After World War I & II, the U.S. took most of Germany's patents and gave them away for free to U.S. companies. It was a form of reparations and a way to punish Germany for the harms it had inflicted on the world.

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Multinational organic chemistry companies (ExxonMobil, Bayer/Monsanto, Merck, Sanofi, Pfizer, Dow, Dupont, ChemChina, J&J, GSK...) have been waging war on the planet & its people for 100 years. The war is accelerating. They are the reason so many people are chronically ill.

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These multinational organic chemistry companies are mostly just a collection of patents & other intellectual property. The remedy for what ails us is to wipe out all patent protections for these companies. We can clearly show harms akin to war. We will call it #reparations.

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