Why are the billionaires always laughing?

Because they know the corporate media will never call bullshit on their bullshit.

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Why are the billionaires laughing?

It’s easy to laugh when the corporate press treats you as a glorious success instead of the epitome of a broken social order. Billionaires laugh because they know the corporate media prefers to fawn over them rather than hold them to account.

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Nafeez Ahmed

Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a bestselling author, award-winning investigative journalist, and noted international security scholar, as well as a policy expert, filmmaker, strategy and communications consultant, and change activist. His debut science fiction thriller novel, "ZERO POINT", was released in August 2014. His previous non-fiction book was "A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It" (2010), which inspired the award-winning documentary feature film, "The Crisis of Civilization" (2011).

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