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The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Mumia Abu-Jamal
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 23
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