Does The West Respect Private Property?

If you respect private property rights then you may find the following story concerning. But first, to be clear, I'm basing my comments on what I found in this video. I probably don't have all the facts, so some caution is advised.

That said, it appears the superyacht Dilbar is currently sitting while seized/detained/arrested in a German shipyard. It is believed to be owned by a Russian oligarch who is subject to sanctions imposed following the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

But it turns out not to be owned by this oligarch. Instead it is owned by his sister, someone who was not even on any sanctions list. But when they discovered this, she was promptly added to the list.

Do you see a problem with any of this? I certainly do. This arbitrary seizure of private property, all of which appears to have been legally acquired and properly owned, can only undermine private property rights across the board. That means you, me, everyone. Russia, China and India will have noticed, and they're likely to respond. Any time you, your country or any friendly country acts in a way disapproved of, they may take what's yours. 'They' in this context means Russia or China acting in reprisal, but farther along, it may mean your own government taking what's yours. We are on a very slippery slope.

In the capitalist system, a system I tend to think once worked fine, owning something is not a crime. That's how communists think. With communism, property is theft. We've slipped so far as a society, we no longer see private property as a linchpin.

UN Compact on Migration

People have just woken up. They've discovered there's a move to take all their money, here's how:

I remember reading academic papers 13 years ago (count them), that called for the removal of national boundaries when it came to migration. Now this thought process has got to the United Nations stage, and the final step will be each country implementing the ideas within their own legislation.

This is a form of theft. That's right, theft. The idea is to flood the western world with migrants and once they're established in their new countries, they can change the laws at will once they're the majority.

The problem is partly of the West's own making. They didn't make babies. So there is that. But the other part of the equation is to do with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the failure of communism, socialism, anarchism, call it what you will. This failure meant the old game plan wouldn't work, the enemy of capitalism needed a new game and they came up with a twofold approach.

The first was to ditch the colour red, for the colour green. Communists became green overnight, they were instant ecologists. But they are anything but, they are still communists. From the pocket of those who earnt it, to the pockets of those who haven't earnt it but control the distribution of it. Control the resources, the means of production, distribution and exchange and you own everything. It's got nothing to do with freeing the proletariat from the hegemony of the capitalist monster, but everything to do with greed.

The debate around global climate change (GCC) has been hijacked by these wolves in sheep's clothing. These days you hardly hear from a hard scientist on this important topic, instead it's all about the politics of GCC, and how to hobble the west while profiting the favoured few (who seem to always be the Greens - no surprise there).

Then the second approach was to use humanitarian crises to launch invasions and to make this mandated. That's what the UN Compact on Migration is about.

Think about this over Xmas folks, have a nice Saturnalia.