The Grab Movie

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The Grab Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis:  Quietly and seemingly out of sight, governments, private investors and mercenaries are working to seize food and water resources at the expense of entire populations. These groups are establishing themselves as the new OPEC, where the future world powers will be those who control not oil, but food. And it's all beginning to bubble to the surface in real time. Global food prices have hit an all-time high, threatening chaos and violence. Meanwhile China, Russia, the UAE and Wall Street are just a few of the players strategizing within this shocking, shifting geopolitical landscape.  THE GRAB is a global thriller combining hard-hitting journalism from The Center for Investigative Reporting with the compelling character-driven storytelling of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, taking you around the globe to reveal one of the world’s biggest and least known threats.  Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite  Available everywhere June 14, 2024.

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00:00 I've covered stuff in the past that people told me I should be concerned about,

00:04 that I should be watching my back.

00:05 I'm just going to close the door here.

00:07 We're talking thousands and thousands.

00:10 This project has kept me up at night more than

00:13 all of my other investigative reporting projects combined.

00:17 Every century is characterized by a key commodity.

00:22 Food is a very obvious and central way to willpower.

00:27 I came across this classified cable telling companies to

00:32 go overseas and buy up food and water resources.

00:35 A lot of this is happening in the shadows, quietly.

00:39 Food has become much more powerful than the oil.

00:43 How do you think that's going to end?

00:46 It's not just China, not just Russia.

00:49 This is Wall Street, big money,

00:50 leasing land to foreign countries.

00:52 I thought maybe there might be more to it than that.

00:55 Turns out, there was.

00:57 I mean, it's like a who's who.

00:58 It's like the MVPs of the mercenary world.

01:00 What if there's an uprising?

01:05 That's what we call it.

01:06 Private military corporations.

01:08 One of the most notorious mercenaries on the planet.

01:10 You have thousands of his emails.

01:12 Correct.

01:13 Who gave you the notice to the boards?

01:15 That there was a piece of paper.

01:17 Right there was all of our names and passport numbers.

01:20 They were definitely waiting for us.

01:22 This is the part of the story that makes us think that

01:25 all of our communications are hacked.

01:27 You just take and take and take,

01:31 and pretty soon there isn't anything to take.

01:33 When you don't have enough food, money is useless.

01:35 While policy experts are debating,

01:37 whoever has guns is going to go after it and get it.

01:40 He said, "I trust no one but myself right now."

01:42 We're getting kicked out.

01:43 How I went from food and water to invisibility cloaks,

01:46 there's no bigger story that will impact more people

01:50 than this story.

01:51 (dramatic music)

01:55 (whooshing)

01:57 (whooshing)

01:59 (whooshing)

02:02 (whooshing)

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02:06 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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