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   I thought of the Doctor’s three step program to world domination. It seemed to be coming true. Our food supply was owned and controlled by a few giant corporations. It was genetically modified to survive herbicide and insecticide that poisoned the land while it poisoned our bodies. America’s meat was owned by corporate factories that were concentration camps of tortured animals and Petri dishes of antibiotic resistant diseases. Energy was oil and the very idea that the oil industry would give that up was a joke. We were in Afghanistan to build pipelines for the oil and gas in the Caspian Basin. The billions promised to wind and solar technology have been offered as loans to the nuclear power industry. And Money? A few bankers almost destroyed the world economy and they were rewarded with the greatest transfer of wealth in history. The rich were richer and more powerful than ever, and they were using their power to throw more and more people out of work and out of their homes and to steal what little commonwealth Americans had left.
   The flag that I was staring at suddenly snapped off the pole and took flight.