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Demeter

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33. Why this? Why Now?
Tue Jun 18, 2013, 07:39 AM
Jun 2013

The Corporations have won...this isn't about the corporations, though, is it?

It's about power...the lack of power by nations cheated of tax revenue, and the power of corporations to take data and use it to crush opposition...

The great struggle of our times will be the Corporations vs. the Nation States.

And where do ordinary people fit into this? We are the ants at the picnic.

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