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08-02-2010, 12:58 PM
Obama Administration Declines to Declare Water as a Fundamental Human Right (https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/obama-administration-declines-to-declare-water-as-a-fundamental-human-right/)
Posted on August 2, 2010 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
The U.N. General Assembly forced a vote on a Bolivian resolution declaring that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. The count was 122 nations FOR the resolution, 0 AGAINST, with 41 ABSTAINING. Guess which way the neoliberal Obama delegation went?
“It was the United States and Canada, the European—not the European Union—the United Kingdom—some of the European countries voted to abstain; some were wonderful—Australia, New Zealand. So it was all of the Anglophone, neoliberal, you know, bought into this whole agenda that everything is to be commodified…” MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
Had that been George W. Bush siding with private businesses (who, like Bechtel (San Fransisco based and close to Nancy Pelosi), have already been pushing for the privatization of water supplies in other countries as well as here in the U.S.) over the human rights of literally billions of people across the globe, then you could damn sure expect the “Progressives” to be up in arms about this right now. As it stands with the Clinton/Obama regime in place, right before an election… not a peep.
Apparently these nations who chose to abstain from voting all chose different reasons for doing so, but we know what is behind it all.
“Canada hides behind the false statement that we might have to share our water, sell our water to the United States, which is nonsense. We’re in way more danger from NAFTA, which declares water to be a commodity.” MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
Well lookie there. The Clintons created and passed NAFTA which declares water to be a commodity, and Barack Obama’s delegation to the U.N. abstains from this important, and basically OBVIOUS vote on the rights of human beings all across the world. That’s “CHANGE” for you.
The United States, as you know, has not been supporting rights regimes for decades now, so this is just a continuation. And I have to tell you, listening to the statement from the United States yesterday at the United Nations, I wouldn’t have thought there was any difference between George Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations. It was haughty language. They scolded Bolivia. Bolivia came under a lot of heat, a lot of insults yesterday from these countries. MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
Australia and New Zealandhave already begun privatizing their water which puts big multinational conglomerates in charge of the basic building block of life itself. Some of those corporations are based right here in the U.S. There “the market’ will decide who gets water and who doesn’t.
Think of BP in charge of all the H2O in the Gulf States and you pretty much get the picture.
But that’s not really the big picture here.
And this matters because—as you know, because we’ve talked so many times—we are running—a planet running out of water. Brand new World Bank study says that the demand is going to exceed supply by 40 percent in twenty years. It’s just a phenomenal statement. MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
The World Bank (along with the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements) is the lynchpin of the neoliberal agenda worldwide.
All of a sudden they come out with some new study that shows, ONCE AGAIN, there is a “global crisis’ that mandates more extreme action to overcome. Disaster Capitalism on a global scale just like the Global Warming scam (oh wait, I am sorry… “Climate Change”)
please read rest of article here:
Obama Administration Declines to Declare Water as a Fundamental Human Right American Everyman (https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/obama-administration-declines-to-declare-water-as-a-fundamental-human-right/)
Posted on August 2, 2010 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
The U.N. General Assembly forced a vote on a Bolivian resolution declaring that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. The count was 122 nations FOR the resolution, 0 AGAINST, with 41 ABSTAINING. Guess which way the neoliberal Obama delegation went?
“It was the United States and Canada, the European—not the European Union—the United Kingdom—some of the European countries voted to abstain; some were wonderful—Australia, New Zealand. So it was all of the Anglophone, neoliberal, you know, bought into this whole agenda that everything is to be commodified…” MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
Had that been George W. Bush siding with private businesses (who, like Bechtel (San Fransisco based and close to Nancy Pelosi), have already been pushing for the privatization of water supplies in other countries as well as here in the U.S.) over the human rights of literally billions of people across the globe, then you could damn sure expect the “Progressives” to be up in arms about this right now. As it stands with the Clinton/Obama regime in place, right before an election… not a peep.
Apparently these nations who chose to abstain from voting all chose different reasons for doing so, but we know what is behind it all.
“Canada hides behind the false statement that we might have to share our water, sell our water to the United States, which is nonsense. We’re in way more danger from NAFTA, which declares water to be a commodity.” MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
Well lookie there. The Clintons created and passed NAFTA which declares water to be a commodity, and Barack Obama’s delegation to the U.N. abstains from this important, and basically OBVIOUS vote on the rights of human beings all across the world. That’s “CHANGE” for you.
The United States, as you know, has not been supporting rights regimes for decades now, so this is just a continuation. And I have to tell you, listening to the statement from the United States yesterday at the United Nations, I wouldn’t have thought there was any difference between George Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations. It was haughty language. They scolded Bolivia. Bolivia came under a lot of heat, a lot of insults yesterday from these countries. MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
Australia and New Zealandhave already begun privatizing their water which puts big multinational conglomerates in charge of the basic building block of life itself. Some of those corporations are based right here in the U.S. There “the market’ will decide who gets water and who doesn’t.
Think of BP in charge of all the H2O in the Gulf States and you pretty much get the picture.
But that’s not really the big picture here.
And this matters because—as you know, because we’ve talked so many times—we are running—a planet running out of water. Brand new World Bank study says that the demand is going to exceed supply by 40 percent in twenty years. It’s just a phenomenal statement. MAUDE BARLOW, Democracy NOW! (https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/29/in_historic_vote_un_declares_access)
The World Bank (along with the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements) is the lynchpin of the neoliberal agenda worldwide.
All of a sudden they come out with some new study that shows, ONCE AGAIN, there is a “global crisis’ that mandates more extreme action to overcome. Disaster Capitalism on a global scale just like the Global Warming scam (oh wait, I am sorry… “Climate Change”)
please read rest of article here:
Obama Administration Declines to Declare Water as a Fundamental Human Right American Everyman (https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/obama-administration-declines-to-declare-water-as-a-fundamental-human-right/)