Wall Street investment firms buy up rights to scarce water throughout the West 

@@Chad_Max We live in market based economy. But people will decide what's sold in their market. And it won't be water from lands owned by these vultures. State should force purchase these lands. They already can't move the water form the state.

Who sold their water rights to Wall Street? Is it puplic knowledge? Pretty horrifying.

As a water rights holder myself, I can tell you it was sold by Colorado centuries ago to raise money for the state. I'm 37th in line for water coming down the east side of the Rocky Mountains and my water rights deed was worth 36k in 2016. The largest water rights holder in Colorado is Coors (yes the beer company).

Nestle and Coca-Cola take clean water from indigenous properties for free and resell it back to them, bottle it and force them to rely on that for water, or turn it into cola and Coke has gotten the indigenous of Mexico addicted to coke products and even tricked them into incorporating it into their worship. It’s so unethical.

@@hus390 which is increasingly showing just how problematic it is.

So, so, so true!

Invest Firm execs Need to be " Doxxed " & Hunted ? 😉

@@johnwelsh4750 A A lot more oversight and regulations that prevent them from stealing a resource like water that everyone is entitled to. And then if that doesn’t work…more drastic measures….I think all water rights need to be abolished. It’s an antiquated entitlement that was established when there were less humans and more water. Most water rights are 75-100+ years old.

@@SeaTurtle515 Help me here. The owner of the land owns the water bellow the grounds?? ... If yes, then this is another American insanity. In my country, what's below the surface (minerals) are owned by the state for the benefit of people. We should have a state oil company to extract oil from public lands, rather than charging tiny percentages as royalty. And water below the surface owned by the state.

government ownership isn't any better.

we should change the law through constitutional means to allow the legal execution of people who commit such crimes

@@thechemtrailkid and that's why we have congress

They know what's coming... just like the UN knows 2030 to 2050 are gonna be bone dry

Just let California dry up and burn 🤷

@@OkieBadu thats a good idea

“The Water Knife” is a great book about the future of The Colorado.

@SWIRL SOCIETY we can’t leave our Native lands because this was never meant for The United States but The Freedom Of ours True True Native AmaruKhans. I will die for what’s ours before I even think of leaving our ancestors lands.

It is true; but only the smallest percentage aren’t blind to it. Those of us who know…sometimes I feel like I need to know less as I don’t know what to do.

@SWIRL SOCIETY yes.

It has been a thing for a while. Large farms do that too

@@ciello___8307 Scary

We cant own water rights but they can !!! I dont think soooo !!

It's too good to be true. The government still owns the water rights. Obama made it Federal law. but this was purchased for carbon exchange. So now because of government, it can never be used. Enjoy your Socialism.

"Australian entrepreneurs sell cans of clean air to China" already happening

Yeah! And how 'bout regulating Sunshine & Cool Breezes in the summer, too?

They already do.

O2 tanks

REPUBLICANS ARE IN THE POCKETS OF THE RICH THAT IS WHY THEY ACT LIKE THEY DO BECAUSE THEY ARE UNTOUCHABLE ! ❤️☮️🙏🇺🇸

There were two options: a revolutionary reconstitution of society or the common ruin of the contending classes. Take a guess which one won out.

As the oligarchs and corporations further consolidate wealth and resources, we return to feudalism. Full circle.

@@oregonsbragia it is not at all accurate to call terminal capitalism feudalism. It is the mode of production that determines the type of society. Feudalism was characterized by far less centralized ownership than today. Today, the vast majority of people are proletarianized meaning they are wage workers. They sell their time, whereas feudalism is generally characterized by agricultural workers who worked land for lords and were allowed to keep enough to subsist on. Capitalism is characterized by a much greater socialization of production and free market trade versus the preceding western european economy that had trade meted through a tightly controlled tributary scheme where only officially authorized merchants had access to markets and at fixed prices. There have been many forms of feudalism across the globe and over time. The Eurocentric depiction of feudalism is one that is grossly distorted thanks to Hollywood. Most feudal societies had weak states characterized by feuding warlords and nobles. In Europe prior to the 16 century, there was some separation in power of the elite and the main hegemonic force was the Catholic church, not any one polity. There were far stronger trade organizations in the form of guilds, at least in that the tradesmen had control over their industry rather than the capitalists that have dominated trades since the 18th century and stripped working people's power through mechanization and proletarianization. Terminal capitalism is characterized by imperialism, the domination of the globe by empire and its allies and vassals through finance. Finance arouse in the mid 1800s by the consolidation of banking and industry. Banking came to prominence in the political sphere when the Catholic Church relaxed the prohibition of usury and the Vatican became the largest lender in history, bringing unprecedented wealth with which it was the enabler of colonial projects the world over with which it plundered and crushed the better part of the globe ideologically and left the physical domination to its political co-conspirators.

@@philipm3173 revolutionary war against the mark of the beast aka the government. They came over here to destroy our ancestors worse than dogs. Revolution for our Lands And For Our True Freedom!

@@moe8577 you said it comrade

Yep, T Boone Pickens started buying water and water rights over 20 or 30 years ago. Google it if you want to see his influence in the Texas water wars.

MIT…it was MIT that said we’d be in resource wars. Twenty years later they declared us twenty years early for their models. That’s now.

A revolution of our Native Lands Have Must Happen, i will die for what is right before I run.

Lawmakers are not only investors themselves but they are on the payroll. That is today's America.

It's much worse if an armed government owns it. but this was bought to offset carbon. so even though a private company owns the land, the government owns the resources which will be publicly off line forever. Fascism.

You mean government. Government owns half the land out west. Remember how a private citizen Bundy tried to use Federal land to graze his cattle?

thats the narrative but careful to not miss their sleight of hands.

He said, not knowing that he also has a stake in this

"...we're gonna sell the planet" Fixed it.

We'd be saving ourselves, the planet will be and has been fine without the naked apes, but we're too dumb for self preservation.

Yep, I'm already onboard

Revolutions happen by having an organized proletariat headed by a competent political organ.

The Southwest is doomed.

Welcome to the laws pushed by the agriculture lobby in red states before any of us were born pushing for senior water right and “use it or lose it” laws. Not great laws when you need conservation. We have Saudi corporations who got friendly land leases from the AZ land department to export water intensive alfalfa back to their country after they banned its growth back in their country after it drained their own aquifers. Better yet we have former lobbyists for this corporation representing us at the county level.

Depends on the state. Some states have no restrictions, while in others it’s highly regulated because it’s not safe water for consumption or for most of our needs. Some limit the amount you can collect for fear of taking away from ground water. And other states allow it but only for certain outdoor uses. You’d have to have a serious heavy duty filtration system to clean it well enough for most daily uses. This was on the news very recently. Overall I think in * most * states you can collect it, but check on your state’s laws.

Angela Phinn: The idea that resource wars will become commonplace had been suggested by environmentalists, who have been talking about the threat of scarcity of basic things like air and water for years.

Nestle bought the rights to rainwater in most states. Setting up water-collection systems in most states is punishable by a hefty fine

Your idea is already being exploited. Corporate farms have been exporting water intensive crops for decades all over the world.

They are not interested in the water or the land. I think you misunderstood the corruption. They want the government to pay them to NOT use the water. Sort of like a buyout, so the government can use the water elsewhere. The investment firms just want free public money given to them for doing ZERO work for it.

They will find a loophole. Like, set up some S-Corp subsidiary in CO to remain within the law. Why not, they got the $ for it

Thinking of what country to move to next

@@inaj27 Africa

Maybe the WEF will save you! lol

Next will be the air itself. Place your bets.

next will be your time existing.

Government does. They have done it in Cuba for 70 years.

Bad arguement. We all need food to survive, but there's a price tag on that. We all need shelter to survive, but there's a price tag on that.

What about the vultures that managed this country into 40 trillion in debt?

How bout the private grid in Texas? That's working so well..

Chernobyl

Federal Government to the rescue? Hahahaha. They are a million times worse than any Bond villain ever created and put on the screen

Bro they're one and the same

@@nycitizen5126 the federal government who built this infrastructure is worse than the corporations who lobbied the state governments for senior water rights and use it or lose it laws? Where do people come up with this stuff lol

@@nycitizen5126 LMAO. I'm sure the open market will correct this. Get real. Water is a national interest, resource, and crosses state lines. This is absolutely the Fed Gov's problem to solve. Fed's bad... well... guess what... maybe if we had stronger federal anti trust we would have more free speech on the internet and more vibrant markets. Conservatives and Libertarians don't want to admit the federal government is the solution to the problems created by the federal government.

Haha. Where do you come up with this stuff? The fed government doesn't work for you or I. Whatever involvement they would have would be to serve and satiate their interests and desires. It is a beast.

WHAT !?!? IS THAT TRUE !?!?

@@saraxdouglas8577 yes.

So the people that engineer viruses and fake vaccines are "helping" the planet? Hitler thought along those lines.

Lol, okay bozo

And do what? Switch to Socialism?

because China has so much clean water?

@@Reaper-cm4jr yes, because socialism is the idea that every person deserves food, water, shelter and medical care as a human right. Anyone who doesn’t believe that is a narcissist

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school OK. So why haven't you moved to the Utopia of Venezuela yet? Socialism there, it must be Paradise.

@@Reaper-cm4jr couldn't be that the most crushing sanctions ever imposed would have something to do with stifling a national economy...

Carbon exchange.

Yea, but the rich have the lawmakers to protect them from not making more money.

Laws caused this. It's part of the UN agenda Build Back Better.

That's the Stock Market. Just ask Paul, he will tell you.

Capitalism run amok.

Maybe a government agency should tell us how much we are alloted? Food too.

So Farmers shouldn't be able to own water for their crops?

So only politicians should control water?

That's how BLUE STATES Roll.

Yobambone's Clean Water Act controls it. It's a farce to think any private individual can own water today. Probably just bought it to get Carbon Credits which means it's off limits to anyone under the UN policies.

Exactly

Food, housing, healthcare, education, now water, next air.

The public is voting FOR this but is too mis-informed to know it. Those who are motivated by economic measures vote for corporate interests like water ownership.

Just let the Southwest dry up. It should have never been settled to begin with.

The government already did that now its the UN's turn.

It is hunger games... W Jason Bourne... And little splash if handmaids + pinocchio.

Welcome to libertarianism. Every resource has a price even if it’s your drinking water. Now regular people get to compete in the free market with not just Wall Street, but the Saudi corporations, and China. Surely that will work our great for water prices, food scarcity and affordability.

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