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#43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines

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We Need Long Range Stand Off Weapons for Bowing and Lock Eating

We need long range stand off weapons for bowing and lock eat, or whoever makes them. You can't rationalize new trident submarines against isis or against asad. Only russia allows that incentive,. And likewise isibians and so forth. So in other words, to keep these assembly lines going, and to keep rotten connecticut working on attack submarines, for example, you have to have somebody with submarines to attack, and that's russia. We are reproducing the domstay machine and encouraging the same kinds of factions in russia to reproduce their doomstay machine. This is a human tendency of people in power to maintain their power and their wealth and everything else,

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