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11. "when treason prospers
Sat Jun 22, 2013, 08:38 AM
Jun 2013

none dare call it treason." ***

Saddest words because true. Corporate America is -- is -- America. We are just the peasants and soldiers.

I'm retired and living well. Those following me seem more and more to be screwed. There are some good things -- maybe that's "not so bad things" -- happening, like ACA. But there's also TeaParty subterfuge, workers conned into working with the corporations to stifle any and all efforts made by the Government (as the voice of the vast majority of the people) to make things fairer and better for us. Rights delineated by the constitution are being abrogated saving, of course, the dubious "right" left, like a smoking feces that won't dry up, of the 2nd Amendment -- and the media laughs and shrugs its shoulders. OWS is mocked by CNN as pointless and ignorant -- but OWS made clear the difference between the 1% "Them" and the 99% "Us." Yet the media shills made light of it, even to ambushing participants on site (like Erin Burnett of CNN did, by way of introducing herself to the public and, of course, to her media bosses). And Fracking causes environmental disruption that is softly whispered about by the media, while the method itself is hailed as a miracle method of making more energy available, (whispered: "for big profits&quot to the 99%

***with a smile of irony and no apologies whatsoever to John Stormer.

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