and turkey, it'll be interesting to see how these achievements of international diplomacy influence the hearts and minds of the turkish people. it runs foreign minister, has joined security talks with his counterparts from syria, russia, and put a key i discussed efforts to restore stability in syria and a roof out terror groups that have emerged once again in the bullets one country, the interview with the iranian tv that's around something different about expressed high hopes for future cooperation and collaboration. a miss, i believe we should have positive results from the sessions. it was a step forward to closing the stance of was out of syria inter kia. we use this opportunity to meet with the foreign ministers of russia, syria enter key are going to follow up on agreements, especially economic and commercial agree is including the agree topics. a president right uses latest meetings with the russian and turkish presidents to no find progress has been made with russia interests here, especially in the last year or the amount of commercial exchange with both

countries have seen an optimistically increasing process. one of the good developments that have happened between the ron and russia is the activation of our private sectors, which resulted from the efforts of both countries, embassies pad, i believe a rainy and businessman, who will benefit from this potential same situation can be applied to your team have also the recent visit, the president, right, you see to syria was preparation for creating a new roadmap. and we will witness the activation of private sectors between iran and syria, as well on that towards course that road was instrumental in us syria being welcome back into the arab league and their role. and of course, joining brooks iran, of course, joining the s c o, as well as a multi point of world continues to build on user testing. so that's some of the hello i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. land barons, systems and era of vassals, lords, freeman,

and peasants. that was the 13th century european medieval society, commonly known as a futile system. all right, so that was then, this is now. so how far has modern society actually come in this capitalistic society? we'll discuss it. all right, let's get into the m o the, the. all right, so wherever was talking about bitcoin and these other coins, these days, new crypto is being invented at a center every day. but that's not where the super rich are parking their greenbacks. they're buying up land, crypto comes and goes and we just look at the international f t x scandal. stocks crash, but land. that's a safe bet. that's why for centuries the leads around the world for generations

have been buying up land as their preferred investment. land a real property are often slow to appreciate it a but slow and steady wins the race right way. and that's how generational wealth is created and how the cast system is still in place today. modern day land barons now will be united states, as they did in europe, centuries ago. the laws and systems in place ever since all around the world create the perfect environment to continue a futile state in the skies. so joining us to discuss as someone who has been monitoring global trends around the world from economics forecasting to social change over the last 40 years. gerald salenti is the publisher of the trends journal, and he is now joining us out of new york. so gerald, of a 2016 study by and why you were economists,

edward wolf found that the top one percent in america was 40 percent of this country's non home real estate. the next 9 percent owns another 42 percent of the real estate. so already that's 82 percent. the remaining 90 percent of the population owns just 18 percent of the country's available real estate. have we quiet, we slipped back into the era of land barons. oh, it's bigger than that. you know the numbers that you mentioned, you just keep putting me across the board. take a look at the thing called the stock market. one percent. oh is 54 percent. put the 10 percent together. they own 90 percent. so yeah, the biggest buying up every thing, whether it's land, you know, and i was a young guy. the septic score, grocery store. busy cause hardware stores,

stationery stores, drug stores, gone big zone at all, change drug change, hardware che, the grocery chains, drug store chains. so the, that's just an element of what's happened to the country and the big zip by buying it up. every thing in the middle class is shrinking. a article just came out. shares of us shares of adults, us middle class, has decreased considerably since 1971. and this is by uh, repeal research. so it's not like a made up thing here. and you have it in front of everybody'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. so the last time i checked, dates wasn't a farmer. so what gives 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 if you control so much, you know, once upon a time they were anti trust laws in america with a big secret known everything. so this is just an extension of who they are. and it's part of what america is, because i call as nothing more than plantation workers on the plantation of slaves land. yeah. and that's all, that's all it it. 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 pays money for to put somebody through kindergarten to $12.00. great. so they could drive in amazon truck to make a work work at the walmart. how about they could get a job that loans. so i'm just saying this is part of the whole picture. the land is just one of the many areas that they own from equities to lance ation of slave land via the numbers. say it again, don't believe me. 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. 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 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 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 had been extra magic was just that clayton anti trust that oh and i still got the glass steegal that you know that the bags there's got bigger on show they i'm saying is it we

need a whole new system. a think it how the system of development, because the way the situation is right now and allowing these future own so much it's, it's not going to change with just a wall like that. and you mentioned the, for example, um uh, type turner which she had that look how many companies control the entire us 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 federal communications that before that thousands of 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 study showing how the middle class in america keeps shrinking and shrinking and 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 geralds valente. sit tight, the m o will be right back the the,

the watching wires and why in this country if i give borrowed money in the store in this, they should have been a short order for now, i'm not going to say lots of green scans. when i knew what the subject georgia style session shiny or just is when you bought a new born you said almost in the the the, the blog and back to the m. o. i'm manila 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? the, you know, it's the non, it's a whole, the whole game is changed to get. uh huh. what are they giving back to the people? you know, i was raised catholic, always a catholic school, the whole thing, you know, and uh what, what are they, what are they giving to the people?

and so there's another ad go to the see whether it's the schools or the one nation under god, indivisible, it's not only damage is true, it's, this is all of the, these, these, these religious and universities that keep taking in money, taking money, taking the 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? bigger 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 yeah, it was just a, this is all, not what we're talking about. but very,

very important because it also has to do a real estate in a different way. you know, it should stay launched to call that 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, they 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. business is 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 values keep going up. and they also know that is going to be more and more big doing the farming unless, unless there's a little people so they can get all they want for farm 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. and all those businesses that dependent on commute is not going to do very good and all those very rich that own all those big office building is going to do very bad, particularly by. ready way as interest rates go up, they have to pay more and their adjustable 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?

and again, 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. he just started doing it till till 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. we're having here are worth

a 100. $20000000000.00. $18000000000.00. a, here's a couple of pennies i call the, 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. um, 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 that 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, they wanna reach, there were no private equity groups. they went to hedge funds. this, this is all new. you know, vested capitalism. capitalism do this is all new. and so they continue to look at the black stones buying up all of those of this. but the reason all of these, 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, 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 of the allied forces in world war 2, anyone's the american people that the military industrial complex, his robbing the nation and the genius of the sciences, the sweat of the laborers and the future. the jealousy is this of what a $120000000000.00 do you great as the people can't afford to pay their rent. i had 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. on his farewell 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, thank so much for sharing your insights with us. also tell everyone how we 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 into foreign policy. i'm your host manila. chad. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the ammo. the,

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