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Campaign Victory!
The CAMPAIGN against the bin charges has scored a very important victory. The Supreme Court has decided that County Councils must collect everybody’s rubbish - whether they have paid or not! This follows a long campaign by campaigners in Cork who refused to pay bin charges, and these extraordinary individuals have lead the campaign NATIONALLY for so many years now. THE RESIDENTS OF DROGHEDA COMMEND AND ADMIRE THEM ALL. THE Court victory means householders in Drogheda and elsewhere can continue their campaign of non-payment without any fear that the council will refuse to collect their rubbish. The council will, of course, continue to send bills and warning letters. We should simply ignore them. As we have said all along the bin charge is a double tax on ordinary householders. We have already paid for bin collection and other essential services through our taxes. Another sign that we are winning is that Dublin Corporation have now paid for TV adverts appealing to people to pay the charges. This is a sign of their weakness and our strength. Tens of thousands of people in Drogheda, Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, and Cork, to name just a few areas around the country that are refusing to pay. We are winningIn Drogheda, the council's own figures show that two thirds of households have not paid the charge last year. The key thing now is to keep up the campaign of non-payment and increase the pressure on the council to abolish the charge. Remember if they succeed in making us pay, the charges will increase every year and they will bring in charges for water and other services. Donations
The WTO and GATSAccording to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Services (GATS) agreements cover 160 services' sector. What few people realised when the deal was first done is that the GATS also includes healthcare, education, housing, water, waste management and other basic services usually run by government agencies. The introduction of these Bin Charges is merely to get people used to paying for them so that when the council goes to privatise them it will be easier to sell to the private sector because all the hard work and cost of getting people to pay will be done. Thereafter you can be sure that charges will rise further in the future as happened with the water charges in the UK when the water authorities were privatised. For more about the real agenda behind GATS and the WTO/IMF cabal, see http://www.gregpalast.com/ -the author who exposed how Bush stole the election in Florida. NICE, Bin Charges and GlobalisationThe NICE treaty through Article 133, which is rarely discussed by politicians, will give the un-elected and unaccountable EU Commission the power to negotiate agreements with 'international organisations', for example the WTO. What this means in practice is that they will be able to sign up to WTO GATS agreements and the EU will then be able to force national governments to implement these decisions. This will be ideal for our politicians, because on the one hand they will be able to say, that they didn't vote these things in (as it will be done by qualified voting), but that they must carry out these decisions. So they will give the pretence of objecting to them, even though they know full well the consequences of the NICE treaty. The NICE treaty thus opens the door to the privatisation of over 160 services, ranging from waste management, water, electricity, gas, public transport & fire services. Strangely enough health and education have been left out for the moment, probably because they know that would be just too much for most people to swallow at once. Note: That while health and education are up for privatisation under GATS, they have just been left out of NICE, by excluding them from the list of services which the EU commission can negotiate with the WTO. This explains the apparent contraction with the section above on 'The WTO and GATS'. But one thing should be clear, that the chief architects of these agreements have been numerous lobby groups funded and controlled by big business and quite often these plans are lifted straight out of their policy documents. Environmental and social groups have got little or no access. To return to the issue of Bin Charges we have to ask, where are the lofty ideals our politicians spout about when they talk about the environment and travel to international conferences like the Earth Summit. Gone is the ‘polluter pays’ principle, gone is the sustainable economy approach (no effort made to cut down on waste), gone are UN ideals of fresh and clean drinking water for everyone. Already back in 1995, they tried to privatise our water, and cut people's water supply off during that campaign. And now we are going to pay with our long term health with this ludicrous plan to build 6 incinerators, one of which is planned for just 2 miles outside Drogheda in Carranstown, Duleek, County Meath of which we are totally opposed to. REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE REMOVE INCINERATION For
a much more detailed and fuller account of the NICE treaty and globalisation,
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