Work, buy, consume, die. 2002-2007. 708,000. 350x. Resource Based Economy - The Venus Project. "Society Trap" - Joe Rogan (from Joe Rogan Experience #389) Slavery & imperialism. 10 Ways to Stop Being a Slave and Bring Down the Pyramids of Control. Activist Post | There are very real conspiracies in the world, and those conspiracies are always conducted by people “in the know” against those who are ignorant or naive of back-room machinations.
Past slavery was largely based on force (thus was much more obvious), but modern-day slavery is actually more widespread because global slave masters use all of the scientific tools at their disposal to win hearts and control minds, convincing us that our hands and feet are free, so we must be living self-directed lives. There are signs that the mind-pyramids that technocrats have built to enforce their 21st-century global plantation slave system are crumbling as they press harder upon our cognitive ability to make sense of words and actions.
Everyone. Debt slavery. Food stamps. $10/hr. It takes workers. Live by the dollar. Slave to $ NAKED KEYNESIANISM: Piketty debates Shaikh and Boushey at the New School. Capitalism: The Inner Battle. John Newton (1725-1807) is best known for penning the hymn Amazing Grace in the later years of his life as a minister in the Church of England.
In 1788 he published a pamphlet entitled Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade, in which he spoke out strongly against what he called “a disgraceful branch of commerce.” But for much of his life Newton worked on slave ships, including four years as captain of his own vessel taking stolen African men and women to the American colonies. Newton’s transition from slaver to minister and activist was inspired by one particular event. Many big U.S. corporations pay very little in taxes: study. Greed.
Path to the top. 5 Facts About How America Is Rigged for a Massive Wealth Transfer to the Rich. November 4, 2014 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Global Wealth Inequality - What you never knew you never knew. 1 in 7 houses r empty. 1 in 3 kids in poverty. Champaign glass distribution. W/out demand, supply is worthless. Twinkees. Ur missing the point. Incentives. Low wage workers can't buy products. Don't answer to anyone. Earn a living. Denmark happiest country. Holy shit. Labor gets all it creates. Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do every... Source: Data from Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill America is the land of opportunity, just for some more than others.
That's because, in large part, inequality starts in the crib. Rich parents can afford to spend more time and money on their kids, and that gap has only grown the past few decades. Indeed, economists Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane calculate that, between 1972 and 2006, high-income parents increased their spending on "enrichment activities" for their children by 151 percent in inflation-adjusted terms, compared to 57 percent for low-income parents.
Trickle down economics. Min wage salary. Money w money less tax. Forever alone. The Media Won’t Tell You: Eight Reasons To Revolt. The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the “hard news” stories that the media has a responsibility to report.
But the business-oriented press generally avoids them. 1. U.S. Believe it or not. Only rich can increase wealth. Crown the people. Ur thinking of capitalism. 536: The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra. We hear what the New York Fed and Goldman Sachs say about all this.
We hear a New York Fed supervisor tell Carmen Segarra how an examiner should talk and act to be successful at the Fed. And we hear what happens to Carmen when she does exactly what David Beim's confidential report told the Fed it needed to encourage its examiners to do in order to spot the next financial crisis. In the course of reporting our story with ProPublica, we sent lots of questions to the New York Fed and Goldman Sachs.
We wanted to share those with you, along with the institutions' responses. Our questions to the New York Fed are here. The New York Fed responded with a statement and later this email. Our questions to Goldman Sachs are here. The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes. Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties.
Most people would probably also agree on two reasons those difficulties seem only to be growing: an ever-more complex financial system that regulators must have explained to them by the financiers who create it, and the ever-more common practice among regulators of leaving their government jobs for much higher paying jobs at the very banks they were once meant to regulate. Wall Street's regulators are people who are paid by Wall Street to accept Wall Street's explanations of itself, and who have little ability to defend themselves from those explanations. Our financial regulatory system is obviously dysfunctional. Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash. Update: Senators react, Goldman changes conflicts of interest policy.
Barely a year removed from the devastation of the 2008 financial crisis, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York faced a crossroads. Congress had set its sights on reform. The biggest banks in the nation had shown that their failure could threaten the entire financial system. CEO to Worker. 10% vs 90% South park. For the good of the economy. Price of childbirth. Free health care in jail. Slavery. 16 trillion. Woodrow Wilson. Who owns the Federal Reserve? Half of America is POOR says obvious evidence. Must be the season of the rich. When I look over my shoulder what do you think I see?
Half of America is poor. Poor. Not "low-income". Straight up poor. Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Capitalism - The Anatomy of Wedge Issue. Congress. A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every Year. If you are like most Americans, paying taxes is one of your pet peeves.
The deadline to file your federal taxes is coming up, and this year Americans will spend more than 7 billion hours preparing their taxes and will hand over more than four trillion dollars to federal, state and local governments. Americans will fork over nearly 30 percent of what they earn to pay their income taxes, but that is only a small part of the story. As you will see below, there are dozens of other taxes that Americans pay every year. Of course not everyone pays all of these taxes, but without a doubt we are all being taxed into oblivion. Jiddu Krishnamurti - Most people are occupied with jobs. Since 1978. Tax the rich. We call this freedom. The Obsolete Monetary System. InShare1. Washington min wage.
Kill the bankers. The Scandal in America That Is Hidden In Plain Sight - Privilege Blindness. Banksters. Min wage. Wall st. Spread Laughter and Cure Boredom. Cheney/Halliburton. Lobbyists. Corporate income tax. Poverty in the suburbs: Places that thrived in the era of two-parent families are struggling today. The other is debt. Tell me more how workers need education. 7 critical graphics showing who owns all the major brands in the world. The Last Stand for the Middle Class Is Taking Place in a Parking Lot in Massa... Americans have grown to accept that corporations will invariably take advantage of their low wage workers, and executives have done nothing recently to pretend like this isn't the case. When asked if his multinational beast would fight a federal hike in employee compensation, Walmart U.S. President Bill Simon told reporters in May, “We are not opposed to a minimum wage increase, unless it's directed exclusively at us.”
‘Belgian Buyer’ of Treasuries Is BIS, Rothchild Backdoor Money Laundering. Alan Federal Reserve. Banks money laundering. No taxes. Welfare for rich. The addict. CEO vs workers. You Can’t Distort a Labor Market that Doesn’t Exist. Min wage & rent. Not enough.