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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1624, English poet John Donne penned his famous poem ‘No Man Is an Island’, sublimely evoking the reality of human unity: ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’ Therefore, he concluded his poem, ‘never … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged 2020, 5G, ABM treaty, activism, Big Tech, Bill Gates, Biodiversity, Climate Change, corporate media, Covid-19, DARPA, Deforestation, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, environment, Extinction, Factory Farms, Famine, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Global Elite, GMOs, Homelessness, International Atomic Energy Agency, James Corbett, Lockdowns, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, pollution, Privacy, SARS-CoV-2, sex trafficking, Slavery, surveillance state, Tax Havens, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Vaccines, Violence, war, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization
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The Coming War on Wealth and the Wealthy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Here’s looking at you, Federal Reserve–thanks for perfecting ‘legalized looting’ and neofeudalism in America. The problem with pushing a pendulum to its maximum extreme on one end is that it will swing … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, financializzation, Income Inequality, legalized looting, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Social Unrest, Wealth Gap
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Big Tech, Nostalgia, and Control: Grafton Tanner’s ‘The Circle of the Snake’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech By Grafton Tanner Zero Books, 2020 I’m sure many members of Generation X have taken a moment to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Center for Humane Technology, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, financial crisis, Google, Grafton Tanner, media, nostalgia, Philosophy, propaganda, Radical nostalgia, society, Technocracy, technology, The Circle of the Snake, Tristan Harris, Utopia
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On Capitalism and the Machine
By Megan Sherman Source: Global Research In 1935, reflecting on the creed of productivity which prevailed in modern technological societies, Bertrand Russell, philosopher, pacifist and devout humanist wrote that: “I think that there is far too much work done in the world, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, imperialism, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology, Work
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, capitalism, Dystopia, Economics, Fordism, Henry Ford, Labor, Philosophy, Stephen Hawking, Technocracy, technology, Work
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The Top 10%’s Bubble Is About to Burst
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When the top 10%’s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory “wealth” were real. A great … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged asset deflation, Dystopia, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Income Inequality, Meritocracy, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Technocracy
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The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom. By Glenn Greenwald Source: The Unz Review Asserting that Donald Trump is a fascist-like dictator threatening the previously … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Authoritarianism, censorship, COVID-19. pandemic, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dystopia, fascism, Lockdowns, Oligarchy, Social Media, Technocracy, tyranny
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2021 is Already Optimized for Failure
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One sure way to identify a system “optimized for failure” is if all the insiders are absolutely confident the system is “optimized for my success”. I often discuss optimization here because it offers an … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged 2021, Asset Bubbles, coronavirus, Covid vaccine, Covid-19, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, Financial Collapse, Oligarchy, optimization, Plutocracy, Social Upheaval, Technocracy, Vaccines
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The New Normal: One Step Closer to Dystopia. New Covid Outbreaks, People are “Living in Extreme Fear”
By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News On September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks took place on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon allegedly orchestrated by Al Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden, and subsequently blamed it on Saddam Hussein and the Baath … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged CDC Bill Gates, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dystopia, Great Reset, Lockdowns, Mainstream Media, Pandemic, PCR tests, SARS-CoV-2, Technocracy, THE NEW NORMAL, Transhumanism, vaccinations, World Health Organization
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