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Tag Archives: Jeff Bezos
Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up Jet.com. This … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy
Tagged #WealthTaxNow, Amazon, Amazon.com, Business, Colin Todhunter, Corruption, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, India, JACAFRE, Jeff Bezos, Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce, Monopolies, Narendra Modi, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Poverty, Technocracy, Walmart
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Why Don’t Billionaires Pay the Same High Tax Rates the Rest of Us Pay?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The truth is America has lost its way if commoners pay a rate of 40% but its billionaires pay next to nothing. As with everything else in polarized America, billionaires proclaiming space … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Billionaires, Cartels, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Medicare, Monopolies, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Social Security, Tax Havens, Taxes
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Have We Reached “Peak Self-Glorifying Billionaire”?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Perhaps we should update Marie Antoinette’s famous quip of cluelessness to: “Let them eat space tourism.” As billionaires squander immense resources on self-glorifying space flights, the corporate media is nothing short of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Billionaires, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Kleptocracy, Marie Antoinette, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Plutocracy
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Freedom Rider: How the billionaires rule
Predatory capitalism has driven down wages and created a dystopia for workers. By Margaret Kimberley Source: Intrepid Report President Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of America is business.” The expression is memorable because it always rang true. But nearly 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Amazon.com, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, General Strike, Jeff Bezos, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty, rulng class, society, unemployment
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With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board
In the Soviet Union, everybody was aware that the media was controlled by the state. But in a corporate state like the U.S., a veneer of independence is still maintained, although trust in the media has been plummeting for years. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged bernie sanders, corporate media, empire, Fred Hiatt, geopolitics, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, Israel, Jeff Bezos, kakistocracy, Mainstream Media, Megan McArdle, MSM, Neocons, Neoliberalism, Nicolas Maduro, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, ProporNot, Ruth Eglash, surveillance state, The Washington Post, venezuela, war
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ARCHITECTS OF POWER: HOW THE GLOBAL ELITE PROFIT FROM EXTREME INEQUALITY & PRE-EMPT THE BACKLASH
By Dr. Tim Coles Source: Waking Times There is a new, mega-rich global elite consisting of a small number of billionaires and multibillionaires. Many of them made their money in the technology sector. Others play financial markets or inherit fortunes. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 1%, austerity, Bail-Outs, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Deregulation, Dystopia, Economics, elites, financialisation, Global Elite, Howard G. Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Neoliberalism, NSA, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, Robert Mercer, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett
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Jeff Bezos Embodies the Cruel Autocracy of Neoliberal Capitalism
Amazon CEO and richest-man-in-the-world Jeff Bezos wants you to work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay By Branko Marcetic Source: In These Times “Is Jeff Bezos a horrible boss and is that good?” That was the question … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Amazon.com, Autocracy, Blue Origin, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, environment, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Kshama Sawant, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, washington post, Work
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Viral Inequality: From Jeff Bezos to the struggle of Indian Farmers
Billionaires have profited enormously from lockdown, whilst mega corporations are buying out and shutting down independent stores and farms. By Colin Todhunter Source: OffGuardian According to a new report by Oxfam, ‘The Inequality Virus’, the wealth of the world’s billionaires … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, agrifood, Amazon, Big Tech, Billionaires, coronavirus, Corporate Consolidation, corporatocracy, Covid-19, Dystopia, economic inequality, empire, Facebook, farmers, geopolitics, imperialism, India, Jeff Bezos, lockdown, Mass Poverty, Mukesh Ambani, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Oxfam Report, Technocracy, wall street
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