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Tag Archives: Harvey Weinstein
CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes?
By Carl Rhodes Source: aeon On 15 September 2008, the giant financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, starting a chain reaction that saw the global economy spiralling toward total collapse. The global financial crisis that ensued revealed just … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, education, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Authoritarian, capitalism, CEO Salary, Donald Trump, economic inequality, Elon Musk, Facebook, financial crisis, Harvey Weinstein, Jamie Dimon, Jeff Bezos, JPMorgan Chase, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Shkreli, Miramax, Neoliberalism, recession, Stock Market Crash, Tim Cook, Turing Pharmaceuticals, wall street
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The Simulacra Democracy
By John Steppling Source: CounterPunch … a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, American Culture, American History, CIA, Clinton, conspiracy, corporate media, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, empire, Gaddafi, geopolitics, Harvey Weinstein, Hegemony, hollywood, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, iraq, Liberals, Libya, NATO, Obama, propaganda, social control, society, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, wall street, Yemen
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Saturday Matinee: An Open Secret
“An Open Secret” (2014) is a documentary film about Hollywood child sexual abuse directed by Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil). The film features interviews with victimized performers, who were targeted when they were young boys (including Corey Feldman and … Continue reading
Organized Chaos and Confusion as Political Control
By Edward Curtin Source: Dissident Voice There’s something happening here, but what it is ain’t exactly clear. — Buffalo Springfield 1967 It’s not supposed to be clear, now or then. If you’re confused by the news you’re hearing, you should … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Empire, media, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged corporate media, corporate news, Donald Trump, Fake News, Harvey Weinstein, Mainstream Media, MSM, propaganda, Russia-gate, social control, Social Engineering, Stephen Paddock
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Our Protected, Predatory Oligarchy: Dirty Secrets, Dirty Lies
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds If you want to understand why the status quo is unraveling, start by examining the feudal structure of our society, politics and economy. The revelations coming to light about Hollywood Oligarch Harvey … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, History, Inequality, Law, media, news, propaganda, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, Whistleblowers
Tagged Bill Clinton, Corruption, Daniel Ellsberg, Establishment, George Orwell, Harvey Weinstein, hollywood, Injustice, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Power Elites, propaganda, Serfs, Status Quo
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Power Corrupts: A Culture of Compliance Breeds Despots and Predators
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”― Frank Herbert Power corrupts. Worse, as 19th-century historian … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, History, Inequality, Law, media, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bill Clinton, Corruption, Frank Herbert, Government, greed, Harvey Weinstein, hollywood, Injustice, National Security Agency, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Power, Power Elites, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, tyranny, USA Liberty Act
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