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Tag Archives: Homelessness
I Know Why Can’t We Fix Homelessness
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well “What stands out for visitors?” I asked our guide during a Honolulu Chinatown tour with my out-of-town guests. “Always the same, the homeless. Even Mainlanders from big cities like San Francisco and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Labor, military spending, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged capitalism, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Hawaii, Homelessness, Honolulu, Housing Crisis, Minimum Wage, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, systemic inequality, Technocracy
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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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The Future is Hawaii
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well I have seen the future. It looks a lot like Hawaii. What I saw there (absent the beautiful beaches, confused tourists, and incredible nature) was a glimpse of the future for much … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, police state, Racism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Covid-19, culture, Dystopia, economic inequality, econoomics, elites, Hawaii, Homelessness, Larry Ellison, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Poverty, society, Welfare
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The Mechanism of Invisible Empire
“The invisible hand has created an invisible cage…blinding us and dividing us, allowing the ruling class to exploit us and subjugate us.” By Hiroyuki Hamada Source: Off-Guardian When the whole society becomes a theater of absurdity, the puppeteers become kings … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, Colonization, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, empire, geopolitics, Great Reset, Homelessness, imperialism, Oligarchy, Poverty, propaganda, state violence, Technocracy, The Fourth Industrial Revolution
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America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another
Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily? By Lee Camp Source: ScheerPost.com Most rational Americans have correctly criticized and denounced the violent insurrection in the Capitol last week. Those … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Corporate Crime, corporate media, Economic Warfare, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, healthcare, Homelessness, imperialism, Mainstream Media, Mass Poverty, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, political prisoners, pollution, sixth great extinction, venezuela, war
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1624, English poet John Donne penned his famous poem ‘No Man Is an Island’, sublimely evoking the reality of human unity: ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’ Therefore, he concluded his poem, ‘never … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged 2020, 5G, ABM treaty, activism, Big Tech, Bill Gates, Biodiversity, Climate Change, corporate media, Covid-19, DARPA, Deforestation, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, environment, Extinction, Factory Farms, Famine, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Global Elite, GMOs, Homelessness, International Atomic Energy Agency, James Corbett, Lockdowns, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, pollution, Privacy, SARS-CoV-2, sex trafficking, Slavery, surveillance state, Tax Havens, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Vaccines, Violence, war, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization
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As Millions Face Eviction, Senate Proposes Nearly $700 Billion for Pentagon
By John Vibes Source: Activist Post As millions face eviction and line up at food banks throughout the country, waiting for another stimulus payment that will seemingly never come, the Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing a $696 billion Pentagon spending … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, military spending, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2021 Pentagon spending bill, Corporate Welfare, eviction, F-35, financial crisis, Homelessness, military spending, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Poverty, unemployment
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Kushner-Linked Firm and Gig Economy Set to Reap Huge Profits as Mass Evictions Begin
By Raul Diego Source: Mint Press News In 2014, former Blackstone and Goldman Sachs investment banker Ryan Williams got together with his “college buddy,” Joshua Kushner – Jared’s brother – to form a real estate investment platform they called Cadre. Cadre sought … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cadre, Civvl, Economic Collapse, Economics, Evictions, financial crisis, Gig Economy, Homelessness, Jared Kushner, Joshua Kushner, Land Grabs, Oligarchy, OnQall, Pandemic, pandemic profiteers
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