has been in power and they have gotten worse


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      City news editor of major #Fukushima local newspaper dies due to subarachnoid bleeding,at his age 49.
      May RIP.
      (link: https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2019061400630&g=obt) jiji.com/jc/article?k=2…
      Too many early deaths among famous figures in east #Japan after Dai-ichi #nuclear FO. #Japan& local govt ignore radioactive dust.
      #Olympics?

      水口拓也氏死去(福島民報社社会部長):時事ドットコム
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