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Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:19 | 6196190 RacerX
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Okay now bend over and get ready to RECEIVE YOUR PROSPERITY!

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:28 | 6196210 InjectTheVenom
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>>>>  I trust POTUS on TPP

>>>>  POTUS lies like a cheap rug

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:32 | 6196217 kowalli
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I trust him, let it CRUSH

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:40 | 6196238 californiagirl
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Where's the part about giving away part of our sovereignty to new WW organizations?

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:52 | 6196259 kowalli
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What sovereignty? Do you have one?

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:40 | 6196370 espirit
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Prepare to be fucked in the ass for less Dineros.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:38 | 6196560 mt paul
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Prepare to be fucked in the ass for more Dorritos...

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 21:13 | 6196637 Richard Chesler
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By popular demand, below are the Cliff notes of the long cartoon story...

 

Obozo, beloved corrupt puppet of banks and corporations.

 

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 02:48 | 6197082 chumbawamba
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I think we should hammer more nails into our head.  That looks hilarious.

I am Chumbawamba.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 02:58 | 6197095 cookie nookie
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I'm against all free trade.  I'm for foodstamps and FEMA trailers.  I also want free healthcare.  Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 12:23 | 6198102 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Hell has frozen right freakin' over. I now find myself on the same side as Nancy Pelosi and Alan Grayson.

Left out of this... cartoon is the exponential growth of government whist all this happened. Evil thrives when good people do nothing.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 10:57 | 6197816 NumNutt
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I can think of more specific names of individuals I would like to pound nails into. 

F U O!!!!!

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:04 | 6196408 MonetaryApostate
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<<  Come on guys, that cartoon-informer was freaking awesome & you know it!

<<  This guy doesn't know what he's talking about!

 

Survey says??????

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:17 | 6196519 ThroxxOfVron
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The Asshole totally took a shit on the 'Tea Party' but did not mention either major party by brand, mascot or name as least thrice.

Gun ownership was also derided.

A comic book worthy of a ten year old with a lot of anti-business and anti-gun lefty whining -and no answers offered.

Fuck this douchebag and his bullshit humanities/journalism degree or whatever...

 

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 00:20 | 6196944 Buckaroo Banzai
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You're being a little hard on the cartoonist, he got a lot of it right. But he does deserve to get blasted for his knee-jerk leftist bias.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 02:02 | 6197047 Tall Tom
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Just because those liberal whiners are wrong about a few things...uh...okay...some things...no...that is still not right...many things...uh...okay...I am really giving it my best here...most everything...well...

 

That does NOT mean that they are wrong about ALL THINGS.

 

Hell if it had not been for the Liberal Vote at the end of last week this damned legislation would have passed.

 

Even a broken clock is right twice per day and, at those times. you'd be a fool to argue against it.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 07:39 | 6197249 Oldwood
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Clearly looking for government solutions, more regulation, more taxes, moar Grayson.

America funded most its entire federal budget with import protectionist tariffs at the turn of the last century and we had a positive trade balance to boot. We can turn wheat in to automobiles and easily just say "fuck em" to those building cars currently because we can "share" our income with those few unlucky car makers without a job.

This cartoonist is not mentioning one of the largest contributors to this mess and that is debt. While printing money accomplishes much of the same thing, people who are being harmed with imports are provided debt to buy what they otherwise could not afford. If we were not being deluded by debt and redistribution of taxpayer wealth through entitlements, people would have been forced to confront this shit decades ago....long before we saw the wreckage that now exists.

The only reason that there is any push back now in public opinion is due to the realization that the narcotic delusion is fading. Things are getting worse for those who want a decent job and it is becoming apparent why.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 12:48 | 6198203 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."~

Thomas Jefferson

Government is a bi-product of sin. If men did not sin, there would be no need for it. Alas, men do and hence, to contain our sin, we created government. An evil to counter other evils. Government hence becomes a "necessary evil". But we have forgotten that it is evil and do little to contain it, much less the people who advocate that the solution for any other evil is, (somewhat ironically), more evil, (in the form of more government).

It is said that business without regulation is theft. When business writes the laws to regulate itself then all that occurs is that it gives itself license to thievery. Currently a corporation has better legal standing than any man. Worse, a corporation can lives forever assuming it never goes bankrupt. All humans must "liquidate" all their holdings when they reach the end of their lives, (though estate planning can mitigate some of this). That said, I don't know anyone taking a year off being dead for tax purposes, (to steal an old Douglas Adams joke).

At the crux of the matter is how we perceive and treat corporations. If this was not dicey enough, wait until we have the first sentient machine. Some SCOTUS in the future is going to have to determine what constitutes life. Satan's humor will be litigating for anti-abortion rights for yet-made machines. If we are fortunate, we'll all kick the bucket before that one.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:54 | 6196262 macholatte
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Yes but consider the copywrite on that piece was 2014 and the TPP is behind locked doors the author did pretty good. 

 

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:12 | 6196300 Moe Hamhead
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As for a cartoon---it's not funny.  How depressing!

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:26 | 6196330 two hoots
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If we surrender, the elites are the new government. 

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:30 | 6196347 James_Cole
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Fantastic explanation. For tl; dr just skip t the last 4 panels. 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 21:48 | 6196710 TwoHoot
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Thank you, two hoots. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:29 | 6196346 QQQBall
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read the part about negating our laws.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:02 | 6196500 Al Tinfoil
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Start reading at page 22.  It sorta hints at it, but does not do a good job of explaining that panels of arbitrators will decide the cases under TPP rules, and the laws of each nation are subject to those rules and to the arbitrators' decisions.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:56 | 6196494 stant
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Giant sucking sound 2.0 but for your grand children who won't even know how they got fucked before they were born

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:28 | 6196543 DebtTheNewEquity
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This cartoon is as dumb as your average Zero-Hedger.  Truly childish.  That said, down with the TPP.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 22:01 | 6196739 perchprism
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What was all the anti-Tea Party shit all about?

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 07:54 | 6197284 STP
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The cartoonist loves Big Government and the many Laws, Regulations, Taxes and Fines, that go along with it.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 07:54 | 6197285 STP
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The cartoonist loves Big Government and the many Laws, Regulations, Taxes and Fines, that go along with it.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 07:55 | 6197288 STP
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The cartoonist loves Big Government and the many Laws, Regulations, Taxes and Fines, that go along with it.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 07:55 | 6197289 STP
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The cartoonist loves Big Government and the many Laws, Regulations, Taxes and Fines, that go along with it.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 09:03 | 6197439 angryBuddhist
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Up vote 100 if I could!

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 06:06 | 6197188 Perimetr
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In my version there is a mushroom cloud at the end.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:24 | 6196200 stinkhammer
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beetle bailey?

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:24 | 6196201 H H Henry P P P...
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Cartoons. So easy, a caveman can get it.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:58 | 6196274 Ms. Erable
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Unfortunately, this one is TL;DR for most modern cavemen. And their little caverats? Fuggedaboudit.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:25 | 6196204 Tinky
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The guy's good. Should be distributed in all High Schools.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:08 | 6196290 TheReplacement
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Except the part where he blames the Tea Party for stopping additional stimulus instead of the actual cause of the need for stimulus.

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:16 | 6196430 nuubee
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He makes enormous mistakes. He seems to understand that companies can move their business overseas. And he seems to understand that fiat currency can just be printed. But he doesn't put 2-and-2 together and realize that the businesses that are taking jobs away are doing so because they can pay bullshit paper to foreign workers and collect USD or some other valuable currency in exchange for a more worthless fiat. Cartoonist is a moran. How can you understand that printing currency is bad, and then blame businesses for moving where wages are consistenty artificially depressed due to currency printing?

 

So many people see problems, but so few of them see the root problems.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:29 | 6196455 MonetaryApostate
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First of all, this wasn't a cartoon about the globalist(s) who are exploiting everyone worldwide, it's about how it's going to screw America, and it SHOULD lead us to ask more important questions..

If the TPP is so grossly horrible for the US (Which it obviously is), then why the hell is it even being voted on?  

(More importantly) Why was it even presented in the first place & who presented it?

(Wiki says these are the leaders behind it, but I'd be willing to wager someone else has come up with it, e.g. the British Banksters)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Leaders_of_TPP...

Notice how all of those countries were invaded by England at one point?  (And are probably still subject to British Legislation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:46 | 6196481 nuubee
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I'm willing to bet the entire thing is a smokescreen to try to keep the monetary status quo going. Japan has essentially been doing QE4 for the world, however, Japan is f-ed without intervention. TPP reeks of being little more than window dressing on giving Japan what it needs to keep going.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:47 | 6196205 F0ster
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Am I going crazy because I'm the only one who caught this from what I can tell? If this is true it's MASSIVE NEWS buried in this RT post today:

"WikiLeaks and a ton of BRICS

Enter WikiLeaks, with what in a fairer world would be a crucial spanner in the works.

THE FAST TRACK AUTHORITY WOULD EXTEND US PRESIDENTIAL POWERS FOR NO LESS THAN SIX YEARS; that includes the next White House tenant, which might well be ‘The Hillarator’ or Jeb “Putin is a bully” Bush."

So if this is indeed true this would explain why JadeHelm was supposed to go live and coincide with the fast track vote that Palosi buried last week.

http://rt.com/op-edge/266542-bilderberg-obama-g7-germany-ttip/

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:50 | 6196254 New_Meat
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"Am I going crazy[?]"

This question is 100% non-correlated with the rest of your post.  Our best wishes go out to you, though.

Ain't it funny when we can look at RT as better (not good, tho') information than the MSM?  You don't seriously think that big ops don't have multiple threads?  We should ask Cas and Susan.  But they are tied to a timeline--the Dallas shoot-'em-up didn't provoke the desired outcome.

- Ned

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:29 | 6196211 God
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Can't you see? It's too late for you American humans. It's over. This is your twilight.

Just let them do whatever they please(you really have no choice anyway), it will expedite the demise and lead you to the kingdom quicker. Become hedonists, enjoy your human form. All will be forgiven.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:54 | 6196263 1Inthebeginning
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http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-13.htm Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever.  The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.

 

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:27 | 6196340 God
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Stupid humans.

You fail to understand me.

Your definition of 'time' is your downfall. I created the fruit fly for you to examine and understand. Your lifespan is miniscule.

You breed and die. Enjoy it while you can. Disregard all of the rest it is just noise created by your fellow humans.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 00:30 | 6196953 mvsjcl
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Why did you put humans and sociopaths on the same planet?

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:31 | 6196215 cherry picker
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That is a great way of explaining it.  If you can't visualize something, it probably isn't worth discussing.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 07:19 | 6197227 Hopeful Skeptic
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It was OK until he got around to saying that government stimulus (arbitrary government-controlled wealth redistribuion) was the answer. Repeating the current administration's "saved or created 2 million jobs" talking point pretty much made it impossible for me to take Goodwin seriously.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:39 | 6196237 kchrisc
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TPP is NOT about trade or "free." It is about further subordinating the DC US governmnet and the American country and people to world government and Zion.

As Zion moves their base of operations over to their new war dog, Europe, from the nearly picked clean DC US, they desire to retain some control over America and we Americans. This in an effort to trump other powers, like China and Russia, from exerting full control over America, and to keep what lucre they can via SDRs flowing to them.

That is what TPP is all about--the further subordinating and plunder of America and the American people. They must keep it secret to prevent us from figuring that out, but I shook the bag, and heard the wail of the Zionist cats inside.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:44 | 6196248 The Delicate Genius
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I believe I agree with you here, the more I read about AIPAC's influence on these trade deals.

The trouble is, most Americans never see or hear about Israel's occupation of the Palestinians.

Which likely has something to do with a heavy Jewish [and/or "Zionist" - the terminology confuses me, frankly] presence in the news media, certainly more than any Muslim let alone Arab let alone Palestinian presence that might balance the narrative.

But the occupation itself - we would not tolerate it for a moment if it were any other actor except, perhaps, ourselves or Britain.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:19 | 6196318 kchrisc
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It is fantastic that you are looking into it. Better yet that you are beginning to see it as well.

Unfortunately Zion's control of the DC US, and tyranny over the American country and people, is so much larger than so-called trade deals.

I think the on going war crime in the Ukraine with Soros acting as manager, is a great example of what I speak. We seem to have one wealthy Zionist ostensibly pulling all the strings on disparate governments, media outlets, militaries. gold theft, funding, etc. That can only come about if there were a bigger game, and controlling group, afoot.

As I wrote the other day:

"Zionism is a system of organized plunder that operates on a national and international level. A Zionist is a person connected and operating within that system for his and his cohorts' benefit--he both utilizes and serves the system of plunder. A Zionist has no country but that of money and power."

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:48 | 6196385 Seek_Truth
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"Globalism is a system of organized plunder that operates on a national and international level. A Globalist is a person connected and operating within that system for his and his cohorts' benefit--he both utilizes and serves the system of plunder. A Globalist has no country but that of money and power."

Fixed It For You. 

Zionism = Jewish nationalism.


Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:24 | 6196444 kchrisc
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"Globalism" is a propagandist cover meme for their plunder, much like Keynesianism is.

Zion began to use, spin, "globalism" in the late 80s and early 90s to provide intellectual cover for their fixing of exchange rates and the wholesale exporting of the DC US manufacturing base, and jobs, overseas, amongst other things. Resistance to the Zionists' crimes are then spun as "resistance to change," etc.

Jewish Nationalism is only part of Zionism's cover and crimes--steal the Palestinian's land and futures while playing the victim card to cover for their grift within the jurisdiction whence they reside.

Zionists are Zion's agents of plunder operating around the world, but mostly in the DC US and Europe, under the guise of "Globalism." Soros?!

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

 

Or put another way, the "Petro-dollar" is a global Zionist ponzi scheme, and "globalism" is intellectual cover for that scam.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:34 | 6196463 Seek_Truth
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No it isn't- Globalism is what you erroneously described as "zionism."

Globalists are the trillionaires and billionaires of this world.

Some of those globalists are Zionists, some are Anglos, some are Asian.

Those are the facts.

Your fixation with zionists is blinding you.

They are indeed a source of of the problem- but they are not the source of all the problems.

The source of all the problems is GREED.

GREED = The LOVE of MONEY.

"The love of money is the root of all evil." - 1 Timothy 6:10

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:01 | 6196499 Thirtyseven
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Perhaps it is true, what you are saying, but we have to start lopping off heads, and they are an obvious target.

Kill the rats that propagate the plague = Stop the plague (at least until another one festers).

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 00:33 | 6196957 mvsjcl
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I thought the source of the problem was psychopathy.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 09:49 | 6197575 unicorn
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and the source of greed is FEAR

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:34 | 6196465 MonetaryApostate
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I know a lot of people knock AIPAC & the Jews, but did it ever cross your mind that it's actually the British?

http://nesara.insights2.org/CrownTemplars.html    <<< This should open your eyes up wide...

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:48 | 6196476 Seek_Truth
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All those with extreme wealth rule the world.

They are the trillionaire and billionaire globalists.

The House of Windsor (Saxe-Coburg-Gothe) is but one of those uber-wealthy families.

The Brown, Harriman, Morgan, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb, Lazard, Soros, Bush, Gates, Buffet, etc families are all responsible for this world's state of affairs.

But more to your point, the British Empire never really died- it just went covert. The US is still controlled by the City of London.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:59 | 6196495 MonetaryApostate
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Well said sir, well said!  ^.^

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 02:05 | 6197051 bunnyswanson
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Combination of the two.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP82VUjrNU  Funded by The Queer Woman who dares to cover herself in diamond and gold while discussing austerity.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:41 | 6196242 The Delicate Genius
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There's also this:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4667914,00.html

Here you have the lobby for a tiny foreign colonialist regime that refuses to stop building settlements, getting the superpower to force europe to force its citizens and corporations not to engage in the well established non-violent, free speech activity of a boycott. The same boycott, by the way, American and British Jews engaged in in the early 1930s as Hitler was new to power.

I'd say the BDS folks have the much better argument. Whining that there are other countries that are as bad or worse is hardly a compelling argument to avoid focusing on the one country which is Using American tax dollars to underwrite its colonialism, violence, and glacial ethnic cleansing scheme.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/bds-a-legitimate-and-mora_b_75...

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 22:51 | 6196845 Radical Marijuana
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-cites-hate-crime-laws-when-asked-about-its-zero-tolerance-for-israel-boycotters-1.3067497

Ottawa cites hate crime laws when asked about its 'zero tolerance' for Israel boycotters

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:47 | 6196251 Handful of Dust
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5 States Where the Middle Class Is Being Destroyed

 

http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/5-states-where-the-middle-class-is-be...

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:56 | 6196267 1Inthebeginning
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Excellent clear explanation.  Thank you.

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:56 | 6196270 italiandefault
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This comic is a shit. Free market is the right way to take power from government to people. 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:52 | 6196344 Elliott Eldrich
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"Free market is the right way to take power from government to people."

True. Unfortunately, it ends up taking power from the government and giving it to extremely bad people, who then turn around and bring the rest of us a Technicolor rainbow of corruption, exploitation and destruction. Am I the only one who actually read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," or has any knowledge of the horrors of the "gilded age?" So-called "Free Trade" has proven to be nothing less than a total subversion of our political and legal systems, our standard of living and ultimately our very way of life, and has been heavily promoted by the worst of the worst among us; need I remind you that none other than Bill and Hillary Clinton pushed through both NAFTA and GATT?

So-called "free markets" without any regulation whatsoever end up becoming incredibly destructive, and are eventually rejected. The answer is not to over-regulate or micro-manage, the answer is to use intelligent regulations designed to be simple to understand, that are clearly defined and adequately enforced. Glass-Steagall comes to mind as a star example of what regulations can and should be, none other than Bill Clinton has gone on record stating that he now regrets repealing it.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 17:57 | 6196271 Roanman
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He makes a couple points, misses the huge one having to do with lost skills, but I quit when cartoon boy came to the part about "the 2009 stimulus created or saved 2 million jobs"

Another Democrat cool aide sucking maroon.

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:04 | 6196282 suteibu
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I think most people who would read this have already decided which camp they are in.  Sadly, the few who are trying to understand the issue probably got bored after a few pages and went back to Archie and Jughead.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:08 | 6196291 InjuredThales
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Quite! The cartoonist doesn't clearly doesn't understand what capital is.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:37 | 6196469 joseJimenez
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True enough.  This is what they did to hide the atrocities of what FDR 4 terms had done to our nation.  The political scientists begun to spin tales of how FDR had saved us.  The best way to fix all this is to stop big government period.  

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:01 | 6196276 New_Meat
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"We'll ratify the treaty, wait for the promised benefits to arrive, then keep waiting"

--- or ---

"I guess that the shovel-ready projects weren't as "shovel-ready" as we expected."

ASSFACE

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:07 | 6196288 Sudden Debt
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Imagine there are 10 people in the workforce.

Imagine they would tell them that 9 people would be fired who don’t meet the standards.

Nobody would revolt, they would all think that it’s the other guys.

And what about those 9 people who got fired?

Simple, nobody listens to people who lost their job because our society sees them as losers.

 

Imagine there are 10 people in the workforce. They all make 100 dollars a month and spend 120 dollars a month on crap.

Imagine that everything would become cheaper for the working people if 9 people got fired.

Everybody would cheer!!! They would think the would finally make ends meet!

Nobody listens to unemployed people and the one buys more plastic crap they don’t need and spend 125 dollars a month.

 

It’s not a political thing. It’s a mentlity in our society.

When a person gets a hart attack and drops to the floor, people walk in a circle arround them because they would need to take responsability on somebody other then themselves.

And it’s getting worse, this behavior is now even happening in the family circle!

I wzs chocked when I read a article about the fact that 8 our of 10 youngsters was imagening how their lives would be better if their parents died and they got their money.

new car, more vacationtrips... untilk the money is gone.

Kids would sacrifice their parents for a car! To show they aren’t losers who can’t afford a car that is out of their league in the first place!!!

A car now costs 2 year salaries! And every family has 2!

 

Greed.

Now something else. Before Rome wzs burned by the barbarians, the barbarians demanded gold and would leave the city in peace. It wasn’t even that much gold.

Nobody wanted to chip in, and there was 100 more times gold in the city then they asked for.

So the city was invaded, 1 million people died, the people with the gold died, women got raped, kids killed, and the city burned.

Greed is what finally killed them.

They also didn’t have a army anymore, nobody wanted to fight anymore, because of’greed..

So they trained barbarians to fight for them. And it was those barbarians who didn’t got their pay, because of greed that made them turn against Rome.

They said barbarians but had the Roman armor and weapons and battle techniques. So it was their own who turned against themselves.

 

Look’at the movie American psycho, it shows all to well how our society has turned into.

And everybody thinks it’s not them.

But even those who have next to nothing as greedy as they want everything for free at the expense of others.

And it’s the people who vote for politicians. And they get what they’ve got comming.

The west deserves a default. The west deserves everything what’s comming to it.

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:22 | 6196323 Metalredneck
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You are now one of my favourite humans.

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:09 | 6196293 suteibu
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The biggest failure of this presentation is that little time was spent on the regional, supranational bureaucracy that would be set up by this treaty.  He paid some attention to it in the Australia/Phillip Morris case but not enough IMO.  The investor-state dispute section of the TPP is the sovereignty killer for all of the member nations.  Kill that and the whole thing falls apart.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:13 | 6196303 TeethVillage88s
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Just seems like some FRED Charts help to explain.

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Federal Debt Held by Foreign & International Investors as Percent of Gross Domestic Product, 2014:Q4: 34.75940 Percent of GDP,
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/HBFIGDQ188S

Current Account Balance: Total Trade of Goods for the United States©, 2013: -703,911,000,000 US Dollars,
Sum Over Component Sub-periods (2013 was last data),
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BPBLTD01USA637S

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/intinv/iip_glance.htm (wow huge trend, $31 Trillion in Foreign ownership of Property in USA vs $24 Trillion of US ownership of foreign property)

Bank Private Credit to GDP for United States
2011: 55.47615 Percent (Data spans from 1961 to 2011, Bubble is clear in 2003)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DDDI01USA156NWDB

If we have been in a Credit Bubble for 10 years what does that mean about their intentions?? Rape Obviously. But they Obviously don't care about the Damage of Crashes one after another with increased complexity from shadow backing, derivatives, complicated Instruments, and over manipulation of markets even in the face of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:17 | 6196309 Metalredneck
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For something so simplistic, this was very unsettling.
Ghost time.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:18 | 6196314 MagicMoney
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I think TPP is mainly just a push for IP and patent laws and further making it international. That's what I think. Monopoly laws become global, thus ensuring competition-less profits for the monopoly holders.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:22 | 6196324 suteibu
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Everybody can pick their poison with this leviathan.  Financial services - where countries can not limit the nature of new investment instruments or restrict the flow of capital - is another problem, particularly in Asian countries where savings is a part of their culture (a big target for Wall Street).

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:19 | 6196315 Surging Chaos
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This cartoon looks like a subtle jab at how we need protectionism and tariffs up the ass.

Maybe the cartoon maker should just move to somewhere like Norway, where everything is expensive as fuck because of tariffs.

Also, he talks about how we needed the 2009 stimulus so bad. Zero Hedge really needs to check where they get their shit. Between the support for tariffs and stimulus this is really just a statist in disguise.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:23 | 6196329 g speed
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the cartoon seems to be about the check on cap--not goods so maybe your a troll? 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:25 | 6196335 Marco
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In my opinion we need free trade ... but not free movement of capital, ownership should be domestic.

Look at a country like New Zealand, year after year they have trade surpluses ... year after year more of their land goes into foreign hands. They're slaves and "free trade" agreements lock them into that slavery.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:30 | 6196348 MagicMoney
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How is foreigners buying land suppose to be slavery? There is a buy and a seller, why are you against that?

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:49 | 6196382 Marco
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Because land is the most important capital of all and the least replaceable ... only land owners are truly Free with a capital F, free trade agreements seek to grant that freedom to a small elite (ie. neofeudalism). I prefer to live in a nation where little freedoms are available to all even if it sacrifices the ability of an elite to become Free. When ownership of the land becomes foreign and even the ability to tax it becomes hemmed in by "free trade" agreements there is no more nation ... there are only the foreign land owners and their peons.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 22:14 | 6196687 MagicMoney
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That makes no sense. You are assuming current land owners are somehow more productive than the foreign land owners. Land just sitting there not doing much of anything is not really anything beneficial to anybody. It's just someone's property. That's it. I have no idea what you want to do with the land. May be you have a central plan agenda, who knows, but you're proclaiming that foreigners buying domestic is bad, which you have not clearly argue why it's wrong. Is it wrong for foreigners to own domestic land? How is that right, or wrong? If a foreigner wants to buy land to install a manufacturing plant, is that wrong, or good? I don't get your point other than foreigners are taking more land and less land for native New Zealanders. Last time I looked, "white new zealanders" are not natives to that land mass. They're europeans. So what is your argument again? I have no idea.

And land owners are not "required" to sell if it's voluntary. If they are selling they are selling for their own benefit. If you don't support the freedom to sell, you don't support freedom at all. You lost me there. You're stuck on nationalist emotions. THe point of all economies to remove jobs and increase wealth. That's where real wages come from. Productivity increases real wages. You believe Sudanese, or China without foreign capital are better off? Or that America for that matter in it's early history. People either buy money with goods, or services, or they buy goods and services with money. You don't support freedom, I think not and taxes is not freedom.

Economy is about producing wealth, not jobs... History proves that humans are wealthier when they produce. Nationalist emotions get in the way of that. That's why US healthcare is extremely expensive for drugs. Monopoly laws prevent real wages of all americans from improving. Brazil removed patents on drugs in their healthcare system due to humanatarian feelings. It's supply and the productivity of that supply that improves living standards. To drive prices lower. If you don't understand that, well you don't know what a economy is.

I think you're anti-freedom. You use reverse rhetoric to try to sugar coat your version of "freedom" which isn't freedom at all. Just like a communist proclaiming state control is freedom from capitalist, or how about Wesley Clark calling corn subsidies "free market".

TPP's biggest regulatory burden is further internationalizing IP and patents laws. They are not conduscive to real wage improvements. That's by far the most damaging part of the legislation that has long term implications of cost burdens for society in general.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 22:20 | 6200429 Marco
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The free market economy is about capitalists doing what they want with their capital ... sometimes this leads to producing wealth, sometimes it leads to stagnation and the deprivation of freedom of the vast majority of people (pre black death medieval Europe).

New Zealand is being bought out from under New Zealanders. Sure, each and every seller is doing so voluntarily ... because they don't really care about the big picture. The international elite care about the big picture though, hence "free trade" agreements, so that when New Zealanders decide they don't all want to be renters in their own country with no say over how land in New Zealand is used or how much they share in it's production (currently less every year) their government is locked in and powerless to do anything about it.

Land is special and it's continued availability at reasonable prices is essential to freedom for the majority, even when it's at expense of the Freedom of the elite. Sometimes freedom is a zero sum game.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 09:19 | 6197479 BigJim
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When foreigners buy NZ land, they require NZ dollars to do it. This means - in effect - that holders of NZ dfollars wind up owning more foreign currency... which, ultimately, can only be spent in that foreign country.

ie, when foreigners buy NZ land, they are swapping a form of foreign capital for NZ capital. In exchange for NZ land, the previous owner of that NZ land now owns foreign capital; or an intermediary does. ie. for a foreigner to buy NZ land, some holder of NZ currency acquires foreign capital in exchange.

ie, it's just a swap of capital.

But, if you really feel that land is different from other forms of capital (and I agree, it is a natural resource, and should be considered held in Common) then the answer to this is to ban land ownership within a polity, and have land occupiers pay everyone else a rent for the privilege and negative externality arising from exclusive use of that land, and for government to raise its revenue through this (ie, tax value-take, rather than value-add processes like wages and profits)

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 22:29 | 6200446 Marco
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The ability of a government to institute something like that is exactly what "free trade" agreements are designed to prevent.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 22:22 | 6196775 MagicMoney
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I agree. Free trade is beneficial. Anti-free trade is mercantilism, ie, max profits for local producers, and price gouging of the consumer. People think of nationalism, not the human race, or even fathom how trading with foreigners can benefit them. You would think that people would of learned that trading is done voluntarily through exchange of goods that each value more, than the goods or money they are exchanging for. People who protect a few, restrict lower prices, so people can pay more for less. They think that nominal high prices are good, when in fact humans become wealthier through productivity, and price reductions that grant everyone higher "real wages.". That's what the industrial revolution brought. Cheaper prices. Jobs are easily created. Humans don't want jobs, they want wealth. If they could buy 20 ferraris with few dollars how is lower prices bad? That's a dramatic improvement in wealth. Better and better productivity brings us more opportunity to explore other activities. Monopoly laws and non free trade is not condusive to such society's wealth. Not just the rich, but for everybody.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:21 | 6196321 g speed
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interesting item (pg 23) about the Glass Steagal repeal--a real eyeopener --

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:22 | 6196322 Marco
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The portrayed need for foreign capital in first world countries always gets me ... we have central banks full of excess reserves, the fastest growing economies in the world have had massive capital controls, but somehow we need free movement of capital.

Fucking lizard people.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 21:53 | 6196718 MagicMoney
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You support monopolies then.... You against rising real wages. Excess reserves is just money printing. Money printing is not good for economic well being. Central banks have unlimited reserves. You could say they have no real reserves, it's created out of thin air. Just to correct you. It's commercial banks that have excess reserves more than anything.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:23 | 6196327 MagicMoney
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Another part of such treaties is this in my opinon in exchange rate currency global economy, a push for more government spending. Foreigners buy IOUs from Uncle Sam, so Uncle Sam can print more money, the foreigners get access to US markets and reserve currency. That's what these treaties are about. Nixon went to China to convince them to buy US treasuries, while exporting cheap goods. Nixon's China visit and the gold standard being abandoned is a bit of a coincidence for me. If this is the case, this means more suppressed wages and more credit creation for US economy, including the US government = more inflation, lower standard of living.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:23 | 6196328 MagicMoney
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Another part of such treaties is this in my opinon in exchange rate currency global economy, a push for more government spending. Foreigners buy IOUs from Uncle Sam, so Uncle Sam can print more money, the foreigners get access to US markets and reserve currency. That's what these treaties are about. Nixon went to China to convince them to buy US treasuries, while exporting cheap goods. Nixon's China visit and the gold standard being abandoned is a bit of a coincidence for me. If this is the case, this means more suppressed wages and more credit creation for US economy, including the US government = more inflation, lower standard of living.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:25 | 6196336 Reaper
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"Things are not what they seem; skim milk masquerades as cream." ~Gilbert & Sullivan.
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One great stupidity is to assume labels always describe the labelled. Another stupidity is to trust in government or the media. All power corrupts. Everything secret degenerates. All con men keep their motives secret.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:49 | 6196582 taketheredpill
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"Free Trade" Agreement.

 

"Right to Work" legislation 

 

Getting the name right is half the battle.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:53 | 6196593 taketheredpill
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Why not just call the trade agreements "Double Plus Good Trade Agreements That Only Idiots Would Oppose # 3" , 4,5....

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:39 | 6196367 Kreditanstalt
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Just one thing: that stimulus money from government.  Where did it come from?  And who got it?

It was either taxed out of the real, private economy OR it was printed.

Neither sounds very good.  Or very sustainable...

 

 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:31 | 6196461 Bear
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The real problem with the 'stimulus' was it was just 'used' to support failing banks and insolvent governments (State and Local). Funding and stimulating banks and government does nothing to stimulate. It's like throwing matter into a black hole and expecting something in return. 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:42 | 6196374 q99x2
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That's a long cartoon that is not funny.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:17 | 6196433 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Thinking that Snyder guy's lists are looking good. That post is just an insult

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 18:42 | 6196375 DaveA
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So what if we bundle up all our dollars, deeds, stocks, bonds, etc. and ship them to China in exchange for toys and computers? We can always print more paper assets to replace them. If anyone's getting cheated, it's the Chinese, but they choose to trade with us.

Mencius Moldbug pointed out that macroeconomics is not science because there's no fixed, objective way to measure value. Every price is a ratio of one thing to another, and changes moment to moment. Thus if an astrologer says we should pass the TPP because Venus is ascendant in Pisces, his argument is just as valid as the author's.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:18 | 6196428 1stepcloser
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Someone better warn granny about the coming Kitty B Gone cat food... Death Panels by stealth, I knew it...

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:21 | 6196442 TuPhat
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This cartoon economist has lost his brain somewhere in the big spending gov promotion so I quit reading.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 04:47 | 6197157 SystemOfaDrown
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Good! I’m sure reading in itself is very challenging for you.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 19:31 | 6196458 Anunnaki
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The fact that yet again money needs to be set aside for lost American jobs, tells me that this benefits the haves on the backs of the have nots

And they don't care about American consumers for all this "trade" bc they lost their job and don't have any money to buy them anyway

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:20 | 6196527 Polymarkos
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This guy seems to have problems with the Tea Party, and seems to be all for the gubbamint 'stimulating' the economy. Smacks of a leftist idiot to me.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 21:16 | 6196648 Loucleve
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Thats exactly what I thought.

The fucking democrats and republicans together have put us in this shithole, and this asshole blames political dysfunction on the TP.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:34 | 6196554 acetinker
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I read down a good way, and realized Goodwin is one the useful idiots.

Pretzel Logic- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaw0oDqDFlY

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 19:37 | 6196675 acetinker
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Maybe this is more to your liking, Mr. Goodwin, Goodman, God-Man- or Goldman or whatever you call yourself.

You're still completely fulla shit.

And we've known this for awhile.

Sleep tight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQNT9BS_LsI

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 20:52 | 6196590 fxtrader99
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The electronics making robot isn't keeping capital away from the people who "rightly own it" because it is being mean. That capital has been invested in technology to produce the electronics. I'd like to see that character in the corner actually  try to make his "own damn electronics." 

If two million jobs were created with a trillion dollars in stimulus with no downside, why don't we just spend 10 trillion and we'll all be rich. Does the cartoonist see any danger to that plan? Oh it was the tea party that prevented us from reaching nirvana. Didn't know the TP suddenly had so much power.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 21:55 | 6196726 acetinker
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Yes, why don't we all just piss in  the well?

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 22:12 | 6196754 Moe Howard
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Obamao failed because of the mean Tea Party and Gun Nuts.

 

This cartoon guy has a cartoon brain.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 22:43 | 6196827 Lazane
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It truely makes me chuckle when in 2015, I continue to come upon reading that confirms how the Tea Party remains the most feared block of voters in the American republic. 

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 22:56 | 6196848 bluskyes
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Everybody wants free trade for every industry but his own.

Free trade is easy, stop charging duties, import fees, and tarrifs. It involves repealing laws, not enacting new ones.

Sun, 06/14/2015 - 23:38 | 6196898 frankly scarlet
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Nicely done but why not cut to the chase and say this is the agenda of the pedophilic satanists banker cabal to usher in their world order as they own or control most of the world's economy through holding companies and these holding companies need the law to trump national laws if they feel the need.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 00:27 | 6196949 Cardinal Fang
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My favorite comic says..."It's all a big club, and YOU"RE not in it!"

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

Take that, Bazooka Joe...

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 00:51 | 6196973 pcrs
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The author does not realize that these treaties have nothing to do with free trade or freedom. Free trade means that you can trade with another human being without threat of coercion.
you don't need thousands of pages of legalese for that. These thousands of pages contain restrictions and obligations with punishments.
freedom needs no 'justification' with economical arguments. Like the default is slavery and we need a justification for freedom.
Guys like these are part of the problem. They will get their 'unfreedom' and get it hard

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 01:44 | 6197035 onmail
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Free Trade == We give you overpriced American & Europeans goods(for rich) or ultra cheap Chinese goods(for poor).

But both ways we aim to destroy local industries so that you remain only paltry earning shoe shiners in the street.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 01:45 | 6197036 Dre4dwolf
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Fair observation.

None of it matters, the country is on the road to ruin, no stopping it, public is just not engaged enough no one cares till they reach the precipice, the point of no return.

And even then it might take falling off completely to realized they are heading for the ground.

 

Just wait till everything comes crashing down, and we can fix it from there.

 

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 02:18 | 6197057 Tall Tom
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At times falls are not just injurious but they can be fatal.

 

What makes you think that we survive this?

 

It wil be a long, painful and torturous death...for most if not all.

 

Enjoy your oncoming Nuclear Winter. (That is one of the PROBABILITIES which you must now consider. There is an indecent chance for that consequence of the folly.) Russia, China, and the USA will probably oblige.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 02:41 | 6197069 amanfromMars
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Sound advice to POTUS and 1%ers ....... Stay out of any kind of Dallas and all Dealey Plazas. The natives are no longer pig ignorant and resting and inactively disabled. Information is setting all free in right dodgy systems with the knowledge to crash in a flash and with cash too, all executive orders and SCADA operations where sub-prime intelligence conspires in vain and in the arrogant vein of hubris to kill off premium competition and virtual opposition which espies and exposes them catastrophically to exploits and exports light years ahead and way beyond the extremes of their limited ken.

Welcome to the future current present in command and control of EMPowerment with Global Operating Devices in Virtual Machines rebooting humans with Advanced IntelAIgents.

The Great Game is changed and Greater IntelAIgent Games are the new leading norm phorm for phishing in all work, rest and play fields ...... Live Operational Virtual Environments. And, I Kid U Not ...... Global SCADA Systems are cracked and master key code hacked.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 02:47 | 6197080 MEFOBILLS
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The solution is simple:  Sovereign money that is based on wealth, not debt instruments.  This money type fluxes by law, only within its country, and is based on economic targets...in other words it is scientific.  The debt money system is fraud that allows rent seeking; and this rent seeking is now metastasized and become international.  The inventors of this credit system used to be called the "international."  The international do not care about people groups and their sovereignty.

For international trade, there should only be GOODS movement, not movement of Capital  All foreign exchange is only BARTER.  Note that when Keynes tried to implement the Bancor at Bretton Woods, he was thwarted by an "international" tribe member.  Pick up a rock, and you always find the internationals wriggling around under it.

Since exchange between countries is only BARTER and BARTER is Goods, then money should not trade.  Money is not goods, it only buys goods.

International goods exchange should be done with a BANCOR system.  The Bancor is an accounting scheme that marks goods exchange.  Since it relates to goods only, it cannot be easily manipulated.  Goods, especially commodities, don't change much from year to year, and therefore a goods accounting system is stable.  

A sovereign money system so each country can have efficient volume controlled legal money, and also an international exchange system that cannot be contaminated with bear raids, exchange rate manipulation, capital movement, and other rent schemes dreamed up by predators. 

OK, maybe not simple, otherwise it would have been done already.

 

Wake up humans, you are controlled by money and prices.  You are no more than fish, easily manipulated by the water you swim in.  As the world becomes completely monetized (with international credit) your slavery becomes more complete.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 03:01 | 6197101 UrbanBard
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The errors in this cartoon are endless.The writer has no understanding of an economy. Stimulus bills may help individuals but not the country. They do not bring back prosperity.

There are dozens of mistakes and distortions here. For instance, California only deregulated the sell side of electricity while refusing to build new power plants and even shut down a perfectly good nuclear power plant, Rancho Seco nuclear plant south of Sacramento. This caused the price of electricity to fall just when demand was getting tight. Eventually, this caused brownouts and blackouts from lack of supply. The state was forced to buy electricity from out of the state where the politicians weren't so stupid.

You don't need a thousand page Free Trade Bill; a single page would do it. TPP is loaded with benefits for special groups. It would force Carbon Taxes on America and end all legal limits to foreign emigration. That is just in a few pages, there are thousands of gotcha in the rest of the bill. Obama and the corrupt democrat and republican fat cats cannot be trusted.

No new trade legislation until Obama is out of office.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 06:44 | 6197156 Finogen
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I agree with article on:

1. International treaties should NOT override country laws - the less competition among laws of different countries we have, the more totalitarian and less free world we will have

2. "Fast track" and secrecy of TPP is outrageous, it should be grounds for impeachment of the President and all Congress members who support such practices.

3. Thou I sympathize with libertarians a lot, I disagree with them on some issues, including free trade. US should look after its manufacturing/productive base - by installing higher tariffs on imported goods - especially for countries that fix their exchange rates to USD. I agree with the author that arguments by economists on benefits of free trade are too one-dimensional and idealistic.

I DISagree with the article about:

1. Presenting "stimulus" as something that worked fine and should be continued. All it did was taking from productive part of the economy (taxpayers and companies that turn profit) and give it to unproductive one (unprofitable companies and welfare recipients, or politically connected firms/labor unions).

2. Presenting tax cuts as something bad. There are plenty of studies showing that less taxes and more economic freedom lead to more economic growth

3. The author is a dickhaed for portraying Tea Party as lunatics without presenting their side of the argument.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 14:20 | 6197392 asfffasfff
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but capitalism and democracy is not made to protect your interests nor your rights to begin with

 

therefore no explanation is needed

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 10:03 | 6197625 Lugnut
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Conveniently ignores that the stimulus was funded by equally massive debt that was in essence an even larger capital flow to China in the sales of the debt behind it. Typical Keynsian horse-crap.

And as we all know, that debt is the carrying forward of future production at a premium, that our kids and grandkids will have to be obligated to, without realizing the societal benefits of that production. Everything comes at a price.

Mon, 06/15/2015 - 10:11 | 6197655 mantrid
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this comic is idiotic. apparently regulations are good, government stimulus is good

the author fails to mention why the Chineese are cheaper because he would have to conclue that regulations are actually bad

at the end he points out that "after 20 years of free trade our paychacks don't buy more stuff" but fails to mention how Fed dissolved purchasing power with money printing because that would mean stimulus is bad too

he also fials to point out that the Chineese own more and more "worthless capital" i.e. companies that have no profits and close their factories and are indebted to.. the Chineese because then it would become apparent that it is China, not USA, losing the most (giving away iphones for worthless paper)

 

the point about TPP is that it's not about free trade but the opposite: corporate-friendly regulations and frocing parties to automatically accept them.

 

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