The panda, chosen as the World Wildlife Dedicated to Dylan Fund emblem over 20 years ago, has be- Thomas - Whoever HE Was come the symbol of endangered species KULTCHA everwhere. #26-1986 UNEARTH THE LOST KNOWLEDGE! REAL ESTATE TERMINOLOGY REVIEW "In theory all land belonged to the king, who gave it to his vassals in return for service. They gave lands to still lesser vassals, who might parcel it out still further. The king had the right to take back any land from any of his vassals and give it to another, and we can see from bronze inscriptions and fromthe literature that he sometimes did this in the early days when he was powerful. But just as in medieval Europe, the powerful vassals soon ceased to look upon their title as provisional. At first, when such a noble died it was considered necessary for the king to appoint his heir to succeed him, and to give his estates to the heir, but this soon degenerated into a mere form, if it was maintained at all. In practice the vassal looked upon his territory as his by inherited right, and it was necessary to wage war to displace him. As lesser vassals grew in power, and possessed private armies, the same situation grew up all along the line, so that if land changed hands it ordinarily did so either as a result of sale or exchange, or with the accom- paniment of violence. "Each individual who held land as a fief from a superior was commonly expected to turn over to that superior a por- tion of the revenues which he received from it as tribute. At the lower end of the scale was the aristocrat who, as a sort of gentleman farmer, supervised directly the work of agriculture. This supervision was delegated to the chief among his household servants, and the actual field labour was done by peasants, serfs, or slaves." (pp. 310-11) "This period in Chinese history is most nearly compar- ableto the feudal age in Europe, which came something more than fifteen hundred years later." (p. 320) -- Herrlee Glessner Creel, THE BIRTH OF CHINA (Ungar, 1937) "The centuries in which the LAO TZU was produced were cer- tainly turbulent times. China was divided into a number of states, to all intents and purposes autonomous, constantly engaged in wars of increasing scope and ferocity with one another. For the common man survival was a real and pressing problem." -- D. C. Lau, LAO TZU: TAO TE CHING (Penguin, 1963) "The World Wildlife Fund is mobilizing the fascist forces to turn its nightmare of barbaric depopulation into reality." -- Club of Life, INTERNATIONAL BANKERS' REAL AGENDA, 1983 Notwithstanding both revolutionary and libertarian rhetoric or, at least, nearly always one or the other, there is very much evidence that today's so-called revolutionaries are in most cases simply neo-monarchistic statists while the so-call- ed libertarians are usually just corporate feudalists. "This monopoly consists in the enforcement by government of land titles which do not rest upon personal occupancy and cultivation. It was obvious to Warren and Proudhon that, as soon as individuals should no longer be protected by their fellows in anything but personal occupancy and cultivation of land, ground-rent would disappear, and so usury would have one less leg to stand on." -- Benjamin Tucker "State Socialism and Anarchism" BEWARE The SPACE BANKERS Permanent THE FALSE See YOU Universal PROPHETS Rent Strike