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Tag Archives: They Live
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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Saturday Matinee: Corporate Monster
By Rob Munday Source: Short of the Week From New Coke to the New World Order, conspiracy theories are rich throughout history and that stranger you meet in the bar, or family member you get stuck with at a wedding, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Corporate Monster, Dystopia, Eoin Rogers, Ruairi Robinson, Science fiction, Short Film, They Live
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Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Inequality, Law, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged America, Corporatism, Dictatorship, Dystopia, economic inequality, elites, fascism, Fear Propaganda, John Carpenter, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, They Live, Totalitarianism, US government
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You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, police state, society, State Crime
Tagged 1984, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Aldous Huxley, Blade Runner, Brazil, Children of Men, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes, police state, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Soylent Green, Stanley Kubrick, surveillance state, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Matrix, They Live, THX 1138, Totalitarianism, V For Vendetta
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Saturday Matinee: Branded
Branded (2012) is a Russian-US sci-fi parable written and directed by Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn. Much of the story is told in flashbacks documenting the rise, fall and rebirth of top-level advertising executive Misha (Ed Stoppard, son of playwright … Continue reading
Prisons Without Walls: We’re All Inmates in the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Empire, History, Law, NSA, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war on terror
Tagged Crowd Control, Dystopia, Jails, Militarization, panopticon, police state, Prisons, Stop and Frisk, surveillance state, The Rutherford Institute, They Live
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They Live, We Sleep: A Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Consumerism, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Film, Law, media, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Privatization, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime, war on terror
Tagged America, conspiracy, Corporatism, Dictatorship, fascism, John Carpenter, John W. Whitehead, Militarization, Obama, Oligarchy, police state, Presidential Elections, propaganda, Roddy Piper, Rutherford Institute, Slavoj Žižek, They Live, war on terror
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Saturday Matinee: The Hidden
In the fine tradition of Robocop and They Live, “The Hidden” (1987) is a sci-fi thriller with a layer of social commentary skewering excesses of late 80s American culture. The plot revolves around the pursuit of a psychopathic body-snatching alien … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, society, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Robocop, sci-fi, social satire, The Hidden, They Live
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