What Omidyar's been up to...
Fomenting media about indigenous land rights... Thomson Reuters Foundation launches Place to put land and property rights on global news agenda London (May 16, 2016) – The Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charity arm of the world’s largest news and information provider, today launched Place (Property, Land, Access, Connections, Empowerment), an innovative platform to boost coverage of land and property rights, one of the most under-reported issues worldwide. The new platform has been developed with support from Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm founded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar. Insecurity of land tenure and property rights is a major cause of global poverty and inequality and is strongly linked to the realisation of many development goals, including food security, economic empowerment of women, and climate change mitigation. Place aims to generate and curate trusted news and information on these issues, highlighting some of the complex dynamics related to property rights with the aim of making the subject accessible to a broader audience. Place creates the world’s first global news team dedicated to coverage of land and property rights, and the launch of a new digital platform, featuring original articles, information, analysis and opinion pieces. The Thomson Reuters Foundation team will do reporting and will select and aggregate content, ensuring the site both informs and triggers debate. “The lack of ownership or tenure is one of the world’s most silent crises and one with dramatic ramifications. The denial of such basic rights leads to exploitation and financial instability; it can destroy livelihoods, create inequality and even foment conflict. It particularly affects women who are not allowed to own or even inherit land in many countries,” says Monique Villa, Chief Executive Officer of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Through the generous support of Omidyar Network, our news will play a significant role in starting a global conversation on the subject.” “The lack of property rights is not just a concern for developing countries,” says Peter Rabley, Director of the Property Rights initiative of Omidyar Network. “It poses a threat to global security by putting food supplies at risk, fuelling violence in ever-growing slums in major cities, reducing opportunity and economic empowerment, and increasing pressure on the environment. The issues linked to property rights are a concern for everyone, and this innovative project with the Thomson Reuters Foundation aims to address these issues by bringing them into the public domain and sparking a global discussion.” Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists and videographers in Africa, India, Brazil and Britain will work with over 100 freelancers to produce daily news addressing issues such as the lack of land rights and its consequences, corruption, land appropriation, food security and human rights abuses. The team will also produce interviews with frontline thought leaders and compelling micro-documentaries to engage viewers through visually striking investigative stories. The journalists are part of the larger editorial team at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, will report to Belinda Goldsmith, editor-in-chief, and will benefit from editorial guidance, mentorship, facilities and a global distribution network reaching an estimated audience of one billion readers a day. 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. For more information on the project visit place.trust.org
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.
On 05/16/2016 12:09 PM, J wrote:
Content generated by the team will be featured on news.trust.org <http://news.trust.org>, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s website, and on place.trust.org <http://place.trust.org>, the new platform dedicated to land and property rights.
Who would possibly trust an organization whose domain name is "trust.org <http://trust.org>"? I know nothing else about this group, but from that fact alone it's obvious they are not to be trusted.
You don't know what Reuters is? This is the parent organization. The "Trust" moniker derives from the early 1900 and 1800s. It indicated a sort of conglomerate or coop approach to business. and those sorts of organizations often grew so large they were like monopolies. Hence the phrase: "Trust-Buster" http://www.ushistory.org/us/43b.asp
No reporter in north america Pierre gave over a million dollars to the cia to help eat the ukraine Maybe they are news gathering to scope out where the next good eats are On May 17, 2016 4:48 AM, "Rayzer" <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
On 05/16/2016 12:09 PM, J 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.
You don't know what Reuters is? This is the parent organization.
The "Trust" moniker derives from the early 1900 and 1800s. It indicated a sort of conglomerate or coop approach to business. and those sorts of organizations often grew so large they were like monopolies. Hence the phrase: "Trust-Buster" http://www.ushistory.org/us/43b.asp
Z:
"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
On 5/16/16, Cari Machet <carimachet@gmail.com> wrote:>
Maybe they are news gathering to scope out where the next good eats are
Basically this. Unless the current occupants are the ones both - setting up the system - with their names on the title in the end Bringing God to the godless usually isn't wanted and doesn't help. Z:
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.
Once you give up your voluntary rights, it starts looking dismal fast... https://www.google.com/search?q=no+property+tax https://www.google.com/search?q=no+income+tax https://www.google.com/search?q=no+sales+tax
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.)
On 05/16/2016 10:36 PM, juan wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:35:28 -0700 Rayzer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
Fomenting media about indigenous land rights...
omidyar and the reuters mafia babbling about 'land rights' make as much sense as jack the ripper lecturing on morality.
I sense you, like many fanatics, don't see the value of the 'small cracks' these sorts of things make in 'systems'. Let's talk conspiracy Juan, cause I KNOW you're bound to be one of those 'conspiracy nutjobs'. "Power Elite Conspiracies" exist but they are NOT overarching, cast in stone things with some 'plan' that made them happen. Conspiracies muddle through by hedging all bets. Any way the cards fall you win SOMETHING, and over time that something is at least additive if not geometrically or logarithmically enhanced. It's up to the proles to take advantage of the hedges that work for them. Because no one else is going to do it. Even the most perverse skewed reporting on an issue is better than none at all for too many reasons to enumerate here. If the proles can't figure out the media trap their ensnared in educate them. You'd just scoff. Hella solution. "I think people have the capacities to see through the deceit in which they're ensnared, but you've got to make the effort" ~Noam Chomsky He says so right here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsZwGbi9g8 (snigger, that's Tom Morello's mama announcing.) Ah but you think Chomsky's a CIA 'operator' don't you Juan? And Tom Morello, and Zack De La Rocha, and Abbie Hoffman Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, and Trotsky too. I guess everyone should just give up and not do anything at all. BTW, USAID is on the list of foundation donors. The skew is EASY to see, and EASY to work around just by those agency's visibility in the organization. Rr
usaid has no connect to the cia right and the us does no nation building reagan and nixon were smart people with smart admins wake up one thing - the fuck they build in the world can be utilized by others yes but not too close getting On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Rayzer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
On 05/16/2016 10:36 PM, juan wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:35:28 -0700 Rayzer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
Fomenting media about indigenous land rights...
omidyar and the reuters mafia babbling about 'land rights' make as much sense as jack the ripper lecturing on morality.
I sense you, like many fanatics, don't see the value of the 'small cracks' these sorts of things make in 'systems'.
Let's talk conspiracy Juan, cause I KNOW you're bound to be one of those 'conspiracy nutjobs'.
"Power Elite Conspiracies" exist but they are NOT overarching, cast in stone things with some 'plan' that made them happen. Conspiracies muddle through by hedging all bets. Any way the cards fall you win SOMETHING, and over time that something is at least additive if not geometrically or logarithmically enhanced.
It's up to the proles to take advantage of the hedges that work for them. Because no one else is going to do it. Even the most perverse skewed reporting on an issue is better than none at all for too many reasons to enumerate here.
If the proles can't figure out the media trap their ensnared in educate them. You'd just scoff. Hella solution.
"I think people have the capacities to see through the deceit in which they're ensnared, but you've got to make the effort" ~Noam Chomsky
He says so right here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsZwGbi9g8 (snigger, that's Tom Morello's mama announcing.)
Ah but you think Chomsky's a CIA 'operator' don't you Juan? And Tom Morello, and Zack De La Rocha, and Abbie Hoffman Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, and Trotsky too.
I guess everyone should just give up and not do anything at all.
BTW, USAID is on the list of foundation donors. The skew is EASY to see, and EASY to work around just by those agency's visibility in the organization.
Rr
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On Tue, 17 May 2016 08:13:44 -0700 Rayzer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
On 05/16/2016 10:36 PM, juan wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:35:28 -0700 Rayzer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
Fomenting media about indigenous land rights...
omidyar and the reuters mafia babbling about 'land rights' make as much sense as jack the ripper lecturing on morality.
I sense you, like many fanatics, don't see the value of the 'small cracks' these sorts of things make in 'systems'.
Oh, I do see the value of what your master omidyar does. I know qute well how propaganda works. The 'cracks' in the system are useful to keep the fake opposition happy. "Controlled opposition" Look it up. In wikipedia.
Let's talk conspiracy Juan, cause I KNOW you're bound to be one of those 'conspiracy nutjobs'.
Ok. So I'm a 'fanatic nutjob'. I'd rather be that instead of an omidyar lapdog.
"Power Elite Conspiracies" exist but they are NOT overarching, cast in stone things with some 'plan' that made them happen. Conspiracies muddle through by hedging all bets. Any way the cards fall you win SOMETHING, and over time that something is at least additive if not geometrically or logarithmically enhanced.
Handwaving and bullshit.
It's up to the proles to take advantage of the hedges that work for them. Because no one else is going to do it. Even the most perverse skewed reporting on an issue is better than none at all for too many reasons to enumerate here.
Sure, sure, sure. How could I have missed the invaluable value of establishment propaganda? Silly me.
If the proles can't figure out the media trap their ensnared in educate them. You'd just scoff. Hella solution.
"I think people have the capacities to see through the deceit in which they're ensnared, but you've got to make the effort" ~Noam Chomsky
He says so right here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsZwGbi9g8 (snigger, that's Tom Morello's mama announcing.)
Ah but you think Chomsky's a CIA 'operator' don't you Juan?
I know chomsky is a sick piece of shit. I aldready provided the data. Here it goes again. http://www.hoover.org/research/noam-chomsky-closet-capitalist http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/authors/noam-chomsky-ne...
And Tom Morello, and Zack De La Rocha, and Abbie Hoffman Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, and Trotsky too.
lol rayzer - you are a cheap marxist - you can't get more totalitarian than that. go kill people who don't obey The State's Traffic Laws.
I guess everyone should just give up and not do anything at all.
BTW, USAID is on the list of foundation donors. The skew is EASY to see, and EASY to work around just by those agency's visibility in the organization.
Rr
Omidyar's been running the anti-free-market abomination known as 'ebay' for 20 years(!). That makes omidyar a pioneer of the electronic police state. It should be pretty obvious that omidyar's been in bed with the 'national' 'security' mafia since day zero. Let me know when the shitbag 'leaks' the docs about his long collaboration with the state. I'm sure they'll get published on the intercept - greenwald will write an article.
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