They want the land. By Elizabeth Nickson at Absurdistan.

Our land is being stolen by bankers and oligarchs. Every acre, every hectare they take, means our regression to modern serfs. We are being driven into the cities where we can be tracked and traded like widgets.

This has not been addressed by Trump. His team have pruned regulations and are breaking the meat packing cartel, but land taking continues, hand over fist. It is wrong. It is complex.

The Iron Triangle of bureaucrat, activist and legislator works silently to take our land. Buy a farm, a forest, a beachfront, and immediately people set themselves to tie it in regulation, and drive you off. Tens of millions have been driven into the cities, and many of them, shorn of family and meaning, end up on the streets.

As we have learned just this year, almost all activists are paid and directed by oligarchs. In the environmental business, behind the hysteria, the supposed ‘grass roots’, lie the financeers, who are the richest people on earth, and who ruthlessly, through dozens of cut-outs, use activists, bureaucrats and legislators to get what they want: the land.

Some sort of new feudalism seems to be gradually replacing our short-lived democracies. Control of assets via manipulating the money system is the key tool, by which the bulk of the population gradually return to living from paycheck to paycheck, their lives controlled by an untouchable elite who import a new population of serfs to compete with the trouble-makers.