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00:00I've covered stuff in the past that people told me I should be concerned about but I should be watching my back
00:05I'm just gonna close the door here. We're talking thousands and thousands
00:10This project has kept me up at night more than all of my other investigative reporting projects combined
00:18Every century is characterized by a key commodity and food is a very
00:24obvious and central way to willpower I
00:27I
00:28Came across this classified cable telling companies to go overseas and buy up food and water resources and a lot of this
00:36It's happening in the shadows quietly
00:40Who did it's become much more powerful than the world. How do you think that's going to end?
00:46It's not just China not just Russia. This is Wall Street big money. It's leasing land to foreign countries
00:52I thought maybe there might be more to it than that turns out
00:56There was I mean, it's like a who's who it's like the MVPs of the mercenary world
01:03What if there's an uprising that's what we tell it private military corporations
01:08One of the most notorious mercenaries on the planet you have thousands of his emails, correct?
01:15That there was a piece of paper right there was all of our names and passport numbers
01:20They were definitely waiting for us
01:22This is the part of the story that makes us think that all of our communications are hacked
01:28You just take and take and take and pretty soon there anything to take well
01:33You don't have enough food money is useless while policy experts are debating whoever has guns
01:38It's gonna go after it and get it. He said I trust no one but myself right now
01:43How I went from food and water to invisibility cloaks, there's no bigger story that will impact more people
01:49Than this story