"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to donate $ 10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines, according to the statements of the co-founder of Microsoft and his wife. They also asked that helps the government and the business world.
"We must make this the decade of vaccines," said Bill Gates.
"Vaccines are a miracle," said Melinda Gates. (and let him do anything for her ... ed)
"Only a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime," says the lady ....
Here is the comment of Dr. Mercola:
The Gates Foundation has made a donation perhaps the largest in the whole story, but unfortunately it concerns a disaster waiting to fruition, due to the false belief that more drugs are the answer to the health problems in the world.
What really confuses me is how these 10 billion can not be considered a direct subsidy to the pharmaceutical industry, since they will be the only ones to benefit.
The author of the Politicol News said it best:
"The announcement of $ 10 billion to be pumped, worldwide, more profits in the drug industry is the biggest mistake he made after the Gates of Microsoft Vista."
As one of the most respected voices in the world, Gates has a unique opportunity to draw attention to important social issues, creating a great impact in the world. Instead, he is seduced by special interests and is wasting its resources, along with the opportunity to make a real difference.
It's a shame that all the money is not going towards solutions that are really directed at the underlying problems, such as nutrition, clean water, health and vitamin D.
All that money would have built many water purification systems in India or Haiti? How many sanitary?
In Bed with Big Pharma
Donate money to the children of the world is certainly commendable and I would never think that someone is wrong to do so. But playing in tandem with the pharmaceutical industry and expect altruism, is - at best - naive.
I have great respect for the intellectual prowess of Gates and I believe that it's really hard not to know the truth about vaccines.
The problem is that Gates has no interest in natural healing systems and therefore relies on consultants rooted in the fatally flawed conventional medical paradigm, which believes that vaccines are the cure for all diseases.
In fact, the Gates Foundation is deeply associated with Big Pharma and even Monsanto, as you can see from their recent associations:
- In 2006, Gates assumed the vice-president of Monsanto, Robert Horsch [1] because joining the Foundation
- In 2001, Gates added to its board of directors Raymond Gilmartin of Merck
- In 2002, Gates invested 205 million dollars in 9 of the large pharmaceutical companies
- In recent years, the Gates Foundation gave more than $ 4.5 billion to vaccine research
Vaccinate those with compromised immune system is a recipe for disaster
In order to eradicate infectious diseases by a nation, we must first go to those who have a compromised immune system. If you hit with a potent vaccine for children from suppressed immune system, you will create the disease, rather than eradicate it.
If you dwell on this point carefully, consider them clearly that vaccines suppress the immune functions of the body.
The death and disease in developing countries are often a result of malnutrition, associated with this type of problems [2]:
- Children with inadequate protein in their diet are not able to produce antibodies after receiving the various vaccines, because in this way is compromised the ability to produce white blood cells, which are essential to fight infections.
- It is more likely that the bodies of malnourished children being penetrated by infected organisms, due to insufficient vitamin C; this means that their skin will break more easily and thus facilitates the entry of bacteria and other organisms.
- The living conditions of children in the third world are often so poor that they are exposed to a large number of pathogens, from which they have little defense.
- The most common cause of death among children in developing countries is diarrhea.
- Children of the third world are often in battle with various types of infection for 200 days a year.
Even Healthy children have immature immune systems, but to administer vaccines to children who are generally in a weak state of health, is a sure recipe for disaster.
He has more money than sense
The initiatives fail when the solutions they lose sight of the root of the problem.
For example, Kristi Helm (Seattle Times [3] cites the Avahan initiative [4] Gates Foundation, which is a $ 258 million program designed to reduce the spread of HIV / AIDS in India. Has been documented that the program is managed by highly paid business consultants, rather than by people who are experienced in public health.
The solution of Gates was pouring even more money this year - 80 million dollars - instead of see why the program was not successful.
Margarita Quintanilla, a community health coordinator, who has worked in Nicaragua and is the recipient of the Gates Foundation, expressed concern about how the multinationals want to integrate technical solutions without spending a reflection on the needs of basic social infrastructure, such as education. This woman has had more success teaching basic concepts such as hand washing to reduce infections.
Quintanilla said: "We must be wise and intelligent in our solutions. We have a responsibility to promote change in the right way. "
The technology has not always been the key to solving the problems of health, education and poverty: it is necessary to implement social structures.
Los Angeles Times: Gates of the African Programme against AIDS endangers children.
The Gates of myopia is evident from this step made by his philanthropy.
The Los Angeles Times reported in 2007 that the generous gifts of the Gates Foundation to fight HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa have inadvertently put at risk many children. [5]
At that time, efforts to combat those specific diseases requiring highly specialized medical training, but it led to a shortage of primary care physicians.
So ironically, more children died of common diseases such as diarrhea and sepsis (generalized infection to the entire body, ndt).
While there is no doubt that money is fundamentally important to save the lives of vulnerable children, there will be no progress if the money is not directed at the underlying problems that are based primarily on lifestyle.
Notes:
[1] "Monsanto vice president joins the Gates Foundation" (October 19, 2006) Organic Consumers Association
[2] S. Urvina "Malnutrition in Third World Countries" (1984)
[3] K. Helm "Two words missing from Gates Foundation vocabulary" (July 30, 2009) Seattle Times
[4] Avahan India AIDS Initiative,
[5] Piller C and D. Smith "Unintended victims" (December 16, 2007) Los Angeles Times
Original Source: articles.mercola.com / Source: thelivingspirits.net
domenica 3 agosto 2014
The gold and silver
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The largest German bank and some of its rivals have been affected knows a number of other scandals and investigations on the manipulation of interest rates and exchange rates between currencies (and according to some, myself included, such as gold and silver as currencies should be considered . Er)
The investigations globally on the supposed manipulation of currency markets have intensified, with the regulatory authorities of the United States that have been submitted to the London offices of Citigroup and Deutsche has suspended some of its traders in New York, some sources have know Reuters.
Deutsche is one of the 5 banks that take part in a pair of times a day to "gold fix", the establishment of international reference price (benchmark) of gold that occurs in London, and did you know that this process having already abandoned withdrawn from its general business commodities.
"Deutsche Bank is withdrawing ITS participation in the gold and silver benchmark setting process Following the significant scaling back of our commodities business. REMAIN We fully committed to our precious metals business,"
In mid-December the German regulator BaFin has made a request for documents to Deutsche Bank because of an investigation into the suspected manipulation of the benchmark price of gold and silver from the banks, as reported by the Financial Times citing its sources. Since then Deutsche declined to comment on the FT report.
The BaFin has reaffirmed in December that in addition to rig the LIBOR, the benchmark interest rates by banks, is also controlling the processes of determination of other benchmarks, such as those in the price of gold and silver, by individual banks.
The BaFin declined to comment Friday, but his president Elke Koenig said the day before that you understand well how the subject is raising attention and concern on the part of many.
"These Allegations (about currencies and precious metals) are Particularly serious, Because longer available reference values are based - unlike LIBOR and Euribor - Typically on real transactions in liquid markets and not on estimates of the banks,"
A source close all'FCA English (Financial Conduct Authority) said Friday that regulators have been working a lot on all benchmarks, including commodities and gold. "So the regulators are returning once again to focus on these issues," the source said.
Deutsche has also been named in legal cases related to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, credit default swaps, mortgage, and tax evasion in a case that has lasted a decade opened by the heirs of media mogul Leo Kirch, who accuse the bank to have undermined their business.
The bank has set aside € 1.2 billion for potential legal expenses in the third quarter of 2013, draining the profits and driving up the total amount of its statutory reserves to 4.1 billion euro.
CRISIS OF FIXING GOLD?
A source close to Deutsche said on Friday that the bank was trying to sell his seat at meetings of the fixing of the price of gold and silver to another member of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA).
But the decision could foreshadow Deutsche moves by other banks fixing, another source said the precious metals market in London. "I would not be surprised if other banks now want to leave the decision-making mechanism of the price. Why would they want to aggravate their situation? "Said the source, who preferred to remain anonymous.
"The point which is of more concern is that if you can no longer proceed with the London fixing, then how do you do it? There are a lot of business that base their contracts on the London gold fix, and if you do not have a basis on what is the price someone will lose. "
The withdrawal from the fixing is not expected to have impact on the business in precious metals Deutsche, said a source close to the bank. "Only a very small volume of trade occurs during the fix. Most occur outside of this mechanism. "
The gold fixing takes place in a conference call with four other banks:
- Bank of Nova Scotia-ScotiaMocatta
- Barclays Bank Plc
- HSBC U.S. Bank, NA
- Société Générale
All of these banks have declined to comment on the move by Deutsche.
The Presidency (chairmanship) dellle sessions of the gold fixing rotates annually among the five nominated banks.
The last time one of the 5 seats changed hands was in 2004, when the NM Rothschild and Sons has sold his seat to Barclays. Two years before his vendto Credit Suisse had to Société Générale.
MECHANISM OF GOLD FIXING
At the start of each fixing the price of gold the president announces an initial price to the other four members, who shall communicate it to their customers and in accordance with the orders they receive from these instruct their representatives to tell if that price buyers say they are or sellers. The price of gold is then adjusted upwards or downwards until the offer and wonder come together and at that time it is stated that the price is "fixed", is fixed.
These fixing are used to determine the spot prices for the billions of dollars that are exchanged every day in the two precious metals.
The largest German bank and some of its rivals have been affected knows a number of other scandals and investigations on the manipulation of interest rates and exchange rates between currencies (and according to some, myself included, such as gold and silver as currencies should be considered . Er)
The investigations globally on the supposed manipulation of currency markets have intensified, with the regulatory authorities of the United States that have been submitted to the London offices of Citigroup and Deutsche has suspended some of its traders in New York, some sources have know Reuters.
Deutsche is one of the 5 banks that take part in a pair of times a day to "gold fix", the establishment of international reference price (benchmark) of gold that occurs in London, and did you know that this process having already abandoned withdrawn from its general business commodities.
"Deutsche Bank is withdrawing ITS participation in the gold and silver benchmark setting process Following the significant scaling back of our commodities business. REMAIN We fully committed to our precious metals business,"
In mid-December the German regulator BaFin has made a request for documents to Deutsche Bank because of an investigation into the suspected manipulation of the benchmark price of gold and silver from the banks, as reported by the Financial Times citing its sources. Since then Deutsche declined to comment on the FT report.
The BaFin has reaffirmed in December that in addition to rig the LIBOR, the benchmark interest rates by banks, is also controlling the processes of determination of other benchmarks, such as those in the price of gold and silver, by individual banks.
The BaFin declined to comment Friday, but his president Elke Koenig said the day before that you understand well how the subject is raising attention and concern on the part of many.
"These Allegations (about currencies and precious metals) are Particularly serious, Because longer available reference values are based - unlike LIBOR and Euribor - Typically on real transactions in liquid markets and not on estimates of the banks,"
A source close all'FCA English (Financial Conduct Authority) said Friday that regulators have been working a lot on all benchmarks, including commodities and gold. "So the regulators are returning once again to focus on these issues," the source said.
Deutsche has also been named in legal cases related to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, credit default swaps, mortgage, and tax evasion in a case that has lasted a decade opened by the heirs of media mogul Leo Kirch, who accuse the bank to have undermined their business.
The bank has set aside € 1.2 billion for potential legal expenses in the third quarter of 2013, draining the profits and driving up the total amount of its statutory reserves to 4.1 billion euro.
CRISIS OF FIXING GOLD?
A source close to Deutsche said on Friday that the bank was trying to sell his seat at meetings of the fixing of the price of gold and silver to another member of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA).
But the decision could foreshadow Deutsche moves by other banks fixing, another source said the precious metals market in London. "I would not be surprised if other banks now want to leave the decision-making mechanism of the price. Why would they want to aggravate their situation? "Said the source, who preferred to remain anonymous.
"The point which is of more concern is that if you can no longer proceed with the London fixing, then how do you do it? There are a lot of business that base their contracts on the London gold fix, and if you do not have a basis on what is the price someone will lose. "
The withdrawal from the fixing is not expected to have impact on the business in precious metals Deutsche, said a source close to the bank. "Only a very small volume of trade occurs during the fix. Most occur outside of this mechanism. "
The gold fixing takes place in a conference call with four other banks:
- Bank of Nova Scotia-ScotiaMocatta
- Barclays Bank Plc
- HSBC U.S. Bank, NA
- Société Générale
All of these banks have declined to comment on the move by Deutsche.
The Presidency (chairmanship) dellle sessions of the gold fixing rotates annually among the five nominated banks.
The last time one of the 5 seats changed hands was in 2004, when the NM Rothschild and Sons has sold his seat to Barclays. Two years before his vendto Credit Suisse had to Société Générale.
MECHANISM OF GOLD FIXING
At the start of each fixing the price of gold the president announces an initial price to the other four members, who shall communicate it to their customers and in accordance with the orders they receive from these instruct their representatives to tell if that price buyers say they are or sellers. The price of gold is then adjusted upwards or downwards until the offer and wonder come together and at that time it is stated that the price is "fixed", is fixed.
These fixing are used to determine the spot prices for the billions of dollars that are exchanged every day in the two precious metals.
sabato 2 agosto 2014
Cases of cruel and inhuman experiments
Human experimentation is a practice that has existed since ancient times. In the presence of a scientific discovery or in the event that it was necessary to test the validity of a cure, the man has destiny always appeal to the passage of the trial. Until the last century medical experiments were carried out without strict rules. It often happened that the investigator to test the effectiveness of their discovery, he felt even on their family or himself.
And if a time people were subjected to experiments rarely informed of the possible dangers, today, thanks to the development of strict guidelines based on sound ethical pricipi, people on which they are experiencing must be voluntary and adults, with the express exclusion of persons physically incapable to give their consent and minors. The margins of risk which should be subjected to this choice must also be greatly reduced.
The consent is required and must always be required, as it is the only expression that authorizes any medical act.
This consent may be revoked by the patient at any time. Today, the implementation of a trial has as a necessary condition of legality and "absolutely essential" the prior specific, free and informed of the person who will take part, while you can intervene without consent only to save the life or prevent serious harm to the person.
Today we will deal with relatively recent 5 cases of cruel and inhuman experiments, consisting in the use of involuntary human beings as guinea pigs.
Untold cases, the symbol of wickedness and folly sadistic man, who still (and always) are a SHAME to all mankind.
It 'just know not to forget. And not to repeat the same mistakes of the past. Here we go.
1. Experiments of the Nazis
During the Second World War in Nazi Germany were carried out many experiments on prisoners of several concentration camps. The apparent thrust of these inhuman experiments was to develop methods which would improve the chances of survival and recovery of the German soldiers in war and more to perfect the '"general interest of medical science." A distance of time, however, it was discovered that these cruel experiments pseudo scientific, brought no improvement to medical science except death and suffering of thousands and free thousands of prisoners (Jews, homosexuals, etc.).
Many Nazi doctors were even without any technical knowledge and competent vented their perversion on the poor and defenseless human beings, locked up in concentration camps. Medical experiments performed on human subjects in Nazi concentration camps were different. The most famous experiments related to rescue from great heights (conducted on prisoners of Dachau by Sigmund Rascher), burns and poisonings with phosgene and irpite, experiments with homosexuals, techniques and practice of sterilization in men and women, experiments twins and dysentery, tuberculosis and yellow fever, and many others. Operations without anesthesia, mutilation, injections of viruses such as leprosy or typhus, castration, sterilization, freezing and other unspeakable horrors.
The most heinous crimes and the most publicized were those charged to Dr. Mengele, Dr.-death, the dark angel of Auschwitz, which vivisection, stitched together to make Siamese artificial bled and injected with various substances (such as methylene blue) liquid in their eyes for the purpose of changing its color, more than 3,000 twins, of whom only 180 survived.
Remember the famous trial of a vaccine against typhus, carried out by Ding Schuler to Buchenwald, where 200 prisoners lost their lives on 500-guinea pigs.
Another method inhuman about the "conversion" of thousands of homosexuals, performed by Dr. Vaernet to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Here he was subject to an incision in the skin of the abdomen, then to implant a pellet containing male hormones. This ball was to ensure a yearly contribution of testosterone. The result was that 90% of the mice died within a few weeks due to the intervention, and despite this tragic result, all the others were taken by force equally in the infirmary, to be operated under the threat to be shot.
At Buchenwald he would secretly poison in the food and studying the effect of poisoned bullets while other "doctors" experienced the deadly effects of transfusion of different blood groups. Heinrich Bering even came to investigate the death by starvation. We can fill pages and pages of these crimes absurd but all, by now, is part of history and of his most sad for the human race, which should be mentioned every day to never forget the evil that man is capable of procreating.
2. 731 Unit
During the Second World War there have been two cases of inhuman experiments on human guinea pigs. The first one (point 1 on our list) trials of Nazi doctors in concentration camps, and the second has as its background the practical concerns Japan and Unit 731 (similar to those of the Nazis) made by the Japanese army during the invasion China.
Unit 731 was responsible for some of the war crimes ever made by people.
The task was to experiment with Unit 731, a chemical and bacteriological tests, in order to get to build high-impact weapons to be used in the wars in place, the invasion of China, and in the future.
For the research activities of Unit 731, Japanese doctors belonging to this group, put in place a real practice of experimentation, using guinea pigs of Chinese prisoners of war and Western subjected to experiments that, at times, of scientific did not have much.
And the most shocking thing was that, after the war, none of these criminals paid, unlike their colleagues from the Nazis, for all that he did. On the contrary have been used for their entire life in the major pharmaceutical companies, making important career and paid handsomely.
Unit 731 was initially about Shito Ishii, a Japanese military and biologist, who established in 1932 in Harbin, China, a medical laboratory in which experiments were made on the Chinese defined as criminals. But in later years would also open other "places of research." The experiments were carried out in these laboratories of cruelty, brutality, inhumanity and cruelty unthinkable, monstrous couplings, total blood transfusion of horse, electric shock, exposure to high doses of X-rays, vivisection (including pregnant women), inoculation of cholera and plague and then study the course.
To study the effects of venereal diseases, prisoners, men and women, were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape. The men that were used were called "maruta" that "piece of wood" and were seen as a number and nothing more. The historian Sheldon Harris, who wrote the book "Factories of Death" on the subject, even talk of 200,000 deaths.
Shito Ishii has never been tried nor sent to prison and died at the age of 67 with cancer of the throat. All the doctors had criminal immunity granted to them by the United States, in exchange for the communication of the results achieved in the work of the human guinea pigs.
3. Tuskegee case
In 1932, a large outbreak of syphilis, prevalent in rural communities in the south of the United States of America, forced the authorities to create a program of special treatment and specific for this disease, at the Tuskegee Hospital, the only hospital for people black existed at that time.
For this project, the leaders of the venereal disease section of the Public Health Service of the United States, decided to conduct a study on the evolution of syphilis study that lasted 40 long years (1932-1972). The aim of the researchers, therefore, was to study until the time of death, the subjects recruited to collect definitive data with the autopsy.
And so, in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited in Tuskegee, the county seat of Macon, Alabama, about 623 male citizens of African descent poor and semi-literate, for a study on the natural history of syphilis, providing medical examinations and blood tests free. Almost half of them were found to be positive, but no one was informed about the results of the examinations. All participants were told that they had "bad blood" (bad blood), a popular expression invented by black people of the place, to justify various physical ailments.
Treat these sick people would slow down and boycott the study objectives of the project and, therefore, it was decided to go ahead, on the same subject by studying the evolution of the disease, in the absence of any treatment. Over the years that followed, those guinea pigs were subjected to medical examinations continue, test and even lumbar punctures (without anesthesia) to complete the clinical appearance of neurological disease.
But the most shocking thing of all this degrading and outrageous story, is the fact that, after the discovery of antibiotics, the discovery took place between the late '40s and early '50s, none of these subjects suffering from syphilis were administered and offered, even to those who suffered from near death that is the last stage of the disease.
The study was called "the most infamous case of prolonged and deliberate violation of the rights of research subjects" and ended thanks to articles by a journalist, Jean Heller, published in November 1972, forty years after the start of the study.
4. Therapy conversion (South Africa)
Conversion therapy-300x180
For white males in South Africa, in the years between 1970 and 1980 (during apartheid), military service was compulsory for all. But since homosexuality was seen as a disease and included among the offenses was, it was unthinkable to accept and integrate homosexual soldiers in the army in South Africa, and thus, anyone who was even suspected of having such an identity, was immediately recalled and sent to the notorious section 22 Military Hospital at Voortrekkerhoogte, near Pretoria.
Li was subjected to inhuman different therapies that included, among others, chemical castration, sex change operations, psychiatry, administered electric shocks to the genitals of patients, the treatment of hormones, and even aversion therapy and many others medical experiments against professional ethics. just to prove that "the patient" could heal. It was widely practiced plethysmography in association with electroshock to administer electric shocks to the penis of the poor victim.
Most of the victims appear to have been young white males, between 16 and 24 years. Although the exact number is not known, according to estimates most valid carried out by former apartheid army surgeons, in the period from 1971 until 1989, were performed in hospitals at least 900 military operations forced 'sexual reassignment as part of a top-secret program which aims to eradicate homosexuality from the army.
The leader and creator of the study (here the photo above), Dr. Aubrey Levin, is currently "Clinical Professor" in the Department of Psychiatry (Forensic Division) at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine. He is also a partner in a private practice, and is part of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
5. Project MK ULTRA
This project for the American mind control, commonly known as MK ULTRA, he was ordained for the first time April 13, 1953 by CIA director Allen Dulles with the aim of opposing Russian and Chinese studies on the so-called mind control. Already in the 50s the U.S. government, through the CIA, funded studies and experiments on mind control. Other projects such as Project Chatter, and the Project Bluebird had already started before it in the United States.
There is evidence to show how ignorant people used as guinea pigs, are still abducted and subjected to covert operations, through the use of electroshock, chemicals (including LSD and other mind-altering drugs), and also by the inclusion of microscopic plants in their body, to erase the memories connected to the kidnapping and operation.
One of the aims of the project seems to have been to change the perception of the reality of some people, forcing them to perform acts without realizing it (for example, see the heads of state hostile to the United States or by creating unaware of the assassins). As a direct result of this program has also been a number of deaths. In the U.S., many victims of these experiments have officially protested by forming several associations.
And if a time people were subjected to experiments rarely informed of the possible dangers, today, thanks to the development of strict guidelines based on sound ethical pricipi, people on which they are experiencing must be voluntary and adults, with the express exclusion of persons physically incapable to give their consent and minors. The margins of risk which should be subjected to this choice must also be greatly reduced.
The consent is required and must always be required, as it is the only expression that authorizes any medical act.
This consent may be revoked by the patient at any time. Today, the implementation of a trial has as a necessary condition of legality and "absolutely essential" the prior specific, free and informed of the person who will take part, while you can intervene without consent only to save the life or prevent serious harm to the person.
Today we will deal with relatively recent 5 cases of cruel and inhuman experiments, consisting in the use of involuntary human beings as guinea pigs.
Untold cases, the symbol of wickedness and folly sadistic man, who still (and always) are a SHAME to all mankind.
It 'just know not to forget. And not to repeat the same mistakes of the past. Here we go.
1. Experiments of the Nazis
During the Second World War in Nazi Germany were carried out many experiments on prisoners of several concentration camps. The apparent thrust of these inhuman experiments was to develop methods which would improve the chances of survival and recovery of the German soldiers in war and more to perfect the '"general interest of medical science." A distance of time, however, it was discovered that these cruel experiments pseudo scientific, brought no improvement to medical science except death and suffering of thousands and free thousands of prisoners (Jews, homosexuals, etc.).
Many Nazi doctors were even without any technical knowledge and competent vented their perversion on the poor and defenseless human beings, locked up in concentration camps. Medical experiments performed on human subjects in Nazi concentration camps were different. The most famous experiments related to rescue from great heights (conducted on prisoners of Dachau by Sigmund Rascher), burns and poisonings with phosgene and irpite, experiments with homosexuals, techniques and practice of sterilization in men and women, experiments twins and dysentery, tuberculosis and yellow fever, and many others. Operations without anesthesia, mutilation, injections of viruses such as leprosy or typhus, castration, sterilization, freezing and other unspeakable horrors.
The most heinous crimes and the most publicized were those charged to Dr. Mengele, Dr.-death, the dark angel of Auschwitz, which vivisection, stitched together to make Siamese artificial bled and injected with various substances (such as methylene blue) liquid in their eyes for the purpose of changing its color, more than 3,000 twins, of whom only 180 survived.
Remember the famous trial of a vaccine against typhus, carried out by Ding Schuler to Buchenwald, where 200 prisoners lost their lives on 500-guinea pigs.
Another method inhuman about the "conversion" of thousands of homosexuals, performed by Dr. Vaernet to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Here he was subject to an incision in the skin of the abdomen, then to implant a pellet containing male hormones. This ball was to ensure a yearly contribution of testosterone. The result was that 90% of the mice died within a few weeks due to the intervention, and despite this tragic result, all the others were taken by force equally in the infirmary, to be operated under the threat to be shot.
At Buchenwald he would secretly poison in the food and studying the effect of poisoned bullets while other "doctors" experienced the deadly effects of transfusion of different blood groups. Heinrich Bering even came to investigate the death by starvation. We can fill pages and pages of these crimes absurd but all, by now, is part of history and of his most sad for the human race, which should be mentioned every day to never forget the evil that man is capable of procreating.
2. 731 Unit
During the Second World War there have been two cases of inhuman experiments on human guinea pigs. The first one (point 1 on our list) trials of Nazi doctors in concentration camps, and the second has as its background the practical concerns Japan and Unit 731 (similar to those of the Nazis) made by the Japanese army during the invasion China.
Unit 731 was responsible for some of the war crimes ever made by people.
The task was to experiment with Unit 731, a chemical and bacteriological tests, in order to get to build high-impact weapons to be used in the wars in place, the invasion of China, and in the future.
For the research activities of Unit 731, Japanese doctors belonging to this group, put in place a real practice of experimentation, using guinea pigs of Chinese prisoners of war and Western subjected to experiments that, at times, of scientific did not have much.
And the most shocking thing was that, after the war, none of these criminals paid, unlike their colleagues from the Nazis, for all that he did. On the contrary have been used for their entire life in the major pharmaceutical companies, making important career and paid handsomely.
Unit 731 was initially about Shito Ishii, a Japanese military and biologist, who established in 1932 in Harbin, China, a medical laboratory in which experiments were made on the Chinese defined as criminals. But in later years would also open other "places of research." The experiments were carried out in these laboratories of cruelty, brutality, inhumanity and cruelty unthinkable, monstrous couplings, total blood transfusion of horse, electric shock, exposure to high doses of X-rays, vivisection (including pregnant women), inoculation of cholera and plague and then study the course.
To study the effects of venereal diseases, prisoners, men and women, were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape. The men that were used were called "maruta" that "piece of wood" and were seen as a number and nothing more. The historian Sheldon Harris, who wrote the book "Factories of Death" on the subject, even talk of 200,000 deaths.
Shito Ishii has never been tried nor sent to prison and died at the age of 67 with cancer of the throat. All the doctors had criminal immunity granted to them by the United States, in exchange for the communication of the results achieved in the work of the human guinea pigs.
3. Tuskegee case
In 1932, a large outbreak of syphilis, prevalent in rural communities in the south of the United States of America, forced the authorities to create a program of special treatment and specific for this disease, at the Tuskegee Hospital, the only hospital for people black existed at that time.
For this project, the leaders of the venereal disease section of the Public Health Service of the United States, decided to conduct a study on the evolution of syphilis study that lasted 40 long years (1932-1972). The aim of the researchers, therefore, was to study until the time of death, the subjects recruited to collect definitive data with the autopsy.
And so, in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited in Tuskegee, the county seat of Macon, Alabama, about 623 male citizens of African descent poor and semi-literate, for a study on the natural history of syphilis, providing medical examinations and blood tests free. Almost half of them were found to be positive, but no one was informed about the results of the examinations. All participants were told that they had "bad blood" (bad blood), a popular expression invented by black people of the place, to justify various physical ailments.
Treat these sick people would slow down and boycott the study objectives of the project and, therefore, it was decided to go ahead, on the same subject by studying the evolution of the disease, in the absence of any treatment. Over the years that followed, those guinea pigs were subjected to medical examinations continue, test and even lumbar punctures (without anesthesia) to complete the clinical appearance of neurological disease.
But the most shocking thing of all this degrading and outrageous story, is the fact that, after the discovery of antibiotics, the discovery took place between the late '40s and early '50s, none of these subjects suffering from syphilis were administered and offered, even to those who suffered from near death that is the last stage of the disease.
The study was called "the most infamous case of prolonged and deliberate violation of the rights of research subjects" and ended thanks to articles by a journalist, Jean Heller, published in November 1972, forty years after the start of the study.
4. Therapy conversion (South Africa)
Conversion therapy-300x180
For white males in South Africa, in the years between 1970 and 1980 (during apartheid), military service was compulsory for all. But since homosexuality was seen as a disease and included among the offenses was, it was unthinkable to accept and integrate homosexual soldiers in the army in South Africa, and thus, anyone who was even suspected of having such an identity, was immediately recalled and sent to the notorious section 22 Military Hospital at Voortrekkerhoogte, near Pretoria.
Li was subjected to inhuman different therapies that included, among others, chemical castration, sex change operations, psychiatry, administered electric shocks to the genitals of patients, the treatment of hormones, and even aversion therapy and many others medical experiments against professional ethics. just to prove that "the patient" could heal. It was widely practiced plethysmography in association with electroshock to administer electric shocks to the penis of the poor victim.
Most of the victims appear to have been young white males, between 16 and 24 years. Although the exact number is not known, according to estimates most valid carried out by former apartheid army surgeons, in the period from 1971 until 1989, were performed in hospitals at least 900 military operations forced 'sexual reassignment as part of a top-secret program which aims to eradicate homosexuality from the army.
The leader and creator of the study (here the photo above), Dr. Aubrey Levin, is currently "Clinical Professor" in the Department of Psychiatry (Forensic Division) at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine. He is also a partner in a private practice, and is part of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
5. Project MK ULTRA
This project for the American mind control, commonly known as MK ULTRA, he was ordained for the first time April 13, 1953 by CIA director Allen Dulles with the aim of opposing Russian and Chinese studies on the so-called mind control. Already in the 50s the U.S. government, through the CIA, funded studies and experiments on mind control. Other projects such as Project Chatter, and the Project Bluebird had already started before it in the United States.
There is evidence to show how ignorant people used as guinea pigs, are still abducted and subjected to covert operations, through the use of electroshock, chemicals (including LSD and other mind-altering drugs), and also by the inclusion of microscopic plants in their body, to erase the memories connected to the kidnapping and operation.
One of the aims of the project seems to have been to change the perception of the reality of some people, forcing them to perform acts without realizing it (for example, see the heads of state hostile to the United States or by creating unaware of the assassins). As a direct result of this program has also been a number of deaths. In the U.S., many victims of these experiments have officially protested by forming several associations.
Hazardous waste shipped by the ton in Africa
Hazardous waste shipped by the ton in Africa. "They are gifts for the non-profit organization"
The Guardia di Finanza di Modena has discovered and dismantled a criminal organization that was sending illegally special and hazardous waste in Africa, passing them off as real fruit collections of solidarity. The base was right in Modena, but the organization had ramifications in other areas of Italy, especially in the north. They were involved carriers, customs brokers, porters, crane operators and others: all together, using their own corporate structures, sent off in Africa tons of special and hazardous waste in containers. The investigation, dubbed "Clean up", was launched in June 2012, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Bologna, and has allowed us to identify four storage sites in Emilia-Romagna and mainly in Modena. Here that were piled old monitors, computers, printers as well as thousands of appliances, machines demolished, car batteries exhausted, fire extinguishers, tires: they were then loaded onto containers, shipped to the port of Genoa and sent to Africa (mainly Ghana and Nigeria).
The GDF, in a statement, said that according to a UN study, only a third of this merchandise would be directed to the recovery and recycling, while most, having traveled between the materials 'in order' to evade customs controls ends up in uncontrolled landfills, abandoned mines and gravel pits. Moreover, the criminal organization operated even "customized" by placing empty containers in locations specified by the clients and providing then collect them: it happened mainly in the province of Modena but also in Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Ravenna, Piacenza , Forli-Cesena, in Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont and Lazio.
Usually the containers were loaded on the weekends and at night to avoid suspicion and reduce the risks of being discovered. The investigators also found that, to overcome border controls, the organization made use of two non-profit organization, created to projects of solidarity with the peoples of Africa, but in fact set up to ensure a formal coverage trafficking, through the issuance of invoices pro -forma documents relating to the exports. The large quantities of waste destined for disposal at the time of customs control, "were passed for donations to poor people in Africa. With this system, well thought out and tested-yellow flames explain the organization was able to send by sea to the African continent about 50 containers per month, going to further fuel the dangerous illegal trafficking of hazardous waste, whose business sees clearly in the interests of African traffickers also well organized and that Italy, with its companies regularly constituted , tracking down waste in a capillary. "
Only one of the non-profit organization identified as having performed more than 1,000 shipments from 2010 to 2013. Upon completion of the survey were reported 41 people, who for various reasons, for conspiracy to traffic illegal waste management and illegal dumping of waste special and dangerous. Were also performed four orders of remand under house arrest in respect of the main promoters of the disposal system, seized the four storage sites and vehicles used for illegal activity.
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The Guardia di Finanza di Modena has discovered and dismantled a criminal organization that was sending illegally special and hazardous waste in Africa, passing them off as real fruit collections of solidarity. The base was right in Modena, but the organization had ramifications in other areas of Italy, especially in the north. They were involved carriers, customs brokers, porters, crane operators and others: all together, using their own corporate structures, sent off in Africa tons of special and hazardous waste in containers. The investigation, dubbed "Clean up", was launched in June 2012, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Bologna, and has allowed us to identify four storage sites in Emilia-Romagna and mainly in Modena. Here that were piled old monitors, computers, printers as well as thousands of appliances, machines demolished, car batteries exhausted, fire extinguishers, tires: they were then loaded onto containers, shipped to the port of Genoa and sent to Africa (mainly Ghana and Nigeria).
The GDF, in a statement, said that according to a UN study, only a third of this merchandise would be directed to the recovery and recycling, while most, having traveled between the materials 'in order' to evade customs controls ends up in uncontrolled landfills, abandoned mines and gravel pits. Moreover, the criminal organization operated even "customized" by placing empty containers in locations specified by the clients and providing then collect them: it happened mainly in the province of Modena but also in Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Ravenna, Piacenza , Forli-Cesena, in Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont and Lazio.
Usually the containers were loaded on the weekends and at night to avoid suspicion and reduce the risks of being discovered. The investigators also found that, to overcome border controls, the organization made use of two non-profit organization, created to projects of solidarity with the peoples of Africa, but in fact set up to ensure a formal coverage trafficking, through the issuance of invoices pro -forma documents relating to the exports. The large quantities of waste destined for disposal at the time of customs control, "were passed for donations to poor people in Africa. With this system, well thought out and tested-yellow flames explain the organization was able to send by sea to the African continent about 50 containers per month, going to further fuel the dangerous illegal trafficking of hazardous waste, whose business sees clearly in the interests of African traffickers also well organized and that Italy, with its companies regularly constituted , tracking down waste in a capillary. "
Only one of the non-profit organization identified as having performed more than 1,000 shipments from 2010 to 2013. Upon completion of the survey were reported 41 people, who for various reasons, for conspiracy to traffic illegal waste management and illegal dumping of waste special and dangerous. Were also performed four orders of remand under house arrest in respect of the main promoters of the disposal system, seized the four storage sites and vehicles used for illegal activity.
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The covenant that could really defeat hunger
On the eve of the G7 meeting in Brussels and two months before the summit that President Obama will host African leaders to promote investment and trade relations, a new report by the New Earth and the Transnational Institute reveals the pressure of multinationals in the conquest of a continent that the World Bank has called "the last frontier for global markets of food and agriculture." This new report, launched today, explains the different ways in which multinational corporations are influencing the development programs for Africa . Their financial power along with a direct involvement has given shape to the "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition", the new "framework for cooperation" that opens the door to investment and enriches multinational companies seriously endangering the small farmers in Africa under the slogan of "development". The African farmers and civil society organizations, international oppose it at all levels, even within the Committee on World Food Security.
The report, "The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: a coup for corporate capital?" Argues that small-scale producers - the majority of the population - are already responsible for producing 80% of food consumed in Africa and can meet the growing demand for food in African cities if properly supported. Programs such as the New Covenant, however, will have the effect of exempting land to small farmers or to close them in the mechanisms and logic of the global food supply chains resulting in further impoverish and enrich agribusiness corporations.
The New Partnership for Food Safety and Nutrition, the new "framework for cooperation" as it is called, was launched at the G8 Summit held in 2012 in the U.S. and then push in the Summit of 2013 in the United Kingdom. Currently, concerns involving 10 African countries at the table of donors, as well as the governments of the G8 and the European Union, more than 100 companies. The declared aim of the initiative is to "accelerate responsible investment for African agriculture and bring 50 million people out of poverty by 2022." The partnership includes commitments by African leaders to "redefine policies to improve investment opportunities." The private sector companies, for their part, "are committed to increase investment to more than $ 3 billion," while "the donor partners (including the EU) will support the African potential for a rapid and sustained agricultural growth, and ensure the 'assumption of responsibility. "
The report traces the birth of the New Covenant as a response to a series of complex interactions between individual companies, philanthropic foundations, the private sector forum multinational, bilateral and multilateral aid programs and African authorities. It highlights the false rhetoric about what the New Covenant is based: "defeat food insecurity", comparing the rhetoric to the reality on the ground. As in the classic deceptions based on trust, the benefits promised by the private sector and donors evaporate when the peasant organizations most critical and their supporters are trying to determine the impacts, based on how many of these programs are already in progress. In summary, what remains are the political changes that penalize small producers to the benefit of multinational corporations privatizing public goods and collective from which depend the living conditions of rural populations. One example among others is given by the reform of seed laws that promote the products of multinational companies and limit the rights of farmers to use their seed. In this way, the multinational private sector investment is protected, while those of the peasants - 90% of all agricultural investments according to FAO sources - are threatened. As if that were not enough, then, these changes are implemented without any consultation process with stakeholders.
Finally, as to suffer such negative impacts are small farmers who constitute the majority of the population of the countries involved, the New Covenant is in fact undermining the fragile democratic foundations that the governments of the G8, in words, say they want to support.
The report sheds light on the opposition movements in Africa and their activities within the Committee on World Food Security (Committee on World Food Security / CFS). The New Covenant has been heavily criticized by civil society because it promotes the interests of multinational corporations rather than of small food producers and citizens. The CFS is currently in a process of negotiation of principles aimed at ensuring that investment in agriculture to promote food security and the right to food, defending the livelihoods of small producers rather than the profits of multinational corporations.
"The covenant that could really defeat hunger is between African governments and their small-scale producers," says Nora McKeon, author of the report. "A combination of pressure from above - as in the reformed CFS-and political pressure from below - from citizens and well organized with good communication skills-may be the best way to get there."
The report, "The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: a coup for corporate capital?" Argues that small-scale producers - the majority of the population - are already responsible for producing 80% of food consumed in Africa and can meet the growing demand for food in African cities if properly supported. Programs such as the New Covenant, however, will have the effect of exempting land to small farmers or to close them in the mechanisms and logic of the global food supply chains resulting in further impoverish and enrich agribusiness corporations.
The New Partnership for Food Safety and Nutrition, the new "framework for cooperation" as it is called, was launched at the G8 Summit held in 2012 in the U.S. and then push in the Summit of 2013 in the United Kingdom. Currently, concerns involving 10 African countries at the table of donors, as well as the governments of the G8 and the European Union, more than 100 companies. The declared aim of the initiative is to "accelerate responsible investment for African agriculture and bring 50 million people out of poverty by 2022." The partnership includes commitments by African leaders to "redefine policies to improve investment opportunities." The private sector companies, for their part, "are committed to increase investment to more than $ 3 billion," while "the donor partners (including the EU) will support the African potential for a rapid and sustained agricultural growth, and ensure the 'assumption of responsibility. "
The report traces the birth of the New Covenant as a response to a series of complex interactions between individual companies, philanthropic foundations, the private sector forum multinational, bilateral and multilateral aid programs and African authorities. It highlights the false rhetoric about what the New Covenant is based: "defeat food insecurity", comparing the rhetoric to the reality on the ground. As in the classic deceptions based on trust, the benefits promised by the private sector and donors evaporate when the peasant organizations most critical and their supporters are trying to determine the impacts, based on how many of these programs are already in progress. In summary, what remains are the political changes that penalize small producers to the benefit of multinational corporations privatizing public goods and collective from which depend the living conditions of rural populations. One example among others is given by the reform of seed laws that promote the products of multinational companies and limit the rights of farmers to use their seed. In this way, the multinational private sector investment is protected, while those of the peasants - 90% of all agricultural investments according to FAO sources - are threatened. As if that were not enough, then, these changes are implemented without any consultation process with stakeholders.
Finally, as to suffer such negative impacts are small farmers who constitute the majority of the population of the countries involved, the New Covenant is in fact undermining the fragile democratic foundations that the governments of the G8, in words, say they want to support.
The report sheds light on the opposition movements in Africa and their activities within the Committee on World Food Security (Committee on World Food Security / CFS). The New Covenant has been heavily criticized by civil society because it promotes the interests of multinational corporations rather than of small food producers and citizens. The CFS is currently in a process of negotiation of principles aimed at ensuring that investment in agriculture to promote food security and the right to food, defending the livelihoods of small producers rather than the profits of multinational corporations.
"The covenant that could really defeat hunger is between African governments and their small-scale producers," says Nora McKeon, author of the report. "A combination of pressure from above - as in the reformed CFS-and political pressure from below - from citizens and well organized with good communication skills-may be the best way to get there."
The dangerous influence of the Gulf petrodollars
The rubble ten Shia mosques in the cities of Mosul and Tal Afar are the image of a country in pieces. The bulldozer bringing down the walls of the Shia holy places and the explosives that crumbles the walls, the symbol of sectarianism that poisons finally Iraq. As the first speech of the "new caliph" Al-Baghdadi Friday during the noon prayer at the Grand Mosque in Mosul, which showed the power that has conquered, turning to the crowd as the legitimate successor of the Prophet and promising victory over the infidels. This is Iraq today, religious melting pot, like many others in the Middle East, beliefs and orientations that in the past had been able to live together and are now the justification for the destruction of the secular foundations of Baghdad.
The seemingly unstoppable advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is the final consequence, not the cause of the dismemberment of the country. Upstream is the divisive U.S. strategy in eight years of military occupation, the dangerous influence of the Gulf petrodollars and those who bankrolled Islamist groups active in Syria and aimed at breaking the Syria-Iran axis Shiite Hezbollah, the corrupt nepotism that rule by the rise to power of Shiite Prime Minister Maliki in 2006.
Today the process that disrupts the delicate internal balance in the Middle East is - once again - in its most precious treasures. Since the beginning of June, when the Isil has occupied Mosul and the first Iraqi province, Ninawa, to date the control of the crude means and end. The determination of the power passing through the strategic ownership of oil wells. Well aware of the Kurds, are well aware of the Sunni militiamen. In the far north of Iraq, the autonomous region of Kurdistan is unofficially credited with the car you are searching for independence for decades, occupying the oil fields in the rich province of Kirkuk crude oil and selling abroad, Turkey and Israel. The provinces in the hands of the jihadists - Anbar, Ninawa, Diyala and Salah-a-din - are part of the militia to control Banjij, the main refinery in the country (again the scene of clashes with Iraqi military forces).
The declaration of the birth of the Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq last week, by the leader of Al-Baghdadi, is looming as a state founded on the Shari'a yes, but also on the oil black. A long corridor from eastern communities of Iraq reaches the western Syrian Friday the Isil took control of the field of al-Tanak, in the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour, bordering Iraq, after occupying the day before the biggest Al-Omar, always in the desert of Sheiytat. Both wells have been reclaimed from the control of another rebel group and now rival, the Frente al-Nusra Front. Now Isil points to the rich deposit of Al-Ward while the window remains the puppeteer in Riyadh that actively take advantage of the weakness of Iraq to get rid of the stiff competition in the energy sector of Baghdad and cover up the gap in the international market.
The caliphate, against whom you have thrown many Sunni armed groups and religious organizations because it is considered a blasphemy, it's just a product of the mind of the rebellious son of Al-Qaeda, Al-Baghdadi? The reality says more: the Islamic State has control of the long concrete corridor dubbed the "Islamic State", he manages the wealth and official boundaries, passing with great ease and militia weapons, without either Damascus or Baghdad may stem the advance. Strong money that would come from the coffers of Saudi Arabia copious, may ultimately lead to the division of Iraq into three parts. The offensive jihad does not seem to retreat despite the bombs dropped by aviation Syrian President Assad along the border and the small victories scored by an Iraqi army in disarray (Thursday the hometown of Saddam Hussein, Awja, is back under the control of Baghdad while Tikrit - symbol of the power of the former Libyan leader - is occupied by Islamists).
To give a hand is the split political stalemate that has embroiled the new parliament. On the ground many Sunni communities in the corridor to get to Baghdad Awja, continue to express their impatience with the Shiite government and take advantage of the debacle of the army to carry out guerrilla warfare, while the Baathist militias continue to provide crucial support to the new ally, Isil, with the intention to get rid of once torn Baghdad, the Shiites and regain power. On the political level, on Friday, Prime Minister Maliki has refused for the umpteenth time, the number of calls - come from both the international community and the Iraqi political class - to step aside and allow the creation of an executive of national unity: "I will not surrender, not give up the nomination for prime minister - said on state television - I'll stay a soldier who defends the interests of Iraq and its people. "
This stance known, but that complicates the already difficult task of the new parliament, elected in late April and called to elect its president, responsible for the appointment of the Prime Minister. Last Tuesday, the first parliamentary session ended with a stalemate: the Kurds and Sunnis have left the classroom, and broke the quorum and preventing the vote. Upstream hostility toward Maliki of much of the Shia team. In particular, the opponent always Moqdata al-Sadr.
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The seemingly unstoppable advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is the final consequence, not the cause of the dismemberment of the country. Upstream is the divisive U.S. strategy in eight years of military occupation, the dangerous influence of the Gulf petrodollars and those who bankrolled Islamist groups active in Syria and aimed at breaking the Syria-Iran axis Shiite Hezbollah, the corrupt nepotism that rule by the rise to power of Shiite Prime Minister Maliki in 2006.
Today the process that disrupts the delicate internal balance in the Middle East is - once again - in its most precious treasures. Since the beginning of June, when the Isil has occupied Mosul and the first Iraqi province, Ninawa, to date the control of the crude means and end. The determination of the power passing through the strategic ownership of oil wells. Well aware of the Kurds, are well aware of the Sunni militiamen. In the far north of Iraq, the autonomous region of Kurdistan is unofficially credited with the car you are searching for independence for decades, occupying the oil fields in the rich province of Kirkuk crude oil and selling abroad, Turkey and Israel. The provinces in the hands of the jihadists - Anbar, Ninawa, Diyala and Salah-a-din - are part of the militia to control Banjij, the main refinery in the country (again the scene of clashes with Iraqi military forces).
The declaration of the birth of the Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq last week, by the leader of Al-Baghdadi, is looming as a state founded on the Shari'a yes, but also on the oil black. A long corridor from eastern communities of Iraq reaches the western Syrian Friday the Isil took control of the field of al-Tanak, in the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour, bordering Iraq, after occupying the day before the biggest Al-Omar, always in the desert of Sheiytat. Both wells have been reclaimed from the control of another rebel group and now rival, the Frente al-Nusra Front. Now Isil points to the rich deposit of Al-Ward while the window remains the puppeteer in Riyadh that actively take advantage of the weakness of Iraq to get rid of the stiff competition in the energy sector of Baghdad and cover up the gap in the international market.
The caliphate, against whom you have thrown many Sunni armed groups and religious organizations because it is considered a blasphemy, it's just a product of the mind of the rebellious son of Al-Qaeda, Al-Baghdadi? The reality says more: the Islamic State has control of the long concrete corridor dubbed the "Islamic State", he manages the wealth and official boundaries, passing with great ease and militia weapons, without either Damascus or Baghdad may stem the advance. Strong money that would come from the coffers of Saudi Arabia copious, may ultimately lead to the division of Iraq into three parts. The offensive jihad does not seem to retreat despite the bombs dropped by aviation Syrian President Assad along the border and the small victories scored by an Iraqi army in disarray (Thursday the hometown of Saddam Hussein, Awja, is back under the control of Baghdad while Tikrit - symbol of the power of the former Libyan leader - is occupied by Islamists).
To give a hand is the split political stalemate that has embroiled the new parliament. On the ground many Sunni communities in the corridor to get to Baghdad Awja, continue to express their impatience with the Shiite government and take advantage of the debacle of the army to carry out guerrilla warfare, while the Baathist militias continue to provide crucial support to the new ally, Isil, with the intention to get rid of once torn Baghdad, the Shiites and regain power. On the political level, on Friday, Prime Minister Maliki has refused for the umpteenth time, the number of calls - come from both the international community and the Iraqi political class - to step aside and allow the creation of an executive of national unity: "I will not surrender, not give up the nomination for prime minister - said on state television - I'll stay a soldier who defends the interests of Iraq and its people. "
This stance known, but that complicates the already difficult task of the new parliament, elected in late April and called to elect its president, responsible for the appointment of the Prime Minister. Last Tuesday, the first parliamentary session ended with a stalemate: the Kurds and Sunnis have left the classroom, and broke the quorum and preventing the vote. Upstream hostility toward Maliki of much of the Shia team. In particular, the opponent always Moqdata al-Sadr.
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The water multinationals
The Mafia control of the water as an example of private use of a public resource
Water is one of the areas on which the mafia groups have exercised their dominion. The Sicilian Mafia is not just a criminal organization, but something more complex: the criminal groups operate within a system of relations, have relationships with the social environment, the economy, politics and institutions, criminal activities are intertwined with legal activities and pursue the purposes of enrichment and power. (1) No surprise then if the mafia has paid particular attention to a critical resource such as water, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the political and institutional context.
With the establishment of a unified state in Italy there has been a policy of advertising and regulation of water and Sicily, particularly in the countryside of Palermo, has imposed the practice of private control exercised by guardians, the "plumbers", salaried by the users. The guards were in the majority linked to the Mafia, as well as the "gardeners", ie tenants and brokers.
The control of water has caused conflicts that give rise to mafia wars. In October of 1874, is killed in Monreale, near Palermo downtown home of the famous Arab-Norman cathedral, the plumber Happy Marquis. The crime is part of a conflict between two rival mafias, Gardeners and stoppaglieri, which is the first mafia war documented (2).
Subsequently, in August 1890, there will be another murder. This time to fall is the guardian of the water Psychiatric Institute of Palermo, Baldassare La Mantia, who had refused several times to encourage the brothers Vitale, gabelloti (renters) and mafia bosses of Palermo Altarello fraction of Baida. Interesting analysis of the situation from this murder is the superintendent Ermanno Sangiorgi in a series of reports which reconstructs a map of Mafia families and gives an image of it (an organization spread over the territory and centrally structured) very similar to that in the 80s of the twentieth century will be "discovered" by the statements of the mafia collaborators of justice:
This is known as the usurpations used to irrigate the gardens represent one of the sources of illicit gain of criminal association, and it is easy to see that the strength of the La Mantia besides offense constituted authority of the Mafia serious threat to the economic interests of the sect, being able to do school with the other guardians of the water not affiliated association. So should not seem strange that for this reason, apparently, and not in any other environment quite severe, Vitale and co-shareholders have determined, as they did, to kill. (3)
Water is an essential resource for the cultivation of citrus fruits in the years following the creation of the unitary state are exported to the national and international market, particularly in the United States, the main goal of emigration after the defeat of the first wave of the peasant movement (the Fasci Siciliani). The control of water and citrus market is in the hands of mafia groups that start with the first reports emigres in America, among which there are the founders of the mafia organization overseas.
The control will continue even after the water mafia and mafia will not hesitate to resort to murder if it will be put in doubt. In 1945, in Ficarazzi, near Palermo, in the middle of the plains planted with citrus, Alessandro D'Agostino is killed, the secretary of the Chamber of Labour, which had begun a struggle against the Mafia water. He had been "invited" to desist, but he continued his battle inside the mobilization of the peasants who collect hundreds of thousands of people engaged in the struggle for agrarian reform and democracy, colliding hard with the Mafia. (4)
The mafiosi are felt all the weight of their power within the irrigation consortia of the new institution. The best known example is the consortium of Upper and Middle Belice. The consortium institution in 1933, right in the fascist period, embracing an area of about 106,000 hectares and was established for the construction of a dam on the river Belice. It remained inactive until 1944, due to the opposition of the Mafia, who feared "that the development of the initiative would remove the monopoly water and subvert the order of things (campierato and wear) until then under its direct control ". (5)
The only activity that the consortium fails to realize is the construction of roads that is not hampered by the mafia who organize the collection and supply of stones to the construction companies. Among them is the young Luciano Liggio mafia which is a trucking company and is not contrary to the activity of the consortium sensing that it can offer great opportunities. In fact, the construction of dams will be a great deal for the mobsters who know how to fit buying up most of the public funds. Example the story of the construction of the dam on the Belice Garcia, asked in a loud voice from the farmers and obtained after years of struggle. The boss Peppino Garda buys land, gets funding to improve crops and then sells them at a price far higher than that of purchase, the public entities involved in the construction of the dam. A speculation studied theoretically fully successful thanks to the complicity of the institutions.
The thirst for Palermo
The great "thirst of Palermo" of 1977-78 was the occasion for the opening of an investigation into the sources of water supply in the countryside of Palermo. Among the few existing sources of information was the Charter of the irrigation Sicilian drafted in 1940 by the section of Palermo Hydrographic Service of the Ministry of Public Works, which showed "a tangle of uses of waters of different backgrounds," and identified 114 sources and 600 wells that prelevavano water from groundwater fat. A more recent, 1973, prepared by the Ente Agricultural Development Agency (ESA) noted the existence of 1,469 wells drawing from the aquifer in the coastal strip.
These groundwater to the great importance which had to satisfy the water needs of the city and the countryside should have been included in the list of public waters, on the other hand are left to take advantage of the private and in the first row are the best known representatives of the Mafia . To tell the magistrate who conducted the inquiry, the magistrate Giuseppe Di Lello, the criterion in drawing up lists of public waters is the "respect" of private waters. In prga (general development plan of the aqueducts) prepared by the Ministry of Public Works and approved in 1968 included only 13 wells, two of which are saline and four being depleted by depletion of the aquifer, while there was no trace of the wells rich d 'water managed by the Greek Ciaculli, one of the most well-known mafia dynasties, and other mafia families: the Buffa, the Motisi, the Marcenò, the Teresi.
Obviously, the water table was impoverished by the real looting perpetrated by individuals and in particular by the Mafia and many wells had already been advanced in the intrusion of sea water which made it impossible to use. The water should be a public good, however the Company municipal aqueduct of Palermo (AMAP) rents of private wells in the '70s and the Municipality of Palermo pays what should be its water about 800 million a year . Particularly significant: the private sector to dig the wells serving the means of ESA, that is a public body, and with little expense realize substantial business. The AMAP, in search of new waters, drill the poor areas of water, leaving the richest areas of private monopoly.
The responsibility for this situation have been clearly identified at various levels: from the Ministry of Public Works to the Regional, the Superintendency for Public Works, Office of Civil engineering and, of course, all'Amap. Some facts constituted the offense and the acts were sent to the public prosecutor, but the investigation was not followed.
Another survey conducted in 1988 ended with the indictment of several mobsters, owners of wells and some technicians, but the trial ended with a series of acquittals.
Hands on public works
On average each year rain in Sicily 7 billion cubic meters of water, almost triple the calculated demand in 2 billion and 482 million cubic meters (1 billion and 325 million for the irrigation of fields, 727 million to quench centers villages, 430 million for industrial uses). Yet Sicily suffers from thirst, and in some areas, for example in the provinces of Agrigento, Caltanissetta and Enna, is permanent emergency.
There are dams that for twenty years waiting to be completed, or have not been tested and may contain only a portion of the capacity. There are pipelines sieve (this is called loss of 50 per cent). This is not just the result of Mafia control on the water but, more generally, of a policy of public works in the name of waste and cronyism. The public work, regardless of the improvements it can bring to the living conditions of the population of a given territory, is used as an opportunity for speculation and hoarding of public money. Therefore, the work should last almost indefinitely and the final outcome does not matter. Around the work will form a cluster of public interest that involves entrepreneurs, administrators, politicians, mobsters who control the division of contracts, practicing lace on businesses, provide them with materials and services, or are directly involved in entrepreneurship.
This tangle of interests is the basis of what still happens in Sicily. None of the existing dams is authorized to be filled. Some cases, among the most egregious. The dam Ancipa could collect 34 million cubic meters of water, he's only 4 million. The dam is cracked, reported by more than thirty years. The dam Disueri might contain 23 million cubic meters, but must stop at 2 and a half million. The dam Furore, in the province of Agrigento, completed in 1992, it never went into operation. For more dams are missing connections. It is often said that there is no money, but in more than one case the money is there and you do not spend inertia of the authorities who continue to promote the supply by private individuals.
This past February, more than seven million cubic meters in danger of ending up in the sea, because the dams were not able to hold the water fall with heavy rainfall. In Sicily there are processions and religious ceremonies to pray for rain, but when there is rain you have to empty the dams. And this is not just the Mafia. It should be reiterated that the mafia has been able to operate, in the water sector as in other sectors, because it has enjoyed a favorable context and complicity, omission or active spread.
Given the fragmentation of management, often find it difficult to establish responsibility. In Sicily you should take water 3 regional, municipal utilities 3, 2 mixed companies, 19 private companies, 11 consortia, 284 municipal management, consortia of 400 users and 13 other consortia.
Nth water emergency, it was decided to solve the problem by appointing Commissioner, the President of the Region. In 2000, an ordinance of civil protection for allocation of 54 billion for emergency works to be carried out within nine months, and possessed powers of rapid approval of the plans for the president of the region, but the failures of the region led the Minister of Public Works to appoint in February 2001, a commissioner of the State, the carabinieri General Roberto jucci. The Commissioner has been busy going around the island, drawing up a map of the reservoirs and proposed the establishment of an authority, that of a single body to oversee the whole issue of water in Sicily, managing jointly dams, the hydrogeological system, the supply pipelines, municipal systems. The proposal had already been made by the county council in 1990 but was never realized. It seems that now something is smuova but between the Commissioner, appointed by the national government of the center-left, and the regional government established by the overwhelming victory of the center-right in the elections of June 24 problems have arisen that threaten to bring the situation to the point of first .
The water multinationals
The example of Sicily is not an isolated case and unrepeatable. If in recent years at the national and world have arisen or have been strengthened mafia-type criminal groups, ie, which have the complexity of the Sicilian Mafia, the water problem, as mentioned at the beginning, have imposed policies of privatization due to 'emergence of large business groups.
The "water giants" are mainly two French companies: Vivendi, formerly Générale des Eaux, Ondeo and the former Lyonnaise des Eaux. Vivendi is the most important player in the water sector but also operates in other areas: environment, energy, sanitation, transport, telecommunications (recently acquired the American company Universal Pictures and Canal +). It has an annual turnover of over 150 billion French francs and employs more than 140,000 people.
The Ondeo aims to oust the French sister and has an international role of respect: already present in 20 countries and in 1997 ran the water services in 14 major cities, including Manila, Budapest, Cordoba, Casablanca, Jakarta, La Paz , Potsdam, Indianapolis.
In Britain, the privatization of water was introduced in 1989 and the major British companies, particularly the Seven-Trent and Thames Water, also operating on an international level. The German electrical giant, RWE, operates as a multi-sectoral and company also has interests in the water sector. In Italy, following the Galli Law, companies such as the Roman Acea, the AEM Milan and Turin Amt have spread throughout the country and in other countries.
In France, where the privatization takes the form of delegation of the management of a public service to a private company, there was an average increase in the price of water by 50%, in Paris 154%; corporate profits have soared to 60-70% of total profits. Add to this the lack of transparency of concessions with the relative increase in the opportunities for corruption.
In the UK the privatization involves the expropriation of a common good, and companies have made record profits exorbitant, for which you have devised an extraordinary tax. (6) In other countries, water costs have decreased for the rich and for increased the poor: the case of Manila, the Philippine capital. (7)
This invasion of large enterprises will make it increasingly difficult public policy of water resources and impose more and more a model based on "petrolizzazione water", ie the dictatorship of the market even on the water. In recent years there has been much talk of the "end of ideology" but in reality we have witnessed the triumph of liberalism which is also an ideology. Argue that the market is the best, if not the only, mechanism of regulation, it is a thesis that ideological simplifies the complexity of the real reducing everything to the economic dimension. Water is not a commodity that you can do without, you can choose to eat or not, but a common good is essential for living. All of this is ignored, and as has been done for oil, which was used to enrich the big multinationals and the sheikhs, leaving misery in much of the population of the producing countries, so now you want to do well for water.
The Water Manifesto
In 1998 in Lisbon non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders have launched the "Manifesto of the water."
The social actors who need to engage with these objectives must parliaments, civil society organizations, scientists, intellectuals and the media, trade unions. It proposes the establishment of a collective global "Water for Humanity" and already in 1998 a committee was formed promoter (8).
Italy has not been among the most active countries for a global water policy, however, even in our country is made up of a Committee for the World Water Contract and launched a manifesto Italian.
In Sicily you try to resume a battle that was the peasant movement on the basis of certain principles which refer to the Manifesto of water: to oppose the privatization and declare all of the assets aqueduct inalienable public land, creating a single large structure and regional public promote policies of self-government of the territories. (9) this requires the utmost vigilance against any interference of mafia groups interested in perpetuating their control, and relying on the fact that the pattern of use of a public resource privatized in recent years instead of regress has made great strides
Water is one of the areas on which the mafia groups have exercised their dominion. The Sicilian Mafia is not just a criminal organization, but something more complex: the criminal groups operate within a system of relations, have relationships with the social environment, the economy, politics and institutions, criminal activities are intertwined with legal activities and pursue the purposes of enrichment and power. (1) No surprise then if the mafia has paid particular attention to a critical resource such as water, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the political and institutional context.
With the establishment of a unified state in Italy there has been a policy of advertising and regulation of water and Sicily, particularly in the countryside of Palermo, has imposed the practice of private control exercised by guardians, the "plumbers", salaried by the users. The guards were in the majority linked to the Mafia, as well as the "gardeners", ie tenants and brokers.
The control of water has caused conflicts that give rise to mafia wars. In October of 1874, is killed in Monreale, near Palermo downtown home of the famous Arab-Norman cathedral, the plumber Happy Marquis. The crime is part of a conflict between two rival mafias, Gardeners and stoppaglieri, which is the first mafia war documented (2).
Subsequently, in August 1890, there will be another murder. This time to fall is the guardian of the water Psychiatric Institute of Palermo, Baldassare La Mantia, who had refused several times to encourage the brothers Vitale, gabelloti (renters) and mafia bosses of Palermo Altarello fraction of Baida. Interesting analysis of the situation from this murder is the superintendent Ermanno Sangiorgi in a series of reports which reconstructs a map of Mafia families and gives an image of it (an organization spread over the territory and centrally structured) very similar to that in the 80s of the twentieth century will be "discovered" by the statements of the mafia collaborators of justice:
This is known as the usurpations used to irrigate the gardens represent one of the sources of illicit gain of criminal association, and it is easy to see that the strength of the La Mantia besides offense constituted authority of the Mafia serious threat to the economic interests of the sect, being able to do school with the other guardians of the water not affiliated association. So should not seem strange that for this reason, apparently, and not in any other environment quite severe, Vitale and co-shareholders have determined, as they did, to kill. (3)
Water is an essential resource for the cultivation of citrus fruits in the years following the creation of the unitary state are exported to the national and international market, particularly in the United States, the main goal of emigration after the defeat of the first wave of the peasant movement (the Fasci Siciliani). The control of water and citrus market is in the hands of mafia groups that start with the first reports emigres in America, among which there are the founders of the mafia organization overseas.
The control will continue even after the water mafia and mafia will not hesitate to resort to murder if it will be put in doubt. In 1945, in Ficarazzi, near Palermo, in the middle of the plains planted with citrus, Alessandro D'Agostino is killed, the secretary of the Chamber of Labour, which had begun a struggle against the Mafia water. He had been "invited" to desist, but he continued his battle inside the mobilization of the peasants who collect hundreds of thousands of people engaged in the struggle for agrarian reform and democracy, colliding hard with the Mafia. (4)
The mafiosi are felt all the weight of their power within the irrigation consortia of the new institution. The best known example is the consortium of Upper and Middle Belice. The consortium institution in 1933, right in the fascist period, embracing an area of about 106,000 hectares and was established for the construction of a dam on the river Belice. It remained inactive until 1944, due to the opposition of the Mafia, who feared "that the development of the initiative would remove the monopoly water and subvert the order of things (campierato and wear) until then under its direct control ". (5)
The only activity that the consortium fails to realize is the construction of roads that is not hampered by the mafia who organize the collection and supply of stones to the construction companies. Among them is the young Luciano Liggio mafia which is a trucking company and is not contrary to the activity of the consortium sensing that it can offer great opportunities. In fact, the construction of dams will be a great deal for the mobsters who know how to fit buying up most of the public funds. Example the story of the construction of the dam on the Belice Garcia, asked in a loud voice from the farmers and obtained after years of struggle. The boss Peppino Garda buys land, gets funding to improve crops and then sells them at a price far higher than that of purchase, the public entities involved in the construction of the dam. A speculation studied theoretically fully successful thanks to the complicity of the institutions.
The thirst for Palermo
The great "thirst of Palermo" of 1977-78 was the occasion for the opening of an investigation into the sources of water supply in the countryside of Palermo. Among the few existing sources of information was the Charter of the irrigation Sicilian drafted in 1940 by the section of Palermo Hydrographic Service of the Ministry of Public Works, which showed "a tangle of uses of waters of different backgrounds," and identified 114 sources and 600 wells that prelevavano water from groundwater fat. A more recent, 1973, prepared by the Ente Agricultural Development Agency (ESA) noted the existence of 1,469 wells drawing from the aquifer in the coastal strip.
These groundwater to the great importance which had to satisfy the water needs of the city and the countryside should have been included in the list of public waters, on the other hand are left to take advantage of the private and in the first row are the best known representatives of the Mafia . To tell the magistrate who conducted the inquiry, the magistrate Giuseppe Di Lello, the criterion in drawing up lists of public waters is the "respect" of private waters. In prga (general development plan of the aqueducts) prepared by the Ministry of Public Works and approved in 1968 included only 13 wells, two of which are saline and four being depleted by depletion of the aquifer, while there was no trace of the wells rich d 'water managed by the Greek Ciaculli, one of the most well-known mafia dynasties, and other mafia families: the Buffa, the Motisi, the Marcenò, the Teresi.
Obviously, the water table was impoverished by the real looting perpetrated by individuals and in particular by the Mafia and many wells had already been advanced in the intrusion of sea water which made it impossible to use. The water should be a public good, however the Company municipal aqueduct of Palermo (AMAP) rents of private wells in the '70s and the Municipality of Palermo pays what should be its water about 800 million a year . Particularly significant: the private sector to dig the wells serving the means of ESA, that is a public body, and with little expense realize substantial business. The AMAP, in search of new waters, drill the poor areas of water, leaving the richest areas of private monopoly.
The responsibility for this situation have been clearly identified at various levels: from the Ministry of Public Works to the Regional, the Superintendency for Public Works, Office of Civil engineering and, of course, all'Amap. Some facts constituted the offense and the acts were sent to the public prosecutor, but the investigation was not followed.
Another survey conducted in 1988 ended with the indictment of several mobsters, owners of wells and some technicians, but the trial ended with a series of acquittals.
Hands on public works
On average each year rain in Sicily 7 billion cubic meters of water, almost triple the calculated demand in 2 billion and 482 million cubic meters (1 billion and 325 million for the irrigation of fields, 727 million to quench centers villages, 430 million for industrial uses). Yet Sicily suffers from thirst, and in some areas, for example in the provinces of Agrigento, Caltanissetta and Enna, is permanent emergency.
There are dams that for twenty years waiting to be completed, or have not been tested and may contain only a portion of the capacity. There are pipelines sieve (this is called loss of 50 per cent). This is not just the result of Mafia control on the water but, more generally, of a policy of public works in the name of waste and cronyism. The public work, regardless of the improvements it can bring to the living conditions of the population of a given territory, is used as an opportunity for speculation and hoarding of public money. Therefore, the work should last almost indefinitely and the final outcome does not matter. Around the work will form a cluster of public interest that involves entrepreneurs, administrators, politicians, mobsters who control the division of contracts, practicing lace on businesses, provide them with materials and services, or are directly involved in entrepreneurship.
This tangle of interests is the basis of what still happens in Sicily. None of the existing dams is authorized to be filled. Some cases, among the most egregious. The dam Ancipa could collect 34 million cubic meters of water, he's only 4 million. The dam is cracked, reported by more than thirty years. The dam Disueri might contain 23 million cubic meters, but must stop at 2 and a half million. The dam Furore, in the province of Agrigento, completed in 1992, it never went into operation. For more dams are missing connections. It is often said that there is no money, but in more than one case the money is there and you do not spend inertia of the authorities who continue to promote the supply by private individuals.
This past February, more than seven million cubic meters in danger of ending up in the sea, because the dams were not able to hold the water fall with heavy rainfall. In Sicily there are processions and religious ceremonies to pray for rain, but when there is rain you have to empty the dams. And this is not just the Mafia. It should be reiterated that the mafia has been able to operate, in the water sector as in other sectors, because it has enjoyed a favorable context and complicity, omission or active spread.
Given the fragmentation of management, often find it difficult to establish responsibility. In Sicily you should take water 3 regional, municipal utilities 3, 2 mixed companies, 19 private companies, 11 consortia, 284 municipal management, consortia of 400 users and 13 other consortia.
Nth water emergency, it was decided to solve the problem by appointing Commissioner, the President of the Region. In 2000, an ordinance of civil protection for allocation of 54 billion for emergency works to be carried out within nine months, and possessed powers of rapid approval of the plans for the president of the region, but the failures of the region led the Minister of Public Works to appoint in February 2001, a commissioner of the State, the carabinieri General Roberto jucci. The Commissioner has been busy going around the island, drawing up a map of the reservoirs and proposed the establishment of an authority, that of a single body to oversee the whole issue of water in Sicily, managing jointly dams, the hydrogeological system, the supply pipelines, municipal systems. The proposal had already been made by the county council in 1990 but was never realized. It seems that now something is smuova but between the Commissioner, appointed by the national government of the center-left, and the regional government established by the overwhelming victory of the center-right in the elections of June 24 problems have arisen that threaten to bring the situation to the point of first .
The water multinationals
The example of Sicily is not an isolated case and unrepeatable. If in recent years at the national and world have arisen or have been strengthened mafia-type criminal groups, ie, which have the complexity of the Sicilian Mafia, the water problem, as mentioned at the beginning, have imposed policies of privatization due to 'emergence of large business groups.
The "water giants" are mainly two French companies: Vivendi, formerly Générale des Eaux, Ondeo and the former Lyonnaise des Eaux. Vivendi is the most important player in the water sector but also operates in other areas: environment, energy, sanitation, transport, telecommunications (recently acquired the American company Universal Pictures and Canal +). It has an annual turnover of over 150 billion French francs and employs more than 140,000 people.
The Ondeo aims to oust the French sister and has an international role of respect: already present in 20 countries and in 1997 ran the water services in 14 major cities, including Manila, Budapest, Cordoba, Casablanca, Jakarta, La Paz , Potsdam, Indianapolis.
In Britain, the privatization of water was introduced in 1989 and the major British companies, particularly the Seven-Trent and Thames Water, also operating on an international level. The German electrical giant, RWE, operates as a multi-sectoral and company also has interests in the water sector. In Italy, following the Galli Law, companies such as the Roman Acea, the AEM Milan and Turin Amt have spread throughout the country and in other countries.
In France, where the privatization takes the form of delegation of the management of a public service to a private company, there was an average increase in the price of water by 50%, in Paris 154%; corporate profits have soared to 60-70% of total profits. Add to this the lack of transparency of concessions with the relative increase in the opportunities for corruption.
In the UK the privatization involves the expropriation of a common good, and companies have made record profits exorbitant, for which you have devised an extraordinary tax. (6) In other countries, water costs have decreased for the rich and for increased the poor: the case of Manila, the Philippine capital. (7)
This invasion of large enterprises will make it increasingly difficult public policy of water resources and impose more and more a model based on "petrolizzazione water", ie the dictatorship of the market even on the water. In recent years there has been much talk of the "end of ideology" but in reality we have witnessed the triumph of liberalism which is also an ideology. Argue that the market is the best, if not the only, mechanism of regulation, it is a thesis that ideological simplifies the complexity of the real reducing everything to the economic dimension. Water is not a commodity that you can do without, you can choose to eat or not, but a common good is essential for living. All of this is ignored, and as has been done for oil, which was used to enrich the big multinationals and the sheikhs, leaving misery in much of the population of the producing countries, so now you want to do well for water.
The Water Manifesto
In 1998 in Lisbon non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders have launched the "Manifesto of the water."
The social actors who need to engage with these objectives must parliaments, civil society organizations, scientists, intellectuals and the media, trade unions. It proposes the establishment of a collective global "Water for Humanity" and already in 1998 a committee was formed promoter (8).
Italy has not been among the most active countries for a global water policy, however, even in our country is made up of a Committee for the World Water Contract and launched a manifesto Italian.
In Sicily you try to resume a battle that was the peasant movement on the basis of certain principles which refer to the Manifesto of water: to oppose the privatization and declare all of the assets aqueduct inalienable public land, creating a single large structure and regional public promote policies of self-government of the territories. (9) this requires the utmost vigilance against any interference of mafia groups interested in perpetuating their control, and relying on the fact that the pattern of use of a public resource privatized in recent years instead of regress has made great strides
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