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 – russia-insider.com – “…China’s stunning success primarily has to do with its superior economic planning and social governance. Call it Stalinism 2.0. Under Stalin, the USSR was able to produce steady double digit growth rates through a combination of central planning and market mechanisms. It also had some 4 million political prisoners, which, for…
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…
Source – massprivatei.blogspot.com – ‘…Free speech has been on the chopping block for a long time. Journalists are already silenced and have to ask the government for permission before running stories while alternative media is censored and blocked by Google’s search algorithms. But now it’s getting worse, and Congress isn’t stopping it” The CIA’s “Intelligence…
Source – theorganicprepper.com – “… Americans Don’t Trust the Govt, the Media, or Each Other: Fading Trust is “Sign of Cultural Sickness and National Decline” Americans are losing trust in each other, in the government, and in the media, according to a concerning new survey. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts…
Source – fff.org – “…The truth is, Americans live in a relatively free society when compared with people in many other countries. The American people are relatively free when compared with people in Thailand, Egypt, India, Argentina, Indonesia, and Pakistan. But when we begin to add other countries into the mix, the freedom in the…
Source – https://www.rutherford.org – “…As Chelsea Manning recognized, “We’re citizens, not subjects. We have the right to criticize government without fear.” Indeed, the First Amendment does more than give us a right to criticize our country: it makes it a civic duty. Certainly, if there is one freedom among the many spelled out in the…
Source – theorganicprepper.com – ‘…Stimulus policies do not bring about a solid recovery but manufacture a phony economic growth that distorts the economy’s structure of production. Instead of a V-shaped recovery that would occur if government abstained from intervention, policymakers produce an L-shaped agony. As if a prolonged stagnation wasn’t already bad enough, the interventionists…
Source – thedailybell.com – “… These are self-evident truths made explicit in the Declaration of Independence that we celebrate today. 1. It is your right, and DUTY to ABOLISH a government that no longer represents you. The entire point of governments is to protect your life, liberty, and property and whenever any Form of Government…
Source – fff.org – “…The “freedom” that Americans today celebrate is one in which there is Social Security, Medicare, education grants…a massive military establishment consisting of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, and forever wars, secret surveillance, torture, assassination, and indefinite detention. Thing about that: Two opposite systems and yet people under both systems celebrating…
Source – aier.org – “…Political leaders should respect both productive prowess and producers’ rights. Just as lunch eaters should be left free to pay for lunch, so the lunch makers should be free to produce and exchange as they wish, and even gift a lunch, out of charity or philanthropy. Instead, many political leaders today…
Source – thesaker.is – ‘…The first scientific study of whether the U.S. is a dictatorship or a democracy was published in 2014 and it found that America is a dictatorship and that its richest are in control over it. Only wealth and political involvement determined whether a person’s desired governmental policies get passed into law…
Source – theatlantic.com – ‘…Baby Boomers are living longer even as the workers who pay for their pensions are dying from an epidemic of drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, and violence. But, of course, while this sudden increase in working-age death rates is a new concern, the long-run fiscal crunch has been obvious for decades.…
