U.S. to the World: You Thirst. We Don't Care.

[K Gardner]

"Access to clean, safe drinking water is now an official basic human right everywhere in the world, like the rights to life, health, food and adequate housing. The water rights resolution was approved late Wednesday by the United Nations General Assembly, not unanimously, but without opposition." (UN General Assembly)

Sorry. It's time for me to rant. My country, the good ole US of A, doesn't oppose third world countries having water or sanitation, as long as there is profit in it. Want water? We'll sell it to you. Sanitation.. we have a private company that can handle that. Kids dying of malaria and dysentery? Look at all our Big Pharma !

Of course, no one from the USA Delegation is going to vote against people having water.. they're too smart for that. They'll do some word-smithing and political wrangling, say they're looking for an alternate solution.. and ABSTAIN from voting. An "alternate solution" to being human? WTF?! Are you kidding me?

Here's the dead giveaway: Rumor has it that the United States (and some of their abstaining, greedy Western allies) would have voted FOR the resolution IF ONLY those pesky Bolivians would have placed two words in the Declaration: "access to". You see the difference? Now, where there are whole hordes of people suffering and dying, we can roll up with our Corporate Bottled Water Truck and for a price, give everyone 'access to' water. Can't afford it? Too bad.. we gave you 'access to' it.

Score one for the Bolivians, who refused to buckle under intense pressure, and kept the language clean. Score one for Human Rights of people all over the world as mankind tries to evolve into a more humanitarian race.

Score another one for the USA, where 1% of the people own over 90% of corporate stock; who ranks under most 3rd world countries in infant mortality; ranks highest among ALL nations for warmongering and profiteering; whose prison industrial complex is a model for any country wishing to incarcerate half of its minority populations and profit from it; who has the best healthcare in the world for absolutely anyone who can AFFORD it, and is the only remaining 'civilized' country who still imposes the death penalty on its citizens.

But rest assured, one of the Corporations whose greed lines the pockets of our politicians is waiting in the wings to make a lot of money off of human suffering, and thirst. Just ask British Petroleum about what corporations REALLY control.

"Blackwater" takes on a whole nother meaning...

(edited to add: I would not have been so shocked had this happened under Bush)

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2010/2010-07-29-01.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Go, Evo! nt

[K Gardner]

2. Kind of seems like everyone is 'evolving', except us !