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The REAL agenda behind the created food crisis
The created food crisis, whether real or a smoke-and-mirrors psy-op, is all about tearing down the global food system and “building back better” – a new dystopian food system built by corporate monoliths and rigidly controlled in the name of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Bill Gates, BIRD FLU, Covid-19, Davos, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, food crisis, Great Reset, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Russia, Technocracy, Ukraine, WEF
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Is Housing a Bubble That’s About to Crash?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Are we heading into another real estate bubble / crash? Those who say “no” see the housing shortage as real, while those who say “yes” see the demand as a reflection of the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, geopolitics, Globalism, Home Prices, house-flipping, Housing Bubble, Housing Crisis, Inflation, mortgage rates, Neofeudalism, Neoliberalism, remote work, supply chains, urban decay
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The Inflation Crisis Of 2022 Is Now Worse Than Anything That We Experienced During The 1970s
By Michael Snyder Source: Activist Post Most Americans don’t realize this, but we truly have entered historic territory. As you will see below, the inflation crisis of 2022 has now escalated to a level that is beyond anything that we … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Housing Crisis, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged corporate media, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, food shortages, home sales, Housing Crisis, Inflation, inflation crisis, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, propaganda, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, war
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‘We the People’ Are the New, Permanent Underclass in America
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.”—Herbert Hoover This is financial tyranny. The … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Drug War, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, imperialism, Military Industrial Complex, military spending, national debt, police state, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
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How Empires Die
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds From a systems perspective, nation-states and empires arise when they are superior solutions to security compared to whatever arrangement they replace: feudalism, warlords, tribal confederations, etc. States and empires fail when they are … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged crapification, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, empire, fairness, financial crisis, Government, imperialism, Middle Class, Planned obsolescence, Security
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The Real Threat to Democracy is Corrupting Wealth Inequality
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Imagine a town of 1,000 adults and their dependents in which one person holds the vast majority of wealth and political influence. Would that qualify as a democracy? Now imagine that 100 of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Democracy, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Technocracy, Wealth Disparity
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The Illusion of Getting Rich While Producing Nothing
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Of all the mass delusions running rampant in the culture, none is more spectacularly delusional than the conviction that we can all get fabulously rich from speculation while producing nothing. The key characteristic … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cartels, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Late Stage Capitalism, Monopoly, overspeculation, speculative wealth
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The U.S. Economy In a Nutshell: When Critical Parts Are On “Indefinite Back Order,” the Machine Grinds to a Halt
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Setting aside the “transitory inflation” parlor game for a moment, let’s look at what happens when critical parts are unavailable for whatever reason, for example, they’re on back order or indefinite back order, i.e. the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Corporate Globalization, culture, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Labor, Neoliberalism, scarcities, shortages, society, supply chains, Systemic Collapse, Work
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