"The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment."

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Source : Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall (1998). “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition”, p.174, Univ of California Press

Peter Dale Scott

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“Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 11, 2001.
“In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.”
“I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.”
“Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.”

Source : "Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45". Book by John Nichol and Tony Rennell, 2006.
“Time needs another minute.”
“If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.”
“You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.”
“There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.”

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