Corporate Nestles Steals Water From Commons Free Market Works Against the People.

Water Flint Michigan Corporate Theft of the Common.

Highly recommend listening; being educated to Democracy Now broadcast February 17 2016 concerning Nestles Natural Spring water, robbing a common source, for profit, 14 Billion in 2014, while citizens of Flint are paying $140 a month for poison water, Nestles, Ice Mountain, takes water from the Lake Michigan Aquifers for nothing, and ships it all over the world. In fact Nestles received a tax break incentive for their “plastic bottle” watering plant. The citizens of flint are still receiving water bills and have to pay for Nestles bottled water, to boot. Nestles began extracting this common resource for profit in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 2000.

The Great Lakes are 20% of the earth’s fresh water source, and much of this resource is polluted. Nestles water extractions have caused streams and small lakes to actually turn to Mud Holes.

Apparently many people in high places in the emergency management of Detroit knew of the Flint River problems and ignored then for financial reasons, which were caused by politicians extracting money from local sources to balance State Budgets. So money has trumped human life; especially if they are minorities. Ask yourself why isn’t FEMA extracting water like Nestles and supplying Flint residents? Why haven’t their water bills been cancelled? Nestles takes about 400 gallons per minute from the Lake Michigan aquifers and pay nothing.

Michigan Citizens for water Conservation has fought Nestles for 8 years and raised through grassroots $1 million dollars in legal fees, at the same time paying taxes and water bills. Nestles has tried to counter sue them for saying bad things about their enterprise. The FBI actually intervened on Nestles side at one point accusing a relative of the Citizens for water Conservation for sabotaging a well. When the arrest was attempted the alleged culprit turned out to be a double amputee and the FBI’s case folded, and Nestles was not investigated.

This is what happens when corporations are people, who they are not, and they are certainly not democratic but ruled by a closed circle of billionaire profiteers. Who ship their enterprises overseas at whim and have slight China.

At the Climate March in Washington, DC, 2013 I happened to meet a human being named Chief Frank Cornstalk from Upper Michigan and remember him telling me how the water that belongs to us all from Mother Earth was being stolen by Nestles, and how the once beautiful areas around the Lake were polluted with plastic bottles and baby diapers, as he put it. Frank Cornstalk became quite upset even talking about it.

This whole episode should put us on alert, as to what is occurring; our democracy has been subverted by finance and corporate power and rights beyond any logic or sense of justice. Under Parsippany’s gift of Mother Earth the grace of water is entrusted to us. Parsippany thinks little of this and takes it for granted. We already depend on two private water sources in order to meet our demand. We do not protect our landscapes as best we could, for example wellheads and ground water recharge areas, we amend our Master Plan to suit developers for shallow short term jobs and tax retable’s some of which are rather tax breaks. We see land only as real estate and not a vital ecology component of health and well-being. Two last remaining environmentally sensitive landscapes have fallen to unneeded development; UPS and Waterview. Both “were” ground water recharge areas, their loss will surely impact the future of our water health. One of our private water sources the Jersey City reservoir privately owned by Suez traps the waters of the Rockaway River. This source is already known for its impacts from upstream pollution sources. We are told all is well.

In our Land today this is not the space age or the computer age this is the age of corporate power and its corrupting influence in an age of greed and imposed austerity where corporations have divine right and property is theft. We cannot depend on private capital to be invested in coordinated ways to meet the real needs of the nation, and the political crones elected to power will not allow government to do its job, or improve in its purpose of efficiency. The more privatized we become the less safe we are. Flint Michigan is just one example.

Goals and objectives of government or progress should remain honesty, faithful payment of taxes; especially with those whom have and benefit the most from the system and true representative democracy; not SuperPacs; especially in local affairs. It is a fact as of 2016 we have shown we do not have what it takes to be free, responsible, or wise in our ways. Money is like a drug; worse in that a drug addict mainly hurts himself; Billionaires in their influence and greed hurt life and all things in it. Why aren’t these Michigan Officials in jail? When the law becomes too one-sided there is no low but legal corruption of its basic principles; not to be enriched at the costs to others. (If Nestles pays nothing for the water, then Nestles should sponsor or provide plastic bottle retrieval as their products, pollute the land another costs passed on to the ordinary man(.

Grace is the working of God himself, not a created substance of any kind that can be treated like a commodity. This people is water itself without which no life is possible water is the very spirit itself and the element of baptism its words be good, love this life, and those to come. It is self-evident free market capitalism does not work in “our” best interest.

Life, Liberty and the right to water, as to it not to be privatized or left vulnerable or subject to theft, pollution or private extraction. water is life and is the very symbol of the soul itself.

• 70 percent of freshwater is locked in ice caps

• Less than 1 percent of the world’s freshwater is readily accessible

There is much more freshwater stored in the ground than there is in liquid form on the surface, according to the USGS. If we continue not to protect our ground water recharge areas, and wellheads to minimum or years it takes for containment’s to reach them the future looks unhealthy and expensive and full of even more plastic pollution. Desalination of the Ocean is very expensive and the health of that water is yet unproven. Add climate change and you see where were heading. Why do people buy so much bottled water? One reason they don’t trust the tap, so we pay water bills and buy water at the markets, insane!