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There is no hiding it anymore. All the oligarchs want is a constant surplus of cannon fodder in the form of poor kids desperate to pay off their student loans. Their sadistic depravity knows no bounds! Please, somebody stop these criminals before they wipe out all life on the planet by starting a nuclear war with Russia and/or China.

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Of fucking course my rep signed that godawful letter. Of COURSE he did. He didn’t have a single fucking word to say as troops were being thrown out of the military left and right for refusing the poison shot but now all of a sudden he’s concerned about retention and attrition. What a shocker!

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For those who wonder why European governments are intentionally destroying their own economies by voluntarily cutting off their access to Russian energy supplies just prior to winter, and by restricting fertilizers to their farmers and forcing farmers into bankruptcy, imagine how much easier it will be to recruit kids for NATO militaries when potential teenage applicants are freezing in their homes and food is in short supply.

The NATO allies are merely adopting U.S. recruiting tactics: To get the poor kids into your military, you must first make kids poor.

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University? What madness is this? All of the propaganda starts in schools. Right now the "Are you a boy or a girl?" crowd has the agenda?" Wrong is good, lies are truth and truth are lies.

If they didn't screw around so much in grade school with propaganda, left or right, kids would have an education by the time they were 20.

But then again, what are they teaching?

How to exploit resources and people are really the only things taught in school and the results are pollution and/ or war.

The complexity of the systems we have setup is mind-boggling.

In essence we need the poor to become educated but don't because the educated will exploit resources after being taught by lizard brained professors to destroy the planet.

The student loan buy back isn't about citizens, it is about banks getting their money. Banks have overextended their credit. The current recession and inflation will soon blow up all money. And banks are out of value and the buyback program is a facade of injecting valueless currency into an economy to win a midterm. Everything in the USA is on credit. Europe is worse. This facade of credit has destroyed the west.

War is looming. They need to kill us off before we catch them.

Where will you run, should be your concern.

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US Military to Hollywood- " Crank up the war propaganda films"

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Sep 20, 2022·edited Sep 20, 2022

All branches of the U.S. military have been complaining bitterly that they can't make recruiting goals.

Apparently the prospect of enemies that can actually shoot back, along with a fat and neurotic populace that can't meet basic requirements, is causing concern.

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Sep 20, 2022·edited Sep 20, 2022

"...our nation’s military and their ability to recruit and retain top talent." - yeah, the top talent to kill in faraway lands.

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US policy is driven by coercion and the desperation of people in a failed state, and perhaps the failure is deliberate insofar as it affects the 90%.

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Gotta keep the population desperate for this "experiment in democracy" to work!

Thanks as always, Caitlin!!!

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"the established fact that a majority of US military recruits come from neighborhoods with below median income levels and that those neighborhoods are targeted for recruitment because impoverished communities often see military service as their only chance at upward mobility. "

Case in point: take a loom at on the ground conditions in Ashtabula, Ohio (sorry Mr. Dylan!)

http://www.wolfenotes.com/2022/02/infrastructure-scenes-from-northeast-ohio-that-biden-and-media-didnt-depict/

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I did an episode called Reinventing Education that gives a LOT of details on the predatory student loan program. Much of my research came from The Student Loan Scam by Alan Michael Collinge. When you know the facts and extent of the corruption, it's hard to believe this has been normalized by every HS counselor. And yet, I talk about why blanket student loan forgiveness is logistically untenable and Biden's is particularly badly designed. However, under the system changes I propose in my book and Substack, those loans could be turned towards revitalizing the community: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/reinventing-education.

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This is once again right on the money! The truth even as disgusting as it is is better then the guise of morality this scum puts forth to continually destroy people and planet. What is just as disgusting is the fact that these people continue to be re-elected every time by the same old bullshit story "We gave you some crumbs and the other party took them away so next time we screw you over will be better"!

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Dear Caitlin,

You continue to amaze me. Your writing is a joy to read and you so often also rip open topics which run to the "heart of the matter". The poverty draft indeed. And, blow me down, they've admitted it!

Regards,

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...constant wars! , constant crimes!, constant slavery !(obedient populus!), same effect through History mental lack of brain development = repetitiveness!....as I said before, ''humans'' have too many faulty chromosomes !....

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Hahaha. I don't know how best to direct the Schadenfreude.

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One would be hard pressed to further articulate the depths of moral perversion and innate corruption that is embodied in these sociopathic ghouls who hold office in the world’s foremost rogue state . And they have the brass neck to condemn others. They are the ones who should be sent out to engage in their programmes of organised mass murder.

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