The Shocking Story Behind "The Grab," A Thriller About Food | José Andrés | Longer Tables Podcast
Classified cables. Secret land grabs. Biblical springs run dry. Jet packs. (Jet packs!) "The Grab" sounds like fiction -- it's not. In this episode, investigative journalist Nate Halverson tells the little-known, world-shaping story at the heart of this gripping new documentary.
Food, water: As governments around the world become increasingly desperate for these resources, the consequences get shocking.
"The Grab" premieres June 14th in theaters and over assorted streaming platforms.
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This is vital information for all people who need food and water. Thank you for making this available.
I live in Marana, Arizona. Once the word got out there was a backlash that put an end to the Saudi owned farm. Their permits were rescinded in April of 2023. According to a PBS article the Saudis were pumping up to 3,000 gallons per minute to water their alfalfa that would then be sent back to Saudi Arabia.
@MB-dp1rj
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the info...so glad the backlash resulted in ending the Saudi "grab".
@Emmy-J
Ай бұрын
Yeah I think this guy needs to update his info. I hate when people do a story that doesn't have the right info
@catherinewilson1079
Ай бұрын
Glad to know this has changed!
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
Ай бұрын
good to hear! I remember learning about this about five years ago - there was a book on this back then - with the same title on land grabs for farming. The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Paperback - March 26, 2013
@GhulamsarwarSahi
27 күн бұрын
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Thanks for bringing attention to this very important film
China also bought Tyson which is the most popular chicken producer. Why did that go through?
@juniormichael354
Ай бұрын
It's business 😂
@Emmy-J
Ай бұрын
@@juniormichael354 Its giving China control of our food source.
@anitakephart3851
Ай бұрын
The same way they bought our steel 60 yrs ago.
@Cherryontop10
7 күн бұрын
Ppl buy chicken
Our gov needs to step in and put a stop to this ASAP
@technotarzan4044
Ай бұрын
Governments are enabling this because they are controlled by multinational entities. Everyone should know this by now.
@joanjohnson9616
Ай бұрын
Don't count on our government. Big corporations own our government and other governments.
@josecleophas363
Ай бұрын
theyre just as guilty☹
@jliriano8543
Ай бұрын
They won’t.
@anitakephart3851
Ай бұрын
They are a PART of it, a GREAT part of it Keep learning...
As a Canadian I fear which powers will grab at our Great Lakes.
@jaymutiso2217
25 күн бұрын
They're not yours, you stole them from the natives
Grow trees, their roots will pull up water and save our rivers - example Madras Sadhguru planted millions of trees and stopped famine and saved River Cavery..
It blows my mind that people don't see the situation with fresh water!!!
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
Ай бұрын
read my op-ed from 24 years ago. Water Crisis Sucks Us into Global Revolution April, 2000 University of MN Daily staff op-ed, drew hempel The Great Lakes will be at record lows because of lack of snow that feeds 40 percent of their annual water supply. This disturbing situation has been attributed to global warming, and according to the United Nations, the influence of major transnational corporations extends over about 50 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. What's received less attention is that large corporations are also attempting to raid the Great Lakes. One government agency already gave permission for 600 million liters of Great Lakes water to be filled into tankers and sent to Asia over the next five years. A temporary moratorium was achieved, but the move to conserve water will be brought to the World Trade Organization as a violation of the supposed rights of corporate rule. Through Reaganite corporate-state subsidies, California ironically has become the new dairy state at the expense of rural Wisconsin family livelihood -- including their future ability to drink water. California recently attempted to pipe water from Wisconsin. According to the Worldwatch Institute, agriculture accounts for two-thirds of all irrigated fresh water use while industrial production in general accounts for 50 to 80 percent of fresh water demand. But it's not just corporate-state water use in California; it's also the corporate pollution of water. Silicon "computer" Valley has more Superfund sites -- most of them affecting groundwater -- than any other area its size in the country. And 60 percent of the United States' liquid hazardous wastes -- 34 billion liters of solvents, heavy metals and radioactive materials -- is directly injected into the ground, the main source for fresh water. In 1996, the journal Science reported that the global supply of fresh water will be used up in 30 years at current usage rates. According to the Stanford researchers who authored the study, there is no "hidden water," and current foreseeable technologies, like desalinization, were factored into their findings. But greed-driven corporations are tapping into that grim projection to maximize profits for their own pea-brained drive to extinction. In just a few short years, through more than 130 acquisitions, American Toxic Control has been transformed into U.S. Filter Inc., with $5 billion in annual revenues, making it 10 times the size of its nearest competitor. As controller at U.S. Filter, Richard Heckmann states, "How could it be that there is no Intel, I.B.M., General Motors or Toys 'R' Us in the water business?" he asked. "You can live without all those things. Five days without water, you're dead." Apparently Dan Quayle agrees since he sits on the U.S. Filter Inc. board, joined by the Bass brother finance speculators who threw in a cool, refreshing $250 million. The time is right to create a giant corporation that transforms the public right to water into a scarce luxury item for those privy to the secret magic of money. Based on a 1998 water study by Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, "To avoid catastrophe ... it is important to act now." Our clear answer to the water crisis, according to the scientific researchers, can be summed up in one word: conservation. Secret global corporate rule, though, blocks environmental issues, labeling them barriers to corporate WTO trade. U.S. corporate-state rule has been consistent in its priorities ever since the founding aristocrats, like John Jay, planned to keep the rich in power against the threat of democracy. George Kennan, as head of the State Department, authored a top-secret document that reflects these elite goals on a global scale: "We have about 50 percent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 percent of its population ... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity ... We should cease to talk about vague and -- for the Far East -- unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards and democratization ... The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." Similarly, now declassified U.S. National Security Council documents clearly outline policies to support destructive regimes in order to maintain wealth for the corporate-state elite. In fact, after World War II, the U.S. corporate-state elite attacked democracy movements worldwide and reinstated fascist regimes, brutally promoting power to a few. There's an interesting hidden history to undemocratic, destructive corporate rule. Did colonists plead for a more "socially responsible" king? The colonists demanded their inalienable, natural right to sovereignty. The king, though, was the only sovereign of the land and the king was also the only source of corporate charters. Most of the 13 colonies were actually crown charters (i.e. the Massachusetts Bay Trading Company). The list of grievances attached to the Declaration of Independence stemmed from the corporate rule of the king. After democracy was achieved, corporate charters were deliberately put into the hands of the state legislatures, were issued for only special purposes and had extremely limited powers. Corporate charters were routinely revoked and the corporate assets reinvested by the public. President Lincoln warned, though, shortly after the Civil War, that the growing threat of corporate rule was worse than the war and would, unless stopped, destroy the republic. Just as he predicted in 1886, a bought-out robber-baron judge declared that corporations are protected by the Bill of Rights and have legal "personhood" -- thus subverting our democracy. That same year 230 state laws controlling corporations were overturned in district courts. Between 1890 and 1910, 307 cases went to the Supreme Court based on the anti-slavery 14th Amendment. But only 19 cases were from African-Americans, while 288 were corporations seeking their new constitutional personhood "right to due process." The Bill of Rights ironically continues to be the main vehicle for destructive undemocratic corporate rule. Most state constitutions still require the attorney general to revoke the charter of any corporation that continuously violates the public good. With the knowledge of this hidden history exposed, in the last few years the public has rescinded two corporate charters. The global sovereignty movement grows increasingly thirsty for democratic revolution. The future of water depends on declaring independence from corporate rule.
@CraftEccentricity
4 күн бұрын
Its because they want Coca Cola, Almond Milk, and nuts. 8 gallons of water to produce just one nut.
So now we are using fresh water for fracking and I hoped he might mention that...
@freshsox7052
23 күн бұрын
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Do another show on China's use of large scale factory fishing operations to strip fish out of the world's oceans. They especially prey on smaller island and coastal nations that are not able to defend themselves.
Thank you for this report. It answers so many questions I had about the worlds conflicts.Water is the new gold.
I truly feel like the Hawaii fire was a way to get the ancestral land taken over for water, food, land .
Everything in the US is for sale - for a price!!!
Love the fact that both of them are using cabled headphones. The entire topic is absolutely as important as Collateral Damage video was for Wikileaks.
@Marie-rd1se
Ай бұрын
Please explain the meaning and significance of what your comment contains!
@technotarzan4044
Ай бұрын
@@Marie-rd1se The fact that this takes place behind the corporate veil is akin to the military encryption that was broken to bring the story to the public. That breaking of the ENCRYPTION was what crippled the G7 trust in each other and made Julian the person with the target on his back. No different than Nate stepping into the secret areas that food security programs have been doing without public scrutiny. Brave man and his colleagues should be very careful.
Great episode, can't wait to watch the film!
Good old Invisible Hand doing "The Grab".
Thanks for sharing
The Great Depression and Dust Bowl sucked really bad. Hope we do t go through that.
EVERYBODY PLEASE GROW FOOD LOCAL IN YOUR HOME - MICROGREENS POTATP ETC.. KZread CAN TEACH YOU
@NEMO-NEMO
21 күн бұрын
@any If you ain’t got water you better live in a state that gets lots of rain and snow. No water, No garden Nothing
I just saw your documentary and Kudos to you and how admirable your bravery shines. While watching the movie I asked myself, what is causing municipalities , like the La Paz community to allow for the usage of water to foreign nations when it’s obvious that it would deplete the water for its own citizens, placing them at risk? Also, how many times have these entities killed off existing governments to infiltrate and GRAB water, and land rights? It’s very disheartening to think that by the time American citizens realize was it happening and want to do something, it’s too late mainly because Americans still believe in voting democratically and going to town meetings and sending letters to Senators and Congressmen. Wake the fudge up! The Calvary is not coming!
China also owns Dairy Farmers of America
So, all of this information is released, yet the mass population still moves the same way.🤨
Cows eat grass - we don’t. They do NOT need to feed them grain. Let them graze and improve the land and soil and then eat them.
Sadly the documentary cannot be purchased or ented even in AFRICA.
@maletsikamothusi5167
21 күн бұрын
That is because most of the grab is done here in our continent
What books would you recommend on this topic?
Nestles data on meat consumption is fraudulent. Our grandparents and great grandparents ate far more meat in their diet. Growing animals that grow themselves was far easier then growing grain and veg. The Chinrse great famine was deliberate and orchestrated, not a natural event. Im now very suspect about the validity and honesty of intent about yr movie.
@tammystrey1951
Ай бұрын
Right? And his comment that Nestlé has some of the best water modeling. What? As an "investigative reporter", there's no way he doesn't know about how crooked Nestlé is!
@lovleetreasures
Ай бұрын
Agreed! As soon as he mentioned Nestles data, he lost credibility, giving me more questions than answers.
Grow micro greens on your window and get healthy Do hydroponics
Unbelievable
I have one season on DVD of Mr. Andres' MADE IN SPAIN.
@Marie-rd1se
Ай бұрын
A little detail, regarding the significance of what you just imparted, to the topic at hand, would be appreciated
We can all start growing Food Forest😅😮😅😮😅
MBS and Trump and Jared I just read Arizona has canceled Saudis leases
@PTPavlos
Ай бұрын
How - he's not in power. Stop making stuff up
@bk9852
Ай бұрын
@@PTPavlos making what up explain
@danthomas6587
Ай бұрын
@@PTPavlos The Saudi permits were rescinded in April of 2023.
@bk9852
Ай бұрын
@@PTPavlos The Trump boys are in Saudi Arabia right now doing trump hotels there all in bed together
@liszmartinez5610
Ай бұрын
@@bk9852 stop spreading your lies they created the problem
Not all money is good money.
They own the pigs and the slaughterhouse ? Or one, or the other ?
About 10 years ago I was talking about how China was buying our farmland under Obama inviting
Why would our Gov allow this😢
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@Marie-rd1se
Ай бұрын
Hi, how can a regular person contact you? Do you have a website? TYIA
She has no clue what he’s talking about and it’s just her job assignment lol. And did she say people that are uninitiated? Lol
This interview was as boring as it can get. She was not prepared at all. All the pulses Indicated that as well as the lame Questions she asked. Please next time send in a pro please.