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“Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or
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“The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.”
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“Our infatuation with the unknown is systematically provoked and dismantled by a memetic campaign that's never less than astute in its grasp of human belief.”
― The Cryptoterrestrials
― The Cryptoterrestrials
“The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities. Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: ‘A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’6 NED receives virtually all its financing from the US government ($5 billion in total since 19917), but it likes to refer to itself as an NGO (non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.”
― America's Deadliest Export: Democracy The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
― America's Deadliest Export: Democracy The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
“Dulce bellum inexpertis
"War is very sweet to those who have never tried it.”
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"War is very sweet to those who have never tried it.”
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“The photons themselves may have escaped from the outskirts of a galaxy or the outer layers of a star millions of years ago and have spent that entire time hurtling through space, soaring through intergalactic voids and past distant nebulae and narrowly skirting collisions with objects as large as stars or as small as interstellar dust motes. At the end of the journey, these photons managed to punch their way through Earth's atmosphere and land, of all places on the planet on the mirror of your telescope, to be bounced around and funneled into a camera so you could learn a little more about where they came from.
The next time you look at the sky, remember this is the same journey taken by the light from every star you look at that happens to land on your eye.”
― The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
The next time you look at the sky, remember this is the same journey taken by the light from every star you look at that happens to land on your eye.”
― The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
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This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more
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A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent Fear (A novel inspired by true crimes) by Lance & Jame ...more
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