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Aotearoa/New Zealand is also part of this chain. We’ve had our biggest hydropower scheme at Manapouri in the middle of delicate rainforest, built with public funds but virtually owned by Riotinto and Sumitomo for 60 years. The bauxite comes from Australia and the aluminium originally exported to Japan but I think it goes to other places too now. Environmentalists fought hard to restrict the raising of Lake Manapouri in the building of the damn and won significant victories in the 1960’s and 70’s Anti-imperialists, especially the Campaign against Foreign Control Aotearoa, have fought for almost as long, again with some success, against secret piratical pricing arrangements for the smelter owners. The subservience of the capitalist state in the matter has been sickening.

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Thanks especially for the insightful, inspirational last remarks. Sorely needed.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/izgH9sMdMDU

Sadly they even laugh about their cruelty, some how the jokes are like a Mafioso going to mass so the murders can go on and they still get to heaven.

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