Source – jonrappoport.wordpress.com – ‘…Monsanto and Facebook illustrates how, at the top of the food chain, there is connected wealth. These investment funds can, if they choose to, intercede in companies’ proxy votes to alter company policy. And of course, in case a company decides to take a controversial stance on a political issue, or…
Source – batr.org – “…What will fix the economy is the American populists’ version of social credit…Repudiate debt to the bankers who have defrauded us with their system where all of the money is loans that have to be paid back as principal plus interest. The terms are impossible to meet in the aggregate; and…
Source – economicprism.com – ‘…Over issuance of dollars by the Fed, and the forced use of legal tender, have replaced real money with fake money. The fake money’s still called dollars. The One Dollar bill says it is One Dollar. Yet it’s really just $0.04. The other $0.96 has been confiscated by the Fed for…
Source – commondreams.org – “…The notion that it is somehow legitimate for a tiny group of humans to cordon off the bulk of the world’s bounty for themselves leaving billions of people begging on the street or scrounging through garbage dumps — is fairly astonishing, on the face of it. The unfairness is compounded by…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – “…In metaphorical terms, the central bank was using a pop-gun during the 1953-1971 era versus a nuclear weapon since the year 2000. Yet not only has the reported trend rate of real growth fallen by 50% since the era of William McChesney Martin, but the periodic economic setbacks (i.e. recessions) were…
Source – propublica.org – ‘…Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance” The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well. –…
Source – silverdoctors.com – “..In episode 3 of ‘Mafiacracy Now’, we lay out the 3 biggest lies sold to the public in oder to get the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) passed on October 3, 2008. The lies beg one very huge and unanswered question that remains very much pertinent to this day:…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com – “…The Pentagon now resembles a woman who has a closet jam-packed with expensive designer labels but has absolutely nothing to wear because her entire wardrobe is no longer fashionable. There is the entire set of aircraft carriers none of which can operate close enough to enemy shores to be of any…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…Dividing today’s $100 trillion American pie evenly among its 125 million households would give each household an $800,000 slice. Grow that pie by a realistically achievable 25 percent over the next decade, and we have a nation of millionaires…There’s plenty to go around. The problem is that a relative handful of…
Source – wolfstreet.com – “…This house didn’t get bigger or better or more opulent. It just got older. What has changed in a major way is the purchasing power of the Canadian dollar with regards to assets, particularly with regards to homes: This purchasing power has plunged. And what you’re seeing here are the effects…
Source – oftwominds.com – “..The only way to enable debt-serfs to service their debts is to give them free money, i.e. Universal Basic Income (UBI). Don’t kid yourself that the proponents of UBI are wunnerful folks just trying to be generous; the only purpose of UBI is to enable debt-serfs to keep servicing their debts…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…The cartel-monopoly structure of service sectors has inhibited the spread of cost-cutting technologies; online education that leads to a diploma should be nearly free and universally accessible…but instead the higher education cartel continues to exact its pound of flesh for a diploma, a scrap of paper with rapidly diminishing returns” The…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…What if politics merely fosters an illusion of solutions, a paper-thin veneer of faux progress? What if politics isn’t a tool that’s capable of fixing what’s broken? What if all politics is able to do is generate delusions of grandeur and unresolvable conflicts? What if politics is ultimately little more than…
Source – economicprism.com – “…Stealing someone else’s property and then reducing the spoils valued at $33,000 to a payout of about $30 is a remarkable achievement. Mele’s Coin Star transaction delivered a loss of over 99.9 percent. But he’s not alone…The Federal Reserve, in concert with the U.S. Treasury, has been part of an extensive…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…For countries attempting to escape the cyclical crises and contradictions of the neoliberal world market, de-dollarization becomes a top priority…oil is the fuel of the international economy. For a nation to be able to undermine US domination in the world economy it would have to wrestle control over the trade of…
Source – ellenbrown.com – “…In antiquity, debts were routinely forgiven when a new ruler took the throne. The rulers and their advisors knew that debt at interest grew faster than the money supply and that debt relief was necessary to avoid economic collapse from an overwhelming debt overhang. Economic growth is arithmetic and can’t keep…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…The 400 richest Americans – the top 0.00025% of the population – have tripled their share of the nation’s wealth since the early 1980s. Those 400 Americans own more of the country’s riches than the 150 million adults in the bottom 60% of the wealth distribution, who saw their share of…
Source – mises.org – “…The Panic of 1857…itself is a textbook example of an Austrian business cycle, caused by the lending activities of fractional-reserve banks. This original sin of the banking system concluded with the birth of a monster in 1914: The Federal Reserve” The Birth Of A Monster – By David Howden The Federal Reserve’s…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…The politically invisible / financially vulnerable have declared we’re still here to their globalized elite aristocrats, and this rebellion against elite domination and profiteering is being demonized by the corporate-state media as populism rather than what it really is: a full-blown revolt of the working class” 2019: The Three Trends That…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…The current recession has not yet been acknowledged, but this is standard operating procedure: recessions are only declared long after they actually start due to statistical reporting lags…So what caused the recession of 2019-21? Apparently nothing…This lack of apparent trigger will mystify conventional economists…The cause of the recession of 2019-21 is…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…Contrary to popular belief*, private banks create 97% of our money out of thin air when they issue loans (see An IMF Proposal to Ban Banks from Creating Money). This results in an ever increasing debt spiral, which can only be repaid via continuously increasing economic growth” Growing Pains: The Ecological…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…No longer content with blowing one credit-speculative bubble at a time, central bankers coordinated their efforts in 2009-2018 and inflated the Everything Bubble…But the Everything Bubble merely papered them over with a triple-whammy credit-speculative orgy of unprecedented enormity…consumption that was once paid out of earnings / revenues is now paid by…
Source – counterpunch.org – ‘…The three wealthiest families — the Waltons, the Kochs, and the Mars — increased their wealth by nearly 6,000 percent since 1983…Despite massive increases in growth and productivity, the median family saw their wealth go down over the past three decades, not up” How the Age of Billionaires Ends – By Josh…
Source – whowhatwhy.org – “…As a gateway to Latin America, Mexico seemed destined to be a US subsidiary, not a partner. So it was doubly ironic when the United States “sneezed,” as it were. The recklessness of the US banking system and insufficient oversight by its key regulator, the Federal Reserve, caused a US financial…
Source – oftwominds.com – ‘…Costs have tripled in 24 years, but have wages tripled? No. In many cases, they haven’t even kept pace with official inflation, much less real-world inflation…Sorry, boom-time America: the lifestyle you ordered in now out of stock and we have no indication it will be in stock again within the foreseeable…
Source – projectchesapeake.wordpress.com – “…The bankers have created a society of dependent people that they can exploit. They can only continue to exploit people as long as they are dependent on the bankers for the things they need. Once this dependence is broken the bankers lose much of their control on society’ How Do You…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…We know that after 10 years of expansion, a recession is baked in…The neofeudal-rentier structure of our economy is brittle, inflexible and grossly inefficient. As a result, a “downturn” will unleash a tsunami as opaque, brittle skims and scams break down” A Recession Survival Guide – By Charles Hugh Smith The…
Source – michaelparenti.org – Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…The stateless super-rich of the New Left-Right Elite Alliance…can flee the country in an instant if they need to, taking with the large chunks of their wealth, which is now either offshore or mobile thanks to international banking…The Elite’s greatest fear is that left and right non-elites realize who their real…
Source – gizadeathstar.com – “…the US Rothschild Controlled Media has apparently completely blacked out any news involving Iceland’s debt forgiveness. Attempting to search Iceland’s mortgage debt forgiveness only leads to about 359,000 search results with none of them being from the United States. Neither major or minor news outlets mention a single word about Iceland’s…
