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Shocking Headline of the Day: Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery
Shocking Headline of the Day: Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery Young Germans will have to choose between the Bundeswehr (military service) and unpaid social service work. Libertarians to a person, will call this slavery, because that is what it is. Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery Please consider the Eurointelligence headline story Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery The headline might […]
Fourth Turning Economics
Fourth Turning Economics “In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses […]
A world for the many, not the few
A world for the many, not the few “The very notion of ‘charity’ erases a global history of slavery and oppression”. Asad Rehman applauds Labour’s ambition to overhaul neo-colonial development policy Illustration by Andrzej Krauze In 1792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote in her seminal book The Rights of Women, ‘It is […]
The Non-Compete Clause – Modern Day Slavery
The Non-Compete Clause – Modern Day Slavery From Wikipedia: “…The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by […]
Go Long Chain Makers
Go Long Chain Makers Leonardo da Vinci Head of a Woman 1470s This is turning into a very rewarding series, it opens up vistas I could never have dreamed of. First, in “Not Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing”, I posited that peak wealth for the west, and America in particular, was sometime in the early ’70s or […]
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A man in debt is so far a slave.” Money has no intrinsic value yet we spend our days damaging our health and spirit in order to obtain it. Why do we sacrifice our well-being for it? Is it the cliché that […]
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal So that U.S. President Barack Obama can end a roadblock and win the agreement of other nations for his proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, he has decided to remove one of the nations, Malaysia, from the U.S. State Department’s official list of countries that allow […]
Trade Deals and the Quest for Global Dominance
Trade Deals and the Quest for Global Dominance The Slavery Economy The Setup “In the factory books, you see lots of turnover. But slaves couldn’t quit. While factories were worrying about filling positions and just keeping things going, plantation owners were focused on optimization. They could reallocate labor as they saw fit. I found real […]
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny “Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.”—George Orwell The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s a shell game intended to keep us focused on and distracted […]
Revolution and American Empire
Revolution and American Empire When the Left Promotes the Political Economy of the Far-Right The American preference for ideological, or ideologically based, explanations of world events frames them as both self-generated and inexplicable— self-generated because causal relations recover history and thereby clutter ideology and inexplicable in that ideology didn’t exist until it did, again recovering […]
The world of Globalism, the galaxy of slavery
The world of Globalism, the galaxy of slavery “Try looking at the world as a giant three-volume science fiction novel. Organizations of stupefying complexity rule the scene. There is an upside to this. You can gain a much deeper understanding of the archetype of the Rebel against the system.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport) “What’s that you said? […]
‘It’s our money’ podcast: be educated on monetary/credit reform or continue looting by oligarchs
‘It’s our money’ podcast: be educated on monetary/credit reform or continue looting by oligarchs Human beings are looted by asset-hole oligarchs literally by the trillions every year. These lying sacks of spin are the .01% banksters, and “leaders” of government and corporate media. Human beings will either continue being looted and lied-to, or earn voices for justice from basic education that […]
