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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Over70irregs" data-source="post: 6055509" data-attributes="member: 59424">They still print $.  $ = control. You live here. You know this. They Should still be pegged to the euro. Jesus I didn’t know this… Lordy“After the abolition of slavery, huge “reparations” were paid to the French former slave owners. These were used in part to establish colonial banks in Africa, later joined by others, which would strive to ensure that French domination would endure post-slavery by maintaining “the colonial pact.” This pact involved the deliberate underdeveloping of the colonies’ economies, their forced reliance on raw material exports, and a French monopoly on shipping, exports, and imports. “</blockquote>