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nadinbrzezinski

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12. We were there once

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #11)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 03:22 AM

Jan 2014

It took strikes all over, constantly.

Am afraid this tme around it will take strikes here and abroad. If labor (world wide) does not grow a spine soon, we are pretty much done. The conditions are being created for a lot of unrest.

I won't likely see it, but my nephews will.

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