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Desperate Americans Who Can’t Afford Housing Are Becoming “Modern-Day Nomads” …But Not By Choice
By Robert Wheeler Source: The Organic Prepper A recent story floating around mainstream media regarding “modern-day nomads” reads like a contemporary article on Henry David Thoreau. It shares stories of people looking to downsize their life and live simply and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Downsizing, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Housing Crisis, lockdown, minimalism, Nomads, Oligarchy, Poverty, society, The Great Reset, World Economic Forum
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Why Assets Will Crash
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This is how it happens that boats that were once worth tens of thousands of dollars are set adrift by owners who can no longer afford to pay slip fees. The increasing … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, finanacial crisis, Housing Crisis, Oligarchy, Pandemic, wall street, Wealth Concentration
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Locked Down and Locking in the New Global Order
By Colin Todhunter Source: CounterPunch On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved ones before their time” as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. He added: “We’ve all got to be clear, this … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, police state, Psy-ops, Recession, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Baskut Tuncak, Boris Johnson, coronavirus, Corporate Bailouts, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Dystopia, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Fiona Godlee, Gates Foundation, Global Economy, Glyphosate, Hilal Elver, Housing Crisis, lockdown, Michel Chossudovsky, NHS, Norbert Haring, Pesticides, Peter Hitchens, Peter Koenig, pharmaceutical companies, police state, Poverty, Public Health, Robert J Burrowes, surveillance state, World Bank
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Financial Feudalism
By Michael Krieger Source: Liberty Blitzkrieg “Happy 18th Birthday! Meet your new Daddy,” read one website advertisement. “Do you have strong oral skills? We’ve got a job for you!” cooed another. A message on another billboard directed at the “daddies” … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Debt, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, healthcare, Housing Crisis, Neo Feudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Inequality
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This holiday season, American workers have little to celebrate
By Danny Haiphong Source: Intrepid Report Every year, much of the U.S. population celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas to show appreciation for their families and friends. Thanksgiving normalizes the colonial origins of the United States and erases the brutality of the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Alienation, austerity, capitalism, Christmas, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, Education, Financial Crash, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Poverty, privatization, protests, Stagnant Wages, Thanksgiving, Working Class
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The Economic Crash So Far: A Look At The Real Numbers
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com There are many problems when attempting to track a faltering economy. For one, the people in government generally do not want the public to know when the system is in decline because this looks bad … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, History, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conspiracy theory, Debt, Economic Crash, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, Financial Bubble, financial crisis, GDP, Housing Crisis, Labor, millennials, Real Wages, recession, Retirement, Stock Market, U.S. manufacturing, unemployment, Work
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Capitalism, Empire, and the Infernal Gloom Machine
By Jason Holland Source: Dissident Voice Depression is built into this machine and the evidence is plastered on the morose faces of people caught in the clutches of its business as usual activities. Depression is found in the insurmountable debts we … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, media, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged capitalism, corporate media, culture, Debt, depression, Ecology, Economics, empire, environment, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Oligarchy, society
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Why Are so Few Americans Able to Get Ahead?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Our entire economy is characterized by cartel rentier skims, central-bank goosed asset bubbles and stagnating earned income for the bottom 90%. Despite the rah-rah about the “ownership society” and the best economy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Cartels, central banks, Debt, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economic Stagnation, Economics, financial crisis, financialized economy, Higher Education, Housing Crisis, Precariat, rentier skims, Stagnant Wages
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