Best-Kept Secret Star here:Internalised Indoctrination of the Myth of Progress – JoaquinThe 147 Companies That Control Everything
It’s the “.1 percent”who have the powerPublished on Oct 5, 2014 As the gap between the rich and the poor continues growing, it’s difficult to fathom how much wealth is truly concentrated in the hands of only a few. Far richer than the “1 percent” are the “.1 percent,” who according to Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, are largely invisible to the average person. John F. O’Donnell of RT’s Redacted Tonight breaks down the topic and explains. There Are 85 People Who Are AsWealthy As Half The WORLD, Oxfam ReportsWorldwide economic inequality is looking rather bleak these days, according to a new report by relief organization Oxfam. Oxfam’s “Working For The Few” report looked at Credit Suisse’s “Global Wealth Report 2013” and Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires from 2013 to conclude that 1 percent of the global population controls half of the world’s wealth. The report also found that the world’s 85 richest people own the same amount as the bottom half of the entire global population. The ramifications of such inequality may be dire, the report suggests:
Oxfam calls on leaders gathered at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to tackle the growing inequality through multiple pledges, such as insisting on a living wage for companies they control, and by supporting progressive taxation. Last Thursday, the World Economic Forum stated in a risk assessment that income disparity was one of the “Ten Global Risks of Highest Concern in 2014.” HUFFPOST-————————————————————————-
Published on Mar 30, 2014 Fraud expert and former regulator Professor William Black says, “Even today, we are well into 2014, and the Department of Justice record is intact. There have been zero prosecutions of the elite officers who led the epic epidemic of fraud. It was the most destructive in world history, zero of them even unsuccessfully prosecuted, much less prosecuted.” What is the result of massive rampant unprosecuted fraud? Professor Black says, “If you don’t have any accountability, you not only make certain that there is going to be a next blow-up, but it will be worse. . . . We have effectively removed the criminal laws for a particular elite class of frauds.” Bill Gates Asks Fellow Billionairesto Help Reduce World’s PopulationThe US IndependentJanuary 24, 2014
Bill Gates is encouraging fellow billionaires to do the same. Gates is concerned about Nigeria and Pakistan because “local conspiracy theories have undermined inoculation drives.” Gates continued: “I don’t think people like to say out loud that we want to let these kids die because there are too many of them. But by choosing not to get into health in our early days I was a victim of the myth around overpopulation. But there is just phenomenally good news here. The world’s population will peak. Now, we do have huge population growth in places where we don’t want it, like Yemen and Pakistan and parts of Africa, where we don’t have the resources to really help those people. So we need to get serious about figuring out how to make sure there’s relative health and satisfaction in those places.”
Bill Gates Asks Fellow Billionaires to Help Reduce World’s Population
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have invested several billions of dollars into vaccine initiatives to fight the polio virus. Bill Gates is encouraging fellow billionaires to do the same. Gates is concerned about Nigeria and Pakistan because “local conspiracy theories have undermined inoculation drives.” – See more at: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/bill-gates-asks-fellow-billionaires-help-reduce-worlds-population/#sthash.FPky8JVN.dpuf Bill Gates Asks Fellow Billionaires to Help Reduce World’s Population – See more at: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/bill-gates-asks-fellow-billionaires-help-reduce-worlds-population/#sthash.FPky8JVN.dpuf
Fed-They Do Not Have Any More Gold-Paul Craig Roberts
Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts is making some bold new claims about the Federal Reserve and its official government gold holdings. Dr. Roberts contends, “They don’t have any more gold. That’s why they can only give Germany 5 tons of the 1,500 tons it’s holding. In fact, when Germany asked for this delivery last year, the Fed said no. But it said we will give you back 300 tons . . . . So, they said we will give you back 20% of what you trusted us to keep for you over the next seven years, but they are not even able to do that.” Dr. Roberts goes on to say, “The stocks of gold at the Bank of England seem to be disappearing. The stocks of many of the gold trusts, such as GLD, are being looted . . . all of this gold is disappearing into Asian markets. The entire West is being drained of gold.” According to Dr. Roberts, this is an inflection point for the gold market. Dr. Roberts says, “The reason is: the ability to supply large amounts of gold to the bullion dealers to sell has diminished with the supply of gold and silver. What the Fed did was turn to massive ‘naked shorts’ of gold futures contracts. They don’t have the real gold . . . so they come in and dump contracts, say in a period of 6 minutes, that are three times the amount of gold COMEX has to make delivery. . . . So, it drives down the price of gold. That’s how they got the price down from $1,900 to $1,250.” Roberts contends that America’s gold is “mainly gone.” That’s right, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary who is the father of Reaganomics, says, “They obviously don’t have any because, if they did, they would have given Germany’s gold back. If they had any, they would let people audit the vaults.” Dr. Roberts warns, “The point is the ability to continue selling these ‘naked shorts’ is now disappearing because there is no gold left to back them up. . . . None of these EFT’s has the gold to back the shares. The ability to continue looting them in order to make good on gold deliveries is running out. So, this will prevent the Fed from selling ‘naked shorts’ to protect the dollar from its policy of quantitative easing. That’s what’s it’s all about. You can’t print $1,000 billion new dollars every year without causing other holders of dollars to wonder about the value of the money and to seek a way of getting out of it. China has been doing that by going into gold.” -Continue reading-
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Susanne Posel 
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Now that you know 85 people own more
than half the world, here’s what to do about it
The media has done a great job covering the 85 people who own
more than half the world statistic from the Oxfam report entitled:
Working for the Few: Political Capture and Economic Inequality.
Media examples here, here, and here.
What I didn’t realize until I read the report was that it has an excellent set
of recommendations on how to improve the situation.
Since they’re excellent, the mainstream media seems to have ignored them,
and I don’t think Oxfam would mind, here is their series of recommendations.
From the Oxfam report
Working for the Few: Political Capture and Economic Inequality:
Call to those gathered at Davos
Those gathered at Davos for the World Economic Forum have
the power to turn around the rapid increase in inequality. Oxfam is calling
on them to pledge that they will:
• Not dodge taxes in their own countries or in countries where they
invest and operate, by using tax havens;
• Not use their economic wealth to seek political favors that
undermine the democratic will of their fellow citizens;
• Make public all the investments in companies and trusts for
which they are the ultimate beneficial owners;
• Support progressive taxation on wealth and income;
• Challenge governments to use their tax revenue to provide
universal healthcare, education and social protection for citizens;
• Demand a living wage in all the companies they own or control;
• Challenge other economic elites to join them in these pledges.
Policy recommendations
Oxfam has recommended policies in multiple contexts to
strengthen the political representation of the poor and middle
classes to achieve greater equity. These policies include:
• A global goal to end extreme economic inequality in every country.
This should be a major element of the post-2015 framework, including
consistent monitoring in every country of the share of wealth going
to the richest one percent.
• Stronger regulation of markets to promote sustainable and
equitable growth; and
• Curbing the power of the rich to influence political processes and
policies that best suit their interests.
Some starting points from developing countries
The particular combination of policies required to reverse rising
economic inequalities should be tailored to each national context.
But developing and developed countries that have successfully
reduced economic inequality provide some suggested starting points, notably:
• Cracking down on financial secrecy and tax dodging;
• Redistributive transfers; and strengthening of social protection schemes;
• Investment in universal access to healthcare and education;
• Progressive taxation;
• Strengthening wage floors and worker rights;
• Removing the barriers to equal rights and opportunities for women.
The Controllers:
#1. – Carlos Slim Helu & family
Bill Gates
Amancio Ortega
Warren Buffett
Larry Ellison
Charles Koch
David Koch
Li Ka-shing
Liliane Bettencourt & family
Bernard Arnault & family
Christy Walton & family
Stefan Persson
Michael Bloomberg
Jim Walton
Sheldon Adelson
Alice Walton
S. Robson Walton
Karl Albrecht
Jeff Bezos
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Mukesh Ambani
Michele Ferrero & family
Lee Shau Kee
David Thomson & family
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Carl Icahn
Thomas & Raymond Kwok & family
Dieter Schwarz
George Soros
Theo Albrecht, Jr. & family
Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family
Jorge Paulo Lemann
Alisher Usmanov
Iris Fontbona & family
Forrest Mars, Jr.
Jacqueline Mars
John Mars
Georgina Rinehart
German Larrea Mota Velasco & family
Mikhail Fridman
Lakshmi Mittal
Aliko Dangote
Len Blavatnik
Cheng Yu-tung
Joseph Safra
Rinat Akhmetov
Leonid Mikhelson
Leonardo Del Vecchio
Michael Dell
Steve Ballmer
Viktor Vekselberg
Paul Allen
Francois Pinault & family
Vagit Alekperov
Phil Knight
Andrey Melnichenko
Dhanin Chearavanont & family
Susanne Klatten
Vladimir Potanin
Michael Otto & family
Vladimir Lisin
Gennady Timchenko
Luis Carlos Sarmiento
Mohammed Al Amoudi
Tadashi Yanai & family
Mark Zuckerberg
Henry Sy & family
Donald Bren
Serge Dassault & family
Lee Kun-Hee
Mikhail Prokhorov
Alexey Mordashov
Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family
Abigail Johnson
Ray Dalio
Robert Kuok
Miuccia Prada
Ronald Perelman
Anne Cox Chambers
Stefan Quandt
Ananda Krishnan
Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila
James Simons
Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi
Zong Qinghou
Dirce Navarro De Camargo & family
John Fredriksen
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
Harold Hamm
Rupert Murdoch & family
John Paulson
Azim Premji
Ernesto Bertarelli & family
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
Hans Rausing
Jack Taylor & family
Lui Che Woo
Laurene Powell Jobs & family
