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33. The Empire Creates Its Own Reality

Reply to MattSh (Reply #12)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 09:43 AM

Jan 2015

and then a little child calls out: "But the Emperor has no clothes on!"

And the name of that child? Edward Snowden.

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