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Tag Archives: Drones
P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, BILL OF RIGHTS, Civil Asset Forfeiture, civil liberties, Deep State, Drones, fascism, FORCED VACCINATIONS, free speech, Global Police, Internet of Things, Main Core, Mass Incarceration, NO-KNOCK RAIDS, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, police state, Precrime, qualified immunity, surveillance state, tasers, tyranny, X-KEYSCORE, Zero Tolerance
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The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion
Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century By Alfred McCoy Source: The Unz Review [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, Neocons, Science, society, surveillance state, Technology, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Buck Rogers, CIA, Cyberwar, DARPA, Drone Warfare, Drones, Dystopia, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Military Technology, military-industrial complex, propaganda, racism, Science fiction, Space War, surveillance state, technology, US Cyber Command, war, war on terror
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Gandhi’s Truth: Ending Human Violence One Commitment at a Time
By Robert J. Burrowes Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, consciousness, culture, Feminism, Inequality, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Association of Franciscan Families of India, culture, Drone Bombings, Drone Warfare, Drones, Father Nithiya, International Day of Nonviolence, John McKenna, Joy First, Lily Thapa, Mairead Maguire, Non-Violence, Peace, Prince Simbwa Joseph, Rohingya, society, Uganda, Violence, Women for Human Rights
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Over Half of Every Tax Dollar You Give to Uncle Sam is Spent on This
By Phillip Schneider Source: Waking Times Most people probably don’t think too much about this, but are you aware of just how much of your income is being used to fuel the military industrial complex? Conveniently omitted from the corporate/state-run … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Economics, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, military spending, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Drone Bombings, Drones, empire, military spending, military-industrial complex, Tax Dollars, US National Budget
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The Titanic Sails at Dawn: Warning Signs Point to Danger Ahead in 2017
By John W. Whitehead Source: A Government of Wolves “When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Empire, False Flag, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, media, Militarization, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war on terror
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, Drones, empire, Extremists, False Flags, fascism, free speech, Freedom, Government, Mass Incarceration, Mental Health, Militarization, Military, police state, Police Violence, Prisons, Quarantines, RFID Chips, State Terror, surveillance, SWAT, terrorism, Titanic, War on Cash
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Deep State America Why U.S. Policies Serve No National Interests
By Philip Giraldi Source: Information Clearing House On September 9th the Washington Post featured a front page article describing how the Defense Department had used warplanes to attack targets and kill suspected militants in six countries over the Labor Day … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Deep State, Drones, empire, geopolitics, iraq, Neocons, Nuclear War, Russia, Syria, The Establishment, Turkey, wall street, war crimes, war profiteers
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Saturday Matinee: Sleep Dealer
“Sleep Dealer” (2008) is a dystopian parable directed and co-written by Alex Rivera. Luis Fernando Peña stars as Memo, a hacker who also works as a type of virtual migrant worker. It’s revealed through flashback how his situation was a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Film, media, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged Alex Rivera, Drones, Dystopia, Hackers, Immigration, Science fiction, Sleep Dealer, Virtual Labor, Water Rights
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The Superpower Conundrum
The Rise and Fall of Just About Everything By Tom Engelhardt Source: TomDispatch.com The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries. It’s been a sensible, repeatedly validated framework … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Empire, Energy, Environment, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Climate Change, Drones, empire, Hegemony, Military Power, Superpower, terrorism, war, war on terror
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