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A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, French philosopher It’s hard to say whether … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, Bureaucracy, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, idiocracy, kakistocracy, Kleptocracy, law, Mass Incarceration, Nanny State, Overcriminalization, overregulation, police state, SWAT, Technocracy
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Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Health, Militarization, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged civil liberties, digital rights, Economics, fascism, Freedom, Government, Kleptocracy, police state, Police Violence, Privacy, Public Health, surveillance state, Technocracy, tyranny
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Peering Into the Crystal Ball, We See… Instability Leading to Collapse
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We can only choose one: open, dynamic stability (evolution) or autocracy (instability and collapse). When the fundamentals of life change, every organism must evolve or die. This is equally true of human organizations, societies … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Collapse, dynamic equilibrium, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Evolution, evolutionary churn, financial crisis, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, stability
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Senile Hypocrite Biden On UN Charter
By Kurt Nimmo Source: Kurt Nimmo Blog Poor cognitively impaired Joe Biden. He repeats the obvious distortion fed to him on Ukraine and the United Nations Charter via teleprompter. Behind the scenes, I wonder if they are feeding him Adderall … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Article 51, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, iraq, Joe Biden, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, Russia, Ukraine, United Nations Charter, US Foreign Policy, war
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The American Kleptocracy: A Government of Liars, Thieves and Lawbreakers
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, FBI, Law, news, Oligarchy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, al-Qaida, ANOM, arms manufacturers, civil liberties, Cointelpro, Covid-19, Cyberwarfare, DOJ, Dystopia, entrapment, FBI, Kleptocracy, NSA, police state, state terrorism, surveillance state, Technocracy, terrorism, US government
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The Real Threat to Democracy is Corrupting Wealth Inequality
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Imagine a town of 1,000 adults and their dependents in which one person holds the vast majority of wealth and political influence. Would that qualify as a democracy? Now imagine that 100 of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Democracy, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Technocracy, Wealth Disparity
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America Is Now a Kleptocrapocracy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I’ve coined a new portmanteau word to describe America’s descent: kleptocrapocracy, a union of kleptocracy (a nation ruled by kleptocrats) and crapocracy, a nation drowning in a moral sewer of rampant self-interest in which … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Academia, Big Tech, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, healthcare, Kleptocracy, kleptocrapocracy, Labor, Oligarchy, Technocracy, Work
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Have We Reached “Peak Self-Glorifying Billionaire”?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Perhaps we should update Marie Antoinette’s famous quip of cluelessness to: “Let them eat space tourism.” As billionaires squander immense resources on self-glorifying space flights, the corporate media is nothing short of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Billionaires, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Kleptocracy, Marie Antoinette, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Plutocracy
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