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Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable
By Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal Source: The Grayzone Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance. … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Austria, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Christian Parenti, COVID vaccinations, Covid Variants, Covid-19, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, geopolitics, Germany, Global Hunger, Honduras, India, Lockdowns, Mass Incarceration, Mass Poverty, Mexico, Neil Ferguson, New Zealand, Oligarchy, Omicron, Pandemic, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, society, South Africa, Technocracy, Uganda, unemployment, vaccine mandates, Zero-COVID
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The Fear Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. Sleepwalking Towards A Global Economic Crisis?
By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research In October 2019, in a speech at an International Monetary Fund conference, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned that the world was sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that would have devastating … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Fabio Vighi, fascism, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, Great Reset, International Monetary Fund, Lockdowns, Mass Poverty, Matt Taibbi, Mervyn King, Neoliberalism, onomic Forum, Oxfam, Pandemic, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny, Wealth Concentration, World Bank
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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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America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another
Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily? By Lee Camp Source: ScheerPost.com Most rational Americans have correctly criticized and denounced the violent insurrection in the Capitol last week. Those … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Crime, corporate media, Economic Warfare, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, healthcare, Homelessness, imperialism, Mainstream Media, Mass Poverty, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, political prisoners, pollution, sixth great extinction, venezuela, war
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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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Stories Of Economic Despair From America’s Worst Economic Downturn Since The Great Depression Of The 1930s
By Michael Snyder Source: End of the American Dream The economic pain that we are witnessing right now is far greater than anything that we witnessed during the last recession. U.S. GDP declined by 32.9 percent on an annualized basis … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, Economic Collapse, Economics, Evictions, financial crisis, Homelessness, Mass Poverty, Oligarchy, restaurant apocalypse, unemployment
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COVID-19 Does Not Exist: The Global Elite’s Campaign of Terror Against Humanity
By Robert J. Burrowes There is no COVID-19 virus. It does not exist. If you ask any doctor or scientist in the world to show you a scientifically-verified proof that it does exist, they will not be able to show … Continue reading
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Tagged 5G, Andrew Kaufman, Big Pharma, censorship, coronavirus, Corporate Crime, corporate media, Covid-19, Domestic Violence, Education, fear, Global Economy, Global Elite, Government Crime, Liberty, Lockdowns, Mainstream Media, Mass Poverty, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psy-op, psychology, Sherri Tenpenny, Socialization, Sociology, Stoian Alexov, surveillance state, Vaccines, World Health Organisation
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Billionaire Fears The Poor RIsing Up Against The Rich
By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Source: Popular Resistance A billionaire finally had a epiphany and told all his wealthy friends about it. Johann Rupert is the filthy rich owner of Richemont, a luxury goods company that serves as parent company … Continue reading
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Tagged 1%, 99%, Economic Collapse, Economic Disparity, Global Poverty, Income Inequality, Mass Poverty, recession, Revolution, Social Unrest, Uprising, Wealth Gap
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