just. for this post right here they wanted to take my life. put in for this the me they wanted to cut my head off but they couldn't cut it because her head was like this i said stop she thought she could cut with the much of the leg base but her head was in the way you're not afraid why would i be afraid yes yes katie if they want to common mess with me i'll wag them i'll be to them my island is mine so if you would fight for your land i need a modicum of course i would. i could never leave my land.

what's this worth right now that's worth a little over two million dollars two million dollars right i touch it certainly ha ha ha ha ha really it was so heavy. last years it made people more worried about potential of a major crisis than a camel judge the stock market has just closed there has been a massive. breach hasn't seen the days this bad it's been a global bloodbath urgent mission has to be getting this economy going faster actually discussed or is recession pressure you name it seems like vital to b.c. my company. has a movement brewing in america today that seeks to restore the gold back dollar gold is selling at a record high dollar store to one thousand dollars an ounce of gold prices jumped to the highest in the league eleven weeks now is the time to raise your coin collection is a jury box they would want to get so scared they were ok with all they want people

to be afraid play off. the old keeps going on and on living by a sense of the world is out of whack and gold consumed most people say the price of gold said a blend of this may be hundred dollars an ounce. thousands of miners are joining the muslim gold rush of the struck gold in the forests of the cool throughout west africa all blessings are permitted all its attention is turning us to for the next swept up in mining fever.

you know that the miners eat thanks to our gold medalist but in ways we either thanks to our lent me most would depend on corn beans and one other earth gives us . the market share so you and i think that i am one of the people affected by the mining company and the truth is where witnesses to what has been happening most of our wells and springs have dried out because of the drilling and the time know what if you wanted it them be and also because they use the water to wash the goal it's not all. you.

but they don't know where it. is them or where in resistance in some is i mean again for many reasons isn't that it is that we're fighting to defend our land salau to defend our water to defend our health. and this is why the company has denounced us so much. are you. going to go. fuck then was i have seven children i am twenty one years old. i am married. and that's my husband there was a bank bag was been married. for twenty years they said if you work i work here in your house yes so you have seven jobs. and this is one yes so.

when it was day yet like to tell you my life story tonight i think the whole world already knows it. i've. i. seen most in our world view. is this way of creating an economy of making money is completely illogical it's illogical because it destroys nature. beautifully learnt the lesson if you destroy nature you basically destroy the person's soul three and what follows at the end of the day is that the person's

life is destroyed and a little someone with very close to nature that means a great deal to us which we are parts of the whole song was a little. conflict in the conflict unfolding in the highlands started when a man tiny a mining company attempted to transport an enormous metal cylinder to san marcos he had the pan-american highway. like that i think that i think. he decided he couldn't see these are some of the scenes from what happened yesterday in the west of the country in the mid to going up when about one thousand police officers and three hundred members of the army confronted hundreds of farmers from various villages in the region that is this interim in this and of the armed internal conflict in the one nine hundred eighty s. when they got to the city.

and central america. has gone through real or more as kids with the worst of the. hundreds of thousands of people were murdered and disappeared and million of them were displaced from their homes where they stand up against the modern army one hundred thousand died in one thousand nine hundred two the year that general rios montt mount a scorched earth policy and really devastated hundreds of my and villages the most in that we are in a wall you know something that we have been saying that. is marvelous that odds we need to change. and the chains consists precisely all through me one imposing your will over on this reagan was praising the worst killer as is the most a few so if terms a real smart real smart and close ties to the united states who gave it to fight against the guerrillas and the wounds that were inflicted by that conflict to

continue to fester clearly and that has contributed to the current situation the repression of any type of economic change really created the kind of poison politics that they have and this links to the main story because our plate of it is dealt with these are you can't say they're responsible for the rios montt slaughter it but they're benefiting from the structures that were left in place after those many years of servitor ian oppression. even. though i. predict when the municipality asemi go mr khan here in the. event which is to. sort of on top of the goldcorp minute so we're going to follow the road down by the mine visited with. this. idea dora. certainly

has a legitimate. well first of all in defense of her rights what she is defending is her land she has refused to sell her plot of land to court because they were hoping to expand their mind through her part of land. been. a long if you've been with theodora about thirty five years now of marriage yes. no i didn't you work in the mine didn't they offer you a job no no. no because we didn't want to have anything to do with the miners down there's a saloon of all these people are destroying everyone's health around here. i am involved in the resistance so is my husband she says it's great that to a fight but how do we get them to leave. i ask god for them to leave keep going

i want us to be left in peace you know after we went at it with my granddaughter is used to live with us now for me when. i cry when they think about her future. what will happen to her if they kill me. yes the sun these are the companies power lines when i saw that they had put these poles on my land i was very angry because i didn't give them permission and i am therefore. we have a custom you say where you say and you keep your word. but here they took advantage. i didn't one mining i didn't run anything. but what i wanted was for them to take out the poles nothing more. we just took

a wire and threw it over the cable to cut off the power this was the court and after we cut off their tricity the company sent the police. as opposed to say a t.v. show like this we're here to learn about guatemala suppose this becomes a trip where we're learning actually about no kid in the united states historically and on and on what basis today these are the parts of our role they decided before the destruction that they would kill to day to day basically closed off the valve. housing for the mine workers some of the prices there are some of the take the high that over there and then there's the whole complicated processing plant called spear it's a very low concentration you know you're probably holding gold and you pick up this

earth right here this is the cheapest form of coal mining the most destructive because you're getting one gram of cool for one ton some of the estimates are one gram of coal for seven tons and because of the cost of building your nationally because of the low cost of the money up aeration it's worth their while to just clear cut the whole region they have an endless mine and say there's no doubt that the gold piece is far as the eye can see. two of the big gold guns are teaming up gold corp's announced an eight point six billion dollars us friendly takeover of glamorous gold it will be the lowest cost fastest growing on head school more any company in the world the goldcorp glamorous combination would pump out about three million ounces of gold a year making it the fifth biggest producer in the world and in terms of market cap it would rank number three we just reported earnings they were up seventy two percent year on year while we saw the gold price go up thirty percent so very pleased with that exposure that we provide to gold to have a prediction of where gold goes from here for the next let's say here i would say

it could certainly get to two thousand dollars thousand dollars an ounce and there are four hundred ounces in these gold bars i'm just going to tell that they're probably you know what it's almost you having to tell how much is this what about thirty five. that's they don't have. a problem it was a problem very hard to make a pledge against the among a lot that had sat with her. no legs little

glow. the m o m. l m. a. with an oath on their lips and muscles and there are but men with the breed in our hearts ready to break the backs to sell their very souls foothold here let's face it there. i love. to

still be where the go price of gold today is that fifteen hundred eighty dollars by going for some twenty bucks an ounce i don't know as a status i never understood gold quite frankly it's this item it isn't all that useful but it's valuable because people assign it a value why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think always money. at the end of the day why gold you know it's gold because it's gold because it's gold because it's gold you can't look into this deeply or the whole thing just called setting good cannot make sense of the gold teeth why should we be mining gold at all. we already have huge amounts of mind to gold in the world of the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to any gold we're not going to eat gone we're

not going to bait. we're not going to drink. you offered me the choice i'm looking at some sixty seven foot. of gold i'm looking at it all day and the alternative that was to have all the farmland of the country for a quick profit to get a piece of metal to stick and of walt so we can say we own it. we're destroying the very future that we want to there we're trying to secure all the litany of harms and violations to get this gold out of the ground and then you take this and you take it home to your country and you bury it under the ground. out of the tribe the british under. the way back to. us.

on behalf of montana explorer dora and goldcorp this time we are committed to being in san miguel issue. with a vision. a long term vision of moving people we feel part of this beautiful municipality we feel like part of the family of san miguel ishtar cried today that has been confirmed plenty of the moment but we're planning right now on exploiting this area. and we're going to transport minerals on the roads for every machinery over here in the malls we have opinions to expand almost in every direction. so. there won't be any problem with that for them honest. on the matter no say oh. it's first who didn't know if it was a gold mining company or a mine we didn't know nobody knew

a thing is there are the workers says they're growing or kids a flower company. that's what we understand it to be on the surface. they were looking for me and when they found me that they asked me to sell my land here at least i said no see i can never get you know my because i didn't want to sell no and i was not thinking of selling. my yes down to console when they started working on the road it appeared to me to go and have a look at my land. again when they got back in that i was the machines were working on my land they were making a highway as if the property was theirs yes. it's a good. yes if if you all do a good job. if montana leaves if you get them out.

they don't create jobs i mean it creates jobs. for the brain is when you only want to chase away the money. and we're the bastards no it doesn't bother me no no no no way no my support isn't for the company my support is for my life. so they make good money. well i want to make money to support my life. you see and because they let me know i think that there are two groups if there is one group that says i may first safely and openly no to mining. there is another group that says yes the mine is good there's a lot of divisions in their own communities because some people have jobs in the mind etc having said all that the people in san diego and cells are trying to assist by starting to carry out their own postal taisha indigenous peoples. in

their own processes of expressing their views about these projects called these processes consult us the benefit of good food consultations and suppose for uniformly that he has been in opposition to development projects like mines on the territory and the communities are saying the owners of the goldcorp or mean people evil devils are just saying we don't want your companies here. this you get from us to go to one hundred get sellers that come from the mine worth fifty cents stays in san miguel well if you read fifty cents will stop in the hands of the central government in the way they noise and ninety nine is for them. one hundred people and they want this kind of business it is totally unfair for the

community but it's it's a robbery practically. i mean the mining company says it has generated a lot of development in san macau is this the truth is that the only development that they have created is an increase in violence as you can think of there are more then forty eight bars and time again the risk prostitutes. and here in san miguel there is everything that is in the game so we haven't seen any development no real change that the mind has brought to this town. and this is the big buildings in the communities the profitable projects and whatever else could be done with so much money so if these things don't really exist it's a lie when they say there's a big change it doesn't exist there's nothing really. the

economic models that we were bringing in to countries like ball ball were really about making rich people richer. you know to take a step back and look sit back and demichelis and she should be employed such a perfectly awful piece you start with mr manning even some military tribunal teaches people you've been living in this valley for at least ten thousand years so to have this project dumped on top of their heads like this is the classics and no imposition of a so-called development project. selling the development projects that really. usually indebted countries may be profitable world bank didn't really deliver a lot for the for the poor who maintain those burdens of the world bank was aware of the violence being used to displace these people.

who simply cannot take it to. this. sort of bidding to the banks and if they're going to play for just a little bit of what is good it is a similar process to what happened with the gold mining story that was a key. playback of calls and to some of the communities they were given no option as to whether they would need to move or not the whole serious of structural rules that were imposed on guatemala and many other countries through the international monetary fund in the world bank with leadership from the united states a pattern throughout. of large scale development projects mining hydroelectric dams and so forth within and to the territories but without in many case even minimal consultation what clearly what amal is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say

therefore any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with we are part of the geo political economic system that's extremely exploitative i would argue that the legacy of money spins precisely that that it has some short term economic benefit most most of those economic benefits accruing to investors and has a long term ecological consequence that is very negative for the for the ongoing development prospects of the region. it wouldn't surprise me at all if many of you directly or indirectly are invested in the pool or through a pension fund through a trust fund through an endowment through a little bit of savings you have you're probably investing goldcorp and dozens of

mining companies that are operating around the world and contributing to harms to one degree or another. and what you all need i know my lifestyle diet since i came to leave here when i cry. the wooden breach in my car when to drink a water and what happened. so they don't have water. because. that bit of it. was no water. but they would let me know miles a mile in mine has used millions and millions of liters of water water that no longer flows now that the other mines are blowing through the amount of water that one family uses in twenty years or more every hour.

there is a clash of cultures in the way that the govt or uses water is just another resource . and it's extraction process and to the millions who really regarded essential to life itself the water is completely to its contaminates it's no longer fit for humans because again i can't they say there is no pollution so where does the poison go when they're done with it oh i want to process the gold where does it go and if you are saying it's not contaminated then let's go to the feeling down and you have a drink drink it then. the government isn't supposed to grant license without the community's consent. but that's exactly what they've done in san miguel he didn't think.

that. before we were not aware. here but now the people are awake. you know. the company got us one by one that does help people sold their lands to the company wouldn't have been able to come in. where starting to figure out what's going on because. you know.

brings cladding community fears it's good name has been tarnished after an incidence of people in clown costume scaring members of the public the copy cat craze believed to have been started by a man known on facebook as the northampton clown involves people dressing as the circus characters to surprise passers by in public places i know what you're thinking you're thinking that sounds a whole lot like the terrifying clowns of westminster george osborne with his big red nose and floppy feet scaring citizens into taking on ever more debt for fear of missing out on the property ladder or the equally horrifying stephen king like clowns of ben bernanke m.r. carney wearing their big red frizzy wigs and staring menacingly in through your window at night pointing teeny tiny score down to the bankers.

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