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Tag Archives: Dystopia
Democracy Rising 28: AI, Gossip, and Our Epistemological Crisis
By Tom Prugh Source: resilience The other day I joined the rush to explore ChatGPT, signing up at the OpenAI website. I gave it my full legal name and correct birth date, and asked it to pretend I had died and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Community, culture, deception, Digital Media, Dystopia, Eric Hoel, propaganda, Psyops, Social Media, society, Technocracy, Twitter
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America’s Social Contract Is Broken
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I do not claim any expertise in social contract theory, but in broad brush we can delineate two implicit contracts: one between the citizenry and the state (government) and another between citizens. We … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Banana Republics, Corruption, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, feudalism'capitalism, financial crisis, Government, Income Inequality, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, social contract, Trickle down economics
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Earth’s Ultimate War: A Battle to Control the Noosphere
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook You feel it, don’t you? There’s something deeply wrong with our world. And I don’t refer to the planet’s geosphere. I mean, there’s something deadly wrong with society overall, and the ways in … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, news, Philosophy, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Édouard Le Roy, culture, Dystopia, geopolitics, geosphere, noopolitik, Noosphere, Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, Russia, society, Technocracy, Third Way, Vladimir Putin, World Economic Forum
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America’s empire is bankrupt
The dollar is finally being dethroned By John Michael Greer Source: UnHerd Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged China, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, Francis Fukuyama i, geopolitics, Globalization, imperialism, Inflation, Iran, Neoliberalism, Russia, Sanctions, society, Technocracy, technology, Ukraine, US Dollar, war
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Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers, and Skin-Deep Morality
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 … Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Health, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, GMOs, Green Revolution, hunger, IMF, military spending, NATO, obesity, Oxfam, Public Health, Technocracy, Ukraine, World Bank, WTO
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A State of Never-Ending Crisis: The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Empire, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged American Propaganda, corporate news, Dystopia, Fake News, George Orwell, Government Communications Headquarters, Jacques Ellul, Mass Media, Mass Shootings, media, Media Literacy, Mike Adams, mind-control, news, Newspeak, Population Control, Psyops, surveillance state, Technocracy, The Truman Show
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Where the $1.3 Trillion Per Year U.S. Military Budget Goes
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran Nobody can give a precise dollar-number to U.S. ‘Defense’ spending because the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department has never been able to pass an audit, and is by far the most corrupt of all federal Departments … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged China, Corporate Welfare, David Norquist, DOD, Dystopia, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Grover Norquist, imperialism, Militarism, Military Industrial Complex, military spending, NDAA, Neocons, Oligarchy, Russia, society, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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