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Can a Nation Prosper as its Institutions Fail?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Economists focus on what can be easily measured: sales, profits, prices, tax revenues, etc. Since the decay and failure of institutions isn’t easily quantified, this decay doesn’t register in the realm of economics. Since it … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Consumerism, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Financialization, Health Care, Oligarchy, Samo Burja, society, Why Civilizations Collapse
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As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It
By Nick Corbishley Source: Naked Capitalism The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication. The campaign against ivermectin is intensifying in the US. Until recently the health … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Economics, Health, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy
Tagged AMA, APhA, Big Pharma, corporate media, Covid-19, DGHS, FDA, Flashpoints, Health Care, ICMR, India, ivermectin, Japan, Mainstream Media, Media watch, Pandemic, Pfizer, propaganda, Public Health
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Economic effect of coronavirus could be revolutionary
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report Coronavirus and globalism will teach us vital lessons. The question is whether we can learn vital lessons that do not serve the ruling interest groups and ideologies. Coronavirus will teach us that a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, society, Sociology
Tagged bernie sanders, Big Pharma, coronavirus, Corporate Crime, Corporate Globalization, Debt, debt-forgiveness, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalism, Health Care, Michael Hudson, national health care system, nationalization, Oligarchy, Public Health, Socialism, society, wall street
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OUR NEW, HAPPY LIFE? THE IDEOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
By Charles Eisenstein Source: Waking Times In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Environment, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged 1984, Agriculture, Developing Nations, Dystopia, Economics, empathy, George Orwell, Global South, happiness, Health Care, Humanity, Literacy, Nicholas Kristof, Progress, science, Sick Care, Statistics, Stephen Pinker, technology, Third World
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Racket of Rackets
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds If you thought banking in our time was a miserable racket — which it is, of course, and by “racket” I mean a criminal enterprise — then so-called health care has it … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Law, news, Privatization, society, State Crime
Tagged Donald Trump, Economics, Health Care, Insurance Industry, Medicine, obamacare, Pecora Commission, Racketeering, Single Payer System, Universal Healthcare
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Does “Creative Destruction” Include the State?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When do we get to exercise democracy and fire every factotum, apparatchik, toady and lackey in the state who has abused his/her authority? Everyone lauds “creative destruction” when it shreds monopolies … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Militarization, military spending, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Cartels, Corruption, Creative Destruction, Democracy, Education, Government Monopoly, Gulag, Health Care, Military, National Security State, Prisons
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The Dying Americans
By Chad Hill Source: The Hipcrime Vocab I’ve often used the term “the final solution for the working class,” in reference to the current American policy towards its vast intercoastal peasantry who, for reasons of circumstance or inclination, do not … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged America, American Dream, Corporate Globalization, Dieoff, Dystopia, Economics, Education, greed, Health Care, Middle Class, Neoliberalism, Peak Oil, Poverty, society, suicide, technology, Working Class
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