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  1. 03-25-2022, 11:18 #11
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    Food and water are tools of control in many countries in the world. Used correctly it can even be a way to monetise one's own population who are too poor to pay conventional taxes - but when the UN comes a-running with fee food that can be stolen, permits and other import taxes can be demanded and things can be sold to their staff. All that lovely hard currency - and the poor, starving peasants are unlikely to revolt.

    And this of course is excluding when just starving people to death is the aim.

    Lack of access therefore isn't a problem to be "fixed", it is something to use.

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