Wall Street/Bush's Buy Up Water Rights: As Fracking Continues Poisonings

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We've been barking loud about the fact that Fracking is a profitable way for corporations to poison water supplies. The additional caveat/ argument is that the goal is turn a necessary, natural resource into a commodity more expensive than oil.

For you CAN live without oil; but you CAN'T live without water!

Many said that my battle with Romney has gone to my head. That the notion there could be any "conspiracy" to turn abundant, clean, drinking water - into a profit commodity - is simply absurd. To which I reply with the following question, would your grand daddy have paid a $1 for bottled water? And most reply that water was cleaner back in the day.

DUH!

So, I'll make my case for why you should be concerned and up in arms. There's abundant evidence out there that "somethin" is going on. The question you have to ask yourself - is - What is really happening! As for me, I'm overwhelmed by the fact that more of U.S. - are not up in AR<s over this crisis issue. And - make NO mistake - it IS a crisis.
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[center][font size=5 color=burnt red]Wall Street, Billionaires & Bush's Gobble of Water Rights[/font][/center]
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According to journo Jo-Shing Yang's recent published item (pic above thereof) upon the GlobalResearch.ca Centre for Research on Globalization's item: "The New 'Water Barons': Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World's Water" - the following items are facts;

A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.

Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, Philippines’ Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all over the world.

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[font size=3]Criminalizing Collecting Rainwaters[/font]
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A more alarming note to anyone, should be the fact that Global Research updated this story, a week ago; but it is from an original publish date of December 2012. While the story notes that the elite 1% are acquiring water/ aquifer rights World Wide, it also details the fact of government push to prevent anyone else from doing the same. As noted by Global Research's details of a case in Oregon - that;

The second disturbing trend is that while the new water barons are buying up water all over the world, governments are moving fast to limit citizens’ ability to become water self-sufficient (as evidenced by the well-publicized Gary Harrington’s case in Oregon, in which the state criminalized the collection of rainwater in three ponds located on his private land, by convicting him on nine counts and sentencing him for 30 days in jail). Let’s put this criminalization in perspective:

Billionaire T. Boone Pickens owned more water rights than any other individuals in America, with rights over enough of the Ogallala Aquifer to drain approximately 200,000 acre-feet (or 65 billion gallons of water) a year. But ordinary citizen Gary Harrington cannot collect rainwater runoff on 170 acres of his private land.

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[center][font size=5 color=navy blue]Turning Free Water Supplies Corporate Business[/font][/center]
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Before we get into the nasty things that are happening out there (as part of the conspiracy to rush the new age of paying for every drop of water used each day), we need take a look at how serious an issue this would be. In order to do that we need to see just how much water each person uses each and every day.

If you had to guess, how many gallons of water would you say a person uses? Five gallons! Ten Gallons! According to the U.S. Geological Survey website (here), each and every person utilizes 80 gallons of water per day (average). Most of that being in the tub, shower, sink and toilet. If you wish to prove this premise true or false, the USGS has a link to a place you can calculate (go to We Calc - HERE). (NOTE: a tub is usually 30 gallons, a shower 2 to 3 gallons per minute and a flush 2 to 3 gallons)

Imagine to having to pay anywhere near gas prices per gallon - for 20, 30 or up to 100 gallons per day.

Jo-Shing's update to the Global Research online thread, points out that Goldman Sachs stated (back in 2008) that "water is the next petroleum". More recently, Goldman Sachs tried to acquire Reno, Nevada's by giving them a cash payment up front and then privatizing Reno's Water Authority for the next 50 years.

And we all know about the Michigan water privatization nightmare going on right now (here - here and here).

If you looked at the previous sentence's links, you would have seen that they are all DU pieces. As a matter of fact, DU'rs have been pointing out the goings on - since 2007 (at least as early as). (See DU piece on Michigan water diversion of 2008 {here} - and an even more alarming DU thread about New Mexico's governor wanting to take Lake Michigan's waters to the dessert state {here})
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[center][font size=4 color=red]Fracking,[/font][font size=4] Poisoning[/font] & [font size=4 color=red]other Frking's of Water Supplies[/font][/center]
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Any decent Progressive should already be aware of Josh Fox's GasLand documentary. It opened many people's eyes to the manifest injustice transpiring throughout America. It was even nominated for an Academy Award.

See trailer for Gasland here;
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Immediately after the Gasland trailer, it moves onto the FREE full documentary film of Gasland. It is yours truly who contends that Fracking is a for profit way to poison our nations water supply. It is already happening. Meanwhile, frack frkers continue to do their ebol.

Here's one common sense farmer doing a Julia Roberts depiction of Erin Brockovich, by bringing the "purported" safe/ clean water to a Hearing by the persons saying "it's safe to drink"....

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[center][font size=5] Spills, Thrills and other Poison ILLs[/font][/center]

Returning to the Global Research article by Jo-Shing Yang (here), it contains additional remarks germane. Citibank is quoted saying that the water market will soon eclipse oil, agriculture and precious metals. Here's the list of priorities per Citibank;

1. Desalination systems
2. Water reuse technologies
3. Produced water / water utilities
4. Membranes for filtration
5. Ultraviolet (UV) disinfection
6. Ballast-water treatment technologies
7. Forward osmosis used in desalination
8. Water-efficiency technologies and products
9. Point-of-use treatment systems
10. Chinese competitors in water

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Please (and I Mean PLEASE) take note of the fact that those are ALL water cleaning measures (except for China). Now, you should also keep in mind that China is a major polluter and has been importing U.S. water for decades now (that means we have been EXPORTING our precious commodity). As the picture above (from Simon Black's Blog Sovereign Man - HERE) details - China's number one problem (even beyond feeding itself) is the need for clean water.

As noted by Sovereign Man Blog;

Chief Economist Qian Keming of China’s Agriculture Ministry summed it up by telling the audience at the Third China International Agribusiness Forum:

“Fresh water resources are only 2100 cubic meters per capita, which is only 28% of the world’s average level.”

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“The shortage of [water for agricultural irrigation] each year is about 30 billion cubic meters. China imported about 148.6 billion cubic meters of water in 2013, which was equivalent to 38% of China’s agricultural water.”

Here’s that number in perspective: China water imports of 148.6 billion cubic meters last year handily exceeded the 569 MILLION (0.569 billion) cubic meters of oil that the United States imported.

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Now.... you may have heard of the spill in Yosemite, recently. However, what you may not know, is that spills in Yosemite (and elsewhere) have been going on for some time now (see "Spills Again" here ). Then there's also the recent fracking news of other spills and cover up of chemical spill into Ohio River, West Virginia (by Haliburton of all people - Here).

See Scientific American on Fracking bringing Ammonium and Iodide to water supplies (here).

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[center][font size=6]POISON Water Supplies and GET PAID[/font][/center][br]

As stated above

We've been barking loud about the fact that Fracking is a profitable way for corporations to poison water supplies. The additional caveat/ argument is that the goal is turn a necessary, natural resource into a commodity more expensive than oil

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[center]For you CAN live without oil; but you CAN'T live without water![/center]

Wake Up People! GW Bush is the man who changed the Law of EPA and his family is buying up the rights to WATER!



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