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End of Nuclearism or the End of the World: Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares
By Richard Falk Source: Global Justice in the 21st Century We are living amid contradictions whether we like it or not, driving expectations about the future toward opposite extremes. Increasingly plausible are fears that the ‘sixth extinction’ will encompass the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, media, Militarization, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Cold War, Dystopia, empire, Extinction, geopolitics, imperialism, John Pilger, Nevile Shute, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, On the Beach, propaganda
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Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating
By Robert J. Burrowes Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, Health, Science, society, State Crime, war
Tagged 6th Extinction, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Earth, Ecological Catastrophe, environment, environmental catastrophe, Extinction, habitat loss, Humans, invasive organisms, Mass Extinction, Nuclear War, Overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, Population Growth, toxification, war
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The Value of Everything
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is just as sharp. America’s “aristocracy,” once based strictly on … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, media, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Aristocracy, Automobiles, Debt, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Entertainment, Global Elites, Housing, income gap, Mass Media, recession, Wealth Disparity
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America’s Rich Are Completely Losing Touch With Reality — and That’s a Really Bad Sign
By Shaun Bradley Source: AntiMedia The divide between wealthy and working class has grown wider each year since the last financial crisis, but this disconnect is about much more than just money or politics. The super-rich, in particular, have become … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Bunkers, Class Divide, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Global Elites, income gap, Middeclass, Parabiosis, Precariat, Preppers, Social Unrest, Wealth Disparity, Wealthy
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Three Paths
By Erik Lindberg Source: Resilience To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war, Work
Tagged Anthropology, civilization, Conservatives, Degrowth, environment, Globalism, Globalists, Liberals, Peak Oil, Philosophy, Progress, Realism, society, Sociology, Sustainability
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Saturday Matinee: Rollerball (1975)
The Science Fiction of Rollerball Is Nothing Compared to the Facts of Real Life Control By Rich Monetti Source: Omni If you’ve never seen Rollerball, stop what you’re doing and dial up the DVD for this 1975 Science Fiction Movie … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Film, Saturday Matinee, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology, Video
Tagged Consumerism, corporatocracy, Cult film, Dystopia, James Cann, Rollerball, Science fiction, social control, Sports, technology
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America’s Retarded Awareness
By Denis Conroy (RINF) Alternative ideas don’t come easily to Americans. It seems that Americans imported colonial hierarchal practices from Europe to cultivate them to their own advantage. Over millennia, Europeans had come to accept the authority of Church, Monarchy … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged America, Consumerism, culture, Election 2016, empire, history, imperialism, Militarism, Philosophy, propaganda, war, war on terror
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Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless
On negotiating the false idols of neoliberal self-care By Laurie Penny Source: The Baffler Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Audre Lorde, capitalism, Economics, Life Hacking, Life-Hacks, Neoliberalism, Occupy Movement, Precariat, Precarity, Self-Care, Self-Love, Wellness, Yoga
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