[Albion Wilde]

Giant ping-out. One of the most important statements I’ve read in months.

[Carry_Okie]

From my first book, published in 2001:

Once democratic acquisition of the use of property is codified under the power of government, commons are forever subject to political control. Economic goods that originate from the land become desired for the collective perception of individual benefit, because the cost is but a whim.

The asset, the environment, has been thus devalued to little more than that.

First, people want to control a view, then they want it as a place to hike, then add the water in the creek to protect the fish, a wetland for migratory birds, a whole watershed to control all erosion, or to add a buffer zone to reduce encounters with overpopulated bears. Then they want it to be closed to all public entry so that they don't feel guilty, then they want it connected to a corridor to transmit genetic variability, then they want a whole forest region as a carbon sink, then a mountain range as a bio-zone for the expression of spiritual life forces, then...

Given that the ability to gain personal control of commons is based upon the ability to make a political sale, there are several prerequisites:

• A simple justification to maximize the applicability of the claim to individual perceptions and desires.
• A majority perception that acquisition comes at minimal personal cost.
• Collective benefits that are difficult to measure or long deferred.
• Powerful beneficiaries with sufficient personal interest and resources to fund and execute the taking.
• Control of communications media to consolidate political forces then becomes the means to control the factors of production and key to the control of wealth.

I think that's reason enough to understand why owning a communications channel is profitable even while operations are not. As long as the owner of the company has other assets that can be profitably manipulated by said medium, there is no end to what they will do. This is why the real problem with the MSM is that they are owned by giant corporations using those operations to improve the returns on their other holdings.

[Marine_Uncle]

Things are starting to get interesting. But sadly the throngs of totally ill informed people who will be voting for the usurper yet again, will not see such articles.

[LucyT]

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Article, and first four comments, then # 12.

Thanks, Albion Wilde.

[MHGinTN]

America is to the point that even guillotines from orbit might not clean it up!

[Kenny]

How do we go about it, a phone protest to our Representatives and Senators? How do we get people on-board to swamp DC with calls & letters. I know I’ve seen it done before here but I’ve never initiated one.

Our votes should not be counted in another country, that’s unacceptable.

[weston]

Thank You for the Ping, AW.

Caddell is a Patriot for calling out the media for their Pravda ways.