Alarming theft

[46zilzal]

Saw a very interesting documentary last night about the fight a small group is waging in Michigan over the outright theft of all their water.
http://www.indiaresource.org/issues/water/2003/bottledwaterblues.html

the Nestle corporation paid off local politicians to get a 99 year lease on land for around $70k and then proceeded to siphon off a major precentage of the water table FREE OF CHARGE and then bottled it for a huge profit......Water is not the government`s property to be given away like that.

This alarming trend of water source privatization with huge multinational corporations like Suez, boiled over into violence recently in Bolivia, and the documentaty shows poor people aroudn the world being screwed yet again, by fat cats stealing what should be a public resource.

How do these clowns sleep at night ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization

[acorn54]

did you ever see the movie "soylent green"?
if not i strongly suggest you watch it to get a picture of where we are headed in the future.
as far as i can see, i agree with the tax foundation, a highly respected organization. they predict that within five years seventy percent of the population will be getting some kind of help from the government. we are headed towards a socialist-welfare state, where the people are just a number, and the government dictates how they live thier lives.

[LottaKash]

did you ever see the movie "soylent green"?
if

The "Flowers", I want the flowers, please...:cool:

best,

[46zilzal]

The steal it and then CHARGE people for what is there already...AMAZING

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0304-04.htm

LONDON - It made for great headlines, but the fact that the UK version of Coca-Cola's Dasani brand bottled water comes out of the London public supply should hardly have come as a surprise.

[46zilzal]

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/373906/cocacola_just_part_of_indias_water_freeforall.html

Since the bottling plant was opened in 2000, water levels in the area have dropped six metres, and when a severe drought hit the region earlier this year the crops failed and livelihoods were destroyed.