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It had to be said, thank you! Only thing missing to show how the US really feels about kids in disobedient nations is the clip of Madeleine Albright saying 500,000 Iraqi kids dead due to genocidal US sanctions was “worth it”.

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My first reaction -- knowing what I know about the United States and its military -- is how incredibly cynical and ham-fisted this all is, just like the war.

Then I realized for those who think Chris Todd is a real reporter and the name Glenn Greenwald is unknown, the propaganda doesn't really need to be any better than this.

And that realization is depressing as hell.

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It's not hard to find propaganda photos of happy Eastern European peasants greeting the Wehrmacht as liberators, or, for that matter, photos of happy Eastern European peasants greeting the Red Army as liberators.

Nothing new.

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Where were all of you when it was time to protest 9/11. Remember, 9/11? That was the event that enabled all of this carnage. Where was everyone when we needed people in the street to protest, to let Congress and the George W. Bush White House know that this was not acceptable. It is commendable that you now shriek in horror, now that you are looking in the rear view mirror. I am still not hearing people say en-masse that 9/11 was the pivotal event that enabled this all to happen. In fact I am not hearing anything said about that here at all, even though that was the excuse the U.S. used to invade Afghanistan in the first place. What? are you still afraid to be called a "Conspiracy Theorist." Why don't we have some articles that discuss how 9/11 was the pretext for the Endless War on Terror of which Afghanistan is but one facet. 9/11 still needs to be laid bare in order for all of these draconian policies to be brought down, but still I hear nothing. We are probably out of time, however, authoritarian rule is likely here to stay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw There is but a small window of time left to hold leaders that institute these draconian policies to account, but that is closing rapidly.

And as for today, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the EcoHealth Alliance in New York have refused requests by Congress and others, to allow public access to their existing coronavirus samples and their viral databases. These may hold answers to all the origin questions [of SARS-CoV-2]. COVID-19 is also being used to shove more draconian policies down our throats, just like 9/11 was, and still not a peep out of the people. Now instead of fearing we will be called "Conspiracy Theorists," we fear being called "Anti-Vaxxers." Nothing has changed really, and the atrocities will continue to go on and on and on and on.

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Sep 29, 2023·edited Sep 29, 2023

Also unable to get enough of such exploitive pictures are CIA/Military campus recruiters such as Patty Hetu-Tkacik, a former 35-year CIA operative and recruiter, now become a recruiter at Spokane, Washington’s Gonzaga University. (Incidentally, there is a striking resemblance between the U.S. soldier in the first photo in Caitlin’s article and the photo on the large recruitment poster used at a Gonzaga recruitment event with Hetu-Tkacik’s minuscule email address in the bottom left corner of the poster).

https://www.facebook.com/100000417182306/posts/pfbid02DyghxaY3n29hDU84bHzr1HtVyXVTYbx1oeLSjSH7uwpU4J276jHv2TbeNKuXRKLJl/?mibextid=cr9u03

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Also unable to get enough of such exploitive pictures are CIA/Military campus recruiters such as Patty Hetu-Tkacik, a former 35-year CIA operative and recruiter, now become a recruiter at Spokane, Washington’s Gonzaga University. (Incidentally, there is a striking resemblance between the U.S. soldier in the first photo in Caitlin’s article and the photo on the large recruitment poster with Hetu-Tkacik’s minuscule email address in the bottom left corner).

https://www.facebook.com/100000417182306/posts/pfbid02DyghxaY3n29hDU84bHzr1HtVyXVTYbx1oeLSjSH7uwpU4J276jHv2TbeNKuXRKLJl/?mibextid=cr9u03

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I hate every word of this newsletter. Imperial Stormtroopers? You watch too many movies. You are a sick woman.

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