The World Bank and IMF Policies Promote Disease and
Destabilization
"The World Bank policies that are most harmful promote the privatization of water utilities, which creates lucrative new business opportunities for major global water corporations, and "full cost recovery," which refers to the collection of fees from consumers for the full cost of the operation and maintenance of water utility services.These are part of the World Bank's standard policy that promotes privatization, deregulation, trade liberalization and fiscal austerity. It was largely instituted in the past 20 years when the promotion of privatization mirrored the global trend toward more market-oriented economic policies. But critics say this market-oriented slant benefits major corporations such as French-owned water giants Vivendi Universal and Suez, and furthers inequality in the developing world. Indeed, prior to the 1980s, World Bank economists and development experts maintained that investment in public water utilities would trigger a development "take off." However, the scale shifted when investors began to realize the potential profit from privatizing an increasingly scarce natural resource.The World Bank now claims that the private sector, rather than publicly owned water utilities, is best able to provide the financial resources and expertise needed to address the growing problems in water service management. Yet private sector companies are organized to make a profit, not to fulfill socially responsible objectives such as achieving universal access to water and sanitation services. In many developing countries, where most citizens earn less than $2 a day, private sector companies are unable to meet shareholder obligations to provide a market rate of return and also implement universal coverage with acceptable quality and at affordable prices. Water rates soar and large sectors of the low-income population remain unserved."-Public Citizen Report
"The World Bank says that 'one way or another, water will soon be moved around the world as oil is now.'" - Maude Barlow Toronto Star 03-11-03
Five hundred years ago Europeans sailed around the world, bum rushing the native inhabitants, tricking them into exchanging their lands, natural and human resources for worthless trinkets, outmoded arms and the European's pathological predilection for war, rapine plunder and pillage. This predatory trade arrangement set the stage for a major cultural economic and socio-ecological reversal; higher living standards for Europeans, transfer of wealth and wholesale degradation and exploitation of the natives. The Europeans lacked the fire and manpower to totally bum rush the people at first so they cunningly concealed their true intent, but not for long. The European cultural milieu of incessant war, social cannibalism and predation inevitably reveals itself whenever and wherever the white man sets foot on planet earth. Using war genocide, the politics of rape, racial miscegenation and color cast to secure a socio-political environment favorable to Europeans, the whites then set out to institutionalize their imperial enterprises. Incessant rivalries and wars sparked by their psychopathy decimated both the European population and the ranks of the indigenous peoples; those who aggressively resisted the encroachment of the aliens and those who unwisely attempted to live in peace with the pale faces. The Europeans disrupted the social and ecological order everywhere they went superimposing their culture of domination, exploitation and xenophobia on native peoples. The propaganda of World War II used to justify yet another war invigorated liberation movements all over the globe and the whites were forced to alter their stance from crass imperialism to a seemingly softer and benign form called neocolonialism. Post WW III neocolonialism has since morphed into a more cunning form of domination were international bankers rather than colonial rulers set the tone and tenor for the way things work. Instead of colonial administrators, missionaries and soldiers the IMF, World Bank USAID (the latest incarnation of the trading monopolies of the 15, 16 and 17th centuries ) now dictate the imperial agendas backed by the armies, lethal technology and mercenaries all under control of a small cabal of multi-national capitalists.
Instead of "gunboat diplomacy" the imperialists now use economic strangulation. The IMF and World Bank place exorbitant demands on underdeveloped nations struggling to reverse the lingering inequities and grinding burdens of the colonial era. Even the few honest leaders not on the CIA, MI-6 or Mossad payroll are forced to make choices between pursuing much needed land redistribution and reform, expanding their economies, raising wages, building an infrastructure conducive to commerce and travel, educating their people and defending themselves against further neocolonialism. The IMF and World Bank are now pushing privatization of basic services such as drinking water and utilities. Developing countries need loans and credit but the IMF and World Bank hold them hostage demanding they purchase weapons with money that should go for roads, schools hospitals and social programs. The IMF and World Bank determine economic and social priorities of the countries they loan money to. it would be like you going to a bank for a loan and the bank dictating how you live every facet of your life as a condition of getting the money. IMF and World Bank policies demand third world countries privatize their water and power services which results in onerous conditions. Log onto to glean how the multi-nationals, the IMF and World Bank collude to exploit third world countries and create dangerous health conditions. Third world nations are experiencing a rise in diseases like cholera and other water bourn conditions, because people who cannot afford the cost of water imposed by the privatized companies use untreated water and often infected water from local streams, creeks, ponds and rivers. In addition to the millions the multi-national water companies will rake in by controlling their monopolies on water they are also given huge tax breaks, licensing fee concessions and perks due to arm twisting by the IMF World Bank on the leaders of these cash strapped underdeveloped or "developing" countries. If this seems like only a problem for third world countries let me recall to your attention a similar situation; Enron and the power companies manipulating billing costs and production which led to power outages in California and artificially induced price increases. The same mentality that produced phony power shortages in the US is causing disease and destabilization all over the world, in Latin America in Chile and Brazil, Mexico in African in Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The transnational corporations, the capitalist elites, the IMF and World Bank are plotting to control all the world's resources, recently most of the focus has been on oil, as we move further into this century look for more emphasis to shift to water.
"The World Bank policies that are most harmful promote the privatization of water utilities, which creates lucrative new business opportunities for major global water corporations, and "full cost recovery," which refers to the collection of fees from consumers for the full cost of the operation and maintenance of water utility services.These are part of the World Bank's standard policy that promotes privatization, deregulation, trade liberalization and fiscal austerity. It was largely instituted in the past 20 years when the promotion of privatization mirrored the global trend toward more market-oriented economic policies. But critics say this market-oriented slant benefits major corporations such as French-owned water giants Vivendi Universal and Suez, and furthers inequality in the developing world. Indeed, prior to the 1980s, World Bank economists and development experts maintained that investment in public water utilities would trigger a development "take off." However, the scale shifted when investors began to realize the potential profit from privatizing an increasingly scarce natural resource.The World Bank now claims that the private sector, rather than publicly owned water utilities, is best able to provide the financial resources and expertise needed to address the growing problems in water service management. Yet private sector companies are organized to make a profit, not to fulfill socially responsible objectives such as achieving universal access to water and sanitation services. In many developing countries, where most citizens earn less than $2 a day, private sector companies are unable to meet shareholder obligations to provide a market rate of return and also implement universal coverage with acceptable quality and at affordable prices. Water rates soar and large sectors of the low-income population remain unserved."-Public Citizen Report
"The World Bank says that 'one way or another, water will soon be moved around the world as oil is now.'" - Maude Barlow Toronto Star 03-11-03
Five hundred years ago Europeans sailed around the world, bum rushing the native inhabitants, tricking them into exchanging their lands, natural and human resources for worthless trinkets, outmoded arms and the European's pathological predilection for war, rapine plunder and pillage. This predatory trade arrangement set the stage for a major cultural economic and socio-ecological reversal; higher living standards for Europeans, transfer of wealth and wholesale degradation and exploitation of the natives. The Europeans lacked the fire and manpower to totally bum rush the people at first so they cunningly concealed their true intent, but not for long. The European cultural milieu of incessant war, social cannibalism and predation inevitably reveals itself whenever and wherever the white man sets foot on planet earth. Using war genocide, the politics of rape, racial miscegenation and color cast to secure a socio-political environment favorable to Europeans, the whites then set out to institutionalize their imperial enterprises. Incessant rivalries and wars sparked by their psychopathy decimated both the European population and the ranks of the indigenous peoples; those who aggressively resisted the encroachment of the aliens and those who unwisely attempted to live in peace with the pale faces. The Europeans disrupted the social and ecological order everywhere they went superimposing their culture of domination, exploitation and xenophobia on native peoples. The propaganda of World War II used to justify yet another war invigorated liberation movements all over the globe and the whites were forced to alter their stance from crass imperialism to a seemingly softer and benign form called neocolonialism. Post WW III neocolonialism has since morphed into a more cunning form of domination were international bankers rather than colonial rulers set the tone and tenor for the way things work. Instead of colonial administrators, missionaries and soldiers the IMF, World Bank USAID (the latest incarnation of the trading monopolies of the 15, 16 and 17th centuries ) now dictate the imperial agendas backed by the armies, lethal technology and mercenaries all under control of a small cabal of multi-national capitalists.
Instead of "gunboat diplomacy" the imperialists now use economic strangulation. The IMF and World Bank place exorbitant demands on underdeveloped nations struggling to reverse the lingering inequities and grinding burdens of the colonial era. Even the few honest leaders not on the CIA, MI-6 or Mossad payroll are forced to make choices between pursuing much needed land redistribution and reform, expanding their economies, raising wages, building an infrastructure conducive to commerce and travel, educating their people and defending themselves against further neocolonialism. The IMF and World Bank are now pushing privatization of basic services such as drinking water and utilities. Developing countries need loans and credit but the IMF and World Bank hold them hostage demanding they purchase weapons with money that should go for roads, schools hospitals and social programs. The IMF and World Bank determine economic and social priorities of the countries they loan money to. it would be like you going to a bank for a loan and the bank dictating how you live every facet of your life as a condition of getting the money. IMF and World Bank policies demand third world countries privatize their water and power services which results in onerous conditions. Log onto to glean how the multi-nationals, the IMF and World Bank collude to exploit third world countries and create dangerous health conditions. Third world nations are experiencing a rise in diseases like cholera and other water bourn conditions, because people who cannot afford the cost of water imposed by the privatized companies use untreated water and often infected water from local streams, creeks, ponds and rivers. In addition to the millions the multi-national water companies will rake in by controlling their monopolies on water they are also given huge tax breaks, licensing fee concessions and perks due to arm twisting by the IMF World Bank on the leaders of these cash strapped underdeveloped or "developing" countries. If this seems like only a problem for third world countries let me recall to your attention a similar situation; Enron and the power companies manipulating billing costs and production which led to power outages in California and artificially induced price increases. The same mentality that produced phony power shortages in the US is causing disease and destabilization all over the world, in Latin America in Chile and Brazil, Mexico in African in Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The transnational corporations, the capitalist elites, the IMF and World Bank are plotting to control all the world's resources, recently most of the focus has been on oil, as we move further into this century look for more emphasis to shift to water.
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