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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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Escaping the iron cage of hopelessness
By Edward Curtin Source: Intrepid Report “Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved”—Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism “In this frightful round of … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Conscious Evolution, culture, Economics, materialism, Philosophy, Relativism, Religion, science, Scientism, society, spirituality, technology
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Saturday Matinee: Rollerball (1975)
The Science Fiction of Rollerball Is Nothing Compared to the Facts of Real Life Control By Rich Monetti Source: Omni If you’ve never seen Rollerball, stop what you’re doing and dial up the DVD for this 1975 Science Fiction Movie … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Film, Saturday Matinee, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology, Video
Tagged Consumerism, corporatocracy, Cult film, Dystopia, James Cann, Rollerball, Science fiction, social control, Sports, technology
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Godzilla Amazon: The Amount of Power in Jeff Bezos’ Hands Should Frighten All Americans
Amazon very effectively uses technology and data to sidestep traditional restrictions on monopoly power. By Matt Stoller Source: AlterNet To understand the depth and breadth of Jeff Bezos’ ambitions for the company he built, type www.relentless.com into your browser. The domain Bezos … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, media, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Amazon, big data, Corporate Consolidation, Corporate Globalization, Dystopia, Economics, Jeff Bezos, Monopolists, Predatory Pricing, technology, The Washington Post, Whole Foods
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The West’s War on Free Speech
By Tony Cartalucci Source: Land Destroyer With a name like the “National Democratic Institute” (NDI) one might expect the US State Department-funded, corporate-financier chaired front to be the premier proponent of freedom and democracy worldwide. And although it poses as … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, media, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged censorship, corporate media, Dystopia, Facebook, Fake News, free speech, Google, Information War, Mainstream Media, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, NDI, NED, New York Times, propaganda
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Luddism and Economic Ideology
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Smithsonian Magazine has a very good feature on the Luddites, well worth a read. There are many elements you just don’t read in many economic histories; for example, the 40-hour work week was not brought down … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged 40 Hour Work Week, 5 Day Workweek, Adam Smith, automation, capitalism, Chris Dillow, economic inequality, Economics, Economism, James Kwak, Kirkpatrick Sale, Labor, London, Luddism, Luddites, Neoclassical Economics, Rebels Against the Future, Revolution, Robots, technology, Wealth Gap, Wealth of Nations, Work
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Saturday Matinee: Obsolete
Source: Truthstream Media The Future Doesn’t Need Us… Or So We’ve Been Told. With the rise of technology and the real-time pressures of an online, global economy, humans will have to be very clever – and very careful – not … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Film, Financial Crisis, Labor, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Corporate Globalization, culture, Documentary Film, economic crisis, Economics, Global Economy, Internet, Labor, Robots, science, social control, society, technology, Work
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Saturday Matinee: Summer Wars
“Summer Wars” (2009) is a sci-fi anime directed by Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) and animated by Madhouse studio. The film’s plot follows Kenji Koiso, an eleventh-grade math prodigy who, while visiting his friend Natsuki’s great-grandmother, is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, society, Technology, Video
Tagged AI, Anime, Cult film, Hackers, Mamoru Hosoda, Science fiction, Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
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