Good v Evil: Farmers fight Blackrock & WEF, stealing UK land! Trump/Putin Greater Israel Syria deal?

The Richie Allen Show Wednesday December 11th 2024
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2024-12-11T11_19_31-08_00

War and Theft: Blackrock’s Hostile Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land – Private Equity’s 21st Century Global Enclosure for Slavery

War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural LandView of the wheat field during the harvesting season near Krasne village, Ukraine

https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/war-theft-takeover-ukraine-agricultural-land

The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is over nine million hectares — exceeding 28 percent of Ukraine’s arable land. The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests — mostly European and North American as well as the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. Prominent US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are invested through NCH Capital, a US-based private equity fund.

Several agribusinesses, still largely controlled by oligarchs, have opened up to Western banks and investment funds — including prominent ones such as Kopernik, BNP, or Vanguard — who now control part of their shares. Most of the large landholders are substantially indebted to Western funds and institutions, notably the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank.Western financing to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment program that has required austerity and privatization measures, including the creation of a land market for the sale of agricultural land. President Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector. Findings of the report concur with these concerns. While large landholders are securing massive financing from Western financial institutions, Ukrainian farmers — essential for ensuring domestic food supply — receive virtually no support. With the land market in place, amidst high economic stress and war, this difference of treatment will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses.

The report also sounds the alarm that Ukraine’s crippling debt is being used as a leverage by the financial institutions to drive post-war reconstruction towards further privatization and liberalization reforms in several sectors, including agriculture.

‘Greater Israel’: With Assad out of picture, Israel moves to grab more Syrian land

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/11/738905/%E2%80%98Greater-Israel-Israel-starts-a-land-grab-in-Syria-after-opposition-removed-Assad

With the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, the Israeli regime has intensified its aggression on Syria, initiating an unlawful land appropriation beyond the occupied Golan Heights in what is seen as a component of the so-called “Greater Israel” project.

In a dramatic turn of events, militant groups overrun Damascus on Sunday, less than two weeks into their offensive that began in Aleppo, ending the two-decade reign of Bashar al-Assad.

Immediately after militants affiliated with Hayat Tahrir-al Sham swarmed Damascus, Israel launched a barrage of airstrikes across Syria, including in Damascus, Homs, Tartous, Latakia and Palmyra.

Israeli media called it “one of the biggest air attacks” in the regime's air force’s history, destroying up to 80 percent of Syria’s military capabilities.

On Wednesday, Israel’s military said it carried out about 480 strikes on military targets in Syria over the past 48 hours, including on 15 naval vessels, anti-aircraft batteries and weapons production sites in several cities, to prevent “strategic weapons stockpiles."

A day before, the Israeli military targeted three major Syrian airports in Qamishili, north of the country, Homs, the country’s third-largest city, and Mezzeh airport in the capital Damascus.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Israeli attacks on the governorate of Deraa in southwestern Syria earlier on Monday killed at least two civilians.

The aerial bombardment coincided with the Israeli military's attempts to illegally occupy more Syrian territory, beyond the already occupied Syrian Golan Heights, overruning the Golan buffer zone.

According to observers, it marks the Israeli regime's most audacious incursion into Syrian territory since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the regime moving “men and material” into the buffer zone.

“We need to see a stop to the Israeli attacks,” UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen was quoted as saying. “It’s extremely important that we don’t see any action from any international actor that destroys the possibility for this transformation in Syria to take place.”