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6. I am reading the Shock Doctrine

Reply to Wwcd (Original post)

Sun Oct 22, 2017, 04:35 PM

Oct 2017

and that made me think of PR - everyone is just trying to survive, so they don't have time to get in the way of the capitalists having a nice new "blank slate" that they can make money off of.

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Puerto Rico and its Oil Fields - Report from 2013 [View all] Wwcd Oct 2017 OP

Probably not. It's simply because Trump is a racist scumbag. Nt joeybee12 Oct 2017 #1

I agree. Trump thinks ahead only on race, racism in ingrained in his being. Blue_true Oct 2017 #2

Occams razor joeybee12 Oct 2017 #4

So if PR were an independent nation it would have rights Hortensis Oct 2017 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Oct 2017 #5

Interesting. I also cannot locate anything on the toxic dump.YET. There is the Jones Act however Wwcd Oct 2017 #7

I am reading the Shock Doctrine treestar Oct 2017 #6

Shock Doctrine comparison is chilling. I believe we'd be Wwcd Oct 2017 #8