-------- Original message --------
   From: John Newman <jnn@synfin.org>
   Date: 6/20/17 4:25 AM (GMT-08:00)
   To: Georgio Soros <soros@loves.dicksinhisan.us>
   Cc: nettime-l@mail.kein.org, cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org
   Subject: Re: Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a
   land!   Everybody gets a land!"

   On Jun 19, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Georgio Soros
   <soros@loves.dicksinhisan.us> wrote:
   >> stef s at ctrlc.hu
   >> Sun Jun 18 07:53:13 PDT 2017
   >>
   >> pro-russian propaganda
   >
   > What is wrong with Russia ?
   >
   > So fuck off to siberia and farm some strawberries.
   Read it. He intends to do it in all regions.

   Ps. I just read black folk in the US gave up on waiting for their 40
   acres and mule and there's a movement to begin expropriating land by
   force.

   Rr

   > Putin Becomes First President To Give Free Land
   > To All Citizens Willing To Farm:
   > rt.com/business/392450-russia-free-land-putin/
   > archive.fo/VcK34
   >
   > - - - -
   >
   > Russian President Vladimir Putin has become the first world leader to
   > offer every single citizen a free hectare of land in any part of
   Russia.
   >
   > Putin has agreed to expand a program that offers citizens land in
   > Russia’s Far East to all of the country’s regions.
   >
   > The President discussed his plans during a Q&A session on Thursday,
   > saying that he believes there is so much land in Russia that
   everybody
   > should be entitled to a piece of it.
   >
   > “There is enough land in Russia. Forty-three million hectares of
   > farmland alone are not used for their intended purpose. These are
   huge,
   > just huge land reserves,” Putin said.
   >
   > Under the Russian version of the Homestead Act, every citizen can get
   a
   > free hectare of land in the Far East, if they are willing to put it
   to
   > good use. Within the first year, the recipients must declare how they
   > want to use the land, and, in three years, must report on how it is
   > being developed. After five years, the land can be sold or leased.
   >
   > Some 93,000 applications have been received since the program was
   > launched in June of last year and nearly 20,000 of those have been
   approved.
   >
   > The regions with free land on offer include Yakutia, Kamchatka,
   > Chukotka, Primorye, Khabarovsk, Amur, Magadan, and Sakhalin, as well
   as
   > the Jewish Autonomous Region. The land can be used for any lawful
   > purpose, but the new owners cannot rent, sell, or give the land away
   for
   > five years.
   >
   > Foreigners are also eligible to use the land, but the registration of
   > full property rights is only possible after the recipient becomes a
   > naturalized citizen.