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Category Archives: Mass Incarceration
Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable
By Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal Source: The Grayzone Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Mass Incarceration, news, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Australia, Austria, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Christian Parenti, COVID vaccinations, Covid Variants, Covid-19, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, geopolitics, Germany, Global Hunger, Honduras, India, Lockdowns, Mass Incarceration, Mass Poverty, Mexico, Neil Ferguson, New Zealand, Oligarchy, Omicron, Pandemic, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, society, South Africa, Technocracy, Uganda, unemployment, vaccine mandates, Zero-COVID
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One Nation Under Greed: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
By By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, education, elites, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, censorship, Compulsory Education, contact tracing programs, corporatocracy, Corruption, Despotism, fascism, Government, Government Contractors, heightened surveillance, law, Lockdowns, mandates, Mass Incarceration, Militarized Police, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Private Prisons, restrictions, schools, security industrial complex, surveillance state, US Legal System, war, war profiteers, war spending
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Total Tyranny: We’ll All Be Targeted Under the Government’s New Precrime Program
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.”― James Bamford It never fails. Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged censorship, Criminalization, Department of Homeland Security, Dystopia, fascism, Mass Incarceration, police state, Precrime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny
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The Government’s War on Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine the First Amendment
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”— George Washington It’s a given that the government is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Covid-19, Dystopia, free speech, Government, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Mass Incarceration, Patriot Act, police state, protest, surveillance state, The First Amendment, tyranny
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What If the Christ Child Had Been Born in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, education, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Christmas, civil liberties, Dystopia, Education, Government, Jesus, Philosophy, police state, Religion, Roman Empire, society, spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy, undocumented immigrants
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America After the Election: A Few Hard Truths About the Things That Won’t Change
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Corruption, Dystopia, Election 2020, empire, financial crisis, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police shootings, police state, Poverty, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
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MORE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR CANNABIS POSSESSION THAN ALL VIOLENT CRIMES PUT TOGETHER IN THE US LAST YEAR
By John Vibes Source: Waking Times With legal recreational and medical cannabis now available in so many different US states, it is easy to get the impression that the war on cannabis users is over. However, cannabis users still represent … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Drug War, Law, Mass Incarceration, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged ACLU, Cannabis, cannabis legalization, drug war, Erik Altieri, law, marijuana, Marijuana Decriminalization, Mass Incarceration, NORML, society, Steve Sisolak, Systemic Racism, Uniform Crime Report, violent crimes
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P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, BILL OF RIGHTS, Civil Asset Forfeiture, civil liberties, Deep State, Drones, fascism, FORCED VACCINATIONS, free speech, Global Police, Internet of Things, Main Core, Mass Incarceration, NO-KNOCK RAIDS, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, police state, Precrime, qualified immunity, surveillance state, tasers, tyranny, X-KEYSCORE, Zero Tolerance
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