James Bond takes on the corporate water privateers

The Real James Bond of Water! Mynew documentary Blue Gold : World Water Wars, based on the book, depicts the real-life Bond water villains securing fresh water for personal gain at any costs.

Here's a blog I wrote about how it compares to the new James Bond water-villain
http://www.greenmuze.com/blogs/guest-bloggers/618-the-real-james-bond-of-water.h...

Lives have been lost and the water wars have begun, so I'm glad Bond is tackling real villains. You should check out the doc which tells some stories much more terrifying than Mr. Greene. www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com

Money may not be the root of all evil, but it certainly funds it.

Vierotchka:

Thank you.

csmonut: Yes and apart from the plot, Daniel Craig is very easy on the eyes. ;-). I actually think he is one of the better Bonds, besides Sean Connery.

kennymotown:

I believe that it is in Paraguay that Bush bought property, right next to the Guarini Acquifer which is the largest acquifer in South America. And it is also near a US military base. So it would not be illogical to state that yes, they are players in this as well and know what is coming. I believe Bush Sr once made a comment to the effect that (paraphrasing here) that if the people knew all they been a part of that they would be hunted down in the streets like dogs. But yet, this Congress did not see fit to impeach these criminals. It boggles my mind.

I guess I'll have to watch the movie...

It is call corporate take over, corporations are getting richer and countries getting poor and the owners of this corporations are the same people who own all the europeans banks and the oil companies.
You mindless shoppers keep on eating junk food and watch the fox channel.
Remember the slogan of fox channel " the only news you need to know" cause you are a mindless ZOMBIE.
Corporations want your soul.

"Real fun!!! Dangers of showing truth about water resources... sometimes we are blinded about what we heard not what we seen.... Water Reservoir excavation is very dangerous when there are plenty of saboteurs to get the site and those greedy private sectors and even the Government Officials who just used the community in stealing the land where water rise from within the earth..."-Donabell C. De Apera

Tried to greenlight and recommend, none of them worked, so please consider both your submission and responses greenlit and recommended. Thanks for yet another brilliant submission. :)

scary stuff

This stuff is really happening, guess what family is buying up property in Costa Rica and mineral rights to the under ground water source? The Bush crime family of course.

Greene reminded me of T Boone Pickens and his scheme to build windfarms as a front to take the Ogallala Acquifer water. Again more realistic than some would ever think.

From the article:

Back in the good old days of the Cold War, everybody’s favorite secret agent, James Bond, fought villains like Dr. No, an evil scientist out to sabotage U.S. missile tests, and Mr. Big, a Soviet agent using pirate treasure to finance espionage in America. But as Bond’s friend Mathis tells him in Quantum of Solace, “When one is young, it’s easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. As one gets older, the villains and heroes get all mixed up.”

The reference is to a shady new Bond villain, agent of the Quantum organization – Dominic Greene. In public, Greene is a leading environmentalist whose organization, Greene Planet, buys up large tracts of land for ecological preserves. But behind the scenes, Greene has another agenda. As he says to his co-conspirators, “This is the most valuable resource in the world and we need to control as much of it as we can.”

The film makes a number of plays on the assumption that the resource in question is oil – but oil is so…twentieth century. By the time Bond has pursued Greene from Italy to Haiti, from Haiti to Austria, and crash-landed his plane in a sink-hole in the high, barren desert of Bolivia, we make the discovery that this vital resource is – surprise! – water.

Colluding with Greene is a cast of evil characters taken straight from the history books. We have General Medrano, the ex-dictator of Bolivia, to whom Greene says, “You want your country back? My organization can give it to you.” We have the U.S. Ambassador, myopically sticking to the familiar program: “Okay, we do nothing to stop a coup, and you give us a lease to any oil you find.” And we have the British foreign office, continually wrangling with M15, Bond’s spy agency. When Bond’s boss, M, tells him that Greene is not an environmentalist but a villain, the foreign Minister says, “If we refused to do business with villains, we’d have almost no one to trade with.” Ain’t it the truth.

The fact that Quantum of Solace makes water the villain’s object of greed, replacing oil, gold, diamonds, and mutually assured destruction, is telling of the point we’ve reached. More telling still is the fact that our villain’s cover has him acting as an environmentalist, the ultimate corporate greenwasher. The fact that the action winds up in Bolivia – the country where, in real life, both Bechtel and Suez have tried and failed to take control of community water resources during and shortly after the reign of former-dictator-turned-neoliberal President Hugo Banzer – brings the plot frighteningly close to reality.

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When M, Bond’s overweening boss at M15, finds out about Quantum, she demands, “What the hell is this organization, Bond? How can they be everywhere and we know nothing about them?”

Well, my darling M, the answer is simple: like transnational corporations, and like the large NGO’s that work with the private sector to reform its practices and green its reputation, and like the International Finance Institutions whose interests are increasingly endangering the United Nations’ mandate to defend and protect human rights, they can be everywhere because their particular form of villainy works best when hidden in plain sight.

Thankfully, the world’s water is safe, because, behind the scenes, secret agent 007 is on the job.

-Jeff Conant