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)
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