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Tag Archives: Wealth Concentration
I Used To Be Disgusted, Now I’m Disabused
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds It’s certainly possible to be disgusted, but being disabused of the fantasy that the system is self-correcting is the healthier perspective. I used to be disgusted, now I’m disabused: beneath all the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Collapse, Corruption, Deep State, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, fascism, Government, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Concentration
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Without admitting it, we are already converted to transhumanism
By Thierry Meyssan Source: Voltairenet.org The world is changing very fast. During the Covid epidemic, money has been concentrated in a few hands. The new oligarchs are transhumanists. Without realising it, we have already accepted their ideology and are beginning … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Bill Gates, censorship, corporate media, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, CrossCheck, Dystopia, economic inequality, Emmanuel Macron, financial crisis, France, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, mRNA vaccines, NATO, NewsGuard, Pandemic, propaganda, Psyops, science, Technocracy, the European Union, transumanism, Wealth Concentration, Yellow Vests
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The Fear Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. Sleepwalking Towards A Global Economic Crisis?
By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research In October 2019, in a speech at an International Monetary Fund conference, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned that the world was sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that would have devastating … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Fabio Vighi, fascism, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, Great Reset, International Monetary Fund, Lockdowns, Mass Poverty, Matt Taibbi, Mervyn King, Neoliberalism, onomic Forum, Oxfam, Pandemic, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny, Wealth Concentration, World Bank
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Which Is Worse, the Tech Giant Censors or the Stuff You Want Censored?
By David Swanson Source: War is a Crime The communications system we live in is highly complex, mostly driven by greed and profit, in part semi-public, full of filth I know we’d be better off without, and increasingly openly censored … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Big Tech, censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, Dystopia, Education, fascism, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, surveillance state, Technocracy, tyranny, Wealth Concentration
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Is Inflation “Transitory”? Here’s Your Simple Test
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Is inflation “transitory” in your household budget? Really? Where? The Federal Reserve has been bleating that inflation is “transitory”–but what about the real world that we live in, as opposed to the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Oligarchy, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap
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America’s Fatal Synergies
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds America’s financial system and state are themselves the problems, yet neither system is capable of recognizing this or unwinding their fatal synergies. why do some systems/states emerge from crises stronger while similar … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Benign Synergies, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elies, Fatal Synergies, financial crisis, Global Crisis, Oligarchy, political corruption, Wealth Concentration
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Global billionaire wealth tops $10 trillion as COVID-19 deaths mount
By Jacob Crosse Source: WSWS.org The collective wealth of the world’s 2,189 billionaires has risen to $10.2 trillion, an increase of nearly $1.3 trillion in the past three years, according to a new report by the Swiss bank UBS and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged bailout, Billionaires, covid profiteers, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Institute for Policy Studies, Jeff Bezos, Mass Poverty, Neoclassical Economics, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Riding the Storm, unemployment, Wealth Concentration
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How Billionaires Took Over Liberalism and Destroyed It
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation They’ve done it via the ‘news’-media — their propaganda-operations. So, this is about how billionaires do that; how they’ve done it. Ever since at least the time of Thucydides in the 5th century BC, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state
Tagged Billionaires, corporate news, economic economic, Economics, geopolitics, Mainstream Media, Neocons, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, RussiaGate, The Guardian, war, Wealth Concentration
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