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2naSalit

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2. They are well conditioned to toe the line...
Sat May 25, 2019, 07:41 AM
May 2019

Meanwhile, the goal from the top is to run them off their land so corporate farms can take over. Perhaps these same farmers will end up working those corporate farms just to survive just like in the Philippines back in the 60s and 70s and likely still ongoing. Those people were run off their land as the government sold out to Dole and others, the farmers either had to work the farms yet couldn't afford the food they grew for the corporation or migrate to a city. Many of them became the garbage people who live in a huge landfill near Manila. They survive by dump-picking and recycling items to sell along with finding food to eat. This is what -45 wants here. The climate does not matter to him either.

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