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Our Frustrations Run Far Deeper Than Covid Lockdowns
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The reality is the roulette wheel is rigged and only chumps believe it’s a fair game. It’s easy to lay America’s visible frustrations at the feet of Covid lockdowns or political polarization, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged central banks, coronavirus, corporate cronies, Covid-19, culture, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Frederic Bastiat, Inequality, Injustice, lockdown, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariats, society, systemic unfairness, Wealth Gap
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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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Billionaires are a Sign of Economic Failure
Inherited wealth and crony capitalism have created an aristocratic class that undermines social mobility and democracy By Max Lawson Source: Inequality.org The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Law, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Billionaires, Corporate Power, Crony Capitalism, economic failure, economic inequality, Economics, extreme wealth, Inequality, Monopoly, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, political corruption, Poverty, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Thomas Piketty, US History, Wealth
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Let us now stop praising famous men (and women)
By David V. Johnson Source: aeon.com After the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris nearly burned down in April, the French luxury-goods magnate François-Henri Pinault was celebrated for committing €100 million to reconstruct what he called ‘this jewel of our heritage’ and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, culture, elites, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged blame, Celebrity, culture, Democracy, elites, Fame, François-Henri Pinault, Hierarchy, Inequality, Meritocracy, Oligarchy, philosphy, Plutocracy, Power, praise, society, Sociology, Wealth
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Comparative Political Leadership: Gandhi vs. Contemporary Leaders
By Robert J. Burrowes On 2 October 2019, it will be the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi in Gujarat, India. I would like to reflect on the visionary leadership that Gandhi offered the world, briefly comparing … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, education, Environment, History, Inequality, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Ahimsa, Conflict, culture, Economics, Education, environment, Inequality, Leadership, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, politics, psychology, Satyagraha, Socialization, society, Sociology, spirituality, Violence
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How Evil Wins: The Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, education, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Inequality, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Department of Homeland Security, Dystopia, Education, evil, fascism, Freedom, Inequality, Legal System, Mass Incarceration, military-industrial complex, NDAA, Police Militarization, police state, Prison, School, society, surveillance state, SWAT, tsa, tyranny, US government, US Politics
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Inequality Social Dysfunction and Misery
By Graham Peebles Source: Dissident Voice Year on year the economic divisions and sub-divisions in the world deepen, the associated social ills increase: The rich, comfortable, and the very extremely rich keep getting richer, and the rest, well, whilst some … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, 99%, Billionaires, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Extreme Inequality, greed, happiness, Income Disparity, Inequality, Oxfam, Scandinavia, Trillionaires, Wealth Gap
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Time To Make Life Hard For The Rich
By Hamilton Nolan Source: Splinter It is time for polite, respectable, rational people to start saying what has become painfully obvious: It is time to stop respecting the rich, and start stealing from them. In earnest. Inequality is eating America … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Hackers, Inequality, Revolution, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, activism, capitalism, Class War, Democracy, Economic Collapse, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, elites, income gap, Inequality, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Revolution, US government, wall street, Wealth Disparity
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