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zeemike

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6. And that same thing happened elsewhere too.

Reply to sulphurdunn (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 21, 2013, 11:48 PM

Jun 2013

Like in Africa where the English took the land away from the indigenous people and used it to grow cash crops.

And in Cuba where the corporations own practically all the land and the Mob owned Havana....I remember that the sugar companies owned 90% of the land.

Yes it could happen here...and is well on the way.

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