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richardstevenhack's avatar

"roughly 8 billion people are being held hostage by perhaps one million, or maybe only 500,000 people"

It's worse than that. You may be aware of a study done a few years ago which determined that - IIRC- approximately 2,000 corporations owned eighty percent of the world's wealth. And of that 2,000, IIRC approximately 200 controlled 80% of the 2,000 corporations.

Now how many people are on the Board of Directors of a major corporation? 10? 20? Which means 2,000-4,000 people control eighty percent of the world's wealth.

A fellow over at LinkedIn posted an article a couple years ago that said the top billionaires in the world own $24 TRILLION dollars IN CASH. That's not including their stocks, bonds, corporate ownership, mansions, yachts, airplanes and cars - just CASH in the bank. He said they could give away $12 TRILLION IN CASH and STILL have $12 TRILLION IN CASH.

This didn't happen by accident, as you well know. It was designed. And as you also know, everything that happens geopolitically and domestically is controlled by these people.

These people got's to go. First their money needs to be hacked out from under them, and then they got's to go - by any means necessary, as the saying goes.

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Chris Keating's avatar

Good summation Karl.

While the "true colours" of the neo liberal project have been visible to those who knew what they were looking at, the vast majority of citizens in the West were complacent as they still had a pretty good life and little inkling of the exploitation of the ROW that enabled this.

There was also an aspect that most people didn't want to believe that their own governments would be so shamelessly dishonest.

Even the blind can see that this is no longer the case and that modern Western governments have or show little interest in the well-being of their populations.

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