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ARCHITECTS OF POWER: HOW THE GLOBAL ELITE PROFIT FROM EXTREME INEQUALITY & PRE-EMPT THE BACKLASH
By Dr. Tim Coles Source: Waking Times There is a new, mega-rich global elite consisting of a small number of billionaires and multibillionaires. Many of them made their money in the technology sector. Others play financial markets or inherit fortunes. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1%, austerity, Bail-Outs, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Deregulation, Dystopia, Economics, elites, financialisation, Global Elite, Howard G. Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Neoliberalism, NSA, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, Robert Mercer, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett
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PG&E: Monopoly Power and Disasters by the Rich 1%
By Peter Phillips and Tim Ogburn Source: Project Censored The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has diverted over $100 million from safety and maintenance programs to executive compensation at the same time it has caused an average of more … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, news, Oligarchy, society
Tagged 1%, Big Oil, CEOs, Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, Fossil Fuels, Oligarchy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, PG&E, Transnational Capitalism, wildfires
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The Unraveling Quickens
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Even if we don’t measure the erosion of intangible capital, the social and political consequences of this impoverishment are manifesting in all sorts of ways. The central thesis of my new book … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, culture, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, income gap, Inflation, Over-speculation, Precariat, recession, social disorder, society, Wages, Wealth, Wealth Disparity
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Billionaires are a Sign of Economic Failure
Inherited wealth and crony capitalism have created an aristocratic class that undermines social mobility and democracy By Max Lawson Source: Inequality.org The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Law, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Billionaires, Corporate Power, Crony Capitalism, economic failure, economic inequality, Economics, extreme wealth, Inequality, Monopoly, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, political corruption, Poverty, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Thomas Piketty, US History, Wealth
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Wealth Identity Politics: Billionaires Acting Like A Persecuted Minority Is Peak Capitalism
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com “I guess maybe Bernie Sanders shouldn’t exist,” said billionaire Steve Schwarzman while seated in a library building named after billionaire Steve Schwarzman and promoting a book with billionaire Steve Schwarzman’s face on it. According to Bloomberg … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Geopolitics, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged 1%, bernie sanders, Billionaires, corporate media, economic inequality, Economic Justice, Economics, Ego, elites, Ken Langone, Mainstream Media, MSM, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Power Elite, propaganda, psychology, Steve Schwarzman, Wealth Concentration
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The Real Big Brother
By Eric Zuesse Source: Consortium News Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post, which leads America’s news-media in their almost 100 percent support and promotion of neoconservatism, American imperialism and wars. This includes sanctions, coups, and military invasions … Continue reading
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Tagged 1%, 1984, Amazon, Big Brother, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Crime, corporate media, Deep State, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Jeff Bezos, John Brennan, King Salman, Neocons, Neoconservatism, NSA, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, State Crime, The Washington Post, US Foreign Policy
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1% Politics and the New Gilded Age
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Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, College Admissions, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Federal Election Commission, Gilded Age, Goldman Sachs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, political corruption, Ted Cruz, Wage Stagnation, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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