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Category Archives: Energy
Deadly Rainbow: Will 5G Precipitate the Extinction of All Life on Earth?
By Robert J. Burrowes In his recently revised and updated book The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life, scientist Arthur Firstenberg has made both science and history comprehensible by explaining the importance and significance to life on Earth … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Energy, Environment, Health, History, Science, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 5G, amphibians, Arthur Firstenberg, bioelectromagnetics, Birds, Covid-19, electricity, environment, Extinction, forests, Insects, pandemics, science, SpaceX, The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
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Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
By Craig Collins Source: CounterPunch As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Biodiversity, capitalism, civilization, Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, environment, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Civilization, Invasive Species, Jared Diamond, John Michael Greer, Peak Oil, politics, Progress, society, Steven Pinker, war
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Our Vanishing World: Oceans
By Robert J. Burrowes As the human onslaught against life on Earth accelerates, no part of the biosphere is left pristine. The simple act of consuming more than we actually need drives the world’s governments and corporations to endlessly destroy … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Energy, Environment, Neoliberalism, Psychology, Science, society, State Crime
Tagged aquarium industry, Bilge water, Biosphere, Bottom trawling, Climate Change, Dead Zones, deep sea mining, Ecosystem, environment, Fukushima, Global Warming, Government, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Invasive Species, nitrogen, noise pollution, Nonviolence, nuclear radiation, ocean acidity, Ocean deoxygenation, offshore oil drilling, oil spills, Overfishing, plastic pollution, sand dredging
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PG&E: Monopoly Power and Disasters by the Rich 1%
By Peter Phillips and Tim Ogburn Source: Project Censored The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has diverted over $100 million from safety and maintenance programs to executive compensation at the same time it has caused an average of more … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, news, Oligarchy, society
Tagged 1%, Big Oil, CEOs, Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, Fossil Fuels, Oligarchy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, PG&E, Transnational Capitalism, wildfires
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America Escalates its “Democratic” Oil War in the Near East
By Michael Hudson Source: CounterPunch The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind America’s seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the New Year. The logic behind the assassination was a long-standing application of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, china, corporate media, dedollarization, Deep State, Donald Trump, Economics, empire, Energy, imperialism, Iran, iraq, ISIS, Mainstream Media, military-industrial complex, MSM, Neocons, Oil Industry, OPEC, Qassim Suleimani, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, U.S. Dollar, war
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Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth
By Robert J. Burrowes There is a significant body of evidence that human extinction is now imminent; that is, it will occur within the next few years and possibly this year: 2020. There is also a significant body of evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 5G, Afghanistan, bioengineering, china, Climate Change, corporate media, Economics, Education, environment, fascism, Fossil Fuels, free speech, General Qassem Soleimani, geoengineering, Global Elite, Human Extinction, Iran, iraq, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, Parenting, Philosophy, pollution, psychology, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Socialization, Sociology, Tax Havens, vaccinations, Violence, war, Yemen
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The Scourge of US Hostility to World Peace and Stability
By Stephen Lendman Source: StephenLendman.org The US is a warrior state, a global menace hostile to peace, stability, equity, justice, and the rule of law. Its agenda is all about advancing its imperium by achieving control over nations and resources, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged china, de-dollarization, Dollar hegemony, Economics, empire, fascism, General William Seely, geopolitics, global energy resources, imperialism, Iran, iraq, Israel, Mark Esper, Mark Milley, Michael Hudson, Middle East, Qassem Soleimani, Russia, US Foreign Policy, war
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The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content
By Alison Rose Levy Source: FAIR.org As Sen. Bernie Sanders (CJR, 8/26/19) has recently noted, corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance. … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged alternative media, bernie sanders, censorship, Comcast, corporate media, culture, environment, Fracking, independent media, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, MSNBC, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, society, TPP
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