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Shooting to Live. This was followed by other books: All-in Fighting, Get Tough and Self-Defence for Women and Girls.
“Ironically, Dr. Cameron was a member of the Nuremberg tribunal that heard the case against Nazi war criminals”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
“The CIA later found out that Sandoz had never produced LSD in quantities even remotely resembling ten kilograms. Apparently only ten milligrams were for sale, but a CIA contact in Switzerland mistook a kilogram, 1000 grams, for a milligram (.001 grams), which would explain the huge discrepancy.”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
“CIA documents indicate that LSD was employed as an aid to interrogation on an operational basis from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s.”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
“Department stores, hotels, and amusement parks began to dot the landscape, and by World War I, buying was seen as the road to happiness. Money became the measure of everything, friendship and religion included.”
― The Twilight of American Culture
― The Twilight of American Culture
“Henry Ford said that “Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence”.”
― No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy
― No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy
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