American Culture of Violence & It's Related Politics

Cliffy

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Hoid

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the average house price in Canada is $500,000?

So the average person should save up $500,000 and buy their house?
 

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I think so
Well you obviously think wrong . If you can afford your mortgage that is not spending money you don’t have . If you take a trip on your credit card and make minimum payments , that is spending money you don’t have .
 

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Well you obviously think wrong . If you can afford your mortgage that is not spending money you don’t have . If you take a trip on your credit card and make minimum payments , that is spending money you don’t have .
I should have realized
 

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hey there no way to go through life without debt - unless you were born rich.
 

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No, because your commie nazi globalist banker pals have made sure no one gets to save money with their negative interest rates...
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mR wtf is finance?

It's actually the biggest theft in the history of the whole damned planet.
 

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Pink Floyd's Wall vs trump's wall ART MASH UP

Scary how easy it was to blend pieces of Pink Floyd's Wall with what happens every rally trump has in this country. I create these MashUps as a method of art therapy to survive this nightmare called trump...or as I like to call him the twidiot.
 

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Did you know the School of the Americas is still operating under a new name in the US, training Latin American military how to do coups ect on their democratically elected leaders to support corporate and US interests. This article is from 4 years ago but very informative if you look at what is going on in South America now, compare Pinochet in Chile to Piñera, what has changed? Some of us remember El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala in the 70s, 80s, 90s...And Chiapas, Mexico. All the efforts to shut down this military school, all they did was change the name.



The School Of The Americas Is Still Exporting Death Squads

South American militaries have been sending soldiers to the U.S. for “ethics” and “human rights” training for years, but history shows that many of these alumni go on to become notorious torturers and murderers, not defenders of peace.


RABAT, Malta — In 2009, just a year before Sebastián Piñera became president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet approved the training of 211 Chilean recruits at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA).
Between 1999 and 2010, Chilean governments sent a total of 1,205 recruits to the school, with Bachelet remaining at the helm of cooperation with the U.S.-based institute that has graduated scores of alumni involved in human rights violations under Chile’s dictatorship era from 1973 to 1990.


Despite the macabre reality inflicted upon Chileans during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, the Concertación governments of the center-left, allegedly embarking upon a democratic future for Chile, retained ties with the school that produced torturers such as Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, who, according to torture survivors, never concealed his identity while subjecting his victims to brutality.
Bachelet’s father, Gen. Alberto Bachelet, who was loyal to socialist president Salvador Allende, was tortured to death by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (the National Intelligence Directorate, also known as DINA). Bachelet herself was detained and tortured by DINA, later fleeing into exile and returning back to Chile in 1979.
Under Bachelet’s first presidency (2006-2010), Chilean cooperation with the U.S. expanded, especially following her one-year stay at Fort Lesley J. McNair, in Washington, D.C., which provided the prelude to Bachelet’s military and surveillance investment. Socialism quickly eroded into opportunism, with the country’s first female president emphasizing Pinochet’s legacy of oblivion as she extended diplomatic maneuvers to former DINA torturers, even praising generals allegedly involved in the torture that contributed to her father’s death.


More: https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-school-of-the-americas-is-still-exporting-death-squads/204655


The military coup in Bolivia has the signature of the School of the Americas all over it. It is all about lithium.