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edgineered

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1. dangerous political thought -

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Sep 13, 2014, 10:20 PM

Sep 2014

As described by Tim Adams of the London Observer, Bernays “thought that the safest way of maintaining democracy was to distract people from dangerous political thought by letting them think that their real choices were as consumers.”

and now that we know that lets see which candidates citizens united is selling.

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PR Mind Control [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2014 OP

dangerous political thought - edgineered Sep 2014 #1

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #2

Great... Was just going over a lot like this last week. freshwest Sep 2014 #3