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Corporate Power: Who Owns the World?
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Source: The Herland Report Who Owns the World? A handful of mega corporations — private investment companies — dominate every aspect of our lives; everything we eat, drink, wear or use in one way or another. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Tech, BlackRock, Economics, Facebook, Federal Reserve, geopolitics, Global Elites, Industrial Food, Investment Firms, Microsoft, Monopoly, Oligarchy, payment processors, Plutocracy, State Street, VANGUARD
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The Illusion of Getting Rich While Producing Nothing
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Of all the mass delusions running rampant in the culture, none is more spectacularly delusional than the conviction that we can all get fabulously rich from speculation while producing nothing. The key characteristic … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cartels, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Late Stage Capitalism, Monopoly, overspeculation, speculative wealth
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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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The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Please study these charts as a means of understanding the inevitability of economic stagnation and a revolt of the decapitalized middle class. I’ve been covering the decline of America’s middle class for … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, decapitalization, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Labor, middleclass, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Productivity
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Slouching towards dystopia: the rise of surveillance capitalism and the death of privacy
Our lives and behaviour have been turned into profit for the Big Tech giants – and we meekly click “Accept”. How did we sleepwalk into a world without privacy? By John Naughton Source: New Statesman Suppose you walk into a shop and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Biometrics, Dystopia, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Google, Internet, Mark Zuckerberg, Monopoly, Online Privacy, Sheryl Sandberg, Social Media, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, youtube
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Corporate America Is an Anti-Social Black Plague: Negative Network Effects Run Amok
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The anti-social carnage unleashed by Corporate America’s “lock-in” / negative network effects has no real limits. Here’s the U.S.economy in a nutshell: Corporate America is an anti-social Black Plague, gorging on cartel-monopoly … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged big data, Boeing, Cartels, Corporate America, Corporate Crime, corporate sociopaths, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Facebook, financial crisis, Google, Monopoly, negative network effects, Network Effect, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, Plutocracy, Simons Chase, social capital, social order, State Crime
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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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Bust the Trust: Now is the Time to Break Up Amazon
By Andy Laties with additional reporting by Sander Hicks Source: The New York Megaphone Standing at the cash register at an Upper West Side independent bookstore I used to run, I once noted the frequent passage of cars painted all … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, CIA, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Neoliberalism, news, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, antitrust, Bookstores, CIA, corporate media, DC lobbyists, Defense Contractors, Economics, HQ2, ICE, JEDI, Jeff Bezos, Monopoly, NSA, Seattle, Small Business, spies
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