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They go hand-in-hand: the biosecurity surveillance state for domestic human experimentation, the war machine for the international variety. Each has its fabricated justification: the manufactured pandemic; the manufactured entrapment of the aggressive Communist Russian bear who no longer exists. Each enriches a population of oligarchs who progressively dominate a larger chunk of the global economy: Pharma; Weapons. "Just the warmup". "Wars of the future". I have nothing but sympathy for anyone under the age of 40, wondering how younger folks muster the energy to look forward to another day, another year among this horror show of blustering sociopaths.

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Literally SOULLESS

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I cancelled my NT Times subscription after the Iraq WMD lies, so was not aware of how blatantly sick they've become. Coincidentally, after reading Media Benjamin's piece on the bipartisan bill too increase weapons spending, I Tweeted out this long forgotten quote from Dr. King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech in. 1967 (read the whole thing!):

"buildup in Vietnam .. . some plaything of a society gone mad on war... I knew that America would never invest... in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

"Beyond Vietnam - A Time To Break Silence"

https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

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Apparently we are being monitored. How far will it go? Like kids playing with fire, the very dark bunch of people composing the military-industrial complex has still to burn itself to the ground in order for a resemblance of peace to come back out of this madness.

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Holy shit! I winter in the remote Sonoran desert, about 30 miles from the Mexican border in Arizona, just on the edge of the US Air Force's Barry Goldwater bombing range.

Those Ukrainian UFO's in the photo look EXACTLY like the strange lights I've often seen in the sky down here at night! Exactly! (except the ones I see have a yellow sodium vapor light color).

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State-of-the-art and yet they're losing. America in a nutshell.

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One might also observe that the theater is also a testing ground for illegal bioweapons, if reports about testing a virulent strain of TB in the eastern oblasts and on mental patients are true. Very, VERY reminiscent of WWII era Nazi medical experiments that, but unsurprising and highly credible, given the US history of nuking civilians in the 40s, deploying Agent Orange in Vietnam in the 60s and allegedly infected insects against the Koreans and the Chinese in the 50s.

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Lab rats. That's all we are to the military-industrial-complex (or the military-industrial-Congressional-complex, if you like). It's time for we "rats" to get out of our "cages" of bread and circuses and bite the hand that feeds us. Our owners will only dissect us later to see how effective their biological weapons are. What have we got to lose but our cheese (chains)?

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How did we get here? Who are these warmongers? Sometimes I think humanity has a real-life invasion of the body-snatchers problem.

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Star Trek : "A Taste of Armageddon" (Season 1, Episode 23)

two planets are engaged in a completely computer-simulated war

treaty requires "victims" to report to disintegration chambers

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The new York slime.

You don't mention that newkraine nUkraine

Has already lost most of her men to this test.

Those newkraine nUkraine folks didn't know they had agreed to throw away their country to the US of Arrogance.

Do they know now¿

Nope.

Russia knows and stopped trying to oppose their folly in newkraine nUkraine and instead will eliminate that country.

Newkraine nUkraine.

Running all around my brain

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I stand with PEACE!

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Maybe the aliens will save us.

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Advocating war reflects emotional immaturity and a lack of communication skills. When I see pictures of leadership around the world it is mostly little boys and bullies.

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Nov 17, 2022·edited Nov 18, 2022

The US cares more about it’s superiority status than it does for the future of humanity. In the recent past, they have produced a plethora of Films and TV Shows which are more or less about the extinction of life on Earth. Perhaps, they have covered their backs, hence, they do not care about the rest of us. That’s the only logical conclusion one can arrive at wrt their actions.

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"the wars of the future will be about maximum drones and minimal humans."

Presumably because the maximum drones will have killed all the 'minimal' humans.

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