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Category Archives: Work
An Inconvenient Revolution
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Convenience isn’t just about small appliances. It’s also about ruling nations. Let’s start with the semantics of ruling nations. Some labels might be viewed as somewhat inflammatory (Kleptocracy, anyone?), so let’s stick with … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, police state, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Big Tech, capitalism, Convenience, Corruption, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, opting out, Rebellion, Revolution, Ruling Elites, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy
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What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. “Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy”?
Covid, Capitalism, Friedrich Engels and Boris Johnson By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Africa, Boris Johnson, capitalism, Covid-19, culture, Debt Crisis, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Friedrich Engels, geopolitics, IMF, imperialism, Public Health, society, Technocracy, Welfare, Work, World Bank
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The Engineered Stagflationary Collapse Has Arrived – Here’s What Happens Next
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us In my 16 years as an alternative economist and political writer I have spent around half that time warning that the ultimate outcome of the Federal Reserve’s stimulus model would be a stagflationary collapse. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged central banks, Debt, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Great Reset, Inflation, Interest Rates, Jerome Powell, Oligarchy, rationing, society, stagflation, Work
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Livelihoods in a Degrowth Economy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Let’s consider livelihood options in an unsustainable economy of extremes that are unraveling, an economy that is being forced to transition to Degrowth. Nassim Taleb’s book Antifragile explains the differences between fragile systems (systems that cannot … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Labor, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology, Work
Tagged Antifragile, automation, Degrowth, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, frugality, hybrid work, Labor, Nassim Taleb, Resilience, self-reliance, simplicity, Sustainability
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The Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Long cycles operate at such a glacial pace they’re easily dismissed as either figments of fevered imagination or this time it’s different. But since Nature and human nature remain stubbornly grounded by the same … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Capital, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, hubris, Inflation, Interest Rates, Labor, Late Stage Capitalism, Oligarchy, overspeculation, social disorder, social order, Wealth Gap
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Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable
By Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal Source: The Grayzone Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Mass Incarceration, news, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Australia, Austria, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Christian Parenti, COVID vaccinations, Covid Variants, Covid-19, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, geopolitics, Germany, Global Hunger, Honduras, India, Lockdowns, Mass Incarceration, Mass Poverty, Mexico, Neil Ferguson, New Zealand, Oligarchy, Omicron, Pandemic, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, society, South Africa, Technocracy, Uganda, unemployment, vaccine mandates, Zero-COVID
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America’s Bottom 50% Have Nowhere To Go But Down
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One might anticipate that the bottom 50%’s meager share of the nation’s exploding wealth would have increased as smartly as the wealth of the billionaires, but alas, no. America’s economy has changed … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Big Tech, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, everything bubble, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Gig Economy, Globalization, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty
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America Is Now a Kleptocrapocracy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I’ve coined a new portmanteau word to describe America’s descent: kleptocrapocracy, a union of kleptocracy (a nation ruled by kleptocrats) and crapocracy, a nation drowning in a moral sewer of rampant self-interest in which … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Academia, Big Tech, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, healthcare, Kleptocracy, kleptocrapocracy, Labor, Oligarchy, Technocracy, Work
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