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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.
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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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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
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
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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Cyberpunk is Dead
By John Semley Source: The Baffler “It was an embarrasser; what did I want? I hadn’t thought that far ahead. Me, caught without a program!” —Bruce Bethke, “Cyberpunk” (1983) Held annually in a downtown L.A. convention center so massive and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Akira, Blade Runner, corporatocracy, culture, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077, Cyborg, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dystopia, E3, Japanese Cinema, Johnny Mnemonic, Katsuhiro Otomo, Keanu Reeves, media, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Science fiction, Shinya Tsukamoto, Snow Crash, society, Technocracy, technology, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Total Recall, William Gibson
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Ending Violence, Exploitation, Ecological Destruction and War: Creating a Culture of Peace
By Robert J. Burrowes The date 11 November is well known and commemorated in many parts of the world because it marks the Armistice ending World War I – ‘the Great War’ – in 1918. In the evocative words used … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged cultural violence, culture, Direct violence, Ecological violence, Education, Exploitation, Institutional violence, invisible violence, Johan Galtung, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Parenting, Peace, Philosophy, police state, psychological violence, psychology, society, Sociology, Structural Violence, war
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The Wounded Mind
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times There’s something fundamentally wrong with how the world is right now. Don’t you see it – feel it? We are a species with noble character, with a great spirit, and with a sacred soul. In … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, elites, Health, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Authority, Automatons, Collective Unconscious, conditioning, Consciousness, Consumerism, cultural mind, culture, Gnostics, materialism, media, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Psychosis, society, Sociology, Trauma, Wounded Mind
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Our Vanishing World: Insects
By Robert J. Burrowes About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, elites, Environment, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology
Tagged 5G, Agribusiness, arthropods, Biosphere, bird population, Caspar A. Hallmann, Climate Change, corporatocracy, culture, environment, Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, insect population, Insects, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, psychology, Rachel Carson, Rainforests, society, Sociology, Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
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Human Violence: Pervasive, Multi-dimensional and Extinction-threatening
By Robert J. Burrowes Violence is pervasive throughout human society and it has a vast range of manifestations. Moreover, some of these manifestations – particularly the threat of nuclear war (which might start regionally), the climate catastrophe and the ongoing … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby Martin, activism, Association of World Citizens, culture, Dr Marthie Momberg, Dr. Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Emanuel Yi Pastreich, Gaza Fights for Freedom, Human Extinction, Israel, Jan Chetna, Palestinian, Philosophy, psychology, Ramesh Agrawal, René Wadlow, society, Sociology, The Asia Institute, The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent World, Violence, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Zionism
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The Unraveling Quickens
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Even if we don’t measure the erosion of intangible capital, the social and political consequences of this impoverishment are manifesting in all sorts of ways. The central thesis of my new book … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, culture, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, income gap, Inflation, Over-speculation, Precariat, recession, social disorder, society, Wages, Wealth, Wealth Disparity
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