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Humilitainment: How to Control the Citizenry Through Reality TV Distractions
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Big Brother, civil liberties, corporate media, corporate news, Dystopia, free speech, George Orwell, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, news, Newspeak, police state, propaganda, Psyops, reality TV, surveillance state
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The Mind Control Police: The Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, war on terror, Whistleblowers
Tagged censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conspiracy, corporate media, Covid-19, Deep State, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Domestic Terror, Dystopia, FBI, First Amendment, free speech, George Orwell, Joe Biden, Joe Rogan, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, Newspeak, NSA, police state, propaganda, psy ops, State Terror, surveillance state, Technocracy, Thought Police, WikiLeaks
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Orwell was Right: Control the Language, Control the World
By Bill Rice Jr. Source: American Thinker Of all the elements of today’s “New Normal,” the most ominous is the “reform” that effectively changed the meanings of previously accepted words or terms. The following glossary illustrates how changes to our vocabulary … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, patriotism, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Anti-vaxxe, corporate media, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, disinformation, Dystopia, Freedom, George Orwell, Misinformation, New Normal, Newspeak, Public Health, Technocracy, the science, Vaccines, VAERS
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Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
By Alfred De Zayas Source: CounterPunch – Sapere aude!, Horace Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1984, 2022, censorship, corporate news, Democracy, Dystopia, Freedom, geopolitics, George Orwell, Human Rights, iraq, Julian Assange, lawfare, Libya, mainstream meida, military-industrial-financial complex, NATO, New Normal, Newspeak, patriotism, Peace, propaganda, war, weaponization, whistleblowers
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Newspeak in the 21st Century: How to Become a Model Citizen in the New Era of Domestic Warfare
By Cynthia Chung Source: Strategic Culture Foundation With President Biden’s inauguration many feel that they can finally breathe a deep sigh of relief. At last sanity has been restored and we can all go back to our predictable lives knowing … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, censorship, crimestop, culture, Doublethink, Dystopia, George Orwell, groupthink, Joe Biden, Newspeak, OldSpeak, Oligarchy, Patriot Act, propaganda, purges, society, thoughtcrime
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I Speak, You Speak, We All Speak Newspeak
By Joziah Thayer Source: Activist Post In George Orwell’s infamous book 1984, Big Brother imposes Newspeak on the people of Oceania. Newspeak is defined as “a controlled language of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, meant to limit the freedom of … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged 1984, accepted speech, Big Brother, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, free speech, George Orwell, Mainstream Media, Marc Lamont Hill, MSM, Newspeak, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Political Correctness, propaganda, Representative Democracy, society, thoughtcrime, Truth, Two Party System, US government, war
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Orwell’s 1984 no longer reads like fiction. It’s the reality of our times
By Robert Bridge Source: RT.com 70 years ago, the British writer George Orwell captured the essence of technology in its ability to shape our destinies in his seminal work, 1984. The tragedy of our times is that we have failed … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, CIA, culture, Doublethink, Dystopia, Facebook, facecrime, George Orwell, Mark Zuckerberg, Newspeak, NSA, police state, Social Media, society, surveillance state, technology, tyranny
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The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, FBI, freedom of speech, Law, media, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Animal Farm, Big Brother, Big Government, Big Tech, CIA, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, FBI, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Newspeak, NSA, OldSpeak, Philip K. Dick, police state, propaganda, Ray Bradbury, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, Thought Police
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