A Nation of The Walking Dead

Opioids and experiences that simulate the deadening effects of narcotics are mechanisms to keep us submissive and depoliticized. Desperate citizens in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World” ingested the pleasure drug soma to check out of reality. Our own versions of soma allow tens of millions of Americans to retreat daily into addictive mousetraps that generate a self-induced autism.

Truthdig - The Age of the Demagogues

Truthdig - The Age of the Demagogues: "The country realizes it has been sold out. Most citizens are apathetic and do not vote consistently. Some, especially in the white underclass, are willing to follow anyone, no matter how buffoonish, who promises that the parasites and courtiers will be driven from power. This mixture of rage and apathy is a recipe for totalitarianism.

The hypermasculine values of the military are embraced across the political spectrum as an antidote to paralysis and decay. Toughness and violence are venerated. The obsequious hero worship, the celebration of American power, the sanctification of the military and military values, inflect all political discourse. Hero worship of the military has unwittingly laid the ideological groundwork for demagogues who promise glory, strength, order and discipline. It justifies the emergence of an authoritarian police state."



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Dr. Cornell West

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Scheer & Hedges: They Know Everything About You (1/7) - YouTube

Scheer & Hedges: They Know Everything About You (1/7) - YouTube:

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The Rise of a ‘Democratic’ Fascism | Consortiumnews

The Rise of a ‘Democratic’ Fascism | Consortiumnews: "The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.

“To initiate a war of aggression…,” said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, “is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”"



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Burning Victims to Death: Still a Common Practice - The Intercept

Burning Victims to Death: Still a Common Practice - The Intercept: "One father explained that key parts of his son’s burial process had to be skipped over as a result of the severe damage to his body. “[A]fter that attack, the villagers came and took the bodies to the hospital. We didn’t see the bodies. They were in coffins, boxes. The bodies were in pieces and burnt.”"



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This is the charred body of Jesse Washington and whites from Waco — not ISIS — burned him alive

This is the charred body of Jesse Washington and whites from Waco — not ISIS — burned him alive: "The victim’s name was Jesse Washington. The year was 1916. America would soon go to war in Europe “to make the world safe for democracy.” My father was twelve, my mother eight. I was born 18 years later, at a time, I would come to learn, when local white folks still talked about Washington’s execution as if it were only yesterday. This was not medieval Europe. Not the Inquisition. Not a heretic burned at the stake by some ecclesiastical authority in the Old World. This was Texas, and the white people in that photograph were farmers, laborers, shopkeepers, some of them respectable congregants from local churches in and around the growing town of Waco."



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North Miami Beach Police Use Mug Shots Of African-Americans For Target Practice

North Miami Beach Police Use Mug Shots Of African-Americans For Target Practice: "Officers from a South Florida police department are drawing fire after getting caught using photos of real-life suspects for target practice.

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A scary culture change: What new law enforcement rhetoric reveals about America - Salon.com

A scary culture change: What new law enforcement rhetoric reveals about America - Salon.com: "For many of those less attuned to the city’s politics, however, the patent animosity some officers sent de Blasio’s way was disturbing. New York’s a representative democracy, after all, and de Blasio is the mayor. Don’t the police ultimately work for him? Technically, yes. But the reality is more complicated (a lesson all of de Blasio’s recent predecessors have learned, none more so than David Dinkins). Judging by recent history, and according to the dictates of today’s conventional wisdom, any politician who wants to run New York City not only has to win the most votes, but also has to earn the city polices’ at least grudging acceptance. And by gently criticizing some NYPD practices — as well as revealing that he’s told his African-American son, Dante, to be cautious around law enforcement — de Blasio has seemingly lost the cops’ assent. He may never get it back."



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Tim Wise » Resurrecting Apartheid: White Police and Politicians are Waging War on Black America

Tim Wise » Resurrecting Apartheid: White Police and Politicians are Waging War on Black America: "Honestly, when a white man in a place like New Orleans can literally point his weapon directly at not one, not two, but three members of the New Orleans Police Department, and when told to drop his weapon, answer back, “No, you drop your fucking gun,” and remain a breathing, carbon-based life form — as was the case this past April for Derrick Daniel Thomas — then you know you’re dealing with a two-tiered law enforcement regime hardly different from the ones that existed under Jim Crow. Google the NOPD and check out their history if you harbor any doubts about how such an act as Thomas’s would have gone down had he been black."



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Tim Wise » Repetitive Motion Disorder: Black Reality and White Denial in America

Tim Wise » Repetitive Motion Disorder: Black Reality and White Denial in America: " Black people have to learn everything about white people just to stay alive. They especially and quite obviously have to know what scares us, what triggers the reptilian part of our brains and convinces us that they intend to do us harm. Meanwhile, we need know nothing whatsoever about them. We don’t have to know their history, their experiences, their hopes and dreams, or their fears. And we can go right on being oblivious to all that without consequence. It won’t be on the test, so to speak."



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America: Lost With No Moral Compass | Philip A. Farruggio

America: Lost With No Moral Compass | Philip A. Farruggio: "We have the primitive mindset of chants of "USA USA" as we conducted our Shock and Awe campaign on Iraq... and now parts of Syria and Iraq again. Our Drones shoot missiles that, like our WMDs in 2003, do terrible collateral damage, destroying children in and out of the womb.

Where are the Pro Life anti abortion folks to protest the taking of those lives?  Yet, our Christian Warriors love the fact that we are "Fighting them there so they don't come here" (Of course the 2003 group called Al-Qaeda at that time had maybe a few hundred in their ranks). After 10+ years of our jackboots on their necks, many inhabitants of that region joined up with this fanatical Isis, who by the way our nation actually gave arms and support to when we needed them to overturn Assad of Syria. Whew!!"



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US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants | Ars Technica

US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants | Ars Technica:



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The US government may hack into servers outside the country without a warrant, the Justice Department said in a new legal filling in the ongoing prosecution of Ross Ulbricht. The government believes that Ulbricht is the operator of the Silk Road illicit drug website.

Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine - The Intercept

Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine - The Intercept:



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In May, 2013, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on whether it should revise the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF). A committee member asked a senior Pentagon official, Assistant Secretary Michael Sheehan, how long the war on terror would last; his reply: “At least 10 to 20 years.” At least. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed afterward “that Sheehan meant the conflict is likely to last 10 to 20 more years from today — atop the 12 years that the conflict has already lasted.” As Spencer Ackerman put it: “Welcome to America’s Thirty Years War,” one which – by the Obama administration’s own reasoning – has “no geographic limit.”

"Tony Blair Ordered The London Bombings"

Tony Blair Ordered The London Bombings: "Heifetz ended his conversation with Shalom and eyed his liquor cabinet. If the press runs with this, he thought wistfully, Blair will be exposed as a murderer of his own people. You can kill Israelis and get away with it. You can kill Americans and they'll make you President for a second time. But the Brits are made of wiser stuff. They'll hang Blair from the highest lamppost in London."

"A co-ordinated effort is slowly bringing order out of the chaos," Sir Ian Blair told Sky News in a telltale direct translation of the Freemasons' Satanic motto "Ordo Ab Chao".

When Tony Blair told the press that the bombings bore all the hallmarks of al Qaeda, he broke with tradition and actually told the truth. The fall-guy al Qaeda network is the bastard child of the British intelligence services and the Freemasonic terror school, the occultic Muslim Brotherhood. MI5, MI6 and al Qaeda are virtually indistinguishable. Yes, Mr Blair, the bombings bore all the hallmarks of MI5 - and you know it, precisely because it was you who authorised the attacks.

Blair has obtained the results he wanted: the collapse of all resistance to the imminent introduction of National Identity Cards, the inflaming of public rage against Islam in preparation for an attack on Iran and Syria, and a distraction from the continued illegality of the Iraq war and issues that threaten to overwhelm his administration, such as the Downing Street memo, which evidences fraud and treason at the highest levels of state.

Tony Blair is a dangerous psychopath who must be stopped before he kills and maims again. According to psychologist Dr Paul Broks, his repeated lies and his lust for the blood of innocent people evidence "a plausible psychopath - charming, intelligent, emotionally manipulative, ruthlessly ambitious and self-serving." How much longer do we permit Blair to remain at large? How many more deaths and fake terror attacks will it take before men and women of courage invoke the law and apprehend this monster?

To paraphrase another serial killer, George W. Bush, if we can't bring Tony Blair to justice, we must bring justice to Tony Blair.


I love the Britishes use of the English language.

NSA tracking cell phones

NSA Tracking cell phones


The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.

Iraq 10 Years Later - Was it Worth It? - YouTube

Iraq 10 Years Later - Was it Worth It? - YouTube:

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Shut Up About the Jews Already... | The Nation

Shut Up About the Jews Already... | The Nation: " But much of the confusion arises from the combined ability of professional Jewish organizations, right-wing think tanks and media-based neoconservative pundits to misrepresent both the views and the influence of American Jews and to enforce their misrepresentations on the mainstream media via political intimidation."

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Paul Craig Roberts : America’s Moral Degeneracy : Information Clearing House: ICH

Paul Craig Roberts :     America’s Moral Degeneracy    :   Information Clearing House: ICH: "“In Reagan’s America, a common theme in Cold War rhetoric was that the Soviets tortured people and detained them without cause, extracted phony confessions through cruel violence, and did the unspeakable to detainees who were helpless against the full, heartless weight of the Communist state. As much as any other evil, torture differentiated the bad guys, the Commies, from the good guys, the American people and their government. However imperfect the U.S. system might be, it had civilized standards that the enemy rejected.”

By 2005, a year after torture photos from Abu Ghraib were leaked, polls of Americans showed that 38% had succumbed to the propaganda that torture was justified in some circumstances. After four more years of neoconservative advocacy of torture, an Associated Press poll reported in 2009 that 52% of Americans approved of torture. "

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America is a Democracy? Really? | NationofChange

America is a Democracy? Really? | NationofChange: "But what kind of democracy is it really that we have here?

Forget that only half of eligible voters typically vote in quadrennial presidential elections (less than 30% in so-called “off-year” elections for members of the House and a third of the Senate, and less than 25% in municipal and state elections). Forget that the government is increasingly trampling on the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, with a burgeoning surveillance program and a growing militarization of the police.

The US government doesn’t even do what the majority of the citizens want. In fact, these days it flat out ignores what we the people want."

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