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Hydra

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7. It's a crossroads

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 09:56 PM

Aug 2015

We have all the makings of either a complete totalitarian-religion-wealth based system of control, or the makings of a completely different democratic system that will throw most of what we currently think is "required" to run a country into the trash.

The big question? Who will win.

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