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Tag Archives: American Culture
HOW THE AMERICAN CULTURE OF CONVENIENCE IS KILLING US
By Daisy Luther Source: Waking Times In the United States, we are lucky to have massive convenience at our fingertips. I was talking to one of the instructors for the urban survival course, who is from Sweden, on a car … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Environment, GMOs, Health, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, American Culture, Consumerism, Convenience, Corporations, Economics, Exercise, Food, Food System, GMOs, Health, Junk Food, obesity, Physical Fitness, Processed Foods, technology, USDA, Walking
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America Is on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, education, Empire, Environment, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged America, American Culture, Authoritarianism, Civil Unrest, Classism, Dystopia, Infrastructure, Mass Hysteria, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, police state, Police Violence, racism, Societal Collapse, State Terror, surveillance state, tyranny, US government, Violence, xenophobia
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According to the Father of Propaganda an Invisible Government Controls Our Minds with a Thought Prison
By Sigmund Fraud Source: Waking Times “Who are the men who without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to despise, what to believe about the ownership of public utilities, about the tariff, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged American Culture, Conformity, conspiracy, corporatocracy, Critical Thinking, culture, Deep State, Edward Bernays, elites, Global Elites, Invisible Government, media, propaganda, Public Relations, social control, society
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The Simulacra Democracy
By John Steppling Source: CounterPunch … a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, American Culture, American History, CIA, Clinton, conspiracy, corporate media, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, empire, Gaddafi, geopolitics, Harvey Weinstein, Hegemony, hollywood, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, iraq, Liberals, Libya, NATO, Obama, propaganda, social control, society, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, wall street, Yemen
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Saturday Matinee: The Loved One
“The Loved One” (1965) is a satire directed by Tony Richardson with a screenplay by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh. The plot centers on the journey of young English expat Dennis (Robert Morse) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged American Culture, Anjanette Comer, Christopher Isherwood, comedy, Dana Andrews, Evelyn Waugh, James Coburn, John Gielgud, Jonathan Winters, Liberace, Milton Berle, Robert Morse, Rod Steiger, Roddy McDowall, satire, Terry Southern, The Loved One, Tony Richardson
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Systemic Corruption Has Destroyed America
Source: Washington’s Blog Preface: There’s always been some corruption in the United States … but it’s never been this bad before. The Cop Is On the Take Government corruption has become rampant: Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours … Continue reading
How ‘Awesome’ Is America?
By Robert Parry Source: ConsortiumNews.com Fox News host Andrea Tantaros is facing some well-deserved ridicule for refuting the stomach-turning Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture by declaring that “The United States is awesome. We are awesome” and claiming that the Democrats … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, History, patriotism, propaganda, Racism, Social Control, society
Tagged American Culture, Andrea Tantaros, ConsortiumNews.com, patriotism, racism, Robert Parry
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