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Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable
By Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal Source: The Grayzone Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Mass Incarceration, news, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Australia, Austria, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Christian Parenti, COVID vaccinations, Covid Variants, Covid-19, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, geopolitics, Germany, Global Hunger, Honduras, India, Lockdowns, Mass Incarceration, Mass Poverty, Mexico, Neil Ferguson, New Zealand, Oligarchy, Omicron, Pandemic, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, society, South Africa, Technocracy, Uganda, unemployment, vaccine mandates, Zero-COVID
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After its own censorship spree, Twitter complains it’s getting censored in Uganda
A shocking lack of self-awareness. By Tom Parker Source: Reclaim the Net Over the last week, Twitter has engaged in one of its largest-ever US censorship campaigns. Between Friday and Monday, it suspended a staggering 70,000 accounts with that number including the high … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Election 2020, Facebook, free speech, Internet Freedom, Social Media, Technocracy, Twitter, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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Gandhi’s Truth: Ending Human Violence One Commitment at a Time
By Robert J. Burrowes Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, consciousness, culture, Feminism, Inequality, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Association of Franciscan Families of India, culture, Drone Bombings, Drone Warfare, Drones, Father Nithiya, International Day of Nonviolence, John McKenna, Joy First, Lily Thapa, Mairead Maguire, Non-Violence, Peace, Prince Simbwa Joseph, Rohingya, society, Uganda, Violence, Women for Human Rights
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Kony 2012 Redux
Two years ago it was difficult for most of us online to avoid the KONY 2012 viral video. It was a slickly produced ad by the Invisible Children advocacy group for their campaign to assist efforts to capture or kill … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, black ops, consciousness, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, History, military spending, Psy-ops, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 21st Century Wire, geopolitics, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, Kony 2012, Patrick Henningsen, troop surge, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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