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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
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
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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Colonizing the Western Mind
By Jason Hirthler Source: CounterPunch In Christopher Nolan’s captivating and visually dazzling film Inception, a practitioner of psychic corporate espionage must plant and idea inside a CEO’s head. The process is called inception, and it represents the frontier of corporate … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged American Enterprise Institute, brainwashing, Carnegie Endowment, Cato Institute, Corporate Globalization, Council on Foreign Relations, Deregulation, Downsizing, Economics, elites, Free Market, geopolitics, Globalists, Heritage Foundation, imperialism, Inception, Neoliberalism, propaganda, social control, stratfor, Structural Adjustment, The Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institute, the Open Society Foundation, think-tanks
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The US economy has not recovered and will not recover
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labor and compliance costs resulted … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, society
Tagged Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Deregulation, Economic Collapse, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, GDP, Great Depression, Housing Market, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Hudson, propaganda, recession, unemployment, US Economy
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The Rise of “Criminal Capitalism”
By James Petras Source: Dissident Voice About 75% of US employees work 40 hours or longer, the second longest among all OECD countries, exceeded only by Poland and tied with South Korea. In contrast, only 10% of Danish workers, 15% … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Law, Social Control, society
Tagged activism, Bail-Outs, Big Banks, Corporate Crime, corporatocracy, Criminal Capitalism, Crony Capitalism, Deregulation, Dissident Voice, Economic Disparity, Income Inequality, LIBOR, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Rent Seeking, Wealth Gap
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Neoliberalism Is Changing Our World Without Our Even Noticing
Wendy Brown charts the ‘stealth revolution’ that’s transforming every aspect of society — and now has democracy in its sights. By Hans Rollmann Source: PopMatters ‘Neoliberalism’ is a much confused and maligned term these days. Progressive activists deploy it derisively … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, History, Labor, Philosophy, Privatization, propaganda, Social Control, society
Tagged capitalism, Corporate Globalization, Corporatization, Deregulation, Free Markets, Neoliberalism, Privitization, Public-Private Partnerships
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