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The media isn't only asleep it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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