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The distinction that economic historian Michael Hudson makes between productive industrial capitalism and rent-seeking financial capitalism is critical to understanding all of human history for five thousand years. Thank you very much, Michael, for everything you have done and continue to do to help humanity understand its own history and the basic economic forces driving those events today. China and Russia have succeeded in taming their own rentier class, which is why they are so productive that the countries dominated by economic oligarchies in the West cannot compete with them. The economies of the United States and Europe are dominated by oligarchies, and no distinction is made between financial capital accumulation and productive industry. Libertarianism is the philosophy of oligarchs because the central idea of it is that governments cannot tell people what to do with their money. This philosophy is bought by many poor people who can't afford the high taxes that their ...

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Russia Alexeyev Gunman Kiev Agent; Energy Crisis Zelensky Rages Blames Officials; EU Sanctions Bust

Russia Alexeyev Gunman Kiev Agent; Energy Crisis Zelensky Rages Blames Officials; EU Sanctions Bust
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Russia catches assassin. Orban names enemy. Babis blames Boris. Epstein files crush Europe elite

Russia catches assassin. Orban names enemy. Babis blames Boris. Epstein files crush Europe elite
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Dirty war continues. NATO wants escalation

Dirty war continues. NATO wants escalation
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The British government poisoned the cows and invented the "Mad Cow Disease". I was living in Carlisle at the time. The area was surrounded by mounds of burning cows. Some exotic breeds disappeared.

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Israel's Support Is Collapsing (Even Among Republicans)

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June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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