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Consent-Manufacturing For Patriot Act II Continues
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com It’s been obvious for a long time that the best way to stop the rise of right-wing extremism in America that everyone’s so worried about today is not to pass a bunch of authoritarian laws, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Adam Schiff, CIA, civil liberties, Democratic Party, Domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, Dystopia, FBI, financial crisis, Joe Biden, police state
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1624, English poet John Donne penned his famous poem ‘No Man Is an Island’, sublimely evoking the reality of human unity: ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’ Therefore, he concluded his poem, ‘never … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged 2020, 5G, ABM treaty, activism, Big Tech, Bill Gates, Biodiversity, Climate Change, corporate media, Covid-19, DARPA, Deforestation, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, environment, Extinction, Factory Farms, Famine, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Global Elite, GMOs, Homelessness, International Atomic Energy Agency, James Corbett, Lockdowns, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, pollution, Privacy, SARS-CoV-2, sex trafficking, Slavery, surveillance state, Tax Havens, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Vaccines, Violence, war, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization
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The Coming War on Wealth and the Wealthy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Here’s looking at you, Federal Reserve–thanks for perfecting ‘legalized looting’ and neofeudalism in America. The problem with pushing a pendulum to its maximum extreme on one end is that it will swing … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, financializzation, Income Inequality, legalized looting, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Social Unrest, Wealth Gap
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Big Tech, Nostalgia, and Control: Grafton Tanner’s ‘The Circle of the Snake’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech By Grafton Tanner Zero Books, 2020 I’m sure many members of Generation X have taken a moment to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Center for Humane Technology, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, financial crisis, Google, Grafton Tanner, media, nostalgia, Philosophy, propaganda, Radical nostalgia, society, Technocracy, technology, The Circle of the Snake, Tristan Harris, Utopia
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The Top 10%’s Bubble Is About to Burst
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When the top 10%’s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory “wealth” were real. A great … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged asset deflation, Dystopia, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Income Inequality, Meritocracy, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Technocracy
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When will the central bankers pay for all the wealth inequality and misery they’ve caused?
By Mitchell Feierstein Source: RT.com Janet Yellen’s been nominated by Joe Biden as Treasury Secretary, despite a poor record as Federal Reserve chair. This is typical of the unwarranted confidence placed in the central bankers who’ve caused so much financial … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Berkshire Financial Services, central banks, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, JPMorgan, Mark Carney, US Federal Reserve
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The Great Reset; ‘No pasarán’
By Ghassan and Intibah Kadi Source: The Saker The revolving results and aspirations of having a clear outcome of the American Presidential elections are bringing many related issues to the surface. Perhaps none bigger than the heightened call by the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, elites, financial crisis, fourth industrial revolution, George Soros, Greta Thunberg, Klaus Schwab, NGOs, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Plutocracy, Technocracy, The Great Reset, WEF, World Economic Forum
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Are Americans Rational?
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov I’ve been holding back on commenting on current events because they are far too silly. At this point it is safe to say that the elections in the US have been thoroughly botched and … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged china, Collapse, culture, Democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Election 2020, Election Fraud, empire, Federal Debt, financial crisis, geopolitics, hyperinflation, Iran, iraq, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Paul Craig Roberts, Republicans, Russia, shale oil, society, US Dollar
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