WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

to build a bridge in the grounds of a leased sewage treatment plant:
“A conflict of interests exists with regard to the planned North-East
bypass near Remseck. One of the piers for the marked-out route was
supposed to stand in the grounds of the sewage works in Mühlhausen
– this will not be possible because the grounds are no longer municipal
property.” 42
It may be assumed that very few politicians – if any at all! – ever
read, let alone actually understood the CBL contracts to which they put
their signatures. That is seemingly why they are constantly being taken
aback by the consequences of their own deeds.
“We may be in the universe as dogs and cats in
our libraries, seeing the books and
hearing the conversation, but having no
inkling of the meaning of it all.”
William James, U.S. psychologist and philosopher; professor
at Harvard University until 1907
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7.6 CBL Deals Have Been Declared Illegal in the USA –
What Now
In 2003, when we first started to criticise the Cross Border Leasing
contracts, local politicians accused us of polemicising, and misinforming
and lying to the public, as well as incitement. They informed us that
leasing transactions of this nature were perfectly normal and that
the risks involved for the contractual duration of 30 or 99 years were
“controllable”, purely theoretical and might just as well be ignored.
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