www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/13-1

Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, wants cheaper chicken wings, rumps and other assorted poultry parts.

Ocean Spray wants an easing of pesticide regulations.

DuPont wants greater protection of trade secrets.

Negotiations have barely begun for a potentially sweeping trade pact between the United States and Europe. But the lobbying is already well under way by corporations on both sides of the Atlantic. And the sometimes parochial nature of their demands is sure to further complicate the trade talks, which no one expects to proceed quickly or smoothly, given the geopolitics involved.


www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/world/europe/...&pagewanted=all&_r=0

To be fair, he was telling he truth, he just meant that he'd renegotiate it by extending it.

Hey I had an idea. Bear with me....

What if...
We got rid of all silly ideas of sovereignty and removed all the borders, leaving just one? Space.
It'd be great. All barriers to selling our stuff....gone. All obstructions to taking stuff from the Earth...gone.
We could get rid of all the competition and have just one giant company that could do the lot. Think how much more efficient it'd be.
We could make sure that all the different cultures played by the same rules. Our rules. Essentially we could have one giant Earth culture. Well, sort of. Obviously quite a few folk wouldn't be able to afford the same stuff we can and do the same stuff. It's a price worth paying though.

knobmeup wrote:
If Brand fails to lead us to the promised utopian land of anarchist hospitals I'd settle for this scenario. At least the whole globe's ire would be pointed in the same direction!

knobmeup wrote:
Sorry to shit on your dream, but what are you going to do about this ? Where are these people going to go I would suggest you watch the first 5 mins at least In fact the whole video is worth a watch to see what happens to " General Butt Naked "
BTW calm down abs, he would eat you alive without salt and pepper

IMHO, in some essential cases, local self-sufficiency trumps whatever advantage global trade offers.

It isn't a very good idea to become too reliant on the movement of goods when one freak disaster or political upheaval means no more bread.

This means that trade protection is not always a bad thing logically.

Can't watch the vid at the moment merc, the wind's blowing the wrong way.
So I don't really get your questions?
What am I going to do about what?
Which people?

knobmeup wrote:
The people in the Video and the many many fuckers in that part of the word with the same mindset Guess you dont realize how strong the old juju juice and worship of the dietys are in a lot of African countries.

I never thought you cared so much about the fate of African people.

Kudos merc

mikey mikey wrote:
Well as they kill the kids, drink the blood, pass parts of the heart around to eat, then strip naked as the juju juice makes them invisible and immune to bullets, just to type of unit to be up against

Why do they do this, in your opinion.?

It is off topic but I think it is very important and disturbing.

entrangermercenary1 wrote: Why are they on a diet?

It's really primarily driven by economic factors, which is what the original OP is about, not Liberia. Hence the fact that when Afro-Caribbean people settle in countries where there is less poverty they don't behave anything like the way you're describing.

However, as you still think we live in a system defined by nation states, you're going to be prone to misunderstanding many things.

entrangermercenary1 wrote: No, what I didn't realise was wtf you were on about
So the people in the video do really bad shit in the name of some god and you want to know what I am going to do about it? Is that right? And where they are going to go?

And you ask these questions of me because I made a sarcasm laden post about Globocorp's intentions?

mmmmmmmk

perhaps this deserves its own thread

mikey mikey wrote: It really comes down to what I said previously:

sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/The-Community-Ch...tml?start=240#153537

Obviously, but for the grace of God, any of us could have been brought up in those circumstances, and any of those people could have been brought up in our circumstances. If that was the case, we would be like them, and they would be like us. It’s as simple as that.

It’s only those that seek to justify their own prejudices that see such cultural distinctions as being meaningful, and indeed an inherent characteristic of certain people(s). This was the basis of a lot of the completely phony justification for the British Empire, and some other imperialism as well. Obviously there is no basis for it in reality, any more than asserting that phrenology is a good way of working out how intelligent someone is.

It does provoke the sort of spurious arguments that Bendoon used to put forward regarding white people being more intelligent than black people whereby he pointed to some map of the world in which average IQs were denoted. Obviously this map didn't take into consideration economic inequality, lack of education, indoctrination, etc, which is the real reason behind marked cultural differences. I'm sure there would still be some difference in a more egalitarian culture, but it would be statistically insignificant.

Anyone with any brain cells knows that we are all born the same, and are all inherently the same, or as close enough to being the same as to make any distinctions no more than pedantry.

entrangermercenary1 wrote:


Wtf did racists get all conscientious?

mikey mikey wrote:
Well they do it for several reasons, but the primary factor and the PC brigade on here will have a shit fit is
A. Tribal
Whether they are stealing cattle or in a full scale civil war its tribal.

Economic factors Is everybody going to be given the same standard of living ...and pigs might fly

oioioi wrote:

entrangermercenary1 wrote:
Fair play.

Most people at least feign ignorance.

knobmeup wrote:
I'm only half way through my first cup of tea, so please bear with me......
That sounds very Orwellian and with hints of Agenda 21 to me.....

As to the OP, I posted a link 'n' stuff here about the TTP and a.n. other that is also going through with Asian continent about 10 days ago.
I can't find it at the mo........but it's really serious shit and slipping under the radar very nicely for Amerikka and its corporations to have almost full global trading control. Forget Big Brother....Daddy has just stepped up to the plate.

As you were