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Forbes: A Big Mideast War Is Unavoidable(www.forbes.com)

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freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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Don’t ever forget that the fortune that built Forbes started with A different Forbes family line built their fortune selling opium in dominated China, using those proceeds to build rail in America on land stolen from the indigenous peoples being genocided and then a completely unrelated Forbes family line turned into a financial and built a propaganda empire. rag during WW1.

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the fortune that built Forbes started with selling opium in dominated China

Those Forbes are unrelated to the magazine founder also incidentally the magazine is now majority Chinese owned.

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Oh wow, I didn’t realize that Forbes magazine was a completely separate Forbes! Thanks for turning me on to that. I also learned that John Kerry is of the Forbes family that made their money in opium!

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