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bread_and_roses

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16. Yes

Reply to Octafish (Reply #15)

Sat Apr 20, 2013, 10:18 AM

Apr 2013

I linked to that post off Weekend Economists thread - scanned through and was surprised Carey wasn't mentioned. I looked him up because though I thought of him when scanning through it, I could not recall his name. Bless google: "Australian writer propaganda" brought him right up.

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Why did you look him up? Did you see this? Octafish Apr 2013 #15

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