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| Debra | Jun 17 2008, 05:33 PM Post #11 |
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Dolphins Don't Like Watching The SuperRich Having Sex In Luxury Submarines: http://yournewreality.blogspot.com/2007/07...-superrich.html "Submarine builders sign confidentiality clauses to keep secret the identity of the undersea elite." :ph43r: ![]() Seafaring Super-Rich Dive to Ocean Bottom in Luxury Submarines: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...3IaU&refer=home Go Nemo in your own Personal Luxury Submarine: B) http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5520/2/ Luxury subs: http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/luxury.php3 ------------------------- No lie . . . :D "As for that marine life, the local dolphin population can be a problem for some submariners. "Jaubert says he has clients who wrestle with how to conduct a deep-sea love affair in front of an observation window without creating an underwater paparazzi. "Dolphins are easily excited when they sense people making love,'' Jones says. "They get jealous and bang their noses against the window.'' |
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| robin | Jun 18 2008, 09:59 AM Post #12 |
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control... they are going after WATER as well. (read the book called BLUE GOLD) from: http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/waterIMF.html ================================================== February 2001 A random review of IMF loan policies in forty countries reveals that, during 2000, IMF loan agreements in 12 countries included conditions imposing water privatization or full cost recovery. (See below) In general, it is African countries, and the smallest, poorest and most debt-ridden countries that are being subjected to IMF conditions on water privatization and full cost recovery. Ironically, the majority of these loans were negotiated under the IMF's new Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), a reform announced with great fanfare in 1999 when IMF officials claimed that the new loan facility would re-focus the IMF's controversial structural adjustment measures on activities that borrowing government's would identify as leading to poverty reduction. Rather than contributing to poverty reduction, water privatization and greater cost recovery make water less accessible and less affordable to the low income communities that make up the majority of the population in developing countries. The most immediate impact of reducing the accessibility and affordability of water falls on women and children. More than five million people, most of them children, die every year from illnesses caused from drinking poor quality water. When water become more expensive and less accessible, women and children, who bear most of the burden of daily household chores, must travel farther and work harder to collect water - often resorting to water from polluted streams and rivers. The significance of finding such a high number of conditions relating to water privatization and water cost recovery in IMF loans is twofold. First, in the hierarchy of international financial institutions the IMF is at the top. Compliance with IMF conditions enables governments to receive the "seal of approval" that permits access to other international creditors and investors. Thus IMF conditions weigh especially heavily upon borrowing governments. Second, it is quite common that World Bank loans have, as their first condition, compliance with certain IMF conditions. This is known as "cross conditionality." In the division of labor between the two institutions, it is the World Bank that has primary responsibility for "structural" issues such as the privatization of state-owned companies. Therefore, it can be presumed that in every country where IMF loan conditions include water privatization or full cost recovery, there are corresponding World Bank loan conditions and water projects that are implementing the financial, managerial, and engineering details required for such "restructurings." (list of countries and terms on the site) ================================================ from what i have read in BLUE GOLD, once these countries agree, they must continue to export the exact same amount of water each year...regardless if their aquifers run dry. if they do NOT export the same amount each year, these countries are then heavily FINED. im trying to remember the exact term that is called. i wrote it down somewhere... |
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| robin | Jun 18 2008, 10:27 AM Post #13 |
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BLUE GOLD by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke some parts i wrote down: ========================================= //Water according to the World Bank and the U.N. is a human NEED, not a human RIGHT. These arent semantics, the difference in interpretation is critical. A human NEED can be supplied in many ways, especially for those with money. But no one can sell a human RIGHT. //ERA is guided by the principles of the so-called "WASHINGTON CONSENSUS"= a model of economics rooted in the belief that liberal market economics consititute the one and only economic choice for the whole world. //NAFTA's proposed succesor=FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) Key to the "Consensus" is the commodification of "the commons". Everything is for sale, even those areas of life such as social services and natural resources that were once considered the common heritage of humanity. NAFTA prohibits any government from putting a BAN on the export of natural resources, including water. //A handful of transnational corporations, back by the World Bank and IMF, are now aggressively taking over the management of public services.(like water service) //Sounding the alarm: WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE WORLD RESOURCE INSTITUTE GREENPEACE CLEAN WATER NETWORK SIERRA CLUB FRIENDS OF THE EARTH INTERNATIONAL //VIVENDI ENVIRONMENTAL (one of 2 France-based giants, SUEZ being the other) is ranked #1 worldwide in environmental services, which has 4 subdivisions=water, energy, waste management and transportation services. Vivendi Communications ranked #2 worldwide in communications and audiovisual services, sonsisting of 6 subdivisions=television and film, publishing, telecom equipment and Internet services. the CEO is JEAN MARIE MESSIER ============================================= PRIVATIZATION... that is such a bad word. |
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| robin | Jun 18 2008, 10:36 AM Post #14 |
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Water/Blue_Gold.html apparantly U can read most, if not all, of the book here. :D |
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| Debra | Jun 18 2008, 12:09 PM Post #15 |
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Robin, you've got some great information about the scary water issues I'll read in depth when I have time. This is what I don't understand. We have plenty of water in all our oceans! My sister lives in Saudi Arabia where there is no natural fresh water at all. They use desalination plants to provide drinking water. Of course they use oil to fuel the plants. I just think there is or should be alternative technologies that could easily and economically provide clean, fresh water right from our oceans. Does anyone know? I believe I came across information about a revolutionary invention or two. Also, there's any engineer who has invented a power plant, powered by the waves of the ocean. |
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