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ShazamIam

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1. I would call that some shock docrine based on what was probably cointrel like operations.
Wed Dec 15, 2021, 01:33 PM
Dec 2021

Lot of that has gone on over the decades, car jackings comes to mind. They keep thinking up new tricks to keep locking people up and keeping us all under surveillance.

There was that big campaign during the 90s to make prescription pain killers available to people with chronic pain, not just near death and promoted expanding the prescription for more even as there were decades of data showing that a certain percentage of those prescribed would become addicted.

How about charter schools, they were suppose to fix the public school system. Such a failure no one talks them up anymore.

I can't end without mentioning the War on Terrorism though it doesn't seem to be concerned with our own domestic terrorists, now identified as the Republican political party.

etc.

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