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National Bankruptcy as a Board Game
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Most people are familiar with the game Monopoly. Its goal is to teach capitalist kiddies a valuable lesson about capitalism; namely, that in running a business it isn’t useful to shoot for some happy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Bankruptcy, capitalism, Cartels, china, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, financial crisis, geopolitics, Interest Rates, Labor, military spending, Monopoly, national debt, Russia, Walmart, war
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Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
By Robert J. Burrowes In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2018, 2019, censorship, Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, economic inequality, elites, Energy, environment, Extinction, Famine, financial crisis, geoengineering, GMOs, Government, human trafficking, INF Treaty, Militarism, military spending, Peace, pollution, Poverty, Privacy, psychology, Slavery, State Crime, Violence, wall street, war, Wealth Concentration
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Wake From The Nightmare Or Eternal Sleep For Humanity
By Frank Scott Source: Dissident Voice The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living. — Karl Marx Marx offered a thought for all seasons but one that might especially ring true during … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, media, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Capital, capitalism, china, corporate media, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, financial crisis, France, Iran, Karl Marx, Morality, Philosophy, Poverty, propaganda, recession, Russia, war, Yellow Vests
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The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed
How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit. By Dave Lindorff Source: Information Clearing House On November 15, Ernst & Young and other private firms that were hired to audit the Pentagon announced that they … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Catherine Austin Fitts, Charles Grassley, Chief Financial Officers Act, Defense Budget, Department of Defense, DOD, Donald Rumsfeld, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Government Accountability Office, Mark Skidmore, military spending, Military Waste, Money Laundering, Patrick Shanaha, Pentagon Audit, State Crime, war
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A New World Order: Brought to you by the Global-Industrial Deep State
By John W. Whitehead Source: Intrepid Report “There are no nations. There are no peoples . . . There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Neoliberalism, NSA, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged AT&T, conspiracy, Corporate Globalization, Deep State, Dystopia, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Global Elites, Globalists, imperialism, Israel, Mega Corporations, military spending, military-industrial complex, New World Order, NSA, Nullification, police state, surveillance state, U.S. Government, war, war profiteers
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Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Salaries
Billions in taxpayer funds go to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that. By Sam Pizzigati Source: Other Words Politicians often gab about the “private sector” and the “public sector,” as if these two categories of economic … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged CEO Pay, Corporate Welfare, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Government Contractors, Income Disparity, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Portland, Wealth Gap
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National (In)Security In the United States of Inequality
By Rajan Menon Source: Unz Review So effectively has the Beltway establishment captured the concept of national security that, for most of us, it automatically conjures up images of terrorist groups, cyber warriors, or “rogue states.” To ward off such … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, military spending, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars, Work
Tagged American Society, Child Poverty, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Health Insurance, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, military spending, National Security State, Poverty, unemployment, Working Poor
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The Suicidal Empire
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov There are a lot of behaviors being exhibited by those in positions of power in the US that seem disparate and odd. We watch Trump who is imposing sanctions on country after country, dreaming … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Corruption, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, EU, financial crisis, geopolitics, history, imperialism, Militarism, military spending, NATO, Sanctions, US Foreign Policy
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