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Category Archives: Financial Crisis
FTX and the Corruption of America
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Thanks to the FTX swindle, we now know the cost of a get out of jail free card in America: $40 million, paid to political elites. It seems even get out of jail free cards have suffered … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 'U.S. Department of Justice, Corporate Crime, coruption, DOJ, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elits, financial crisis, ftx, law, Oligarchy, PR, Rule of Law, Sam Bankman-Fried, SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission
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FTX: The Dominoes of Financial Fraud Have Yet to Fall
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds If you haven’t plowed through dozens of post-collapse commentaries on FTX, I’m saving you the trouble: here’s a distillation of what matters going forward. If you’re seeking a forensic accounting of FTX, others … Continue reading
A Smoldering Fuse
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com We have pretty much burned our bridges at this point. Unless you’re prepared to mindfuck yourself, and gaslight yourself, and confess, and convert, there’s no going back to “normal” society (which we couldn’t go … Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, black ops, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Alameda Investments, Caroline Ellison, DNC, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, ftx, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, New Normal, Sam Bankman-Fried, Ukraine
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How “Food Shortages” & Economic Collapse Protects the Status Quo
Engineered Food & Poverty Crises Secure Continued US Dominance By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Agriculture, Andrew Gavin Marshall, Big Pharma, Biotech, China, Economic Collapse, financial crisis, food shortages, geopolitics, Global Food System, GMOs, Henry Kissinger, Michael Hudson, New World Order, Poverty, Russia, Sanctions, Technocracy, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, WAR ON FOOD, Wheat
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Peering Into the Crystal Ball, We See… Instability Leading to Collapse
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We can only choose one: open, dynamic stability (evolution) or autocracy (instability and collapse). When the fundamentals of life change, every organism must evolve or die. This is equally true of human organizations, societies … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Collapse, dynamic equilibrium, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Evolution, evolutionary churn, financial crisis, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, stability
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It’s A Fact That Needs Repeating: The Federal Reserve Is A Suicide Bomber
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us For many years now I have been examining the policies and behaviors of the Federal Reserve because they are in fact the most powerful institution in the US, with far more influence over the fate … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, news, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Bank for International Settlements, Ben Bernanke, BIS, central banks, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Global Elites, Great Depression, Inequality, Jerome Powell
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Billionaires, Bunkers and Brain Damage
“The rich are not like us” By Mickey Z. Source: Dissident Voice Douglas Rushkoff has an article (based on his latest book) called “The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse,” in The Observer. This excerpt gives you an idea of how … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged culture, Douglas Rushkoff, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Philosophy, society, Survival of the Richest, Technocracy
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The Fourth Turn, Turn, Turn
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The cycles of The Fourth Turning, Fischer and Turchin are all in alignment at this point in history.. The 1997 book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy proposed a cyclical pattern of four 20-year … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Ages of Discord, Consumerism, David Hackett Fischer, Degrowth, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, environment, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Industry, Neil Howe, Oligarchy, Peter Turchin, technology, The Fourth Turnind, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, transition economy, Wealth Gap, William Strauss
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Desultory Heroics 