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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lambo ✧✺🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Why NOT Greenland
Date: 01/08/26 5:39 PM
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Suggested reading, Major General Smedley Butler.
en.wikipedia.org - War Is a Racket
plus ça change...

Jim

I wonder how many folks know much about the forced labour during the 19 year US occupation of Haiti.

Thanks for bringing up Smedley. I was a kid in Panama, CZ for four years. I consider those years heaven now. I was down there during the riots and those memories changed my view over time. My family traveled up from CZ and I remember the Village of Chichicastenango in Guatemal as being a magical place and the Mayans there as very intelligent and could understand me without language. Later I found out that Chichicastenango was part of the massacre areas and so the people I met there were either killed or herded into camps, brutalized, and force fed Christianity. Reagan endorsed the President of Guatemala who caused the massacres and called him a "fine Christian man".
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