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‘$2.5 TRILLION THEFT’ – STUDY SHOWS RICHEST 1% OF AMERICANS HAVE TAKEN $50 TRILLION FROM BOTTOM 90% IN RECENT DECADES
The median U.S. worker salary would be around twice as high today if wages kept pace with economic output since World War II, new research revealed. By Brett Wilkins Source: Common Dreams New research published Monday found that the top … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Amazon, Americans for Tax Fairness, Billionaires, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Fair Work Center, financial crisis, food insecurity, Income Inequality, Jeff Bezos, Oligarchy, Poverty, Wealth Gap
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Global billionaire wealth tops $10 trillion as COVID-19 deaths mount
By Jacob Crosse Source: WSWS.org The collective wealth of the world’s 2,189 billionaires has risen to $10.2 trillion, an increase of nearly $1.3 trillion in the past three years, according to a new report by the Swiss bank UBS and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged bailout, Billionaires, covid profiteers, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Institute for Policy Studies, Jeff Bezos, Mass Poverty, Neoclassical Economics, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Riding the Storm, unemployment, Wealth Concentration
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America’s Super-Rich See Their Wealth Rise by $282 Billion in Three Weeks of Pandemic
America’s billionaires have accrued more wealth in the past three weeks alone than they made in total prior to 1980. By Alan Macleod Source: Mint Press News A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that, while tens of millions … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Amazon, Bailouts, Bill Gates, Billionaires, CARES act, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, elites, financial crisis, Institute for Policy Studies, Jeff Bezos, Mainstream Media, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Warren Buffet, wealth defense industry
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Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent
Mnar Muhawesh speaks with journalist Daniel McAdams about being permanently banned from Twitter, social media censorship and more. By Mnar Muhawesh Source: Mint Press News It’s an open secret. The deep state is working hand in hand with Silicon Valley social … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 77th Brigade, alternative media, Amazon, British Army, censorship, Chelsea Manning, CIA, corporate news, Daniel McAdams, Deep State, eric schmidt, Facebook, Fake News, Google, Information Warfare, Iran, Israel, Jared Cohen, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, military-industrial complex, MSM, NATO, Palestine, propaganda, Psy-ops, Ron Paul Institute, Russia, Sean Hannity, Silicon Valley, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, The Atlantic Council, The Washington Post, Twitter, venezuela
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The Tech Giants Are a Conduit for Fascism
By Michael Krieger Source: Liberty Blitzkrieg A second former Amazon employee would spark more controversy. Deap Ubhi, a former AWS employee who worked for Lynch, was tasked with gathering marketing information to make the case for a single cloud inside … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, AWS, Deap Ubhi, Department of Defense, Dystopia, Economics, eric schmidt, Facebook, facial recognition, fascism, Information Warfare, James Mattis, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Nacchio, National Security State, Oligarchy, Psyops, Qwest, Roma Laster, Silicon Valley, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Twitter, U.S. Department of Justice, whistleblowers
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The Twilight of Liberty: the State Destroys Alternative Media
By Kurt Nimmo Source: Another Day in the Empire It should be obvious by now what the plan is for Julian Assange—psychological torture resulting in either a total breakdown or an untimely death, the latter supported by the psychopaths who … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, FBI, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged alternative media, censorship, Chelsea Manning, CIA, CNN, Cointelpro, corporate media, Dystopia, Fake News, fascism, FBI, geopolitics, Hamilton 68, Information Warfare, Internet Freedom, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, National Security State, NATO, Neocons, police state, Psyops, Russia, RussiaGate, Social Media, State Crime, Technocracy, The Alliance for Securing Democrac, the German Marshall Fund, The Washington Post, Torture, US State Department
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How to Avert a Digital Dystopia
By Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh Source: OneZero “What I find [ominous] is how seldom, today, we see the phrase ‘the 22nd century.’ Almost never. Compare this with the frequency with which the 21st century was evoked in popular culture during, say, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, internet freedom, media, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Black Mirror, culture, Dystopia, Elysium, Facebook, Google, Jeff Bezos, Mad Max, media, Nosedive, Pop Culture, Ready Player One, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Utopia
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The Real Big Brother
By Eric Zuesse Source: Consortium News Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post, which leads America’s news-media in their almost 100 percent support and promotion of neoconservatism, American imperialism and wars. This includes sanctions, coups, and military invasions … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, media, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, news, NSA, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1%, 1984, Amazon, Big Brother, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Crime, corporate media, Deep State, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Jeff Bezos, John Brennan, King Salman, Neocons, Neoconservatism, NSA, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, State Crime, The Washington Post, US Foreign Policy
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