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The American "Deep State"

Post by Strong Eagle » Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:25 am

Perhaps less meaningful to those not living in its midst.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatom ... eep-state/

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Re: The American "Deep State"

Post by JR8 » Tue, 09 Sep 2014 4:20 pm

Strong Eagle wrote:Perhaps less meaningful to those not living in its midst.
http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatom ... eep-state/
Very thought provoking. It's got to irk the American people as they believe they are more free than perhaps the majority of other countries [people vs state, the Constitution, and so on].

But I'm sure this 'parallel system' is by no means unique to the US. The article mentions UK-GCHQ and that's existed for decades (I had a friend who's wife worked there, 30 years ago...). So you can be pretty certain that what's happening in the States is happening in other places.

Even SG had auto/passive phone-call voice recognition/key-word/tracking,and that was 30 years ago... add in facial recognition CCTV on the streets, multiple cards that carry RFIDS, SIM cards/internet connections registered vs your ID. It's hard to believe the state don't know what people are going to be thinking in the next few days...

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Post by Addadude » Tue, 09 Sep 2014 5:36 pm

...and let's not talk about that BCG jab that everyone gets. I mean should such a simple innoculation really leave such a big scar or was there something else implanted at the same time? Hmmm.... :shock:
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Post by JR8 » Tue, 09 Sep 2014 5:41 pm

Addadude wrote:...and let's not talk about that BCG jab that everyone gets. I mean should such a simple innoculation really leave such a big scar or was there something else implanted at the same time? Hmmm.... :shock:
Yeah! I don't have a scar. Here they're huge. They laughingly refer to them as 'keloid scars', oh yah, hahaha, think you'll fool us!?



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Post by earthfriendly » Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:41 pm

Asians scarred more easily, the doctor will tell you during surgery.

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Post by zzm9980 » Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:02 am

JR8 wrote:
Addadude wrote:...and let's not talk about that BCG jab that everyone gets. I mean should such a simple innoculation really leave such a big scar or was there something else implanted at the same time? Hmmm.... :shock:
Yeah! I don't have a scar. Here they're huge. They laughingly refer to them as 'keloid scars', oh yah, hahaha, think you'll fool us!?



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I'd highly suggest not going to the wiki page for Keloid if you're squeamish.

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Post by Brah » Wed, 10 Sep 2014 8:11 pm

Thanks for posting that link SE, am keen to ready it but need to set time aside for that, looks like commute reading.

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