Solar power has surpassed Coal Power in the USA for the first time ever.
Even with Donald Trump doing everything he can to defend dirty, disgusting, expensive Coal it has still bit the dust.
Progress cannot be stopped.
Why are debt scares repeatedly promoted in the MSM? Why are claims of national bankruptcy used to dominate political debate? And who benefits when people are persuaded that government cannot afford to support public services, invest in the economy, or help those most in need?
At the height of the Gilded Age, around 1910, the four largest American fortunes owned wealth equivalent to 4% of US GDP. Today, that same tiny fraction of the population, the top 0.00001% – which now includes 19 households – could buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in the US.
In 1989, the first year the Sunday Times Magazine compiled its famous rich list, the 0.001% wealthiest families living in the UK – about 200 families – owned wealth equivalent to 5% of UK GDP. Today that same group of the population owns wealth equivalent to 20% of UK GDP.
It started in 2010, when the Tories came in and made the public pay for a private banking crisis. This was because the economists and MSM covered up the real cause of the 2008 crash, and greed got away with it. Smelling blood in the water, capital has pressed home their advantage ever since.
the super-rich pay very little income tax, because they find ways to report very little income. There was even one year when Jeff Bezos pretended he was so poor that he claimed – and received – the child tax credit. All of this may be legal, but it fuels the explosion of wealth and power at the top
