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Sept. 14, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Hydroimperialism: A Cautionary Tutorial
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The three most important parts of our existence remain food, water, and energy.
That's it.
Food.
Food.
I don't know how long we can go without food.
Two weeks, maybe?
I don't know.
It's hard to say.
How long can we go without energy?
Well, it's different.
What kind of energy?
These are alternative energies.
But hydration?
Water?
No.
Was it Colbridge?
Water, water everywhere.
Nary a drop to drink.
Right?
Water.
Hydro-imperialism.
The most important, the, this is going to be the casus belli.
This is going to be the subject of war, of battle, of conquest, of everything.
We're going to be talking about the transpositional and transitional issues regarding water.
Hydro-imperialism, the most important issue of its day.
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My friend, in the old days, Whenever the ruling class and the monarchs and the kings and the queens would go out and explore, they would go on their horseback to Central America and South America and they would plunder caves and mines and they would get the diamonds
and the emeralds and the rubies.
All of the natural bounty.
And these fellows would come on horseback with ostrich plumes in their brightly colored clothing.
They were festooned with epaulets and frogs and all these braids.
And they would, I declare, they basically took whatever they wanted.
It's called plundering.
It's called stealing.
But what did they want?
Ah, that was in the old days.
The days, remember, years ago when the blue chip stocks were mining and rubber and, you know, coal.
Coal mines, very, very big, obviously coal.
Energy, coal.
Emeralds, rubies, uranium.
And then later on, from the early 20th century, it was oil.
And then they went to, obviously, Middle Eastern countries or places that had oil, Venezuela, our own...
Our own parts.
It was oil, black, gold.
And then later on, that kind of transitioned and changed.
What do we need now?
Well, interestingly enough, lithium.
Lithium.
What is lithium about?
Well, lithium is, as you know, the component of virtually everything that's in this device you're watching me on right now.
From the batteries to the components.
Lithium.
And where do we get lithium?
Well, interestingly enough, did you know that Afghanistan is the Saudi Arabia of lithium?
Isn't that interesting?
And coincidental, I would say.
And then rare earth metals.
Why are rare earth metals important?
Rare earth metals are so critical because the same thing.
And with rare earth metals, what's tough about that is you need a lot of land to get a little tiny bit.
To get a teaspoon of Einsteinium, whatever the heck it is, or a gram, you may have to mine an acre.
I'm exaggerating, but the point is, countries like China said, no problem!
So we have to go elsewhere.
We can't strip mine the Yosemite or whatever it is.
But the one that's the most important, the one above all, It's water.
It can't go off the water standard like you can go off the gold standard.
Desalination doesn't work.
I mean, you can try it.
It may be okay for a submarine, but not for the world.
Water.
Fresh water.
Aquifers.
The most important thing alive today.
They always ask, we're exploring the universe.
We're looking for a A planet that has water.
Does it have water?
Is it frozen?
Maybe.
Where there's water, there's life.
You know the drill.
Remember when I want to say in the 80s when all of a sudden bottled water came along?
You never walked around with a bottle of water.
You went to a water fountain or maybe, I don't know.
And that changed everything.
Water became very posh, very cool.
Your brand of water.
Very important.
Well, even our old buddy, Muammar Gaddafi, by the way, the only man whose name can be spelled with a G, a Q, or a K, and 50 different spellings within those three.
Well, he decided that he was going to make Libya arable.
And there's this thing called the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer that Libya sits at.
A top.
And he was going to pump about $25 billion into this.
And he's going to say, I'm going to make, I'm going to, we're going to get all this water.
And they said, no!
Who are they?
Well, you know who they are.
And people wonder, what was this problem?
Well, going off, you know, nationalizing oil, that wasn't smart.
Not playing along.
Maybe the whole Lockerbie thing, maybe, maybe that, that.
We'll get to that one day.
No, some people said, that might be it.
What's this water thing?
Iraq!
What's with Iraq?
The Tigris and the Euphrates?
The Fertile Crescent?
The Garden of Eden?
Wait a minute.
This area is pretty...
Boy, this is important.
The Golan Heights?
Water?
Shall I just go through this?
Water?
The Casus Belli?
Look where the Bush family has spent, invested billions.
Who owns the water?
Look at the Nestle Corporation and others as well.
Who owns the water?
I'm a lawyer by profession.
You have your property, where you live, your home, your deed and your land.
And you used to have mineral rights.
You owned what was below you and what was above you.
The ad selim to the heavens.
Then easements came along and all this other kind of stuff.
But who owns the water?
Who owns this?
We're going to find out.
It's the issue.
And notice how more and more you're hearing about there's no water in this, and then there's flint, and then this was contaminated, and then we have to bring in bottled water.
I mean, we're a country that goes crazy over toilet paper.
When COVID broke up, remember that?
There was a toilet paper shortage.
What the heck did toilet paper have to do with COVID?
I have no idea.
But imagine water.
All of a sudden.
Because you think when you go to the water, you turn that on.
And we here in New York, we have the great aquifers from upstate.
It's the best water.
I can't imagine what it would be like if we just did not have that.
Is that possible?
Is that possible?
Even remotely possible?
Is anybody talking about this?
How do we guarantee?
Could somebody shut off our water?
Is it a part of a grid?
Who protects it?
Who owns it?
What if somebody comes along and makes a claim for it?
When we go to a different country, or anybody goes to a country and claims it, either through war or what have you, who owns the water?
Who owns it?
Can you take it?
Is it yours?
Is there any kind of a humanity aspect to it?
Would we then turn to the UN to dispense this?
Why isn't anybody even bringing this up?
Hydro-imperialism.
The issue that is going to be existential.
Literally.
Actually.
Before your very eyes, it's going to blow your mind.
And I have been talking about this, I think, forever.
Because I see as clear as day.
Look what's happening with our farms.
Look what's happening with our food.
Look what's happening to our crops.
Look what's happening to a lot of things that we just kind of take for granted.
Like our toilet paper.
Look what's happening.
And look how easy it is for there to be an interruption in supply chain and the ability to possess and enjoy.
Think about that, my dear friend.
And if you could and you would, brighten my northern sky as a great Nick Drake intoned.
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