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Inequality Social Dysfunction and Misery
By Graham Peebles Source: Dissident Voice Year on year the economic divisions and sub-divisions in the world deepen, the associated social ills increase: The rich, comfortable, and the very extremely rich keep getting richer, and the rest, well, whilst some … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, 99%, Billionaires, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Extreme Inequality, greed, happiness, Income Disparity, Inequality, Oxfam, Scandinavia, Trillionaires, Wealth Gap
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A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide A $12,000 Annual Stipend To Every American Household
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income. By Paul Buchheit Source: Nation of Change It’s not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged 1%, 99%, Arts and Sciences, big data, Big Pharma, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Entrepreneurs, financial crisis, income gap, Poverty, Progressive Tax, Stock Market, technology, UBI, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, wall street, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Tax
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A Stock Market Primer, in Six Easy Steps
By William Kaufman Source: CounterPunch What is the stock market? 1) It’s not real economic activity—it’s a form of mass hysteria or mass psychosis. 2) Stock prices reflect a mass-hysteria impression of the worth of a piece of paper you … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, 99%, corporate media, Corporate Welfare, Economics, economy, High Speed Trading, Kleptocrats, Mass Hysteria, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Quantitative Easing, Stock Market, Tax Breaks, Technocrats, wall street
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One nation under plutocracy
By Jack Balkwill Source: Intrepid Report Americans are brought up believing a fairy tale in which there is somehow democracy in their governance. But the late, great, Leonard Cohen exposed the system’s dirty little secret, “Everybody knows that the dice … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Law, news, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged 1%, 99%, Big Pharma, Bill, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Health, Leonard Cohen, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Prisons, war profiteers, Wealth Gap
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How 90% of American Households Lost an Average of $17,000 in Wealth to the Plutocrats in 2016
By Paul Buchheit Source: Information Clearing House America has always been great for the richest 1%, and it’s rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-2016 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databooks (GWD). … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Social Control, society
Tagged 1%, 99%, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Global Elite, middleclass, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, Thomas Piketty, Wage Gap, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Transfer
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How the Super-Rich Will Destroy Themselves
By Paul Buchheit Source: Nation of Change Perhaps they believe that their underground survival bunkers with bullet-resistant doors and geothermal power and anti-chemical air filters and infrared surveillance devices and pepper spray detonators will sustain them for two or three … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Recession, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 1%, 99%, ALEC, civilization, Climate Change, Drought, economic inequality, Economic Stagnation, Environmental Destruction, financial crisis, Global Inequality, Infrastructure, Pandemic, Public Health, society, Super-Rich, terrorism, Wealth Disparity
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Living In A Van Down By The River – Time To Face The True State Of The Middle Class In America
By Michael Snyder Source: InvestmentWatch Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live sketches in which comedian Chris Farley portrayed a motivational speaker that lived in a van down by the river? Unfortunately, this is becoming a reality for way … Continue reading
The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
By Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges Source: CounterPunch CHRIS HEDGES: We’re going to be discussing a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how we got there and where we’re going. And with me … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, society, war
Tagged 1%, 99%, Adam Smith, Chris Hedges, Classical Economics, Debt, Financial Parasites, GDP, Goldman Sachs, Gross National Product, Junk Economics, Marx, Michael Hudson, military-industrial complex, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, wall street, war
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