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Tag Archives: Warren Buffett
ARCHITECTS OF POWER: HOW THE GLOBAL ELITE PROFIT FROM EXTREME INEQUALITY & PRE-EMPT THE BACKLASH
By Dr. Tim Coles Source: Waking Times There is a new, mega-rich global elite consisting of a small number of billionaires and multibillionaires. Many of them made their money in the technology sector. Others play financial markets or inherit fortunes. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 1%, austerity, Bail-Outs, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Deregulation, Dystopia, Economics, elites, financialisation, Global Elite, Howard G. Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Neoliberalism, NSA, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, Robert Mercer, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett
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The End of Days Is Coming Fast and It’s Ugly
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook The average citizen of Earth is all tied up these days. Scarcely anyone has free time to take on one more task, to truly understand what goes on in the world, or glean … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Neoliberalism, news, NGOs, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged conspiracy, Deep State, Donald Trump, elites, European Commission, Facebook, Fake News, geopolitics, George Soros, Justine Isola, Mainstream Media, Marwan M. Kraidy, Neoliberalism, Northwestern University, Olga Yurkova, Oligarchy, Philanthropy, Psyops, Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Russia, Social Media, Stopfake.org, Warren Buffett
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population
By Paul Buchheit Source: CommonDreams Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Agra, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Biotech, Charitable Foundations, economic inequality, Economics, Education, Facebook, financial crisis, Global Elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Meritocracy, Microsoft, NGOs, Oligarchy, Philanthropy, Plutocracy, Taxes, Warren Buffett, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Gap
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Hillary and the Clinton Foundation: Exemplars of America’s Political Rot
By Eric Draitser Source: CounterPunch Hillary Clinton may be enjoying a comfortable lead in national polls, but she is far from enjoying a comfortable night’s sleep given the ever-widening maelstrom of scandals engulfing her presidential bid. And while Clinton delights … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, Hackers, History, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, news, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Abu Dhabi, Al Qaeda, Arms Sales, Bill Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Clinton Foundation donors, Doha, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Eliot Cohen, empire, General John Allen John Negroponte, George Soros, Hackers, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Imperialists, Julian Assange, Koch Brothers, Libya, Max Boot, Military Contracts, military-industrial complex, Muslim Brotherhood, Neocons, neoconservatives, Oligarchy, Pay to Play, Plutocracy, Presidential Elections, Putin, Qatar, Riyadh, Robert Kagan, Saudi Arabia, Saudi regime, State Department, Syria, war, war on terror, war profiteers, Warren Buffett, WikiLeaks
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Having Their Cake and Eating Ours Too
By Chris Lehmann Source: The Baffler What are billionaires for? It’s time we sussed out a plausible answer to this question, as their numbers ratchet upward across the globe, impervious to the economic setbacks suffered by mere mortals, and their … Continue reading