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Hardly Anyone Is Thinking Logically About The Risk Of Nuclear War
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, Uncategorized, war
Tagged Antonio Guterres, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Cold War, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, John Mecklin, NATO, Nuclear War, propaganda, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war
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Saturday Matinee: River’s Edge
By Roger Ebert Source: RogerEbert.com I remember reading about the case at the time. A high school kid killed his girlfriend and left her body lying on the ground. Over the next few days, he brought some of his friends … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Crispin Glover, Cult Film, Dennis Hopper, Keanu Reeves, River's Edge, Tim Hunter
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The Cost Of Living Has Become Extremely Oppressive And 57 Percent Of Americans Cannot Afford A $1,000 Emergency Expense
By Michael Snyder Source: Activist Post I don’t have to tell you that your money doesn’t go as far as it once did. You see it every time that you go shopping. Our leaders flooded the system with money and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Cost of Living, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, food crisis, Housing Crisis, Inflation, McDonalds, Technocracy, Unilever
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Two for Tuesday
Roger Waters
Posted in Art, culture, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Comfortably Numb, Roger Waters, Two Suns in the Sunset
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360 Degree Surveillance: How Police Use Public-Private Partnerships to Spy on Americans
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.”— Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, FBI, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, news, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Amazon, civil liberties, culture, DHS, Dystopia, fascism, FBI, Fourth Amendment, George Orwell, Google, Government, law, NSA, police state, Privacy, Public-Private Partnerships, society, surveillance state, Technocracy
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How the US is blackmailing countries that buy American weapons
By Vladimir Platov Source: New Eastern Outlook Economic sanctions and blackmail have long been the preferred methods of conducting foreign policy and advancing the United States’ own geopolitical interests. In 2018, the US withdrew from the agreement on Iran’s nuclear … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged blackmail, China, Economics, empire, extortion, geopolitics, Huawei, imperialism, India, Iran, Military Industrial Complex, NATO, Pakistan, Russia, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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YOUR BODY IS A PROJECTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THOUGHT
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times At the cutting edge of science and technology today is artificial intelligence and robotics, which are being driven by ever-increasing computational speeds made possible by quantum computing. When the capacity of technological computation rivals the … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Spirituality
Tagged Consciousness, culture, Health, Philosophy, psychology, Quantum Physics, society, spirituality
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Saturday Matinee: A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly By Brian Eggert Source: Deep Focus Review Based on the acclaimed novel by Philip K. Dick, Richard Linklater’s 2006 film of A Scanner Darkly presents a cautionary tale on drugs, surveillance, and perception in a unique formal arrangement. Set … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged A Scanner Darkly, Cult Film, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Richard Linklater, Rory Cochrane, Science fiction
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