prison industry

Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become fixated on crime, security and violence.

Losing clearances, torture conditions and major contenders + this day in history w/Yellowstone's Black Saturday and our song of the day by Mudhoney on your Morning Monarchy for August 20, 2018.

Blood moons, ancient boulders and smashed stars + this day in history w/the Napster injunction and our song of the day by Death Cab for Cutie on your Morning Monarchy for July 26, 2018.

Black sites, paper trails and foreign recruits + this day in history w/the 'Twilight Zone' accident and our song of the day by Weaves on your Morning Monarchy for July 23, 2018.

This week on the New World Next Week: Ross Ulbricht denied a Supreme Court hearing; cashless backlash begins; and the Github for guns is going to make gun control irrelevant.

This week on the New World Next Week: Ross Ulbricht denied a Supreme Court hearing; cashless backlash begins; and the Github for guns is going to make gun control irrelevant.

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
— Thomas Paine, December 1776

When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are the traditional signs of a dark age.
— Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, September 26, 2000

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

Cultural appropriation, deep state trojan horse and the war on cops + this day in history w/the escape of the Baader-Meinhoff Gang and our song of the day by Pennywise on your Morning Monarchy for May 14, 2018.