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randr

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8. The suffering uranium miners in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah

Reply to NNadir (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 05:44 PM

Jan 2018

would beg to differ.
The enormous amount of money invested in a dwindling source of energy would have gone much further in development of solar, wind, tidal sources without contributing to the industrial military conmplex's insidious interest in weapons of mass destruction

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