Mike Ritland
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You can't even make a pencil in this country unless you have a mechanism to be able to influence foreign governments if they nationalize their graphite mines or the export of their gum trees in Malaysia or the ability to potentially make inroads or liaise with or change the minds of unions that go on strike, that impact US national interest.
You can't even make a pencil in this country unless you have a mechanism to be able to influence foreign governments if they nationalize their graphite mines or the export of their gum trees in Malaysia or the ability to potentially make inroads or liaise with or change the minds of unions that go on strike, that impact US national interest.
You can't even make a pencil in this country unless you have a mechanism to be able to influence foreign governments if they nationalize their graphite mines or the export of their gum trees in Malaysia or the ability to potentially make inroads or liaise with or change the minds of unions that go on strike, that impact US national interest.
This is the reason that our corporations are so powerful. They rely on the battering ram of the blob. In the early 1970s, in Chile, when there was an attempt to nationalize the bottling industry, Before we ran that coup, that coup was jointly coordinated, not just between the head of the CIA, but between the chairman of the Pepsi-Cola company.
This is the reason that our corporations are so powerful. They rely on the battering ram of the blob. In the early 1970s, in Chile, when there was an attempt to nationalize the bottling industry, Before we ran that coup, that coup was jointly coordinated, not just between the head of the CIA, but between the chairman of the Pepsi-Cola company.
This is the reason that our corporations are so powerful. They rely on the battering ram of the blob. In the early 1970s, in Chile, when there was an attempt to nationalize the bottling industry, Before we ran that coup, that coup was jointly coordinated, not just between the head of the CIA, but between the chairman of the Pepsi-Cola company.
Pepsi met with the head of the CIA, Don Kendall, met with Helms, and this is all declassified. You can read a great Guardian report, read right up on this, or any of the major national security think tanks. Basically, Pepsi's bottling operations in South America were being threatened.
Pepsi met with the head of the CIA, Don Kendall, met with Helms, and this is all declassified. You can read a great Guardian report, read right up on this, or any of the major national security think tanks. Basically, Pepsi's bottling operations in South America were being threatened.
Pepsi met with the head of the CIA, Don Kendall, met with Helms, and this is all declassified. You can read a great Guardian report, read right up on this, or any of the major national security think tanks. Basically, Pepsi's bottling operations in South America were being threatened.
The chairman of Pepsi, Don Kendall, arranged a meeting with Henry Kissinger and said, hey, we need to stop this from happening. Kissinger then put him in touch with the head of the CIA. Pepsi, the head of the CIA, and the State Department's media mogul in Chile all met to jointly coordinate the best way to take down the government and take it down. Indeed, we did.
The chairman of Pepsi, Don Kendall, arranged a meeting with Henry Kissinger and said, hey, we need to stop this from happening. Kissinger then put him in touch with the head of the CIA. Pepsi, the head of the CIA, and the State Department's media mogul in Chile all met to jointly coordinate the best way to take down the government and take it down. Indeed, we did.
The chairman of Pepsi, Don Kendall, arranged a meeting with Henry Kissinger and said, hey, we need to stop this from happening. Kissinger then put him in touch with the head of the CIA. Pepsi, the head of the CIA, and the State Department's media mogul in Chile all met to jointly coordinate the best way to take down the government and take it down. Indeed, we did.
You see this happen time and again. How many governments have been overthrown in the interest of ExxonMobil and Chevron and other Western major oil companies? But hey, that's how we have cheap oil. You can make an argument that this is how we have energy dominance. And you can make the same argument about media, right?
You see this happen time and again. How many governments have been overthrown in the interest of ExxonMobil and Chevron and other Western major oil companies? But hey, that's how we have cheap oil. You can make an argument that this is how we have energy dominance. And you can make the same argument about media, right?
You see this happen time and again. How many governments have been overthrown in the interest of ExxonMobil and Chevron and other Western major oil companies? But hey, that's how we have cheap oil. You can make an argument that this is how we have energy dominance. And you can make the same argument about media, right?
Many people just this week are finding out that 90% of media outlets in Ukraine are funded by the US government. And if you're totally new to this space and you are rightly and righteously livid at finding out the extent of your own media ecosystem and diet has been puppeteered, co-opted, and financially sponsored by the government that is supposed to stay out of that domestically.
Many people just this week are finding out that 90% of media outlets in Ukraine are funded by the US government. And if you're totally new to this space and you are rightly and righteously livid at finding out the extent of your own media ecosystem and diet has been puppeteered, co-opted, and financially sponsored by the government that is supposed to stay out of that domestically.
Many people just this week are finding out that 90% of media outlets in Ukraine are funded by the US government. And if you're totally new to this space and you are rightly and righteously livid at finding out the extent of your own media ecosystem and diet has been puppeteered, co-opted, and financially sponsored by the government that is supposed to stay out of that domestically.
You see these statistics and you go, burn it down, salt the earth. We've been told from elementary school to our own media outlets here that we have a free and independent press and that there's no role for the government in the media. The media is independent from government. That's the difference between us and the Soviet Union and China is we have free and independent media.
You see these statistics and you go, burn it down, salt the earth. We've been told from elementary school to our own media outlets here that we have a free and independent press and that there's no role for the government in the media. The media is independent from government. That's the difference between us and the Soviet Union and China is we have free and independent media.