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Octafish

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3. I don't remember Greenpeace spoiling the Gulf of Mexico.

Reply to badtoworse (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 19, 2014, 10:16 PM

Nov 2014

I do remember them pointing out how Conservative Greedheads made sure in 1971 we'd get to today's USA where Money is Speech and trumps Peace:

The Lewis Powell Memo - A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

The author, a lawyer who made a killing protecting Big Tobacco from Uncle Sam, for his trouble got nominated to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, traitor and crook.

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I don't remember Greenpeace spoiling the Gulf of Mexico. Octafish Nov 2014 #3