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Octafish

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10. 21st Century Soft Power Couple: She provides the Fig Leaf, He provides the Hemlock

Reply to PufPuf23 (Reply #9)

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 09:05 AM

Sep 2015

Dr. Power wrote about modern day genocide and the UN/US responsibility to use force to prevent it.

The fact it makes certain companies, banks, and individuals very, very wealthy; and the capitalistic governments who protect their wealth very, very powerful is a coincidence.

Dr. Sunstein writes that people who point out the above are dangers to society, because they engage in conspiracy theories.

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License to Kill - It's a Darwinian Universe (Samantha Power, wife of Cass Sunstein) [View all] Octafish Sep 2015 OP

Bump PufPuf23 Sep 2015 #1

No. They are just second-rate intellects acting like monsters, without much real awareness of the leveymg Sep 2015 #7

Happy Warriors, all right. Octafish Sep 2015 #8

Samantha and Victoria (and Cass) in Wonderland taking tea with the Mad Hatter. PufPuf23 Sep 2015 #9

21st Century Soft Power Couple: She provides the Fig Leaf, He provides the Hemlock Octafish Sep 2015 #10

Power: Any humanitarian crisis, ethnic cleansing, or genocide can serve a national purpose. leveymg Sep 2015 #2

sounds like The Family's vision of power, doesn't it? the stronger the dictator the bigger MisterP Sep 2015 #5

Sounds a lot like the GHW Bush branch of the CIA's vision as well. leveymg Sep 2015 #6

The Dulles Brothers School of Empire for the Well-to-Do. Octafish Sep 2015 #14

She argue for military intervention to avoid genocide in 'A Problem from Hell'... Octafish Sep 2015 #11

Samantha doesn't recognize the real dysfunction. GeorgeGist Sep 2015 #3

Africa’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power Octafish Sep 2015 #12

"Humanitarian warmonger." Yup. n/t Comrade Grumpy Sep 2015 #4

And if you call them out on it, you're labeled a ''Conspiracy Theorist.'' Octafish Sep 2015 #13