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Tag Archives: George Orwell
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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Technology and a Tyranny Worse than Prison
By Bert Olivier Source: Brownstone Institute In an outstanding piece of political-theoretical writing, titled ‘The Threat of Big Other’ (with its play on George Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’) Shoshana Zuboff, succinctly addresses the main issues of her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – The Fight … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Antonio Negri, Big Brother, Catherine Austin Fitts, CBDCs, Digital Currency, Dystopia, Economics, George Orwell, Klaus Schwab, Lena Petrova, Melissa Cuimmei, Michael Hardt, Philosophy, Shoshana Zuboff, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, WEF
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The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged 1984, corporate media, Dystopia, empire, geopolitics, George Orwell, imperialism, Mainstream Media, NATO, Newspeak, propaganda, Psyops, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, war
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360 Degree Surveillance: How Police Use Public-Private Partnerships to Spy on Americans
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.”— Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, FBI, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, news, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Amazon, civil liberties, culture, DHS, Dystopia, fascism, FBI, Fourth Amendment, George Orwell, Google, Government, law, NSA, police state, Privacy, Public-Private Partnerships, society, surveillance state, Technocracy
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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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Prostitutes of the Press
By Stephen Lendman Source: The Stephen Lendman Blog Western MSM operate as fake news ministries of truth in nations where they’re located. They’re bribed with big bucks to lie and mass-deceive by sticking exclusively to the fabricated official narrative. On … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged censorship, China, corporate news, empire, Fake News, fascism, geopolitics, George Orwell, imperialism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, NATO, propaganda, Psyops, Russia, surveillance state, Ukraine, war
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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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Digital Authoritarianism: AI Surveillance Signals the Death of Privacy
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, 9/11, AI, Authoritarianism, Center for Strategic and International Studies, China, civil liberties, Covid-19, digital authoritarianism, digital surveillance, Dystopia, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, PKD, police state, Privacy, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Technotyranny, though police, Totalitarianism
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