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IrishAyes

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5. I saw it

Reply to Myrina (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 04:46 PM

Jul 2013

And the figures for heat and food each read zero! That's called beating the downtrodden to a pulp and then stomp 'em for bleeding. The thin and false veneer of civilization is fast disappearing from the corporate world. They think they already have us so beaten there's no need to pretend anymore, and there's nothing we can do about it.

Guess again.

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