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And empires die
Source: Intrepid Report Nothing ever seems to last, everybody changes oh so fast, promises made promises lost and pride is kept at any cost, And flowers die, and children cry, and lonely people carry on. —Palermo & Farruggio 1970 That … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, History, Inequality, Labor, Militarization, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged And Flowers Die, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Global Elites, healthcare, imperialism, income gap, Infrastructure, Medical System, Militarism, Military-Industrial Empire, Unions, Wealth Disparity
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What Happened to All Those Foreclosed Houses?
Wall Street bought them — and is now leasing them out and driving up rents. By Jim Hightower Source: OpEdNews.com We know that millions of American families lost their homes after Wall Street’s 2007 financial crash. But where did all … Continue reading
When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com It remains to be seen what the impact will be from Mother Nature putting the nation’s fourth largest city out-of-business. And for how long? It’s possible that Houston will never entirely recover from Hurricane … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, news, Recession, society
Tagged Big Oil, Debt, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Katrina, Petrochemicals, wall street
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Just Wait a Little While
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com The trouble, of course, is that even after the Deep State (a.k.a. “The Swamp”) succeeds in quicksanding President Trump, America will be left with itself — adrift among the cypress stumps, drained of purpose, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Energy, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Debt, Deep State, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Growth, industrial society, society, Technological Civilization, Trump
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The Value of Everything
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is just as sharp. America’s “aristocracy,” once based strictly on … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, media, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Aristocracy, Automobiles, Debt, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Entertainment, Global Elites, Housing, income gap, Mass Media, recession, Wealth Disparity
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America’s Rich Are Completely Losing Touch With Reality — and That’s a Really Bad Sign
By Shaun Bradley Source: AntiMedia The divide between wealthy and working class has grown wider each year since the last financial crisis, but this disconnect is about much more than just money or politics. The super-rich, in particular, have become … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Bunkers, Class Divide, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Global Elites, income gap, Middeclass, Parabiosis, Precariat, Preppers, Social Unrest, Wealth Disparity, Wealthy
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population
By Paul Buchheit Source: CommonDreams Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Agra, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Biotech, Charitable Foundations, economic inequality, Economics, Education, Facebook, financial crisis, Global Elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Meritocracy, Microsoft, NGOs, Oligarchy, Philanthropy, Plutocracy, Taxes, Warren Buffett, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Gap
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It Is Bettter to Light One Candle than to Curse the Darkness
By Harvey Lothian Source: Dissident Voice The world is in bad shape. Every reasonably intelligent, aware, objective person in the world knows, if only intuitively, that something is very, very wrong. There should not be this many armed conflicts, this much … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Philosophy, Recession, Social Control, society, war
Tagged 1%, Debt, Economic Disparity, Economics, Global Hunger, Homelessness, Income Inequality, Poverty, Precariat, war, Wealth, Wealth Gab
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