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Tag Archives: Private Prisons
One Nation Under Greed: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
By By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, education, elites, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, censorship, Compulsory Education, contact tracing programs, corporatocracy, Corruption, Despotism, fascism, Government, Government Contractors, heightened surveillance, law, Lockdowns, mandates, Mass Incarceration, Militarized Police, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Private Prisons, restrictions, schools, security industrial complex, surveillance state, US Legal System, war, war profiteers, war spending
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The Child That Christmas Forgot: How Would Jesus Fare in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Once upon a midnight clear, there was a child’s cry, a blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men came with birthday gifts. We haven’t forgotten that night down the centuries. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war on terror
Tagged activism, Christmas, Department of Homeland Security, Dissidents, Dystopia, Education, empire, Immigrants, Jesus, Mass Incarceration, police state, Private Prisons, Refugees, Roman Empire, surveillance state, Technocracy, terrorism, WWJD
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Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged Alex Jones, censorship, civil liberties, conspiracy, Doublespeak, Dystopia, Facebook, fascism, free speech, Internet Freedom, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Orwell, police state, Private Prisons, Social Media, surveillance state, technology, Twitter, war, youtube
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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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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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Another Unsolvable Issue for Americans
Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States By John Stanton Source: Dissident Voice The Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICOR operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States. Prisoners manufacture or assemble a number of products … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Labor, Law, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged Bill Clinton, DOD, Donald Trump, Federal Prison Industries, FPI, Immigrants, Jeff Sessions, Mass Incarceration, Prison Policy Initiative, Prisons LAbor, Private Prisons, SINCGARS, Slave Labor, Towards Justice, UNICOR, US Department of Defense, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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MEET HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN CHAIR: “Moneyman” John Podesta and his Revolving Door
By Gustav Wynn Source: OpEdNews.com If you haven’t heard yet about John Podesta, don’t be surprised – the major media’s radio silence belies his power and influence, working both inside and outside the US government to bundle campaign money and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Economics, education, Empire, History, media, news, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged bernie sanders, Big Banks, Bill Clinton, Center for American Progress, Citizen's United, Common Core, Corporate Philanthropy, Corporatism, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Keystone XL, Lobbyists, Oligarchy, PACs, Plutocracy, Private Prisons, Superdelegates, SuperPACs, wall street
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Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, culture, freedom of speech, Law, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Criminalization, Institutional Racism, marijuana, Militarization, police state, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, Private Prisons, Public Schools, schools, surveillance state, Zero Tolerance
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