- Free Trade of the Americas Talks going on in Miami--many
protestors; but for the most part the majority of Americans haven't got
a clue as to what's ado or how these talks will drastically alter and affect
their lives in job security and environmental impacts. The hepatitis outbreak
in Pennsylvania, due to imported scallions contaminated. is but one small
example. In fact most Americans have no idea that approximately 70% of
our fruits and vegtables are now imported.
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- In the meantime we are subjected to hours of debate on
gay marriages, Michael Jackson's newest perversions, the ongoing Laci Peterson
trial, Rush Limbaugh and his dope taking Epiphany (others have their Epiphany's
in jail), a sports stars dilemma in getting those needed points for his
basketball team between hearings on the accusations of rape, and a brief
look at B&B doing their thing in England, spending millions upon millions
of the taxpayers monies. One would think with half the police force of
Europe out. it's little wonder that can announce with unabashed certitude,
that they are ready "To face terrorism head on". Hey, with five
million people guarding you or whatever the insane number, I too say "Bring'em
on-I'm ready".
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- Why would we have any informative debate or discussion
on the two new global commerical agreements of unprecedented scope and
power that are currently being negotiated in Florida? These agreements,
the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade and Services
(GATS) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) are most assuredly
going to result in the "privatization and deregulation" of many
essential services. All politics is local--lest we forget. Your water-waste-electric-local
government, is all part of this malignant scheme to bring about our new
Global Plantation.
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- Water. Well wouldn't you know at this very moment a foreign
entity is quietly and with not much fanfare or hello, politcal attentions,
making inroads in the U.S. to privatize the North East's water. Yes--folks
while we were hanging on the edge of our seats with the "if the glove
don't fit you must aquit" murder debacle of a young mother and the
pizza delivery with the works, in the saga of the intern at the White House,
who went above and beyond her duties in the Oral Office, the big money
boys have been busy. They have now decided along with the world's timber-minerals-gas-oil-etc.
that the water now belongs to them. Gulp.
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- There will be loss of local government and rate payer
control; If the U.S. (that's why people are protesting in Miami) commits
water under the WTO GATS and FTAA talks. Municipalities would loose the
ability to decide for themselves how to provide water services. The U.S.
would be prohibited from maintaining public service "monopolies"
or exclusive suppliers of the service on the basis of a regional subdivision
or on the basis of the entire territory of a government. This provision
would require U.S. state and local federal governments to give private,
for profit water companies "access" to the "market"
of our more than 60,000 U.S. municipal water service providers. What's
going on in your community behind closed doors?
- If the U.S. commits (that's why people are demonstrating)
water services unded proposed GATS and FTAA rules any federal, state or
local regulation governing water services, such as those designed to protect
water quality, universal access, as well as Public Utility Commission rulings,
could be challenged as "barriers to trade". A government would
have to demonstrate that the policy was necessary and that no other less
trade-restrictive measure could be taken to accomplish the same objective
in order to maintain it. This simply means kiss your water protections
goodbye--it's now corporate water-you die you die. They're drinking crystal
clear bottled artisan well water.
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- Here in our area, to date, politicians are asleep at
the wheel-bar-or salivating over those promises of campaign contributions?
That or raptured? In any event, no word from them on educating the public
as to this dastardly intrigue. Privatization is a one-way street. If a
municipality decides to experiment {that's the song and dance being given
here in NH} with privatizing water services by selling {piecemeal--insidiously-}
its operation to a foreign corporation {in NH, the Kelda Group of the
UK}, it is extremely difficult to bring the utility back under public control.
For ex: if a municipality is later displeased-feels bilked-with a private
company's performance and wants to take back its water supply {the empty
promises given}, it not only must compensate the company under U.S. law,
but the U.S. government must also compensate all potentially affected trading
partners for their corporations lost business opportunities. This double
whamy is geared towards "locking in" privatizaion, and preventing
the water take-backs which have occurred in many U.S. cities which were
taken down the usual primrose path of empty promises and then bilked. Once
you're in you'ring of hands, it's not fair, the water's laden with bacteria,
shut-off notices, doubling-tripling of rates, no improvements to infra-structure.
When, "aha-yawn-slurp-I'll toast to that," you've got billions,
its the usual mantra of "Take us to court". Now,with most of
America on the ropes, and rural America not having a pot to piss in, guess
who holds all the cards? The Wal-Mart greeter, the barber, the laborer,
the bagger at grocery store, the janitor, the mechanic etc. will be paying
for this newest heist-big time. It is inexcusable and treasonous {archaic
word} that those in representative positions are not educating-informing
and defending citizens RIGHT to water. One doesn't have water one dies.
Duh. "Water water everywhere and all the boards did shrink"
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- Corporations; the disgusting-depraved-soulless-malignant
hucksters; can sue governments for cash damages. "Bulletin-Monica
kept proof of service job on blue dress"---see how we've missed all
this privatization-boring. take over America by treaty stuff? The FTAA
{Free Trade Area of the Americas}, member nations can sue governments directly
for cash compensation in secret, closed-door trade tribunals operating
under the auspices of the United Nations and the World Bank for future
lost profits if a city (like Claremont-NH) decides to reverse a privatization.
A subsidiary of Bechtel (pigs now privatizing Iraqi water) is suing the
city of Cochabamba, Bolivia for $25million because the city took back its
water system in response to citizen's outcries of rate hikes of 400%! Talk
about the poorest of the poor!
- Worried over that job and not having a guaranteed income?
Better be. Proposals for a special "GATS Visa" would allow U.S.
(Benedict Arnold ) companies to bring in workers from abroad to perform
contracts in any service sector. This would undermine the service sector
wages/unions, and create a two-tier system of services employment based
on the exploitation of imported service workers. This is already happening
big time-all over the U.S. The U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement, includes
a provision allowing a special visa for any Chilian citizen with a college
degree the right to work in the U.S. Except any politicans cradle to grave
job.
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- These provisions eviscerate existing requirements that
U.S. corporations must first demonstrate (through lying-i.e.computer industry-teachers-nurses)
that there is a shortage of domestic workers in an industry and that foreign
workers are not being brought in to break a strike before special work
visas can be issued for foreign service workers. See how ridiculous all
this scanning-searching-triplicate ID-take off your shoes BS is ? Terrorism?
Hell-anybody and his brother can saunter right in and kick any American
out of their job--which is happening. These-searches-roadblocks-duct tape-coded
fear days-the bogy man's gonna get you crap is about control. Period.
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- Ever check out all the foreign workers in fast food restaurants
on the Jersey Turnpike/elsewhere? I did on a trip to some seminar. Something
struck me odd as I looked around at a Roy Rodgers Restaurant. All the
help was foreign---but not local Spanish. Young people-beautiful in their
exotic features. I went up to one young girl (about 18) filling the salad
bar and asked where she was from? She seemed frightened that I even spoke
to her, shaking her head saying, "No English-no English". Then
I put my hand on my chest and said "Me American" and then pointed
to her...she smiled and put her hand on her chest and said, "Me Ecuador".
But that's what's happening. Contractors going to this countries promising
these kids the usual yada of golden streets, and then putting up in group
homes and bussed to jobs like this. Check it out-next time your on the
road. What's a kid like this going to do if they want to go home? I could
bet you dollars to donuts that they don't have any passports in their possession
or money to return if they wanted to. This is more than the exploitation
of Americans---its sickening servitude for insatiable greed. We're all;
Bolivian-Ecuadorian-Mexican-etc., being taken for a ride, and meantime
Corporate-Pig- America, keeps the focus on filthy immigrants taking American
jobs. No, it's the filthy corporations, enslaving naive peoples of the
whole world. But hey, if an entity is without a soul anything goes.
- Under GATS or FTAA foreign service workers could be
paid at or below (it's below believe me ) the minimum wage of the country
in which they're working. This undercuts wages for all workers in the service
sector and locks foreign workers in low wage endless slave hours. But then
the name of the GAME here is to level the globe---and oops, that means
no more middle class. Just "da maser's and da slaves." Here we
go again. Just a bigger plantation and the slaves now the poor of all lands.
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- Got a problem- Unsafe working conditions? Piss-ant wages?
Eighty hour weeks? Tough. Open your mouth and you're back in the gutters
of Calcutta etc-under a bridge in America. Any safety or regulations would
be seen as "barriers to trade", and challenged. This includes
worker health and safety laws worked so hard to aquire over the past decades.
The Tribunal will rule. Not elected and unknown. Local-state and federal
policies that are successfully challenged as violating WTO or proposed
FTAA rules must be changed OR the U.S. government would be forced to pay
MILLIONS in trade sanctions.
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- In ending--I don't give a fat rat's ass about Michael
Jackson's "Never Never Land" and the perversions going on. We've
got our own "Never-Never Land" out here, with the our dismantling
this country piece by piece while those dunderheads in Foggy Bottom make
a big ta do over filibustering over...no, not jobs, not people dying with
no medical care/medicines, not the billions upon billions for blowing
up and then building, and then blowing up again Iraq; and calling it Liberation-Freedom
or whatever. No, nothing important but the GAME of pretending they're doing
something. Meanwhile the "herd" as the elitists refer to mankind
(they see themselves removed) are about culling the herd and getting their
Plantation in order. Brother can ya spare a dime--a glass of water?
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