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As Food Shortages Loom, US Kids Starve, Biden to Send $33 Billion MORE to Ukraine to Keep War Going
By Matt Agorist Source: The Free Thought Project In 2019, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to president of Ukraine after running on a platform of ending the conflict in the Donbass region and making peace with Russia. Unfortunately, however, these … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, news, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Covid-19, Donboss, empire, food crisis, food shortages, geopolitics, Great Reset, imperialism, Inflation, Klaus Schwab, NATO, Poverty, Russia, Starvation, Technocracy, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, war
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America’s Bottom 50% Have Nowhere To Go But Down
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One might anticipate that the bottom 50%’s meager share of the nation’s exploding wealth would have increased as smartly as the wealth of the billionaires, but alas, no. America’s economy has changed … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Big Tech, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, everything bubble, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Gig Economy, Globalization, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty
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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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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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The Future is Hawaii
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well I have seen the future. It looks a lot like Hawaii. What I saw there (absent the beautiful beaches, confused tourists, and incredible nature) was a glimpse of the future for much … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, police state, Racism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Covid-19, culture, Dystopia, economic inequality, econoomics, elites, Hawaii, Homelessness, Larry Ellison, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Poverty, society, Welfare
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The Mechanism of Invisible Empire
“The invisible hand has created an invisible cage…blinding us and dividing us, allowing the ruling class to exploit us and subjugate us.” By Hiroyuki Hamada Source: Off-Guardian When the whole society becomes a theater of absurdity, the puppeteers become kings … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, Colonization, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, empire, geopolitics, Great Reset, Homelessness, imperialism, Oligarchy, Poverty, propaganda, state violence, Technocracy, The Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Desperate Americans Who Can’t Afford Housing Are Becoming “Modern-Day Nomads” …But Not By Choice
By Robert Wheeler Source: The Organic Prepper A recent story floating around mainstream media regarding “modern-day nomads” reads like a contemporary article on Henry David Thoreau. It shares stories of people looking to downsize their life and live simply and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Downsizing, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Housing Crisis, lockdown, minimalism, Nomads, Oligarchy, Poverty, society, The Great Reset, World Economic Forum
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America’s Economy Cannot Survive Another Lockdown, And The Cult Of The Reset Knows It
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us The U.S. economy has been on the verge of collapse for at least a decade, ever since the crash of 2008 and the subsequent explosion in fiat stimulus from the Federal Reserve. While the mainstream … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Covid-19, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Globalists, Justin Trudeau, Klaus Shwab, lockdown, Oligarchy, Poverty, Technocracy, The Great Reset, unemployment, World Economic Forum, zombie economy
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