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Dont call me Shirley

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24. Thank you!

Reply to Octafish (Reply #15)

Sun Dec 28, 2014, 09:48 PM

Dec 2014

Joblessness, poverty, crime and public education have been areas of extreme profit for the rich. They pretend to ignore while they reap massive profits from the most vulnerable.

I maintain hope that someday their putrid thoughts and behaviors will evolve into a higher consciousness.

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What the Military-Industrial Complex would look like without 9-11 [View all] Octafish Dec 2014 OP

Beautiful artwork. Without war, creativity abounds. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #1

''Without war, creativity abounds.'' Octafish Dec 2014 #10

Thank you Octafish. I have learned so much from you. I respect your opinion immensely. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #12

What you said is profound. Octafish Dec 2014 #15

Thank you! Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #24

The true enemies of freedom have common cause. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #2

Absolutely. That's why BFEE Overthrew Iranian Democracy for BP. Octafish Dec 2014 #11

No, you have a good point. What we talk about lives above the heads of politicians. Rex Dec 2014 #19

Sometimes I wonder if Bush V. Gore was a coup staged by the military industrial complex. Initech Dec 2014 #3

I once heard the following analogy; A HERETIC I AM Dec 2014 #6

I, too, am still FURIOUS about NAZI Selection 2000. Octafish Dec 2014 #13

Wow that's a lot of information there. Initech Dec 2014 #22

Sometimes I wonder if 9/11 was staged by the MIC in order to distract from Rex Dec 2014 #20

Imagine what could have been... Quantess Dec 2014 #4

2001-2011: What the Top 1-Percent Has Done For Us Octafish Dec 2014 #17

The US had so much potential to lead the world away from its history of Imperialism and forever war. sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #5

It seems like those that are greedy rise to the top. America was destine to fall. We raped rhett o rick Dec 2014 #7

Inventing the Abbotts MinM Dec 2014 #8

That is a great line. Octafish Dec 2014 #25

War. It's a money maker for elites JEB Dec 2014 #9

War! Huh! What is it good for? Profit! Sing it again y'all! Initech Dec 2014 #14

K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Dec 2014 #16

K&R Go Vols Dec 2014 #18

Another great post malaise Dec 2014 #21

I don't think people in this country even know that 57% of the budget goes to MIC BrotherIvan Dec 2014 #23