More than one billion people lack access to fresh drinking water, according to the United Nations — and that number is expected to double in the next 10 years. World water consumption is growing more than twice as fast as the population.
For human beings this is a crisis. For corporations, though, it’s an opportunity. The [...]
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“Corporations and investors are ramping up a concerted, multi-pronged effort aimed at forcing governments to privatize public services and to commodify water in the global commons. Already, much of England and France have privatized water systems. The result has been rate increases, deteriorating service, loss of local control and increased corruption. Since water services [...]
This is just a sampling of what happens when water becomes a commodity. Privatization has been tried in England. Water rates rose 45% overnight, maintenence was cut to a bare minimum and the quality of water fell to all time lows.
In Bolivia where water has been privatized, indigenous people who attempted to dig their own [...]
By Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman, with Michael Fox
Jossey-Bass/Wiley & Sons, 2007
THIRST investigates eight recent high-profile controversies over the corporate takeover of water in the U.S, and illuminates how citizens are fighting back in heartland communities like Stockton, CA, Lexington, KY, Holyoke, MA, and Mecosta County, MI. Political corruption, high stakes financial takeovers, and behind [...]
Reviewed by Carolyn Baker
The old normal is that life will go on just like before. The new normal is that nothing will ever be the same Rather than attempting to undertake the Herculean task of mitigating the unmitigatable-attempting to stop the world and point it in a different direction-it seems far better to turn inward [...]
Congress Contemplates Giving Cash to Foreigners
By Phyllis Schlafly
Monday, February 25, 2008
“There is much more to the Millennium Goals than merely extorting more money from U.S. taxpayers. The goals set forth a comprehensive plan to put the United States under U.N. global governance.
These goals include a “standing peace force” (i.e., a U.N. standing army), a “U.N. [...]
http://www.govit.com/S_1959/ Click on this link to register your comments or objections to the passage of this bill.S 1959 the Homegrown Terrorism and Prevention Act, also known as the “How to Stiffle Dissent and Close off Major Portions of the Internet” Act, is working it’s way through the Senate now.
If I understand the act correctly, somwhow, bloggers, [...]
In what is nothing less than a step towards martial law and the North American Union, U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renaurt signed an agreement with Canadian Air Force Lt-Gen. Marc Dumais which is nothing less than a treaty, called the Civil Assistance Plan. This so-called agreement (treaty) signals the intended use of the military [...]
United States Northern Command
Defending Our HOMELANDS
February 14, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, Texas —
U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the [...]
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that the United States has, for the first time in its history, granted rights to a Foreign Army to have ‘full power’ over the life and death of American Citizens in their own country.
Though not being reported [...]
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