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Total Tyranny: We’ll All Be Targeted Under the Government’s New Precrime Program
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.”― James Bamford It never fails. Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged censorship, Criminalization, Department of Homeland Security, Dystopia, fascism, Mass Incarceration, police state, Precrime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny
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WHY WE’RE A CULTURE OF ADDICTS
By Leslie Garrett Source: Waking Times If there’s one constant among addicts of all types, it’s shame. It’s what makes us lie and hide. It’s what keeps us from asking for help – though we don’t think we need it … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Drug War, Health, Law, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged addiction, Buddhism, Compassion, Consciousness, Criminalization, culture, Dr. Gabor Maté, drugs, Harm Reduction, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, Neurology, Philosophy, psychology, Recovery, Shame, society, Sociology, spirituality, Trauma
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The Over-Criminalization of American Life
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The over-criminalization of America has undermined justice, the rule of law and legal egalitarianism. While the corporate media devotes itself to sports, entertainment, dining out and the latest political kerfuffle, America has … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Law, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Criminalization, Democracy, Gulags, Mass Incarceration, Over-Criminalization, police state, Prisoners, Prisons, Private Prisons, Totalitarianism, White-Collar Crimes
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Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, culture, freedom of speech, Law, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Criminalization, Institutional Racism, marijuana, Militarization, police state, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, Private Prisons, Public Schools, schools, surveillance state, Zero Tolerance
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