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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
The War on Free Speech Is Really a War on the Right to Criticize the Government
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are … Continue reading →
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, freedom of speech, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Tagged Barack Obama, censorship, civil liberties, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Espionage Act, fascism, FBI, free speech, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, news media, Patriot Act, police state, propaganda, Sedition Act, surveillance state, Technocracy
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The Devil’s Milkshake
The water’s just fine! By Tarence Ray Source: The Baffler YOU’VE SEEN IT BEFORE. An industrial disaster poisons a town’s food or water supply. Residents get angry. Public officials try to dispel that anger through a public act of self-sacrifice, … Continue reading →
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Health, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
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Tagged Alberto Fujimori, Barack Obama, chemical spill, corporate media, Devil's Milkshake, disaster response, Dystopia, East Palestine, Flint Michigan, Fukushima, Government, Hugh Carey, industrial disaster, Joe Biden, John Hickenlooper, John Selwymn Gummer, Jon Husted, lead poisoning, Mainstream Media, Mike DeWine, Pete Buttigieg, pollution, propaganda, Public Health, Technocracy, toxic chemicals, Troy Nehls
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East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy
By Margaret Kimberley Source: Black Agenda Report A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class. … Continue reading →
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, Health, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime
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Tagged Barack Obama, butyl acrylate, DOT, Duopoly, East Palestine, environment, EPA, ethylene glycol, ethylhexyl acrylate, isobutylene, Joe Biden, Norfolk Southern, Oligarchy, Pete Buttigieg, Public Health, toxic chemical spill, train derailment, Ukraine, vinyl chloride
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The Hunter Biden / Ihor Kolomoïsky affair
By Thierry Meyssan Source: VoltaireNet.org The Biden Administration is finally reacting to the scandals that have arisen from the computer of the president’s son, Hunter Biden. This loser, whose only known activities are those of a junkie and a pimp, … Continue reading →
Posted in black ops, censorship, CIA, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, media, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
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Tagged Barack Obama, black ops, Burisma, Christopher Heinz, CIA, corporate media, David Brock, Deep State, EU, geopolitics, Hunter Biden, Ihor Kolomoïsky, Joe Biden, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Zelensky, Yulia Tymoshenko
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First Came 9/11. Then COVID-19. What’s the Next Crisis to Lockdown the Nation?
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken … Continue reading →
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, Militarization, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, war on terror
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Tagged 9/11, Authoritarianism, Barack Obama, civil liberties, Covid-19, Crisis, Deep State, Dystopia, George W. Bush, Government, Joe Biden, lockdown, National Security, NDAA, Pearl Harbor, police state, State Terror, surveillance state, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny, war on terror, World War II
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America, Meet Your New Dictator-in-Chief: The President’s Secret, Unchecked Powers
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen … Continue reading →
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Law, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Tagged 9/11, Barack Obama, civil liberties, Continuity of Government, Covid-19, Deep State, DOJ, Donald Trump, Dystopia, fascism, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, law, national emergency, police state, surveillance state, Technocracy, the war on drugs, the war on terror, Totalitarianism, tyranny, USA PATRIOT Act, William P. Marshall
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Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?
Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. Government, and for whose benefit. By Glenn Greenwald Source: Substack From the start of the Russian … Continue reading →
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, military spending, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Uncategorized, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
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Tagged Barack Obama, corporate media, Deep State, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Javelin missiles, Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, Lockheed, military spending, military-industrial complex, propaganda, psy ops, Raytheon, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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Saturday Matinee: Ukraine on Fire – The Real Story
[Originally posted on 2/24/18] A Documentary You’ll Likely Never See By James DiEugenio Source: Consortium News It is not very often that a documentary film can set a new paradigm about a recent event, let alone, one that is still … Continue reading →
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Empire, Film, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, media, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
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Tagged Barack Obama, CIA, Cold War, Documentary Film, geopolitics, George Soros, George W. Bush, imperialism, Kiev, NATO, Neocons, Oliver Stone, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Ukraine on Fire, Viktor Yanukovych., Vladimir Putin
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