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Net Zero, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agenda 2030, Authoritarianism, BlackRock, COVID, Digital Panopticon, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Fabio Vighi, financial crisis, Food, food sovereignty, Food System, Global Elites, Global Warming, Great Reset, healthcare, Lockdowns, Neoliberalism, Net Zero, police state, surveillance state, Technocracy, Ted Reece, United Nations, WEF
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Why People Don’t Want To ‘Work’ Anymore
It’s not that people are lazy, there’s something much deeper going on that requires better questions. By Joe Martino Source: The Pulse Last time I wrote about the increasing mental health crisis happening around the world. I didn’t write it … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Consciousness, Cost of Living, culture, Economics, Evolution, Labor, Mental Health, mental health crisis, Philosophy, quiet quitting, society, Sociology, technology, Work
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The “Phantom Legion” Problem
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Everything is presented as rock-solid until it falls apart. Of the many signs of systemic decay in the late Roman Empire, one of particular relevance to our era is the Phantom Legion, military … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Bureaucracy, Corruption, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, healthcare, phantom legion, Roman Empire, Systemic Corruption
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Navigating The Space Between Worlds
Mastering the art of being in the world, even when we know it’s filled with heavy challenges and chaos. By Joe Martino Source: The Pulse Over the last few decades, many have written about our time as a space where … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Chaos, Consciousness, culture, Education, environment, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality, technology
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How to Navigate Our Low-Trust, Increasingly Dysfunctional Society and Economy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Politicians and corporate managers have an enviable record of self-enrichment but very little to show in terms of putting the long-term interests of the citizenry above their own short-term gains. This week’s … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged Corruption, culture, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, high-trust society, Inflation, localization, low-trust society, Oligarchy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, self-reliance, society, Sociology, Wealth Concentration
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Daydreaming While Reading Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” – Shakespeare, Macbeth … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Health, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 24/7, capitalism, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Jonathan Crary, Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, Oligarchy, Philosophy, psychology, sleep, society, Sociology, spirituality, Technocracy, technology, Thomas Merton, Walter Benjamin, William Wordsworth
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Sickening Profits — The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit. Aside from losing their land to global investors and big agribusiness concerns, people are being sickened by corporations and a system that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Aruna Rodrigues, Big Ag, BlackRock, Colin Todhunter, Corporate Globalization, COVID, environment, Food System, geopolitics, Global Trade, GMO, India, New World Order, Oligarchy, Public Health, Sickening Profits, Technocracy, Ukraine
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Humanity Under Assault by the Elites – When Will We Have Had Enough?
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook “I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war–and frequently the words of … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Cancer, empire, EU, financial crisis, Gaza, geopoltics, Germany, Global Elites, Homelessness, imperialism, Israel, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, Poverty, Public Health, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Starvation, Ukraine, war
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