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Our Protected, Predatory Oligarchy: Dirty Secrets, Dirty Lies
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds If you want to understand why the status quo is unraveling, start by examining the feudal structure of our society, politics and economy. The revelations coming to light about Hollywood Oligarch Harvey … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, History, Inequality, Law, media, news, propaganda, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, Whistleblowers
Tagged Bill Clinton, Corruption, Daniel Ellsberg, Establishment, George Orwell, Harvey Weinstein, hollywood, Injustice, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Power Elites, propaganda, Serfs, Status Quo
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Initial Thoughts on Blade Runner 2049
Upon hearing early reports of a planned Blade Runner sequel a couple years ago, I felt both anticipation and dread. I considered it a singular vision which didn’t necessarily need a sequel, yet could understand the desire to re-immerse oneself … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, Philosophy, society
Tagged Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Cult film, culture, Cyberpunk, Denis Villeneuve, Dystopia, film, Hampton Fancher, Harrison Ford, media, Philip K. Dick, sci-fi, Science fiction, society
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Saturday Matinee: Night Tide
By Steve Johnson Source: Bright Lights The first shot proper in Curtis Harrington’s 1961 feature film debut, Night Tide, situates main character Johnny Drake leaning over a pier in his sailor gear, slightly off-angle, so we understand that there’s something … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cult film, Curtis Harrington, Dennis Hopper, Experimental Film, Marjorie Cameron, Night Tide
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Manufacturing Panic: Social Engineering, Domination and Control
By S.C. Hickman Source: Techno Occulture In the 21st century, the social engineering of dread and longing have evolved into a bio-political arena of terror and a psycho-political culture of internalized domination. The globally deployed technology of the spectacle transforms … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, education, media, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged automation, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Deep State, Dystopia, JPL, media, Philosophy, propaganda, social control, Social Engineering, Spectacle, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Power Corrupts: A Culture of Compliance Breeds Despots and Predators
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”― Frank Herbert Power corrupts. Worse, as 19th-century historian … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, History, Inequality, Law, media, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bill Clinton, Corruption, Frank Herbert, Government, greed, Harvey Weinstein, hollywood, Injustice, National Security Agency, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Power, Power Elites, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, tyranny, USA Liberty Act
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CIA-Connected Google Aims to Weaken RT
By Stephen Lendman Source: StephenLendman.org Google transformed itself from a search engine to online censor. Last July, the World Socialist Web Site reported “changes to its search service to make it harder for users to access what it called ‘low-quality’ … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged censorship, Cold War, corporate news, Deep State, FBI, First Amendment, free speech, Google, Information War, Internet Freedom, propaganda, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Sputnik News, World Socialist Website, youtube
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Two for Tuesday
Kiwi Illafonte The Allen Dulles Band
Posted in Art, culture, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Black Lives Matter, Build a Wall, Jeff Monson, Kiwi Illafonte, The Allen Dulles Band, Til We Free
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And empires die
Source: Intrepid Report Nothing ever seems to last, everybody changes oh so fast, promises made promises lost and pride is kept at any cost, And flowers die, and children cry, and lonely people carry on. —Palermo & Farruggio 1970 That … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, History, Inequality, Labor, Militarization, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged And Flowers Die, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Global Elites, healthcare, imperialism, income gap, Infrastructure, Medical System, Militarism, Military-Industrial Empire, Unions, Wealth Disparity
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