wild west's land grabs... continued.

It was with the land and resources grab of the West's  earlier private investors and their private trading companies, that colonialism began. 

The  British and Dutch East India companies come to mind, as the earlier purloining pioneers. 

 This latest  land grab that the  UN  admits it can do nothing about, is just a continued colonialism.  

The colonial caper was just too good a game for the west to give up. It never really did. 


"I don't see that it's possible to stop it. They are private investors," said Graziano da Silva in a telephone interview. "We do not have the tools and instruments to stop big companies buying land. Land acquisitions are a reality. We can't wish them away, but we have to find a proper way of limiting them. It appears to be like the wild west and we need a sheriff and law in place."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/oct/29/land-deals-africa-wild-west-fao

Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people 
 andLand eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people 

http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/pressroom/pressrelease/2012-10-04/land-sold-last-decade-could-grow-enough-food-feed-billion-people


And its not just in the third world's "developing" societies that this is happening. The private interest of  privateers remain the same . Everywhere . All the time.


Read between the lines, however, and the predatory nature of his vision becomes evident. Essentially, the plan is intended to remove most impediments to the exploitation by US energy firms of untapped oil, gas and coal fields in the United States, Canada and Mexico, regardless of the consequences for national health, safety or the environment. In particular, the plan has five key objectives: eliminating federal oversight of oil and gas drilling on federal lands; eviscerating all environmental restraints on domestic oil, gas and coal operations; eliminating curbs on drilling in waters off Florida and the east and west coasts of the United States; removing all obstacles to the importation of Canadian tar sands; and creating an energy consortium with Canada and Mexico allowing for increased US corporate involvement in—and control over—their oil and gas production.



http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/29-6