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The us congress office of technology assessment has recorded israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities. Judge william webster, then director of the central intelligence agency cia, warned that the odds on. Freeing the world of nuclear, biological, and chemical arms. John taylor gattos weapons of mass instruction, now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rotememorization drills gattos earlier book, dumbing us down.
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