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Tag Archives: Monopoly
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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National Bankruptcy as a Board Game
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Most people are familiar with the game Monopoly. Its goal is to teach capitalist kiddies a valuable lesson about capitalism; namely, that in running a business it isn’t useful to shoot for some happy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Bankruptcy, capitalism, Cartels, china, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, financial crisis, geopolitics, Interest Rates, Labor, military spending, Monopoly, national debt, Russia, Walmart, war
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Facebook escalates censorship of left-wing, anti-war organizations
By Andre Damon Source: WSWS.org One year ago this week, the World Socialist Web Site published an open letter to search monopoly Google demanding that it end its censorship of the internet. The letter documented that a change in Google’s … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology
Tagged big data, censorship, Facebook, First Amendment, Google, Internet Freedom, Iran, Mark Warner, Mark Zuckerberg, Monopoly, propaganda, Russia, Social Engineering, Social Media, technology, Twitter, World Socialist Web Site
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Harvest of Greed – the Merger of Bayer and Monsanto
By Dr. Mercola Source: Waking Times The featured documentary, “Harvest of Greed,” investigates a number of the many issues brought about by the merger of Monsanto and Bayer AG. The merger was initially announced in May 2016, when Monsanto accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Law, news, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cartel, CSA, DOJ, Economics, environment, EPA, FDA, GE Foods, Genocide, Glyphosate, GMO, I.G. Farben, Monopoly, Monsanto, neonicotinoid pesticides, Organic Consumers Association, Organic Food, Roundup, Seed Patents, The Hague
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THE MONOPOLIZATION OF AMERICA: The biggest economic problem you’re hearing almost nothing about
By Robert Reich Source: Nation of Change Not long ago I visited some farmers in Missouri whose profits are disappearing. Why? Monsanto alone owns the key genetic traits to more than 90 percent of the soybeans planted by farmers in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Social Control, society
Tagged antitrust, Big Ag, big data, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Cartels, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Facebook, Google, Monopolization, Monopoly, Monsanto, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan
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