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Loss of Legal Capacity: How we turned the elderly into “things” “units” and “merchandise”

April 2, 2021

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By Marti Oakley

Let me ask you: Have you heard even one attorney or probate hearing examiner ever refer to the right and preservation of legal capacity for any of the elderly men or women who are targeted, kidnapped and imprisoned in the guardianship racket? Have you heard any probate examiner say they will consider the least restrictive alternative structure for protecting the lives of those targeted for estate theft and exploitation, and then actually follow through with that? No? There is a reason for that. The probate examiner, ministerial clerk, or magistrate is involved heavily in the guardianship racket.

All the while, our elected officials feign disbelief, claim they had no idea what was happening, insist it must be an isolated situation, that no one told them this was happening, and then claim they will look into it and get back to you. They won’t and they don’t. They all know to a greater degree than you or I do exactly what is happening and yet sit silently doing nothing to prevent and stop this system of human trafficking altogether.

“Legal capacity is a human right, “a social and legal status accorded independent of a person’s particular capabilities. Whether an individual has the cognitive ability to understand and appreciate consequences of her decisions—the traditional threshold of the common law—is simply not determinative of whether she has legal capacity. Even if she does not possess those decision-making abilities, she cannot be stripped of her legal capacity.” [1]

In probate tribunals, the living, breathing, man or woman suffers a civil death. These victims are summarily stripped of their identity. Effectively commodified, they lose all rights including, where they choose to live, what medical treatments they do or do not, want. They lose the right to freely associate with family and friends and are stored in a warehouse called a “nursing” home. Most are not allowed phones or any other means of outside contact. Although statutes in every state claim that isolation should be a last resort, in virtually every case it is the first action taken by the predator guardian. And no one says a word about this!

In addition to the loss of legal capacity the victim has also lost the right to and recognition of, “legal agency”. Once in grip of the probate tribunal and their associated lawyers and professional predatory guardians, the loss of legal capacity is complete. They lose all rights to access and control their own assets and may not enter into contracts of any kind or make any decisions regarding their own assets and property.

A number of human rights theorists further break down legal capacity into two parts: “legal status,” which is the ability to hold rights that the state must recognize, and “legal agency,” which is the ability to have one’s decisions recognized by the law. Both of these rights are summarily dismissed and rendered moot in the human trafficking system of guardianship

It just gets worse

So why are they using the term “best interests” and using that as a means and a reason to discard pre-standing legal instruments to determine what the victim intended or wanted? And why are probate examiners allowed to discard these legal instruments that state specifically what the victim would want if these situations occurred? Why aren’t they using a best interpretation of the will and preferences? Why? Because its difficult to steal an estate if you are forced to consider what the victim wanted as opposed to what the guardians want.

Yet everyday across the country, individuals are never informed that they have a right to their legal capacity. Using contrived incapacitation or mental competency as a metric to deprive individuals of their rights to make their own decisions and to be recognized as a living, breathing man or woman, the right to legal capacity is summarily disregarded. This is a major deprivation of rights under US Code 242. [2] It is also a declaration of civil death. You don’t exist. You died, but just haven’t stopped breathing yet.

Here in the US, probate tribunals were established specifically to avoid the constitution and any rights associated with that document. These are not courts of law. These are specially designed tribunals created to allow the unfettered theft of estates and ordinary assets by operating outside of the common law and any rights you thought you had. You have no rights, no protection from these predators and can be subject to probate facilitated kidnapping and imprisonment whenever one of these predators decides you have something they want. Its a system set up for easy pickings for the professional predators, and few, if any, penalties for them.

The activity of professional predatory guardians goes unchecked by the tribunal.

These tribunals were created supposedly because common law, civil and criminal courts, were overloaded with cases so a tertiary system (the tribunal system) had to be created to relieve the stress on actual courts of law. But who in their right mind sets up an alternative tribunal system and then fails to adequately fund it to allow for oversight?

Hearings are held many times without notice to the victim. Many elderly, if they are even allowed to attend hearings, do so without an attorney. There is no due process afforded in these tribunals, no right to defend yourself, no right to present evidence contradicting the charges against you by immoral attorneys and their predator friends, the guardians.

If they are allowed to attend, and, if they have their own attorney familiar to them, that person will be dismissed by the examiner. Then an attorney will be appointed for them that can be depended upon not to interfer with what has been agreed to before your appearance in the tribunal so that the theft of the estate can begin, unimpeded. The tribunal will many times fire a family attorney and appoint one who can be depended upon not to interfer with the plans already agreed to by the tribunal and the predatory guardians and their attorneys. The fix is in. No one is allowed to intervene who is not part of the criminal racket that is now fully operational.

If all else fails, the victim will be subjected to massive doses of pyschotropic drugs rendering them not only dysfunctional, but appearing to be delirious. Nothing is off limits when these predators decide that the victims’ assets should belong to them. In this condition they are summarily judged to be “incapacitated” or “incompetent”. Everyone in that tribunal knows exactly what is going on, including the victim.

It is seldom, if ever, that a victim of this predatory system is able to challenge the predator in the legal system. Isolated, traumatized, and many times chemically restrained to keep them subdued, victims are unable to assert their legal capacity and demand to be set free. This is no accident.

The elderly are being hunted by predators who do not care what happens to them. Isolated from family, friends and even religious connections, they are sequestered away from everyone. Isolated, traumatized and reduced to a commodity to be exploited and abused, they begin to wither, eventually succumbing to a miserable death at the hands of unspeakable monsters.

Guardians, attorneys and probate examiners: These are the predators among us who prey on other human beings.

Sources:

Eilionóir Flynn & Anna Arstein-Kerslake,

[1].Legislating Personhood: Realising the Right to Support in Exercising Legal Capacity, 10 INT’L J.L. IN CONTEXT 81, 83 (2014).

Definition of legal capacity

: the capability and power under law of a person to occupy a particular status or relationship with another or to engage in a particular undertaking or transaction by giving the organization legal capacity — International Court of Justice/Advisory Opinion

[2] 18 U.S. Code § 242 – Deprivation of rights under color of law

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242

[3]https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/person

The phrase interested person refers to heirs, devisees, children, spouses, creditors, beneficiaries, and any others having a property right in, or a claim against, a trust estate or the estate of a decedent, ward, or protected person. It also refers to personal representatives and to fiduciaries.

In general usage, a human being; by statute, however, the term can include firms, labor organizations, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in Bankruptcy, or receivers.

Definition of legal capacity

: the capability and power under law of a person to occupy a particular status or relationship with another or to engage in a particular undertaking or transaction by giving the organization legal capacity — International Court of Justice/Advisory Opinion

THE ENEMY OF THE STATE

March 21, 2021

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How is it that the far left who are either members of Congress or part of the Oval Office keep moving closer and closer to China for whatever multimillion dollar kickbacks may be in the offering?  Must “we the people” now be subjected to the dastardly kick-back dealings of those in power who’s aim is to get more and more cozy with our enemy, China, who’s 1.3 plus billion people do not have any of the basic 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution which is “supposed to guarantee” standard freedoms such as

“freedom of speech,

The press,

The right to assemble peaceably,

The right to bear arms,

The right to be secure in their persons, their houses papers and effects,

While no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause and none shall be derived of life, liberty or property without due process of law and,

Also be given the right to a speedy trial with an impartial jury, 

Nor shall excessive bail or fines be imposed while the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. More

Whistleblower Reports High Number of Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Facility

September 16, 2020

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“He Just Empties You All Out”: Whistleblower Reports High Number of Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Facility

“People ask you why I got a hysterectomy. I couldn’t explain it. The only thing I have to say is that I’m sorry.”

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A whistleblower complaint filed this week with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General alleges that high rates of hysterectomies — sometimes without what the complaint called “proper informed consent” — have been performed on women detained in a privately owned immigration jail in Georgia.

The complaint, filed by the human rights group Project South, quoted a detainee from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Irwin County Detention Center saying that five women who had the procedure between October and December 2019 had told her that they “reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.” Multiple women claimed that they did not have access to proper interpreters and that medical staff often did not speak Spanish.

The accounts in Project South’s complaint — which included that of the whistleblower Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse at the facility — were consistent with accounts given in separate interviews conducted by The Intercept with three other current detainees at the facility, eight advocates for detainees at the prison, and a former Irwin employee, all of whom requested anonymity for fear of reprisals against themselves and their clients.

Dawn Wooten sitting in the park on Sept. 2, 2020.    Photo: Courtesy of Dawn Wooten

“Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy — just about everybody,” Wooten, who is being represented as a whistleblower by Project South and the Government Accountability Project, explained in the complaint. “I’ve had several inmates tell me that they’ve been to see the doctor, and they’ve had hysterectomies, and they don’t know why they went or why they’re going.”

Like many other ICE detention centers, Irwin, which is operated by the private prison firm LaSalle Corrections, has come under fire for medical mistreatment. Wooten’s whistleblower complaint, which The Intercept reported on Monday, focused on precautions at Irwin related to the coronavirus pandemic. The accounts of the high rates of hysterectomies, which were first reported by the legal website Law and Crime, were also included in the Project South complaint to the Office of the Inspector General.

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The “One Size Fits All” Global Vaccine Agenda

November 19, 2019

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October 20, 2019 By Vaccine Choice Canada
By Edda West

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“Rather than invest in basic health measures that work, vaccination has instead, been adopted as the silver bullet that will fix all the world’s ills while at the same time increasing profits for the vaccine industry.

As vaccine hysteria ramps up, ignored is the decades old data that exposes the dark underbelly of the vaccine agenda as a tool of colonialism that results in health injuries, susceptibility to other diseases and increased risk of death.”

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Now that the pervasive “one size fits all” vaccine agenda has captured all governments and regulatory agencies to do its bidding, the push to vaccinate every human being on the planet is reaching a fever pitch. What many people may not realize is that the current drive for vaccine mandates and removal of exemption rights is a global agenda. Coordinated by numerous international health agencies, it’s happening all over the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared ‘vaccine hesitancy’ as a top global health threat not because vaccine hesitancy is driving infectious disease outbreaks, but to motivate health officials to ramp up vaccine mandates.

Taking their cues from ‘on high’, governments are all too willing to trample our basic human right to bodily autonomy and our informed consent right to refuse unwanted medical procedures.  A carefully orchestrated global dragnet is steadily steering us toward vaccine mandates, hatched by a cadre of global health entities and fueled by the pharmaceutical industry’s strong arm lobby efforts to convince governments to adopt vaccine mandates.

Under the influence and directive of groups like the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) launched in 2014, governments are emboldened to quash basic human rights to avert fictional, non-existent global health threats. Children’s Health Defense recently reported that the GHSA has 67 member countries and Canada is one of 10 countries on its “Steering Group”. Its purpose is to “elevate global health security” as a top priority and to make the world “safe and secure from global health threats posed by infectious diseases.” More

Stop the horrific abuse of Michigan’s vulnerable by attorneys and judges.

September 17, 2019

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Dalia Weiss started this petition to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and 3 others

For almost 30 years, tens of thousands of Michigan’s elderly and developmentally disabled citizens have been subjected to neglect, abuse, torture, forced isolation, exploitation and embezzlement by the state’s probate judges and attorneys, professional guardianship companies and public administrators. 

Declared incapacitated “wards” by a probate court judge, with little or no corroborating medical evidence, Michigan’s most vulnerable are stripped of their statutory, civil, constitutional. and human rights and handed over to a court appointed guardian.

Even though wards are innocent, it is a life sentence during which they are forced from their homes and into a long-term nursing care, assisted living or unlicensed group home with subhuman living conditions. 

In as little as a year, wards have been rendered completely indigent and reliant upon social services and benefits such as Medicaid. Their homes are sold off, their savings accounts, IRAs, investment accounts, cars, personal belongings, keepsakes, heirlooms and jewelry stolen.

Recent media investigations have implicated guardians and judges in the forced separation of families and isolation of the vulnerable; massive over-abolishing [robate,billing real estate fraud; and missing assets that number in the millions of dollars.

An in-depth investigation into elder abuse at the Detroit-area Oakland County Probate Court found campaign ties between Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Oakland County Probate Court Chief Judge Kathleen Ryan. 

Nessel’s Elder Abuse Task Force has accomplished nothing.

  • Judges already do not obey the law as written so it’s announced legislative probate reform initiatives are pointless. Reforms are pointless without consequences to those who have flagrantly violated and continue to violate Michigan law.
  • Nessel’s recent, unexplained firing of public administrators John Yun. Jennifer Carney, Thomas Brennan Fraser and Robert Kirk accomplished nothing since they can still take roles as court-appointed guardians and conservators.
  • Nessel and Whitmer both know about the abuse of Michigan’s vulnerable by it’s probate courts. State Court Administrator Milton Mack,Jr.l and the Michigan Supreme Court have actively shielded probate court judges from investigation. 

We, the undersigned, demand that the abuse, neglect and exploitation Michigan’s elderly and developmentally disabled individuals by the state’s probate courts must stop!

We demand criminal investigations into any and all probate attorneys, public administrators, guardianship companies and judges suspected of criminal behavior and abuse of power. 

We demand investigations not initiatives.

We demand the immediate resignation of the State Court Administrator. 

We demand an explanation as to why no action has been taken against judges or their appointees who have donated to or accepted donations from the Nessel and Whitmer campaigns. 

#explainyourselfdana. #investigationsnotinitiatives. 

 

 

 

THE CULTURE – THE COVER UP: HIGH TREASON

September 13, 2019

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Finally, the mainstream media has assured us that there is nothing new under the sun unless of course a person is looking for information that is beyond the stars on a far away planet that is trillions of miles away that appears to have water and is much like earth. In the meantime, the New York Times is actually stuck in a political time warp focusing on the same old fairy tales they’ve been pushing now for how many years? Like so many other news outlets and their gimmicks, the elite 5% who capitalize on false narratives are packing away their millions into off shore bank accounts. Yes, major corruption in the U.S. has been validated but not as conspiracy theory but as facts which is now being exposed by various sources or even read about in books that disclose in detail many of the sinister persons and their devious acts whether in government or not who have held high positions for decades past and present. More

Guardianship Abuse & Medical Kidnap: While congress sits silent and does nothing

December 31, 2017

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Marti Oakley

December 31, 2017

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“For the purposes of this Convention, “enforced disappearance” is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law.

  1. No order or instruction from any public authority, civilian, military or other, may be invoked to justify an offense of enforced disappearance.”

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While families, advocates and activists fighting this system of human trafficking, perpetrated by state and federal agencies and those who operate under their protection remain impervious to prosecution, a new and more vile element has reared its ugly head. Medical kidnap and abuse is now rampant and the death toll is rising. And who put this predatory system in place?? The very people you elected to public office!

While families opposed to this system have grown immense in numbers, congress still plugs its ears and pretends it doesn’t know. Or, they claim it must be an isolated incident. They never heard of such a thing before. Why didn’t they know about it if it was actually a problem? The fact is they did know, they do know and they also have no intention of interfering with the trafficking as it would result in hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars in campaign contributions (bribery) that they receive from the very organizations who put the programs in place and profit from them.

So now, in addition to being deprived of your identity, assets and freedom via probate tribunals, you can be deprived of your very life by those in the medical sector. Also, your children can be taken from you for no other reason than you asked for a second opinion on the diagnosis and proposed treatment they have planned. They can also be taken by a cps worker with no evidence of actual wrong doing by the parents, and CPS will never be required to produce any provable evidence that the kidnapping of your child was in any way related to any claimed abuse.

As with the elderly and the disabled, children are rendered dead in the law and become chattel property once they become a ward of the state and are now openly bought, sold, and traded for profit.

Issues that congress could easily and with authority, rectify:

End the theft of identity that results from being a “ward of the state”. More

American Horror Story: The Shameful Truth About the Government’s Secret Experiments

September 29, 2017

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American Horror Story: The Shameful Truth About the Government’s Secret Experiments

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NOW PLAYING: It’s easy to denounce the full-frontal horrors carried out by the scientific and medical community within a totalitarian regime such as Nazi Germany. However, what do you do with a government that claims to be a champion of human rights while allowing its agents to engage in the foulest and most despicable acts of torture, abuse and human experimentation? Mind you, the U.S. government has seldom had its citizens’ best interests at heart. The government didn’t have our best interests at heart when it passed laws subjecting us to all kinds of invasive searches and surveillance, and censoring our speech and stifling our expression. It didn’t have our best interests at heart when it turned America into a battlefield and transformed law enforcement agencies into extensions of the military. Certainly the government did not have our best interests at heart when it conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace—citizens and noncitizens alike—making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins. Bottom line: a government that repeatedly lies, breaks the laws, overreaches its authority and abuses its power can’t be trusted.

 

Congress is About to Take Away Your Rights!

March 15, 2017

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Call or Write your Senators and Representatives
and tell them to VOTE NO on  H.R. 1215!

The U.S. Congress is fighting hard to take away your rights and the power of individual states to protect those rights.

The influence of BIG BUSINESS over your elected representatives is being used protect careless and greedy companies and their insurers from the responsibility to pay for their own misconduct. They are working to transfer to taxpayers the expense of caring for the victims of corporate misconduct. And if the responsibility to pay for the harm they do disappears then a primary motive for manufacturers and drug companies to make safe products disappears with it.

Let’s Get Specific

H.R. 1215:
If your loved one ends up in a nursing home, and develops fatal bedsores because the nursing home chose to understaff to maximize profits, it won’t matter. This bill leaves victims of nursing home abuse with no practical remedy.

Is it okay with you if your hospitalized child suffers brain injury and dies because there were not enough health care professionals to provide proper supervision? Under this bill, Congress says your child does not have enough value to matter.

Congress is considering a devastating anti-justice wish list in H.R. 1215. The bill would federalize (so long states’ rights!) health care malpractice lawsuits, severely limiting victim’s access to justice.

Oppose H.R. 1215: Congress Should Protect Patients. Period. As many as 440,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors every year, making it the third leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease and cancer.

XYZ drug company produces a drug that is hazardous to people taking it. Doctors are told that the drug “has problems”, but some doctors continue to prescribe it because they enjoy benefits from the drug company. You will not be permitted to sue those physicians under this law.

How Will It Cost Tax Payers?

Injured people must get care somewhere. If they cannot receive compensation from the party at fault, they will have to go elsewhere.

*Private health insurance costs can be expected to go up.
*Medicare will get hit for more payments.
*Medicaid will see increased claims.
*Social Security will see increases in disability claims.
*Healthcare costs will rise to cover the uninsured who seek treatment.
*Unemployment claims should be expected to rise as injured workers, uncompensated by the real wrongdoers, will make claims that would otherwise have been unnecessary.
*If you are somehow able to receive a jury verdict or settlement in any of the cases under this bill, the responsible party can require that any amounts over $50,000 be paid out over time; will it be one year, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years?? And what happens to your compensation if the wrongdoer goes out of business before the debt owed to you is paid?

So Why Would Congress Do This?

Because members of Congress owe big corporations and insurance companies for getting them elected. What other reason would cause Congress to pass laws they know will hurt Americans and add to an already heavy tax burden?

MEMBERS ONLY: THE BILDERBERG GROUP/ EPICENTER OF THE GLOBALIST POWER ELITE

June 16, 2015

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I think that for the most part people are very much aware today that they are losing numerous basic human and fundamental rights which were birthed just after the American Revolution and these rights were guarantees that were clearly written in stone in a document called the Bill of Rights. Yet today, there is an elite group who are intent on destroying all of those rights without any of our votes
being counted or one shot being fired.

And just when you may have thought that there was light at the end of the tunnel, Austria played host last week to the yearly Bilderberg event. Many of these high rollin’ globalist players and climate change propagandists are not mentioned in the VIP list of invites, and once again the annual meeting was held without any invitations being given to journalists or the mainstream media. It is their tradition, which included another New York Times blackout.

For the record; the secretive Bilderberg Group is a rogue and dishonest UN Agenda 21 organization who only has their eyes set on world rule and full dominion from the top down which also includes a
depopulation plan that is in the billions. I kid you not. And what is their secondary mission and their greatest desire? You thought it was love at first sight? It is the “love” of money, which is the root of all evil. Furthermore, Bilderberg isn’t interested in anything that has to do with the common people’s rights. Why else would they be meeting secretly behind closed doors while also using electronic jamming devices to stay below the radar? That is not what democracies or republics are supposed to do. And just how secret is this group?

Years ago if you talked about Bilderberg, the mainstream media which is also an accomplice, would have said that it didn’t exist. But now, Alex Jones, the number one alternative news radio host said the following about Bilderberg’s secrecy while traveling to one of their gatherings in 2012. “We have forced it out in the open thanks to Infowars.com.” So the cat is out of the bag and the
public must now petition their own governments to stop this bullet train which is barreling down the track and ready to destroy everything in its path. It’s a long train runnin’…“Down around the corner-A half a mile from here-You see them old trains runnin’- And you watch them disappear-Without love-Where would you be now-Without love.” Tom Johnston of “The Doobie Brothers” also knows the score.

Last week, the Austrian Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol which headed up the gathering was guarded by an unprecedented security presence of 2,000 police, checkpoints and a 6-mile exclusion zone. For now, the
billionaire shadow elite who is behind the Bilderberg Group remains the epicenter of what can be referred to as a monstrous and sinister globalistic power grab which aims to transform the entire world into a totalitarian regime and a mega-police state(aka) Prison Planet.

Their ultimate goal is one cashless World Government with a single, global marketplace, a secular state policed by one world army, the czars of the agencies, the World Court and financially regulated by
one World Bank.

For more detailed information on this subject, the author Daniel Estulin investigated the cabal for 15 years. His book, “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” was published in 2005. And who were just a few of the many invites this year that came to the party? Look no further. It was the premium world bankers along with Martin Taylor, Former Chairman, Syngenta AG; William Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA; Henry A. Kissinger; Robert B. Zoellick, Chairman Board of International

Advisors; The Goldman Sachs Group;

representatives from Harvard and Stanford;

Robert E. Rubin, Co.Chair, Council on Foreign Relations;

Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc. USA,

and Peter D. Sutherland, UN Special Representative.

TS Radio: Ted Chabasinski–Barbaric Electroshock still used on adults & children -May 21

May 21, 2015

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TS Radio: America’s elderly: drugging, shock treatments and other abuses in the system

February 19, 2015

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The “Shock and Awe” of Israel’s Attack on Gaza

July 18, 2014

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I realize my views on this are not politically correct, but I refuse to sit silently as so many others do who hold the same views as I do, out of fear that those driven insane by religious mysticism and magical thinking and a perverse interpretation of scripture, will attack. And they will. And those attacks, composed of profane language, vicious verbal assaults, remarks so filthy that it shocks the mind, will all come from people , many of whom are “born again”, who are so-called “Christians” professing some kind of relationship with their God.  The most vile and horrendous remarks I have ever seen posted on public venues have come from individuals who claim a personal relationship with “God”. 

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You can’t defend freedom by eliminating freedom

October 15, 2013

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“As a country we have been attacked and overtaken.  It was not a foreign terrorist who took us down; it was the enemies inside the gates that proliferated in the District of Criminals.”

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You can’t defend freedom by eliminating freedom, or by terrorizing your own country.

This is not the America I grew up in.  Maybe it never was what I had believed it to be.  Regardless, what is before us now as a nation, is the growing police state complete with total surveillance and the targeting of any individual as a possible “domestic terrorist” for expressing their own thoughts, for rejecting government policies that are meant to limit or eradicate any freedom we may have had.

The 9/11 Decade and the Decline of U.S. Democracy

The Bush Administration created the “war on terror” paradigm not to protect us from future attack, although that was what they claimed, but rather to put in place a radical expansion of power that sought to place the president outside domestic and international law.

A perusal of the laws passed by congress and presidents many of which are a direct attack on10-1-2013-10-25-59-am freedom and liberty, do not affect terrorists in the least.  These laws, all passed with the caveat that it was necessary if they were to keep us safe, affect no one but US citizens.  They have no bearing on terrorism and are only the excuse being used to keep you quiet as they continue limiting your freedom and expanding the federal corporation.

One of the greatest freedoms we had, was the freedom to be left alone by government.  The NSA spy grid and the massive data collection center in Utah are the official end to any pretense of privacy.  We have a government populated by people who have in essence, declared war on the country as a whole.  Just because they have not yet opened fire on us, does not mean they do not consider us their sworn enemies or, that they would not move immediately to wipe us off the face of the earth should we become too insistent on our freedom.  Nevertheless, we do insist on preserving our freedom wherever and whenever possible. More

Heather Gass: Organizing Agenda 21 resistance in California

December 2, 2012

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Agenda 21 – The United Nations controlling your property

  • The United Nations Agenda for the 21st Century is a global plan for inventory and control of all resources, private property and humans. Congress, both Democrats and Republicans have endorsed this agenda that will ultimately lead to the eradication of private property rights and the sovereignty of the United States to the United Nations. Read more...

One Bay Area – Bureaucracies overruling your town, city and county

  • In 2008,  SB375 “The Sustainable Communities Strategy Bill” was passed.  This bill mandates that unelected “Councils of Government” and “Transit Authorities” create a regional land use and transportation plan that will if adopted negatively impact your local town, city or county.  Under the slogan, “Save the Planet”, these authorities will take your civil liberties and freedom to live where you want and force future generations to live in subsidized “stack and pack” crowded apartments near bus stops and train stations Read more…

Health Care – Government control of your life

  • The “Affordable Care and Patient Production Act” is law, verified by the Supreme Court, with more enforcement by the IRS each day.  Complex and costly, you already see it’s effects on your paycheck and on the notices that your employer has provided you. You will have your picture taken and your social security number recorded by you doctor and your Medical Records are now being sent to Washington. First, you must understand what it is and then what to do. Read More….

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The Ruthie Report with guest Rusty Fleming

March 1, 2012

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Water rights, rainwater, water contracts and the corrupt Bureau of Land Management

September 20, 2010

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A recent article about state governments seizing the rights to rain water off your roof, elicited a comment that almost sounded like it was relevant; until you examined the actual available data.  Because the of the convoluted logic used to make the arguments in this commentary, we felt it necessary to dispel misconceptions many people operate under when it comes to the issue of water rights.  This comment, crafted to look as though the government both state and federal is …..only trying to protect the rights of land owners….is a PR piece; gee….I wonder where this came from? 

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C.  First, in the western states, water rights are held for the beneficial use by the public and apportioned for use by seniority.

A. At one time this was true, but reinterpretation by the BLM of “public use”, “adequate use” and “beneficial use” have rendered seniority use as a part of property rights, null and void.  This means you have no water rights to speak of; apportioned use is not even a consideration.  Profit is all that matters and many states no longer recognize water rights as belonging to individual land regardless of what the previous statutes and laws were.

Because water is now declared by BLM to be a salable commodity, every effort is made to contract the allocated rights to water, to private corporations for use in strip mining, geo-thermal activities, and for sale to private corporations for diversions to far away places!

These private sellers have first rights to their allocation of water before any water is released to the “public”. On public lands either owned or controlled by the BLM, ALL waters existing above or below the surface belong to and are controlled by the BLM.  They could give a crap if you have water or you don’t.  More

CODEX in S510: Congress continues to ignore the people

August 26, 2010

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“How” would more likely be, how to bring the US into full compliance with CODEX when we the people are fully aware that this system is intended to reduce standards and regulations in every country unfortunate enough to have adopted this plan for global control of the food supply by multi-national corporations. “

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It appears obvious that the massive public backlash against Codex Alimentarius, has not only fallen on the deaf ears of congress, but is set to be ignored.  Apparently, hundreds of thousands letters of objection, hundreds of thousands of phone calls, and communications of all types demanding that CODEX be rejected as harmful to the economic growth, the freedom to determine how we will produce food and how we will market it and the right to be free of devastating international agreements that do not have the force of law in the United States……have been rejected in favor of unconstitutional agreements of all kinds, most especially the CODEX Alimentarius.

Now then; If we the people understand that these agreements are harmful and not in the best interest of moving the nation forward…if we the people know that these agreements are in direct violation of our laws and constitution……

WHY IS CONGRESS EVEN CONSIDERING THE CONTENTS OF THIS BILL?

S.510 Sect. 306 Building Capacity Of Foreign Governments with Respect to Food 

(c) Plan—-The plan developed under subsection (a) shall include, as appropriate, the following:

(5) Recommendations on whether and how to harmonize requirements under CODEX ALIMENTARIUS. More

Got water? Will you have the right to water in the future?

July 17, 2010

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Eventually, as water pirates gain more ground, it will happen to you; you will be denied the right to water.  Have you considered what you would do if your right to water was suddenly taken away?  What if the cost of water was so prohibitive you couldn’t afford it?  What would you do then?  How will you feel when water exists near you but you can’t have it because it was sold to someone or someplace else willing to pay more for it?  More

CCHR Florida: This document will help to protect you from harmful psychiatric drugs.

July 10, 2010

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Psychiatric Living Will – Get yours!

“The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida is having an event to assist the public to get their psychiatric living will notarized and filed properly.” 

July 11th 5:30-7:30 – Bring Family and Friends

Protect your rights to reject psychiatric treatment.  A psychiatric living will is a document that you can carry with you at all times to help make known your objection to being treated by a psychiatrist or in a mental health setting. 

Many people choose to carry this document and give a copy of it to their closest friend, their attorney or the offices of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida.  This psychiatric living will stands as a means to communicate their objections to harmful psychiatric drugging, electro-convulsive therapy and other intrusive practices. More

Sask. Party wants to ‘dissolve’ rights tribunal, NDP says

April 24, 2010

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By: Sandra Finely/Canadian correspondent

April 23, 2010

SUBJECT:  Support for Human Rights cases (appeals) to be handled in the Courts.  Personal experience.  

TO:  Don Morgan, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Saskatchewan

CC:   Frank Quennell (NDP Justice critic), Dr. Stuart Houston

Dear Don Morgan,

RE:  Protection of Human Rights in Saskatchewan

My personal experience supports your statement “the Tribunal is “too close” to the Commission”, as reported in the appended CBC news report.  There is a problem with the current arrangement that needs to be addressed.  Your efforts will hopefully bring my despair with the system to an end!

The idea that human rights complaints should be handled outside the Court system sounds good.  By removing the costs of the court system, justice becomes accessible – so the argument goes.

However, my experience with the Human Rights Commission and Tribunal led me to conclude that in Saskatchewan we have only the illusion of a system for the protection of human rights.   My real-life experience completely undermined my faith in our institutions.  I said to friends, “We are supporting a system that is a sham.”

Not only are the Human Rights Commission and Tribunal “too close”, they also operate in a closed environment.  At no time was I able to make a presentation in person.  I was not able to ask questions of the Tribunal.   They simply decree that it shall be thus.  The Justice system is far from perfect, but it is at least transparent. More

Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection

January 3, 2010

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Naked Capitalism
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“After hearing passionate arguments from the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court acquiesced to the president’s fervent request and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, while introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a “suspected enemy combatant” by the president or his designated minions is no longer a “person.” They will simply cease to exist as a legal entity. They will have no inherent rights, no human rights, no legal standing whatsoever – save whatever modicum of process the government arbitrarily deigns to grant them from time to time, with its ever-shifting tribunals and show trials.”  READ FULL ARTICLE

http://www.rense.com/general88/supreme.htm

Legalized Violence Against Women in Afghanistan

October 29, 2009

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Obama, speaking to reporters today after meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said “President Karzai as well as the other candidates, I think, have shown that they have the interests of the Afghan people at heart.” (TPM Livewire)

Evidently, the Afghan people he is speaking about do not include women.

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Guinea Shaken By Wave Of Rapes During Crackdown

October 21, 2009

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National Public Radio

nprlogo_138x46by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton 

 

Exerpt:

“She saw men rape women inside the stadium. “When they do that to the women, they took the gun again and fire the women inside its privates, she’s privates,” she recounted. “Yes, I saw them. That is why I’m not able to sleep.”

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The people of the West African nation of Guinea are still struggling to deal with the trauma of a deadly military crackdown on a pro-democracy rally last month.

It was not the first time troops in Guinea have opened fire on civilians. What has shocked people most is that women were targeted in a wave of alleged sexual violence perpetrated by soldiers in public — in broad daylight. More

The H1N1 swine flu experimental vaccination, martial law and eugenics story

October 3, 2009

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The Examiner.com/ Minneapolis
Human Rights ExaminerSeptember 9, 2:48 AMHuman Rights ExaminerDeborah Dupre’
Part 1 The H1N1 swine flu experimental vaccination, martial law and eugenics story
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“Over one million Americans have sent emails demanding right to self-shield to Natural Freedoms Foundation (www.globalhealthfreedom.com) according to the organization’s July 28, 2009 press release, but Congress has not passed a bill to this effect.

The U.S. Emergency Medical Powers Acts and Federal legislation, including Patriot Acts I, II and III, BARDA and others provide for mandatory vaccination or drugging with no exemptions (religious or otherwise). 

U.S. federal government has jurisdiction over interstate and border quarantine.  Military enforcement of border entry and closing can occur according to Congressional Research Reports.

Barbara Loe Fisher, President National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) June 17, 2009 calls on Americans to become educated and act in responsible ways to defend their rights. (video) 

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New Land Grab website….from GRAIN

June 4, 2009

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New from GRAIN

3 June 2009

NEW LAND GRAB WEBSITEhttp://farmlandgrab.org. This new site is an improved version of the site initiated by GRAIN last year, which provides an open, up-to-date and easy to search library of over 800 articles, interviews and reports on farm land grabs around the world published since the outbreak of the food crisis in 2008.http://farmlandgrab.org

http://www.grain.org/nfg/?id=658

Psychotronic Weapons

February 5, 2009

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The term psychotronic weapons refers to several systems of non-lethal weapons that use electronic and electromagnetic means to directly assault the human nervous system and brain, altering emotional states and behavior.

Invented and patented by Dr. Oliver Lowery (who appears to be working for the CIA, according to Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats) in 1989, Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), just one of these technologies (which I’ve written about previously), was used by the Department of Defense in Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991, causing the mass surrender (without a shot being fired) of thousands of Iraqi troops. This technology uses silent subliminal programming, incorporating modified EEG (electroencephalograph) patterns stored on supercomputers, which can be used to implant emotional states directly into the brain via the auditory sense over ordinary UHF television and radio carrier frequencies.

In 1974, the USSR registered its Radioson (Radiosleep) device with the Government Committee on Matters of Inventions and Discoveries of the USSR. Radioson was described as “a method of induction of sleep by means of radio waves.”

Actually, the history of electromagnetic weapons dates back to the 1930s, according to Judy Wall’s Electromagnetic Weapons Timeline. Wall, editor and Publisher of Resonance, the Newsletter of MENSA’s Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group, has written several articles on various aspects of psychotronic and electromagnetic weaponry, including Military Use of Silent Sound.

Other sources of information on such weapons include Cheryl Welsh, president of Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse, who has written on the subject of electromagnetic weapons and is the author of the Mind Justice website and Eleanor White, who has been a victim of remote mind control, herself.

While the military and intelligence uses of these technologies is undeniably sinister, Dr. Oliver Lowery’s silent subliminal programming technology has also seen relatively innocuous use in the private sector as self-help behavior modification products, such as those manufactured and marketed by companies like BrainSpeak, Sprudio and Subliminal Studio, which makes software you can record your own silent subliminals with. I have to wonder about the wisdom in using such products, which directly affect the brain and alter behavior.

Some psychotherapists, notably Teri Mahaney, who has contracted with the Department of Defense, among her many clients, are also using this technology, though she uses the older method of implanting audible suggestions or “affirmations,” as they’re referred to by the self-help industry. While it may have some benign and even beneficial uses, I believe the potential dangers to our safety and freedom from the misuse of this technology – which was, after all, developed for military use – far outweigh such benefits.

Though the controlled use of silent subliminal programming by individuals for their own use may be less threatening, Eleanor White has cautioned against the use of such technologies, including a technology called Voice to Skull, which has been in use by the U.S. Army as a crowd control weapon. White has written about her own experiences and those of others whom she believes are victims of what she calls “organized stalking and electronic harassment.“

Keith Olbermann Broke Up With Me!

November 21, 2008

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Keith-Olbermann-Broke-Up-W-by-Shannyn-Moore-081120-616.html

 

November 20, 2008

Headlined on 11/20/08:

by Shannyn Moore     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

www.opednews.com

“Like it’s not bad enough. I’ve been hearing loons talk about secession up here my whole life. In Alaska, the three top ballot seats: President, Senate and House of Representatives, have candidates on the ballot from the secessionist Alaska Independent Party. In two of the three, the AIP holds at least 4% of the vote. The felonious Ted Stevens looks like he has convinced over a hundred thousand Alaskans what he couldn’t convince 12 jurors of a few weeks ago.

Now, Keith Olbermann has the temerity to ask if it’s too late to sell Alaska back to the Russians. Repeatedly. America’s liberal boy-wonder is breaking up with me. He’s not the only one suggesting putting Alaska up on eBay, but I can only handle one break up at a time. Consider this partner counseling; the circle of truth; the trust tree.*

I’m like many Alaskans, just not the one you’ve been forced to get to know lately. I know what newspapers I read. I know Africa is NOT a country. I know Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada, and I know he has T.V. perfect hair. I know who makes up NAFTA – which I thought was a crock when it passed. My favorite birthday present this year was the return of Habeas Corpus in a 5-4 US Supreme Court decision on June 12th.

I’ve never been to New York City, but I wanted to puke in my mouth watching the Republican National Convention’s “9/11 Tribute to Fear.” I wasn’t born in the 60’s, but I know what race baiting is. I know the public executions of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, and RFK-all in a five year span-drove the American progressive movement into a coma for nearly 40 years. A once empowered, liberal generation sat like Terry Schiavo watching balloons float by; Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II. Wars, the corporate job-exporting economy, the perilous environment, expanded human rights violations, erosion of civil rights, The US Constitution compromised; none of it registered due to blunt force trauma on the American psyche.”

Read the full article here:

 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Keith-Olbermann-Broke-Up-W-by-Shannyn-Moore-081120-616.html

 

This is such a good article……please take the time to read it.  This authors’ sense of humor is refreshing, yet the article makes some very relevant observations.

The New Feudalism

May 6, 2008

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By Moss David Posner

I received another thoughtful correspondence today from the first American citizen to be granted refugee status by a foreign government. For obvious reasons, he will remain anonymous. I commented that I hadn’t written lately; and on asking myself why, the answer surprised even me: There was little more to be said regarding our current circumstances as a nation and as a republic.

As I think over my views and how they have evolved over the past six years, what comes to mind are the drastic revisions I have been obliged to make. The revisions are not so much in the very understandings that I have entertained as they are in the nature of the seriousness with which I have come to regard them. For some time now, events have never really made any sense. It has appeared that the policies and actions of our government officials as well as the various interest groups have been on a suicidal course, giving away liberties, dumbing down education, dropping the protections of our borders, and the continuous and indiscriminate squandering of enormous sums of money for the purpose of fighting totally senseless wars.

These observations have been coupled with what has appeared to be an existential disconnect between what I envisioned as the drastic and inevitable consequences of our actions, on the one hand, and the de facto consequences, on the other. It is as if we have been living in a dream-world, a through-the-looking-glass universe in which events would appear to have an inevitable and inescapable existential import yet which evaporate in front of our eyes with no observable incontrovertible consequences.

In a simpler, perhaps agrarian lifestyle, a person could see a necessary and prompt consequence of an ill-chosen action. Even actions that led to consequences a year or two later were met with quite predictable outcomes, such as the result of failure to rotate crops, or the failure to store provisions. Yet in our highly technological and culture-deficient and value-deficient world, we somehow are protected from the immediate recognition of consequences. This is particularly true when considering the subject of human rights and of the law. Sell-outs and betrayals by our congresspersons, massive corporate control and sequestering of activities–all–do not strike us immediately with a resounding thud, which would jar us to make the obvious connection and thereby would confirm our previously tentative conclusion

Perhaps two hundred and fifty years ago, when people could make necessary connections in time and space, they would react immediately, fearing the obvious consequences. But in a long-chain inferential world, such connections are subtle and difficult to measure.

I am reminded of a comment made by Ayn Rand in “Atlas Shrugged,” a work which directed itself precisely to this subject, when one independent thinker says to another,

“I would have killed–but who was there to kill? It was everybody, and it was nobody.”

We did not see parallels in pre-war Nazi Germany. Our failure was in part due to a lack of a sense of history (which has long since been forgotten in any meaningful sense of the terms in our halls of education) and due in large part to a very subtle and powerful disinformation and mass conditioning effort on the part of our government. This influence has been more organized and centralized over the past half-century, to the extent to which it is almost understandable that the average American would simply pass off any insights suggested as “conspiracy” hogwash.

Finally, because as a nation we have never had mass invasion since the Revolutionary War, or mass starvation and privation, as has Europe seen, there is no basis for direct comparisons to be drawn. It is true that many bright writers are now seeing our plight in those very broad terms that our founders created formally and retroactively embraced out of necessity, and which these writers recognize as directly relevant to our situation at hand. What is not clear is in what manner can citizens organize and combat the evil that surrounds them, precisely because of this lack of focal discomfort which I have tried to describe. Do they boycott Arab oil pumps? Are they even aware that such is possible? How about massive numbers of recall elections? In order for that to work it would be necessary for people to know that this could be done, and to see clearly to what end. One or two idealistic individuals could be eliminated without a trace or a ripple.

With the inability to protect one’s property, one’s income, or even to have control over money by exercising the right to trade in any monetary equivalent one chooses, with the inability to regard one’s person and loved ones sacrosanct and to defend them with weapons–what is left in the way of a departure point? Even the right to privacy is lost.

The current crop of international criminals wish to reduce the world to one large feudal system. Such a notion endured for many centuries before. Could they really believe such is possible? Could they really pull it off?

In this last regard, history does not speak in our favor.

 

 

Originally published at LINK.

WORLD WATER DAY OF MOURNING back in 2001

February 27, 2008

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 This is just a sampling of what happens when water becomes a commodity.  Privatization has been tried in England.  Water rates rose 45% overnight, maintenence was cut to a bare minimum and the quality of water fell to all time lows. 

In Bolivia where water has been privatized, indigenous people who attempted to dig their own wells were murdered.  150 in all. 

The Clean Water Restoration Act will facilitate the privatization of US water supplies and rights. 

 Extract from SAMWU Press Statement, 20 March 2001

The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) calls for this year’s World Water Day to be declared a day of mourning for the millions of people who are sick and dying as a result of not having access to water. The United Nations chose “Water and Health” as the theme for World Water Day on Thursday 22nd March 2001. Nothing could be more ironic in South Africa and across the African continent. People here are becoming more and more unhealthy and dying prematurely because water is now a commodity that only the rich can afford.

Behind the inevitable glib and cheery public relations turning on of taps for the first time on Thursday, lies the shocking reality that worldwide, more than five million people, most of them children, die every year from illnesses caused from drinking poor quality water.

A shocking new survey has revealed that much of the blame for this must be laid at the feet of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Their water privatization and full cost recovery policies have been imposed as conditions for IMF loans in over 12 African countries. Negotiated under the IMF’s new Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), the conditions are leading to people being cut off from water more than ever before.

The Africa Policy and Information Centre has reported that water privatization is making water less accessible and less affordable. People are resorting to unsafe water sources. This is clearly evident in South Africa where the amount of cholera infections is close approaching 70 000!

In Ghana, the result of forcing the poor to pay “market rate tariffs” for water means that most Ghanains can no longer afford water at all. Only 36 percent of the rural population have access to safe water and 11 percent have adequate sanitation within the existing system. Water is also scarce in the capital, Accra. In poor areas of Accra, families are paying almost half the daily wage for 10 buckets of water!

In Angola, there is an agreement that water prices should rise regularly so that the company delivering water can make a “reasonable” profit. In Benin, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Rwanda water privatization must be completed by the end of this year for governments to qualify for loans. In Sao Tome and Principe, there will be no further government subsidy of water in the run up to privatization.

This is clearly ridiculous. In some of the most poverty stricken countries in Africa, unemployed and homeless people who cannot even afford a crust of bread now and then, are expected to fork out one months food money for a few buckets of water! In the last month alone in Cape Town and Johannesburg, thousands of people have been disconnected from water they could not afford to pay for. Even permanently employed workers are being forced to choose between food, electricity or water. This terrible reality makes a mockery of human rights day.

Even in so-called first world countries like New Zealand, people are being forced to take to the streets against the commercialization of water. Water activists in Auckland will be protesting on World Water Day against the City Council. The demands of the activists are that all commercialization be stopped and water be restored to the public service after hundreds of families were disconnected from water they could no longer afford.

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