The Great Parch

[Flanders]

Everybody heard about the Great Depression, while few Americans know about the Great Parch. Happily, Rush Limbaugh gave some coverage to Detroit cutting off the water to customers who do not pay their water bill.

As expected, here come the horror stories:

The story is in the Los Angeles Times, about one such victim who has had her water turned off, and I just want to read a few excerpts from the story. "It has been six weeks since the city turned off Nicole Hill's water.

"Dirty dishes are piled in the sink of her crowded kitchen, where the yellow-and-green linoleum floor is soiled and sticky. A small garbage can is filled with water from a neighbor, while a bigger one sits outside in the yard, where she hopes it will collect some rain. She's developed an intricate recycling system of washing the dishes, cleaning the floor and flushing the toilet with the same water.

"'It's frightening, because you think this is something that only happens somewhere like Africa,' said Hill, a single mother who is studying homeland security at a local college. 'But now I know what they're going through [in Africa] -- when I get somewhere there's a water faucet, I drink until my stomach hurts.' Hill is one of thousands of residents in Detroit who have had their water and sewer services turned off as part of a crackdown on customers who are behind on their bills.

If I remember correctly the parks in major cities have drinking water fountains. That’s important when you remember that nobody died of starvation in America during the Great Depression; so nobody is going to die of thirst during the Great Parch. Better still, death by dehydration is one horror story that will not hold water so to speak.

El Rushbo went on to have some fun with the homeland security thing:

Anyway, I got to thinking here. She's a single mother, Nicole Hill, "studying homeland security at a local college." Snerdley, did you know that you could get a degree in this anywhere? (interruption) I didn't, either. Did any of you know that homeland security was an academic pursuit at your local college?

What do you think the courses in the homeland security major are? Principles of Homeland Security 1 and 2, Advanced Principles of Homeland Security, Beginning Pat-Downs, Advanced Pat-Downs, Ogling Scanner X-Rays for Beginners? Body Search 101, Body Cavity Search 101, Advanced Body Cavity Search 101, Horizontal Advanced Body Cavity Search 201?

What are the disciplines in this course? How in the world can somebody seeking a major in homeland security at a local college in Detroit not be able to pay the water bill? And why would anybody in homeland security hire this woman, unless... I've got a picture of her, and she could sit on an unruly 80-year-old trying to smuggle something on board an airplane. That's clear here.

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A single mother studying homeland security at a local college who now knows what it's like to live in Africa. That's what she said.

All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I left out one potential course (chuckles) the woman could take in her pursuit of a major in homeland security. That would be Advanced Non-enforcement of Immigration Law 101. That's probably the biggie! (laughing) After all the classes on advanced body cavity searches, Advanced Non-enforcement of Immigration Law 101. Taught by Janet Napolitano. Syllabus written by Barack Obama, Constitutional Lawyer, Esq. or what have you.

Detroit Forced to Turn Off Water for Nonpayment
June 30, 2014

Detroit Forced to Turn Off Water for Nonpayment - The Rush Limbaugh Show​

El Rushbo also commented on the UN’s involvement, but Jerome R. Corsi gives more details. These few excerpts are scary. I’ll begin with the scariest of all; International law. For the umpteenth time:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INTERNATIONAL LAW.​

On Monday, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s office in Geneva confirmed to WND that the U.N. plans to intervene directly in the Detroit water crisis, determined to apply international law to judge the U.S. in violation of human rights to safe water.

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Farha added, strongly suggesting standards established by the U.N.’s International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights may not be the only international law the U.N. seeks to apply to the water shut-off crisis in Detroit.

To be precise: International law is United Nations law is Socialist law.

I won’t be so crass as to ask where the hell the United Nations gets the authority to intervene in America’s internal affairs?

. . . the U.N. plans to intervene directly in the Detroit crisis, because the Human Rights Council has received formal allegations the Detroit water shut-off threatens to violate U.N.-established human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation mandates.

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Saji explained that the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights special rapporteur on safe water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, must intervene directly with the U.S. government, first in a confidential manner and then in a public manner.

Presumably “Formal allegations” were made by this bunch:

Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada, filed last week a report to de Albuquerque protesting the Detroit water shut-offs with a united front that included the left-leaning Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, Food & Water Watch and the Detroit People’s Water Board.

I think left-leaning organizations —— staffed by professional touchy-feely parasites —— exist for the sole purpose of lending their names to outrageous claims. I’m sure they believe that their endorsement gives credibility to assaults on the public purse; more so when the United Nations is in the mix. In truth, they all give off the stench of community organizing funded by tax dollars.

The only moral weight the people who run the United Nations have is their own presumption that their morality is superior to the morality of every UN member state:

The Associated Press noted in a report June 25 that de Albuquerque can make recommendations and lend “moral weight,” but she has no enforcement power.

The enforcement power sought by the United Nations since 1945 will magically transform its moral weight into the tax collector’s morality. In short: Enforcement means funding the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This final excerpt is another disaster from Jimmy Peanuts:

Although the United States signed the U.N.’s International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights on Oct. 5, 1977, during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, the U.S. Senate never ratified the treaty.

United Nations treaties have a shelf life longer than infinity. They sit on the shelf just waiting for an Administration that can get them ratified. UN treaties live in limbo after being signed by an Administration until they come back to haunt Americans decades later. Anybody born after 1977 should not be saddled by Carter’s mistakes. I personally believe that no treaty signed with an ORGANIZATION is valid as opposed to treaties entered into with sovereign nations. Until Americans finally see that the United Nations is their enemy and withdraw, UN treaties should be voted on by the generation that brings them up for ratification.

Presidents should be required to at least make an effort to ratify treaties they sign before they leave office. Congress could then pass a law stating that whenever a president fails to get a treaty ratified before leaving office that treaty is automatically rejected/unsigned for all time. Call it the No Shelf Life law.

Here’s a list of unratified UN treaties. Some of the titles tug at the heartstrings while they all require Americans to surrender their independence. You gotta love number 3. Somebody should tell John Kerry that Syria signed on.

1. Ottawa Treaty (the land-mine ban)
2. Treaty on the Rights of the Child (only holdouts are the U.S. and Somalia)
3. Protocol to enforce the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (vote was 178-1, the US the only holdout)
4. United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
5. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
6. Convention on Biological Diversity
7. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
8. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
9. International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings
10. International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.
11. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
12. Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes Against Humanity
13. Forced Labor Convention
14. Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention
15. Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention
16. Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age to Marriage and Registration of Marriages
17. Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
18. Convention on the International Right of Correction
19. International Criminal Court
20. Kyoto Accords (greenhouse gas reductions)
21. UN Convention on Biological Diversity (regulating genetic engineering)
22. UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
23. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty [prohibiting programs like "Stars Wars"]
24. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
25. Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
26. International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries
27. International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
28. Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
29. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
30. Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers (prohibiting sale of arms to human rights violators & aggressors)
31. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
32. Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, and Other Related Materials
33. UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (bans toxic waste dumping, etc.)
34. UN Moon Treaty [declaring the moon part of the Common Heritage of Mankind]
35. Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
36. UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
37. Protocol to enforce the Convention Against Torture
38. United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

37 Unratified International Treaties | Vote.org

If you believe the things the supporters of every unratified treaty say you will end up thinking every UN treaty is written by God who clearly intends Americans to subjugate themselves to United Nations TAXING AUTHORITY.

Here’s the link to Corsi’s great piece containing a lot more info than the few excerpts I commented on:

U.N. to intervene in Detroit water shutoffs
Talks on 'human-rights violations' planned with Obama administration
Published: 13 hours ago
JEROME R. CORSI

U.N. to intervene in Detroit water shutoffs

 

[Flanders]

Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada, filed last week a report to de Albuquerque protesting the Detroit water shut-offs with a united front that included the left-leaning Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, Food & Water Watch and the Detroit People’s Water Board.

Judi McLeod over at Canada Free Press has always been hep to the United Nations. She lays into Maude Barlow pretty good:

From the get-go as the UN’s “senior advisor on water”, Barlow has maintained that “everybody has a right to water”, but talk, talk, talk does zero to slake human thirst.

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“Unsurprisingly, Barlow blames “decades of market driven neoliberal policy that put business and profit ahead of public good.” A less delusional examination reveals the usual suspects: free-spending, progressive Democrats, allied with labor unions,” writes Ahlert.

Problem is Barlow is part and parcel of the “neoliberal policy that put business and profit ahead of public good” and has been ever since getting the blessing of UN Poster Boy, Canadian Maurice Strong.

UN special advisor, Strong, is on the public record predicting that water will have to be rationed by armed guards as soon as 2031. (Canada Free Press, May 26, 2003)

“Isn’t it odd that the same sources voicing alarm about the imminent scarcity of H20 just happen to be the same ones who own it?
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It’s time for the thirsting masses to toss leftwing activism from the world water supply
By Judi McLeod June 30, 2014

It?s time for the thirsting masses to toss leftwing activism from the world water supply​

Now, consider the claims a de facto United Nations agency, the EPA, is making on all fresh water in this country.

 

[shart_attack]

It's not remotely inconceivable that we could actually have a world war over potable water in the very near future.

This book is an outstanding read about that very thing:

Michael T. Klare, Resource Wars

I urge anyone who isn't familiar with how scarce the global supply of groundwater is to peruse this book some time.

 

[Mad Scientist]

No one died of Starvation during the Depression? You sure you wanna' go with that?

And your solution to the water shortage is for people to use the drinking fountains at public parks?

Shirley you can't be Series.

 

[shart_attack]

No one died of Starvation during the Depression? You sure you wanna' go with that?

And your solution to the water shortage is for people to use the drinking fountains at public parks?

Shirley you can't be Series.

He just might be Sirius, though.

 

[fiza200]

Great information you have provided to us. Thanks.

 

[Flanders]

I posted this thread when Detroit’s poor were all going to die of thirst? (Californians are not as bad off YET. The fish are fine.) Nevertheless, the United Nations via their agency —— the EPA —— is after everybody’s drinking water. They claim they are out to stop WATER POLLUTION. Let’s face it, the EPA cannot stop pollution until they control water. It is the same scam that says controlling the atmosphere will stop air pollution. The UN figures that if Americans believe the one they will believe the other.

As soon as Taqiyya the Liar opened his mouth, I knew the country was in trouble:

"One in three Americans now gets drinking water from streams lacking clear protection, and businesses and industries that depend on clean water face uncertainty and delay, which costs our economy every day," President Obama said in a statement backing the new rules. "Too many of our waters have been left vulnerable to pollution."

EPA expands powers over land use in bid to control water pollution
By Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 27, 2015

EPA expands powers over land use in bid to control water pollution - Washington Times​

I really have trouble seeing Americans as dry as the instep of a Bedouin. I cannot understand how the people in North America can possibly drink all of the fresh water in the Great Lakes not to mention the fresh water in all of the other lakes and rivers. The United Nations-EPA controlling our water is not going to stop water pollution. A few lawsuits against water companies that sell polluted drinking water to their customers will stop pollution faster than anything I can think of.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I posted this thread when Detroit’s poor were all going to die of thirst? (Californians are not as bad off YET. The fish are fine.) Nevertheless, the United Nations via their agency —— the EPA —— is after everybody’s drinking water. They claim they are out to stop WATER POLLUTION. Let’s face it, the EPA cannot stop pollution until they control water. It is the same scam that says controlling the atmosphere will stop air pollution. The UN figures that if Americans believe the one they will believe the other.

As soon as Taqiyya the Liar opened his mouth, I knew the country was in trouble:

"One in three Americans now gets drinking water from streams lacking clear protection, and businesses and industries that depend on clean water face uncertainty and delay, which costs our economy every day," President Obama said in a statement backing the new rules. "Too many of our waters have been left vulnerable to pollution."

EPA expands powers over land use in bid to control water pollution
By Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 27, 2015

EPA expands powers over land use in bid to control water pollution - Washington Times​

I really have trouble seeing Americans as dry as the instep of a Bedouin. I cannot understand how the people in North America can possibly drink all of the fresh water in the Great Lakes not to mention the fresh water in all of the other lakes and rivers. The United Nations-EPA controlling our water is not going to stop water pollution. A few lawsuits against water companies that sell polluted drinking water to their customers will stop pollution faster than anything I can think of.

Still waiting on the mass Detroit die offs Flanders?