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dixiegrrrrl

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1. A taste of things to come in other places:

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 04:55 AM

Jun 2013

He placed the attack on Detroit in the context of the global crisis of capitalism, explaining that
Detroit was being used as a “test case.”
What the elite is able to get away with in Detroit, he said, “it will attempt to impose elsewhere across the country.”
He drew comparisons to the situation in Greece, where elected officials have also been replaced by bankers’ representatives, and the working class is under severe attack.

Post Katrina New Orleans suffered the same fate...the city deliberately forced the removal of of many poor minorities and then
blocked up perfect good low income housing that had not been damaged at all, so that people had no place to return to.

Thank you for keeping this in the public eye.

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A taste of things to come in other places: dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #1

Exactly. Debt is their business model. Here comes the smash-and-grab, and it's all about the 1%. Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #2