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Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything’s Fake And Stupid
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com So U2 singer Bono is literally just doing illustrations for the imperialist propaganda rag The Atlantic now, because that’s the sort of thing that happens in a dystopian civilization during the death throes of a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, NATO, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Bono, corporate media, culture, Dystopia, Grounded, Media Literacy, MIC, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psyops, society, Technocracy, U2, Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, war
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Is the United States a Failed Society?
The facts have become too dire to ignore any longer. By Chad Mulligan Source: Hipcrime Vocab I’d like to pose a question I’ve been dancing around for the last couple of posts: Is the United States a failed society? That may seem … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, culture, deaths of despair, Dystopia, Economics, empire, Failed State, Global Economy, life expectancy, Mass Shootings, Oligarchy, Public Health, society, Sociology, sociopathy
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Matt Taibbi Discovers Democrats are Authoritarians
There is nothing mysterious, arcane, or byzantine about what is happening in America. By Kurt Nimmo Source: Kurt Nimmo Substack First, allow me to thank Mr. Taibbi for his work exposing the social media censorship agenda. The uniparty wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Authoritarianism, Bill Clinton, censorship, Child Online Protection Act, civil liberties, corporate media, Deep State, Democrats, DNC, elites, fox news, Mainstream Media, Matt Taibbi, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psyops, Social Media
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America’s Social Contract Is Broken
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I do not claim any expertise in social contract theory, but in broad brush we can delineate two implicit contracts: one between the citizenry and the state (government) and another between citizens. We … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Banana Republics, Corruption, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, feudalism'capitalism, financial crisis, Government, Income Inequality, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, social contract, Trickle down economics
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Where the $1.3 Trillion Per Year U.S. Military Budget Goes
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran Nobody can give a precise dollar-number to U.S. ‘Defense’ spending because the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department has never been able to pass an audit, and is by far the most corrupt of all federal Departments … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged China, Corporate Welfare, David Norquist, DOD, Dystopia, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Grover Norquist, imperialism, Militarism, Military Industrial Complex, military spending, NDAA, Neocons, Oligarchy, Russia, society, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages and High Unemployment at the Same Time
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of those who lack the necessary skills. The labor force and the job market are referred to as if … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, recession, Retirement, Self-Relience, skilled labor, unemployment, Work
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Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card. The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American Dream, Charles Pollock, civil liberties, Committee for a Reasonable Federal Budget, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Government, military spending, military-industrial complex, national debt, Oligarchy, police state, surveillance state, Taxes, war
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The Everything Bubble and Global Bankruptcy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The resulting erosion of collateral will collapse the global credit bubble, a repricing/reset that will bankrupt the global economy and financial system. Scrape away the complexity and every economic crisis and crash boils down … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Housing Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, collateral, Credit Bubble, credit-asset bubbles, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, everything bubble, Financial Collapse, global bankruptcy, Great Depression, Housing Crisis, Oligarchy
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