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Authored by Michael Klare via TomDispatch.com,

Authored by StraightLineLogic's Robert Gore via The Burning Platform blog,

Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com,

Down The Trump Rabbit Hole - Manufacturing Consent

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Cognitive Dissonance

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We all begin with assumptions, though most of us think of them as truths. Mention the name Donald Trump in a crowded room and you will be on the receiving end of a boat load of opinions; all formed with the benefit of assumptions and preconceived notions customized to each individual’s point of view of how the ‘system’ (aka The Empire) works.

In this powerful speech recorded a few years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin exposes the real face of the New World Order.  According to the video’s description: When the West expands its EEU and NATO borders Eastwards breaking treaty after treaty, as in the Warsaw pact, the non nuclear proliferation treaty, disregards international law and the Geneva conventions, including double standards on its UN power to veto – it does it all under the mantra of diversifying economic markets, if Russia was to expand West, thorough some “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership of their own”