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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Card Credit Debt Enormous Especial Large Student Trap
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Civilian Innocent Kill Terrorism Wanton
It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Against Course International Offer Predatory Regie Some State Strike Weak
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Academic Clerical Professor Routine Work World
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Analog Animal Appear Human Language Phenomenon Significance Unique World
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Development Easier Internet Library Much Undoubtfully
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Attitude Engineer History Modern Opinion Perception Process Relation Shape Term
Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Country Immediate Make Separate State Sure Two United
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Cash Cow Media Money Politics
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Aspiration Associate Children Decline Hope Hour Income Kind People Wek Work
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Environment Extremities Ignore Impact Lethal Market Transition
Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Country Defiant Exist Nato Once Soviet Union Well Western
The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Front Kill Other People Target Terrorist Weapon
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Bail Case Environment No One Out

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