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Wall Street’s Latest Scheme Is Monetizing Nature Itself
Just in time for the UN’s policy push for “30 x 30” – 30% of the earth to be “conserved” by 2030 – a new Wall Street asset class puts up for sale the processes underpinning all life. By Ellen … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 30 x 30, BlackRock, Climate Change, COP26, Cory Morningstar, Economics, environment, IEG, Intrinsic Exchange Group, Land Grabs, NAC, natural asset company, NGOs, NYSE, Oligarchy, Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Technocracy, United Nation, wall street, Whitney Webb
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What’s REALLY behind the war on home ownership?
Becoming a “Nation of Renters” is clearly a big part of the New Normal. By Kit Knightly Source: Off-Guardian The incipient “Great Reset” is a multi-faceted beast. We talk a lot about vaccine passports and lockdowns and the Covid-realated aspects … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged ATLANTIC, BlackRock, Dystopia, Economics, Finance, Great Reset, GUARDIAN, Home Ownership, neo-feudalism, RENTING, Technocracy, THE NEW NORMAL, TUCKER CARLSON, VANGUARD, VOX, wall street
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The Number Of Billionaires In America Has Absolutely Exploded During The Pandemic
By Michael Snyder Source: Investment Watch Blog For the wealthy and the ultra-wealthy, happy days are here again. Even though we have just been through one of the most difficult 12 months in our history, the number of billionaires has increased … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Billionaires, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic depression, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, food prices, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Plutocracy, unemployment, wall street, Wealth Gap, Wealthy Class
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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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An Unprecedented 1,640 CEOs Departed in 2019; Now Execs Are Dumping Stock at Highest Pace Since 2006
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens Source: Wall Street on Parade A rather fascinating picture is emerging that suggests that things were not as rosy in the U.S. economic landscape prior to the pandemic as President Donald Trump and his … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Glass-Steagall Act, Oligarchy, wall street
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If the “Market” Never Goes Down, The System Is Doomed
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The reliance on “good news” narratives dooms our financial system and economy to a death spiral once reality breaks through the induced euphoria. “Markets” that never go down aren’t markets, they’re signaling … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, media, Neoliberalism, news, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cancer, central banks, Corporate Crime, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Market Crash, Narrative, wall street
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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid
By Ellen Brown Source: Web of Debt BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, news, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged bailout, BlackRock, CARES act, central banks, Covid-19, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philipp Hildebrand, Standing Emergency Fiscal Facility, Stock Market, wall street
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