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I was curious what “cadre deployment” was, so. If you are too:

Simply put, “cadre deployment” is when a political party sets out to achieve its strategic and ideological, goals by spreading its influence [read control] across all spheres of society by placing party activists in positions of power in institutions of state

https://irr.org.za/fan/media/anc-cadre-deployment-what-is-it

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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that our media only started to consider this a bad thing after 1994…

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Thank you, I was just about to ask!

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Victim-blaming is Propaganda 101. Or, as our mainstream media likes to call it, “balanced reporting.”

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Similar story in the UK during the summer.

Water companies are owned by foreign asset funds who wring every drop of profit with no thought for the future.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/thames-water-severn-trent-water-bill-increase-ofwat-b2661945.html

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Similar story in California. Water rights were divvied up in the late 1800’s early 1900’s and farmers got the lion’s share. They’re growing alfalfa in the desert…

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