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An energy ministry that decides who can obtain gas at one-fifth of its cost and who cannot is obviously subject to irresistible pressures to distribute its favors to whomever offers the largest bribes or kickbacks.

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One day, while my father was working on a file for us to obtain French nationality, I happened to see some documents that caught my attention.

And I found myself in the places where people are fighting every day to survive and can't even obtain a meal.

And I go to those shops, if there are any, or out to the fields to see what they can get, and they cannot obtain the nutrition.

I mean, why not utilize this technology, which massively broadens the boundaries of what's possible, accept that many of the things that happen in our world now go recorded, and we can obtain that information through social media?

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