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ratchiweenie

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14. It's not a matter of hating the Chinese or the Arabs. It's a matter of selling land in areas that
Mon Feb 13, 2023, 08:48 PM
Feb 2023

are in the middle of draughts, where the local peoples wells have run dry, to foreign investors who are using huge amounts of water to grown extremely water intensive crops that are then exported to their home countries to feed animals that are high resource "crops" themselves. And they can do all of this because they are fabulously wealthy and the people who live in these areas are very, very, poor. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with wealth winning as usual.

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