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Bojan Radej: Oxfam Reference on Political Capture and Economic Inequality

Access, Commerce, Corruption, Government
Bojan Radej
Bojan Radej

A fine reference.

Oxfam (2014). Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality (Briefing Paper, 32 pages).

Phi Beta Iota: The elite is starting to fracture — inclusive and redemptive capitalism are code for “stop the pitchforks.” What the broad elite does not get yet is that infinite wealth can be created if they give up 1% of what they are hoarding and get out of the way — stop rigging the system. Electoral Reform is the only “root” means of restoring integrity to the government, the economy, and society.

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Nafeez Ahmed: CIA, Google, NSA, Goldman Sachs, the Highlands Forum, DoD, and More…

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Military
Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed

How the CIA made Google

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 1

Why Google made the NSA

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 2

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Berto Jongman: Four Out of Nine Bioloigical & Environmental “Boundaries” Critical

03 Environmental Degradation, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Humans Cross Another Danger Line for the Planet

Five years ago an impressive, international group of scientists unveiled nine biological and environmental “boundaries” that humankind should not cross in order to keep the earth a livable place. To its peril, the world had already crossed three of those safe limits: too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, too rapid a rate of species loss and too much pouring of nitrogen into rivers and oceans—primarily in the form of fertilizer runoff.

Now we have succeeded in transgressing a fourth limit: the amount of forestland being bulldozed or burned out of existence (see map below). Less and less forest reduces the planet’s ability to absorb some of that carbon dioxide and to produce water vapor, crucial to plant life.

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CounterPunch: 99% Screwed Front and Back

02 China, Commerce, Corruption, Ethics, Government, Officers Call

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40 Years of Economic Policy in One Chart

Once wages detached from productivity, the rich progressively got richer. They used their wealth to reduce taxes on capital, role back critical regulations, break up the unions, install their own lapdog politicians, push through trade agreements that pitted US workers against low-paid labor in the developing world, and induce their shady Central Bank buddies to keep interest rates locked below the rate of inflation so they could cream hefty profits off gigantic asset bubbles.

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SchwartzReport: $14M an HOUR “War on Terror”

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I don't know when I have been as angered by a story as I have been by this one. Fourteen million dollars an hour for 13 years. Imagine what could have been done with that money to ease the lives of the 17 million minor children who experience hunger each year, or the 2.5 million children who are homeless each year, or the destitute elderly living on dog food. What could have been done with that money to rebuild our failing infrastructure, or our crumbling schools, or to improve our poor healthcare system. And that money is independent of the over $400 billion spent on the grotesque F-35 project I reported on yesterday. All of this made possible by phony-patriot war criminals beginning with Bush and Cheney, and passed by a Congress of cretins, too weak and pusillanimous to serve the people who elected them. A government “by the people for the people,” not in anyway I can measure.

$14 Million an Hour for 13 Years: War on Terror's Astounding Cost

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Sepp Hasslberger: Vaccines are Harmful…Period

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Dr. Moulden said it clearly, that vaccines are first and foremost harmful. He was hounded to death for it…

Canadian physician Dr. Andrew Moulden provided clear scientific evidence to prove that every dose of vaccine given to a child or an adult produces harm. The truth that he uncovered was rejected by the conventional medical system and the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, his warning and his message to America remains as a solid legacy of the man who stood up against big pharma and their program to vaccinate every person on the Earth. Dr Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49. Read more.

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