Plunder Capitalism: Land Grab Tactics

“A nation of home owners, of people who own a real share in their own land, is unconquerable.”
~ President Franklin Roosevelt, November 1942

 By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn A. Betts, Esq.

I. Introduction

One of the primary targets of any major wave of plunder capitalism is land—which includes land and the many mineral and other natural resources that come with land and attached improvements—whether residential, commercial, or industrial.

Catherine first dealt professionally with land grabs when addressing mortgage fraud as Assistant Secretary of Housing, as well as with the use of government housing programs and credit to engineer gentrification and other patterns of economic takings in a place.

The financial crisis from 2008 to 2012 represented the partial clean-up of trillions of dollars in U.S. mortgage fraud following a remarkable mortgage debt bubble that also included significant fraudulent inducement of mortgage and consumer debt. Catherine described some of this period in her online book, Dillon Read & Co. Inc. & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.¹ The ultimate cost of U.S. government bailouts totaled approximately 300% of all the outstanding single-family residential mortgages in the country.

Since that time, the U.S. has experienced increased ownership of residential housing and land—and related home-building and real estate companies—by large private investors, including private equity firms. The Going Direct Reset further accelerated this ownership consolidation starting in fall 2019, as Wall Street grew rich in capital and Main Street was shut down.² In essence, central bank and federal government policies are supporting Wall Street in investing in land, real estate, and homes.

Collateral Fraud

Catherine has regularly commented on the problem of collateral fraud. Collateral fraud occurs when the assets used to secure a debt or security interest are not real or are used for multiple obligations. That means there is more debt outstanding than there are assets supporting the related debts.

In one sense, the outstanding U.S. Treasury market debt represents a collateral fraud, as trillions financed with U.S. Treasury bonds have been disappearing from the federal accounts. Consequently, the Treasury bond assets owned by pension and retirement savings funds do not enjoy the credit attributed to them based upon the reported assets (i.e., U.S. government assets) that support them—due to the trillions in “missing money” (see the Solari Missing Money website³).

One of our latest comments on the collateral problem appeared in Catherine’s review of a book by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist about problems in the collateral markets, “Book Review: Collateral Markets and Financial Plumbing by Manmohan Singh”⁴:

“The fundamental problem in the global collateral system is fraudulent collateral and fraudulent practices, often created by or with the help of parties that have sovereign immunities, making it difficult if not impossible to enforce contracts, stop fraudulent behavior, and prosecute perpetrators…. Given what is going on in the Going Direct Reset and in the global derivatives, fixed income, and currency markets, the pressure in the global collateral system is growing more explosive every day.”

As the debt growth model slows, with global sovereign government and private debt reaching significant levels, the competition for collateral is growing. So, it is not surprising that the incentive to acquire land is steadily increasing for both large and small investors. Among other things, converting debasing dollars and other currencies into real assets, given inflation pressures, is a sound investment strategy. When the music stops in a game of collateral fraud, you would much rather be holding a real asset than a securities portfolio filled with fraudulent collateral.

A Large Playbook

For the reasons just outlined, it is clear that the push to own land and related real assets is underway. Our conversations with subscribers indicate that the use of land-grab tactics is accelerating. The key question we must all consider is what we can do to protect owners of farmland, ranches, and homes from this type of plunder capitalism.

One of the challenges is that there is a very large playbook of tactics used to squeeze landowners and homeowners off of their land or out of their homes. Because the playbook is so complex, many owners do not see the plunder coming; even if they do, they may find the tactics difficult to combat. Consequently, we decided that an important first step is to provide a list of the two broad categories of tactics commonly used in land grabs. The first category harms or disadvantages existing owners, increasing the chances of a sale or literally forcing a sale or property transfer. The second set of tactics advantages the potential acquirers, giving them financial and political power in the market. It is also important to remember that jurisdiction matters. There is wide variation in experiences in different states and local areas. The more lawful your state and local jurisdictions, the better.

II. Tactics Targeting Owners

Tactics targeting owners (or clusters of owners) involve actions that effectively force the owner to sell or lose control over their property, particularly at a below-market-value price and at a time chosen by a third party, not the owner. We call a successful forced sale affecting a neighborhood, region, community, or other group a “beatdown.”

The following tactics purposely cause individual property losses. Whether brought about by federal, state, or local governmental administrative action or legal process, directed organized crime, covert operations, engineered disasters or weather events, poisonings, pandemics, or other engineered events, these losses have the effect of benefiting the predatory class. In many cases, property owners at large may see these tactics or events as coincidences or fortuitous occurrences, viewing the unfortunate individual financial losses as independent of any intentional taking. History has shown us, however, that in the larger context of our society—even as to seemingly naturally occurring “black swan” events—we can recognize the determined use of the various tactics by central bankers, the administrative state, and those controlling it to engineer significant transfers of land and related assets.

We have identified ten subcategories of tactics used to weaken or target owners in a manner that can trigger sales or unwanted transfers of property:

Monetary and Debt Traps
Income Traps
Foreclosures and Forced Sales
Health Traps and the Great Poisoning
Crime Traps
Digital, IT, and Telecommunications Traps
War and Environmental Disaster Capitalism
Federal and State Grants, Easements, and Regulations
Laws and Litigation
Taxation

1. Monetary and Debt Traps

Monetary and debt traps are typically engineered by central banks, commercial banks, and major non-bank lenders. Joel Dyer provides an excellent example of a targeted use of debt traps by U.S. central bank members and the U.S. government in his excellent book, Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only the Beginning.⁵ The book describes the fraudulent inducement and then pump-and-dump of American small farmers by the U.S. government in the late 1970s.

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Major inflation or hyperinflation
Major deflation (e.g., in a recession or depression)
Bank consolidation or bank runs
Credit squeezes, including calling of loans and raising of interest rates
Fraudulent inducement of loans, particularly aimed at borrowers of questionable creditworthiness; often referred to as predatory lending
Option-to-purchase rental contracts, installment land contracts, and no-money-down contracts targeted at people who cannot afford to purchase and can be expected to then default
Aggressive foreclosures (with the method depending upon the jurisdiction), sometimes with the cooperation of the courts or law enforcement
Small securities offerings and local investments made more difficult or expensive (or otherwise cutting off the availability of credit or equity funding for small businesses and farms)
Abusive payday loan schemes at usurious interest rates targeted at low-income people living on the margins who cannot qualify for conventional loans
Higher or no limits on usurious interest rates
Abusive credit card practices and terms

2. Income Traps

Falling incomes are a common way to force property sales, particularly at low prices. Falling real income can result from rising expenses, falling revenues, inflation, or a combination. Government can engineer some of these under the rubric of “doing good” (as in “climate change” and “sustainability” programs).

Tactics that Raise Small Business, Property, or Individual Target Expenses

 “Climate change,” “zero-carbon-footprint,” or “clean” energy regulations
Unnecessary, oppressive, and expensive safety regulations, including food safety regulations
Tightening of or adverse changes to zoning laws,building codes, and small business registration, reporting, and filing requirements
Raising of property tax rates and assessments (including for school levies to fund bloated bureaucracies), particularly for gentrified property, thereby driving out long-term and multigenerational ownership
Raising of inheritance tax rates, especially for farms or business properties, forcing a sale for taxes
The enacting or tightening of property maintenance codes (often with vague standards that can be selectively enforced and used by private parties through an anonymous complaint process)
Mortgage servicing standards requiring unaffordable improvements (e.g., through mortgage servicing standards imposed by the likes of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae)
Abusive or unwarranted and expensive audits, investigations, and compliance exams and related enforcement actions
Raising of property insurance expenses; requirements for unaffordable flood insurance; weakened insurance coverage or the tightening of insurance terms and conditions ; the creation of excuses to deny coverage
The cutting off of, restricting, or dramatically raising the price of sewer and other utilities’ access and use, including through assessments for major improvements passed through to customers
Allowing utility, telecommunication, and other monopolies for regulated essential services, and approval of unreasonable rate increases
False reports to regulators that trigger audits and enforcement actions
Actions that hire or frighten away employees or cause them to quit
Creation of “shadow work,” often through reduction of customer service staff, digitization, self-service, and data collection and security requirements, in the everyday transactions of customers and businesses

Tactics that Lower Small Business, Property, or Individual Target Revenues

The faking of pandemics, requiring business shutdowns while allowing competitors to stay open
Engineered “cyberattacks” or other disaster-related cut-offs of electricity, utilities, water, or other essential services
Tortious interference with contracts
Social and other media or whisper campaigns—smear campaigns—that frighten off customers or clients or start runs based on false information
The cutting off or polluting of water after crops have been planted or after development has started, leading to losses and bankruptcy
Imposition of unreasonable restrictions on rental of residential or business property, or the imposition of rent moratoriums
Merchant category codes (MCCs) in credit card transactions that permit law enforcement (with or without a warrant) to obtain private information on cardholder expenditures (e.g., gun purchases) to be used to justify enforcement actions (e.g., J-6 Bank of America episode described in the House Judiciary Committee report, “Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans”⁶)
Debanking for illegitimate (e.g., religious or political) purposes
Governmental pressure on Internet platforms to censor or shadowban disfavored merchants and others and restrict access to their markets, often using the excuses of limiting disinformation, misinformation, child pornography, money laundering, or terrorism

3. Foreclosures and Forced Sales

Once an owner is in trouble through a debt trap and/or an income squeeze, aggressive foreclosures can engineer a transfer of ownership. Increasingly, we are seeing the use of government powers to force unwanted transfers of land ownership. On occasion, we even see governments authorizing private entities to exercise eminent domain.

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Loosening of foreclosure rules (i.e., making it easier to foreclose)
Court bias in favor of lenders
Foreclosures engineered to follow income traps
Buyouts of foreclosed real estate engineered to follow income traps at confiscatory pricing
Local government “gotcha” foreclosure provisions for unpaid property taxes with potential politically connected buyers lying in wait to purchase at auction at below-market values⁷
Use of eminent domain to force sale of property (sometimes not for public use but rather to enrich corporate, including IT, insiders) or to increase local tax revenues (as permitted by the Supreme Court in Kelo v. New London⁸) without fair market compensation and without transparency. (For another example, see the condemnation of farmland for IT data centers by the local government of Caroline County, Virginia.⁹)

With regard to the first item in the above list—the loosening of foreclosure rules—some states have non-judicial foreclosure, which is a quick taking, but also with the federally imposed requirements after the 2008 recession that mortgage companies offer loan mitigation, inevitable foreclosure (because borrowers are permanently unable to afford their mortgage loans). This frequently has resulted in years and years of painful litigation followed by huge write-downs, often damaging borrowers’ credit ratings and sometimes resulting in large tax liabilities for the borrower with the written-down loan. Bad loans on banks’ balance sheets are an additional consequence.

As for the second item on the list—court bias in favor of lenders—one example is “speedy foreclosure” requirements, which could mean not allowing discovery by the borrower to uncover defects in the lender’s ownership of the mortgage loan or to identify the lender’s inability to satisfy legal requirements for foreclosure. (Note: During the 2008-2012 financial crisis, we even saw the courts allow a large bank to foreclose on a property that had no mortgage.)

4. Health Traps and the Great Poisoning

Health traps often result in medical debt, which is the leading cause of personal and family bankruptcy and forces families to raise money for health care and living expenses.^10,11 As the poisoning of the general population—what we refer to as the Great Poisoning—leads to more disability and death, we also see a proliferation of cognitive disorders and falling life expectancy. Moreover, the Great Poisoning may be weakening property owners’ ability to recognize that they are targets of a land grab and to protect themselves against the taking.

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Tactics that debilitate the target or one or more members of the target’s family:
- Unnecessary, excessive, and inflated health expenses 
- Chemical and biological warfare (for example, via unnecessary spraying above the property or poisoning of well water)
- Targeting with addiction (e.g., sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, MSG, seed oils, drugs, alcohol, compulsive gambling, pornography, shopping, computer gaming, sex )
- Over-processed food (e.g., dyes and preservatives)
Medical screening that results in “one size fits all” recommendations for pharmaceutical treatment of alleged high cholesterol, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.
Recommendations for potentially dangerous, expensive, and misleading screening tests such as mammograms and colonoscopies
Manipulation and inappropriate treatments by health care providers
Faulty or non-existent disclosure of risks in connection with pharmaceutical, dental, and other health treatments
Medical profession failure to inform patients about nutrition, exercise, supplements, and other “alternative” treatments
Targeting of alternative health care providers and natural health remedies by Big Pharma and funding of medical, dental, veterinary, and other health care curricula by oil and other interests (e.g., Rockefeller Foundation)
Public health system corruption (e.g., bribery, monetary and other incentives, conflicts of interest)
Pandemic virus scams (e.g., Covid, bird flu, AIDS) and fear-mongering propaganda that lead to harmful vaccines and treatments (e.g., AZT) and adverse health effects caused by fear
Water fluoridation
Mercury and other toxic materials in dental fillings, root canals, and dental implants, leading to infections and potentially disabling side effects
Requirements or incentivization (through propaganda) for antibiotics and mRNA or other vaccination in meat-producing animals
Promotion of insects and fake meat as healthy sources of protein, alongside propaganda undermining natural food products
Relaxation and manipulation of food safety rules (e,g., definition of “organic”)
Assassination during elective surgery
Hospital protocols that kill (e.g., administration of remdesivir and ventilation during “Covid pandemic”)
GMOs, pesticides, nanotechnology, and release of genetically engineered insects
Targeting with neurological weaponry and/or EMF radiation (creating mental health problems, confusion, lowered IQ and cognition)
Use of neurological weaponry to drain family wealth and resources through scams, misrepresentation, and honeypots
EMF radiation poisoning via cell towers and smart meters
Childhood vaccine schedule and ensuing adverse reactions (e.g., sudden infant death, autism, paralysis, allergies)
Mystery inoculations
Laws that release manufacturers from liability to the injured for deadly products
Vaccine injury and death, including “turbo cancers,” resulting in high medical costs¹²

Poisoning can include doing things that make the water or environment in a building unsafe and cause the building or its tenants to fail. Catherine ran into one example in the 1990s of landlords alleged to have used electromagnetic weaponry to sicken tenants, with the aim of moving them out of rent-controlled apartments or moving them into higher-paying assisted-living apartments.

In our opinion, the proposed World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulation (IHR) amendments anticipate using “health” crises to assert control over communities in a manner designed to facilitate land grabs. Catherine addressed this topic in an interview with Sasha Latypova titled, “The Great Steal: Is the WHO Fronting for Mr. Global’s Land Rush?”¹³

5. Crime Traps

Crime can be a highly profitable way of taking over a neighborhood. It works like a leveraged buyout—accomplished with profits made from illegal activities in the place that also weaken the community and lower the cost of buying up the real estate. In this way, businesses such as narcotics trafficking allow the takeover of a place—at an infinite rate of return.

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Defunding of the police
Inadequate training of law enforcement personnel in responding to problems for which medically trained experts should have input (e.g., threats of violence from mentally unstable or diminished-capacity players)—leading to unnecessary deaths and injuries
Engineered riots, arson, looting, and out-of-control demonstrations
Criminalization and enforcement of minor offenses (e.g., loiteringD), followed by arrest and too-high bail, with long wait times in jail leading to loss of job
Mandatory sentences, contributing to selective victimization by prosecutors and overcrowding of jails (with the “solution” being early release of dangerous convicts)
“Sting” operations against out-of-state drivers and visitors by local law enforcement as a funding mechanism, resulting in forced guilty plea bargains for drug- and alcohol-related offenses, sometimes non-expungible for life and with adverse consequences for future jobs and foreign travel
Targeting of homeowners by local drug gangs, including home invasions, terror harassment, and property damage
Asset forfeiture for homes, cars, boats, and other assets allegedly used in connection with crime (especially low-level, drug-related crimes), including assets owned by innocent third parties, accompanied by legal procedures that make it difficult for even the innocent to recover the property (as demonstrated in the 2024 Supreme Court case Culley v. Marshall¹⁴)
The building up of “armies” of the homeless or large numbers of Third World immigrants who drive people from neighborhoods (e.g., “poop” problems in California) and squat in empty residential properties,¹⁵ a situation exacerbated by law enforcement training that tells rightful owners they must seek civil remedies without police assistance
“Soros attorneys general” campaign financing for “criminal justice reform” candidates and election of local prosecutors whose platforms call for non-enforcement of “minor” infractions¹⁶—leading police and district attorneys to stand down and sending the message to career criminals that they can get away with shoplifting, theft, burglary, etc.
Letting criminals out of prison early and turning career criminals into confidential informants who will not serve time for actual crimes and may testify falsely in exchange for reduced sentences—thereby exacerbating organized crime (“crime that pays is crime that stays”)
Counterproductive incentives for prosecutors and police (e.g., quotas) that result in unjustified convictions of the innocent, lack of respect for law enforcement, loss of morale in the law enforcement community, attraction of mentally unstable and violent individuals to careers in law enforcement, and career burnout by conscientious law enforcement personnel
Targeting with cybercrime and Internet confidence schemes to weaken finances,¹⁷ often targeting the wealthy elderly and sometimes funded by major, allegedly legitimate corporations¹⁸
Failure to meaningfully enforce laws against Internet and cybercrime (perhaps with the excuse that funds must be used for the “war on drugs” or the “war on terrorism” instead of for crimes against poor and middle-class individuals and small businesses)

One notable case study is recent developments in Minneapolis. We noted unusual real estate patterns during the pandemic riots.¹⁹ Subsequently, we republished a documentary on the devastation of the Minneapolis police force, The Fall of Minneapolis, as our December 4, 2023 Movie of the Week.²⁰ In September 2024, we noted a social media post announcing that office buildings totaling 633,000 square feet in downtown Minneapolis “just sold for $6M or a shocking $10 per sq ft,” representing “a 91% ‘discount’ to what the seller bought the towers for – $74M in 2019.”²¹

6. Digital, IT, and Telecommunications Traps

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Surveillance, including “Skynet”-type systems through smartphones, drones, other electronic devices, and the Internet of Things, often without adequate disclosure of risks and key features to consumers
Neurological weaponry  to influence and control decision-making and behavior
Non-lethal weaponry targeted at homeowners, employees, and renters
Digitization of land records (facilitating fraud)
Ubiquitous cell towers, smart meters, and EMF radiation
Digital livestock tagging, combined with excessive expenses and fees
Replacement of human-run systems with faulty, misleading, and manipulative artificial intelligence and other digitization that transfers “work” from corporations to consumers, doesn’t function correctly (where errors cannot be corrected readily or at all), and causes tremendous expenditures of time and energy on the part of consumers and small business owners
Electric vehicles, with radiation-emitting charging, batteries that explode, and autonomous driving functions that may cause accidents
New cars, even if gas- or diesel-powered, with electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and surveillance features that generally cannot be removed (Note: Some schemes involve transmission of driving data to auto insurers without driver knowledge or assent, thus driving up insurance premiums)
Social engineering features employed on a custom, individualized basis to obtain personal information to be used against the property or other asset or business owner
Abusive software that enables landlords and others who enter into contracts with consumers to charge customized excessive fees, in some cases based on an individual consumer’s or market’s ability to pay (e.g., RealPage software allows landlords to put their data into a shared information algorithm, with the software telling them how much can be charged for rent—aggregating otherwise private information to the detriment of renters)

7. War and Environmental Disaster Capitalism

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Weather warfare—floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, major high-tech fires
Directed energy weapons disguised as natural fires, accidental explosions, and similar natural or accidental destructive events (e.g., Lahaina, and some California, Canadian, and other fires)
Mysterious fires at meat processing facilities, threatening the availability of real meat
“Accidental” and potentially intentional or illegal releases of toxic chemicals in train wrecks and chemical plant explosions
Pollution of waterways and soils through dumping
Political and financial coups
Assassination and use of control files against political opponents (sticks); use of enticements and bribery to control key officials (carrots)
Weaponized migration and failure to reform or enforce immigration laws
Global spraying (“chemtrails”) laced with unknown toxins
Release of genetically modified mosquitoes
GMO crops and use of toxic pesticides
Failure to educate, promote, and incentivize on the subject of regenerative farming (resulting in soil degradation, nutrient-deficient crops, and ultimately, adverse effects on land value)
Neurological weaponry targeting an area, combined with media campaigns and smears

8. Federal and State Grants, Easements, and Regulations

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Federal and state grants with terms and conditions that may result in excessive costs later that the individual or community is unable to fund
Rezoning and/or unlawful or improper zoning overlays and restrictions without owners having a say or due process, causing damage to business or inability to continue business as usual
Federal law (the Telecommunications Act of 1996²²) that can prevent communities from banning or restricting installation of cell towers that harm children in schools and nearby EMR-sensitive residents, driving the victims off the land
Conflicts of interest affecting municipal government employees who are permitted to also serve in elected positions, with the result that they can raise property assessments, permit fees, and taxes
Use of civil money penalties and fees targeted at property owners to generate revenues and assess costs to property owners that exceed jurisdictional costs and community interests (see 2024 U.S. Supreme Court case Sheetz v. El Dorado County requiring permit conditions to have an “essential nexus” to the government’s land-use interest and “rough proportionality” to the development’s impact on the land-use interest²³)
 Regulatory overreach (e.g., by the Environmental Protection Agency, Fish & Wildlife, Department of Interior) that restricts use of federal and other land for agriculture, grazing, oil and gas, logging, etc. (for example, regulations using wetland designation to reduce acreage of farmland that can be used for agriculture)
Abusive use of conservation easements and other allegedly environmentally friendly easements to prevent landowners from using land productively (e.g., natural asset company [NAC] initiatives that would take land out of production and transfer control to conflicted crony corporate enterprises)
Deficit Reduction Act provisions that change goal of federal conservation easements to that of addressing climate change and CO₂ emissions and controlling agricultural production
International “30×30” plan to remove 30% of land and oceans from productive human use by the year 2030, facilitated in the U.S. through Biden Administration Executive Order 14008, which has as its stated goal to “ensure America and the world can meet the urgent demands of the climate crisis,” with the result that, in the words of American Stewards for Liberty, “[e]very federal agency is using their authority to impose more control over Americans’ land”²⁴
UN-inspired “natural capital accounting,” which quantifies and monetizes intangible “ecosystem service” assets (such as pollination, clean air, photosynthesis, and carbon) on the federal balance sheet, thereby increasing the national net worth (and, therefore, raising the national debt limit), deceiving the public, and leaving open the possibility of use of aspects of what are now private lands and natural resources as collateral for debt to the central bank or other financial interests, facilitated by the Biden Administration’s January 2023 “National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions”²⁵
Enactment in 2023 of the Republican-led SUSTAINS Act as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act,²⁶ which permits private entities to contribute funds to implement conservation programs on private property with federal easements—a back-door method for private contributing entities and the government to claim ownership of “environmental services” on property encumbered by federal conservation easements
Increased permitting requirements and related inspections, with intentionally slow and laborious approval processes, thereby discouraging disfavored types of development and use, or development and use by politically disfavored players
The building of a bureaucracy (or “administrative state”) not working toward achieving productive result s, instead making decisions that benefit patrons at the expense of the public and small businesses
Excessive and intrusive small business reporting requirements  that add data to the control grid, result in shadow work for the public, and hinder the ability of small business to compete with large corporate players (e.g., new Corporate Transparency Act small business registration requirements with FinCEN, with up to $500/day penalty for noncompliance and exemption available for large corporations)
Agencies creating new law without authority through regulation
Activist courts applying laws abusively to favor monied and powerful interests
Abusive use of eminent domain power to take property for non-public uses²⁷ (e.g., for privately owned computer data centers,⁹ shopping centers, and carbon pipelines that transmit C0₂ emissions as well as oil pipelines), often at less than actual value to the landowner²⁸
Corporate or government assertion of rights under mineral easements to force residential surface right holders (the “servient estate” holders) off the land
Abusive actions under utility company easements (e.g., power company easements creating stray voltage that harms livestock) and undisclosed terms in utility easements that grant land rights beyond those necessary to install and maintain gas or electricity (e.g., cooperative member easements that grant rights to other utility cooperative members)
Grants and loans for solar and wind farms that take productive farmland out of commission and also incur subsequent municipal and private landowner costs and disposal problems when equipment fails²⁹ (Note: Solar farms also can pollute the ground and aquifers and harm cattle)
Use of PFAS (poly-fluoroalkyl substances) detection in soil as an excuse to drive off landowners (e.g., Maine buying out farms with >= 4-20 parts/trillion of PFAS³⁰)
Federal regulations requiring costly federal meat inspections that squeeze out small livestock farmers and prevent them from processing their own meat
Use of “pathogen” detection in sewage (e.g., SARS-CoV-2, mpox, bird flu)—using inappropriate and faulty PCR tests—as an excuse for health emergency measures, potentially justifying further shutdowns of small business, quarantines, and other measures restricting rights

9. Laws and Litigation

A series of overreaching, over-broad, and in some cases unconstitutional laws that have been enacted over the years have:

Increased the power of the executive branch of government
Imposed “emergency” measures that suspend the rule of law
Provided virtually unfettered power to the national security state
Paved the way to the establishment of a centralized digital control grid
Threatened financial transaction freedom

These actions could lead to the enslavement of the populace. Meanwhile, enforcement of the federal financial management, immigration, anti-trust, and other key laws meant to protect the citizenship against powerful central banking and other financial interests is, by some measures, non-existent.

As most of us are aware, the courts have been slow to rein in this power grab. Although existing laws—and enforcement of the rule of law—could be used in favor of those seeking to protect private property interests and to prevent unjustified governmental and corporate takings, most citizens find it difficult or impossible to obtain legal redress due to exorbitant litigation costs, unlimited governmental legal resources, and inherent conflicts of interest. Congress has largely abdicated its role in the system of checks and balances created by the Founding Fathers. This is in part as a result of campaign contributions by large corporate interests that support the legislative system. It is also as a result of the willingness and ability of the military and intelligence agencies to force their agenda using a wide variety of overt and covert tactics. As a result, Congress is put up for sale to the highest bidders, including Pharma, major military-industrial complex defense contractors, and, more recently, Internet technology companies, or those capable of applying lawfare, smear campaigns, and force.

Legislative, bureaucratic, and judicial tactics facilitating and supporting the land grab include:

Too many and overly complex laws enacted without careful review by legislators
Too much frivolous and abusive enforcement and litigation, including by governmental agencies
Unfair or abusive lawsuits
Court and representation costs that make it impossible for the general public to defend themselves when innocent, or protect their rights as plaintiffs against large corporations and private equity interests
Overbroad interpretation of statutory authority by agencies, resulting in bureaucratic overreach and spending outside of Congressional appropriation authority (e.g., by using funds in one agency to further non-Congressionally approved action in another agency)
Executive action through executive orders not approved by Congress (e.g., 30×30 initiative)
Failure to enforce the existing Constitution and laws, and in particular, the financial management and anti-trust laws
Perverse incentives within the civil court and criminal enforcement systems
Purposeful destruction of cultural values and assets, leading to a “crime that stays is crime that pays” business environment and loss of hope by the populace
Psychopathic leadership controlled by monied interests and intelligence operations, through carrots and sticks (bribery and control files)
Campaign finance laws that permit conflicts of interest in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government
Lack of civics education in schools, leading to citizens being unaware of their rights and obligations, and the absence of active and effective efforts to hold office-holders accountable for their actions and decision-making
Censorship of the independent media and control of the legacy media by monied interests and government, producing a populace that is ill-informed and uninformed
Rigged elections
Intelligence agencies in league with organized crime and globalist interests, promoting “rackets” in most areas of society—skimming off ever-increasing margins from all transactions and strangling honest, effective, productive businesses that serve the interests of the people
Laws and governmental insurance, guarantees, and liability waivers that relieve unproductive, parasitic, and fraudulent predatory interests of liability for their own wrongdoing, illegality, recklessness, and poor decision-making (witness the PREP Act, which makes it virtually impossible for those injured by dangerous, legally mandated Covid-19 injections fraudulently portrayed as “safe and effective” to recover damages from complicit pharmaceutical manufacturers, health care providers, regulatory and defense agencies, and the employers and schools responsible for their injuries)
Sovereign immunity enjoyed by international organizations (e.g., Bank for International Settlements [BIS], WHO, and UN), shielding them from otherwise illegal, immoral, anti-democratic, and sometimes murderous activities
Aggregation of capital in the hands of a few, making it possible to bribe and financially control a huge portion of the nation’s assets and acquire even more with virtual impunity
Use of administrative courts (e.g., in the areas of housing, worker’s compensation, and taxation) to trample on citizens’ rights in ways that cannot be achieved in Article 3 courts, as well as increased litigation costs to challenge administrative decision-making

10. Taxation

Taxation tactics involve the use of local, state, or federal tax laws and selective enforcement thereof to force the sale of property as a means of avoiding foreclosure or through foreclosure of tax liens. Tax laws also facilitate the tax-free aggregation of capital (by foundations, non-profits, and endowments) that can be used to exercise multigenerational control. (One need only look at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Harvard Endowment, and the Rockefeller Foundation as key examples.)

Specific tactics in this subcategory include:

Raising property taxes to onerous levels
Raising property tax appraisals and assessments using biased or unauthorized methodologies (e.g., Denton County, Texas employment of formula to raise tax revenues by an amount sufficient to cover needs through fraudulent assessments instead of voter-approved tax increases³¹) or targeted at selected neighborhoods or types of businesses
Tax authority disallowance of legitimate tax deductions or credits or levying of unwarranted or excessive fines
Discriminatory selection of tax audit targets
Targeting of charitable organizations’ tax-exempt status based on political positions
Enactment of tax loopholes available to favored and large business interests (e.g., industrial farming operations that compete with small and family-owned farms)
Extension of conservation easements in perpetuity made a condition of landowner tax credits
Seizure of bank accounts by taxing authorities (especially the IRS) for doubtful claims, forcing the taxpaying individual or business to engage in expensive and protracted litigation to assert taxpayer rights

III. Tactics That Advantage Acquirers

Tactics that advantage acquirers of land as part of the land grab include programs, systems, and actions that assist a buyer (which may be the government, a lender, a criminal organization, a favored corporation, or a private equity interest, among others) to acquire control or ownership—often at an advantageous or below-market price—with advantageous financing and/or on advantageous, predatory, or borderline-illegal terms and conditions as part of a “squeeze play.”

As in the preceding section, we have identified nine subcategories of tactics used to create advantages for buyers or acquirers:

Money—Debt and Monetary Traps
Government Subsidy
Monopoly
Taxation
Infrastructure
Double Standard Rules and Regulations
Double Standard Application of the Law
Experts
Political Traps

1. Money—Debt and Monetary Traps

Debt Traps

Rules and regulations made much harder or more complex so that only big or sophisticated developers can play

Monetary Traps

Access to federal funds or federally arranged credit
Low cost or free capital (e.g., quantitative easing, Going Direct Reset, SPACs)

2. Government Subsidy

Government grants and contracts, often favoring big business interests (e.g., farm subsidies for industrial farming)

3. Monopoly

Large slaughterhouses’ monopoly advantage resulting from federal laws that prohibit farmers from selling meat they slaughter without USDA inspection (Note: The PRIME Act provisions of the proposed farm bill would allow states to conduct in-state inspections)

4. Taxation

Transfer taxes that advantage large acquirers
Tax exemptions for university and foundation capital pools that in reality act like private syndicates

5. Infrastructure

Preferences with utility functions, water, electricity, sewer, IT, and telecommunications

6. Double Standard Rules and Regulations

Climate change/net zero
Enforcement
Preference for licenses and development
Authorization of NACs by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Conservation easements and other easements

 7. Double Standard Application of the Law

Systemically important institutions that can be above the law
Protection for organizations that have sovereign immunity
Protection from prosecution by friendly (or corrupt) enforcement agencies or political protection

8. Experts

Advantages resulting from access to and resources for experts
Access to partnerships with intelligence agencies, private security, and mercenary firms or in-house teams and related corporate contractors—provides access to insider and confidential information and covert operations capacity

9. Political Trap  s

At a certain size, a syndicate or industry can generate jurisdictional risk that drives people out.

IV. Targeting Places—Bulk Land Acquisition

We can describe land grab tactics that apply to whole neighborhoods, regions, or industries according to four typical fact patterns or models:

Debt Traps to Force Sale
Disaster Capitalism
Land Grabs from War
Monetary/Economic Shock Land Grabs

1. Debt Traps to Force Sale

In this situation, a group of people with something in common, or even a nation-state, can be made to assume debt that they cannot ultimately pay according to its terms. As a result of default (or the threat of default), measures must be taken to minimize the damage, such as by sale of valuable assets held by the debtor—especially real estate and related improvements and natural resources—often at below-market rates.

An example of the debt trap occurred in Ukraine when the government incurred obligations to acquire weapons to defend itself following the Russian invasion. Presumably in response to the precarious financial situation brought about by this debt, together with the damage to the country’s industries, the loss of the working-age population to the military, and physical destruction from war, we find that a change in law has taken place to enable foreigners to purchase land that previously could not be acquired by non-citizens. Thus, the taking of territory during war occurs not by military force from the “enemy,” but rather through an engineered land grab by so-called “friends.”

2. Disaster Capitalism

Disaster capitalism tactics can be used to acquire land through natural or engineered, geographically centered weather events, fires, floods, and other mass calamities. The following description shared by Catherine may serve to dispel any doubt as to the existence of planned ecoterrorist events engineered by governments and other controlling interests:

“[I]n April 1997, U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen spoke about such weaponry at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy at the University of Georgia. The event was part of the Sam Nunn Policy Forum being hosted by the university. Secretary Cohen was joined by Senator Sam Nunn and Senator Richard G. Lugar. Cohen said: ‘Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.’ He added: ‘It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts.’ If the defense secretary says that the earth and the sky have been turned into weapons and are being used as such in the present, we should take this statement very seriously.”³²

We can also assume that the U.S. military-industrial complex has ready access to this technology and that great technological improvements have taken place over the past 25 years.

We have written separately about disaster capitalism in various contexts,³³ but we want subscribers to be particularly aware that during natural or contrived emergencies—of which extreme weather and geophysical disruptions (for example, directed energy weapons) make up a part—many opportunities exist for organized crime (with the assistance of government, NGOs, and major corporate interests) to swoop in, sometimes in the guise of providing “help,” and to profit at the expense of the targeted populace. Much of the resulting profiteering involves land grabs, of course, and often occurs in areas that—when cleared out—are attractive for resort development.

Included in this subcategory are the following tactics:

The Lahaina, Maui fires (attributed by many to high-tech weapons and resulting in the loss of land by poor and middle-class residents whose homes and businesses were destroyed (see the book, Great Maui Land Grab³⁴)
Suspicious fires in Paradise (California) and Canada where expert investigators found strange burn patterns (for example, with certain properties in the middle of fire-destroyed areas left untouched)³⁵
The Indonesian tsunami in 2004 (characterized by insider trading preceding the event and resulting in the pushing out of fishermen)
Hurricane Katrina, where New Orleans residents were led to believe that intentional breaches in the levy were caused by the storm,³⁶ and a significant portion of residents had to flee the city as the result of disruption in city services and physical destruction of much of several parishes³⁷
The September 11, 2001 World Trade Center (WTC) and Pentagon “hits” that:
- Just happened to destroy various incriminating records regarding trillions missing from the U.S. government and related Treasury and mortgage markets
- Yielded insider trading profits for those who knew in advance of the plan (while the records of such trades mysteriously disappeared)
- Conveniently took down obsolete skyscrapers without the need for permits or enormous cost outlays (costs could be covered through casualty insurance)
- Created the justification for the enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act, a highly profitable war, and further globalization of the U.S. military
Fires at many meat processing plants during a time when efforts to centralize control of food and develop customer acceptance of fake meat and alternative protein sources (e.g., bugs) were increasing

As in the case of the WTC event, land grabs often involve stacked functions, or the accretion of multiple benefits in addition to the land sale profits.

3. Land Grabs from War

Land-based war (as opposed to cyberwar and other non-physical warfare) necessarily involves the destruction of land improvements and the clearing-out of large areas through the use of missiles, bombs, and other physical attacks. This can render the land suitable for alternative uses after the owners have died, migrated, gone out of business, or otherwise left the property. Market values of real estate generally drop following war and, therefore, major corporate interests can pick it up cheap.

The ongoing genocidal attacks against the people in Gaza, while being justified as an attempt to protect the security of the State of Israel, involve suggestions by the Israeli government that Gazans ought to migrate to Egypt or overseas. The move to clear Gaza combined on October 29th, 2023 with the awarding of licenses to oil companies to accelerate development of oil and gas resources on the waters off of Gaza.³⁸ In May 2024, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced “Gaza 2035,”³⁹ a three-stage master plan for “rebuilding from nothing”; in addition to a major emphasis on exploiting oil resources, the plan would establish a free trade zone, a high-speed rail corridor, electric vehicle manufacturing capability, solar fields, water desalination plants, and more.⁴⁰ According to a critical report in The Nation, the vision is premised on a “postwar Gaza as a tabula rasa, purged of residents” as well as “total fealty to the technology and real estate industries to shape the land.”⁴¹

Too, the Daily Mail quoted Jared Kushner as having praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront properties” and as having suggested that Israel ought to “move people out and clean [Gaza] up.”⁴² The same article says of the source of Kushner’s remark, “[t]he clip was posted … on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a program of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.” Note the connection to Harvard, which was contracted to advise the Russian government on privatization following the fall of the Soviet Union.⁴³ The Harvard Corporation oversees both Harvard University and the Harvard Endowment, which has significant investments in real estate and land. It can be said without irony that the same players seem to be repeatedly attracted to (and supported by governments in) piratization opportunities.

4. Monetary/Economic Shock Land Grabs

Another aspect of “disaster capitalism” (as described by Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism) is the use of a monetary or economic squeeze following a shock brought about by a disaster. In this category fall the East Asian economic crisis and the Great Depression in the U.S. in the 1930s (as aptly described by David Rogers Webb),⁴⁴ when some 9,000 banks failed while mortgage loans held by the very same banks (and others) were enforced, allowing the banks (or their receivers or other wealthy investors) to foreclose and pick up the properties for cheap. In April 2023, the Pew Research Center published a commentary by senior writer Drew DeSilver, “Most U.S. Bank Failures Have Come in a Few Big Waves,”⁴⁵ in which DeSilver observed:

“The Depression ravaged the nation’s banking industry. Between 1930 and 1933, more than 9,000 banks failed across the country, and this time many were large, urban, seemingly stable institutions. The few state deposit-guarantee funds were quickly overwhelmed. Overall, depositors in the failed institutions lost more than $1.3 billion (about $27.4 billion in today’s dollars), or 19.6% of total deposits.”

The manufactured, so-called “Covid” health crisis furnishes another example. After small businesses were forced to shut down, the permanent closing of many such businesses and the financial ruin of the business owners facilitated the cheap acquisition of the related real estate by interests that benefited from the sham crisis or otherwise were not fatally affected by it.

John Perkins, in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, describes many central bank- and IMF-engineered economic squeezes in capers that involved the arm-twisting of less developed nations to take out loans for infrastructure projects (like dams) to be built by connected American or international corporations at enormous cost, followed by inevitable default when to-be-expected economic vicissitudes occurred. The government then would be pressured to sell government-owned industries, natural resources, or other valuable assets under unfavorable conditions.

V. Plunder and the Role of Private Equity

The term “private equity” refers to equity investment that is managed privately by an investment company, often through an affiliate structure. The largest and best known private equity firms are Blackstone, Apollo, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), Bain Capital, TPG and Carlyle Group.

The private equity enterprise model involves the purchase, reengineering, and resale of existing companies, principally with funds raised from both institutional and retail investors in private transactions that are exempt from regulation by the SEC and thus are not required to file regular public disclosure statements (as would be the case for exchange-traded companies). Often, the private equity company buys a public company and then takes it private—not infrequently with the use of debt to finance the purchase (in what is known as a “leveraged buyout”). Increasingly, the large private equity firms themselves raise funds in the public equity markets and trade on the stock exchange.

In his book Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America,⁴⁶ Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice, reveals:

“[T]oday, the [private equity] industry owns more businesses than all those listed on US stock exchanges combined. KKR’s portfolio companies employ over 800,000 people; Carlyle’s 650,000; and Blackstone 500,000. Considered together they would be the third-, fourth- and fifth-largest employers in America, behind only Walmart and Amazon.”

With this level of control over the markets, the transactions conducted by private equity firms have a profound impact on the retail, residential housing, hospital, nursing home, medical, and veterinary practice industries and their millions of employees. Unfortunately, the typical private equity modus operandi is to acquire a successful business with debt, sell (often to an affiliate), lease back the business’s real estate holdings, extract extravagant management fees, lay off large numbers of employees, reduce expenses in a manner that results in a deterioration in the quality of the goods or services offered, raise prices, and, in some cases, raid the company’s pension fund. In the end, many of the acquired companies are left as “shells of their former selves” upon sale and often end up in bankruptcy court. As Ballou observes, much of the destruction wrought by private equity firm practices is actively supported by various arms of the government and, we would add, Mr. Global.

According to CNBC,⁴⁷ Wall Street has purchased “hundreds of thousands” of single-family homes since the Great Recession, contributing to a remarkable escalation in rents. Much of this buying activity arose out of foreclosures, with companies like Tricon Residential, American Homes 4 Rent, and Invitation Homes acquiring thousands of homes each. By some estimates, rental inflation between January 2020 and January 2023 amounted to 24% nationally and from 35% to 44% in some Sunbelt markets. A MetLife Investment Management study predicts that institutional investors (many of which are private equity firms) may control as much as 40% of U.S. single-family rental properties by 2030.⁴⁸

The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has developed a Private Equity State Risk Index based upon 16 measures that reflect risks to workers and jobs, state health care systems, housing availability, and the security of state pensions in each state. The states with the highest housing risk scores include Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas, in that order.

The U.S. continues to enjoy a high home-ownership rate and steady investment in real estate by small investors.⁴⁹ However, continued deterioration in the dollar system and the federal credit could trigger an environment conducive to significant increases in plunder capitalism, including land grabs. Given the burgeoning private equity industry and its growing political power and access to pension fund capital, we believe there is cause for concern.

VI. Conclusion

It is difficult to summarize the land grab problem because there are so many fact patterns and so many different state and local legal provisions as well as different types of business interests and land issues. In addition, land grab tactics vary based on regional culture, climate, and geography.

We believe that “none of us is as smart as all of us,” and so, we intend for this discussion to continue. We invite Solari Report subscribers to post comments and suggestions—this is an opportunity for us to share intelligence across our network. Consider sharing your own experiences based on your areas of special expertise, financial and job situations, states of residence, and other personal variables so that we can focus future research into developing plans for effective action.

Private property and the responsible management of our land is the basis of family wealth and human freedom. We all have a vested interest in making sure the consolidation of ownership of land and property into a few centralized hands does not continue, especially when it is engineered by unethical and criminal tactics and means.

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Endnotes

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