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The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Please study these charts as a means of understanding the inevitability of economic stagnation and a revolt of the decapitalized middle class. I’ve been covering the decline of America’s middle class for … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, decapitalization, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Labor, middleclass, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Productivity
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When America Became The Roman Empire: Wars, Social turmoil and Economic Decline
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory George W. Bush By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, war, war on terror
Tagged America, Civil War, Corruption, Economic Collapse, empire, Failed State, Fallen Empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, history, imperialism, military-industrial complex, political instability, war
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The Coming War on Wealth and the Wealthy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Here’s looking at you, Federal Reserve–thanks for perfecting ‘legalized looting’ and neofeudalism in America. The problem with pushing a pendulum to its maximum extreme on one end is that it will swing … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, financializzation, Income Inequality, legalized looting, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Social Unrest, Wealth Gap
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The Top 10%’s Bubble Is About to Burst
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When the top 10%’s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory “wealth” were real. A great … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged asset deflation, Dystopia, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Income Inequality, Meritocracy, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Technocracy
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2021 is Already Optimized for Failure
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One sure way to identify a system “optimized for failure” is if all the insiders are absolutely confident the system is “optimized for my success”. I often discuss optimization here because it offers an … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged 2021, Asset Bubbles, coronavirus, Covid vaccine, Covid-19, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, Financial Collapse, Oligarchy, optimization, Plutocracy, Social Upheaval, Technocracy, Vaccines
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Our Frustrations Run Far Deeper Than Covid Lockdowns
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The reality is the roulette wheel is rigged and only chumps believe it’s a fair game. It’s easy to lay America’s visible frustrations at the feet of Covid lockdowns or political polarization, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged central banks, coronavirus, corporate cronies, Covid-19, culture, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Frederic Bastiat, Inequality, Injustice, lockdown, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariats, society, systemic unfairness, Wealth Gap
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“The Great Reset” Already Happened
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there’s nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The global elites’ techno-fantasy of a completely centralized future, The Great Reset, is … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Global Elites, Globalization, gold standard, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Technocracy, The Great Reset, trade deficits
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Who Pressed the Great Reset Button?
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Source: Global Research What is this “Great Reset” we’re now hearing about? In a nutshell, the Great Reset refers to a global agenda to monitor and control the world through digital surveillance. As explained by journalist James … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, EAT Forum, elites, Federal Reserve, Global Reset, GMOs, James Corbett, Klaus Schwab, Pandemic, society, Technocracy, Tessa Lena, Vaccines, Vandana Shiva, World Economic Forum
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