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Fmr. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan asserts that he wasn't nearly as influential as people think and the FED wasn't able to get interest rates up.

In a clip from Bannon's War Room, Thursday, March 16, 2023, Trump spells out that the first priority is to stop all the shooting in Ukraine and eliminate nuclear weapons. Also to reform most Federal institutions and root out the Deep State that's turning the U.S. into a dictatorship and destroying our freedom. He says he's the only one for the job because, "I know exactly what has to be done."

President George W. Bush slyly reveals his excuse for creating so-called "Iraqi Freedom" in 2003, killing between 268,000 and 295,000 people. His big "tell" is his comment that "with the intelligence I looked at." That intelligence was dishonestly concocted by VP Dick Cheney's "Office of Special Plans," specifically created for that purpose. SEE: <http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold13.html> Wolfowitz: Iraq Not Involved in 9-11, No Ties to al-Qaeda, by Jason Leopold August 7, 2003

In a 60 MINUTES interview, G.W. Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill reveals that 10 days after Bush's first inauguration and 8 months before the 911 attacks on the World Trade Towers, Pentagon, and Shanksville PA -- which were used as the excuse -- Bush was already preparing to attack Iraq because "Saddam was a bad person and needed To go." On day one of the GW Bush Administration, these things were "laid and sealed."

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint explains, from the Senate floor, that 94% of Senate bills are passed "unanamous consent." "What this means is 94% of bills that pass the Senate are passed with no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no 09 disclosure, and very often, no score from the Congressional Budget Office."

On Meet the Press, Dec. 31, 2006, Journalist Bob Woodward of Watergate fame, using his extensive interviews with President Ford, etc., explains that the Presidency and public life are a "straightjacket."

On Meet the Press, September 23, 2007, Fmr. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan asserts that wasn't isn't nearly as influential as people think and the FED wasn't able to get interest rates up to deflate the housing bubble.

"The Color Purple's" Alice Walker explains to Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman that "there's this huge machine that's going relentlessly pretty much all over the world." Democracy NOW!, June 2, 2013

Chin Dynasty ruled China by "legalism" where officials were as terrified by the laws they enforced as were the peasants. They were enforced by burning books, executing scholars with differing viewpoints, etc. As a result, The Chin Dynasty lasted for only 15 years (221 to 206 BC). SEE: DVD "China: The Dragon's Ascent" @7:55

When it's suggested that Mr. Obama came to Washington D.C. to change it, as with some of his predecessors, it changed him instead, he responds that it didn't change his ideas, but it's easier to make campaign promises than to keep them. --CBS NEWS, "60 Minutes," November 7, 2010

Mickey can't control the water-carrying brooms The institutions -- the "memetic machines" -- we create often get out of our control. from "Fantasia" (1940)

Journalist Sebastian Junger explains what he learned about human nature from being embedded with 20 Marines under fire during the 2001A.D. U.S. incursion into Afghanistan. "You have an unshakable meaning in a small group that you can't duplicate in society"

Rev Artur Pawloski, explains how Orwellian "ForcedSpeak" works. It's the opposite of Free Speech and worse than censorship - - -