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Why Orwell matters
His defence of freedom flies in the face of all that is woke and regressive today. By Bruno Waterfield Source: Spike Online Most people think that George Orwell was writing about, and against, totalitarianism – especially when they encounter him … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, censorship, civil liberties, Consciousness, Dystopia, elites, Eric Blair, fascism, George Orwell, intellectuals, language, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Sociology, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, Will Self
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THE WEF AND WHO – ARE THEY RUNNING A DEATH CULT?
By Peter Koenig Source: The 4th Media A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forestA Tibetan proverbLet’s hope the silently growing forest represents a mass-awakening.—- From the looks and evidence – ever more visible to even the ignorant … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, black ops, censorship, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, Inequality, NATO, news, NGOs, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Agenda 2030, Big Pharma, Bill Gates', Biotech, Bioweapons, censorship, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, Davos, elites, Eugenics, geopolitics, George Soros, Globalists, Great Reset, IFCN, Military Industrial Complex, NATO, NED, NGOs, Open Society Foundation, Pandemic Treaty, propaganda, psychopaths, Psyops, Russia, Social Media, Technocracy, transhumanists, Ukraine, UN, vaccine mandates, war, WEF, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization
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I Know Why Can’t We Fix Homelessness
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well “What stands out for visitors?” I asked our guide during a Honolulu Chinatown tour with my out-of-town guests. “Always the same, the homeless. Even Mainlanders from big cities like San Francisco and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Labor, military spending, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged capitalism, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Hawaii, Homelessness, Honolulu, Housing Crisis, Minimum Wage, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, systemic inequality, Technocracy
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WE ARE TRAPPED IN A TRUMAN SHOW DIRECTED BY PSYCHOPATHS
“Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Health, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, Allegory of the Cave, Brave New World, conditioning, corporate media, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, culture, Dystopia, elites, George Orwell, Globalists, Government, Indoctrination, Mainstream Media, Pandemic, Philosophy, Plato, propaganda, psychopaths, society, Sociology, Technocracy, The Great Reset, The Truman Show, Vaccines
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BYE, BYE KIEV, HELLO COTE D’AZUR: AS WESTERNERS SEND AID, HERE’S HOW UKRAINE’S CORRUPT ELITES ARE PROFITING FROM THE CONFLICT
Ukraine’s newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) walks to his Presidential office after a ceremony of his oath in the Ukrainian Parliament, in Kiev, Ukraine. © STR / NurPhoto via Getty Images By Olga Sukharevskaya Source: New Cold War For … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Geopolitics, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Alexander Davtyan, Alexander Dubinsky, Alexander Tupitsky, Alexander Yaroslavsky, Andrei Kholodov, Andrei Yarmolsky, Andrey Stavnitzer, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Côte d’Azur, Corruption, Dmitry Firtash, elites, European Union, geopolitics, Grayzone, Igor Abramovich, Kiev, Konstantin Zhevago, military spending, Nikita Poturaev, Oligarchs, Rinat Akhmetov, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, Russia, Samantha Morris, Sergei Melnichuk, Sergey Lovochkin, Stephen Myers, The Monaco Battalion, Ukraine, Vadim Ermolaev, Vadim Nesterenko, Vadim Novinsky, Vadim Solar, Vadim Stolar, Vasily Khmelnitsky, Vitaly Khomutynnik, Vitaly Zakolodyazhny, Vladimir Nemirovsky, Vladimir Zelensky, Vladislav Gelzin, war, Zaporozhye
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I Used To Be Disgusted, Now I’m Disabused
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds It’s certainly possible to be disgusted, but being disabused of the fantasy that the system is self-correcting is the healthier perspective. I used to be disgusted, now I’m disabused: beneath all the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Collapse, Corruption, Deep State, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, fascism, Government, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Concentration
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Peering Into the Crystal Ball, We See… Instability Leading to Collapse
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We can only choose one: open, dynamic stability (evolution) or autocracy (instability and collapse). When the fundamentals of life change, every organism must evolve or die. This is equally true of human organizations, societies … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Collapse, dynamic equilibrium, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Evolution, evolutionary churn, financial crisis, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, stability
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