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waterwatcher123

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6. You forgot to mention what Pinochet did with anyone who disagreed with these policies and the rampant inflation.
Mon Dec 2, 2024, 05:28 PM
Dec 2

They were given a one-way ticket at night to go for a marathon swim in the Pacific Ocean.

This is an incredibly important book with lots of examples of how disaster capitalism has been employed in countries around the globe. We are about to get our first real example of how they plan to deploy it in the United States. The whole strategy is premised on a torture technique developed by two Canadians for the CIA (shock and awe) to get the population or individual to regress to the point where they accept highly unpopular ideas.

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