Untertitel aus Französisch übersetzt
Zeige Revision 1 erzeugt am 02/02/2013 von Frankenfan.
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Titel:
Water is a human right - English subtitles
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Beschreibung:
German comedian Erwin Pelzig (played by Frank-Markus Barwasser) about the privatisation of European water supplies.
Taken from the satire programme "Neues aus der Anstalt",
broadcasted on 22.01.2013
Here is again the link in question:
http://www.right2water.eu/de
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Europe? I want Europe, but still
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I sometimes get desperate about it and just now
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the French European Commissioner for domestic affairs, M. Barnier
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wants to facilitate the privatisation of public water supply.
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Water is still a common good, a good for everybody,
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but that shall be changed.
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Multinational corporations are already standing in line, this is a business
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worth billions of dollars and double-digit return percentages.
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However, Mr Barnier says that we should not be afraid about the water getting more expensive or worse
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because it will all be regulated by the market. The market? Hey, water is
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life, it is a human right, it is a common good and common property
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and property entails obligations, at least it says so in the German "Grundgesetz" (= German Basic Law)
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and using this property shall also happen to public benefit,
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this is also in the "Grundgesetz". And if water is no longer public property, but property of
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multinational corporations, then we can all guess whom
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a market-listed corporation might feel obliged to, to the common well-being
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or to the well-being of its stockholders and of the markets.
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80% of Europeans do not want privatised water supply,
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but still they want a Europe without frontiers
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and without wars and Nazi-shit, they want peace,
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they want food, they want water and they want to piss off this water on the toilet,
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they want jobs, good jobs, and on Sunday, Europeans would like to relax
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in the sunshine, play checkers while cultivating their prejudices,
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and listen, if Europe fails, it won´t fail because of the Euro
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neither because the European citizens are fed up with it,
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it might simply fail because Europeans
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are fed up with non-democratically elected EU Commissionners
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who, during their visits to knocking shops in Brussels are bought by lobbyists who tell them the markets will fix anything.
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One moment! I want Europe, I adore Europe and it is great that there are now
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European citizens´ initiatives and now there is one initiative who wants to
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prevent exactly that, privatisation of water supplies.
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They need one million online signatures until autumn, it will not prevent privatisation completely but at least
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it would mean that the EU Commission would have to discuss this topic again. So now I wanted to show the Internet address
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of this initiative here, at the bottom of the screen, but
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our internal lawyers said that serious public broadcasting stations like ours
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must not show private or foreign Internet addresses.
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This is neither censorship nor bad will, there are laws about this, but no problem for me,
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because there is no problem for public broadcasting stations
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when you show cars in the picture.
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The problem is solved now!
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Cheers! As to water.
