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Category Archives: Recession
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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Are We (Collectively) Depressed?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We need to encourage honesty above optimism. Once we can speak honestly, there is a foundation for optimism. Psychoanalysis teaches that one cause of depression is repressed anger. The rising tide of … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged American exceptionalism, Anger, culture, depression, despair, economic inequality, Economics, Government, income gap, Inequality, psychology, Sociology, The American Dream, Wealth Disparity
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America’s Oligarchs Will Control 70% Of National Wealth By 2021
By Whitney Webb Source: AntiMedia America’s rich just won’t quit getting richer, according to a new study released in mid-June by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm. The study, which seeks to analyze the global wealth … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Boston Consulting Group, Corporate Globalization, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Global Elite, income gap, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Disparity
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The Crisis of US Imperial Governance and the Struggle for a New World
By Danny Haiphong Source: Black Agenda Report “Economic crisis at home and endless war abroad has placed finance and monopoly capital in political disarray.” When I was here last year, I spoke a lot about ideology and how the struggle … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged china, Cold War, Donald Trump, economic crisis, economic inequality, empire, Fake News, geopolitics, imperialism, Income Gab, Neoliberalism, Nuclear War, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, Russia, Russian Hackers, Russophobia, war, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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