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Global Corporatocracy’s Unborn Baby Just Got A Lot Bigger
Global Corporatocracy’s Unborn Baby Just Got A Lot Bigger The Trans-Pacific Partnership is not yet fully alive: the agreement has been signed but still needs to be ratified by the governments of its signatory nations. Nonetheless, the corporatocracy’s unborn baby is growing at a startling rate. Last week, the agreement boasted a grand total of 12 […]
Current trade treaties: “a revolution against law”
Current trade treaties: “a revolution against law” A respected human-rights expert at the United Nations, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, has joined the global movement opposing trade treaties like TPP and TTIP. And he has novel and powerful legal arguments. In international law, de Zayas says, there is a hierarchy of agreements, and at the top is […]
And Now Trucking Is Suddenly Slowing Down
And Now Trucking Is Suddenly Slowing Down This comes at the totally wrong time. Trucking had been booming. 2014 had been a banner year. Capacity was squeezed, and rates were rising, so trucking companies went on a buying binge, ordering everything in the book in preparation for red-hot demand in 2015 and more banner years […]
America Waiting to Explode: “If Supply Lines Go Down… Millions of FDA-Approved Drug Addicts Go Psycho”
America Waiting to Explode: “If Supply Lines Go Down… Millions of FDA-Approved Drug Addicts Go Psycho” How bad can things get? Preppers know the scenarios – any major crisis from economic breakdown, to civil unrest and riots, an EMP, natural disaster or plain out martial law can bring things to a halt with shocking quickness. […]
Twenty-First-Century Fascism
Twenty-First-Century Fascism Globalization of trade and central banking has propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The financial center of global […]
Europe Secretly Starts Imposing TTIP Despite the Public’s Overwhelming Opposition
Europe Secretly Starts Imposing TTIP Despite the Public’s Overwhelming Opposition The terms of Obama’s proposed TPP ‘trade’ treaty with Asian countries won’t be made public until the treaty has already been in force for at least four years. The terms of Obama’s proposed TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) with 52 nations won’t be made public until […]
Aristocracy aren’t Satisfied; They Demand More
Aristocracy aren’t Satisfied; They Demand More A new analysis of the Obama-proposed TTIP ‘trade’ treaty, which the U.S. would have with Europe, finds that it was initiated and shaped by large international corporations, which will, also according to the only independent economic analysis that has thus far been done of TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), be […]
Trade Deals vs. ‘Core Community Values’
Trade Deals vs. ‘Core Community Values’ How a federal ‘no’ to Nova Scotia mine got whacked by NAFTA’s tribunal. Canada lost a big chunk of its sovereignty as well as its right to protect local communities from bad developments earlier this year in a little reported NAFTA tribunal decision. Furthermore the appalling ruling has major […]
No More ‘Free Trade’ Treaties: It’s Time For Genuine Free Trade
No More ‘Free Trade’ Treaties: It’s Time For Genuine Free Trade This article, by Ferghane Azihari and Louis Rouanet, originated here: https://mises.org/library/no-more-free-trade-treaties-its-time-genuine-free-trade It is erroneous to believe that free traders have been historically in favor of free trade agreements between governments. Paradoxically, the opposite is true. Curiously, many laissez-faire advocates fall into the government-made trap by supporting […]
Overcapacity “will be even greater than in 2009.”
Overcapacity “will be even greater than in 2009.” “I would be open to the possibility” of reducing the fed funds rate “even further” and go negative, explained Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota on Thursday. Some folks just don’t get it. Here are the results of seven years of global QE and zero-interest-rate policies: Global demand […]
Did the European Court of Justice Just Torpedo the Mother of All US Trade Agreements?
Did the European Court of Justice Just Torpedo the Mother of All US Trade Agreements? Europe’s already rocky trading relationship with the U.S. just got a whole lot worse. Thanks to one young man’s battle against one of the world’s biggest tech companies, data traffic underpinning the world’s largest trading relationship has been thrown into […]
This is How the Trade Pact Escalates the Currency War
This is How the Trade Pact Escalates the Currency War When negotiators from 12 nations and hundreds of lobbyists from around the world, after years of horse-trading, agreed on a “trade deal” on Monday – a deal that remains secret except for the sections that have been leaked – President Obama gushed that it “reflects […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy We have just witnessed one of the most significant steps toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen. Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been completed, and if approved it will create the largest trading bloc […]
The Beginners Guide To Selecting, Stockpiling And Defending A Survival Retreat Part Two
The Beginners Guide To Selecting, Stockpiling And Defending A Survival Retreat Part Two …read part one here… Once you have your retreat purchased you can begin the serious work of getting it ready to receive you and your hand-picked group. Everyone needs a place to live, sleep, eat and relax. All members of your group will need […]
The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade
The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems. You will hear […]
