that this is now of land barons shrinking a article just came out. shares of us shares of adults to us middle class has decreased considerably since 1971. and this is by a repeal research. so it's not like a made up thing here. and you have it in front of every body's eyes. the upper income is getting richer and the rest of the people getting for microsoft founder bill gates through his red river trust has recently become america's biggest private individual owner of farm land. he just recently bought up 275000 acres. now the last time i checked, gates wasn't a farmer. so what do it's about? the power hungry venture of life is one after another. you're buying up everything

on everything. and you look at the companies that control so much so few controls so much, you know, once upon a time they were anti trust laws in america with a big split known everything. so this is just an extension of who they are. and it's part of what america is, because i call is nothing more than plantation workers on the plantation of slaves land. yeah. and that's all, that's all it is. so again, you have to look at the whole big picture. you go to, what are you going to go to school for being go? what do you guys spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax payers money for to put somebody through kindergarten to $12.00 grade. so they could drive in amazon truck. so they could work work at the walmart. how about they could get a job that loans. so i'm just saying this is, it's part of the whole picture. the land is just one of the many areas that

they own from equities, to land. oh, and another important thing that they own. let's not forget that they own the politician. look how much money in george soros has pointed to elections in the united states. you want to run for as a loser in texas, and your name is beta lo rock. and you spent a $100000000.00 to lose the governor's race. where did you get the dollar from? so that's what it is. this isn't a land of the free anymore. it's the land owned by the banks at every different level. i forgot the banks have a few banks on most of the bank money in america. so gerald americas to top land owners are telecom baron john malone. he owns 2200000 acres, the media mobile, ted turner. he owns a cool,

2000000 acres. he's coming in 2nd, but internationally they've got nothing on the late queen elizabeth, the 2nd whose total global land ownership comes in at a staggering 6 point. 6000000000 acres. that's where the b 1000000000 a. so by contrast, king abdullah of jordan owns only about 550000000 acres. so the lake queen, i mean, maybe now that that gets passed down to king charles, i don't know how that works, but she was far and away the world biggest private land owner. what does this say about how far we've actually come in our economic system? i mean, we say it's capitalism, but when you assess the land, this looks like feudalism. yes, when you assess the land it is futile. ready is, and the land is only just one part of it. it's a futile system. again,

you have one percent in the united states on 54 percent of the equity markets. look what happened when the queen is dead, like it's a big deal. you know, she's better than the rest of us. if you mother father says the brother, friends die, who gets oh, but if you're a celebrity or a queen, oh my god died. you know, so that's what's happened and it's, it's take over all across the globe. the rich you don't have to believe me. how about the latest? ok, sam reports. it just came out as the davos meeting happened. what was it? the billionaires got? how much richer? $27.00 trillion dollars richer. in 2 years. i want to make this really clear. this is better than the feudal system for the feudal owners,

because when there was real slavery, you had a how's the men see the this is a much better deal. now you work for peanuts and you've got just enough money, g, e, and lives you go deep in debt any way and they get back to work because we are paying enough. so this is the new futile system. as i said, all we are, are plantation workers on the global plantation of slave land in the numbers side again, don't believe me ask ok. all right, back in 2012 scotland was pushing for independence from the u. k. now that measure failed by a very narrow margin, but around the same time, the scottish government commissioned a study that turned out a recommendation that the government should develop laws around what they called upper limits on land ownership by a. and this is a quote, a private owner or single beneficial interest. so this recommendation was reviewed

by the leading tory party in the u. k. so that fell flat tories saying this is counter to the magna carta. what do you think of development of such a law over there? maybe here, internationally. it was something worth considering. then the negative end of it always when the government gets involved in something, you know, it's always a losing cause to the people. so often they may do something like that, you know, they'll be, yeah, it, it never works out what, what the, with a real bigger issue is, is i see it again. it's how they've done away with so many anti trust laws all around the world, particularly in the united states do stuff. i think all the robinson happened extra magic was just that clayton anti trust that oh and i forgot the glass steegal that you know that the bags to is got bigger on show think i'm saying is it we need

a whole new system is think it all of the system of development, because the way the situation is right now and allowing these few to own so much it's, it's not going to change with just the law like that. and you mentioned the for example, um uh, ted turner, which the she a that look how many companies control the entire u. s. media, what is it 5 or 6 that control over 90 percent of it again doing away with all those laws. oh, and you get an ag bill clinton for that one. the 1996, there were communications that before that sounds as if people all across the country on television stations, radio stations on and on. and then the big started taking over everything. so again,

what this is, it's, it's a much bigger issue than the land. and most people have no idea about how much they are losing and how the fuel gaining so much. whether it's land, civil rights, any other issue of good? how could you call america a democracy? when it is, you don't have a lot of money and you're not backed by the bigs. you're not going to win an office of any kind of significance in this country. it's all about the bottom line. and the very top, oh is the country the numbers are there, the facts, are there again, the latest studies showing how the middle class in america keeps shrinking and shrinking, shrinking. oh, and i forgot you talking about buying a land. how about all those quote, investment firms that buy up the homes almost 20 percent of them and rent them

out to the plantation workers because they can't afford to buy their homes. so again, it's across the board that the few on so much funny you should bring up, they don't or work, but it was father in law is actually one of the biggest property developers in south texas. so there you go. all right, we'll hold it right there. coming up next, the roman catholic church is scrutinized. once again, this time for the amount of land, the fail worldwide, we'll discuss it when we return with gerald salenti. sit tight, the m o will be right back. the is the memory loss can extend back decades. the starts an intensive course of memory, but cover on our

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welcome back to the m. o, i'm a know a chance. so in recent years, the catholic church has faced a lot of backlash and criticism on allegations of sexual misconduct by its priest. but now people are starting to notice something else. they own a whole lot of land around the world. gerald, so lend to the publisher of trends journal is back with us. so gerald in india, outside of the government, the biggest land owner is actually the catholic church of india. they own tens of thousands of acres across the country. now globally, the roman catholic church is the biggest non governmental entity to own land. they own around $70000000.00 hectares of land. that's a 173000000 acres of land. if i did the math correctly, why does a religious organization need to own so much land? you know, it did not. it the whole,

the whole game is changed to get. uh huh. what are they giving back to the people who i was raised catholic going to catholic school, the whole thing, you know and uh what, what are they, what do they giving to the people? and so there's another ad go to this whole thing and all the land that they own. they don't pay taxes, that's the other, that's the other part of it. and whether it's the, whether it's the schools or the universities, or all of these, you know, private, all these, these organizations that don't pay taxes. you know, it's a scale. and, you know, in talking about, you know, what they, what they own, as well as the catholic church and all of that. you know, we're all the religions by the way, with the, with this ukraine weren't going on. we're any of them talking about peace. you know, there's a snake in america called the pledge allegiance, i pledge allegiance to, to the republic. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible,

liberty and justice rule. what nation under god wants? what? so what, what is the catholic church is about money and power? and that's all it is that you mean that they're not giving back. and they own so much, but again it's, it's not only damage it's through, it's just, it's all of these, these, these, these religious and universities that keep taking in money, taking money, taking money, don't pay taxes. so it would appear that the wealthy look at land just like any other asset in their portfolios. but is it just another asset class or is there more meaning behind land and in property ownership? as being a property owner is, is, is real, where it's that is, is buying real estate. you know, real estate has its ups and downs, but in the long term it just keeps going up. so that's why a lot of what they're buying as well. it buying it for investment purposes,

knowing that the price is going to go up. so that's another big part of it. and you know, i was just a, this is off not what we're talking about, but very, very important because it also has to do real estate in a different way. you know, since they want you to call it one more people are working at home. and you have an office occupancy rate in the united states, according to castle that's spelled with a k at 50.4 percent in los angeles, the biggest uh, office developers. they just cannot pay one of their uh, loans that just came up the defaulting on it. there's going to be an office building bus in this country, the likes of which you've never seen. because people are going back to work businesses what it used to be. so rather than having 15 floors in a building person will say, listen, stay home, work from home. you can come in 2 or 3 days a week. i only need 4 floors anymore. this is going to be really big. so i'm just

mentioning that as a whole nother aspect and thinking about real estate, because the reason they're buying all the real estate and the land is because real estates of money maker, the values keep going up. and they also know that is going to be more and more big just doing the farming, unless, unless there's a little people so they can get all they want for form property and everything else . so that's why they're buying that. but i also want to put the bigger picture into it, and this isn't only going to happen to the united states. it's happening around the world. whether it's in london or berlin, whether rich in rome or paris, less than less, people are going back to work in all those businesses that depended on commuters, on not going to do very good and all those very rich that own all those big office buildings are going to do very bad, particularly by. ready way as interest rates go up, they have to pay more and they were testable rate loans. right? but for the average person, home ownership,

land ownership is something that can be generational. and as you know, they say god isn't making anymore land. so what do you, what do you say to that the land has his priorities value, if it's a particularly farm land and you're seeing all the problems going on with weather changes and, and less and less crops coming from here in. ready there, so they want this land for what it is. and again, the value keeps going up. you look at real estate, you know, it's, it's a, it's a, a winner investment. one of the things in my life that i wish i did when i was younger was bought more real estate age, start doing it till so i was much older and it's been very, very beneficial. show you the populations are huge. you have to see the people and they're buying up all of this farm land because they know the value of it. and the value, you know, the value, they dip for a little bit. you know, when you have restrictions and depressions. ready long term it just keeps going up . so the more they own,

the richard they get and they love being very rich because look at the pipe, peanuts i think, give back to the people who are having worth a 100. $20000000000.00. $18000000000.00 a. here's a couple of pennies i call it, you know, donations. so they're power hungry and, and uh, and hungry for money. so they're doing it for themselves. now speaking of portfolios, rates, these real estate investment trust, they own over 15000000 acres of timber land across the us, around 503000 properties that include things like apartment buildings, hotels, businesses, a commercial office buildings and so forth. collectively, according to nar rate, the national association of rates rates own around 4 and a half trillion dollars in gross assets across this country. and this number's only growing the re argument is that this allows people to invest in real estate without

having to actually be an owner operator of a property. but on the flip side, doesn't the gross or popularity of rates actually increase the number of these of the so called permanent renter class. a permanent regular class is the new way of america. you have young people more and more. you look at the numbers, they're moving in with their parents. you know it when, when i was a young guy to be one of the get out of the house and never your department can't do it anymore unless you get a couple of friends with you as well. and again, these rates and what you're talking about. again, when i was a young guy, you know, reach, there were no private equity groups. there were no hedge funds this, this is all, no, no vesting capitalism. capitalism, this is all new. and so the controlling more and more again, the look at the black stones buying up all of those homes and these other groups.

and then renting amounts of the people because they know they can't afford to buy them. this is the new way of america. and again, as i said earlier, it's not only in the sector, it's from, it's from grocery stores, hardware stores, stationery stores, drug stores, their own buy chains. and so the chains own everything and the people and nothing more than plantation workers that are owned by the chains. and again, the politicians sold out the public with all the de regulations of the laws that were put in place that the anti trust laws and others that would prevent this. but the reason that the politicians did it, it's a thing called, what more ons in, in this, those cool campaign contributions that adults and people that could think for themselves for bribes and pay us. so through the bribes and payoffs. they've

destroyed what america used to be, as my ancestors called it, the land of opportunities. and so was part of the so called american dream. it was to own a home, a small part of land that seems increasingly more difficult if not impossible to reach. is the american dream dead? the american dream is dead, has been killed in a number of ways, not just through the deregulation of all of these anti trust stacks that made the big zone with every thing. but it's also, it's america's mentality. the business of america is war. and it and, and that's where they're putting the money into it. they're not putting it into the people into the look at the infrastructure of the country riding in front of us like that, train derailment in ohio. and that's what do they have

a 1000 train derailments a day according to the numbers. so the country's going down is, this is not the america that i grew up in. and you don't have to believe me once upon a time. it was a man by the name of dwight d eisenhower. 5 star general supreme commander, the allied forces were award to any one's the american people that the military industrial complex, his robbing the nation of the genius of the sciences. the sweat of the labor is in the future. the jealousy is this of what a $120000000000.00. the ukraine as the people can't afford to pay their rent. i have homeless people across the street from me sitting in the doorways all over the place. been to l. a. is it lovely? how about i left my heart in san francisco with all the homeless people all over the place. now they've destroyed americans so many different ways,

and they did the countless, the countless, the countless trillions of dollars that have been spent by the war machine, the military industrial complex that the white, the eyes now also on the bows. understand well address on january 17th, 1961. i've taken out of the country. oh, you don't have to believe me. look at the guy just playing out of defense. secretary lloyd austin. what was his last job? we said on the board of directors erasing on the 2nd largest defense contractor in america now is our secretary defense should know the american dream is being killed by. well, it's been killed by war and by politicians are only concerned about themselves and not with the people as also the problem with the people, because they don't stand up and fight. and so it's the people of our are getting what, what they're being said and they're not standing up. so it's, it's a,

you know, it's, it's, it's, comes to both sides. gerald, thanks so much for sharing your insights with us. also tell everyone how they can find more of your work. you can go to trends journal dot com trends. journal dot com. so you can read history before it happens. thank you for that, gerald. so empty. all right, that's going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep in the foreign policy. i'm your host manila. chad. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the m o the

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