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Easterncedar

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6. It was all made easier by the first plagues carried in
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:28 AM
Feb 2024

So many Europeans of the second landings were able to imagine they were claiming uninhabited land. And down through the centuries the greed and evil expand. How did our story of decency and democratic ideals end in the School of the Americas?

I was raised on the ideals. I wised up early - Vietnam era - but it still hurts somehow to know how false that narrative always was.

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