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Perpetual War for Perpetual Fleece

Creating crises to maintain control.

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JD Breen
Mar 23, 2024
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Atlanta, GA

March 22, 2024

Rahm Emmanuel famously advised governments to “never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

He needn’t have worried. They rarely do, even if they create the “crisis” they take advantage of. And they usually do.

It’s one of the few things the State does well. And it’s gotten better at it in recent years. External threats and internal f…

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