
One Nation Under Greed: The profit incentives driving the American Police State
If there is an absolute maxim by which the American government seems to operate, it is that the taxpayer always gets ripped off.

If there is an absolute maxim by which the American government seems to operate, it is that the taxpayer always gets ripped off.

Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government.

We’re being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors.

You’re driving along and you see a pair of flashing blue lights in your rearview mirror. Whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, you get a sinking feeling in your stomach.

Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we’ve been mired, we get kicked down again.

Even though the spectacle typically starts in May, this year millions of cicadas came out as early as March. Researchers believe they were erroneously triggered by a warming-induced “false spring.”

Young people will find themselves overtaxed, burdened with excessive college debt, and struggling to find worthwhile employment in a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion.

The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster.

In its most recent Hospital Quality Star Ratings for 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded VCU Medical Center and VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital 4-out-of-5 stars, and VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital earned three stars.

George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, died because America is being overrun with militarized cops
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