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Human Delusion and Our Destruction of the Biosphere: We Aren’t Even Trying!
By Robert J. Burrowes Have you heard the expression ‘climate change’? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate. Unfortunately, only the rarest individual has the capacity to see through the elite-promulgated delusion … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Geoengineering, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, propaganda, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Big Oil, Biosphere, Climate Change, Coal Plants, culture, Earth, Ecology, Economic Growth, Economics, environment, Extinction, fear, Fossil Fuels, Fresh Water, geoengineering, Methane, Oceans, Philosophy, pollution, propaganda, psychology, Rainforests, society, Sociology, Soil, war
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What’s Wrong with the Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economic Growth, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, Fossil Fuels, Globalization, income gap, Labor, Over-speculation, Stock Market, technology, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The status quo, in all its various forms, is dominated by incentives that strengthen the centralization of wealth and power. As longtime readers know, my work aims to 1) explain why the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, Consumerism, Economic Collapse, Economic Growth, economic inequality, Economics, environment, financial crisis, Monopolies, Power, Socialism, State Cartel, Wealth, Wealth Concentration
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The Singular Pursuit of Comrade Bezos
By Malcolm Harris Source: Medium It was explicitly and deliberately a ratchet, designed to effect a one-way passage from scarcity to plenty by way of stepping up output each year, every year, year after year. Nothing else mattered: not profit, … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Prime, big data, Cartel, Consumerism, Crony Capitalism, Dystopia, Economic Growth, Economics, Jeff Bezos, Monopoly, Planned Economy, Technocracy, technology, Whole Foods
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Mainstream Economics Warns Out-of-Control Inequality Harms the Economy…But Corrupt Government Policy Keeps Increasing Inequality
Who’s Who of Prominent Economists Agree: Inequality Harms Economic Growth By WashingtonsBlog A who’s who of prominent liberal and conservative economists in government and academia have now said that runaway inequality harms economic growth, including: Current Fed chair Janet Yellen … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Capital Gains, Class Warfare, Economic Collapse, Economic Growth, economic inequality, Government Corruption, Outsourcing, unemployment, Wages, wall street, WashingtonsBlog, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Divide, Wealth Gap
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