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61. The lawyer John Roberts, presiding judge at the U.S. Supreme Court
since the end of 2005, worked for a long time as a partner at Hogan &
Hartson, as did Sandy Berger, former security adviser to Bill Clinton.
62. See w w w . u m w e l t j o u r n a l . d e
63. Documentation No. 547; see publication of August 29, 2005 at the
website of the Federal Ministry of Economics: w w w . b m w i . d e
64. The World Bank, several German government departments and
many politicians maintain that an annual sum of US$180 billion
will be needed in the water sector to meet the UN Millennium
Goals (MDGs). They claim that member states will only be able to
contribute a total of $80 billion, leaving an investment deficit of $100
billion which only the private sector will be able to offset. See too:
w w w . b m z . d e
65. In Germany, water is regarded as a foodstuff and thus a VAT rate
of 7 per cent is added to the price. As far as wastewater disposal is
concerned, a municipal operator charges no VAT – a private operator
on the other hand charges a rate of 19 per cent.
66. See w w w . n e t z z e i t u n g . d e of September 13, 2005
67. Request made to the national executive committee of the CDU
party to be considered at the party conference held in Hanover on
December 3 and 4, 2007
68. One specialist in this field is the Indian eco-activist and feminist
Vandana Shiva, who has published important articles on this topic.
These can be found on the Internet.
69. Thomas Stechert in w w w . n e w s c l i c k . d e on December 15, 2006
70. See Volksstimme of May 13, 2006
71. See here the publications by the German eco-feminist Maria Mies:
“Indian Women and Patriarchy” (1980); “Patriarchy and Accumulation
on a World Scale” (1986); “Women: The Last Colony” (1988) – with
co-authors Bennholdt-Thomsen and von Werlhof; and “Ecofeminism”
(1993) – with co-author Vandana Shiva.
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