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DeSwiss

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12. I was referencing the purchasing of water rights......

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 01:46 AM

Jul 2013

...as an investment by unscrupulous snakes in the commodity exchanges who are betting on future shortages of fresh water in lakes, rivers and aquifers. This is being done internationally where conceivably the people would lose the right of ownership and use of resources in their own countries, without the permission of the likes of T. Boone Pickens say, or even worse Citibank.

In any event, technology will always trump in the demand/supply scarcity game that is played. Which is why the monopolies want to control and own new technology to protect their positions in the old one. Like the oil companies.

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I was referencing the purchasing of water rights...... DeSwiss Jul 2013 #12

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