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Demeter

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65. Chris Hedge's Money Quote

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 09:05 AM

Jul 2012

"There's no way to control corporate power. The system has broken down, whether it's Democrat or Republican. And because of that, we've all become commodities. Just as the natural world has become a commodity that is being exploited until it is exhausted, or it collapses."

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