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I Know Why Can’t We Fix Homelessness
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well “What stands out for visitors?” I asked our guide during a Honolulu Chinatown tour with my out-of-town guests. “Always the same, the homeless. Even Mainlanders from big cities like San Francisco and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Labor, military spending, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged capitalism, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Hawaii, Homelessness, Honolulu, Housing Crisis, Minimum Wage, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, systemic inequality, Technocracy
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I Used To Be Disgusted, Now I’m Disabused
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds It’s certainly possible to be disgusted, but being disabused of the fantasy that the system is self-correcting is the healthier perspective. I used to be disgusted, now I’m disabused: beneath all the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Collapse, Corruption, Deep State, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, fascism, Government, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Concentration
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Billionaires, Bunkers and Brain Damage
“The rich are not like us” By Mickey Z. Source: Dissident Voice Douglas Rushkoff has an article (based on his latest book) called “The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse,” in The Observer. This excerpt gives you an idea of how … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged culture, Douglas Rushkoff, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Philosophy, society, Survival of the Richest, Technocracy
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Our Financial System Is Optimized for Sociopaths and Exploitation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We live in a peculiar juncture of history in which truth has been banished as a threat to the maximization of private gain, i.e. the hyper-pursuit of self-interest. Evidence that supports a causal chain has been … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, Corporate Crime, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Exploitation, financial crisis, Financial System, Labor, Oligarchy, psychopaths, self interest, sociopaths
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The Global Elite’s “Kill and Control” Agenda: Destroying Our Food Security
By Robert J. Burrowes Governments around the world continue to impose an expanding sequence of measures to curtail rights and freedoms ostensibly to tackle a ‘virus’. In response, public demonstrations against these government measures are also ongoing and expanding with … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 5G, civil liberties, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, Dr. Vandana Shiva, economic inequality, elites, eugenis, Food Security, GMO, Pandemic, supply chaines, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Transhumanism
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The Real Threat to Democracy is Corrupting Wealth Inequality
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Imagine a town of 1,000 adults and their dependents in which one person holds the vast majority of wealth and political influence. Would that qualify as a democracy? Now imagine that 100 of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Democracy, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Technocracy, Wealth Disparity
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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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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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