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atreides1

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3. Really?

Reply to Not Ruth (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 27, 2017, 07:54 AM

Sep 2017

How can they fix the docks if they don't have the supplies and equipment, which can't get to the island, because the DHS will not waive the Jones Act????

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