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starroute

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7. It wasn't prophecy -- it was the way things were

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 12:49 PM

Sep 2013

February 1928 - The Call of Cthulhu published in Weird Tales - first story in the Cthulhu Mythos

http://www.moneynews.com/FinanceNews/income-inequality-top-1-percent-household/2013/09/10/id/524813

The income gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America last year reached the widest point since the Roaring Twenties.

The top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share since 1928. And the share held by the top 10 percent of earners last year reached a record 48.2 percent.

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The Republicans have created a monster that not even they can control any more. [View all] Unknown Beatle Sep 2013 OP

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..and they did it with Mass Media, Religion (Cult Worship), and flat-out Lies. formercia Sep 2013 #6

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For me, this is the whole enchilada. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #12

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One of the best posts I've seen in a while! Aldo Leopold Sep 2013 #14

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