The UN treaty on disabled people based on the US's ADA and with no enforcement provisions would be an unprecedented intrusion into US sovereignty and state's rights. But the TPP is a great deal despite the fact it would allow corporations new and unprecedented powers to ignore or invalidate laws in the member countries including the US.

...marking to come back and read later today.....

Or at least make them open to litigation by foreign corporation because they encourage local produce and NOT foreign made products as well.

In the eyes of multinational corporations, farmer's markets are everything that they hate. They keep the money in local communities. They encourage local purchases over foreign or corporate purchases, they give local communities self determination and control.

If the TPee-Pee passes, any state or country which in anyway encourages farmer's markets can be brought to tribunals for litigation to determine what amount of possible future profits the farmer's market may have taken from the corporation. If the corporations wins, which they probably will because what local farmer's market has the money to defend itself against an army of lawyers, then farmer's markets will have to go away or the state or country will face a huge fine. Then the people will have no other choice but to buy Monsanto poison laden crops and their monstrous GMO products.

The TPee-Pee will give our sovereignty to corporations and the Teabaggers are all in favor of it.

I expect that things like farmer's markets will sneeringly be called ponies and unicorns.

I can hardly think of a more radicalizing outcome than shutting down farmer's markets!

People of all walks of life will definitely notice!

I almost feel like, yes, please, shut down my farmer's market. Do it.

And reap the whirlwind of a few million Americans understanding this Free Trade shit for the very first time.

If I grow a few tomatoes, I've stolen food from the mouth of a Monsanto investor's baby, haven't I?

The assertion is to Save the Citrus industry. Citizens are asked for their "cooperation".

What California is doing is finding Asian Citrus Psyillids in traps, and then spraying around those areas all the citrus with a pyrethroid as well as drenching the ground around the tree with imidacloprid. This latter is implicated in colony collapse disorder, as it is a long-term systemic insecticide.

Once the bees are reduced in numbers, the only folks that will be receiving "pollination services" are those that hire beekeeper's colonies.

Very discouraged to see the Prez front and center.

the USA's economic life?

$$$ and Important People I guess

and be Pro-LABOR or Pro-American Working Class at the same time.

The two positions are Mutually Exclusive.

Sorry Virginia,
but there is no such thing as "Free Trade".
There is no such thing as "Free Markets".
And there is no Giant Invisible Hand."
The RICH made that shit up to get MORE MONEY,
and used Smooth Talking politicians to sell their SCAM to gullible Americans.

"Free Trade" demands absolute, blind faith submission to an invisible, magical deity who promises utopia if all of his laws & dictates are followed.
Like other religions that demand Blind Faith Belief, this one is a scam too.

[font size=4]The Graven Image on the altar...

...or the New Church of the Giant Invisible Hand.

the post WWII world. He pushed for the United Nations and his Bretton Woods conference in 1944 set up the IMF, World Bank and the GATT (which evolved into the WTO). He believed in multilateral control of international trade and finance to decrease the power of nationalism to create problems between countries.

I suppose FDR was not "Pro-LABOR or Pro-American Working Class at the same time" that he lowered the high tariffs that the republicans handed him in 1933. If high tariffs make a political party "Pro-LABOR or Pro-American Working Class" then the republican administrations (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover) from 1921 to 1933 fit the bill, while Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Harry Truman were the exact opposite.

The World's economic situation was much different immediately following WW2 than it is now.
The World was being divided up among the "Winners", basically Russia (Communist) vs the West (Capitalism).
The creation of the IMF and the World Bank were simply an extension of the WAR into the World Economic Realm,
another "weapon", AND it was an effective one.

"The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) were created at the end of World War II by the U.S. and British governments. During the war the business classes of Europe were either supporting the Nazis, getting their banks and factories bombed into oblivion or they fled Europe with all the money they could carry. On the other hand, socialists, communists and anarchists had high credibility because they were the leaders of the Resistance to Nazi occupation. In order to prevent leftists from coming to power in western Europe, it was crucial to U.S. and British elites to get the business classes back into power. This required international institutions that would promote capitalist policies and strengthen the power of the corporate sector.

The World Bank focused on making loans to governments in order to rebuild railroads, highways, bridges, ports and other "infrastructure", i.e., the parts of the economy that are not profitable for private companies to build so they are left to the public sector (the taxpayers). After an initial focus on western Europe the World Bank shifted its lending toward the third world.

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The unwritten goal of the IMF and World Bank was to integrate the elites of all countries into the capitalist world system of rewards and punishments. The billions of dollars controlled by the IMF and World Bank have helped to create greater allegiance of national elites to the elites of other countries than they have to their own national majorities. When the World Bank and IMF lend money to debtor countries the money comes with strings attached. The policy prescriptions are usually referred to as "structural adjustment" and they require that debtor governments open their economies up to penetration by foreign corporations, allowing them access to the workers and natural resources of the country at bargain basement prices.. Other policies imposed under structural adjustment include: allowing foreign corporations to repatriate profits, balancing the government budget (often by cutting social spending), selling off publicly owned assets ("privatization&quot and devaluing the currency."

http://www.globalexchange.org/resources/wbimf/origins

And anti-TPP protesters were just attacked by cops this week in New Zealand. Article on that in Occupy Underground.

with China, giving them unprecedented powers to take over Canada. They will be allowed to hold court hearings in private and out of the country over provincial and municipal decisions that *could* affect their profits.

These bastards are relentless.

All because he has a 'D' after his name.

We will have a chance to pressure Congress to reject this later, however.

with help from a lot on "our side".

They and the rest of these billionaire terrorists should be in federal prison for their crimes - this is getting fucking scary out there, and I'm afraid we're being played for chumps.