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The Unraveling Quickens
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Even if we don’t measure the erosion of intangible capital, the social and political consequences of this impoverishment are manifesting in all sorts of ways. The central thesis of my new book … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, culture, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, income gap, Inflation, Over-speculation, Precariat, recession, social disorder, society, Wages, Wealth, Wealth Disparity
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The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old
By Ellen Brown Source: Truthdig We are again reaching the point in the business cycle known as “peak debt,” when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt, credit card debt, auto loans, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Law, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged ancient greece, ancient rome, Banking, china, credit card debt, Debt, Debt Jubilee, Economic Collapse, Economics, federal deficit, financial crisis, Jesus Christ, mesopotamia, Money, Peak Debt, Student Debt
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Is the U.S. Becoming a Third World Nation?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This is a chart of an informal kleptocracy which cloaks itself in the faux finery of democracy and a (rigged) “market” economy. Back in the day, nations that didn’t qualify as either … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged America, corporate media, Coruption, Crumbling Infrastructure, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Failed State, financial crisis, Inequality, Kleptocracy, Late Stage Capitalism, Pay to Play, Poverty, Precariat, Pundits, super-wealthy, Technocrats, Third World
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What globalism did was to transfer the US economy to China
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged china, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, GDP, geopolitics, Globalism, Jobs, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plunge Protection Team, recession, Stock Market, Tariffs, Trade War, Work
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There Is No Normal
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com The wheel of time rolls forward, never retracing its path, but because it is a wheel, and we are riding in it, a persistent illusion persuades us that the landscape is recognizably the same, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Collapse, culture, Economic Collapse, Economics, Financial Crash, financial crisis, history, Normalcy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, society, transition economy
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The Gulag of the Mind
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds There are no physical barriers in the Gulag of the Mind–we imprison ourselves, and love our servitude. Indeed, we fear the world outside our internalized gulag, because we’ve absorbed the narrative that the gulag … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Economics, Energy, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Law, police state, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Energy, financial crisis, history, Justice, law, Oligarchy, police state, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Who Protected Epstein for Decades, and Why?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Let’s start by stipulating that the Jeffrey Epstein story is so sordid and outlandish that it’s like a made-for-TV movie about the evil proprietor of a nightmarish enclave of private perversion and … Continue reading
Posted in CIA, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, elites, FBI, Geopolitics, media, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime
Tagged CIA, conspiracy, Corruption, Deep State, FBI, financial crisis, foreign intelligence, geopolitics, Jeffrey Epstein, Lolita Island, NSA, Power Elite, Ruling Elite, sex trafficking
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Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Even the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices that they’re not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%. Let’s posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Big Tech, corporate media, Deep State, divide and conquer, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Jeffrey Epstein, Moral Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, political corruption, Ruling Elites, The Fourth Turning
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