Excellent letter, snuffelupagus, unfortunately it will have no effect on Clifford, as will become obvious below.
Originally Posted by TIMA9X
Mr Clifford is a Director of Bechtel Group Inc. He is Chairman of Bechtel Australia Pty Ltd
Nice but distrubing pickup TIMA9X
Bechtel is the company that tried to privatise the Bolivian water resources for their profit at the expense of the poor. A quote from "
" By John Perkins (
fame)
Originally Posted by John Perkins
"They're faced with the choice between water and food", a Quechua organiser told me. "The gringos want more profits. Boliviians are dying of thirst. They're told they can't even collect rain water, that their contract with SEMAPA requires them to pay Bechtel for any water they consume"
The citizens of Cochabamba rebelled. Boycotts shut down the city for four straight days in January 2000. Mobs threatened to storm SEMAPA's offices. Bechtel demanded protection. Bolivian President Hugo Banzar acquiesced and mobilizied the army. In the violence that followed, dozens of Aymara and Quechua were wounded and a seventeen-year-old boy was shot to death.
Fearing a full blown revolution, President Banzar finally imposed martial law. Then, after reportedly meeting with US embassy officials, he announced that he would nullify the Bechtel contract. In April 2000 Bechtel abandoned its operations at SEMAPA
Source: (
The Secret History of the American Empire, John Perkins p123-124 google books link, read online chapter 22)
More information & background can be found here:
Cochabamba protests Wikipedia.
This dovetails nicely with a quote I read last night
"As a former consultant to Fortune 500 companies, I observed that if the leadership of a company was financially reckless or had a moral disregard for its workers, this same behaviour could be found reflected thoughout all the remaining layers of the company"
, Chris Martenson, page 121
So this is what we are dealing with, asset strippers (KKR) & looters (Bechtel) who attempt to create tyranny & steal from the productive. "
These people" have to understand, than we know what your up to, that's right Leigh, we are on to you. You can thank the Internet for your loss of power. We are a learning organism, we are levering our vast numerical advantage over you to create a knowledge base that could not have existed even 15 years ago. We will fight you all the way, we will expose you and your nefarious connections. You may think we are stupid, but some of us read history & can connect the dots. We are not just numbers on a balance sheet, and we are fighting back.
We are dealing with "
These people" who would steal the water right out of your mouth.
edit: Leigh Clifford relationship
map to Bechtel. (Double click on Bechtel to expand its relationships to others & see how it fits into the big picture. A very tangled web indeed)