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artemisia1

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Mon Jul 13, 2026, 04:22 AM Yesterday

There are parallels today in the United States to the English Enclosure Movement (1500's & 1600's) that made homeless [View all]

and destitute so many English peasants as public land was consolidated into large sheep pastures run by wealthy landowners:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

We are seeing the same thing with our own people via firms such as Blackrock. Apartments are being consolidated into ownership by mega holding companies, rents are being raised into the stratosphere, thus pushing many families out of housing while homeless are being vigorously persecuted:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/12/atlanta-park-sweep-world-cup

This consolidation of wealth and land led to centuries of suffering and ghettoes such as Jack the Ripper's haunt: Whitechapel. Public executions skyrocketed as the dispossessed became desperate and sometimes turned to petty crime or highway robbery. This new era of the filthy rich stripping and persecuting the "lower classes" is upon us. Yes, it has always been thus, but now it is entering, or reentering, a new, likely bloody and wicked stage.

Thoughts?

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