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hifiguy

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25. I've been riding this pony of actually READING HISTORY
Wed Nov 4, 2015, 06:13 PM
Nov 2015

outside the sanitized version - for years. DU's own Octafish has been my inspiration, rabbi and guide; he's been at it for decades.

The next must read that explains just why it has become so hot in this handcart is David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard." Or as I refer to it, How Allen Dulles created and Nazified the US Intelligence Establishment." They got essentially complete control over foreign policy in all its aspects on 11/22/1963. The coup de grace, getting control of domestic policy, was begun with Zombie King Raygun's election and fundamentally sealed for good with the installation of the Little Chimp.

See:http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/book-review-devils-chessboard-david-talbot

ETA: It'snot so much a matter of people being dumb - though this country has always had a disproportionate population of nitwits because of fundy religion - so much as it is the omnipresence and success of the conditioning techniques. The CIA was hip deep in developing and investigating mind-control techniques as far back as the early 1950s. When a pliant and cooperative media asks to participate in the process of mind-controlling the population, as it has since it turned on Jimmy Carter for the purpose of helping elect Reagan, it assumes a less-obvious, almost subliminal character. This was accelerated by Slick Willie's facilitation of the grotesque media consolidation we now see.

We have been turned into


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Signs of the times..... Sherman A1 Nov 2015 #1
Exactly Sherman.. monicaangela Nov 2015 #13
I heard Thom Hartmann attribute this to Ilsa Nov 2015 #2
And this is feeding the white nationalist movement. Kablooie Nov 2015 #4
Well they better hurry with that ... Trajan Nov 2015 #28
I'd say it started with Reagan. moondust Nov 2015 #17
It might have been the beginning for many people. Ilsa Nov 2015 #18
But republicans wanting to raise SS retirement age say we are living longer? B Calm Nov 2015 #3
Which is a crock of shit - when you disregard lower childhood mortality, we've only gained MillennialDem Nov 2015 #8
Death rate "soars?" Really? Orrex Nov 2015 #5
I can't read the link to the WSJ since it appears to be premium content. TexasTowelie Nov 2015 #6
Weird--I was able to get right to it. Orrex Nov 2015 #7
Half a percent over 15 years? Yeah not so much. Half a percent annually over 15 years? Yes soaring MillennialDem Nov 2015 #9
If you got a 0.5% raise annually for 15 years, would you describe your income as "soaring?" Orrex Nov 2015 #11
Well, death rates in middle age should be going down (slightly). The fact that it is going up is MillennialDem Nov 2015 #14
"At this rate, non-whites might eventually start to be slightly less in the minority! The horror!" lumberjack_jeff Nov 2015 #21
Jayzus, that is horrifying. hifiguy Nov 2015 #30
^^^^ THIS ^^^^ Tarheel_Dem Nov 2015 #27
When contrasted to the decreasing death rates worldwide for other groups, Thor_MN Nov 2015 #31
"Only HIV/AIDS in contemporary times has done anything like this" - wrong, unfortunately GreatGazoo Nov 2015 #10
This is truly sad... monicaangela Nov 2015 #12
Monicaangel I agree. BUT for the election results that occured in KY bonniebgood Nov 2015 #15
My sentiments exactly bonniebgood monicaangela Nov 2015 #16
It isn't that people couldn't stand up and fight back, hifiguy Nov 2015 #19
Excellent Post!!! I have to say hear, hear monicaangela Nov 2015 #23
I've been riding this pony of actually READING HISTORY hifiguy Nov 2015 #25
They had monicaangela Nov 2015 #29
Same group who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids. Octafish Nov 2015 #32
THANK YOU! monicaangela Nov 2015 #33
Speak Art to Power Octafish Nov 2015 #34
You are welcome TexasTowelie Nov 2015 #20
I agree with your comment... monicaangela Nov 2015 #24
"I can imagine..." Shandris Nov 2015 #22
Vivid it is.. monicaangela Nov 2015 #26
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