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What does democracy look like? Hollywood. For the purpose of maintaining a broken business model that is clearly out of step with its own market for the purpose of driving around in the latest model Portia for a few years longer. He's willing to rob your, your descendants of the right to know. This is not a movement with the leader. This is not a movement that is top down. This is a movement that started organically on the Internet by American citizens.
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