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Shattering the mirror doesn’t change what is reflected.

https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/ thanks to this newsfeed, for the article: https://news.abolish.capital/

https://youtu.be/QPYUOPVsBq0

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    At a public meeting in July, ranchers said they were noticing unmonitored tapping of border aquifers that threatened the water for those nearby.

    “It would put us in an immediate catastrophe and having to do something with our livestock. I mean, it could potentially put some people out of business, us included,” said Russell Johnson, a cattle rancher whose property runs along the border.

    Johnson raised the issue at the public meeting after noticing an industrial well, which drilling crews told him would pump 300 gallons a minute, on land he leases for grazing. Johnson has roughly 12 wells across his ranch, which pump between three and seven gallons a minute.







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    San Juan’s mayor, Miguel Romero, sued Puerto Rico’s Aqueducts and Sewer Authority in late May over the outages, signaling growing official frustration with the utility’s response. The governor said repairs to the major pipeline crack were completed by mid-June, but residents remain skeptical. One San Juan resident reported that as repairs progressed, crews discovered additional leaks they said they could not fix without halting other repairs, suggesting the problem extends far beyond the initial rupture.