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Everything Is a Weapon: The U.S. Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare on the Nation
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”— … Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, civil liberties, Compliance, Deep State, digital currencies, Dystopia, Entertainment, fascism, fear, Freedom, genetics, Information Warfare, mind control, Paranoia, police state, Pre-crime, propaganda, Psychological Operations, Psychological Warfare, psychology, Psyops, Social Media, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, U.S. Government, Violence, weaponization
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Freedom Rider: Hollywood Propaganda Attack on Venezuela
By Margaret Kimberly Source: Black Agenda Report The US is starving and killing Venezuelans in real life and, for your family’s viewing pleasure, on television screens. “Imperialism is quite bipartisan and liberal Hollywood never saw propaganda it didn’t want to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged American exceptionalism, CIA, corporate media, empire, Entertainment, Ernesto Villegas, geopolitics, hollywood, imperialism, Jack Ryan, Mace Neufeld, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Psy-ops, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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Surgical Totalitarianism
By Dan Corjescu Source: Dissident Voice You don’t have to control everything to be in total control. In the modern world this seeming paradox is a systemic reality. In the past, classic totalitarian governments sought to literally control every aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, imperialism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Control, empire, Entertainment, geopolitics, Hierarchy, imperialism, social control, society, surveillance state, technology, Totalitarianism
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Our age of horror
In this febrile cultural moment filled with fear of the Other, horror has achieved the status of true art By M M Owen Source: aeon In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society
Tagged Art, Biocultural, Consciousness, culture, Entertainment, fear, film, Horror, media, Monsters, Morality, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality, the unknown, Zombies
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Why We’re Blind to the System Destroying Us
By Jonathan Cook Source: Information Clearing House I rarely use this blog to tell readers what they should believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alexander Petrov, Belief, conspiracy, corporate media, Corporations, corporatocracy, Craig Murray, Economics, elites, Entertainment, Ideology, Insitutions, Journalism, Late Stage Capitalism, media, Narratives, Neoliberalism, news, Plutocracy, politics, Power, Power Structures, propaganda, Ruslan Boshirov, Russia, Sergei Skripal, Wealth, Yulia Skripal
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The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
By Tim O’Shea Source: Information Clearing House Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Aldous Huxley, corporate news, culture, Dissimulation, Distraction, Edward L. Bernays, Entertainment, GMOs, iraq, Mainstream Media, media, news, Perception, Perception Management, PR, propaganda, Psy-ops, Public Opinion, science, society, Spin, Sports, Television, war, war on terror
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The Search for Meaning in Modern Life
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times Every good story about a search begins with a tale. So, here’s one; it’s a tale about a magician who gave a dinner for his neighbours. There was once a Magician who built … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Health, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Archons, culture, empathy, Entertainment, Gnosticism, Imagination, Meaning, media, modernity, Mystery, Philosophy, Progress, society, spirituality, technology, Wetiko
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The Value of Everything
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is just as sharp. America’s “aristocracy,” once based strictly on … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, media, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Aristocracy, Automobiles, Debt, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Entertainment, Global Elites, Housing, income gap, Mass Media, recession, Wealth Disparity
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