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water company is a profitable public firm that supplies cheap water has a more than half a million households a small percentage five point four six is already on by the french multinational suez. what it was like oh my goodness where is asked and i was a big so nice of course i'm going to die so you know that is the simple message billy bob said i'm just gonna listen to you get them out of this only get us to monitor this and. then now come in and she has more so to float up top with elizabeth let that be a political he's not pretty maybe you know if you took the feet.
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in a moment boy your kid then. eve you could be the seat. they met as a middle class the bull's eye sees the. bit on his little jobs up on the better santa no prisoners recorded the amount of the. d.a.p. as greece's largest water company it provides five point five million people with water. by the i.d.f. well. it's a top. cold spot nourse anything that's there. it's a look at a cup as the means of a physician make his helmet on the pale fellow man i. am almost in my system if i can see the bottom up on but that just hadn't been a much more efficient goal as it became much.
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was. to go on a sunday i stop o.-p. that is a strong last bus goes just in our city but another scottish. purities a strong ass at least reste so the bulk of it off at least it ought to shape dallas at least it will have you know not i'm not up to c.p.a.'s i said this is young people get power. down keys that are dead as a power fashion across your. there's a. democratic shill decision. if you know the city. and what's a privatization officially it's not the commission's policia mississippi state
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however it's true if you don't look at the troika us and if you look at the memorandum of understanding between for example the troika and portugal the commission as part 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 and if you really are serious to the citizens at today's initiative we should start acting on policies instead of celebration. thank you. thank. senior previous although i wish was sitting. down and said you are. simply. putting c d if appropriate even. as you go because fundamental means. that i compose.
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each could have. told us but if it is a song you should have no more. concerned 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 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 best son i consume of accepted don't go see best you can put out if it was something i don't. reckon this woman also did some enormous if you're counting every nothing yeah if it's out of the depths of a thought it bites it out of the id goes a little botany see need to shift a bureau. and not by deed to disk you sure could get your gun to dismiss your bridge you know that. is what makes premium opinion dissenters extreme events you can be good as a good people secretly got lucky. the less i did. not look at dog ac these dual result was that he's a very serious one. when
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detroit became 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. aside to people's homes. on divorce protests took place. in scads of the city of cork loreal 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 the
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a station with vision one of the water meters and that was asked. what he and i were to there was a mass of supportive people here to stop them. and this was the forst time that the irish people had taken a stand on any issue since a steady had begun says the troika ride to toes in the night. i told her. i thought i thought it was my. god 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 were joining the docks and you know what had the water meters 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 phone a little bit of power you can't go and funk to try but you can stand outside your house. there's your polar 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 up words on their debt downwards. there is
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a problem with the leaks and we couldn't find them until we have brought in some measures so if i see my solution and certainly it says it's a million liters of milk for a couple of days in my house i go back down to trial so that's the reason for the missiles. in islands 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 to the us a 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 irish got this one
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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 of general taxation people who work would probably end up paying more taxes. we are losing forty seven percent of our trees and walk into the ground and weeks before it gets to the top. nobility in europe 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 against the evils worse is. 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 said 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 while i was discussing this matter with my officials at the time i insisted that the legislation would have to include three point one delay decision was handed to me before i went into the parliament it wasn't in it.
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was real. central office and i didn't say 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. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last to bang turn. your at the top to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm
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sorry honey i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with death this one difference i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to blame that mainstream media has met its maker. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube clip the demonstration going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just go ahead i mean your list book video threw me
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in the eye neighborly as i knew plenty of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four gene patents who took the boat i've invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. but i think 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 you feel i've known by. ending 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. there's
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a little extra but yes there is a. base a bit and that is the end of the scene and not at least they can not close the mc to the school and the people who are maybe a little bit this. interior minister younis make a lock it's in a circular sent out to all municipalities declared the referendum illegal and then it got to topeka kind of it when not in the christmas numbers i love it and i think i was asleep but don't see it as my photo editor going to get my police feeding them to close the fish because you know what i'm sick of it is. my.
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goal so they have to cope with it is my gut that this if you tickle places to stay off of the sun will nicky butt out in opposition to somebody needs to pick it up against him again none of the house and estate is supposed to forgive him suspiciously as a couple they did. this to host the b.b.c.'s even of his but a man who proceeded to call b.c. to put them all and sold them on your place to build up some of the plot a quarter. for . president emanuel micron's is on an official trip to west and. is accompanied by forty french businessmen each with an interest in the greek
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privatization program. today they'll have the opportunity to directly question prime minister alexis to press. among them as. the sewage c.e.o. is company has its own greece's water company's. many pot of hell of. a lab for us because we got. this is. a bit more you know i'm. just going you know. if you book each of. those i must. use that. if. you would send it to.
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me. you know. if you. are going to ship. the country is now obliged to transfer all state owned assets to the super fund. the new anonymous company with a life expectancy of ninety nine years whose 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 these things up looking at it i'll show you may go straight to bed the same as they say it's e.f.t. that i don't like and go to some extent but only get it sent. if i see. the stat i only see. these fifteen at least a piece that. socratic us who took part in the thessaloniki water
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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. it was just really explained it gives us the going to get these people just a little get the government with. a mist over what i mean this is it's a look at authorities for what it was it's with ickes the bit that it's. in twenty fifteen and as became minister of the environment portugal's newly formed left wing government after the twenty fifteen elections was a policy change soon enough to. deal with the vs
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a pulse that if it's that they meant that yeah it is the end this is the views could they. be vassals. the bash. that was. a sort of eat it was not received this is that if you will see that then . 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. d.s. bossiest c.d.o. but he said that. most into the ten. to veto monday wash most of us all to the real cull it is socially she had already the it to be divorce that is for you minerals but also for the key is to kick you boil it
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if you know says look i etc. marcello some passes to farrah have to get by on their own. best to go mr knows he has no choice he's bound to pay a huge amount of compensation one hundred seventy two million euros 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 management. going to the shelves in d.s.d. ph she would buy put it.
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so mr gomez decided to negotiate with the company will she be so maybe. started shepherd. know by sparks if that's right. tim shifts to two versions. home with vs once without is no. to. visit and. was. a no such like that even. england leaving you if they just say double again what a bike out. passes to fota but the most expensive water in portugal did not appeal to the courts. i'm seeing barcelona's troubles realized that the game was lost and try to negotiate with the company. because. you know it seems from news that appeared to me and look misleading lucas and
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cooper to you this if you see those newer to the past freedom at that he for the. bison wasn't going to see. every of you know whether. or not me oh you know me. 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 you know what we mean when we know everybody knows that nothing is set in stone yet. the commission keeps pushing islands to comply with the community directive and impose meters and water charges on its citizens. the jury is this principle
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which is. framed in the water directive that the polluters should be sold there should be a direct service possibly did this cannot be done with a general exception obviously next friday we meet same time. we'll do that yeah. oh yeah don't we don't that don't we. faced with an precedented public disobedience the government is trying hard to maneuver between public discontent and the demands of brussels. what are trying to do you know in a small way they would say it has to happen because the european union told us it has to happen because detroit who told us that it is house but you can tunnel logic on its head very very quickly. because when the european commission after different opinion something. for example that apple corp older citizens of this country talk to be taught in billion euro suddenly the ideology walks in the next and suddenly
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the new liberal say that the european commission it's only an opinion we're powered 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. i. see.
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all of these situations and all of the peoples of europe need to start having an honest conversation with each other. was. to ask missing plays the whole movement to defend. you people basically knew the name nice but the same with the. system and they're trying the western union to get them out of the government and then them kind of i wouldn't have a dogmatic approach to. was. going to come into shores to do are some any player on a company that is except. via shite that's not decent it will cut teeth. cross europe people are saying you know. enough is enough. can we have our social
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to be politics in washington not been driven by the fossil fuel energy lobbyist they could of gone into renewables ten twenty years earlier and those jobs would be in place generating good paying jobs in america would be part of a growing world beating industry because they kowtow to those lobbyist they got stuck in the coal business which it up liberated by the gas business which is a trillion dodgy for a lot of reasons and now it's going to be obliterated by the chinese led revolution in some of the. united states can instead of. new and it's tax on other countries. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries a true talking about. and
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enraged by joint military drills planned by solo washington north korea reportedly pulling out of high level talks with the south. coming up to the u.s. claims the decision to move its embassy in israel to jerusalem did not inflame the protests. in which israeli soldiers killed sixty. does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet. this is supposedly a cause for. europe to save the iran nuclear deal the u.s. with british for.
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