Month: November 2013

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTP) Betrayal – Part II

~ admin ~ Leave a comment

BATR  November 27 2013

The other leg to the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. In Part I scrutiny of the TPP proposal indicates that standards of monopoly amalgamation far exceeded efforts to advance actual competitive trade. From the White House Fact Sheet, the aims of the TTIP are:

• Further open EU markets, increasing the $458 billion in goods and private services the United States exported in 2012 to the EU, our largest export market.

• Strengthen rules-based investment to grow the world’s largest investment relationship. The United States and the EU already maintain a total of nearly $3.7 trillion in investment in each other’s economies (as of 2011).

• Eliminate all tariffs on trade.

• Tackle costly “behind the border” non-tariff barriers that impede the flow of goods, including agricultural goods.

• Obtain improved market access on trade in services.

• Significantly reduce the cost of differences in regulations and standards by promoting greater compatibility, transparency, and cooperation, while maintaining our high levels of health, safety, and environmental protection.

• Develop rules, principles, and new modes of cooperation on issues of global concern, including intellectual property and market-based disciplines addressing state-owned enterprises and discriminatory localization barriers to trade.

• Promote the global competitiveness of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Opponents of TTIP echo the same loss of national sovereignty, similar to the reservations with TPP. The IPS-Inter Press Service reports on the concerns and consequences.

Continue reading →

The Hunger Games Are Real: We Are The Districts

~ admin ~ Leave a comment

NationOfChange  November 26 2013

The few rich men who control the Capitol have successfully managed to consolidate the majority of the nation’s wealth into their hands. The Capitol has taken away food stamps from hungry families and given it to their rich benefactors in the form of tax breaks, subsidies, and other forms of corporate welfare. Career politicians are even smashing up the possessions of homeless people with a sledgehammer with impunity, while wearing designer clothes.

These rich men also control the news broadcasted on the Capitol’s airwaves that brainwashes the impoverished masses into believing their suffering is their own fault, that they’re only starving because they don’t know how to work hard, and that those who control all the resources must somehow deserve it because their status makes them more worthy. However, the rich men still aren’t satisfied. They’re already trying to force through a trade deal kept secret from the public that would subvert what remains of democracy and install global corporate rule.

When the poor and oppressed dare to speak out against the injustice of the ruling class, the Capitol’s peacekeeping forces suppress their protests with extraordinary brutality. When the people try to vote out their corrupt leaders in the electoral process, the ruling class simply drowns out the democratic process by dumping truckloads of money into incumbents’ pockets. Meanwhile, the impoverished masses are constantly told to be thankful for their freedom, and are given mindless distractions to keep their minds off of what their real problems are.

I’m not talking about The Hunger Games. I’m talking about our present situation.

Continue reading →

Ben Stein ~ A Bank Would Be ‘Charged With Criminal Fraud’ For Lies Like Obama’s [Video]

~ admin ~ Leave a comment

BizPacReview November 26 2013

(Biz Pac Review) – During a discussion Saturday morning with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, actor and political commentator Ben Stein suggested President Obama should be charged with criminal fraud for the lies he has told.

Stein also said he’s sick of Obama saying he didn’t know what was in “his own most important achievement,” adding that if he did not know “he should not be president.”

“The president lied to us about every aspect of this… I’m getting kind of sick of him saying he didn’t know what was in his own bill. He didn’t know what happened in Benghazi. He didn’t know what happened in the US.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/0buVKp92Mj0&w=500]

If he didn’t know what was in his own signature legislation, his own most important document, his own most important achievement, he should not be president…

If this government were a bank, a large investment bank, it would be charged with criminal fraud for the lies Mr. Obama has told over and over again about this healthcare. Every single ‘scare’ that the Republicans said wasn’t scary enough.”

Sartre ~ Denial, Desperation and Despotism

~ admin ~ Leave a comment

BATR  November 25 2013

With the death of the American Republic, the headstone sums up the epitaph – stuck on stupid. People celebrate a “Politically Correct” mixed-race president as leader for a society of multiracial special interest groups as the maturing of the country. Very few writers describe the ways diverse and culturally conflicting factions clash with traditional values and tested institutions because any serious discussion, automatically presumes to be racist. Such an adolescent and narrow-minded attitude, surrenders to the forces of anti-intellectualism. It is time to liberate the fabricated guilt and face up to the certainty that our nation is a declared SOS zone.Another media induced taboo, if you want to be part of polite society, is to criticize the public for their lack of understanding or backbone. The term sheeple, derogatory in nature, smacks of a countercultural assault on prevailing and acceptable attitudes. The irony is that such current middle-of-the-road viewpoints are wholly contradictions from our moral and principled heritage.

Activist Brandon Smith depicts the situation in his article, You Should Feel Sorry For Sheeple; Here’s Why. “The goal is to give sheeple comfort that they are “normal” and that anyone who steps outside the bounds of the mainstream is “abnormal” and a welcome target for the collective.” He goes on to elaborate the pollution from breathing the rarefied air of the ignorant.

  • Sheeple Are Nothing Without The Collective
  • Sheeple Need Constant Approval From Others
  • Sheeple Are Incapable Of Original Creativity
  • Sheeple Have No Passion
  • Sheeple Are Useless
  • Sheeple Are Easily Forgotten

Continue reading →

This New Awareness Can Feel Depressing

~ admin ~ 1 Comment

DanaMrkich  November 26 2013

I can’t remember the last time the collective energy felt so heavy. An analogy came through a week or so ago that we were being ‘squeezified’ in order to become ‘juicified’, and the suggestion was to focus on the juice when you’re feeling emotionally and energetically squeezed. (that post is on my blog here) Well that suggestion applies a hundred fold today!!

You may feel like the walls are closing in on you – and on the world. Some may even feel like the ‘darkness’ is winning or that all your healing work has been for nothing. Yet really it is just that the ‘darkness’ is becoming more obvious, both within us and outside us – ‘darkness’ in this context is that which we have been unaware of.

Continue reading →