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Posted By Mikunited 5 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsFears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food
• UN sounds warning after 30m hectares bought up
• G8 leaders to discuss 'neo-colonialism'
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dissent5 months, 3 weeks ago
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poor countries have been screwed by rich countries for their resources for decades if not centuries, there's nothing to suggest that when it comes to food, or even water for that matter, things will ever be any different. if there is ever a price on air we'll find a way to squeeze the last gasp from their lungs.
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as usual the g8 and others parade their mock concern before the world's media until the circus shifts its low concentration span and frivolous superficiality onto other more sensationalistic matters.
rich countries never walk the walk but only talk the talk with self-important furrowed brows until everyone is bored and looks away. then it's business as usual -- cronyism, corruption, exploitation and hypocrisy.
this usually comes in the form of wars and other fostered and carefully nurtured "humanitarian crises" that then pave the way for our "aid" with the attached strings of our lawyers and their contracts to make sure we well and truly stitch them up -
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calitennflo5 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is what Bush started in 2004...when he learned someone knew the correct laws governing this Nation...were not ones that dealt with money or stolen property...as that's the reality of the United States...they did not do it because of a missle or an atomic bomb...it was done because they are suffering dementia praecox...for real! They are suffering visions of grandure!
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Natureboy5 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Increased investment may bring benefits such as GDP growth and improved government revenues, and may create opportunities for economic development and livelihood improvement. But they may result in local people losing access to the resources on which they depend for their food security – particularly as some key recipient countries are themselves faced with food security challenges"
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What typically happens is that the increased revenues go to the foreign owners with a few crumbs passed on to the country's elites, not to those who lost the use of the natural resources, the land, the water, etc. This is not new - the same scenario has played out over and over. It is simply imperialism, whether it is managed by the World Bank and the IMF or accomplished in a more ham-handed manner by military invasion. -
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