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Senate Passes Obama's TPP Fast-Track Trade Proposal

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Two days ago there was some rejoicing and much surprise when the "Warren-faction" of Senate liberals turned against Obama, and failed to vote for a fast-track approval of the TPP. That surprise lasted for about 48 hours when moments ago, in a 65-33 vote, the Senate finally advanced a measure allowing Obama to expedite approval of trade agreements, a bill with bipartisan support in that chamber which however according to Bloomberg may run into strong opposition from House Democrats.

The vote followed separate votes sought by Democrats to pass proposals curbing currency manipulation and boosting imports from sub-Saharan Africa. The Senate plans to consider amendments to the fast-track trade proposal next week.

As previously reported, a rebellion Tuesday among Senate Democrats seeking the currency provision previews what may be fiercer battle ahead between Democrats and House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican.

“There’s a broad feeling we have to do something against China” on currency manipulation, New York Senator Charles Schumer, the chamber’s third-ranking Democrat, told reporters before the vote on advancing the trade bill. He called the currency measure “a shot across China’s bow that we’re not going to just sit there and do nothing.”

Bloomberg reports that the fast-track bill would allow Obama to submit trade agreements to Congress for an up-or-down vote without amendments. He hopes to complete a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership and send it for fast-track approval.

On Tuesday, Democrats blocked Republicans from advancing the fast-track bill without also voting on the currency measure. Many Democrats remain stung by the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which is blamed by labor unions for a decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs.

 

The trade bill, H.R. 1314, would give Obama and the next president fast-track powers for six years.

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said Thursday the agreement to separate the two measures from the broader trade bill was a sensible plan.

 

“I’d like to thank the president too,” McConnell said. “No, you’re not hearing things. President Obama has done his country a service by taking on his base and pushing back on some of the more ridiculous rhetoric we’ve heard.

And in other news, just as the TPP fast-track news hit, perpetual warmonger and neocon John McCain announced that as part of a $613.2 billion Defense Authorization Bill, approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the US just added funds for 12 more F/A-18 fighter jets. More importantly the Bill authorizes sending arms to Ukraine.

More details from Bloomberg:

Bill has $523b in base funding, $90.2b in war funds, Reed says.

 

Reed says he voted against bill on “off-budget gimmick” in which Republicans transferred extra funds from base budget to overseas contingency operations to avoid budget controls.

 

Amendment to eliminate war funding account rejected, cmte Chairman John McCain says.

 

Bill would preserve A-10 close-air combat plane; authorizes arms to Ukraine, McCain says.

 

Cmte approves more for F-35, F-18 fighters, McCain says; bill authorizes adding 6 F-35B fighters.

 

Bill requires approval of Guantanamo closing plan, he says. Presidential veto of bill would be “very serious step”: McCain.

In other words, since the Fed can't print trade, either the world will trade with the US voluntarily... or it will be forced to do so. And if that fails, there is always the Ukraine war escalation option.

 

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Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:13 | 6094097 Steroid
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It must be the curiosity. Now they can read it.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:17 | 6094117 TeamDepends
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Cool! With TPP and net neutrality, I know that President Obama is really looking after me.
-A Progressive

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:22 | 6094136 Ruffmuff
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Really obobble can fast track trade agreements?

I doubt that very much, but I heard he can smoke a cigarette from his ass. True fucking story bitchezzzs....

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:41 | 6094221 Chupacabra-322
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Scum Fuck Fascist. Its going to be one Hell of a HOT JADE HELM summer.

KILL / HANG them all.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:47 | 6094253 Tom Servo
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What difference, at this point, does it make?

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:59 | 6094291 macholatte
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a rebellion Tuesday among Senate Democrats

 

Horseshit!

The squabbble was NOT about the merits of TPP but about pork barrell amendments... as usual.

 

"How much you gona pay me to vote for that piece of shit?"

-- Unnamed Senator

 

“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill.' What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
John Conyers, July 24, 2009

 

 

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:09 | 6094339 smlbizman
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god damn i hate that nigger....et als.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:38 | 6094476 knukles
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Gotta pass it to find out what's in it, dontchakno?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:48 | 6094799 Pure Evil
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You gotta pass it to find out how bad the prison ass rape is gonna be.

Looks like the whole prison will be taking turns with this bitch.

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 17:44 | 6098866 divingengineer
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After living through NAFTA, I'm pretty sure I know what's in it already. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:52 | 6094276 Ms. Erable
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Prosecutor: "Why did you shoot and kill 47 members of Congress?"

Me: "Two reasons. One, the rest of them ran faster, so I couldn't get them all."

Prosecutor: "You said two reasons..."

Me: "Right. Couldn't carry enough rope by myself to hang the bastards."

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:42 | 6094228 El Oregonian
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I wipe my ass with those TPP-approving ass-lickers. Pitch forks and lampposts should start to be assembled. Lord, Help us all.

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:46 | 6094245 max2205
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The dossier of goat fucker McCoooooooonal was passed around the table and we agreed to let Sorretto  do what ever he wants.

 

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:18 | 6094379 TBT or not TBT
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It is critical to keep exporting inflation.   If we started to have CPI going up, the Fed would "have" to raise rates, and the federal mafia, I mean government,  can't withstand that.   

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:22 | 6094399 TBT or not TBT
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How will we export inflation and sell govt debt without expanded free trade with slave wage nations?   Gotta contain CPI or else the Fed would have to raise rates.   Then how would Congress critters finance their pork?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:55 | 6094543 Real Estate Geek
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Because of the TPP's sovereignty-forfeiting provisions, a legislator’s vote for it is treason. 

It’s really that simple.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:43 | 6095047 Milestones
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"ANY LAW REPUGNANT TO THE U.S. CONTUTION IS V O I D. ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE BOUND BY THAT INSTRUMENT" MARBURY V MADISON CRANCH 2 1803.

The above citation has never been overturned. "the Supremcy clause is the standard by which ALL laws must meet--which means every rancid laws made by the Bushes, Clinton and O'blah-blah (blah, blah blah) are patently illegal and are VOID.

The questiion really is, do we as SOVERIGN citizens and OWNERS of this country have the balls to back it up.        

Milestones

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:03 | 6094313 lakecity55
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WTF? He can make a dick smoke IN his ass!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:26 | 6094151 HonkyShogun
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They may as well ban cash too. Get their downfall started early. Tired of those asshole.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:33 | 6094175 McMolotov
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This is how you know for certain who the real bosses are. The war on cash coupled with top secret trade agreements makes it pretty clear that the banks and corporations call all the shots and own almost every government around the world.

Not that we didn't already know that, but it's nice to see the proof so out in the open. I'd like to think this kind of stuff will force more people to wake up, but I doubt it'll happen. It's more comfortable to stay asleep with a pleasant dream than it is to wake up to the nightmare of the truth.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:38 | 6094206 chunga
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It seems TPTB are completely decoupling from the pretense that the plebs matter right before our eyes.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:43 | 6094231 Winston Churchill
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The brick wall behind the curtains is being revealed.

You were warned.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:59 | 6094303 Skateboarder
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LALALALAL I can't hear you - there is no brick wall - you're lying! - conspiracy theorist LALALALALA

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:05 | 6094320 chunga
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I've got a real bad feeling about this. I'm doing another bean run tomorrow.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:26 | 6094424 TBT or not TBT
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Don't forget your 5 gallon Lowe's buckets, mylar bags, and oxygen eater packets.  This shit has gone on much longer than expected and might last five or ten more.  

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:34 | 6094458 Skateboarder
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Things won't change that fast, chunga. If ZH should have taught us anything, it's that the can can and will be kicked down the road ad infinitum. Will TPP fuck up the world? Most assuredly. Will the 'collapse' be sudden and imminent because of it? Most unlikely.

While the current TPP text contents are secret, and something may be published eventually for public CONsumption, the true damage will come out of the behind-the-scenes deals, and over time. It will take a good five to ten years for the effects to fully manifest.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:49 | 6094530 chunga
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It's a given that any trade deals will be bad. What bugs me is that both rank and file blue team and red team supporters have been screaming bloody murder against not only the secret TPP but also the need for fast tracking their secrets.

It's right over the top, in your face even by wAshington standards.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:54 | 6094549 TeamDepends
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Respectfully disagree, Skate. This is going to come like a tsunami, like a thief in the night. It won't have anything to do with TPP, that is just to get our heart-rates up and send a message. Watch out for the last week in September. Have all your preps completed by then.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:23 | 6094660 chunga
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It just seems extra strange lately. The red team has been bashing away at hero torch carrier Limbaugh because while this has been going on he's been locked on deflated footballs. I haven't listened to him for a long time but you'd think this would be right up his alley. It's a morbid fascination of mine I to try to get a feel for what the teams supporters are thinking. (DU on the left and FR on the right)

It seems to me they've all been throwing fits calling and complaining hard. But it happened anyway.

We know they don't care, but this says they don't care that everybody knows they don't care, and they don't care about that either.

Wife and I have been joking about how crazy we are with this prep shit we have already...but I dunno. Don't forget the Texas governor claims to have state military prepared to watch this Jade Helm thing that starts in a couple months. It's probably moar tinfoil hat shit because nothing ever seems to happen, but someday it probably will.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:04 | 6094318 Ruffmuff
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Knew it for a long time. Can't change shit when in a herd of dumb sheep.  You can warn them all you want.  I'm so far done with neighbors thinking I'm a moonbat.

Just go with the flow. If be, a fight no one will win.

Enjoy the lies and your chemtrail rainbows.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:27 | 6094426 Utah_Get_Me_2
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I think you mean the 'Anti-Aircraft Gun Behind the Curtain'...

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 17:51 | 6098882 divingengineer
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If you stay awake, you should have nothing to fear.

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:45 | 6094242 TeamDepends
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another....

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:47 | 6094254 Winston Churchill
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Sedition Act 1790, it didn't last long did it ?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:22 | 6094401 MonetaryApostate
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A law can be written or rewritten and then enacted in a very short amount of time, never forget that part...

 

 

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 17:54 | 6098892 divingengineer
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So many people, so determined to force others to live, eat, work, act they way they demand.

It truly is a psychosis, this need to control others.

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:53 | 6094277 lakecity55
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Rooters News:

Alex Jones and Mike Savage were killed early today in single-car accidents. Federal Police say drugs and alcohol were involved."

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:19 | 6094119 RafterManFMJ
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Thank God!

Now finally we can begin bringing those manufacturing jobs back to Amurika!

It's about time the average hapless working derelict got some good news. It's good to see the U.S. Congress finally standing up for Amurika, and the little people who've been hard-pressed for the past 40 years.

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 17:58 | 6098900 divingengineer
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America!!!

Fuck Yeah!!!!

We're back, baby!!!!

Dow to 30,000!!!!!!!

Buy and Audi!!!!

Use that credit card!!!!

Quit your job and flip houses for big $$$ using other people's money!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:18 | 6094377 BoingBoing
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This can only end well.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:25 | 6094413 A Lunatic
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I no longer care how it ends, so long as it does end....

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 17:56 | 6098903 divingengineer
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I feel the same, none of my fucking business. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:13 | 6094099 kliguy38
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Senate??? What's that?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:24 | 6094147 Winston Churchill
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A type of incurable haemorroid I believe.Anal herpes if you please.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:28 | 6094161 Ruffmuff
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Senate: A group of leechfucks that think they are godlike and will listen to those who pay the most.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:46 | 6094249 Chupacabra-322
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Senate aka CONgress aka The Board of Trustees aka soon to be Dead Men / Women.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:14 | 6094102 Katastrofenhausse
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<--- it's Teh Juice

<--- it's Teh High Fructose Zionism Syrup

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:14 | 6094105 BlackChicken
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Bastards..! We no longer have a Republic.

I wouldn't give Obama fast track to open a lemonade stand.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:30 | 6094167 Ruffmuff
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I betcha he would school us all in the ability to sell crack to kids, though.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:50 | 6094260 lakecity55
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I think he would be into kiddieporn myself...

"Hey, watch me eat this little baby on Live TV!"

FSA: "Yay!"

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:15 | 6094107 Zen Master
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Bahahahahahahaha...Bitchez!!!!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:17 | 6094113 thunderchief
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So which countries are this list I now don't want to live or do business in?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:17 | 6094114 Dr. Engali
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lol..... "Representative government". What a joke.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:23 | 6094141 TeamDepends
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Nah, that's not the devil sign, Barry is a fan of the Texas Longhorns.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:53 | 6094279 Chupacabra-322
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The joke are words like:

Republic
Government
Constitution
President
CONgress etc.....

The jokes are the Slaves & the FACT it's been a Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. all along.

It's a Criminal System, run by a Criminal CEO / Board of Trustees & owned by Criminals.

Wake the FUCK UP, take your language back & stop speaking / CONSENTing to their Criminal Fraudulent system of Debt, Bondsge & Enslavement!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:41 | 6094764 scrappy
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You got that right Dr.

I called my Senators office today, it did not matter.

It moves to the house, this will really bring us down if it passes.

By the way, RP, Rand is all for it.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/01/30/rand-paul-pro-sovereignty-want-p...

I am at wits end, we are NOT represented.

Hell is coming to our country.

May God help us prevail.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:17 | 6094116 boattrash
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Fuckity fuck fuck fuck!
Roll Guillotines! and as always...
...Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, should be the name
 of a convenience store,not a Govt. Agency.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:40 | 6094215 Winston Churchill
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That brought back some memories.

Johny Rotten puking on my new new carpet at my housewarming party type of memories.

Thanx.,

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:18 | 6094376 TeamDepends
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Didn't make it all the way through but that gave us a chuckle which we desperately needed. Sitting here dazed. Can't rid the mind of Obamanauts who voted for him TWICE. Resisting the urge, so far, to start drinking heavily.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:26 | 6094420 A Lunatic
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Whenever you get the urge to drink, reload a few hundred rounds instead......

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:18 | 6094120 Sleepless Knight
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And I thought we were screwed before. WOW.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:18 | 6094121 czarangelus
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Just plain ol' mind control. The headline will stick while the buried retraction will make no impact on sheeple consciousness.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:18 | 6094122 Mini-Me
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When Obama and Mitch McConnell agree on something, you can bet it'll be awful.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:22 | 6094131 HeavydutyMexica...
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Referencing the official federal government bill naming guidelines document, we can expect all trade agreements will slowly grind to a halt.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:22 | 6094133 MickV
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They are all blackmailed for allowing the Usurper Hussein Obama into the WH. Anything UnAmerican is what he, and so they, stand for. Congress will protect the knowledge of the treason committed at all cost, and so they aid in the Cloward Piven destruction of America at the behest of the NWO.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:47 | 6094250 lakecity55
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+10,000.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:51 | 6094272 froze25
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I believe they are operating on the premise that if the truth were to come out the whole system would come down.  That is what Obama knows and uses.  I also believe the leadership in both parties is either being blackmailed or is bought off.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:10 | 6094348 Skateboarder
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People don't give a fuck about truth.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:27 | 6094428 A Lunatic
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Ain't that the truth......

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:22 | 6094134 Counterpunch
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"and the next president fast-track powers for six years. "

which, no matter who it is, will be in the pocket of the MIC, Wall Street, and Israel.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/aipac-sponsored-fast-track-measures-on-beha...

That's what Schumer's concern is.

Had enough yet?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:34 | 6094181 Ruffmuff
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Fuck no I have not had enuff yet. I'm still in testing of my patented asshelmet.   It should withstand a ef 5 tornado and class 4 hurricane. Kevlar is great.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:15 | 6094366 A Lunatic
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Bring it on!! Moar lies, Moar treason, Moar tyranny, Moar disenfranchisement, Moar race baiting, Moar prisons, Moar taxes; Moar, MOar, MOAr, MOAR, MOAR mother fuckers......!!!!!!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:52 | 6094538 boattrash
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Lunatic, I loved the suggestion on reloading instead. Great therapy!
I also love knowing Big Gov. is buying all that fucking ammo.
It will be rehypothecated!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:27 | 6094135 Chalan
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Politician's in Washington DC. Are accelerating another French Revolution epoch at internet speed.

 

Lord, have mercy on the peasants!

 

We're in deep............

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:23 | 6094140 gwar5
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Kenya believe it? Fuck all those guys! TPP is the fast track to the 7 Circles of Hell around the middle class. We're done.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:28 | 6094145 tony wilson and...
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tony bones biancho
new der world
he participated in it
if you gets my drift.
he was a stand up guy.

he told me once
he said tony
i said what
he said tony
isaid what already
tony
you can get der measure of a man by 2 things
his hands
and the company he keeps.

we nose this cia mind controlled cocksucker is surrounded by rabbi
and we know that cocksucking saturn hand gesture above.

fuck you cocksucker
and your synagogue of satan.

just tellin it like it is
feel free to disagree you electrical tools

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:26 | 6094149 yogibear
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What middle class. They have eliminated it. Flooding the US with cheap labor, outsoucing and goods.

Then loading down the children with debt.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:33 | 6094178 Mike Honcho
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Lets give the guy with no business or trade experience more power to do so.  The wolves are training for martial law, I advise you to do the same.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:45 | 6094241 lakecity55
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Obvious to any vet of counter-insurgency warfare.
Yes, they are lining up to unload/disarm/enslave you.

Your Decision.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:33 | 6094452 TeamDepends
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Yep, if you arrive at the FEMA camp you've already lost. Take at least one with you. That way we win.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:38 | 6094198 i_call_you_my_base
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Fucking assholes. It's hard to believe that I can still be disappointed, but I guess I can.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:28 | 6094432 A Lunatic
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Just keep lowering your expectations.......

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:38 | 6094202 GRDguy
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Senate actions is simply sociopaths at work.  Vote the incumbents out in the next primary. Then continue to do so until they realize they can't make a living stealing from their constituents.  There are plenty of people who can serve us well without them having to sell out to a political machine.  Just don't vote for the high-financed.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:43 | 6094232 lakecity55
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Ho Ho Ho! Voting time is over, dude.

Time for one of those other Boxes in the attic.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:36 | 6094466 Jugdish787
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Vote??  Are you fucking kidding me?  ALL, and I mean ALL these guys/gals are fucking selling you out!! if not now, then they will in the future.  Time is getting short and you are still talking about "voting them all out"??  sorry, but come on...The dye has been cast, the turkey has flown the coup, elvis has left the building...You get where I am going with this.  Time to get the fuck out or plan to stay to see the carnage.  

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:38 | 6094204 gcjohns1971
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You know...

If you are unhappy at being sold out this way...

It is Unconstitutional to impede the travel of a Congress Critter to the place of voting....

 

...but you don't have to let them go home to sleep at night.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:38 | 6094205 scaleindependent
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TPP is a bad deal. 

+1 for any congress critter that actually votes against it, be they Demoncraps, Repugnicants, socialists, or whatever. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:42 | 6094223 lakecity55
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You must allow me to sign it before you read it. OK, it's TS, so you can't read it anyways.

You folks have NO idea how much I Hate America, but you will soon find out, hahahhaha.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:39 | 6094209 lakecity55
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King George=USG on Steroids.

Bath House can seal any deal with a quick BJ.

We are Fucked.

Prepare to be Jade Helmed...

"Mrs. Smith, if you do not come with these soldiers, they will kill everyone in your family."
"OK."

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:44 | 6094212 RichardParker
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They say evil prevails when good men fail to act.  What they ought to say is evil prevails.

-Lord 0f War

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:32 | 6094533 Goldilocks
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Yuri Orlov: Some of the most successful relationships are based on lies and deceit. Since that's where they usually end up anyway, it's a logical place to start.

Yuri Orlov: Where there's a will, there's a weapon.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:57 | 6094559 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Speaking of evil- what's with O's hand signals in that photo? Weird

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:41 | 6094222 Duc888
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Cool, NAFTA and GATT worked out so well for us.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:43 | 6094233 matinee55
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I wonder how soon the criminals will get their cheques?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:48 | 6094257 LooseLee
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What is a CRONY CONSERVATIVE?

A REPUBLICAN pretending to be for Truth, Justice, and the American Way...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:10 | 6094346 matinee55
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their all corrupt, all part of the same party partisan fool

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:54 | 6094286 SheepDog-One
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Lots of private screenings of Zapruders JFK film I'd guess.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:56 | 6094295 Dumgoy
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It's because they love us.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:02 | 6094312 Chuck Knoblauch
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Is anyone surprised?

I'm not.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:20 | 6094655 Falconsixone
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When was the last time they didn't pass whatever was brought up? They should all just bring their trained dogs to do the thinking and voting.

Maybe someone will pad the next bill with a law that says anyone in the three branches of federal government must walk in front of the nearest oncoming bus.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:40 | 6094742 Chuck Knoblauch
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What other job allows you to trade markets on insider information legally via family and other parasites?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:04 | 6094316 anonymike
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Looks like the psychpaths and sociopaths who call themselves government are going to pass this for their globalist elite masters. Just like a patent, it will mean nothing until they can enforce it, and that needs to be resisted in every way possible.

More and more people are recognizing that there is no solution for centralized government (aka: the state), except one. It must be allowed to self-destruct, and we should help it do so as quickly as possible to minimize the damage it will do to society. All the while, as many people as possible need to be educated about the fact that we don't need government beyond, maybe, the most local level to "secure these rights" of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". On rare occasions, and only for the duration of the need, communities may form loose alliances to address a common enemy aggressor, with no centralized command or leader which could become the next tyrant.

The collapse will be extremely painful, but its unavoidable, and most of the people in North America are likely to perish, especially in urban areas, because of what the state has done to weaken society. The most damaging of its crimes against society was the confiscation and destruction of the people's medium of exchange. Without good money, supply chains will collapse for nearly everything. Central government will not be able to deny responsibility for this. If enough understand that centralized government is entirely to blame for all the of the misery that society is about to experience, and that the pain will NOT be due to the loss of the state, then society will be able to eventually prosper beyond our wildest dreams today, free from the monstrous central government parasites at all levels.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:21 | 6094390 JR
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Your powerful comments include this most important indictment of all, of the central government:

The most damaging of its crimes against society was the confiscation and destruction of the people's medium of exchange.

This taking of the people's property and labor through establishment of fiat currency completely controlled by the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank is exactly the reason for the Fast Track vote. For this is whence the money comes to buy congressmen. Originating from the Fed, the prostitution payments filtered down through the Reserve banks to the major international banks and then to the coporations who profit from the trade piracy they plan for Third World countries and by the marginalization of US workers.

When a US corporation moves its facilities to Peru to pay perhaps $1 an hour for workers, then the American people have the United States Congress and their master, the Federal Reserve, to blame.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:04 | 6094317 JR
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Why would the Congress vote to pass legislation without debate (Fast Track)? Because when you’re bought-off by the banker government, it is much easier to fool your constituents when you can lie about the reasons for voting yes on Fast Track when there’s no paper work debate to defend.

Fast Track is the road to revolution. To protect American jobs and the interests of middle class Americans and US taxpayers, millions of Americans will fight the transfer of America’s estates and wealth to multinational corporations that have no allegiance to the United States. Lt. Col (Retired) Allen West gave this warning:

No Fast Track for Obama's Next Power Grab

15 Oct 2013

President Obama is seeking power the Constitution has assigned to Congress. Soon, he will formally ask Congress to surrender its constitutional authority and grant him “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority.

And House Republicans are inexplicably ready to give it to him.

Members of Congress who take our Constitution seriously will follow Nancy Reagan’s advice and Just Say No.

Article One, Section 8 of the Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive responsibility to set the terms of “commerce with foreign nations” -- trade. The Founders established this clear check and balance to prevent the president from unilaterally negotiating deals that reward his supporters while harming opponents or the nation as a whole.

Under Fast Track, Obama would be able to sign commercial trade agreements before Congress votes on them. Congress would not even be able to amend the agreements in any way -- it would only have an up-or-down vote when the president says so, before members could even read it.

While Congress has delegated authority to presidents in the past, it was based on the premise that the legislative branch could trust the executive branch to respect Congress’ constitutional role. This administration has breached that trust. 

From the abuse of executive orders, to recess appointments, to the stonewalling of congressional oversight on Fast and Furious, Benghazi, NSA, IRS intimidation, and other scandals, this administration has shown contempt for the constitutionally mandated co-equal role of the Congress.

Given this record, Congress must not cede its constitutional authority and instead reject President Obama’s request for “Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority.”

President Obama wants fast track power so he can conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an expansive system of global governance that would deal a mortal blow to American sovereignty and our Constitution.

Fast track overrides the Constitution once -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership overrides it forever.

TPP is billed a free trade agreement, but it is actually protectionism for Wall Street bailout banks, insurance and drug companies profiting off Obamacare, and the corporatists pushing open borders and amnesty under the rubric of “immigration reform.” The cronies with “access” in Washington are writing the deal while the rest of us are shut out.

TPP would subject the U.S. to the jurisdiction of foreign tribunals under the authority of the World Bank and United Nations. These unelected, unaccountable panels would constitute a judicial authority higher than the U.S. Supreme Court. They would have the power to overrule federal court rulings and order payment of U.S. tax dollars to enforce the special privileges granted to foreign firms that would be exempt from EPA and other regulations that strangle American firms.

U.S. Trade Representative Mike Froman and his predecessor have said TPP is not about trade between independent nations, but about “integrating our economies” under a flag of global government. The European Union superstate, a graveyard of sovereign nations, was originally sold to citizens as a plan for “integrating economies.”

All trade agreements come with predictions of new jobs for Americans, but those promises are always empty. Obama said our free-trade deal with Korea would be a major job creator, but after it went into effect, sales of U.S. goods fell and imports from Korea rose. When you hear someone say TPP will create jobs, hold on to your wallet.

Chinese companies are already investing heavily in Vietnam to gain duty-free access to the American market under TPP and destroy the textile, shrimp, and catfish industries in the Southeast, a region that voted against Obama. 

We’re also told TPP shows our Asian allies we’re serious about confronting China. But it would actually weaken the U.S. As the Chinese People’s Liberation Army uses every means possible to infiltrate our command and control systems, TPP bans Buy American policies that require crucial equipment for our troops be produced in the U.S. We don’t need TPP to stop China’s military expansion - we need to tell the same crowd pushing TPP to stop transferring their capital and technology to that communist dictatorship.

The American-in-name-only insiders who get special treatment in Washington will say anything to put their gravy train on the fast track. It’s up to those who love liberty, the Constitution, and the United States of America to slam on the brakes and tell Congress to say no to Obama’s next power grab.

Lt. Col (Retired) Allen West served 22 years in the US Army and represented Florida's 22nd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 2011-2013. To hear more from Col. West, visit www.allenbwest.com.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/11/No-Fast-Track-for-Obama-s-next-power-grab

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:13 | 6094358 lakecity55
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And all those idiots voted "Republican" thinking it meant anything...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:18 | 6094378 Binko
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I think the term "traitorous scum" aptly applies to those in congress who sell out both the people and our national sovereignty in return for the money they need to get elected.

If we had publicly financed elections where any citizen could run for office and equally make their case to the public we would end up with legislators who are obligated to the people rather than to multinational corporations. In that case, toxic shit like this would get absolutely zero votes.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:05 | 6094323 lakecity55
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The velvet glove comes off the mailed fist.

Bend over, America! You are nothing but cattle to these people who plan to kill you...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:08 | 6094337 large_wooden_badger
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WHY IS EVERYONE COMPLAINING??? THIS IS THE BEST GOVERNMENT MONEY CAN BUY!!!!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:09 | 6094345 roadhazard
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 You can always get democraps to vote with repubicans. Whatever happened to repubicans just saying NO to everything. Now they just gave Obama a feather for his cap. I'll bet that hacks there ass... but the campaign contribution is safe. God Bless America.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:14 | 6094367 Binko
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This is the repubs making the payback to their big donors and campaign bundlers.

Red or Blue makes no difference: they all have to come thru when their masters crack the whip on an important issue.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:21 | 6094392 large_wooden_badger
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Republican vs. Democrat? Heads I win, tails you lose.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:11 | 6094350 steelrules
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Just giving us one more reason why Chris Hedges will be right.  http://news.nationalpost.com/news/chris-hedges-interview-wages-of-rebell...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:21 | 6094658 RichardParker
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Steelrules:

Climate change?  Mumia Abu-Jamal?  You're joking, right?  Please tell me you're joking.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:13 | 6094354 Chuck Knoblauch
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Focus on Columbus, OH and another race riot.

Don't look at the next NAFTA to hit your children.

You stupid assholes.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:22 | 6094400 Falconsixone
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He hasn't heard the Pacific's dead. He still thinks he's something other than a worker bee. I'm planning to party for a year when they drop'em.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:29 | 6094434 Icelandicsaga.....
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Part of the integration and harmonization of world systems into the new order.. regional combined into ONE Octopus at some point .. with technocrats and the vampire squids of the world running things . top down . but then so what else is new .. corporate and banking ownership of congress .. been the case for two decades or more .. but went into warp drive after 911 . welcome to the new order... serving mankind as Rod Serling related in the Twilight Zone .. serving mankind on a platter that is .. enjoy

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:47 | 6094510 TeethVillage88s
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If Hillary Clinton is any indicator at all, Democrats became corporate whores when Bill Clinton got into the White House.

- She stood up for Drones, War, and Sold War but how does that happen if she was a 1960s Activist unless she and Bill Clinton Joined Anglophile Networks equivalent to the Cecil Rhodes, CIA, MI-6, CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderbergs

1994 - NAFTA, Deregulation of Trade, 3 Nations (W. Clinton)
1995 - Community Reinvestment Act, the Clinton Admin urged flexibility,
1995 - HUD advocated greater involvement of state and local organizations
1996 - Energy Deregulation(W. Clinton, followed by ENRON Scandal)
1996 - Telecommunications Act (W. Clinton, cross ownership)
1996 - Start of a Period of Accounting Fraud in USA which continues today
1997 - M2 Money Velocity Top
1998 - Clinton's Kosovo War (over 60 Days)
1998 - Brooksly Born Rejected on her concerns on OTC Derivatives
1998 - Derivatives expanded and were not regulated
1998 - Citicorp & Travelers Insurance Merger
1999 - Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (Phil Gramm, W. Clinton, followed by 2008 Financial Crisis)
1999 - bombing campaign in Kosovo (W. Clinton, over 60 days)
2000 - Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (P. Gramm, W. Clinton, derivatives)

Democrat or Republican it IS THE SAME PARTY, the Anglophile Party with side dishes of NATO, Israel, Wall Street, and China.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:04 | 6094587 sTls7
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So true.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:38 | 6094444 Chuck Knoblauch
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The FDA and EPA are useless anyway.

Let the multinationals write their own rules.

They basically do already, right?

You should eat the same quality food that's served in Indonesia.

Isn't equality a beautiful thing?

You really think this trade agreement is just about trademark and copywrite law?

Do you really think China will abide by any of it?

Since the Europeans are being replaced in NA, enjoy the Asian pollution and cuisine.

Has Obozo said it will create good jobs for Americans yet?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:16 | 6094947 Seek_Truth
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"You should eat the same quality food that's served in Indonesia."

Never been a better time to take up hunting, trapping, fishing, foraging and raising your own food.

A silver lining in every cloud.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:13 | 6095131 Chuck Knoblauch
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Taking a walk today, I admired the simple sovereignty of a large pine tree.

Standing like a 30 foot tall giant; no one telling it what to believe.

Then I noticed the Chemtrail over its head and realized the giant is a slave.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:16 | 6095144 Seek_Truth
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True. Even a sylvan interlude can be trespassed upon by corruption.

Still, being aware of how corrupt things are doesn't mean there's no hope.

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:25 | 6095160 Chuck Knoblauch
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How do you kick a virus or bacteria designed to kill off your land.

We are dealing with Satanists.

You cannot consume the king's sheep without an antidote.

Satan's legions are microscopic and deadly.

You'll never see it coming.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:30 | 6095189 Seek_Truth
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"All men die, some never really live."- William Wallace

Make the most of your life- make it count.

Satan can only be fought by aligning with God.

Moral relativists have no immunity to Satan and his microbes.

God imbues morals that allow his children to discern, and provide immunity from Satan's evils.

Both die.

God's children to eternal reward.

Satan's children to eternal cutting off.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:37 | 6094470 TeethVillage88s
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Oh great our international Octopi are 'Power Sharing' with China.

- Persistence of Large Organizations and Large Budgets is always Ripe for both Plunder and "Capture" by Evil Actors

I say Break up all Big organizations or at least reorganize them. It is too easy to have all kinds of secret stuff going on and no one admits responsibility for what happened or is happening.

In the old days The Buck Stopped at the Top. But finger pointing is an art in the USSA.

I'm looking at old English Plans laid by Cecil Rhodes to Redraw the Map of the world with English Dominance... and I see Treaties such as TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, GATT, UN as International Deal Making, Power Sharing. 100 Years ago England & Russia redrew the Map in the Stans which they were fighting over. Then after the Ottoman Empire, the English Redrew the Map of the Middle East.

Today USA wants to Redraw the Lines on the Map of the ME again... along with East Europe.

TPP is a bigger Redrawing of the Lines of US Sovereignty, and breaking them down for Asian Powers, Wealth European Powers, and Corporations.

And this is what I think the United States is all about today.

Power Corrupts, Money Corrupts, Big Organizations Corrupt... and the Media and Big Corporations & Foundations are tools of those at the top. Just like the Federal Government.

- Persistence of Large Organizations and Large Budgets is always Ripe for both Plunder and "Capture" by Evil Actors

- Anti-Trust Law has to be Implemented to Break Up Large Corporations, Foundations, Federal Government Power, ... so that People form the Government and Banking, Credit, Government ANSWER to the People, the Common People, and having a Middle Class, Having Freedom & Equality, IS PRIME

- Tricking people into Debt or Desperation seems the Goal of Unregulated Banking, Financial Vultures, and Big Government

- Just because NEOCONs are Anglophiles who want to Redraw the Map of the World, doesn't mean it is a good Idea

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:41 | 6094489 Chuck Knoblauch
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Stop hiring lawyers to represent you.

Because they aren't.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:16 | 6094946 TeethVillage88s
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True. Lawyers are Middle Men. In fact they make work for themselves when they are allowed to change the law or set a precedent.

Might as well classify their work as Non-GDP.

They are Rentiers. But mostly Actors or "Racketeering Actors".

We need to force the courts to set guidelines and Benchmarks so that court is fair to poor people that can't afford a legal team. First step is limit the number of Lawyers and the Number allowed on Legal Teams for the Wealthy. Then outlaw Paid Lobbyist and Lobby Money.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:07 | 6095118 Chuck Knoblauch
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Don't hire parasites.

Selecting leadership by lottery every election cycle would help.

No really good solution to representative government.

Perhaps split the D's and R's into 4, creating two new parties?

Center right and left versus extreme right and left.

I'm for trying anything.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:43 | 6094499 calltoaccount
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Sovereignty For International Investors (Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP))

Posted: 12 May 2015 03:34 AM PDT

Why the investor state dispute settlement panels in the Trans-Pacific Partnership are a Trojan horse for enriching multinationals and gutting national sovereignity.
Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:42 | 6094498 I Write Code
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There's TPP and there's TPA.  Fast track is TPA.  What just passed the Senate is TPA.  We've had TPA before.  TPP isn't up yet.  You should correct your headline.  TPA is mostly harmless.  TPP will be mostly harmful.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:53 | 6094542 A Lunatic
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Nothing these bastards do is harmless........

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:46 | 6094513 q99x2
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Oligarchs have always passed immoral laws. Never kept them from getting their heads lopped off.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:47 | 6094519 Goldilocks
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Maman (sculpture)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_%28sculpture%29

Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (927 x 891 x 1024 cm).[1] It includes a sac containing 26 marble eggs and its abdomen and thorax are made up of ribbed bronze. The title is the familiar French word for Mother. The sculpture was created in 1999 by Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series (2000), in the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern.[1] This original was created in steel, with an edition of six subsequent castings in bronze.[2]

cont.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:59 | 6094569 CaptainMoonlight
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If I were a senator or representative, I would not want my name attached to ANY anti-freedom bills in the US. These leaders are putting their names on a list that they will not be able to get off of.

 

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:31 | 6094708 Ginsengbull
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Politicians get elected by promising the rich and poor that they will protect each of their interests, while protecting each group from the other.

 

If they aren't crooked when they enter politics, they soon become crooked.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:43 | 6095050 Buster Cherry
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Too late

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:05 | 6094592 sTls7
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This is about big money screwing middle America.   Watch out.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:27 | 6094684 Ginsengbull
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The big money represents both corporate interests AND the government teat.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:23 | 6094663 rsnoble
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With so many on both sides of the aisle in agreement.......rest assured EVERYONE GETS FUCKED.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:25 | 6094673 Ginsengbull
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Trans-political partnership.

 

That guarantees that it will fuck the middle class, in the ass and mouth.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 17:57 | 6094846 Arthur Schopenhauer
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Who To Believe On The TPP? Obama Or Warren

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEwoiDKeCSA

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:02 | 6094863 SmedleyButlersGhost
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I realise i'm opening up the nut job box - but seriously - wtf is up with O's hand signals in that photo. Plain weird

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 03:23 | 6096190 SubjectivObject
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PS: Exists only on ZH: PhotoShopped

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:19 | 6094967 BustainMovealota
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Like that Satanic salute from Obummer, nice one, double pump.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:22 | 6094981 BustainMovealota
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You still have to wonder why so many persons in the Senate and Congress have dual American / Israeli citizenship..   Well, you really don't have to wonder,  you see now why.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 18:44 | 6095054 Buster Cherry
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Fuckface must think he's at UT....

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:02 | 6095108 blindman
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disease is a deep complex,
beyond the surface and sometimes
terminal.
.
Tom Waits - In the Colosseum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr1Qsfwepf4

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:18 | 6095153 Bobbo
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Secret talk.

Secret treaty.

Secret law.

Secret court.

Secret judgement.

Secret penalty.

Secret payment.

Secret profit.

Secret power.

Secret owner.

So, what's knew anyway?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 19:24 | 6095172 Psquared
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They vote against it the first time and then pass it the second time when their real masters make a few phone calls.

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