On 5/16/16, J <jason.mcvetta@gmail.com> wrote:
Content generated by the team will be featured on news.trust.org, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s website, and on place.trust.org, the new platform dedicated to land and property rights.
Who would possibly trust an organization whose domain name is "trust.org"? I know nothing else about this group, but from that fact alone it's obvious they are not to be trusted.
Intending to raise awareness of issues around the primary foundation of capitalism ("property rights") is not a bad thing per se. But I have concerns with this already - Reuters to me is MSM - 'a billion readers a day' - 'aims to generate and curate trusted news' yeah I'm sure they do, but is this something you say? - "the world’s first global news team dedicated to coverage of land and property rights" sounds like an agenda about to be pushed by the current MSM/ planetary power brokers - "the launch of a new digital platform" - GTFOOH, a new digital platform! aren't we all going to be impressed - Yee Haw people, someone's about to save the world (now where's an old Sega system) My greatest concern is that this media platform could be a foundation for promoting and facilitating changes which will empower capitalist opportunism enslaving people to a greater and greater degree - i.e. empowering those who already have monetary power in the world to increase their monetary power over those in the world who they currently have difficulty enslaving due to LACK of property ownership rights! Stability of community and family requires stability of: - access to clean water for drinking, cooking and growing food - right to use land to grow food - warmth, i.e. a roof and heating and cooking ability - and prosperity requires (I think) the right to freedom of free and anonymous travel. "Inordinate wealth" (i.e. enslaving other humans) can be achieved with property ownership - the owner then becomes a land lord, collecting rent; that's difficult to achieve with NO property ownership - i.e. if you're allowed to live in your house without paying rent, grow food without someone taking that food, and barter than food and your work efforts without being taxed and can travel freely, then you are essentially free - BUT land and property OWNERSHIP fucks that all up. Ownership of land per se is not a prerequisite to stable and abundant community, and indeed "ownership" of land has ultimately been the foundation of Western society's --massive-- wealth divide. Phrases like "rent seekers", opportunists, rates and taxation, leverage of capital and ultimately widespread economic slavery ought come to mind at this point... Russia is still giving plots of land to its people, and does not allow sale inside of the first 5 years of ownership. My view is that this time period should be greater, or perhaps documents should be made readily available so those who are inclined, protect said land for their grandchildren's use (and not sale) in a legal trust. (I'll grant the original marketing material is pretty slick, but bypasses a metric tonne of important, --foundation-- considerations; agenda or ignorance, take your pick.)