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The US Middle Class is Shrinking and Moving Towards a “Dual Economy”
MIT Economist Peter Temin, the author of “The Vanishing Middle Class,” explains how the US is moving towards two economies, one for the lower 80% and one for the upper 20% By Gregory Wilpert and Peter Temin Source: Real News … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Dystopia, education, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, police state, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Campaign Financing, College, Debt, Dual Economy, Economics, Elections, financial crisis, Infrastructure, Labor, Mass Incarceration, Middle Class, Peter Temin, Pew Research Center, Prisons, Public Education, Student Loans, The Vanishing Middle Class, Tuition, Voters, Work
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A Tale of Two Americas: Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go to Jail
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Dystopia, elites, Jeff Sessions, Law Enforcement, Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, Poverty, Prisons, Private Prisons
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One nation under plutocracy
By Jack Balkwill Source: Intrepid Report Americans are brought up believing a fairy tale in which there is somehow democracy in their governance. But the late, great, Leonard Cohen exposed the system’s dirty little secret, “Everybody knows that the dice … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Law, news, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged 1%, 99%, Big Pharma, Bill, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Health, Leonard Cohen, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Prisons, war profiteers, Wealth Gap
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The Over-Criminalization of American Life
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The over-criminalization of America has undermined justice, the rule of law and legal egalitarianism. While the corporate media devotes itself to sports, entertainment, dining out and the latest political kerfuffle, America has … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Law, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Criminalization, Democracy, Gulags, Mass Incarceration, Over-Criminalization, police state, Prisoners, Prisons, Private Prisons, Totalitarianism, White-Collar Crimes
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America’s Real Red Scare
The Slow-Motion Collapse of the American Empire By William J. Astore Source: TomDispatch.com Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has just arrived in the mail. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, Drug War, Dystopia, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, History, Militarization, military spending, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror
Tagged American Empire, Authoritarianism, Cold War, conspiracy, Deep State, Donald Trump, drug war, empire, financial crisis, healthcare, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, police state, Prisons, Russia, Russian Hackers, Shadow Government, Soviet Union, surveillance state, war profiteers
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The Titanic Sails at Dawn: Warning Signs Point to Danger Ahead in 2017
By John W. Whitehead Source: A Government of Wolves “When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Empire, False Flag, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, media, Militarization, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war on terror
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, Drones, empire, Extremists, False Flags, fascism, free speech, Freedom, Government, Mass Incarceration, Mental Health, Militarization, Military, police state, Police Violence, Prisons, Quarantines, RFID Chips, State Terror, surveillance, SWAT, terrorism, Titanic, War on Cash
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Public School or Prison? Here Are 10 Ways It’s Hard To Tell
By Alice Jones Webb Source: The Mind Unleashed Every weekday morning, from September through June, parents across the country get up earlier than they want to, rush like crazy, wrangle kids into appropriate clothing, and wait in exhausting drop-off lines … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, education, Health, police state, Privatization, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state
Tagged Child Developement, Childhood, Compulsory Education, Conformity, Education System, Health, Homeschooling, Mental Health, obedience, Prisons, privatization, Public Health, schools, Zero Tolerance
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Punishment is Violent and Counterproductive
By Robert J. Burrowes Punishment is a popular pastime for humans. Parents punish children. Teachers punish students. Employers punish workers. Courts punish lawbreakers. People punish each other. Governments punish ‘enemies’. And, according to some, God punishes evildoers. What is ‘punishment’? … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Law, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged conditioning, Conformity, Consumerism, Criminal Justice, law, Mass Incarceration, Non-Violence, obedience, police, Prisons, Punishment, Violence, war
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