Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…The truth is no match for greed is good and don’t be evil, unless it’s incredibly profitable, in which case, go for it but cover your tracks (here’s looking at you, Big Tech). Outrage is reserved for whistleblowers who name names and reveal the sordid truths that the status quo has…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…Several of the other presidential candidates are calling for various forms of wealth taxes. If the most rigorous of these were enacted, Bloomberg’s grand fortune would shrink substantially — by more than $3 billion next year, according to one estimate. In other words, by undercutting wealth tax advocates, Bloomberg would save…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…What we might call “corporate socialism”, which is what exists today in the US, is a fairly precise definition of fascism…different laws for the rich and powerful than for the poor, corporate immunity for crimes, a lack of corporate regulation and oversight…In Britt’s study, “the poor formed an underclass, (and) being…
Source – wrightswriting.com. – “…Joe Bageant makes an observation that cuts to the nub of the matter. America, he says, isn’t composed of some great middle class; it is an overwhelmingly working-class country. “If we define ‘working class’ simply as not having a college degree, then fully three-quarters [or at least two-thirds] of all Americans…
Source – consentfactory.org – ‘…Newspeak is the official language of Oceania, scheduled for official adoption around 2050, and designed to make the ideological premises of Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism, the Party’s official political alignment) the only expressible doctrine. Newspeak is engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thoughts—the words by which such thoughts…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…The Supreme Court even ruled in 2010 that “companies are persons” and “money is speech”. Former representative Mick Mulvaney summed it up in 2018: “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you”…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com – ‘…China’s stunning success primarily has to do with its superior economic planning and social governance. Call it Stalinism 2.0. …When it comes to managing the economy, Stalinism, and especially Stalinism 2.0—its modern, Chinese version—was and is a stunning success. Fundamentally, it is a recipe for building socialism using capitalist (mainly state-capitalist)…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…The biggest driver of these falling life-expectancy rates isn’t gun violence – though, based on the mainstream media’s coverage, one might have reason to think that. No, the biggest force behind what’s killing more young, (mostly white) men is what they call “deaths of despair.” That is, suicides, overdoses and any…
Source – theorganicprepper.com – ‘…We resort to mental gymnastics to avoid accepting that our logic – or our belief system itself – is flawed. Lying, denying, and rationalizing are among the tactics we employ to dance around the truth and avoid the discomfort that contradiction creates. We avoid or toss aside information that isn’t consistent…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…Ours is a culture of forced optimism. The scripts of forced optimism are repeated daily in endless loops…All of this is intended to obscure the reality that even the wealthy are poorer in everything that really matters. We measure “wealth” in financial terms, but as the super-successful and super-wealthy discover, financial…
Source – veteranstoday.com – “…Now do you understand why nobody in America cares? Very few Americans can afford dental work, much less be concerned about Palestinians being slaughtered or a threatened invasion of Venezuela. Generations of Americans now know the game − America threatens, troops are sent in, thankfully no longer drafted; billions, even trillions…
Source – thetimes.co.uk – “…The system, he told us, is simple: if your name is on the building where you work you’re rich, if your name is on your desk you’re middle class, if your name is on your shirt you are “f***ing poor” Rich Hall’s Working for the American Dream (2018) Rich Hall, the US…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…There seems no end to this political civil war in the US. The American political class is literally tearing itself apart, destroying its ability to govern with any normal function…America’s democracy and constitution is being trashed by unelected shadowy forces, aided and abetted by prestigious media outlets like the New York…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…The truth is complicated. But the short version is this: It’s not youth who are creating the crisis. It’s their parents’ generation. Americans have the worst levels of addiction, suicide, and self-destruction in the Western world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a record 120,000 Americans died from…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…The corporate mass media is the PR machine for the Imperial State. If the state seeks to sell the public a war of choice, the media dutifully pounds the drums of war. If the Imperial State decides to disempower a president or other elected official, the media will hound the elected…
Source – titaniclifeboatacademy.org – “…Colleges have turned students into “investments” with exploitative income-sharing agreements in which the student agrees to give a percentage of their future income to the school after graduation in order to guarantee loan payback….Debtors’ prisons are back with a vengeance, too — SWAT teams and US Marshals are arresting people over…
Source – sultanknish.blogspot.com – “…The only thing democracy needs defending from is Hillary Clinton. The 2016 election was not hijacked by the Russians, Facebook or UFOs. It was nearly hijacked by Clinton operatives who spread false claims that Trump was a Russian agent that her campaign manufactured and paid for…Hillary began her rise with Watergate…
Source – thedailybell.com – “…We have tens of thousands of Americans armed to the teeth with combat experience, deep family ties to both the police and the military, extensive knowledge of the local geography, and, in many cases, survivalist training….On the other side, you have the unwieldy Baby Huey of the rump U.S. government’s military,…
Source – internationalman.com – “…Collectivism almost never sells well in a country where prosperity exists. In a free-market country, a strong work ethic is regularly rewarded. However, once the free market has deteriorated enough that the proletariat have come to understand that they’re not genuinely moving forward, they’re ready to jump on board with those…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…Dogmas generate power and profits. Trillions of dollars flow into a few pockets because people believe the dogmas that “you need a college diploma to succeed” and “America’s healthcare system is the best in the world. As evidence-based doubts seep in, those at the top of the “faith” who have the…
Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com – “…The way it works, and it’s rapidly getting worse, is you the individual have zero right to privacy while the national security state can classify what the CIA director ate for lunch. Those with the most power are subject to the least transparency, while the powerless masses are subject to mass…
Source – https://www.rutherford.org – “…This is a government that has created a Constitution-free zone within 100 miles inland of the border around the United States, paving the way for Border Patrol agents to search people’s homes, intimately probe their bodies, and rifle through their belongings, all without a warrant. Nearly 66% of Americans (2/3 of…
Source – gatestoneinstitute.org – “…The “woke” hard-left seem so self-righteous about their monopoly over Truth (with a capital T) that many of them see no reason to allow dissenting, politically incorrect, views to be expressed. Such incorrect views, they claim, make them feel “unsafe.” They can feel safe only if views they share are allowed…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…How is America any different from a corrupt developing-world kleptocracy organized to gratify a handful of oligarchs and their cronies?…Perhaps the “he was an intelligence asset” is just a tissue-thin cover for a much more destructive reality: those at the top of the American state have no moral compass at all.…
Source – ammo.com – “…To provide some context, in 2014, the total amount of civil asset forfeiture seizures in the United States was $4.5 billion. The total value of property stolen in burglaries was $3.9 billion. This means that police agencies in the United States are taking more from the American public than burglars” Policing…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – ‘…The super-wealthy and state insiders control the media’s narratives and the machinery of governance to serve their interests. Reforms are in name only; the faces of elected officials change but nothing changes structurally….That’s the very definition of a Third World failed state” Is the U.S. Becoming a Third World Nation? –…
Source – oftwominds.com – ‘…The road to Hell is paved with virtue-signaling: rather than actually solve the knotty problems that are dragging us toward the abyss, we substitute self-righteousness for problem-solving. That is virtue-signaling in a nutshell” The Road to Hell Is Paved with Virtue-Signaling – By Charles Hugh Smith The idea that everything will…
Source – truthdig.com – “…Switch off the electronic images. Ignore the media burlesque. The endless political shows, which turn presidential campaigns into mind-numbing, two-year-long marathons, are entertainment. Do not trust anyone in power. We will save ourselves by building mass movements to overthrow corporate power. I am not certain we will succeed. But I am…
Source – independentmediainstitute.org – “…“You are out to destroy almost every edifice in the contemporary American way of life,” Wallace said to Rand. “Our Judeo-Christian religion, our modified government-regulated capitalism, our rule by the majority will… you scorn churches, and the concept of God… are these accurate criticisms?… the question, with its implied condemnation, didn’t…
Source – westernjournal.com – “….Dr. Lee Riley is an infectious disease scientist at University of California – Berkeley and has researched health issues in some of the dirtiest slums around the world. San Francisco Compared to Some of the Dirtiest Slums in the World. Based on the findings of the Investigative Unit survey, Riley believes…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…How did the NRA achieve the status of a sacred totem? By a combination of money to lawmakers and the mass, cinematic culture in which the ‘good’ gun toting guys win over the bad, endings are always happy, especially when played out in technicolor” SM: The Founding Fathers would indeed be…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…Proactivity needs to extend also to the traumas in early life that are common to so many mass shooters. Those early exposures to violence need addressing when they happen with ready access to social services and high-quality, affordable mental health treatment in the community. Our data show that mass shooters have…
