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The Police State’s Reign of Terror Continues … With Help from the Supreme Court
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.”—George Carlin You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Law, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged civil liberties, Dystopia, fascism, Militarization, police, police state, Police Violence, qualified immunity, surveillance state, Technocracy, warrantless arrests, warrantless searches
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OCTOPUS PROMIS: The Rise Of Thought Crime Technology — We’re Living In Orwell’s 1984
By Aaron Kesel Source: Activist Post I don’t know if you have been paying attention or not, but a lot of police organizations across the U.S. have been using what are known as “heat lists” or pre-crime databases for years. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged artificial intelligence, CIA, conspiracy, Constitution, Crime, Deep State, Dystopia, Fusion Centers, heat lists, Main Core database, Military, National Counterterrorism Center, Palantir, police, police state, Precrime, PROMIS, Social Credit, Technocracy
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The Military Must be De-Funded Along with the Police
By Dan Kovalik Source: CounterPuch As Vijay Prashad explains in his book, Red Star Over The Third World, domestic fascism in the West has reflected the West’s pre-existing colonial practices abroad. Citing Martinique communist Aimé Césaire, Prashad explains: “What had come … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Authoritarianism, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Military, National Defense Authorization Act, police, police state
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American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths
By Lee Camp Source: TruthDig Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars” movie). Sixty-three … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged american myths, Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Consumerism, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Electoral System, elites, independent judiciary, Jobs, judiciary, Labor, Lee Camp, media, Oligarchy, police, police state, us democracy, Work
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Saturday Matinee: The Murder of Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton, founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was assassinated by a special unit of the Chicago Police Department on December 4th, 1969 as he lay face down in bed. He was 21 years … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, FBI, Film, History, Saturday Matinee, State Crime, Video
Tagged Black Panther Party, Cointelpro, Documentary, FBI, Fred Hampton, Howard Alk, police, State Crime, Violence
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Enough Is Enough: If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the conversation on gun violence. But a police officer shooting … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Militarization, military spending, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged culture, Culture of Violence, Government, Gun Control, IRS, Militarization, Military, police, police shootings, police state, Police Violence, racism, State Crime, state violence, Systemic Violence, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Government, Violence
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Trump proposes huge hike in military and police spending
By Patrick Martin Source: WSWS.org The Trump administration sent instructions to federal agencies Monday proposing a $54 billion increase in spending for the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, to be offset by $54 billion in … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, military spending, news, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Agriculture, Border Wall, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Domestic Spending, Education, empire, EPA, food stamps, geopolitics, Health and Human Services, Housing, Infrastructure, John McCain, Labor, Medicaid, Medicare, Mick Mulvaney, Militarization, Military, Military Budget, military spending, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, Pentagon, police, police state, Ruling Elite, Social Security, taxpayer dollars, Transportation, Trump, Trump Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Urban Development
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Review: The Utopia of Rules, by David Graeber
By Jonathan Woolley Source: Gods & Radicals Reading a book about bureaucracy may not sound like an exciting way to spend a weekend off with my family. And yet, having just started David Graeber’s latest – A Utopia of Rules … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, conditioning, culture, Economics, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged A Utopia of Rules, Anarchism, Authority, Bureaucracy, Comics, Corporatism, David Graeber, Economics, Labor, Liberalism, media, Neoliberalism, police, Power, technology, Violence, Work
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