{"id":9100,"date":"2015-06-15T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2015-06-15T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T10:29:11","slug":"how-obamas-trade-deals-are-designed-to-end-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9100","title":{"rendered":"How Obama’s “Trade” Deals Are Designed To End Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Obama’s “Trade” Deals Are Designed To End Democracy<\/a><\/h3>\n

U.S. President Barack Obama has for years been negotiating with European and Asian nations \u2014 but excluding Russia and China, since he is aiming to defeat them in his war to extend the American empire<\/strong>\u00a0(i.e, to extend the global control by America\u2019s aristocracy) \u2014 three international \u2018trade\u2019 deals (TTP, TTIP, & TISA), each one of which contains a section (called\u00a0ISDS<\/a>) that would end important aspects of the sovereignty of each signatory nation, by setting up an international panel composed solely of corporate lawyers to serve as \u2018arbitrators\u2019 deciding cases brought before this panel to hear lawsuits by international corporations accusing a given signatory nation of violating that corporation\u2019s \u2018rights\u2019 by its trying to legislate regulations that are prohibited under the \u2019trade\u2019 agreement, such as by increasing the given nation\u2019s penalties for fraud, or by lowering the amount of a given toxic substance that the nation allows in its foods, or by increasing the percentage of the nation\u2019s energy that comes from renewable sources, or by penalizing corporations for\u00a0hiring people to kill labor union organizers<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 i.e., by any regulatory change that benefits the public at the expense of the given corporations’ profits.\u00a0(No similar and countervailing power for nations to sue international corporations is included in this: the \u2018rights\u2019 of \u2018investors\u2019 \u2014 but really of only the top stockholders in international corporations \u2014 are placed higher than the rights of any signatory nation.)<\/em><\/p>\n

This provision, whose full name is \u201cInvestor State Dispute Resolution\u201d grants a one-sided benefit to the controlling stockholders in international corporations,\u00a0<\/strong>by enabling them to bring these lawsuits to this panel of lawyers, whose careers will consist of their serving international corporations, sometimes as \u2018arbitrators\u2019 in these panels, and sometimes as lawyers who more-overtly represent one or more of those corporations, but also serving these corporations in other capacities, such as via being appointed by them to head a tax-exempt foundation to which international corporations \u2018donate\u2019 and so to turn what would otherwise be PR expenses into corporate tax-deductions. In other words: to be an \u2018arbitrator\u2019 on these panels can produce an extremely lucrative career.<\/p>\n

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How Obama’s “Trade” Deals Are Designed To End Democracy U.S. President Barack Obama has for years been negotiating with European and Asian nations \u2014 but excluding Russia and China, since he is aiming to defeat them in his war to extend the American empire\u00a0(i.e, to extend the global control by America\u2019s aristocracy) \u2014 three international […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[6368,5201,6367,5388,981,584,6172,804,805,5439,1132],"class_list":["post-9100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-arbitration","tag-international-corporations","tag-investor-state-dispute-resolution","tag-isds","tag-multinational-corporations","tag-obama","tag-tisa","tag-tpp","tag-trade","tag-trade-deals","tag-ttip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}