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The global \"elite\" meet in the Middle East. Do you really think they're meeting to discuss ways to help their working class? What is presented as \"peace\" was window dressing for HUGE arms sales?

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If Americans don't start to understand economics we are doomed. And it's not looking like it's headed in the right direction.

The global \"elite\" meet in the Middle East. Do you really think they're meeting to discuss ways to help their working class? What is presented as \"peace\" was window dressing for HUGE arms sales?

Th 5.15.25 Economic Illiteracy is Killing Us / Global "Elite" Meet!