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Corporate tyranny: 3 Giant financial companies that the global elite use to control 88% of the corporations listed on the S&P 500

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There is no question that large corporations absolutely dominate our society today. They control what we eat, they control what we watch on television, they own most of the stores that we shop at, they provide the energy that our nation depends upon, and they make almost all of the products that we use. Tens of millions of Americans make a living by serving these colossal firms, and at this point some of the biggest corporations are larger than many small countries. But of course the corporations aren't the top of the food chain. They have owners, and there are 3 giant financial companies that the global elite use to control 88 percent of the corporations that are currently listed on the S&P 500.

The three financial companies that I am talking about are BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.

According to CNN, those companies have a combined 15 trillion dollars in combined assets under management...
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street manage a stunning $15 trillion in combined assets, equivalent to more than three-quarters the size of the US economy.
But that is actually an old number.

I wanted to come up with a newer number, and so I started digging.

Cow Skull

White House contacts Russia after hack of world's largest meatpacking company

JBS Foods
© Patrick Hamilton/AFP/Getty Images
The northern Australian offices of JBS Foods is seen during sunset in Dinmore, west of Brisbane, on Tuesday. Its US operations are based in Greeley, Colorado. Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/AFP/Getty Images
The ransomware attack on JBS, probably by a Russia-based group, has disrupted meat production in North America and Australia

A ransomware attack against the world's largest meatpacking company that has disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated from a criminal organization probably based in Russia, the White House was informed on Tuesday.

The attack on Brazil's JBS caused its Australian operations to shut down on Monday and has stopped livestock slaughter at its plants in several US states.

The ransomware attack follows one last month on Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, that crippled fuel delivery for several days in the US south-east.

The White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said JBS had given details of the hack to the White House, that the United States had contacted Russia's government about the matter and that the FBI was investigating.

Comment: Hmmm, two major cyber attacks on two crucial industries in the US in as many months. Quick -- someone tell the White House and the Globalist Technocrats that we need better cyber protection right away! They should all be meeting about this and preparing for more devastating attacks we might be vulnerable to. Oh wait, the WEF has been planning just such a security meeting already. Pretty soon in fact. Geeze, how did they know we'd be under such threats??

See: The World Economic Forum's latest simulation 'fits' with their Great Reset agenda


Magnify

North Korea's Kim Jong Un establishes new deputy post amid speculation sister is possible successor

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Citing an unidentified source, Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday said that Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, established a first secretary post during a Supreme People's Assembly meeting in Pyongyang in January. There has been speculation over who will hold the position, with some sources naming his sister, Kim Yo Jong, as a candidate.

"In case of an emergency, including those involving leader Kim's health, Kim Yo Jong is likely to take up this deputy position and act temporarily as the successor until power is handed over to Kim Jong-un's son," former Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok told reporters during an online briefing Tuesday according to Yonhap.

Comment: See also: Kim says North Korea facing its 'worst-ever situation' due to lockdown and continued US sanctions


Bad Guys

Inquiry into Covid-19 lab leak won't bring out the truth, it will deepen the deception

Vaccins Covid Monde
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A year ago, the idea that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan - a short distance from the wet market that is usually claimed to be the source of the virus - was dismissed as a crackpot theory, supported only by Donald Trump, QAnon and hawks on the right looking to escalate tensions dangerously with China.

Now, after what has been effectively a year-long blackout of the lab-leak theory by the corporate media and the scientific establishment, President Joe Biden has announced an investigation to assess its credibility. And as a consequence, what was treated until a few weeks ago as an unhinged, rightwing conspiracy is suddenly being widely aired and seriously considered by liberals.

Comment: It's highly likely that, with the lockdowns, prolonged mask wearing, and in particular the experimental vaccines, on top of the already failing general mental and physical health of the overall population, that what visits our planet next will be a very real pandemic: Also check out SOTT radio's:


Star of David

A little late: Israel Defence Minister Gantz walks back army chief comments on AP's 'coffee with Hamas' smear

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© AP Photo / Khalil Hamra
An aerial view of the destroyed building housing the offices of The Associated Press and other media, after it was hit last week by Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, Saturday, May 22, 2021.
Defence minister Gantz says his military chief was speaking in figurative terms when he accused AP reporters of drinking coffee with Hamas in Gaza's al-Jalaa tower.

Israel's defence minister has distanced himself from comments made by his military chief after Israel bombed a Gaza Strip high-rise housing Al Jazeera and The Associated Press offices as well as other news outlets, saying the remarks were not meant to be taken literally.

In an article published on the website of Israel's Channel 12 news over the weekend, the military chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Aviv Kohavi, was quoted as saying "the building was destroyed justly" and he did not have a "gram of regret".

The article claimed Hamas used various floors of the al-Jalaa tower for "significant electronic warfare" meant to disrupt Israeli air force GPS communications.

Mr. Potato

Dementia Joe strikes again: Black entrepreneurs just as capable as whites 'but they don't have lawyers' or 'accountants'

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Joe Biden
President Joe Biden faced criticism on Tuesday over remarks that he made while speaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on race-related issues, saying that black entrepreneurs are "just as capable" as white entrepreneurs, but they don't have lawyers or accountants.

"The data shows young black entrepreneurs are just as capable of succeeding given the chance as white entrepreneurs are," Biden said. "But they don't have lawyers. They don't have, they don't have accountants, but they have great ideas.

"Does anyone doubt this whole nation be better off from the investments those people make?" he continued. "And I promise you that's why I set up this National Small Business Administration that's much broader because they're going to get those loans."

Comment: Why do his handlers still allow Biden out in public? He is a walking PR nightmare and corrupt to the bone, not to mention a danger to women and children.


Black Cat

NYT shill Maggie Haberman claims Trump telling allies he expects to be 'reinstated' by August

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Former President Donald Trump
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump "has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August."

Haberman tweeted a video Tuesday from CNN that showed apparently QAnon-influenced Trump supporters expressing support for a Myanmar-style coup to reinstate the former president. Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn denied advocating for such a coup on Monday following reports that he had done so at a recent convention, according to The Hill.

An audience member asked why a coup had not happened in the U.S. Flynn responded, "No reason. I mean it, it should happen here." He has since reportedly said there is "NO reason whatsoever for any coup in American, and I do not and have not at any time called for any action of that sort."

Attention

'Technotyranny' - The all-seeing fourth branch of government

"It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people do themselves. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist." — Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche To Archetype
Snitch State
© The Nation
We're being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors.

This government of Peeping Toms is watching everything we do, reading everything we write, listening to everything we say, and monitoring everything we spend.

Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it is all being recorded, stored, and catalogued, and will be used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government's choosing.

This far-reaching surveillance has paved the way for an omnipresent, militarized fourth branch of government — the Surveillance State — that came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum.

Indeed, long before the National Security Agency (NSA) became the agency we loved to hate, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration were carrying out their own secret mass surveillance on an unsuspecting populace.

Even agencies not traditionally associated with the intelligence community are part of the government's growing network of snitches and spies.

Just about every branch of the government — from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between — now has its own surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the American people. For instance, the U.S. Postal Service, which has been photographing the exterior of every piece of paper mail for the past 20 years, is also spying on Americans' texts, emails and social media posts. Headed up by the Postal Service's law enforcement division, the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) is reportedly using facial recognition technology, combined with fake online identities, to ferret out potential troublemakers with "inflammatory" posts. The agency claims the online surveillance, which falls outside its conventional job scope of processing and delivering paper mail, is necessary to help postal workers avoid "potentially volatile situations."

MIB

The World Economic Forum's latest simulation 'fits' with their Great Reset agenda

Klaus Schwab
Sky News host Cory Bernardi says the World Economic Forum's latest simulation on a cyber attack that will shutdown the world economy "fits with their Great Reset Agenda". "Imagine how quickly society would disintegrate if electricity, water, fuel and other essentials were shut down due to a cyber attack," Mr Bernardi said.

"We'd have a new collective enemy to unite against while of course demanding that government save us all." Mr Bernardi said the WEF appeared to identify the problems they find as needing a "global centralization of power". "It seems that every problem identified by this mob and their allies in the international bureaucracy requires the global centralization of power and decision making. "And this latest simulation neatly fits with their Great Reset agenda."


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Newspaper

Assassination attempt on Ugandan minister kills daughter and driver

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There are at least seven bullet holes in the windows of Gen Wamala's vehicle (archive photo)
Gunmen have opened fire on a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, the military and local media have said.

Four attackers on motorcycles shot at a four-wheel drive vehicle carrying Gen Katumba Wamala, the minister for works and transport, on Tuesday in the Kampala suburb of Kisaasi, the local television station NBS reported.

The president, Yoweri Museveni, condemned the attack, blaming it on criminals, terrorists and "pigs who do not value life". In a Twitter post he said authorities already had clues in the case and that the criminals responsible would be defeated.