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Ultra-Secrecy Surrounds Barack Obama's New Global Economic Treaty
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Barack Obama is secretly negotiating a global economic treaty which would destroy thousands of American businesses and millions of good paying American jobs. In other words, it would be the final nail in the coffin for America’s economic infrastructure. Obama knows that if the American people actually knew what was in this treaty that they would be screaming mad, so the negotiations are being done in secret. The only people that are allowed to look at the treaty are members of Congress, and even they are being banned from saying anything to the public. American workers are about to be brutally stabbed in the back, and thanks to all of this secrecy and paranoia they won’t even see it coming.
The name of this new treaty is “the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, and it is being touted as perhaps the most important trade agreement in history. But very few people in this country are talking about it, because none of us are allowed to see it. An article that was just released by Politico detailed the extreme secrecy that is surrounding this trade agreement…
If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door.
If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving.
And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.
This treaty is going to affect the lives of every man, woman and child living in this nation, and yet it is deemed so “important” that none of us can know what is in it?
Are you sure that we still live in a Republic?
This treaty will cover 40 percent of the global economy, and U.S. officials hope that the EU, China and India will become members eventually as well…
Right now, there are 12 countries that are part of the negotiations: the United States, Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. These nations have a combined population of 792 million people and account for an astounding 40 percent of the global economy.
And it is hoped that the EU, China and India will eventually join as well. This is potentially the most dangerous economic treaty of our lifetimes, and yet there is very little political debate about it in this country.
If the EU, China and India did eventually join the treaty, that would essentially make it a trade agreement for the entire planet.
This is a really big deal, and it should be openly debated by the American people. But instead, Barack Obama has chosen to shroud the entire process with as much secrecy as possible. Not only that, he also wants Congress to give him fast track negotiating authority. If Congress does that, they would essentially be saying that they blindly trust Obama to negotiate a good treaty for us. At the end of the process, Congress would be able to vote the treaty up or down, but would not be able to amend it.
That sounds insane, right? Well, if you can believe it, Republicans in the Senate are quite eager to give Barack Obama this authority.
And this is not just an economic treaty. The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles…
It is basically a gigantic end run around Congress. Thanks to leaks, we have learned that so many of the things that Obama has deeply wanted for years are in this treaty. If adopted, this treaty will fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, healthcare, copyright and patent protection, food safety, environmental standards, civil liberties and so much more. This treaty includes many of the rules that alarmed Internet activists so much when SOPA was being debated, it would essentially ban all “Buy American” laws, it would give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and it would force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.
We can’t consume our way to prosperity, and we can’t borrow and spend our way to prosperity. In order to be prosperous as a nation, we have got to create at least as much wealth as we consume. But instead, we are doing just the opposite. We are consuming wealth like mad even while our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted. We have lost thousands of businesses and millions of jobs already, and this new treaty will make things much worse.
And of course eventually even the ultra-cheap labor on the other side of the planet will be replaced. This is something that is already happening in China. Just today there was a news story about a new manufacturing facility in China that will use only robots…
Construction work has begun on the first factory in China’s manufacturing hub of Dongguan to use only robots for production, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
A total of 1,000 robots would be introduced at the factory initially, run by Shenzhen Evenwin Precision Technology Co, with the aim of reducing the current workforce of 1,800 by 90 percent to only about 200, Chen Xingqi, the chairman of the company’s board, was quoted as saying in the report.
The company did not give a figure for the investment in the factory, but said its production capacity could reach a value of 2 billion yuan (US$322 million) annually.
All of this is very bad news for American workers. Whether it is ultra-cheap labor on the other side of the globe or new technology, big corporations are constantly looking for ways to produce things less expensively.
But in order to have a middle class, we have got to have middle class jobs. The middle class in the United States is steadily disappearing, and neither political party seems very concerned about this at all.
Even without this new trade treaty, our trade deficit with the rest of the planet continues to grow even larger. We just learned that the monthly U.S. trade deficit for March rose to $51.4 billion. That was the largest monthly trade deficit since October 2008. If you will remember, in October 2008 we were experiencing the worst financial crisis since the days of the Great Depression.
And if you take oil out of the number, our trade deficit for the month of March would be the worst ever recorded.
Thank you Barack Obama. Your trade policies are really “working”.
Because the trade deficit was much worse than expected, that is going to push the GDP number for the first quarter into negative territory…
Greg Daco of Oxford Economics says he expects the wider than expected trade deficit to prompt the government to revise its estimate of 0.2% growth in U.S. gross domestic product for the first quarter to a 0.5% contraction.
That means that if we have another contraction in the second quarter, we will officially be in a recession.
In fact, we could be in a recession right now (according to the official government definition) and not even know it yet.
One of the biggest reasons why the U.S. economy has been struggling so much in recent years is due to our trade policies. If we had balanced trade with other nations, our cumulative economic growth since mid-2009 would have been nearly 20 percent higher…
Since rising trade balances subtract from economic growth, the increase in this real non-oil goods deficit has now cut cumulative U.S. economic growth after inflation by a stunning 19.49 percent since the recovery technically began in mid-2009.
Are you starting to see why I get so fired up about trade?
But instead of encouraging big corporations to do what is right for the American people, our system greatly rewards companies like Apple that proudly send jobs offshore. The following is an excerpt from an outstanding article by Andrew Zatlin…
Nine years, a trillion dollars in sales, and almost no taxes paid. That’s just the starting point for wondering about Apple’s actual contribution to the US economy.
Apple’s success drags down the US GDP. The behemoth that is Apple sold almost 200M phones last year, none of which were made in the US or used components made here. Instead of exporting $100B in iPhones, the US imported $50B. That $150B swing matters in terms of balance of trade, GDP and jobs. If you wanted to improve the US economy, there’s no better place to start than with Apple and smartphones.
Apple undermines the US manufacturing base. Assembly matters and manufacturing matters more. There was a time when Apple could have assembled phones and tablets in the US, but that would mean spending an extra $5 per phone since that’s approximately the extra labor cost to build that $700 phone here instead of in Vietnam or China. Assembly may not be a competitive, value-add step but it does employ a lot of people.
Unfortunately, it would also cut Apple’s profits by $1B, shrinking the company’s annual net income from $45B to $44B. Apple wouldn’t notice a drop in profits of $1B because it’s not putting its cash to use: Apple has $200B in cash conveniently parked outside of the US, not doing anything. On the other hand, assembling in the US would employ tens of thousands of people.
You can read the rest of that great article right here.
Our trade policies matter. Decades of incredibly foolish decisions have ripped our economic infrastructure to shreds, and we are slowly but steadily committing national economic suicide.
Now, Barack Obama is absolutely determined to deliver the finishing blow, and it is all being done in secret.
When are you going to wake up and start getting angry America?
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Jade Helm means never having to say you're sorry about the TPP.
Now That's Transparency!
When we we start shooting these fucking bastards?
Nancy Pelosi's got an explanation for that, I think?
Handing control to corporations supra-nationally using the TPP requires strict secrecy.
most transparent administration ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxCVENhSq9M
Obama only has 19 months left to finish his task of destroying the US economy, instigating a race war, opening the borders to all and assunder, along with destroying every foreign alliance the US has built over the last 60 years... All in a day's work for the gay prince from Kenya...
"Are you sure that we still live in a Republic?"
It doesn't matter what government we live under now. The power is not centered in the government. The corporations are where the power is. When they are brought under control, then the people may regain power again. And the difficult part is that the government cannot be used to achieve control over the corporations, because the government is their slave. This is the challenge.
Power is with AIPAC and its members. They benefited from all the QE and have used that money to take control of an even larger portion of America's corporations. They keep claiming the Protocols are untrue yet they do a wonderful job of following them to a T.
Matt Lauer and Charley Rose in your face in the mornings on media controlled by the tribe. Same crap on Fox. Token female or black goys on the side. Shit is pretty bad.
With their cliques these thug effendis have taken over the western world. Only last holdouts are the Chinese and the rest of Asia. Corrupt goy politicians have let them establish their monopolies and even funneled them trillions in cash. Disgusting!
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Those of us living in those 12 "other" countries see the TPP as a possible threat, with the US & its corporations the major benefactors. Our companies and even our governments cannot compete in the court room with large US corporates. It is therefore easy for us to assume all Americans will gain from and are in favour of TPP. Of course that thinking derives unintentionally from the assertion what is good for business is good for the economy (and all its participants) - in other words, trickle down economics.
The likely reality will be TPP is good for corporate shareholders, and even better for those occupying said corporates C suites.
Will it be better for anyone else, wherever they reside? Unlikely. Most of us both sides of the Pacific are in the same boat, so to speak.
for starters, people who are willing to take human lives are required.
The problem isn't in Washington, the problem is the next door neighbor that keeps voting for them.
..... what else would one expect from the corrupt divisive incompetent arrogant narcisstitic illegal indoensian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic patholgical lying fudgepacker who hates America and wants to destroy it and all the tax paying working US citizens' middle class lifestyles while it gets to live its celebrity grand imperial golf lifestyle on their backs.... the turd needs its skin sandpapered off, buried in salt and then thrown out in the middle of the Nevada desert
So you think he was born of a Kenyan and not a marxist, still?
What difference does it make?
Salt is soooo yesterday. Try capsaicin.
Former Pre-Bretton Walde frenemy Deutschland, the motor for Europe? Also, the pre-bretton mori frenemy Jiipen the motor for Asia? Mochiron, Prior to the '71 Nixon shock and industrialization of Chinois. Absorb all that money fire and "deflate" with superabundant labour.
Bundesbank and Bank of Nippon and Bank of China and Bank of America (sorry Giannini) meant Federal Reserve out of Hamburg. Every wise farmer knows about rotating crops. Must burn down a field and lay it fallow, in order to renew growth. Zao what a culture you burnt down!
Now why are the French called "surrender monkeys"? Seems cruel. After the seven years war, the interminable wars with that northwestern island, after all its pinnacle in science, arts, literature. Why kill monarchy, go to republic, empire, republic, etc.? Greatest land force drops arms to a tiny blitzkrieg? Smokescreens to cover corruption. How to wipe the books? How to delete the red entries? War, divided occupation, boogie-men-over-there. Many, many ways to cover default. Glad we can center hate on those rotten Musselmen, instead of the deeply corrupt domestic foes, MaFia or those whose seek to gain without anything to exchange.
Bond fraud, open monetization, in-your-face dilution of all public institutions are but phase one. See the "spice" wars which seeded so much of western "capitalism". See the boogie-man over there, but never the rooting out of the open complicities, deeply rooted combinations domestic spawned everywhere ne'er do wells-now gone foreign. Seeking what? Seeking that little seed of ignorant, sweet, insurmountable creation. Special to every generation. Without it, the entire edifice falls. None of the inculcated and indoctrined would be able to bring anything large to the table, they're carnivores needing rabbits. It is a diminishing dominion of smalls. Small men exerting small death threats upon every small thing to obtain a small return. Look these "men" in the eye, could an one of them turn the screw?
No. They are falling, grasping for straws. Small men, in a small earth, in a small understanding. Weighty they believe themselves, but only so far as to break every rung in their decline of Jakov's Ladder.
AS,
happy fifth.
birthday wishes, etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI
from,
janus
Senator Mitch McConnell is all for TPP treaty, since that treaty will enable dope dealers like McConnell's family to censor the Internet of articles like the one below on his family's dope smuggling activities. For insiders like McConnell, there is no penalty for trying to ship 40 kilograms of cocaine into Europe (unless the coke was dumped overboard for pickup off the coast of the United States). How many times did the McConnell family ship cocaine into the USA without getting detected by the usual paid off drug agents? Probably hundreds of times, accounting for tens of millions made by McConnell's druglord father-in law.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/31/1340696/-40kg-Of-Cocaine-Found-...
Fri Oct 31, 2014 at 01:40 PM PDT
"40kg Of Cocaine Found On Mitch McConnell’s Father-In-Law’s Boat"by Man Oh ManFollow
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... www.jobs-review.com
Paging Mr. Creosote.
HAHAHA! When are you going to wake up and start getting angry America? Wake up? Never.
Agree never, everyone is in a coma from over indulging their EBT card at Whole Foods.
Yes......zzzzzzz
reality is, the rebellions are put down and the media doesnt make a peep, guys are killed trying during each admin. the masonic order and their controllers rule the age, and that is just the way it is. There have been centuries of murders as single control of the planet has been the goal, and despite appearances, they have done it. The track record is just so incredibly murderous, on the way to their heaven, we should prep, as they are not planning on supporting 7 billion till we run out of everything.
Are we F'ed?
Yea. We are. Don't even need the cheap imported labor anymore.
'First Self-Driving Semi Hits American Roads'Don't forget the new automated touch screens at wacarnolds. 3D printers. And the MIT robots that can pick strawberries. Oh I know I am a luddite.... Humans will be able to stop doing these boring mind numbing jobs that robots can do and spend their time doing something more creative and productive.....
Now I ask you to look carefully at the front line worker at wac Arnold's, the strawberry picker, and the truck drivers and tell me with a straight face that they are brimming with untapped productive creativity. More likely these are individuals with double digit IQs who have been fortunate to earn a good living and are about to be made expendable by the march of progress and modernity.
My theory, Obama's amnesty blitz was done in part because the political elite know we have hit peak employment and any delay risks the next unemployment spike which would make the raping and pillaging of the US by third world criminals, problematic.
But, but... Simon Black said that places like Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam are all fantastic places to be in, or invest in.
Whenever Simon calls a place "paradise", the Fed, IRS or State Dept can't be far behind. It's like he's their unpaid scout, a Useful Tool*
Moral: If you know of a great libertarian place, you sure as hell don't want that guy to trumpet that fact -- cause we know what will happen.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbos_goy
Not even a sailboat is safe, for you will be declared a pirate.
There's no such thing as a free trade agreement. You don't need to have an agreement between countries to trade. You just do.
These are only ever anti-free trade agreements. They're agreeing on what can't be freely exchanged. Trade agreements should never be allowed under any circumstance in a free society. It another in long line of failures for this thing called "The Constitution".
And,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, CAN NOT TELL THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT ABOUT ANY OF THIS FREE TRADE AGREEMENT UNTILL IT IS DONE???? Well I guess this is so good we'll just have to wait for the suprise party! You gotta love it,,,,, man this is going to be stupendus, i can't wait!!!
This sounds a whole like Nancy Pelosi, "lets pass this bill so we can see what's in it".
some doctor said the description of a stool sample is ' you have to pass it to see whats in it.'
National Security simply means that the sociopaths are to be secure from the nationals.
Don't you just love this cunt the most transparent asshole EVER. FUCK YOU OBAMA.
Transperancy you can believe in!
The secrecy of this "trade" deal shows that Obama is nothing more than a puppet of the oligarchs.
Make a speech and head out to the golf course.
It has often been said that people get the government they deserve.
The ignorance and stupidity of the American people regarding Obama and Bush are all the proof that I need to believe that this statement is true.
Yes, it is in fact often said that people get the government they deserve.
But the truth is that *I* get the government that *they* deserve.
Just MOAR race to the bottom?
thank you corporatists for keeping the sausage making deep in the dark and far away from our delicate little minds.
i'm so awfully glad i'm not a corporatist. they work much harder than I do because they are so frightfully clever....
why worry about this treaty...?! if anyone thinks we arent going to crash and burn long before this shit effects us is just an idiot. bring it on...get the crash/crush going. elect clinton. lets all watch the world burn down.....
A small group of people have been talking about this shit for FUCKING YEARS AND YEARS, and now more people are just now becoming aware of it.
This whole crap system is FUCKING BULLSHIT.
FUCKING WELFARE STATE FOR CORPORATIONS.
THESE FUCKING CORPORATIONS ARE SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF OUR ASSES.
WHY THE FUCK DO WE KEEP VOTING TO INCREASE THEIR POWER?
WE ARE A BUNCH OF STUPID MOTHER FUCKERS.
"We," Kemosabe?
"...in order to have a middle class, we have got to have middle class jobs."
The way things are going now, the only thing the middle class has to look forward to is the day when the current system has finally been decimated, crushed to rubble; middle class jobs will return when the nation's infrastructure needs to be rebuilt. Its no secret that scenario would keep the middle class employeed for generations.
I personally think Obama is a turd in a suit, and I wouldn't trust anything he advocated including this agreeement, but nostalgia is not a long range economic strategy. The American middle class as we knew it is never coming back to its previous size or makeup in spite of all the fond yearning. Industry has moved on to a global perspective regardless of the short term impact on any one country like the US or any segment of its population. "Why, oh why, can't things just go back to the way they were? It was all so wonderful then." might be a popular refrain likely to get column inches, but for good reason there is nothing behind it in the way of realistic arguments for the great march backward, or any in-depth analysis of what would be necessary to actually achieve past conditions - all based on the false implicit assumption of course that it could somehow be done. People need to grow up, see the world as it is and look seriously at how a happy, propsperous America can be constructed in this world. "Mommy Mommy, please make the bad news go away!" doesn't cut it.
So those forming an orderly line to the ovens is doing us a favor?
Why.Not.,
unpopular though your thoughts may be, i agree with them in totality...well, in 'totality' with just one little-bitty-bit of a tweaking, or i should say 'qualification'.
before i submit my qualification, i'd like to tweak the adage of a die-hard marxist (went by the name of marx...karl marx), to both establish the benefits of tweaking and sharpen the definition of my qualification, to wit:
'nostalgia is the delusion of a dying republic.' (suitable for bartlett's...by: janus)
i'm not going to cry over spilt milk, nor do i care to clean up the mess made by bolsheviks...let the swine have their sties. let the big metros implode; let this zombie collapse as it searches fruitlessly for another vital host; sit back and watch the sick 'republic' rip and rend across the perforations already worn threadbare at the seams of society's fabric.
as Christ once said, "let the dead bury their own dead."
time to jettison some ballast before making any repairs to the USS liberty...why make her seaworthy again when she'll sink the second she's breached safe-harbor? the way she stands, it'll require a major over-haul...you won't even recognize her after the work's done -- gotta strip her to her hull and start the process of retro-fitting -- but she'll be shiny and bright again.
furthermore (and call me crazy if you like), i don't think 1962 was the best we can do...crazy as this may seem, there are greater heights to which humanity can attain; and to make our objective some age gone by, which was by its inhabitants rejected in favor of 'something else', is the fantasy of idealists peddling a patently flawed ideal.
people are now in the process of self-identification. cadaverous minds are rooting around the catacombs of failed ideas, hoping to graft dead appendages onto a dying frankenstein. others are attempting to look to the living; and in order to forge an acceptable mode of so-doing, they are casting off the constraints of sclerotic thinking...coming to at long last realize that TBTB, whether they be bolsheviks or humanists, are simply the high-priests of a new faith...it's still an opiate for the masses; only synthetic -- but that doesn't make it any less caustic to the soul.
i suppose the nicest way of saying this is to reference nature. we are told (and shown) that 'diversity' is the font from which a vital organism draws its strength...but the lesson is stunted before its awful Truth is learnt: 'diversity' is only an advantage when strength is augmented by strength.' (there ya go, bartlett's...that's a two-fer on a single post)
mother nature is anything but PC...so are vibrant societies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCydQm83cJQ
peace & love,
janus
You sound like the end of this bit of theater (on my list of required watching; if you've not seen it, it's actually quite powerful):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs
(Why America is NOT the greatest country in the world, anymore.)
The headline "Obama's New Global Economic Treaty" is misleading. Obama is the puppet and the treaty is written by TPTB who are pulling Obama's strings.
ZH: "We can’t consume our way to prosperity, and we can’t borrow and spend our way to prosperity. ... And of course eventually even the ultra-cheap labor on the other side of the planet will be replaced. This is something that is already happening in China. Just today there was a news story about a new manufacturing facility in China that will use only robots…"
As I posted earlier* today... If the Top 10% owns 83% of Wealth assets, then what do TPTB need the Bottom 90% for -- in an age of dwindling resources, natural space, tech and automation? Long Agenda 21. Plan accordingly.
* Wed, 05/06/2015 - 12:51 | 6066183 Kirk2NCC1701
They will never make me understand what this shit of international free trade makes its so inevitable? If we discover a planet in another solar system that has a labor cost of $.06/hr, does that mean we have to trade with them and lower our costs to compete?
We can refuse to buy imports, and if they don't want to buy our expensive shit, they can fuck off! This is stupid suicide that people are following because some fucked up professor decided it was the only way. The only way because who ever is paying their salary convinced them it's such a grand idea (and it makes them rich).
All they have to do is convince us we are going to get some really good deals on shit we don't need, and all it costs us is the loss of a few miserable jobs we really didn't want, and a lifetime of debt for our children.
What a deal.
"What do you want us to do?
We want you to Die"
Why are people surprised about this? A Republican would do the same thing.
If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.
Don't get caught up in the game of partisan politics. It is just the 21st Century version of bread and circuses.
They will all sell us down the river to save us...or at least that is what they will say. We know what they really think.
Not too long ago, it was easy to dismiss any talk about “changing the system” as frivolous or impractical, a luxury or a distraction. What we are seeing today is that increasing numbers of people understand that this task has become absolutely necessary.
What’s become frivolous and distracting is continuing to assume that business as usual is still an option.
There is, in fact, no shortage of people today who tell us that something is wrong, that things are built to work for the wealthy, and for those far from the frontlines of climate and social calamity. Such diagnoses are increasingly commonplace and harder and harder to contest.
The fact is – what we’re talking about is the merger of two things (1) corporate capitalism and (2) state socialism.
Take these two things and roll them up into a singular ball and you get – Fascism.
Fascism has taken over America: the merger of corporations and government, whereby corporate power dominates. Ever-larger multinational corporations -- due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve's endless FIAT money -- a corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress.
A result of the corporate purchase of Congress is that many of the nation's "laws" have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. "Laws" like NAFTA and GATT (and soon - the TPP) have resulted in the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class.
There are many names for it. Some call it "monopoly capitalism," "crony capitalism," "mercantilism," "globalization," "the new world order," and/or "free trade", and many other labels – but one thing is for sure - this is NOT our Grandfather's capitalism you read about, something in your history book, something which is LONG PAST.
So what are the publicly listed, large-scale corporations, going to do? For their part, they have little choice but to grow… or die?
It is no major leap from such agonizing complaints to recognition that the system itself is generating the effects we witness; that we do, indeed, face a systemic challenge, one manifestly not responsive to traditional political approaches and strategies.
Virtually none challenge underlying institutional power structures.
To pose the system question means first and foremost to point out that long, failing trends are anchored far more deeply in political-economic structures than conventional political debate suggests.
Ask how the system is built, for whom, and how it operates to continually produce the decaying outcomes we are experiencing.
But - if defining the system question is easy, answering it remains much harder.
For decades, the only options for many have seemed to be state socialism, on the one hand, or corporate capitalism, on the other.
If we reject the authoritarian and bureaucratic centralism of the former, but find it increasingly difficult to believe that the latter will be able to nurture equality, liberty and democracy, is there any alternative besides cynical resignation and despair?
Efforts to cobble together “solutions” to these challenges for the most part draw upon and reinforce the very same institutional arrangements that caused them in the first place.
It is time to begin a real conversation — locally, nationally and at all levels — about what a genuine alternative beyond this merger of corporate capitalism and state socialism would look like, and how we would build it.
In short, we face a systemic crisis, not simply political and economic difficulties.
Accordingly, we need to begin to discuss debate and mobilize to achieve systemic solutions.
Today’s young people increasingly recognize that if nothing changes - they will likely be worse off than their parents were.
Even as the elderly and the middle-aged begin to stir, there’s no stronger ally imaginable than a generation realizing that without a next system, they may not have a future.
WAKE UP!
Food stamps (or the politically correct SNAP) is arguably welfare for multinational corporations like Cargill and Conagra, et. al.
These corporations are the SNAP program's greatest beneficiaries and it's fiercest defenders.
They contribute enormous sums of money through the process of lobbying our congressmen and political contributions.
DID YOU EVER for one FUCKING MINUTE WONDER WHY?
All according to the "Progressive Agenda". The US is too rich. The US consumes too many resources. It is not "fair". So the Progressives initiated the FED and initiated the Progressive income tax in 1913. Progressive ideology took us off the Gold standard, initiated the central planning of bubbles and more bubbles all the while debasing the currency. Trade policies exporting millions of jobs to lesser developed countries to "lift them up". Open borders. The list is endless and we are reaping the fruits of their labor. Death to all Progressives. Either party has tons of them in it, in one party it is a requirement of membership. It is all so sad.
Fabian socialists/ZWO have been planning this for well over a century. They are patient fucks.......
Clinton was a (Cecil) Rhodes Scholar wasn't he?
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
Cecil Rhodes
Political horseshit. Get over it.
what's vlad view of this? bet he would rather see no world before TPP dominated world.
Obama's job for the world elites is to push through things no republican could get away with. All liberals will support their man Obama, no matter that he ends America as a democracy. All that matters is that their liberal black man is in power. But wait, don't you republicans get all self important. Because the next republican's job will be to double down on the Obama agenda and push through things no democrat could ever get through. The elites just keep playing you all, democrat, republican, they play you for fools. Each President is a slave to the eiltes, each has a role to play. Clinton pushed through the trade deals that ended America as a manufacturing nation, Bush pushed through a military industrial complex coup. Obama's job is to seal trade deals that give corporations all power on earth. The next president's job will be a full blown war on Russia.
Most Congress Democrats are opposing Obama on the Trade Treaty.
Most Congress Republicans are supporting Obama on the Trade Treaty.
NAFTA II.
GIANT sucking sound II.
Where are you Ross? Our country needs a leader not another sock puppet.
The more I read your comments, Jack Burton, the more that I wish that I did not have to agree with you!
The next president's job will be a full blown war on Russia.
"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Or in the maner you expect.
Quote from Politico article:
"Obama has started to get more personally engaged trying to shore up support for the deal. The president hosted a White House meeting Thursday with members of the New Democrat Coalition, who are generally inclined to support him on trade but still pressed him to make more information available.
“He emphasized that under the trade promotion bills, this is going to be the most transparent bill ever,” said Kind, who attended."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/secrecy-eroding-support-for-trade-pact-critics-say-117581.html#ixzz3ZPVTVnxDSo we just have to pass it to find out how bad we are truly fucked? The best part is that no one will give a shit and by the time its calamitous effects are being felt they will have no idea what actually created them. All they will know is that someone in power will have to do something. Another crisis opportunity to steal the last vestiges of liberty.
The ZWO banks on that Oldwood.
Yep this is gonna suck.
DICK MORRIS: Obama Sneaking in 'Unrestricted Immigration' in Trade Deal
Obama’s Republican Collaborators
By Patrick J. Buchanan April 21, 2015
SESSIONS: Trade deal opens immigration floodgates
'Living Agreement' can be changed after Congress approves
McConnell vows to move Obama 'fast-track' authority 'very soon'; 'I want to compliment the President'
Trump: 'A Bad, Bad Deal'
Sessions demands deal be made public
Thanks for the links.
300M guns. Collecting dust.
Satan cries "Fair Game!"
Roll Guillotines!
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, should be the name
of a convenience store, not a Govt. agency.
Knock it off Sacrilege.
Show me the treaty you secretive traitors, show me the treaty.
Just imagine for a minute.
We are being told that our Gov is working hard to protect us via this Jade Helm 'operation' being carried out this summer. What if it is really just the beginning of gun confiscation under the guise of a training exercise.
Would they have the balls to try a stunt like that? I'd be willing to guess that of the hundreds of millions of guns out there in civilian hands the majority would reside in those states where this 'training operation' is taking place.
The VAST majority give a blank stare when you mention Jade Helm, and if the 'military' showed up at your door to grab all your guns as part of a training exercise, you'd be at a large disadvantage.
Could it happen? Surprise is really the best weapon they have.
And, I'm not paranoid...........I'm just very perceptive........
The same shit is on the SyFy channel, 24 hours a day... Regular programming.
So how do we categorize this clown Little Barry? He's not a traitor because he is not a citizen. He is not our President because he never took the oath (and he is not a citizen). I propose that he should be categorized as an enemy combatant masquerading as President. Remind me again how we handle enemy combatant responsible for the wrongful deaths of thousands of innocent Americans......
Why don't he go somewhere else and run a dictatorship. Go on get him outta here. Send him to Somalia with the rest of em.
These kinds of 'treaties'
are legalizing treason!
Kinda trumps that consent argument and jumps right into force.
Obama is two faced like no other. I voted for him twice in hopes he would stop this free trade nonsense. Yet he doubled down on it?
He basically jumped into bed with the corporations with this secret tpp free trade deal. He sold out. That will be Obama's legacy.
Not a secret: More plunder and raping by Zion.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"We'll have to pass it to see what tyranny has in it."
"Obama knows that if the American people actually knew what was in this treaty that they would be screaming mad" for approximately one news cycle.
CFR Says China Must Be Defeated, & TPP Is Essential to That
Wall Street’s Council on Foreign Relations has issued a major report, alleging that China must be defeated because it threatens to become a bigger power in the world than the U.S.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/cfr-says-china-must-be-defeated-t...
Then the CFR should really order their meat puppet in the White Hut to assasinate whatever quota monkey he has hired who had the unmitigated stupidity to actually say:
Administration aides say they can’t make the details public because the negotiations are still going on with multiple countries at once; if for example, Vietnam knew what the American bottom line was with Japan, that might drive them to change their own terms.
Obama has company from this mincer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBmP3-Y6qZ8
Nine years, a trillion dollars in sales, and almost no taxes paid.
Oh, now I got it - that's the reason iPhones are so popular in China and Russia, Apple is actually seen as the "good guys" there, lol.
I smell trouble for the homeland.
how f ed up must this be?!
this degree of secrecy is like the developement of the A bomb-and would have the same effect on the economy.
What is Kim K wearing today? Any more titilating news on Jenner? Oh gawd there is Kim K, oh gawd help me keep it in my pants....trade...like what is that? like, I just don't know...Oh Oh Oh, Kim just like tweeted that she is like wearing this like so cool jacket....