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Category Archives: patriotism
Orwell was Right: Control the Language, Control the World
By Bill Rice Jr. Source: American Thinker Of all the elements of today’s “New Normal,” the most ominous is the “reform” that effectively changed the meanings of previously accepted words or terms. The following glossary illustrates how changes to our vocabulary … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, patriotism, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Anti-vaxxe, corporate media, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, disinformation, Dystopia, Freedom, George Orwell, Misinformation, New Normal, Newspeak, Public Health, Technocracy, the science, Vaccines, VAERS
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Collective Revolution And Individual Enlightening Are The Same Thing
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Revolution–the real kind–is an inside job. This is not a click-friendly fact to highlight. Whenever I talk about revolution as having more to do with sincere inner work than with demonstrations and pitchforks and the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, consciousness, culture, elites, Health, patriotism, Psychology, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Awakening, Consciousness, culture, Ego, enlightening, Enlightenment, Inner Work, Philosophy, psychology, Revolution, Self Help, self-realization, society, Sociology, spirituality
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More Than a Threat, America’s Criminal Ways
By Gordon Duff Source: New Eastern Outlook It is one thing watching the news, such as it is, a mix of conspiracy theories, flummery and distraction but quite something else watching the United States under its current regime wage war … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, corporate news, culture, elites, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, patriotism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged America, Britain, CIA, corporate media, Dystopia, empire, Ethnic Cleansing, Eugenics, False Flags, Genocide, geopolitics, Germany, Hitler, imperialism, Israel, Japan, Mainstream Media, Mike Pompeo, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, patriotism, Plutocracy, propaganda, science, State Terror, Technocracy, technology, US Foreign Policy, war, wealthy elites, World War II
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America is exceptional — in all the wrong ways
By Maj. Danny Sjursen Source: Axis of Logic I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few seem to recall the madness … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, History, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, patriotism, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, Citizen's United, Donald Trump, elliot abrams, Gun Control, iraq, maj. danny sjursen, nationalism, Orwell, patriotism, Ronald Reagan, Russia
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Forgiveness Is Overrated
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Journalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled “America’s new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone”, which begins with the observation that “Enron executives were among the last politically connected criminals to face any serious … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, patriotism, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged Accountability, Aristocracy, Authority, Catholic Church, culture, David Sirota, Domestic Abuse, elites, evil, Forgiveness, Organized Religion, Philosophy, Pope Francis, Power, Ruling Class, Shaun King, social control, society, sociopaths, spirituality
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Climb Down From the Summit of Hostile Propaganda
Public reactions to an open letter from academics, journalists and politicians asking for co-existence with Russia show many Americans don’t buy the media’s bellicose spin, as Norman Solomon explains. By Norman Solomon Source: Consortium News Throughout the day before the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, Neocons, news, patriotism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged anti-war, Cold War, corporate news, Deep State, Donald Trump, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Militarism, MSNBC, Neocons, news, Non-Violence, Nuclear War, propaganda, Psy-ops, Russia, RussiaGate, Social Engineering, Vladimir Putin, war
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Overcoming the Myth of Authority
By Gary Z McGee Source: The Mind Unleashed “For thousands hacking at the branches there is one striking the root.” ~Henry David Thoreau If, as Albert Einstein said, “unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth,” then it … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, consciousness, culture, education, patriotism, Philosophy, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, Authority, culture, Logic, Magical Thinking, patriotism, Philosophy, Power, Reasoning, social control, society
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