“The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.” - Chris Hedges … Continue reading Identity Politics and Our Loss of Rationality
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The Biggest Grift in Human History
Today I would like to share a special essay with you all, one that I personally had the most fun yet disgust researching; the ballad of the Federal Reserve. I recently finished this lovely piece with Bezos implementing his boring dystopia, so I figured it would be the perfect companion for our discussion about robber … Continue reading The Biggest Grift in Human History
Podcast Episode – New Feudalism and the Distribution of Wealth
I wanted to share the latest episode from my podcast! If you've read my first posts it may have some repetition, but there are some additional questions raised and facts I point out 🙂 I hope you enjoy, and thank you for your support! https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jMR4HZusTv3Opc6Q37n3p https://anchor.fm/brendan-rumel/episodes/New-Feudalism-and-the-Distribution-of-Wealth-e19o5hc
Law Enforcement Doesn’t Protect our Rights, They Restrict Them
True patriots demonstrating against oppression of the people confront lines of armored bullies in Portland. Everything that I have described up to this point in the series shows a police force that is completely divergent from the goals of community health and safety. This post is going to be a final analysis of how American … Continue reading Law Enforcement Doesn’t Protect our Rights, They Restrict Them
The Source of Law Enforcement’s Poison Isn’t a Few Bad Apples – It’s the Entire Orchard
To this point in Series III, I have described a police force that practices intentional ignorance, harm, and violence. A force that takes joy in brutalizing the people they are supposed to protect while being the only public servants with unionization that allows for complete lack of culpability. This post will be perhaps my strongest … Continue reading The Source of Law Enforcement’s Poison Isn’t a Few Bad Apples – It’s the Entire Orchard
A Doctor’s Diagnosis for Murder Part II – Excited Delirium
Part I Part II Warning: This post will be graphic and discuss police violence in a very real way. We left off after the first part of this excited delirium analysis with an account of Gregory Lloyd Edwards' murder, how he was placed in a cell with tasers lodged in his back and a pepper … Continue reading A Doctor’s Diagnosis for Murder Part II – Excited Delirium
A Doctor’s Diagnosis for Murder Part I – Corporate Controlled Policing
Before beginning this 2 part series on excited delirium I would like to provide a warning that this topic is going to be extremely triggering and dark. Please take it slowly, and take breaks if you need. This video is also extremely important to see. At the beginning Minneapolis police officers discuss their plans to … Continue reading A Doctor’s Diagnosis for Murder Part I – Corporate Controlled Policing
Police Unionization and The Damage It’s Done
As we discussed in our introduction to American policing, the values of groups that early departments spawned from never truly left them; even after 150 years. The people that they were created to oppress still suffer under the brutalization of law enforcement, and the police have made sure to get their hands on all of … Continue reading Police Unionization and The Damage It’s Done
The Disproportional Punishments of American Incarceration
Madoff from an article entitled: Are white collar criminals the true villains? We live in a reality in which there are two Americas; the criminalized and the wealthy. Due to the intimacy with which our status quo operates with white supremacy's influence and savage pursuit of capital, it has created institutions that reinforce inequality and … Continue reading The Disproportional Punishments of American Incarceration
The New Federalist 