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22: 259:. The American ex-ad man and Communist sympathizer that reveals the plan to Clarke thanks his influential 1945 article on satellite transmission for giving China the idea, and boasts that "History is on our side. We'll be using America's own decadence as a weapon against her, and it's a weapon for which there's no defence". 318: 313: 293: 39: 105: 86: 58: 43: 65: 308: 72: 32: 239:
to broadcast directly to Americans. The satellite will offer an uncensorable mix of heterosexual and homosexual
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