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Tag Archives: Roman Empire
Yes, Jesus Would Have Been Branded a Domestic Extremist Today
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Christ, Christmas, civil liberties, civil rights, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, domestic terrorists, Dystopia, fascism, Gulags, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Nativity, Nazis, police state, Privatized Prisons, Roman Empire, surveillance state, Technocracy, WWJD
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The Christmas Baby Born in a Police State: Then and Now
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Empire, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged activism, censorship, Christmas, civil liberties, culture, empire, free speech, Jesus, police state, Roman Empire, society, spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy
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What If the Christ Child Had Been Born in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, education, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Christmas, civil liberties, Dystopia, Education, Government, Jesus, Philosophy, police state, Religion, Roman Empire, society, spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy, undocumented immigrants
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Sacrifice for Thee But None For Me
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The banquet of consequences for the Fed, the elites and their armies of parasitic flunkies and factotums is being laid out, and there won’t be much choice in the seating. Words can … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cartels, economic crisis, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, Financial Colllapse, Financialization, Globalization, Job security, Middle Class, Monopolies, Oligarchy, purchasing power, Roman Empire, Sacrifice, social mobility
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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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Jesus Was Born in a Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Jesus is too much for us. The church’s later treatment of the gospels is one long effort to rescue Jesus from ‘extremism.’”—author Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant The Christmas narrative of a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, education, Empire, Health, History, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Albert Camus, Authoritarianism, Bethlehem, Christianity, Christmas, conditioning, Education, empire, fascism, Government, Immigrants, Jesus, Philosophy, police state, Roman Empire, society, spirituality, surveillance, surveillance state
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US fall from virtuous republic to tragic-comic empire described exactly by Roman historians
By Carl Herman Source: The Daily Censored The ancient Greek historian, Polybius, celebrated the Roman republic of ~ 150 BC under its constitution with balance of powers among the Senate, two elected consuls, and the general citizens: “Such being the power that each part has of … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Corruption, Emperialists, Fallen Empire, Oligarchs, Polybius, Roman Empire, terrorism, US Foreign Policy, war on terror, whistleblowers
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