The Youngstown Commons

10/14/2026

Satire?

10/13/2026

Land as the Keystone of All Property

The seizure of land is the prerequisite for all economic activity. It precedes the circulation of capital, the construction of real estate, the enforcement of contracts and the concept of intellectual property.

Land forms the foundational source of value, providing food, shelter, minerals, water and raw resources.

The act of enclosure extends privatization to all secondary outputs. Crops, land rents and even collective cultural memory pass into private hands.

Controlling the soil establishes direct control over the means of survival.

Real property serves as the primary legal anchor precisely because of its physical immobility and permanence. Once title is established over physical ground, the broader institutional framework becomes fixed.

Intellectual property remains derivative. Copyrights and legal monopolies on innovation are privileges built atop territorial ownership. Land theft stands as the foundational legal act that enables every other form of appropriation.

https://beneicher.substack.com/p/chapter-10-land-the-keystone-of-property

Why Land Is the First Theft and the Last Foundation

10/13/2026

If you missed the Trump rally don’t worry we have a highlight that captures it. 

10/13/2026

When politics turns into professional wrestling, the crowd gets a show, the promoters get rich and the rest of us get stuck living under a leaking roof.

It’s really hard to believe that that many people are that effing gullible. 

10/13/2026

The History of American Property Law

10/12/2026

Same names. Same families. Same entities.

Nothing changes.

10/12/2026

Proletariat

10/12/2026

DYK?

In 1504, after his stranded crew had worn out its welcome in Jamaica, Columbus faced a Taino refusal to keep supplying them. So he consulted eclipse tables, warned that his God would darken the Moon in anger, then took credit when it reappeared. A scheduled eclipse became a cosmic protection racket and a lesson in turning knowledge into power.

10/12/2026

This video is an adaptation of H P Lovecraft's famous sci-fi story.

The Shadow Out of Time

I pull this up and watch it every October. It never disappoints.

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10/11/2026

Still working on the website