As a big multinational corporation gobbles up my stats and gives me a massive spike in traffic just because I know they care about making money, not the self-worth of girls (maybe they think if they just keep closing their eyes and opening them again, I won't have said those unkind things...sensitive little souls, aren't they?) it seems like a good time to mention the excellent CorpWatch - holding corporations accountable for ten years and counting.
From their mission statement:
CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.
Going well beyond whether the right shampoo can restore dignity to womankind, CorpWatch covers everything from war and disaster profiteering to globalization, to the creeping privatization of everything from health care to water.
Still not worried? Even "the water that falls from the sky" has been claimed by corporations as their own legal property, triggering revolutions in Bolivia and other countries, uprisings which were utterly and completely unreported in Western media - at least I couldn't find anything, and I was actively searching for it. A fantastic documentary entitled Thirst, will fill you in. Top picture is of the troops the GOVERNMENT of Bolivia called in to Cochabamba, to DEFEND the London based multinational corporation International Water Ltd., an affiliate of San Francisco-based Bechtel Group, against the people! Hang on....what the....
HW
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Not just in South America are such things possible. Here in northern England and smallholding friend received a waterbill.
He refused to pay it, on the perfectly reasonable grounds that he had no piped water coming to his farm, and his sewage is handled by a septic tank. They insisted, and stern-faced officials were dispatched to convince him of the error of his ways, and threaten him with The Law if he didn't shell out.
(He is a blunt speaking man and, in parenthesis - as this - a marksman. I wouldn't mess with him.)
Anyway. He patiently points out his lack of using their services and tells them he will be damned (he used another verb) if he will pay them. Ah, they say. But the water you use is ours.
EH? YOU OWN THE WATER THAT FALLS FROM THE SKY?
Yes, they say, smiling, scenting victory.
So you own that? (Pointing to stream).
Yes.
Well get it off my land, he says, I don't want it on my land.
They left. It's not just South America they try it on.
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