Now that we have arrived in Blade Runner’s November 2019 “future,” the BBC asks what the 37-year-old film got right. Slashdot reader dryriver shares the report: [B]eyond particular components, Blade Runner arguably gets something much more fundamental right, which is the world’s socio-political outlook in 2019 — and that isn’t particularly welcome, according to Michi Trota, who is a media critic…
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Mainstream Media Now Calling for the Arrest of “Antivaxxers”
Matt Agorist – The Washington Post published an article this week that called for rounding up “antivaxxers” and throwing them in jail. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/05/03/mainstream-media-now-calling-for-the-arrest-of-antivaxxers/…
Predator Cops, Guilty of Sex Crimes Against Women and Children, Are a Menace to Society
John W. Whitehead – How could this be happening right under our noses? Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/30/predator-cops-guilty-of-sex-crimes-against-women-and-children-are-a-menace-to-society/…
From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
John W. Whitehead – That list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/18/from-jesus-christ-to-julian-assange-when-dissidents-become-enemies-of-the-state/…
Financial Tyranny: America Has Become a Pay-to-Play Exercise in Fascism
John W. Whitehead, Guest Waking Times If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat. If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet. Don’t ask me what I want it for If you don’t want to… Continue reading Financial Tyranny: America Has Become a Pay-to-Play Exercise in Fascism
Mainstream Media Finally Admits Legal Hemp is the Answer to Dependency on Big Oil
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project Waking Times Because government is the antithesis to freedom, industrial hemp has been banned nationwide since 1937 ostensibly due to the plant’s similarities to marijuana. Many have speculated that this move was also due to the fact that cannabis is in direct competition with the pharmaceutical industry by providing… Continue reading Mainstream Media Finally Admits Legal Hemp is the Answer to Dependency on Big Oil
American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone
John W. Whitehead, Guest Waking Times “We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”—Rod Serling Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone? Only instead of Rod Serling’s imaginary “land of both shadow and substance, of things… Continue reading American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone
The Making of a Monster: We’re All Lab Rats in the Government’s Secret Experiments
John W. Whitehead, TRI Waking Times “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too… Continue reading The Making of a Monster: We’re All Lab Rats in the Government’s Secret Experiments
Overcoming the Robotic Mind
Julian Rose, Contributor Waking Times “To get from the passenger seat to the driving seat is a momentous act.” Need I say it, extraordinary things are going on all over this World, and it turns out that having to resort to a survival formula in order to cope with them, is not necessarily the best… Continue reading Overcoming the Robotic Mind