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165. Baran, xvii.
166. New World Vistas, 89.
167. Safire.
168. I’ve dealt with this at length elsewhere. See, for example, Jensen, Culture, 174-85.
169. My thanks to Deda Bea for teaching me about toxic mimics.
170. Glaspell, 188.
171. Jensen and Draffan, Strangely Like War.
172. My thanks to Jeff and Milaka Strand for this analysis.
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173. Estrogen Effect.
174. My thanks to Nita Halstead for this analysis.
175. Oregon State Senate Bill 742, 72nd Legislative Assembly.
176. Severn, 8.
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177. Anderson Valley Advertiser, April 2, 2003, 9.
178. George Draffan and I used the following analysis in our book Welcome to the Machine.
179. Quotes from the Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual—1983.
180. Ibid.
181. Ibid.
182. “Report on the School of the Americas,” Federation of American Scientists, http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1997_rpt/soarpt.htm (accessed May 12, 2003).
183. Ibid.
184. “Weapons of American Terrorism: Torture,” http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/weapons/US-Torture.html (accessed May 12, 2003).
185. Ibid.
186. Ibid.
187. Ibid.
188. Cockburn, untitled, 9.
189. Priest and Gellman.
190. Rutten.
191. Kirby. His statement makes me wonder whether Dr. Bruno Broughton has enough of a brain to feel pain. I’m sure that there are honeybees that would be willing to sting his lips and see if this leads to “anomalous behavior.”
192. Rand. For what it’s worth, she absolutely emphasizes the word white in the last sentence.
193. He says this like it’s a bad thing.
194. Ah, now there’s the point!
195. I know this was a rhetorical question, but the answer is quite often.
196. Note that following premise four of this book, the only blood that matters, the only lives that matter, the only broken hearts that matter are those of the exploiters.
197. U.S. Congress, Congressional Record (56th Congress, 1st sess., 1900), vol. 23, 704, 711-12. Note that this speech was met with applause in the galleries. The entire speech is worth reading for its jingoism as well as its seamless applicability to today’s invasions and the continued march of empire.
198. Ledeen, “Creative Destruction.”
199. Ibid.
200. Mersereau.
201. Ledeen, “Machiavelli.”
202. Beeman.
203. Ibid.
204. Ledeen, “Faster, Please.”
205. Ledeen, “Scowcroft Strikes Out.”
206. Ledeen, “Iranian Comedy Hour.”
207. Ledeen, “Temperature Rises.”
208. Ledeen, “Heart of Darkness.”
209. Ledeen, “Willful Blindness.”
210. Ledeen, “Lincoln Speech.”
211. Leggett, 173-74.
212. St. Clair, “Santorum.”
213. Scherer.
214. Regular.
215. Anderson Valley Advertiser, July 2, 2003, 6. The speaker is Karen Hughes.
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216. I peeled this one off numerous websites.
217. Heinen.
218. I’m thinking of songs and stories that teach us how to live in place. There’s no reason to let members of the cult of the machine claim ownership of the word and concept technology.
219. Genesis 1:28.
220. Tiger salamanders, for crying out loud! As recently as during my childhood in the sixties, tiger salamanders were still as common as, well, as common as the toads that are now just as endangered.
221. Jensen, Culture, 382.
222. I was going to call them masturbational, but at least masturbation feels good.
223. Weiss.
224. Llanos.
225. Ibid.
226. Weiss.
227. That was perhaps the central point of my book The Culture of Make Believe.
228. I’ve talked about this in my other books, too, but I think it’s a point that bears repeating.
229. “About PNAC,” Project for the New American Century, http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm (accessed June 1, 2003).
230. “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.”
231. Ibid.
232. “Get the Facts and Clear the Air,” National Campaign Against Dirty Power, http://cta.policy.net/dirtypower/ (accessed September 3, 2004).
233. Mokhiber, 16-17.
234. Ibid., 3-4.
235. Reckard.
236. Baker.
237. Which means only those civilians killed by those who oppose the policies of the U.S