PARROT HEADS

"Excuse us! We're repeating now."

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The "Fiery" State of the Media

Senile Joe Biden is "Fiery"

"Forceful" & "Strong"

(Matt Orfalea on YouTube)
September 13, 2024
 

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I've heard it talked about and have experienced this phenomenon myself many times, disparate individuals without any discernible connection to each other making the exact same points using identical words and phrases while stating emphatically that they are critical thinkers... instead of simple parrots.

American mainstream media is state-run media and the state is controlled by Wall Street. Laments by the powerful regarding disinformation is a sign of their fear that a bit of truth might leak out.

MEET THE NEW BOSS...

[Same as the old boss.]

The American Ruling Class Explained
(The Chris Hedges Report on YouTube)
September 13, 2024

 

SPEECHLESS

Professor DETAINED AT AIRPORT After Attending Free Palestine Film Festival
(Due Dissidence on YouTube)
Spetember 2, 2024

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Free speech has been muzzled. Habeas corpus was disappeared by a pen stroke. The police force has been militarized. The military has become our raison d'être. World War has replaced diplomacy........

What - Me - Worry?

A few receipts:

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President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law
(American Civil Liberties Union at ACLU.Org)
December 31, 2011)

"WASHINGTON – President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had “serious reservations” about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations. The White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA, but reversed course shortly before Congress voted on the final bill.

“President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. “The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.”
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Hedges v. Obama

(Wikipedia.org)

January 2012

"Hedges v. Obama was a lawsuit filed in January 2012 against the Obama administration and members of the U.S. Congress by a group including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges, challenging the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA). The legislation permitted the U.S. government to indefinitely detain people "who are part of or substantially support Al Qaeda, the Taliban or associated forces engaged in hostilities against the United States". The plaintiffs contended that Section 1021(b)(2) of the law allows for detention of citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S. on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups engaged in hostilities against the U.S. such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban respectively that the NDAA arms the U.S. military with the ability to imprison indefinitely journalists, activists and human-rights workers based on vague allegations."
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U.S. policing budgets would rank as the world's third-highest military expenditure
(Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing)
April 20, 2021

"$118bn was spent funding police forces in the U.S. in 2018, according to the Security Policy Reform Institute. It collectively makes American police forces the world's third-most expensive military organization, after the U.S.'s official armed forces and China's.

The chart is somewhat misleading, though, in that the same is basically true of other wealthy countries: per-capita spending on police in Europe is also very high, but the countries are less populous. Police forces in the UK enjoy some $25bn in funding, for example, a spend proportionate to the US total that nonethless places it outside the top ten on the that military spending chart.

But there's one thing that's plainly different: US police are militarized by policy, trained to treat the public as a threat, and kill people in far greater numbers than their foreign counterparts. The declared enemy of American police forces is the American people, and their war on us claims about 1000 lives a year."

THE CRASS STRUGGLE

Report: Flight Attendants Face HUNGER, HOMELESSNESS Due to LOW WAGES
(Due Dissidence on YouTube)

September 3, 2024

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Capitalism creates both crushed and comfortable cluelessness.

In general the folks I know are too busy surviving to question The System or too comfortable to care enough to understand it. And virtually all the richest folks I know have no idea they're parasites sucking the life out of the populace and the planet.

Thankfully, I don't mingle with any actual apex predators. I couldn't become one of them and they wouldn't want me around to bring them down... I mean make them sadly reflect on their ghoulish orgy of avarice.

I'm thankful to all who rage against The Machine, like the funny fellows at Due Dissidence, but in the end, I've little hope that the human experiment will end well.

Please prove me wrong.

P.S. Allowing the wealthiest microscopic minority to dictate to the vast struggling majority is a ludicrous solution if peace and prosperity are the endgame. It appears to me that the ruling class is heading toward the end of the game instead. Money can't buy you intelligence (or survival after the balloon goes up).