Did you know that in Australia a Chinese water bottling mining company has been given rights to Australia’s artesian water?
And Adani, despite warnings to the Australian govt, was given mining rights, excused for deliberately polluting the Great Barrier Reef and was given unlimited water rights.
Seems they've all given up on doing their jobs properly having realised nothing will happen to them if they just take the money for themselves. The consequences of extreme wealth and privilege come home. Not to them, of course.
Interestingly, the Irish government tried to open the door that leads to this, but we took to the streets and intimidated them into changing their plans. I’m increasingly glad to live here not there.
There was a good vibe to those #right2water marches but I feel actually heroic for going on them now. Ireland's entire news media was against us (to the extent that Olivia O'Leary gave a little homily on RTE radio about paying her water bill, which was filmed and televised!) and we still beat them.
Though if we had the UK's shockingly undemocratic electoral system and the absurd power of the news media it enables the outcome might have been different. For my money we (and they) don't spend enough time talking about how unrepresentative and easy to game their electoral system is.
Cool cool cool reminds me of the thing where the US sold off its reservoirs in the Southwest so that Saudis could grow alfalfa or in California so Nestle could bottle the water and sell it back to us
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And Adani, despite warnings to the Australian govt, was given mining rights, excused for deliberately polluting the Great Barrier Reef and was given unlimited water rights.
Their jobs are to suck wealth out of anything at all that can be twisted hard enough to exude money
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Privatisation of public works has been an absolute disaster.