Obama's EU Trade Deal Would Include New Political Powers For Corporations

[scubadude]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is pursuing a free trade agreement with the European Union that would grant corporations new political power to challenge an array of regulations both at home and abroad, according to an administration official involved in the negotiations.

While the plan is still in its early stages, the effort alarms consumer and environmental advocates who worry it will lead to a rollback of important rules and put multinational companies on the same political plain as sovereign nations.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/eu-trade-deal_n_2994410.html

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1. BushInc's fascist agenda for NWO is rolling along.

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[pampango]

14. "Prior to the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two American countercultures"

primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily fundamentalist Christians concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist. Skeptics, such as Michael Barkun and Chip Berlet, have observed that right-wing populist conspiracy theories about a New World Order have now not only been embraced by many seekers of stigmatized knowledge but have seeped into popular culture...

As a conspiracy theory, the term New World Order or NWO refers to the emergence of a totalitarian one-world government.

The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government—which replaces sovereign nation-states—and an all-encompassing propaganda that ideologizes its establishment as the culmination of history's progress. Significant occurrences in politics and finance are speculated to be orchestrated by an unduly influential cabal operating through many front organizations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_%28conspiracy_theory%29

Today the populist right wing base - like the Texas GOP cited below - is still paranoid about the NWO and views the UN as an early form of One World Government. They want the US to withdraw from the UN (and practically every other international organization that limits what they see as the US' 'sovereign' right to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, to whomever it wants).

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16. RW view always gets media attention. Those who see a world being conditioned to accept

the rule of corporate empires over every aspect of our lives rarely receive notice.

Many of us on the left hoisted the Gadsden Flag (appropriately) to protest Bush's invasion of Iraq. No media would report it, though we flew that flag for years. When far fewer TeaPartiers used the Gadsden flag wrongly for their protests the corporate media GAVE it to them as their symbol.

A little discernment goes a long way, pampango.

[NCarolinawoman]

2. Sounds like Romneyism.

Now tell me again, who we elected?

[progressoid]

3. Now, now, now,

It's too early to tell.

These are just rumors.

Huffpo...nuff said.

It's a start. We can fix it later.

Politics are complicated.

Would you rather have President Palin?



Did I miss any?

[forestpath]

5. How about....

you always hated him anyway!

[scubadude]

9. Voted for him, loved him, posted video on DU I personally recorded of his win speech in Grant Park..

Yet it is still important to note how the Democratic party's thinking has moved rightward in the last 40 or so years. We must be vigilant and when our party lets us down it is our duty to speak up...

Scuba

[forestpath]

10. Maybe I should have put a sarcasm tag on my post?

Because I am thoroughly disgusted with the Democratic party's rightward move and am very vocal about it.

[scubadude]

24. Could be....

Sometimes meaning is lost on the internet. Sorry!

[progressoid]

15. Yep!

And how could I forget...

somebody didn't get their pony

[bvar22]

20. *Its ALL Joe Lieberman's fault

*We don't have 60 votes

*He has to be President of ALL the people.

*Its only been 4 years.

*Compromise is pragmatic and sensible.

*This is brilliant Chess.

*The President has access to more information than we have.
We should all just trust him.

*Its a step in the right direction.

*Sigh. More Right Wing Bullshit.

*I can't Hear You Lalalalalalalalalalalala.

*Don't you ever post anything positive?

*You should have listened closer during the campaign.
He has kept EVERY single promise.

*Have you seen The LIST???!!

*Awww. You didn't get your pony!

[markpkessinger]

22. You missed . . .

He'll be free to do much more in his next term. Oh, wait . . .

[forestpath]

4. One nation under corporations. Looks like Obama wants to outsource the whole country.

[msongs]

6. first obama went bush, now he is going all romney. the worshippers must be in heaven lol nt

[Dryvinwhileblind]

7. EU, and TPP trade "deals"...

...hope and change reads as........ set and match. "Calling all subjects of the NWO, and ships at sea, WE have assumed control...repeat...WE have assumed control...that is all".

[lovuian]

8. this is so wrong

Is this what the EU was about to let corporations bypass regulation

Capitalism needs regulation

[Gin]

11. USA Inc.

[IDemo]

12. I'm sure someone very sensible® will set DU'ers straight

It's early yet...nothing is set in stone...ponies haven't been specifically ruled out...

[frylock]

18. yep. i'm witholding judgement until the Very Sensible People come along..

and tell me what I should think about this.

[bvar22]

21. Yes. Sense is important.

We should ALL be Pro-Sense!



[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
[center][/font]
[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Beautiful capstone to a devastatingly on-the-mark subthread

embedded in a dismaying thread.

[mckara]

13. Selling Out is Always Ugly

I'm very disappointed!

[apnu]

17. But wait! I thought he was a Communist Islamic Fascist who hates America and Corporations! (nt)

[BelgianMadCow]

19. Key information, thanks for posting! Karel De Gucht is in the drivers' seat on the EU side

he's from Belgium and a hardcore neoliberal.

He had a press release parroted in our mainstream m€dia about how the deal would liberalize services and government contracts, which was sure to draw fire from "the usual powerful interests" (ignoring the fact he is bought and paid for by VERY powerful special interests).

And then this state-investor resolution process, by which a company can sue a state at some institution like the World Bank over regulation it doesn't like. This is completely nuts. I'm gonna start spreading the word here, this can't pass.

[moondust]

25. Unaccountable power, the American Way!

Let the markets decide!