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"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction."
~ US State Department, 1948
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Anyone want to lay a bet against me that the Mayor and Council of this town are NOT being generously bribed by the corporations which are planning to build these marinas, condos, and strip malls?
Petitions are as useless as tits on a boar pig. They might make the citizens feel good that they are doing something, but petitions will change absolutely nothing. Now, if the Mayor's children got run over by a speeding truck, or if fire broke out and burned the condos to the ground, or if some of the city councilors committed suicide by shooting themselves three times in the back of the head, that message would be understood.
That is just what happened in Iraq. The US Coalition Authority under L. Paul Bremer decided to privatize the state assets of Iraq - the cement factories, the appliance factories, etc. etc., after shutting them all down and laying off their workforces, and sell these businesses to foreign corporations. Of course Bremer would have received nice commissions on these sales. Well, every foreign executive who entered Iraq to inspect the goods got assassinated, by "jihadis" and "terrorists." Very quickly, the foreign corporations decided the risks were not worth it, and the whole program of looting and sale of Iraqi State assets collapsed.
A similar program of "accidental deaths" among the city council and the executives of the corporate developers is the only thing which is going to stop the destruction of this lake. That is just the reality of the world we live in.
- LG
It's sad, but the world has reached the state where only wanton death and destruction can stop the onslaught of capitalism.
I've visited the lake, it's something really unique. I've also seen these marshes, fields of reed, was kind of surprised they still existed. However, I'm not surprised about this news so much. Corruption is rife in Macedonia.
Still, although the article says the life in that lake survived much, it is worth mentioning that the life there isn't the same as it was was even a few decades ago. The tourism is already there, the hydroenergy dams are already there (preventing migration of fish from and to rivers), the pollution is already there. I suppose that for the local businessmen the marsh (which is 0.75 km³, compared to about 350 km³ of the lake) is just another area to be developed, and they don't see a difference between this lake, and artificial lakes (except size). If the local population also sees it the same way, then there's no hope. Unless the tourism plummets for some reason...
I also agree with the above comments. This isn't capitalism anymore, this is BARBARISM. Find machine guns and kill all the rich and their lakes otherwise we 'll get overrun by people who think that they can buy the UNIVERSE.