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leveymg

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1. Reminds one of Track 2 in Chile c. '73.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 11:38 PM

Feb 2015

The CIA organized trucker strikes and engineered shortages. But Nixon and Kissinger did that sort of thing to protect the Chileans from the danger of too muchh democracy. What's the excuse this time? Sure would love to read the Presidential finding that authorizes this one - but that's been classified for our protection. Silly me.

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