Posted by: geda_gudi January 25, 2008
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Few Clippings from here and there...[I'm not against the Direct Foreign Investment....but against any UNFAIR and UNEQUAL TRADE AGREEMENTS].
1.Whoever speaks of economic union speaks of political union. The nation that buys, commands; the nation that sells, serves. Commerce must be balanced to assure freedom. A nation that wants to die sells to one nation only, and a nation that would be saved sells to more than one. The excessive influence of one country over another's commerce becomes political influence. Politics is the work of men who surrender their feelings to an interest. When a strong nation supplies another with food, she requires that the recipient serve her.When a strong nation wants to engage another in battle, she forces those who have need of her to become her allies and to serve her. A nation that wants to be free must be free in matters of trade. It must distribute its trade among nations that are equally strong.
2.India obtains raw materials such as timber from Nepal, along with massive amounts of cheap hydroelectric power. In 1996, the Mahakali Treaty basically established India’s right to steal Nepal’s water. While Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, its mountains and rivers make it one of the richest in water resources – third in the world after Brazil and China. Nepal has as much capacity to generate hydroelectricity as the US, Mexico, and Canada combined. But unequal treaties force Nepal to sell much of its water to India at give-away prices. Meanwhile, 40 percent of the rural population in Nepal lacks regular supplies of potable water and only about 10
percent of the country have access to electric power.
3. India dominates the economic life of the country – plundering Nepal’s natural resources, enforcing unequal trade agreements, and exploiting the Nepalese peasants who cross the border looking for work.
1--> Jose Marti
3&2-->Dispatches from the People's War in Nepal (by Li Onesto)
(I HAVE MORE COMPILATION, DO LET ME KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANT MORE INFORMATIONS)
1.Whoever speaks of economic union speaks of political union. The nation that buys, commands; the nation that sells, serves. Commerce must be balanced to assure freedom. A nation that wants to die sells to one nation only, and a nation that would be saved sells to more than one. The excessive influence of one country over another's commerce becomes political influence. Politics is the work of men who surrender their feelings to an interest. When a strong nation supplies another with food, she requires that the recipient serve her.When a strong nation wants to engage another in battle, she forces those who have need of her to become her allies and to serve her. A nation that wants to be free must be free in matters of trade. It must distribute its trade among nations that are equally strong.
2.India obtains raw materials such as timber from Nepal, along with massive amounts of cheap hydroelectric power. In 1996, the Mahakali Treaty basically established India’s right to steal Nepal’s water. While Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, its mountains and rivers make it one of the richest in water resources – third in the world after Brazil and China. Nepal has as much capacity to generate hydroelectricity as the US, Mexico, and Canada combined. But unequal treaties force Nepal to sell much of its water to India at give-away prices. Meanwhile, 40 percent of the rural population in Nepal lacks regular supplies of potable water and only about 10
percent of the country have access to electric power.
3. India dominates the economic life of the country – plundering Nepal’s natural resources, enforcing unequal trade agreements, and exploiting the Nepalese peasants who cross the border looking for work.
1--> Jose Marti
3&2-->Dispatches from the People's War in Nepal (by Li Onesto)
(I HAVE MORE COMPILATION, DO LET ME KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANT MORE INFORMATIONS)