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2banon

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11. YES! The Irony is Astonishing.. Why does it escape the attention of a few around here?

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #8)

Sat Jan 4, 2014, 02:36 PM

Jan 2014

It's amazing thing to watch / listen to M$M reporting on the horrible injustice and prosecutorial abuses done to whistleblowers of government corruption in China, Russia and elsewhere but don't seem to recognize it going on right here.

Cognitive dissonance is a serious disorder inflicting many of our compatriots, it seems.

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