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was. to go on a sunday i spoke of it is a strong less risk than our sin it better not start the. purity just on the last at least least so the apocalypse off at least it ought to shape dallas said go in and not know what i'm up to c.b.s. said this is your particular power. down keys that are dead as a power fashion across your. there's a. still decision. if you know the city. and what's a privatisation officially it's not the commission's policia state however it's
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true if you look at the troika us and if you look at the memorandum of understanding between for example the troika and portugal the commission a spot of the troika is asking to further privatized across the book to go so in the troika the commission is still pushing for privatization so if it is really a human right if you really are serious to the citizens at today's initiative we should start acting on policies instead of celebration. thank. you but if you do this and i wish was sitting. with your. sympathy. of appropriate even. as you watch fundamental mean. that i compose.
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each could have. this but if it is a so you could if you had. concerns about the pressure being put on southern countries european water movement activists ropes to read. the highlights of the european commission as part of the troika so to force southern european countries mainly greece and portugal to privatized was that. they say that is unacceptable and must stop. a few months later the commission's reply leaves everyone speechless. the commission believes that the privatization of public utilities including water supply firms. can deliver benefits to society when carefully made.
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to death. in bunches was as they counted a duffer to cosign. such nice bets on i consume of accepted on the c s q it would put out if it was something. that i could do so much and also did some enormous secure comic every nothing yeah if it's out of the death of a thought if i thought that juvenile id goes a little botany see me about i should have to do all those no gosh but it could be open and not by deed to disk you sure could to disguise your bridge you know that. is what makes premium him opinion to center six pm device you can you could feel secret he let me be the last i did. not look at dog ac these dual result was that he's gone and a very serious one. when
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detroit you came to ireland they wanted to privatized the water utility. but there was no water utility. the water was sprayed in twenty seven local authorities so they were told or government by the troika to build. the i was government at. a company called irish water. which began installing meters. side to people's homes. the first protests took place. in scads of the city of clark already a woman went out in the morning and said you are not putting up be the outside my house. i told him they were coming to this tears we didn't want the water meters
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and that was asked. what he and i were to there was a mass of supportive people here to stop that. and this was the first time that the irish people had taken a stand on any issue since a steady had begun says the troika ride to toes not. because. i thought it was really. cool. i think for some people it probably was the straw that broke the camel's back. and no one of a sudden move in the street together. and people who are joining the docks and you know what has the water meter it's got to do with the fact that you can't see a doctor should go to a hospital what the water meters got to do with the banks coming in taking people so this. you know this is
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a sewer only little bit of power you can cool and fun to try but you can't stand a thanks or false. and there's your polar and and it like it might be true years and we're still not finished but people are still resisting this because it is the one thing that they have power and they're never going to get into. this. and we knew that this is big something different it's not. it's about water forced to foremost but it's also about much more than war it's about to hurt to be trailed the surrender of sovereignty and the redistribution of our west upwards and their debt downwards. there is a problem with the leaks and we couldn't find them until we have brought in some
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natures so if i see my solution suddenly it says there's a million liters a month for a couple of people in my house i call that temperature so that's reason for the usual it's. an island there were no meters because they had a completely different system of water charges. the irish paid through general taxation. over one billion euro was intended for the maintenance and operation of the water system. some people think those people water through taxation is a little bit crazy we really only country in the o.e.c.d. . it has zero war poverty and we're the only one with the a lot of poverty because we're the only one that pays for a trip progressive general taxation that's the one thing we got right and we'll keep it and the rest you should look at for follow us listen to us because the dumb
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irish got this one right. we really need to modernize our russia structure so now we really have to invest. so we need a structure to invest we need to wage borrowed money and then we need a way to pay for it paying out a general type stations people who work would probably end up paying more taxes. we are losing forty seven percent of our trees and walk into the ground in leaks before it gets to the top. no billion new rock to spend do i choose to spend it on meters or do i choose to stand up billion euro in fixing the leaks and building a new one for structure. despite the water having been paid through general taxation. no tax exemptions were plans to offset the new charges.
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forcing one of the major game stables where says. the threat of paying for water twice led most citizens to regard the introduction of meat as an challenges as another austerity measure and the establishment of irish water as the first step towards privatization. mr ferguson down with the minister tusk by the government with setting up the new company. clearly didn't work out quite as we expected. it was never on the agenda from my perspective that it could would or should ever be sold or privatized when i was discussing this matter with my officials at the time i insisted that the legislation would have to include three point one to lead to say she was handed to me before i went into the parliament it wasn't in it.
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was really. centrist it's office and i have it says of course we all know privatisation is ultimately envisaged. and then there was a letter from disinterested just example saying you're stuck you can say that would you please take these words out of the report. so then the report came back four years out towards the. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars pass through most. in
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the amount of time that we did then in the panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of most fun psycho documents were examined. the all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this thought it was newspaper. and probably other politician which was attacking other politicians the media would point to find their targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was
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very striking there were no more americans to go especially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin optional task hollywood guy usual suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different i've noticed a good one on the owner with no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have fun every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which.
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is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sit coms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic masses that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on the world. that. the decision has already been made and everything is ready for the big day. following the examples of berlin and italy the people of thessaloniki will be called upon to say through
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a non-binding referendum whether they want the water company to be privatized as planned by the government. suddenly however on the eve of the ballot there's a problem. that it is going to be there for the rest of their users they see fit if we see it not the case they know the answer into this and that people who are maybe a little bit think this. interior minister younis make a lockets in a circular sent out the old municipalities declared the referendum illegal the democratic opposition a kind of it will not what i've said in the christmas numbers i left out of my pickup was asleep but i don't see it as. after going to get my police the moment of course is full of fish chicken is going to but it is enough it is.
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also the typical potatoes market that this if you tickle pace is to say after this i don't need to eat but i'm going up especially to somebody needs to pick it up chemically not all the house and estate is supposed to fit the defense especially if he has a couple. of days to close the b.b.c.'s even if the spot a man implicitly to call b.c. to put them all on so let them on your place to put up some of the thought it boredom. thank french president emanuel micron's on an official trip to absence
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thanks is accompanied by forty french businessmen each with an interest in the greek privatization program. today they'll have the opportunity to directly question prime minister alexis to press along among them as sean louise shows up the sewage c.e.o. is company has its eye on greece's water companies. and any pot of hell of. a lot from us you guys we've got booked but if i long to come out because. i've been vicious us to go out there now look you know if you look at it overall how do you know the left. you know. if you could be sure. it was i must. be is that.
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you. would send. me. you not me. but you will. have to get in touch with. the country is now obliged to transfer all state owned assets to the super fund. a new anonymous company with a life expectancy of ninety nine years this management board will also consist of representatives of lend us. the water companies are among those assets but the government still promises they will not be privatized. they need to go to the these men up the keep it out show you may go straight to bed b.c. must then say go b.c. b.s. . like out and go to some extent but only get upset at the park yep if i see. the
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state policies that are prevented if they see sniffing in at least a piece that. crosses from a loss who took part in the thessaloniki water movement became the alternative minister for the environment and was put in charge of water management following the state's council's decision he's trying to salvage at least fifty one percent. of the most oil and. distilling it is willing to give up with the going to get this bill to get the government with. it misses the what i mean this is it's that we're going to this is it's the bit that it's.
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in twenty fifteen joe alphen and as became minister of the environment under portugal's newly formed left wing government after the twenty fifteen elections water policy changed soon after. all of this lettuce will deal with a first term of the vs a pot the believe it's a step up if they meet the fat yeah it will slow team is the end this use could they call stories at the vastness. of the bass. that is no play they say the divvied it was nice see bruce may bet is that we will see the events. unfortunately the government has washed its hands of these cases according to portugal's constitution municipalities are autonomous and the state is forbidden to intervene. to improve those who vote on d.s. bossiest c.d.o. but if it is out it will lead us into. like
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a veto mundo us most of us all to the real cull if he so she had already yards which the if the divorce rate for you minerals. used to kick you boil in this us as well etc. marcello some passes to fight anna have to get by on their own. best to go mr knows he has no choice he is bound to pay a huge amount of compensation one hundred seventy two million. the euro will go to the private water company because the bottom has been a supply fail to reach the envisaged population and water consumption targets. the municipality also realized it had lost all technical know how regarding water
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management. going to. d.s. eat. by poor board. so mr gomez decided to negotiate with the company will she be so maybe to start. fights. if the three of. them shifts to two versions. vs one without is no. visit. and. england leaving you eat fish just say. look out. passes different era but the most expensive water in portugal did not appeal to the courts. umberto brito seeing troubles realized that the game was
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lost and try to negotiate with the company. good. luck seems unusual to begin to look misleading lucas and cooper at the users if you through the newer the past freedom at their leisure the. bison. oh and. activist against water charges often patrol this cork neighborhood. if they find an irish water crew installing meters they try to force them to leave . oh we say no why do you need me know everybody knows that nothing is set in stone yet. the commission keeps pushing islands to comply with
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the community directive and impose meters and water charges on its citizens. and there is this principle which is. framed in the water directive that the polluters should be sold there should be a direct responsibility of this cannot be done with a general exception obviously next friday we meet same time. we'll do that. yet only at the end we don't act and we. faced with an precedented public disobedience the government is trying hard to maneuver between public discontent and the demands of brussels. what we're trying to do you know in a small way they would say has to happen because the european union told us it has to happen because detroit at all unless that's what it helps but you can tar logic
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on its head very very quickly because when the european commission after the different opinion something gets for example that apple corp older citizens of this country talked to bill talked in billion euro. suddenly the ideology walks in the next and suddenly don't you a liberal saying that the european commission it's only an opinion we're part of europe but it doesn't it doesn't take away our ability to meet our own decisions in relation to how we tax how can do european commission take away our ability to meet our own decisions in relation to water for an opinion of the very same body and the very same people alone has to be her own decisions in relation to given apple a thirteen billion year old gift. well all you have to do is look at puppets to explain those contradictions.
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i. see. all of these situations and all of the peoples of europe need to start having an honest conversation with each of. us missing the whole movement to different. people basically need to be made nice that the seam of a. system that when they're trying a western union to get them out of the government go in them and of course you know i wouldn't have a dogmatic approach to. was. going to come into shores to do are so many players on a company that do so. via
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los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. a simple fact in l.a. says there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. running into this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such. a tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution your craft or someone wanted touring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all the news there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. at
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. the week's top stories from the u.s. has left all but isolated at the u.n. as the vast majority of nations voting against president travels does it and they recognized it was them as israel's capital and they have this almost daily clashes in the region. these it's a scene here is extremely ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah it's also visit for the first time as british foreign secretary added although relations are at a low point trying to link the me by attempting some. thank you very much so good to generous to do your hospitality in welcoming me and my team today specifically bolshoi.
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