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RainCaster

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11. An excellent piece - worth your time to read

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2025, 10:52 AM

May 2025

This is a very sobering article, with enough links to large groups of facts backing it up. TSF and his wealthy cohorts have done this to us over decades. The pace has only picked up. Now we are galloping towards that calamity.

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