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Slave Revolt in Rio

Thu, 12/28/2006 - 12:55pm — Xenophon

Most people, particularly those in the Blogosphere, donâ€™t know or donâ€™t care to know â€“ itâ€™s about to be on. Compton is about to look like Rio; Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Long Beach, Detroit â€“ all those deeply impoverished areas, urban and rural; black, brown, yellow and white, are about to explode. France, Rio, Mexico. This is here in America, all the immigrants from Americaâ€™s proxy wars in Latin America, the veterans of the drug war, they are all here getting hungrier by the day.

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