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The Jimmy Dore Show 12.07.19
Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
Project Censored 12.03.19
Mickey Huff and guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide,
“deplatform” or otherwise undermine news and opinions critical of US government policies, and thus reestablish the dominance of establishment-friendly corporate media
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Tag Archives: Plutocracy
They Live, We Sleep: Beware the Growing Evil in Our Midst
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — They Live We’re living … Continue reading
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Tagged Consumerism, Coporate Media, Corporatism, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, elites, fascism, fear, Government, John Carpenter, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, psychology, society, Sociology, They Live, tyranny
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Now That We’ve Incentivized Sociopaths–Guess What Happens Next
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds As long as central banks create and distribute trillions in conscience-free credit to conscience-free financiers and corporations, the incentives for sociopathy only increase. “Sociopath” is a word we now encounter regularly in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged corporatocracy, culture, Economic Crash, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, IPOs, Netflix, Oliogarchy, Plutocracy, psychology, psychopaths, Sherlock Holmes, society, Sociology, sociopaths, Steve Jobs, WeWork
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Bolivia’s New Puppet Regime Wastes No Time Aligning With US Foreign Policy
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com The Washington-recognized interim government which just ascended to power via US-backed military coup in Bolivia is already shifting the nation’s foreign policy into alignment with the US-centralized empire, severing important ties with two governments which … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged black ops, Bolivia, corporate media, Cuba, elites, empire, Evo Morales, geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream Media, military coup, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, State Crime, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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How Real Mind Control Works
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com When people are confronted with the idea of “mind control” they often think of something out of television or film media; a lone prisoner tortured, chemically dazed and conditioned into a hollow zombie as his … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, elites, Empire, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Conformity, culture, elites, Hypnotism, left/right paradigm, mass hypnosis, mind control, MK Ultra, narcissistic sociopaths, narcopaths, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, politics, psychology, psychopaths, social control, society, Sociology
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How To Defeat The Empire
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com One of the biggest and most consistent challenges of my young career so far has been finding ways to talk about solutions to our predicament in a way that people will truly hear. I talk … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Empire, freedom of speech, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology
Tagged activism, Art, dissent, empire, imperialism, Information War, Mass Media, media, Media Literacy, Narrative, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychological Warfare, Psywar, Social Engineering
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The Future of the Spectacle
…or How the West Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Reality Police By CJ Hopkins Source: Off-Guardian If you want a vision of the future, don’t imagine “a boot stamping on a human face — for ever,” as Orwell … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative media, censorship, corporate media, DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Dystopia, elites, Fake News, independent news, Internet Freedom, Mainstream Media, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, propaganda, RussiaGate, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Billionaires are a Sign of Economic Failure
Inherited wealth and crony capitalism have created an aristocratic class that undermines social mobility and democracy By Max Lawson Source: Inequality.org The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Law, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Billionaires, Corporate Power, Crony Capitalism, economic failure, economic inequality, Economics, extreme wealth, Inequality, Monopoly, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, political corruption, Poverty, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Thomas Piketty, US History, Wealth
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