Well, knowing what I know, seeing what I see.. I was not in the least surprised to see this item today. This was the WORST day I have had EVER in posting global headlines - I have the rarest of ideas of what is actually transpiring while people debate US elections.
RATCHET UP THE IMPEACHMENT ACTIVITIES, prepare to take off work and get BUSY.
OTTAWA - The Harper government can declare victory after a United Nations meeting rejected calls for water to be recognized as a basic human right.
Instead, a special resolution proposed by Germany and Spain at the UN human rights council was stripped of references that recognized access to water as a human right. The countries also chose to scrap the idea of creating an international watchdog to investigate the issue, choosing instead to appoint a new consultant that would make recommendations over the next three years.
Federal officials in Canada said last week that the government wanted to ensure the meeting's outcome reflected the fact that access to water is not formally recognized as a human right in international law. But a social advocacy group said that the position was designed to protect the right to sell water under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"Clearly (the Harper government is) happy with the status quo: They're not going to be an agent for change, and they're not going to support the right to water," said Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians. "About every eight seconds, a child somewhere in the world is dying from dirty water, and it's just shocking that our government has taken this position."
The opposition Liberals supported the government's position last week, arguing that the original UN resolution could open the door to bulk water exports to the U.S. because of NAFTA. Liberal water critic Francis Scarpaleggia said he planned to introduce a private member's bill to restrict large transfers of water within Canada to ensure that bulk exports abroad would also be forbidden.
The UN's high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, said last week that the position doesn't reflect Canada's traditional role on the international stage.
"Canada is taking a position that is not the more classic perceived, Canada as the kind of the bridge builder, peacemaker, consensus maker," Arbour told the CBC.
Meantime, Barlow denied that the resolution would require Canada to make bulk water exports to the U.S.
"The requirement in the United States would be for them to conserve first," said Barlow. "There's no requirement as a human right for us to provide water for swimming pools and golf courses and fountains in Las Vegas."
A spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Department said in an e-mail that there was "no consensus among states regarding the existence, scope or content of such a right."
Virginia Simson is a spiritual journalista/activist who runs a visionary planetary tutorial blogspot, www.ladybroadoak.blogspot.com as well as a blog on the uranium industry and depleted uranium at www.lowlevelradiation.blogspot.com. She feels that we must educate the young as to the real issues of the day - economics, clean energy, a drug free lifestyle, friendship and concern for the environment. We must plan for seven generations in the future. She unconditionally supports impeachment and a war crimes tribunal of the current DC administration - including CONgress.
its not a basic right-if people want to over populate areas beyond its natural resources then that is too bad for them-how else do you become responsible for ones actions--the world population is now in the 90's per square mile----get real-thats way to many-just take 90 people and place them somewere pristeen and see how long it lasts--with natures animals and birds taken into account---people just dont get it--end game is comming-mother nature is on the move marching right along and city people dont have a clue being detached from her
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skiidogs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 59 comments)
on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 6:58:32 PM
Can't wait to see the hash the neocons make when they privatize water, frankly. They think that they can supply troops to ENSLAVE us and create BOOTLICKERS.
My vote goes to SPIRIT which says: Nope, their forces are overstretched and INDEFENSIBLE now.
Just a matter of getting the WAR CRIMINALS to court ..
We are not to BLAME for the insanity of the past 7 years - the ruling class, how bet on the neocons, THEY ARE those who try to make crimes against humanity look like a strategic policy!!
The entire planet is becoming inflamed with ANGRY PEOPLE, and no mainstream US/Canada press can hide that fact for long .
At the last Bilderberger conference, they HAD to admit that the business community was FED UP with process on the SPP and the NAU, right on national TV we watched it.
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ladybroadoak (32 articles, 17 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 317 comments)
on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 7:14:34 PM
Following the US Canada refusal to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous, I would hope people's noses would get bashed WAY out of shape.
The Plan by the neocons and Bilderbergers, and the rest has been to CONTAINERIZE water, thus making privatization of water a matter ON THE TABLE.
The idea of the TransAmerican Corridor (built under martial law) is to put conduits on either side: oil in one, water in the other - thus bypassing international treaties prohiting the sale of freestanding water.
This is part of UN Global 21, to depopulate and ENSLAVE.
A few "targets" have been missed - the US Canada border was to close, but businesses objected and that has been delayed.
The question of how to issue H2B visas to get seasonal workers is a real piece of sand for them as they will need supplies and the basic materials to make them.
Refer to Executive Order 12919, signed by William Clinton, 3 June 1994 to see how the agenda has advanced - it morphed into Executive Order 13303 under the BuZhistas.
I post once again my special prosecutor information OpEd link - many of the same international covenants of GENEVA apply to what we are witnessing today in the news ..
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ladybroadoak (32 articles, 17 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 317 comments)
on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 7:15:35 PM
the end is near and people are bickering aout all the little things insted of dealing with overpopulation -mother nature does not alow overpopulation and it is proved over and over every day in nature--mother nature will balance it all out while people just bicker along with every prolem under the sun--we are all comitting suicide by destroying our planet by living appart from natures laws------------we think we can controle her when we cant even manage funding education--what does that say
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skiidogs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 59 comments)
on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 9:02:46 AM
And "mother nature" also deals with its problems!!
Why do you come in here (probably PAID !!) and keep up the blithering argument(s)?
No person has the RIGHT to play GAWD, as history has shown.
To use genocide to further imperial ambition on the part of NEOCONS is forbidden by international law. Using water as a WEAPON is a crime against humanity.
The neocons take everything away from us - who actually are part of the world - and commotize it, for the benefit of themselves and their "social network" (read: fellow thieves)
It may be end days, maybe not.
But one thing is for certain,
There is NO EXCUSE for abusing others - victims do not ask to be abused.
This is the sick "rationalization" of sick minds to say that people deserve to be offed for simply living.
For shame! If this is your way of making a living, then please, for your children's sake get ANOTHER JOB.
We know the plants are on OpEd News working away, but reallly some of us are trying to save this planet - we LIKE it here - or did until the sickness that is GLOBAL DOMINANCE became this insane.
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ladybroadoak (32 articles, 17 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 317 comments)
on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 9:14:51 AM
Oh right! Lets privatize water? What about my well water on my own real property with mineral rights. What a bunch of insane, idiotic criminals. They should have been impeached 5 years ago! IMPEACH NOW!!!
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Kathleen Geary (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 7:45:30 PM
