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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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Planet of the Living Dead (Halloween 2021)
By Mickey Z. Source: Dissident Voice The only thing we have to fear… (the dude who signed Executive Order 9066) Halloween is an odd holiday. The ostensible concept — as it has evolved to become — is to shock, startle, frighten, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Covid-19, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Hallowee, Lockdowns, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, society, Technocracy
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Without admitting it, we are already converted to transhumanism
By Thierry Meyssan Source: Voltairenet.org The world is changing very fast. During the Covid epidemic, money has been concentrated in a few hands. The new oligarchs are transhumanists. Without realising it, we have already accepted their ideology and are beginning … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Bill Gates, censorship, corporate media, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, CrossCheck, Dystopia, economic inequality, Emmanuel Macron, financial crisis, France, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, mRNA vaccines, NATO, NewsGuard, Pandemic, propaganda, Psyops, science, Technocracy, the European Union, transumanism, Wealth Concentration, Yellow Vests
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The Fear Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. Sleepwalking Towards A Global Economic Crisis?
By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research In October 2019, in a speech at an International Monetary Fund conference, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned that the world was sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that would have devastating … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Fabio Vighi, fascism, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, Great Reset, International Monetary Fund, Lockdowns, Mass Poverty, Matt Taibbi, Mervyn King, Neoliberalism, onomic Forum, Oxfam, Pandemic, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny, Wealth Concentration, World Bank
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