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Costs Are Spiraling Out of Control
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds And how do we pay for these spiraling out of control costs? By borrowing more, of course. If we had to choose one “big picture” reason why the vast majority of households … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged anti-trust, asset inflation, Cartels, central banks, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, healthcare, Housing, Housing Bubble, Labor, Monopolies, Student loan debt, Wage Stagnation, Wages, Work
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“If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets”
By Staff, Anticap.wordpress.com Source: Popular Resistance Chris Rock may be right. Still, Americans are well aware that economic inequality in their country is obscene, even though they often underestimate the growing gap between the poor and the rich. But it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Chris Rock, Class, economic inequality, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Housing, income gap, Wealth Disparity, World Inequality Lab
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Zucktown, USA
Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age By Julianne Tveten Source: The Baffler EARLIER THIS YEAR IN SILICON VALLEY, a phalanx of six-figure-earning Facebook engineers confronted Mark Zuckerberg about subsidizing their extortionate rents. Meanwhile, the contract … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged big data, Company Towns, Dystopia, Facebook, Housing, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Mark Zuckerberg, Oligarchy, panopticon, Plutocracy, Tech Industry, Technocracy
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It’s time to call the housing crisis what it really is: the largest transfer of wealth in living memory
By Laurie Macfarlane Source: OpenDemocracy.net One of the basic claims of capitalism is that people are rewarded in line with their effort and productivity. Another is that the economy is not a zero sum game. The beauty of a capitalist … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Britain, capitalism, Class Warfare, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Homelessness, Housing, Housing Crisis, income gap, Office for National Statistics, Wealth, Wealth Disparity
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The Value of Everything
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is just as sharp. America’s “aristocracy,” once based strictly on … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, media, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Aristocracy, Automobiles, Debt, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Entertainment, Global Elites, Housing, income gap, Mass Media, recession, Wealth Disparity
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Trump proposes huge hike in military and police spending
By Patrick Martin Source: WSWS.org The Trump administration sent instructions to federal agencies Monday proposing a $54 billion increase in spending for the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, to be offset by $54 billion in … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, military spending, news, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Agriculture, Border Wall, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Domestic Spending, Education, empire, EPA, food stamps, geopolitics, Health and Human Services, Housing, Infrastructure, John McCain, Labor, Medicaid, Medicare, Mick Mulvaney, Militarization, Military, Military Budget, military spending, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, Pentagon, police, police state, Ruling Elite, Social Security, taxpayer dollars, Transportation, Trump, Trump Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Urban Development
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Government, Terrorism, Money, Education and Other Important Discussions
By Phillip J. Watt Source: The Mind Unleashed The elite power structure – which uses the monetary system, war, false flags and the monopolized media as their primary mechanisms of control – has infiltrated every major government of the Western … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Drug War, Economics, education, Energy, Environment, False Flag, Geopolitics, Health, media, Militarization, military spending, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged corporate media, defense, drugs, Economics, Education, Energy, environment, Food, Government, Health, Hillary Clinton, Housing, military spending, Sovereignty, State Terror, Taxation, terrorism, war on terror, Water
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The 1 Percent’s Houses Are Getting Bigger and Swankier While Average Americans Struggle To Make Rent
For a view of the inefficiencies of the free market, there’s no clearer view than the U.S. housing market, where there are as many as 29 empty homes for every homeless person. By Bob Larson Source: In These Times Today’s … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, 99%, Global Elites, Homelessness, Housing, Income Inequality, Luxury, Poverty, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Gap
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Desultory Heroics 