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Hierarchies (govt., Wall Street) become top-heavy with psychopaths--who harm others without empathy or remorse. The Official Explanation of each outrage they commit is always convoluted. "Occam's Razor" = the principle that simpler explanations are usually truer than convoluted ones. Here's one: The psychopaths are running the show for their own benefit. Speakers discuss Clinton's genocidal Iraq sanctions, George Soros, 9/11, & soldiers' extreme reluctance to kill. Ends on a note of hope.
Thanks to James Corbett (www.corbettreport.com -- episode #113) for the audio on George Soros. Thanks to Tereza Coraggio (www.thirdparadigm.org) for the article by Dr. Kevin Barrett, "Twilight of the Psychopaths." Regular podcasts by both Corbett & Coraggio are archived on radio4all.net.
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See last week's installment (#104) for more on psychopaths in power (and the predictable results). http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/40218
Rube Goldberg Award-winning byzantine Official Explanations include
(1) How 2 airplanes caused 3 steel skyscrapers to collapse, each onto its own footprint, at near-freefall speed, while imitating every characteristic of a controlled implosion
(2) Why, on 9-11-2001, there was no air defense of "the Homeland" and no missile defense of the Pentagon
(3) How giving a trillion dollars to private Wall Street corporations--no strings attached--will create jobs and reduce home foreclosures
(4) Why U.S. forces are killing people in Afghanistan
More on Rube Goldberg in the show & on the blog (URL, below)).
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On the show I've condensed--and in the process toned-down --Kevin Barrett's essay, "Twilight of the Psychopaths." Here's the full text (in .pdf): http://thirdparadigm.org/doc/twilightofthepsycpaths.pdf
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