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Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus
By Ellen Brown Source: Web of Debt Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged bail-ins, Bank Bailouts, CARES act, central banks, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dodd Frank Act, Economic Collapse, Economics, economy, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Great Depression, Pandemic, Public Banks, repo market, wall street
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From Soft to Hard Fascism: “Get In Your House Right Now!”
By Kurt Nimmo Source: Another Day in the Empire There can no longer be any doubt—America is now a full-blown fascist state. In the past, authoritarian fascism was kept reserved in the shadows, largely out of the public eye, but … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged civil liberties, Crony Capitalism, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economy, fascism, financial crisis, Martial Law, Neoliberalism, police state, Police Violence, Poverty, tyranny
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Corporate Looting as ‘Rescue Plan,’ Robber Barons as ‘Saviors’
By Joshua Cho Source: FAIR.org For a perfect illustration of how corporate media function as ruling class propaganda, watch how they spin a titanic upward redistribution of wealth as a “rescue plan” for the US economy, and paint a robber … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bailouts, CARES act, Committee for a Responsible Budget, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Democrats, Donna Shalala, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, economy, financial crisis, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM media, Nancy Pelosi, Oligarchy, Pandemic, propaganda, recession, Republicans, Special Purpose Vehicles, Steve Mnuchin
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COVID-19: A Pretext for World Government and Totalitarianism
We are now beyond the point of no return. By Kurt Nimmo Source: Another Day in the Empire The crazy thing about the COVID-19 “crisis” is how easy it is for the state and its media to frighten the public … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, coronavirus, Covid-19, Economics, economy, Henry Kissinger, Oligarchy, Pandemic, police state, Scott C. Tips, surveillance state, Totalitarianism, Vaccines, war on terror, world government, World Health Organization
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Conjuring Up the Next Depression
By Chris Hedges Source: TruthDig During the financial crisis of 2008, the world’s central banks, including the Federal Reserve, injected trillions of dollars of fabricated money into the global financial system. This fabricated money has created a worldwide debt of $325 … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, news, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged bethany mclean, central banks, Crisis, economist, economy, fabricated money, Federal Reserve, financial crisis of 2008, fracking industry, giveaway to banks, global financial crash, Government, homeless, kevin zeese, low interest rates, margaret flowers, Money, national no-interest loans, Nomi Prins, politics, Student Debt, subprime mortgage, unsustainable debt, USA
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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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$21 Trillion of Unauthorized Spending by US Govt Discovered by Economics Professor
Source: Covert Geopolitics he US government may have misspent $21 trillion, a professor at Michigan State University has found. Papers supporting the study briefly went missing just as an audit was announced. Two departments of the US federal government may … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Black Budget, Catherine Austin Fitts, CIA, conspiracy, David Norquist, Deep State, Department of Defense, DOD, Economics, economy, imperialism, Mark Skidmore, Military Budget, military spending, military-industrial complex, State Crime, State Department, US government, war
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