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Survival+ The Primer
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We must also be alert to the irony that the Elite's first task is to convince the underclasses that there is no Elite, no Powers That Be and no Plutocracy.
Charles Hugh Smith • Survival+ The Primer
Let's begin our search for an integrated understanding with a look at how over-reach, windfall exploitation and the divergence of Elite/State and middle-class interests illuminate the disintegration of post-World War II America into the present Depression.
Charles Hugh Smith • Survival+ The Primer
Predatory global capital has no concern for the well-being of the citizenry of any landscape, town, city, state or nation; their concern is simple: dominate markets and States sufficiently to eliminate or bypass competition, and exploit all available windfalls to the fullest.
Charles Hugh Smith • Survival+ The Primer
If all the fundamental contentions of the Powers That Be are demonstrably false, we are forced to ask why they press them so persuasively on us. The answer to this critical question can be found by asking cui bono: to whose benefit?