Wouldn’t it make sense to vote on this prior to their Month Long Vacation……. it may even put people to work so they can support their families. Why is it if it benefits the working class, you have to practically move mountains in order for anything to take place????
Call me crazy for failing to assume that a trade deal with Russia will benefit the working class. Somehow I suspect the opposite is really true and that the deal would benefit a small sliver of the investment class at the expense of open competition.
We get an opportunity to export American ideas into the Russian markets, Russia probably is the one that gets a jobs boost, and Russia’s “price” is agreeing to force through a bunch of consumer-adverse intellectual property mumbo-jumbo from the ex-RIAA/MPAA Justice dept lawyers that they will in turn use as justification for crushing freedom of speech online in their own empire.
Don’t believe me? Look at what just happened in the Ukraine (which of course recently turned into a virtual Soviet state following a contested election): a week long DDOS and malware attack against a website that tops the list of US bureaucrat lawyers’ “hit list” was followed by a Ukranian police raid on the data center hosting the site. The action was described as a Russian “gift” to the United States to commemorate the minister’s current (and first) visit to the U.S. The topic up for discussion during this visit? A global legal framework for intellectual property and the potential vehicles which might be used to force its implementation against robust and extremely vocal public and private opposition (ACTA, the TPP, this WTO trade deal etc).
So you can all rest easy knowing that while the country literally crumbles around us we have a government full of lobbyist attorneys dancing around the revolving door working hard to ensure that our utterly broken legal system is exported around the globe and installed in a way which will be nearly impossible to excise once the public wisens up to the con.
Wouldn’t it make sense to vote on this prior to their Month Long Vacation……. it may even put people to work so they can support their families. Why is it if it benefits the working class, you have to practically move mountains in order for anything to take place????
Call me crazy for failing to assume that a trade deal with Russia will benefit the working class. Somehow I suspect the opposite is really true and that the deal would benefit a small sliver of the investment class at the expense of open competition.
We get an opportunity to export American ideas into the Russian markets, Russia probably is the one that gets a jobs boost, and Russia’s “price” is agreeing to force through a bunch of consumer-adverse intellectual property mumbo-jumbo from the ex-RIAA/MPAA Justice dept lawyers that they will in turn use as justification for crushing freedom of speech online in their own empire.
Don’t believe me? Look at what just happened in the Ukraine (which of course recently turned into a virtual Soviet state following a contested election): a week long DDOS and malware attack against a website that tops the list of US bureaucrat lawyers’ “hit list” was followed by a Ukranian police raid on the data center hosting the site. The action was described as a Russian “gift” to the United States to commemorate the minister’s current (and first) visit to the U.S. The topic up for discussion during this visit? A global legal framework for intellectual property and the potential vehicles which might be used to force its implementation against robust and extremely vocal public and private opposition (ACTA, the TPP, this WTO trade deal etc).
So you can all rest easy knowing that while the country literally crumbles around us we have a government full of lobbyist attorneys dancing around the revolving door working hard to ensure that our utterly broken legal system is exported around the globe and installed in a way which will be nearly impossible to excise once the public wisens up to the con.