"There are two facets to the CIA's management and control of international drug trafficking, on behalf of the corporate interests that rule America. It's important to note that the US government's involvement in drug trafficking began before the CIA existed, as a means of controlling states, as well as the political and social movements within them, including America."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Douglas Valentine

#Mean Quotes #Political Quotes #Drug Quotes

“The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.”
“No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.”
“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”
“When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.”
“In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!”
“If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.”
“How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:- So many times do I love again.”

Source : Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “Song From Torrismond”
“To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”

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