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amandabeech

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36. Business may not care about Bradley Manning, but they do care about ordinary citizens

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 12:37 PM

Feb 2013

demanding justice for corporate wrong-doing and corporate influence and demand that government regulate corporations for the public good, like keeping the corps from poisoning the ground water with fracking.

Will our government collaborate with corps to keep economic dissidents in check?

Why did Obama golf with energy types while the streets of DC were filled with citizens demonstrating for more attention to climate change?

This all just smells of Mussolini in the morning.

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