Category: Culture

Matrix programming

How the Newtown massacre became a Mind-Control television event By Jon Rappoport, December 18, 2012   Mind control. Mass hypnosis. Operant conditioning. Brain entrainment. That’s what we’re talking about here. We’re so conditioned to how television covers life that we rarely step back and take notice. In the case of massive disasters and crimes, network …

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A feeling of control

A Message To The NRA From The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse By Paul Bibeau, Monday, December 17, 2012   Hey, guys. Pestilence here. The other riders and I are pretty busy lately, but we wanted to take a moment and make something clear. In the days ahead many of you will be deploying some …

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Groping for answers once again

After a 1996 Mass Shooting, Australia Enacted Strict Gun Laws. It Hasn’t Had a Similar Massacre Since. By Will Oremus, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at 10:00 PM ET   On April 28, 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists in a seaside resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania. By the time he was finished, he had …

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Quintessentially

Why is the shooter always male? By Paul Campos, Monday, Dec 17, 2012 11:00 AM CST   A common demand made of socially marginalized groups is that they take responsibility for the bad acts of their members.  These demands come both from socially privileged people who marginalize social outsiders and from the socially marginalized themselves. …

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America is truly exceptional

What makes America’s gun culture totally unique in the world, in four charts By Max Fisher, December 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm   The deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary is provoking another heated round of the same conversation that the U.S. has after every mass shooting: is there something particular or unusual to our gun …

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A rare moment of national self-reflection

Newtown shooting: when it comes to guns and violence, America is like a failed state Observer editorial, Saturday 15 December 2012   In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness the character of Kurtz, at his life’s end, has a moment of profound lucidity, which prompts his last words: “The horror.” This weekend in the wake of …

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Holy chapter in the Gospel of America’s Goodness

Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda By Glenn Greenwald, Friday 14 December 2012 10.03 EST   I’ve now seen “Zero Dark Thirty”. Before getting to that: the controversy triggered this week by my commentary on the debate over that film was one of the most ridiculous in which I’ve ever been involved. It was …

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