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Biden, who still claims that he is ending the war in Afghanistan, has openly stated that included in their commitments to the government in Kabul is to provide air support inside the war-struck nation, to help them fight the Taliban and any other groups which may attempt to seize power.
Every politician breaks promises, but the issue with many of the items in Obama’s long list of reversals was not failure but betrayal, in the most profound and devastating sense of the word.
According to CNN talking parrots, the current administration, which is taking its talking points from an obscure group funded by dark money, operated by an unregistered foreign agent, Dr. Mercola is the No. 1 superspreader of COVID-19 misinformation.
This question, once merely academic, is becoming a very real question for those who are beginning to realize that Gates’ unimaginable wealth has been used to gain control over every corner of the fields of public health, medical research and vaccine development.
Oil. From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the petrochemical industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world.
The rulers of this oiligarchy — the Rockefellers at Standard Oil, the British royals at BP, the Dutch royals and the Rothschilds at Royal Dutch Shell — were not content with mere financial domination. The power that came with their near-total monopoly on the world’s most important commodity, big oil, was enormous, and they had no qualms about using that power to re-make the world in their image.
The message could not be clearer. The pre-summit in Rome, and the New York summit take place under the strict direct control of multinationals. It is they, the Masters of food, who are in, and want to maintain, control. And if they decide to talk about “transition”, they themselves will do so in their own way, convincing us that their solutions will be ecological enough to keep the current system of interests intact.
Zero-Sum, symbolized by an image of hundreds of hand paintings on rock walls. Reaching, until defaced by graffiti from a bleak future?
Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance would constitute a new useless class. People who are useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system. And this useless class will be separated by an ever-growing gap from the ever more powerful elite.
Shopping is a distant memory in the city of 2030, whose inhabitants have cracked clean energy and borrow what they need on demand, where every move is tracked and outside the city live swathes of discontents, the ultimate depiction of a society split in two.
“We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth. They are not our friends.”—Jeff Gibbs, director of “Planet of the Humans”
In all, BlackRock and Vanguard have ownership in some 1,600 American firms, which in 2015 had combined revenues of $9.1 trillion. When you add in the third-largest global owner, State Street, their combined ownership encompasses nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms.