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The Jimmy Dore Show 12.07.19
Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
Project Censored 12.03.19
Mickey Huff and guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide,
“deplatform” or otherwise undermine news and opinions critical of US government policies, and thus reestablish the dominance of establishment-friendly corporate media
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Category Archives: media
The Ministry of Wiki-Truth
By C.J. Hopkins Source: Dissident Voice OK, here’s a silly one for you. Have you ever wondered how all those Wikipedia articles get produced … you know, the ones you pull up on your phone to look up an actor, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, Doug Weller, fascism, free speech, Information Warfare, Internet Freedom, King Ubu, media, Media Literacy, Philip Cross, Psyops, social control, Technocracy, technology, tyranny, Wikipedia
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The Tech Giants Are a Conduit for Fascism
By Michael Krieger Source: Liberty Blitzkrieg A second former Amazon employee would spark more controversy. Deap Ubhi, a former AWS employee who worked for Lynch, was tasked with gathering marketing information to make the case for a single cloud inside … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, Whistleblowers
Tagged Amazon, AWS, Deap Ubhi, Department of Defense, Dystopia, Economics, eric schmidt, Facebook, facial recognition, fascism, Information Warfare, James Mattis, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Nacchio, National Security State, Oligarchy, Psyops, Qwest, Roma Laster, Silicon Valley, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Twitter, U.S. Department of Justice, whistleblowers
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New OPCW Leak Further Vindicates Skeptics Of Establishment Syria Narrative
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com On the sixth of July last year, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released its interim report on its findings regarding an alleged poison gas attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged alternative media, Bob Fairweather, corporate media, Douma, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, OPCW, propaganda, Psy-ops, Syria, US Foreign Policy, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks
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They Live, We Sleep: Beware the Growing Evil in Our Midst
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — They Live We’re living … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Consumerism, Coporate Media, Corporatism, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, elites, fascism, fear, Government, John Carpenter, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, psychology, society, Sociology, They Live, tyranny
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Bolivia’s New Puppet Regime Wastes No Time Aligning With US Foreign Policy
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com The Washington-recognized interim government which just ascended to power via US-backed military coup in Bolivia is already shifting the nation’s foreign policy into alignment with the US-centralized empire, severing important ties with two governments which … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged black ops, Bolivia, corporate media, Cuba, elites, empire, Evo Morales, geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream Media, military coup, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, State Crime, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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Cyberpunk is Dead
By John Semley Source: The Baffler “It was an embarrasser; what did I want? I hadn’t thought that far ahead. Me, caught without a program!” —Bruce Bethke, “Cyberpunk” (1983) Held annually in a downtown L.A. convention center so massive and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Akira, Blade Runner, corporatocracy, culture, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077, Cyborg, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dystopia, E3, Japanese Cinema, Johnny Mnemonic, Katsuhiro Otomo, Keanu Reeves, media, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Science fiction, Shinya Tsukamoto, Snow Crash, society, Technocracy, technology, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Total Recall, William Gibson
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Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and millionaire – with foreign support
Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition. By Max Blumenthal … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged black ops, Bolivia, Branko Marinkovic, Brazil, Carlos Mesa, Christian fundamentalism, Colombia, Corporate Elites, corporate media, Donald Trump, empire, Evo Morales, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Jair Bolsonaro, Luis Fernando Camacho, Movement Toward Socialism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Santa Cruz, The Organization of American States, Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, venezuela, WikiLeaks
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Algorithmic Feudalism
By Michael Krieger Source: Liberty Blitzkrieg Stiegler insists, however, that authentic thinking and calculative thinking are not mutually exclusive; indeed, mathematical rationality is one of our major prosthetic extensions. But the catastrophe of the digital age is that the global … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged algorithmic gatekeepers, alternative media, Amazon, censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, deplatforming, digital feudalism, Dystopia, elites, Facebook, free speech, Google, Information War, Internet Freedom, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, National Security State, Psyops, social control, tech giants, Technocracy, youtube
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