"The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations."

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Source : Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan

Chalmers Johnson

#Intelligent Quotes #Agency Quotes #People Quotes

“In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.”
“All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.”
“My profession is called record production.”
“I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.”
“I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that.”
“Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying.”
“Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is what I was going for in my book "Sound Unbound" was to try and get people to figure out how do we unpack some of the meanings that go into these kinds of sonically coded landscapes.”

Source : Big Think Interview, April 8, 2010.
“I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth.”

Source : "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 269), 1998.

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