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Mr President, we are considering the forthcoming Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong and being told not to expect too much – in other words, the plan is slowing down a little at the moment. That may be true of Hong Kong, but not in Ireland, where a sugar industry that supported 3 500 families has just been wiped out. One might consider that a minor matter over which we should not get so upset. But what about a bigger industry, the Irish beef industry, which will not be allowed to stand in the way of global corporate farming either? But then that is not an immediate priority under the plan.
What is this plan I am talking about and whose outlines are becoming more distinct as things progress? In the Doha Development Round, the plan should be about justice and ending poverty, but it seems to be more about dismantling things to make way for the big players, about getting rid of small producers, who are inefficient, democratic and difficult to control and have inconvenient notions as regards lifestyles, and about assigning each area and each country a specialty in which to work efficiently without bothering anyone. It is about reducing the number of competitors and letting the large corporations loose to do their best.
That brings us to the question of what their best is. Their best is to make money for their investors – that is what corporations do – and all the rest of their activities are part of this, be it a question of medical services, food or cars. The fewer the competitors, the more money; the fewer the regulations, the more money; the more customers, the more money. That is how the plan seems to be evolving.
In the case of Ireland this means wiping out the sugar industry and making way for corporate farmers from other countries. It means corporations installing facilities like incinerators, because Ireland has been marked as being good for that. In the case of other countries it means bigger sugar industries. However, it will probably be the corporations, rather than the people, which will benefit from this, and many of them will not even be owned by nationals.
In the meantime, around the world, the smaller, inefficient sectors will gradually be snuffed out. They will have to fend for themselves, because governments will not have the money, after privatising their nations’ resources, to satisfy large corporate interests."@en1
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