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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
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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The Morgan Freeman Psy-Op Proves How Desperate The ‘Deep State’ Has Become
By Andrew Korybko Source: Sputnik International Morgan Freeman’s latest publicly stunt permanently stained his legacy after the famous actor decided to join the fake news industry by passing off a blockbuster script as a true story. Morgan Freeman declared in his latest two-minute video … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Hackers, media, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged Cold War, conspiracy, Deep State, Democratic Party, DNC, DNC Leaks, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, hollywood, James Clapper, Morgan Freeman, propaganda, psy-op, Russia, Russian Hackers, war
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U.S. War Justification Is in the Eye of the Beholder
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy The idea that the United States has a problem with war propaganda is typically scratched in a bad-apples manner with a story that the U.S. has set up a new propaganda agency, such … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, military spending, patriotism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, conditioning, Conformity, corporate media, Dystopia, empire, geopolitics, Global Engagement Center, hollywood, imperialism, iraq, Libya, Lincoln Group, military-industrial complex, obedience, propaganda, Syria, War Lies, war profiteers, war propaganda, WMDs
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Wonder Woman Is a Hero Only The Military-Industrial Complex Could Create
By Jonathan Cooke Source: TruePublica For a while I have been pondering whether to write a review of the newly released Wonder Woman, to peel back the layers of comic-book fun to reveal below the film’s disturbing and not-so-covert political … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, culture, Deep State, Empire, Feminism, Film, media, Militarization, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged DC Comics, Department of Defense, empire, Gal Gadot, geopolitics, hollywood, Identity Politics, imperialism, Interventionists, Israel Defense Forces, Militarism, military-industrial complex, Pentagon, propaganda, social control, Syria, war, Wonder Woman
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Saturday Matinee: Day of the Locust
“The Day of the Locust” (1975) is a dark historical drama directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) with a screenplay by blacklisted writer Waldo Salt based on a novel by Nathaniel West. The plot follows aspiring art director Tod (William … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged David Lynch, Day of the Locust, hollywood, John Schlesinger, Nathaniel West, Waldo Salt
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Stop Pretending the Rich Care About You
By Dr. Bones Source: The Conjure House One of the terrible things about being a lone bastion of bomb-throwing, fire-starting, up-against-the-wall-fascist-killing type of Anarchism is you have to mingle and jive with the enemy. Like a Seminole off the reservation … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Film, Financial Crisis, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged Anarchism, Class War, corporate media, Donald Trump, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Free Trade, hollywood, Identity Politics, income gap, Jobs, Labor, Liberals, Meryl Streep, Neoliberalism, Poverty, wall street, war, Wealth Divide
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