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Corporations Win Again: Senate Passes Obamatrade Fast-Track Bill

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Ten days ago it seemed as if America's corporatism would finally be slowed in its tracks after the House unexpectedly killed the fast-tracking of Obamatrade, aka the fast-tracking of the Trade Promotion Authority. Alas, it was not to last, and moments ago, in a "nailbiting" 60-37 vote, the Senate advanced Obama's fast-track tarde bill.

From the Hill:

The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance President Obama’s trade agenda, approving a measure to end debate on fast-track authority. 

 

The 60-37 motion sets up a vote on final passage on Wednesday. If the Senate approves fast-track or trade promotion authority (TPA), it would then be sent to Obama’s desk to become law. Fast-track authority would allow Obama to send trade deals to Congress for up-or-down votes. The White House wants the authority to conclude negotiations on a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal.

 

Thirteen Democrats backed fast-track in Tuesday’s vote, handing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a major legislative victory.

 

They did so even though the trade package did not include a workers assistance program for people displaced by increased trade. The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program was a part of the last fast-track package approved by the Senate in May, but became a key part of opposition to the package among Democrats in the House.

 

To move fast-track forward, the White House and GOP leaders in both chambers decided to break TAA away from fast-track, and to try to approve both in separate votes.

 

After the Senate votes Wednesday on final passage for fast-track, it will take a procedural vote on a package that includes TAA and trade preferences for African countries known as the African Growth and Opportunity Act.

 

McConnell has promised both bills, as well as a customs and enforcement bill favored by Democrats, will reach Obama’s desk by the end of the week.

 

“If we all keep working together and trusting each other, then by the end of the week the President will have TPA, TAA, and AGOA and Preferences on his desk — with Customs in the process of heading his way too,” he said on the floor.

And since the House has already passed fast-track, and now must only vote on the package including TAA, which faces token opposition from conservatives, expect the TPA and shortly thereafter, the TPP, to be enacted despite yet another round of dramatic theater by the best representatives US corporations can bribe.

Finally, as a reminder, "This Is How Little It Cost Goldman To Bribe America's Senators To Fast Track Obama's TPP Bill"

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Earlier:

Today brings Round 2 in "the most transparent administration ever"'s attempt to pass the incredibly opaque Fast-Track Authority enabling Obama to negotiate the Trans-Pacific-Partnership corporate coup d'etat (and all the other trade deals currently floating around) without fear of irritation from any outsiders. However, it won't be easy-sledding as The Hill reports, labor groups led by the AFL-CIO are furiously lobbying Democrats to oppose fast-track authority when the Senate votes on a procedural motion Tuesday. Union leaders warn enabling Fast-Track prematurely would "compound its expected negative impacts, leaving U.S. workers in the lurch and depriving the U.S. manufacturing sector of vital tools necessary to combat unfair trade."

But once again - after more drama - the corporations win!

  • *U.S. SENATE ADVANCES OBAMA'S FAST-TRACK TRADE LEGISLATION

But, as The Hill reports, Obama may face some trouble ahead

The measure would help Obama negotiate the largest trade deal in history with 11 other countries along the Pacific Rim by limiting interference from Congress.

 

Obama’s trade bill needs 60 votes, and he can afford no more than two Democratic defections who previously backed fast-track. As of Monday evening, he had not yet secured public promises from all the Democrats he needs.

 

Backers of fast-track likely need a dozen Democratic votes because five of the Senate’s Republicans voted against the trade package last month and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is indicating in an op-ed on Breitbart News that he will change his vote from yes to no. Cruz, who is running for president, says he is wary of backroom negotiations, expressing concern that the Export-Import Bank reauthorization will be included in the horsetrading.

 

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The Senate’s vote Tuesday to end debate on fast-track — if it gets 60 backers — will set up a final roll call on the measure later in the day or Wednesday.

 

The chamber would then vote on a package of trade preferences combined with the African Growth and Opportunity Act and TAA. That measure is expected to clear Wednesday or Thursday.

Senate Democratic leaders are not whipping against fast-track, leaving it to unions to do the heavy lifting to defeat it.

The AFL-CIO urged Democrats Monday to vote against fast-track and warned they had no guarantee that TAA will pass the House, where many Republicans oppose it.

 

“Without assurances that TAA will pass the House, or that the customs bill will ever see the president’s desk, considering Fast Track prematurely could compound its expected negative impacts, leaving U.S. workers in the lurch and depriving the U.S. manufacturing sector of vital tools necessary to combat unfair trade,” William Samuel, the union’s director of government affairs, wrote in a letter to senators.

 

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Heritage Action for America urged Republican senators to vote against fast-track Tuesday.

 

The conservative advocacy group argued that passing fast-track would pave the way for later passage of what it called the “ineffective” TAA program, which is paid for with tax penalties.

 

“The new pay for — included in H.R. 1295 which the Senate will also consider this week — increases revenue by raising certain tax penalties.  New spending should not be offset by new revenues,” the group wrote in a legislative alert Monday.

But there are supporters, toe-ing Obama's tyrannical line...

“The trade package currently before the Senate is a blueprint for trade done right,” Wyden said in a statement. “It will make our country stronger by opening new markets to American products and creating new opportunities for good-paying American jobs.”

 

Supporters of fast-track argue that trade supports more than 4.7 million jobs in California.

But we leave it to Ellen Brown to sum up just what this "sentence first, verdict afterwards" bill is really all about... a corporate coup d'etat...

`Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.

`No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’

`Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first!’

`Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple.

`I won’t!’ said Alice.

`Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.

                    — Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

Fast-track authority is being sought in the Senate this week for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), along with the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and any other such trade agreements coming down the pike in the next six years. The terms of the TPP and the TiSA are so secret that drafts of the negotiations are to remain classified for four years or five years, respectively, after the deals have been passed into law. How can laws be enforced against people and governments who are not allowed to know what was negotiated?

The TPP, TiSA and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (or TTIP, which covers Europe) will collectively encompass three-fourths of the world’s GDP; and they ultimately seek to encompass nearly 90 percent of GDP. Despite this enormous global impact, fast-track authority would allow the President to sign the deals before their terms have been made public, and send implementing legislation to Congress that cannot be amended or filibustered and is not subject to the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds treaty vote.

While the deals are being negotiated, lawmakers can see their terms only under the strictest secrecy, and they can be subjected to criminal prosecution for revealing those terms. What we know of them comes only through WikiLeaks. The agreements are being treated as if they were a matter of grave national security, yet they are not about troop movements or military strategy. Something else is obviously going on.

The bizarre, unconstitutional, blatantly illegal nature of this enforced secrecy was highlighted in a May 15th article by Jon Rappoport, titled “What Law Says the Text of the TPP Must Remain Secret?” He wrote:

It seems like a case of mass hypnosis. . . .

 

Members of Congress are scuttling around like weasels, claiming they can’t disclose what’s in this far-reaching, 12-nation trade treaty.

 

They can go into a sealed room and read a draft, but they can’t copy pages, and they can’t tell the public what they just read.

 

Why not?

 

If there is a US law forbidding disclosure, name the law.

 

Can you recall anything in the Constitution that establishes secret treaties?

 

Is there a prior treaty that states the text of all treaties can be hidden from the people?

To Congressmen who say they cannot reveal what is in a treaty that will adversely affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, Rappoport says:

Wrong. You’re lying. You can reveal secret text. In fact, it’s your duty. Otherwise, you’re guilty of cooperating in a RICO criminal conspiracy.

A Corporate Coup d’État

What is going on was predicted by David Korten in his 1995 blockbuster, When Corporations Rule The World. Catherine Austin Fitts calls it a “corporate coup d’état.”

This corporate coup includes the privatization and offshoring of the judicial function delegated to the US court system in the Constitution, through Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions that strengthen existing ISDS  procedures.

As explained in The Economist, ISDS gives foreign firms a special right to apply to a secretive tribunal of highly paid corporate lawyers for compensation whenever the government passes a law to do things that hurt corporate profits — such things as discouraging smoking, protecting the environment or preventing a nuclear catastrophe. Arbitrators are paid $600-700 an hour, giving them little incentive to dismiss cases. The secretive nature of the arbitration process and the lack of any requirement to consider precedent give wide scope for creative judgments – the sort of arbitrary edicts satirized by Lewis Carroll in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

To date, the highest ISDS award has been for $2.3 billion to Occidental Oil Company against the government of Ecuador over its termination of an oil-concession contract, although the termination was apparently legal. Under the TPP, however, even larger and more unpredictable judgments can be anticipated, since the sort of “investment” it protects includes not just “the commitment of capital or other resources” but “the expectation of gain or profit.” That means the rights of corporations extend not merely to their factories and other “capital” but to the profits they expect to receive. Just the threat of a massive damage award for impairing “expected corporate profits” could be enough to discourage prospective legislation by lawmakers.

The Trade in Services Agreement adds additional barriers to proposed legislation.  TiSA involves 51 countries, including every advanced economy except the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The deal would liberalize global trade in services covering close to 80% of the US economy, including financial services, healthcare, education, engineering, telecommunications, and many more. It would restrict how governments can manage their public laws, and it could dismantle and privatize state-owned enterprises, turning those services over to the private sector. It would also block the emerging trend to return privatized services to the public sector, by limiting or prohibiting governments from creating or reestablishing public utilities and other “uncompetitive” forms of service delivery.

It seems that the TPP, TTIP and TiSA are not about the sort of “free trade” that would free local businesses to sell abroad. They are about freeing international corporations from the government regulation necessary to protect the economy, the people, and the environment. They are about preserving privatized monopolies and preventing competition from the public sector. And they are about moving litigation offshore into private arbitrary tribunals – the sort of tribunal that might have lost Alice her head, if she had not awakened from her bizarre dream.

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Source: Cagle

 

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Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:49 | 6225661 MFL8240
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No difference with Republicans and Democrats.  Trump is the only person running that will clean this mess up!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:10 | 6225762 pods
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lol

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:32 | 6225854 MFL8240
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Name someone better pods.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:37 | 6225875 astoriajoe
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I saw a guy sitting on the curb today, with his feet in the street. His shirt was a little dirty, but I think I'd prefer that guy over Trump.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:39 | 6225880 Philo Beddoe
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You fucking ruined it. Bush was too bushy. Clinton was too clitty. 

It is a bit early...but may I introduce that next President of the USA. Mr. Stump. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Tree_stump1_30u06.JPG

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:48 | 6225920 pods
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It doesn't matter who you put there. The system is corrupt.

Like asking which brain surgeon will do best when all they have to use is a butcher knife.

Same reason why "sustainability" is a crock of shit. Our money system requires exponential growth, not sustainability.

pods

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:57 | 6225961 MFL8240
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Its the only sytem we have so you we must try and work within it.  You want to give up that easily?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:21 | 6226038 Ms No
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I am sure somebody said the same thing to Sitting Bull.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:24 | 6226049 pods
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Voting only encouranges them. There are reasons why every dictatorship shows voter turnout numbers sky high. 

Because a vote, any vote, within the system, is a vote FOR that system.

Same reason why they give you those dopey "I voted" stickers. Can it get any more childish than that?

I am working to destroy the system so a just one might be set up for my kids. 

BTW, I would say that voting is more akin to giving up than trying to start a just system.

Trying to find a just outcome within this system is like fucking for virginity.

pods

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:32 | 6226331 Freedom In Your...
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Spot on. Fuck playing a rigged game, find something useful and productive to do with your life and you will find you become a much happier person. You will probably also find that what you end up doing opposes the fascist psychopaths in .gov. Funny how they go hand in hand.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:03 | 6226205 X_Weatherman
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MFL:

 

Rallph Nader

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:13 | 6226008 Oldwood
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Its not "representation" as much as parentage. Taking care of the weak and stupid, even if its not what they want....like a 64oz Big Gulp.

If there has been any recurring theme in government, it is the overt assumption that most of us are too stupid to care for our own interests. They can tell us how very important our each and every vote is, and how crucial it is that we express every perversion of our "identity" while also telling us we are ignorant fools. While I'm in no position to suggest most are not idiots, the ultimate motivation is to force ALL of us into that mold, and to ensure that we behave as idiots so as to further confirm their biases, especially when it yields them great power and wealth. They will endeavor to make sure we are always presented with the worst options to choose from, with the very worst adorned with great enthusiasm and marketing. Transparency requires secrecy and an intelligent and informed population requires our ignorance to the facts. Being so simple we are easily confused with distractions such as facts.

Unions have been suffering significant losses for decades yet they still cling to the same power bases of Democratic politics. Even they believe that continued short term losses will net long term gains, yet find those gains missing. Even after this comes down on their heads, just as illegals did, they will still clamor back to their Democrat "benefactors".

Conservatives and business have been supporting republicans for decades as well, again not for their actions but their promises, only to find any real gains going to the corporations, just as the unions have experienced.

At some point we must recognize the difference between common goals and politically motivated ideologies which seek to only use and abuse their power bases. Most people just want a decent living and a little respect, but instead find themselves rooting for the lesser of evils to only discover they are dominated by....evil.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:39 | 6226108 Max Cynical
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Look over there at that confererate flag while we hastily lube up to fuck you in the azz.

Does treason no longer have have any meaning?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:56 | 6226176 Oldwood
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What is it about economic justice that you don't get?

White on black crime is a national tragedy and obviously a hate crime, whereas black on white crime is not to be condoned but understandable given the centuries of injustice they have dealt with.

People demanding proper identification in order to vote for the fraud of their choice is racist in nature and a deliberate attempt to restrict the voting rights of the historically oppressed, whereas a Black Panther group threatening people at a polling station is not to be condoned, but understandable given the centuries of injustice they have dealt with.

Is it any clearer now?

Its only treason if it denies economic justice. Have you ever wondered why no one is permitted to sue our government, no matter how terribly they act, unless it is in the act of depriving a person of their "human" rights, which has almost explicitly been awarded to minorities. White people have no human rights...or constitutional ones either for that matter. Our rights only extend to the right to do what we are told......if not, we discover we have no other rights.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:36 | 6225590 replaceme
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The union's about to find out they don't have as much weight if this passes, so they're really just begging their boys to remember who got them there, not who's going to get them there next go around.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:37 | 6225594 larz
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This is a complete farce that about covers our corrupted sytem.  I wish there was something effective I could do to fight back  I am sick of this

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:34 | 6225862 Winston Churchill
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Violence is your only option left, sad to say.

The system cannot be changed from within,it was designed that way.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:15 | 6226015 Alvin Fernald
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Might want to quit paying taxes and convince others to do the same. Using violence at this point is confronting the enemy on their home turf.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:26 | 6226063 pods
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Avoid any and all credit. Keep it so the US government has to keep running trillion dollar a year deficits.

It will change.

pods

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:50 | 6226410 Philo Beddoe
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Alvin, 

Correct. Everybody just has to gather their shit out of the sandbox and go home. They...whatever you wanna call em...can crush us like bugs.  Fighting these assholes is like an ant tpicking a fight with the magnifying glass. 

Wed, 06/24/2015 - 22:33 | 6231942 Alvin Fernald
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Philo, yes. If people just quit consenting to the horseshit. That's all it takes.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 15:02 | 6226459 Meat Hammer
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Winston, I'm disappointed in you old chap.  You know as well as most everyone else on ZH that the best way to fight the system is to not be a part of it.

Long going off the grid and leaving the matrix.  It's the only way.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:37 | 6225595 larz
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.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:37 | 6225596 AccreditedEYE
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And they'll still be dumb enough to vote for H. Clinton in next election

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:35 | 6225870 Puncher75
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She won't even be the Dumbocrat nominee.  Wait and see. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:30 | 6226076 BarkingCat
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You are right. She will not. The dems and the new media are campaiging right now to soil her and expose her to the general and ignorant public as the pile of shit that she is.

They do not want her.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 16:33 | 6226900 El Crusty
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They know she is a back stabber who will throw each and every one of them under the bus to further her own lust for power. They also know once she is in any kind of position of power that anyone who disagrees with her or has dirt that could bring her down comes down with a case of the Arkansas Flu™

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:40 | 6225610 silverer
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Obama never cared about the unions in the first place.  Now, it just doesn't matter.  The same thing happened in Russia, when the communist party was coming to power, decades ago.  The government was all for the labor unions, the hooray team, all that crap. The labor unions supported the party, thinking they were securing a special place for themselves.  Once the communist party consolidated power and eliminated political competition (sound familiar?), the labor unions were promptly thrown under the bus.  They ended up just like every other good little communist.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:03 | 6225729 BeansMcGreens
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A better example is Germany during the thirties. Read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer. Made a holiday honouring the Unions one day, very next day shut them down. Once you started working for someone you could never leave for no matter what reason unless the company wanted you gone.

And people wonder how the average German fell for Nazism. Same thing happening everyday right now here in the good old usa.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:22 | 6225818 A Nanny Moose
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"And people wonder how the average German fell for Nazism."

Pewblik Edewkayshin.

 

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:40 | 6225611 youngman
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To say Obama is negociating this on his own is a joke.....this is the system at work.....consultants are working overtime on this...lobbyists too.....this is the dirty hand of politics and when it is made public..we will see who will benefit...

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:45 | 6225643 Freedom In Your...
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exactly. Obama is nothing but a ceremonial signature for this latest bit of fascism. His real masters wouldn't trust him with anything more critical than signing his name.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:44 | 6226128 lakecity55
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....with a GS guy behind him carrying a concealed weapon...just in case he gets cold feet...

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:41 | 6225622 Bill of Rights
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DC a prime example of what a toilet bowel represents.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:44 | 6225638 e_goldstein
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Nope, toilet bowls are at least useful. 

DC, not so much.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:46 | 6225913 Bastiat
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Right: toilets remove waste; DC creates it.  Toilets are also easy to clean up . . .

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:42 | 6225624 One And Only
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Not one of these trade deals have ever helped American workers in HISTORY. This was designed a giant Obozo cock to be shoved up all of our asses. Bend over America and let's lube eachother up because they're really gona fuck us with this thing.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:02 | 6225726 jonytk
Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:44 | 6225635 astoriajoe
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I wonder if I call Paul Ryan's office if he'll personally send me a copy of this agreement now that its been agreed upon.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:45 | 6225647 SERReal1
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I want some of what your smokin'!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:12 | 6225758 astoriajoe
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Is the TPA the same as HR2146? This is a real question.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2146/text

doesn't seem so classified to me, although maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:44 | 6225639 Fun Facts
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The people are now always the losers.

[at the bottom of the ZWO org chart are the plebs]

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:45 | 6225642 Gavrikon
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For about the 10th time this week, I declare that America is FUBAR.  

Of course, I mean White America.  Black, Brown, and Yellow America got nothing to worry about.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:47 | 6225918 Bastiat
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. . .  as long as the spice flows.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:45 | 6225644 SERReal1
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NAFTA 2.0 on steroids. And we saw how well that worked last time.

It will all be good once we read the bill after we pass it. Oh wait....

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:46 | 6225648 Conax
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See that cartoon with the ship?  Replace Obama with Clinton, and the cartoon could be about passage of NAFTA.

The back-stabbing of the American workforce continues.

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:47 | 6225650 BoPeople
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I find it interesting that our government, at all levels, constantly create new laws to subvert the constitution.

One would think that with such an overwhelming majority they would be able to pass an amendment to the constitution to make fast-tracking legal. As it stands, fast-tracking now fits into the category with all of the other unconstitutional laws, such as emergency powers and the NDAA, that have been passed ... just because they can.

No one can rightly claim that the US is a constitutional republic.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:47 | 6225652 Duc888
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Gee, who didn't see this coming.  More good cop / bad cop Repub / Dumo shit show..

 

 

Same as it ever was.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:48 | 6225655 Tsar Pointless
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The political Rght is getting everything it has wanted since the 1980s. So, if this is good for business, I should be for it then.

It's funny listening to Republican candidates bemoan the loss of the middle class, when their party's policies have been destroying the middle class for decades. Along, of course, with some Democrat enablers. All due to a class war that we were told never existed yet was waged and won by the super-wealthy.

"Look, I've cut off my nose to spite my face! Oh, how I yearn for a nose of my own. I wonder how to get mine back?"

Dicks.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:49 | 6225663 reader2010
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Since when those rich cocksuckers have cared about you? What do you expect?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:35 | 6226092 BarkingCat
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They are no cock suckers. We are.

They are the rich cock suckees

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:50 | 6225666 Philo Beddoe
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Really, what is the point of fast tracking and passing bills and shit. Just keep fucking.....nobody notices. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:56 | 6225696 The Steaksmith
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They have to make appear legal. Otherwise, some people, like Corzine might end up in jail. Oh Wait!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:51 | 6225669 Kinskian
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I can't have a lower opinion of government than I already have. They don't even hide the corruption any longer. And they have good reason to fear the Confederate flag because a reaction to this criminality is long overdue.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:51 | 6225670 Everybodys All ...
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It's time to consider burning at a minimum k street and the Washington elite down to the ground. Voting for representative government is simply not working. Consider that within this bill the authority of our nations sovereignty is given to a pacific union of unelected officials. New world order anyone? Never thought I'd see this happen in my lifetime but it has and it's time to respond.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:52 | 6225675 Jugdish
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Next on the list will be the 'american protection act'. Get ready to turn in your guns or face a militarized police hit team. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:53 | 6225678 lehmen_sisters
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We can't vote ourselves out of this mess boys.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:04 | 6225732 jonytk
Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:53 | 6225680 Gunga
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 What recourse do "We the People " have when our elected representatives are so obviously corrupted by corporate fascists ?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:54 | 6226169 Chumly
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How can you say to my soul,
“Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
 

For look! The wicked bend their bow,
They make ready their arrow on the string,
That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart.

If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:55 | 6225686 yogibear
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Best government multinationals can buy.

Move to lower wages and higher prices, impoverishing those 90% in the US.

The media is already owned.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:54 | 6225688 q99x2
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Washington D.C. politicians just put child molesters in charge of the children.

Peru sounds like a  good place to live. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 15:54 | 6226717 gearbaby
Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:54 | 6225691 phoenixdark
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tpp  nafta on steroids.    Since thats been so god for us all.  Thanks Barry, mitch, nancy. John

Brilliant I say. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:55 | 6225692 CompassionateCo...
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Let's face it, the TPP is a good law and you people just oppose it because you're nothing but sick white racists.  Everything President Obama has done and pushed for is good and he should be given the fast track on his entire agenda.  I say this as a conservative.  When I say conservative I mean a Ronald Reagan ban guns, amnesty for the undocumented, support the troops (except for the USS Liberty survivors who are disturbed Nazis), destroy the middle class Conservative.

 

If you are a conservative it's time to get on board.  Let's book some profit on Wall Street!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:59 | 6225712 MFL8240
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Can you share with us 1 item of this bill good for the American people?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:00 | 6225716 Gavrikon
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None of it is!  

Now, let's BOOK THOSE PROFITS!!!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:10 | 6225761 rejected
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Sarcasm at it's best...but sadly most washed Amerikans would believe its gospel. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:50 | 6226150 BarkingCat
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That was about as convincing as Rosie O'Donnel having sex with Lindsey Graham

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:56 | 6225698 corporatewhore
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everyone in congress just delayed until their price was met.

all done. nicely accomplished.

they can now get richer

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:57 | 6225701 world_debt_slave
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by hook or crook, as the Federal Reserve Act was passed in the wee hours of the night, those that have their marching orders will obey their master.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:57 | 6225704 W_T_J
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When in the Course of human Events, it becomes neccessary for one People to disolve the Politcal Bands...

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 15:10 | 6226501 Meat Hammer
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...that was back when both sides had muskets.  Now we'd be facing MRAPS and who knows what else?  Another revolution won't happen.  We are truly fucked.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 03:37 | 6232555 Alvin Fernald
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The brits had the most powerful navy of the time. The rebels won however.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:58 | 6225707 jtg
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This will be worse then NAFTA. The US elites will get rich, the people will get screwed.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:02 | 6225711 Pliskin
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The 37 that voted against it will wake up with a horses head star of David on their pillow in the morning.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 03:38 | 6232558 Alvin Fernald
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lol

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:59 | 6225713 Gavrikon
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And . . . . . it's gone!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:59 | 6225714 BiPolarFrenchman
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At this point...let's just plan to audit the heads.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:04 | 6225728 rejected
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Well Amerikans... what ya gonna do? Just like NAFTA they anal-ized the People again.

Well, Even though it was unconstitutionally ratified, now that "IT'S THE LAW" there will be no more discussion about it. We're LAW abiden don'tcha know and we don't care if the LAW is justified or constitutional. 

We squeal on one another, Perform sexual acts upon one another, terrorize one another, kill one another,, all in the name of security yet we still claim to be the freest country.

We have no yobs, we produce nothing, but fiat, guns and hot air. We own nothing while in debt up to our ears yet we still we claim to be the richest nation.

We complain, scream and holler, yet still bend over and spread the cheeks upon command.

What a sad bunch we have become. What's worse............. no one give a rats ass.

 

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:09 | 6225756 jonytk
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why bother writing, all Tyler post can be commented with a simple:

Well, everybody knows sh^ts f*cked !

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:21 | 6225809 rejected
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Post times two.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:22 | 6225811 rejected
rejected's picture

Agreed.

Most Amerikans are so sad you can't even insult them anymore no matter what kind of cowardly scum you prove them to be.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:41 | 6225861 jonytk
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didn't mean to insult. just the sad reality.

 

( obviously i don't agree with the song about 9/11 but the rest is true, even if it was created by a crazy guy, it's a nice fit for zerohedge's tin-foil-hat people)

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:05 | 6225734 thunderchief
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If there is ever a reason never to vote for the red and blue party it's this pigment of an imagination, that unlike every other president can use the N word to stir up racial hatred, while he serves his white masters on Wall Street better than any modern day Uncle Tom.

There is your hope and change.

Go throw it up in the toilet America.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:05 | 6225737 f16hoser
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Proof we have One Party, not Two. I fucking hate Republicans more than the Democrats. UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE...

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:06 | 6225739 redwater
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Self-righteous "conservatives" thinking they were in a special, magical club.

They were wrong:

 

Due for some Carlin:

https://youtu.be/i5dBZDSSky0?list=RDi5dBZDSSky0

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:08 | 6225740 Mike Masr
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A totally secret trade deal that US citizens were not supposed to read, passed in secret, or rather not talked about on the main stream media. And even now that it is passed the US public still cannot read it. It's still a secret. 

Sounds like democracy to me. NOT!

Sounds like the Soviet Union.  The American version, the USSA !

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:10 | 6225743 Skip
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They couldn't have done it without Boehner whose daughter married a BLACK male from AFREAKA! And Bitch McConnel Senator from KY whose ChiCom wife said when she was Labor Secy under Jorge W Bush: WHITE WORKERS SMELL BAD AND ARE LAZY AND INCOMPETENT.

Well this bill is so bad it reminds me of the 1965 Immigration law which turned America from a 90% White, Christian nation to the sewer you see today.

Do you want to fuck the 2nd Amendment the new Treaty will permit that: Secret Trade Deal Could Contain a Myriad of Gun Restrictions, Ammo Bans!

GOP House Leadership Purges Republicans Who Voted Against Obamatrade—And They’re All Immigration Patriots

Scott Walker another duplicitous MFer:
Obamatrade Passes Republican House–Will Walker Pay The Price?

America not turning brown, yellow and black fast enough for you? Well now you can relax the TPP takes care of that for you and Congress, which I doubt that would anyway, can't stop it:

EPI Identifies Poisonous Immigration Acceleration Ingredients In Trade Agreement

The TPP Managed Trade Deal And The Danger Of Informal Immigration Promises: More Evidence
By Peter Brimelow, former Editor, Forbes Magazine on May 19, 2015

As one guy said:
"Assuming that whites are no longer the majority, and given that some whites will always believe that their race is the root of all evil, it should be clear that whites will have no recourse through the ballot box to redress that grievance. They shouldn't place too much hope in the courts either, packed with appointees from Obama and others who believe that anti-white bigotry should be government policy.

And given that these same whites who must sit at the back of the bus when it comes to education and employment, are probably also being taxed at combined federal, state and local rates that well exceed 50%, their condition will be worse than mere second class citizenship. Their condition will be the moral equivalent of sharecropping. If whites do not behave very, very badly in response to such a situation, they will have tacitly consented to slavery in the country their ancestors made great."

And another guy:
“They altered the national demography and introduced us to integration, busing, Affirmative Action, minority quotas, sensitivity training, Black History and—the Holocaust. They gave us permissiveness, drugs, MTV and teen suicide. They gave us safe sex and unsafe streets and gun control. They gave us rock ‘n roll and rape-counseling centers. They gave us ‘alternative lifestyles,’ sodomy, AIDS, filth, perversion, chaos, crime, corruption, dumbing down and insanity of every kind.”

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:07 | 6225746 GoldenDonuts
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Why in the world would you want to be the guy that officially brought third world poverty conditions to the majority of Americans?   How much money do these guys need?  The world that my father fought for in WW2 is gone.  It is being replaced by the losers vision of the world.

Skum always rises to the top I guess.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:15 | 6225781 Tsar Pointless
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You know the greatest irony that has befallen the "greatest" generation? They thought they were fighting to put an end to national socialism and fascism, but what they were really doing was helping to make the world SAFER for these political movements.

Hell, fascism was deeply popular with the elitist Republican crowd of the 1930s and 1940s. To say that they would want to quash such movements around the world would be folly. WWII merely advanced the bankster-gangster grip on the world, via their partners-in-crime, Big Business.

That's fascism, my friends, and it's been an American tradition for far longer than you can even imagine.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:11 | 6225767 Badsamm
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And I was just about to call the Greek people idiots.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:12 | 6225768 Grouchy Marx
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Boehner deserves jail. For life.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:14 | 6225777 cheech_wizard
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No, he deserves a gibbet cage.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:40 | 6225887 e_goldstein
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3 pears of anguish. One for his mouth, one for his ass, and the third for his cunt.

http://www.medievality.com/pear-of-anguish.html

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:15 | 6225786 falconflight
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Jail?  Beohner is the House nigger, McConnell is the responsible cadaver of the Senator Lords.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:15 | 6225788 siklidkid
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donations lol

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:15 | 6225789 cherry picker
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If Americans are genuinely upset, there is a way to overcome this without voting.

Every corporation which signs on to this...don't do business with them.  No corporation is worth anything without customers and they can die very quickly if people desire.

Look at some of the big names that met their fate in the last ten years.

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:27 | 6225835 rejected
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Yea,,, just like we did with the junk from China!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:07 | 6226220 Jethro
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Soap Box---Tried it, they won't listen
Ballot Box----Tried, my vote doesn't matter. My elected politician won't listen to me because I'm not a corporation or a SuperPAC bundler, and can't offer him a job as a Lobbyist.
Ammo Box---just waiting for the shit show to kick off.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:18 | 6225800 Skip
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One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population. Grandpa shot Germans 70 years ago for this America?

The GOP, under the deranged leadership of open borders pimps, cheap labor enablers, and globalists, directed by the J-Tribe have FUCKED the founding people of this nation.

The Greatest Generation bought the propaganda hook, line, and sinker, the result is all around you.

They were the best team on the scene but they are gone thanks to the GG and the propagandists who led them by the nose, the J-Tribe.

The Good Society

I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to discuss with you a few ideas, which I hope will prove both stimulating and challenging.

This morning I would like to talk about the good society. More specifically, I would like to discuss the economic and social aspects of a good society.

What should these be? What are the signs of such a society? Let's take a look.

• Among other things in such a society, we would want a stable and prosperous economy, one with full employment and living wages.

•We would want affordable housing, whether in the purchasing or renting of a home.

•We would want a system of health care accessible to everyone, regardless of economic circumstance.

•We would want generous provision for disability, maternity leave and retirement.

•We would want free access to college education and vocational training for any qualified applicant.

•We would want a healthy farming community, one which favors small family farms over large agribusiness conglomerates.

•We would want the kind of public safety where one didn't have to live in gated communities to feel secure, and where one could walk down the street of any city at any time, day or night—without fear of being mugged, assaulted, or worse.

•We would want rigorous protection of the environment under a regime that is more concerned about the condition of our forests, our earth, our air and our waters than about corporate profit and pollution.

These are some of the things we would want—for every citizen of our good society.

Today we have none of these things. Why? Do these expectations of a good society sound unreasonable, or utopian?

I say to you that they are not—as is proven by the fact that there once was a society which had all of these things and more.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:18 | 6225802 Jack Daniels Esq
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Time to hang all 535 Morons + ICiC for treason, fraud

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:19 | 6225803 p00k1e
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I knew Boehner would save us.  Hooray!  Saved.    

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:40 | 6225884 JR
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Of all the conservatives who voted against the trade bill and Fast Track, Boehner has been systematically, one-by –one, removing them from their committee posts. We are nearing the confrontation between Americans and their despotic leaders. And the almost hour-by-hour flaunting of power - from pulling Hamilton from the $10 bill to punishing legitimate freedom of speech and opposition in the Congress - shows the hour is near.

Obviously, McConnell and Boehner do not represent their constituents nor their fellow Americans; they are paid puppets of the banking cartel…and everybody knows it.

Americans now are on notice: Stop these thieves and tyrants now. And, in my opinion, the trade bill turns on the war.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:02 | 6225981 Skip
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Well JR there is a reason .gov has been buying BILLIONS of rounds of ammo while at the same time pushing draconian gun laws for US. The Bolsheviks are nearing their time of TOTAL POWER.

THEY want American Whites DISARMED so that THEY can do to Whites what they did to the Czar and his family and TWENTY MILLION White Russians according to Khrushchev. These are BOLSHEVIKS in power in the USSA.

I think it behooves each and every single one of us, AND OUR FAMILIES, to join the NRA.

http://www.nrahq.org/

Because the Bolsheviks are prepared to do their WORST and believe me, that is TOO TERRIBLE to contemplate.
Americans never give up your guns By Stanislav Mishin

Resolve all over again that any amount of effort on "our" part at this point in history, "beats the alternatives". The only conceivable "alternative" is, of course to simply submit (it has been "planned that way") to a course of inaction that will culminate in your butchery and the butchery of your loved ones, at the hands of the bolshevik beast.
Richard Cotten, JUNE 1966, Conservative Viewpoint

Whites Face a Government Working Against Their Interests and Their Children’s

Whites face a government that is explicitly working against their interests, the economic prospects of their children, and democratic processes they have spent more than 200 years defending.

Peter Morici is an economist and business professor at the University of Maryland, and a national columnist. He tweets @pmorici1.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:34 | 6226090 JR
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Thanks for the strong words, Skip. We need them. And to the question some may ask regarding the Bolshevik methods: Were you there?, Solzhenitsyn would answer, ‘Yes’:

“You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the ‘Russian Revolution.’ It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Nobel-Prize-winning novelist, historian and critic of Communist totalitarianism

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:09 | 6226236 Skip
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JR thanks for that quote. I think he was a GREAT MAN. And his most important work has NEVER been FOR SALE or PUBLISHED or TRANSLATED into English. Odd don't you think?

https://200yearstogether.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/chapter-4-in-the-age-o...
Chapter 4. In the Age of Reforms

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:19 | 6225805 kchrisc
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Got emails from friends and family asking, "How did you know?"

Just like with Obamacare:
See, the first round is the "bidding round," with the various pols making their prices known.
Zion then get their bids together, and round two goes just swell for all involved.

And just more proof that CIA-Obama is a neocon manchurian candidate for Zion.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

My guillotine is fast-track as well..

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:20 | 6225807 windcatcher
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Hail! Caesar Augustus Obama our new Emperor for life!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:21 | 6225812 shankster
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20 reasons why the USA is no longer a sovereign nation... http://www.prepsite.org/2015/06/20-reasons-why-usa-is-no-longer.html?spr...

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:21 | 6225814 the grateful un...
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i just hope they can decide who they want for president without crashing the stock market again.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:04 | 6226209 PTR
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1) who's getting the ridicule and critcism? Hillary.  Jeb? Nope.

2) Of the aforementioned individuals, did Hillary get invited to Bilderberg 2015?  Not that I read.  (Jeb did.)

 

Therefore, A plus B equals OHMYGOD!!!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:38 | 6226363 Ms No
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The Bilderbergs will have a second event in July that Hellery may be able to catch at the "Bohemian Grove".  Although I wouldn't be surprised if they don't like her either.  This is what Wikipedia has to say about Bohemian membership: 

 "but modern club membership lists are private. Some prominent figures have been given honorary membership, such as Richard Nixon and William Randolph Hearst. Members have included some U.S. presidents (usually before they are elected to office), many cabinet officials, and CEOs of large corporations, including major financial institutions. Major military contractors, oil companies, banks (including the Federal Reserve), utilities, and national media have high-ranking officials as club members or guests. Many members are, or have been, on the board of directors of several of these corporations"....."Every year the club hosts a two-week-long (three weekends) camp at Bohemian Grove, which is notable for its illustrious guest list and its eclectic Cremation of Care ceremony which mockingly burns "Care" "

The Cremation of care video has been leaked all over the internet it is a "mock" child sacrifice.

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:22 | 6225817 DontFollowMyAdv...
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on the bright side, we now have a clear guide as to where to throw our worthless fiat at in the stock casino 'til the fleeced goto war with the Oligarchs.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:28 | 6225823 farflungstar
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Imagine if it were a Republican president trying to push a secretive trade deal like this through, the cries of outrage across the media spectrum would be deafening. Kongress is a proven disease and should be frog-marched into a giant meatgrinder, followed by the corporate media fuckholes.

And this President - a real Titsoona Mangina if there ever was one -  is all kinds of asshole I wouldn't have believed possible back in '09. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:10 | 6226003 Ms No
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That division is exactly how they pulled this off.  As much as many of us disagree with unions we probably should have stood with them for this.  Divide and conquer is the #1 rule of war for a reason. At this rate we will probably end up dying next to them anyway.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 17:14 | 6227069 Anunnaki
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Barack Obama the TrojanHorse President

Called a Progressive but governs as a republican

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:23 | 6225824 Volkodav
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race to the bottom

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:40 | 6225825 Ajax_USB_Port_R...
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We now have a one-party system of government. No longer a need for presidential elections.

This bill should help the Chinese stock market.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:23 | 6225826 GoldenDonuts
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Gotta love the American political system.  On the right you have the fascists who will take whatever they can get from big corps to sell out their electorate and on the left you have the fascists who will take whatever they can get from big corps and sell their electorate.

The world is populated by tools and fools.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:24 | 6225827 JR
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It’s all got to come down. Americans can’t have this. it turns out there’s no difference between McConnell and Obama; it’s the final proof that Washington has only one political party and that’s the one owned by the international bankers.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:47 | 6226138 Skip
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The Tribe has Whitey on the run and they giggle themselves silly every time a White loses a right, job, property or family member.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:25 | 6225830 detached.amusement
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I dont understand how all of these blatantly unconstitutional things can be done, they get told you dont have the authority and they go no, no, we do....and that's...pretty much the end of the discussion???

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:41 | 6225889 p00k1e
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Mmmm....  You sound like an abused wife.   

No offense.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:20 | 6226027 newworldorder
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The collective WE keep electing the same people that lie to us, in our individual districts and states. We are the battered victims of domestic violence, that keep asking for more by not leaving or kicking our abusers out of our house.

That is as close as I can come to answering your question.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:34 | 6225852 roadhazard
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I saw some woman say yesterday that India has 1.2 billion potential customers for cars. A billion of them would like an extra pair of shoes. Those people that the US is making deals with can't afford anything. Who ever thought that having American workers work for less to even the playing field are mentally retarded. How long has it been since NAFTA and Mexico is still the same Mexico it was. Those trucks built in Mexico never came down in price because of the cheap, no insurance costs labor. If you think Pharmaceuticals are expensive now just wait. I only heard about that rip off one time in all this time.

Time to burn one.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:03 | 6225986 Ms No
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The legal analysis of this classified bill and it's contents is still yet to come.  For all we know big pharma may need test subjects for their new vaccine and not providing them with said test subjects may interfere with their profits, this battle would of course be fought in their court system.  We are owned.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:34 | 6225863 Theremustbeanot...
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Is it time to get the pitchforks ready? 

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:00 | 6226192 PTR
PTR's picture

Too late. They were banned.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:32 | 6226332 X_Weatherman
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It is time to buy a side arm, a high capacity semi- automatic rifle, and a long range hunting rifle and practice frequently and the range for the next opportunity to go hunting.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 15:13 | 6226519 _SILENCER
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It is certainly time to enact the Ruling Elite Must Be Horizontilized Program

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:34 | 6225866 r101958
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 I, for one, would like to know why a 'trade law' requires so much secrecy. The only answer I can come up with is that it contains something(s) that would be unacceptable to the majority of the public. There is no real legitimate reason for not allowing public debate. Are people really so distracted and apathetic that they no longer care? Or are they just ignorant? Never mind, answers; yes, yes and yes. Unbelievable!!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:59 | 6225972 Comte d'herblay
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Correct except that last word.  Totally credulous.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:00 | 6226185 Skip
Skip's picture

You need to understand that the average American DOESN'T read ZH, if they read ZH they would be INFORMED. Instead they get ALL their information from sources that J-Tribe controls, they select what "news" they will feed the masses and what information they will WITHHOLD from the masses. That is how they talked Whites out of their own nation, America.

They talked the Afrikaners out of their own nation South Africa, they changed the "White Australia" policy the same way. MASS MEDIA in the hands of one's MORTAL ENEMY is not a good thing as our "friends" in the J-Tribe say:
ENJOY!

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:35 | 6225869 p00k1e
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Nobody is marching.  This is a good trade deal for we Americans.

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:41 | 6225890 Theremustbeanot...
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Which Americans?  The real ones that have to work for a living or the fake globalists who play with their money?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:44 | 6225899 dontgoforit
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So secret they couldn't even leave the room with notes.....yeah....this is gonna be good....

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:44 | 6225905 Loose Caboose
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I had a dream.  I dreamt that all the awakened ones banned together via a website and online forum and founded their own corporation. People Inc. Together, resources pooled, energies combined, they became the greatest and richest corporation on the face of the earth.  They took advantage of the TPP and sued every country to get their rights back.  But ... it was just a dream.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:57 | 6225959 Ms No
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Great dream, unfortunately too late.  There are no fair platforms of justice left to sue them in. 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:48 | 6225921 American Sucker
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Fortunately, the TPP isn't law yet.  This is "fast-track" authority, which means that the TPP will go to Congress for an up-or-down vote.  That is, Congress will not add or remove provisions from the TPP before voting on it.  Once the TPP is presented to Congress, there's a chance to block it from becoming law.  Of course, that requires not just a cross-ideology mass movement but a Congress that fears it.  Good luck to all of us with that.

I'm still a bit baffled why the House gets a vote at all, since the Constitution gives only the Senate the power to "advise and consent" to treaties.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:58 | 6225964 Comte d'herblay
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u r catching on to the nuances that effectively destroy the vote and the notion of a democratic republic.  

Follow the money...

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:36 | 6226350 X_Weatherman
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Yes, and treaties are supposed to be passed only by 2/3, not a majority, of the Senate.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:53 | 6225939 Ajax_USB_Port_R...
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Could John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have recently developed an interest in bitcoins?

Some say bitcoins are a safe, secure, private, means of transferring funds.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:53 | 6225941 Ms No
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This is the most terrifying article I have ever read. The implications of this are so far reaching it's hard to even comprehend.

"This corporate coup includes the privatization and offshoring of the judicial function delegated to the US court system in the Constitution"

"The terms of the TPP and the TiSA are so secret that drafts of the negotiations are to remain classified for four years or five years"

Well, at least they gave us a timeline.... less than 5 years.  There should be about 5 million hitting the streets with pitchforks right now but I guess we will have to wait until they really feel the pinch.

RIP America.

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:24 | 6226056 JR
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This is what open access to the currency that the Fed and Treasury have provided to a select group of financiers has wrought.  Internet headlines this morning say, “The Corporations Win,” but that’s not really true because the corporations work for someone. And that someone is the owners of the NY Federal Reserve Bank. For all major corporations now owe their financing to the Federal Reserve. And their loyalty to the system is continuous and complete.

Rule By The Corporations
TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act

Paul Craig Roberts – June 1, 201

Excerpts:

…This fraud on the Constitution and the people is covered up by calling trade laws “treaties.

What the “partnerships” do is to make private corporations immune to the laws of sovereign countries on the grounds that laws of countries adversely impact corporate profits and constitute “restraint of trade.”

i.e., …Countries that do not provide monopoly protection for brand name pharmaceuticals and chemical products, and allow generics in their place, can be sued for damages by corporation.

… Obama himself has no input into the process. Here is what is going on: The Trade Representative is a corporate stooge. He serves the private corporations and will go on to a million dollar annual salary.... When these “partnerships” pass, no country that signed will have any legislative authority to legislate or enforce any law that any corporation regards as inimical to its bottom line.

...How does it work, this “freedom and democracy” that we Americans allegedly have, when neither the people nor their elected representatives are permitted to participate in the making of laws that enable private corporations to negate the law-making functions of governments and place corporate profit above the general welfare?

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/06/01/rule-corporations-paul-craig-roberts-3/

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:56 | 6225955 Comte d'herblay
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"...yada....Ten days ago it seemed as if America's corporatism would finally be slowed in its tracks....yada"

 

If you actually believed this statement U should abdicate, since you don't know Jackschitt.

 

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 12:58 | 6225963 Rockatanski
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so does this mean we have to wait LONGER before TSHTF?

 

 

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 14:21 | 6226286 Oh regional Indian
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If a bear shat in the Vatican, would the pope get a woody?

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:00 | 6225973 SillyWabbits
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Trade Pacts are ways around Financial Regulations. (Current and proposed)

Trade Pacts are a way to keep the dollar ahead of the BRICS.

Israel depends upon the US Dollar maintaining its position in the world.

Trade Pacts directly impact Israel. (See all above)

The BRICS are less predisposed towards Zionism than the US Dollar dominated nations.

Israel’s power comes from its dominance of the USA and EU financial and political systems.  Without the USA specifically, Israel is deep trouble.

Until Congress views Israel as a sovereign state and not a special needs child, expect the erosion of the US Economy in the interest of international, ambitions to continue unabated.

Tue, 06/23/2015 - 13:04 | 6225987 Bastiat
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Flags at halfmast; play "Taps"

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