The Grab, from the Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite and filmed over the course of six years, captures the CIR team’s developing understanding of the pattern in real time, connecting Halverson’s Smithfield reporting in 2015 to a New York investment company’s purchase of Arkansas farmland to supply Hong Kong, WikiLeaks cables detailing how Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah ordered national companies to buy up resources abroad to drained aquifers in Arizona, and a leaked trove of emails from a private security company to displaced farmers in Zambia. The notches in the pattern are geographically disparate and murky, but they underscore one point: what oil was to the 20th century, food and water will be to
https://amp.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/12/the-grab-documentary-review
COMMENT:
"Getting rewarded for compliance with the corporate narrative, getting rewarded for playing the big pharma game and complying with the rigid ideology of the medical corporatists. This is the heart of the problem as it pertains to poor treatments and even poorer outcomes. There's too much money/lucre/$$$$ being used to corrupt the system into complying with the big money formula. The answer must necessarily lie with educating the public about alternative approaches to all aspects of human health; including how to treat cancer. This is what trailblazers like Dr. Makis are doing. Podcasts such as this one are getting the word out there. It's up to people to give their heads a shake and liberate themselves from this obviously corrupt money-making machine.
https://makisw.substack.com/p/interview-man-in-america-with-william
if not invasion, what?
calling things by their names
The matter is made all the more complex by the fact that the man who tackled the shooter was ahmed al-ahmed a sydney resident, father of two, and small business owner (a nearby produce market). ahmed is also a muslim and a first-generation immigrant, apparently from lebanon.
so, it just goes to show you, there are good people everywhere, a fact that once made selected and selective immigration so beneficial to the west.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/if-not-invasion-what#media-2df044d8-e22c-4c12-9d01-216c8a9e8456
