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Kenn Burrows and Amber Yang discuss on social media, corporate news, constructive journalism and related topics
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Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
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Category Archives: Labor
A New Aesthetic
By Damaris Zehner Source: Resilience There are all these good ideas – intensive agriculture, organic farming, permaculture, the local food movement. But why is most food still not grown this way, if it really is better? Why don’t farmers switch … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Labor, Philosophy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Big Ag, Economics, environment, Farming, Food, Health, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Monocrops, nature, Permaculture, Pesticides, Philosophy, Profit, Round-Up, technology
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The 5-Step CEO pay scam
Grossly widening inequalities of income and wealth cannot be separated from grossly widening inequalities of political power in America. This corruption must end. By Robert Reich Source: Nation of Change Average CEO pay at big corporations topped 14.5 million dollars in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Labor, Law, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged CEO Pay, CEOs, Corporate Tax Cuts, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Income Inequality, Oligarchy, Pay Gap, Plutocracy, political corruption, stock buybacks, Wealth Disparity
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What globalism did was to transfer the US economy to China
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged china, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, GDP, geopolitics, Globalism, Jobs, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plunge Protection Team, recession, Stock Market, Tariffs, Trade War, Work
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Jeffrey Epstein Out in the Open
By Jon Rappoport Source: NoMoreFakeNews.com NOTE: This article concerns the reporting of Vicky Ward. I’m not automatically assuming her key point is factual, especially since it relies on an unnamed source, who is telling her about a private meeting which … Continue reading
Posted in CIA, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, elites, History, Labor, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime
Tagged Alexander Acosta, CIA, conspiracy, Deep State, Donald Trump, elites, Jeffrey Epstein, Labor Secretary, Mossad, Oligarchy, political corruption, sex trafficking, State Crime, US Labor Department, Vicky Ward
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‘Deaths of despair’ soaring among Gen Z & millennials: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
By Helen Buyniski Source: RT.com Young Americans are killing themselves in record numbers, the victims of a confluence of economic and sociological factors that have singled them out – even above a nationwide surge in so-called “deaths of despair.” Suicide … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged addiction, Alcohol, America, Baby Boomers, culture, deaths of despair., depression, drugs, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Generation Z, Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, Labor, military spending, millennials, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, recession, Social Media, society, Sociology, Student Debt, Student Loans, suicide, The American Dream, unemployment, war, Work
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Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it By David Dayen Source: In These Times AMAZON IS AN ONLINE RETAILER. It also runs a marketplace for other online retailers. It’s also a shipper … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, Alexa, Alienation, Amazon, big data, CIA, Cloud Computing, Corporate Lobbyists, Dystopia, e-commerce, Economics, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Retail Apocalypse, Small Business, Social Isolation, Technocracy, technology, Worker's Rights
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Bezos Reveals His Ugly Vision For The World He’s Trying To Rule
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com “Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?” asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program. “It’s easy to know the answer to that question,” … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon, Corporate Crime, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, Ecosystem, elites, environment, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Plutocrats, political corruption, Silicon Valley, society, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism, Wealth Concentration
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Why Are American Communities Dying?
By Tom Chatham Source: Project Chesapeake Most Americans who have been around for a while know life is nothing like it used to be. When someone wanted a job one was found with a little bit of searching. Today jobs … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged American Community, Corporations, Economic Collapse, Economics, Family-Owned Business, financial crisis, Government Jobs, local economies, Neoliberalism, recession, Small Business, Small Towns
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