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VanillaRhapsody

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2. Same as it ever was....there really is nothing new under the sun....you know?

Reply to elehhhhna (Original post)

Sat Sep 13, 2014, 01:09 AM

Sep 2014

Wealth seeks slave labor....if you don't give it to them....they destroy your economy! The American Govt was actually formed out of seeking to escape that....because the Corporation of the day....was the East India Trading Company.....and King George was indebted to them...."at their service" so to speak....taking out tariffs on all tea that WASN'T East India Trading brand.....it was painfully obvious who was pulling the strings....we have always been at war with Big Corporation.

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FBI Investigated "It's a Wonderful Life" for Portraying Bankers as "Evil" [View all] elehhhhna Sep 2014 OP

I love that movie shenmue Sep 2014 #1

Same as it ever was....there really is nothing new under the sun....you know? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2014 #2

Sadly BlindTiresias Sep 2014 #3

And people expect a single Presidential Candidate winning is going to change the situation VanillaRhapsody Sep 2014 #5

To be fair BlindTiresias Sep 2014 #11

And we all live in Pottersville now WestCoastLib Sep 2014 #4

Here is another interesting piece of trivia regarding "It's a Wonderful Life" Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #6

Thanks, Uncle Joe! Duppers Sep 2014 #10

Thanks, Uncle Joe! Never seen that fillum. Octafish Sep 2014 #15

Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath", one of my favorites, was also quite controversial. Purveyor Sep 2014 #7

Grateful Dead song "Jack Straw" is based on Grapes of Wrath grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #16

The truth hurts. graegoyle Sep 2014 #8

Precisely Sherman A1 Sep 2014 #12

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. John D. Rockefeller jtuck004 Sep 2014 #9

If this scene from the movie is Un-American, then so am I: Martin Eden Sep 2014 #13

Everyone knows Banksters are good people. Octafish Sep 2014 #14

Whe the FSM was passing out paranoia hifiguy Sep 2014 #17

J. Edgar Hoover was a fucking piece of work, wasn't he? bullwinkle428 Sep 2014 #18

unless I missed something, they are treating this as new information. have known this for years. niyad Sep 2014 #19