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hifiguy

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8. The national major media

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #7)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 05:38 PM

Nov 2015

are nothing but an anaesthetic propaganda tool. Keep the sheeple sedated unless you need to stir them up against a phony 'enemy."

And then there's the other prong:

And those men are the guiding lights of our own oligarchy.

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The national major media hifiguy Nov 2015 #8

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