While many people around the world have tuned into the news about the elections in Germany, and how Angela Merkel will no longer act as Chancellor, what many are not reporting on is another piece of legislature that passed in the nation’s capital, Berlin.
The people of Berlin have voted to force landlords to sell their property rights of their large apartment complexes to the government.
The final vote was 56.9% “Ja” (yes), and 39% voting “Nein” (no).
The Real News Network explains more of the details:
After years of rising rent forcing many Berliners out of the city, activists led by Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen (Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen, or DWE) received nearly 350,000 signatures from Berliners and managed to force a vote on whether to allow the expropriation of housing owned by landlords with over 3,000 units on the Sept. 26 election ballot.
While the movement to expropriate large real estate companies, who have made a fortune speculating on the housing market and causing rent increases over the past decade, has been active in Berlin for years, ironically it was the German Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Berlin’s Mietendeckel (rent cap) law that was the catalyst for the current referendum. While this law would not impose a rent cap, DWE volunteer Dennis Rahmel thinks that it would still have a dramatic impact on rent prices in the city. “Prices would go down in the expropriated apartments, which would change the rent not [just for the socialized apartments] but for other people as well, no matter if they were in public apartments or not,” said Rahmel. “It would also mean that society could show that there is some power against investors, against big capital, and that housing is a human right… it would be a big sign for other cities, too.”
Kim Meyer with Bündnis gegen Verdrängung und Mietenwahnsinn Berlin (The Berlin Alliance against Displacement and Rent Madness) thinks that it will also discourage the kind of rampant speculation (and subsequent rent hikes) that real estate markets around the world have seen.
While litigation, such as the kind that met the rent cap law, is likely to challenge this referendum if it passes, it is less likely to be successful because the German constitution specifically allows for such appropriation. “[Unlike] Mietendeckel, socialisation is a constitutional right in Germany. In fact, many houses were already expropriated (and afterwards destroyed) in order to build a motorway around the city,” said Meyer.
Meyer and other organizers think that the reason so many of the city’s establishment have come out against the law is because of its possible effectiveness in solving the housing crisis—not only in Berlin, but as an example to cities all over the world. “It might inspire people to question the current sellout of their land and cities to global investors and to [investigate] compulsory purchases of necessities by their administrations, like housing, water wells, power plants, et cetera, and to fight for their human right to housing,” said Meyer.
Mish Talk, an economic and geopolitical outlet, says that the idea that the government can create affordable housing for all is “nonsense.”
The proposal, if followed (and it appears it started in advance), will either result in disrepair of property, higher taxes, or both.
The outlet suspects that moves such as this will be picked up by progressives in the United States as a new talking point and push.
Nonsense or not, these types of actions by Berlin are what the World Economic Forum has touted for some time, as part of their vision for what they dub “The Great Reset” and “4th Industrial Revolution.” The culmination of this is by the year 2030, and where the organization envisions smart cities where its people own quite literally nothing, even the rooms they operate in or the clothes on their back. Hence, their bold statement of “You’ll own nothing and be happy.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[12] I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. [13] The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. [14] Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. Proverbs 8:12-14
If you have sound wisdom, then you can plainly see that the actions of Agenda 2030 are being carried out rapidly (and have been prior to 2020, just more subtly). This is not “tin-hit conspiracy:” it is happening and the people are cheering for it.
For more details of the many steps forward to 2030, check out these reports to see more of the core goals set forth in motion – the blissfully and willfully ignorant masses could care less about:
Agenda Absolute Zero: You’ll Be Enslaved And Be Happy
Pope Francis Launches Seven Year Laudato Si’ To Further Agenda Absolute Zero
Furthermore, what we are seeing building up to I believe is some of what the black horse of the book of Revelation is depicting. Give that study a look if you wish:
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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God’s wrath is hitting Germany and His wrath has been destroying that country since the Nazis for murdering God’s people, the Jews. Soviet Russia wiped the floor clean with the nazis and then brought the war back to Germany and obliterated Hitler’s satanic empire and from 1959-1989, east Germany was communist with a wall separating them from the west, and now this.