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
Reading SDA this morning and now know why Pollievre made a statement on Venezuela - his wife is from there and she made a statement on X about it as all her family came here to get away from corruption. The media is really making hay with orange man bad this morning. Thank god for Lorna from Calgary for expressing common sense.
