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When America Became The Roman Empire: Wars, Social turmoil and Economic Decline
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory George W. Bush By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, war, war on terror
Tagged America, Civil War, Corruption, Economic Collapse, empire, Failed State, Fallen Empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, history, imperialism, military-industrial complex, political instability, war
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“Watch this!”
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov There are times in my career as a collapse observer and systematizer when my running commentary can quite reasonably be pared down to just two words: “Watch this!” The current severe stage of the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Collapse, Corruption, Deep State, Democracy, DNC, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Election 2020, Election Fraud, elites, empire, history, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Plutocracy
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Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “Yeah, like [in] a church. Church of the Good Hustler.” – Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) in The Hustler At the end of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House, Nora, the aggrieved wife, leaves … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, imperialism, media, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged A Doll’s House, Corruption, Donald Trump, Doublethink, Dystopia, Election 2020, empire, Henrik Ibsen, imperialism, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda
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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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Remdesivir for Covid-19: $1.6 Billion for a “Modestly Beneficial” Drug?
By Elizabeth Woodworth Source: Global Research The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recently “bought” all of Gilead Science’s Remdesivir for $1.6 billion. “500,000 doses at $3,200 per patient – to be available to American hospitals but not for … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Health, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime
Tagged Anthony Fauci, azithromycin, Big Pharma, coronavirus, Corruption, Covid-19, Crony Capitalism, Dr. Didier Raoult, Gilead Science, hydroxychloroquine, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Public Health, Remdesivir, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Omens, Portents, Karma and the Mandate of Heaven
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The question of legitimacy isn’t limited to China. what makes humans unique among social mammals? Some say humor, I would nominate superstition: regardless of how hard we promote our rationality and logic, humanity … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Health, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Corruption, culture, Debt, Economics, environment, Exploitation, Government, Karma, Michael Snyder, natural disasters, Plagues, political disenfranchisement, self-aggrandizement, society, Superstition, Viruses, Wealth Inequality
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Democrats’ Wimpy Impeachment Has Made Trump Stronger Than Ever
By Ted Rall Source: CounterPunch “Many Democrats fear that Trump may be laying an impeachment trap,” Stephen Collins wrote for CNN last May. “It’s possible that the wider political divides get, the more Trump benefits. The spectacle would help him … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, elites, History, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, State Crime
Tagged Adam Schiff, Bill Clinton, Corruption, Deep State, DNC, Donald Trump, Election 2020, elites, Impeachment, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Oligarchy, Ukraine, US Politics
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