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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Moore View Post
    in most cases we're better providing diplomatic, financial and information support to movements we want to see gain steam.
    I'd say even that needs to be pursued with great caution and acute awareness of the potential for unintended consequences.

    Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
    Ok let CIA do it. We used to be fairly good at this back in the 50's and early 60's.
    Hell yeah, we got rid of Mossadegh and Lumumba and everything worked out just fine in those places... not to mention a few others.
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    Dayuhan, this is what I amtalking about.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdA0d6O4bZ0

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    My 3rd world internet connection would take all day to load a 44 minute video, and it would almost certainly bog down in the process. Are "opritives" something like "operatives"?
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”

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