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Tag Archives: Monopoly
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, 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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The Singular Pursuit of Comrade Bezos
By Malcolm Harris Source: Medium It was explicitly and deliberately a ratchet, designed to effect a one-way passage from scarcity to plenty by way of stepping up output each year, every year, year after year. Nothing else mattered: not profit, … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Prime, big data, Cartel, Consumerism, Crony Capitalism, Dystopia, Economic Growth, Economics, Jeff Bezos, Monopoly, Planned Economy, Technocracy, technology, Whole Foods
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Are Facebook and Google the New Colonial Powers?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds To qualify as colonial powers, Facebook and Google must effectively limit the choices and power of users, and punish or coerce those who question or resist their power. I was struck by … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, media, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged big data, Cartel, censorship, Colonialism, corporatocracy, Economics, Facebook, Google, Monopoly, Neocolonicalism, Oligarchy, Online Advertising, Plutocracy, Social Media, surveillance state, technology
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