Nouveau Feudalism. Glad to see you all are coming aboard the big white canoe that we Artists and Indians were sent forty years ago to pacify. Now you seem ready to accept your role with a minimum of aggravation. The difference between the two parties is Obama is covert and Romney is overt but the corporations have both covered.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: AlterNet: Trans-Pacific Partnership: Under Cover of Darkness, a Corporate Coup Is Underway Sally wrote: > http://www.alternet.org/world/156059 >From the article: Indeed, signatory countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to TPP's rules, effecting a quiet corporate coup d' tat. And, regardless of election outcomes or changes in public opinion, these extreme rules could not be altered without the consent of all signatory countries. Failure to conform to these rules would subject countries to indefinite trade sanctions. A recent leak of one of TPP's most controversial chapters reveals that the pact would elevate individual corporations and investors to equal status with sovereign nations to privately enforce this treaty. U.S. negotiators are among the greatest champions of this "investor state" enforcement system. It would give any foreign firm incorporated in any TPP country new rights to skirt U.S. courts and laws, directly sue the U.S. government before foreign tribunals and demand compensation for financial, health, environmental, land use and other laws they claim undermine their TPP privileges. This is another run at the same gold ring as the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. That monstrosity ran aground after full text of a draft was leaked to the net. The ultimate aim is to make corporate entities -- a few thousand of them -- the only citizens of the world, establish governments in the role of their personal servants and protectors and reduce people not enfeoffed to a corporate master to the status of biomass. [1] Our topic of "future work" typically addresses "jobs". Under the proposed regimen (as, to a considerable degree under the present one) only employment with a major corporation offers the benefits of vassalage. And those benefits are severely limited as the corporate lord no longer commits to the responsibilities toward a vassal that feudal lords swore to sustain. - Mike [1] Biomass, in ecology, is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time. Biomass can refer to species biomass, which is the mass of one or more species, or to community biomass, which is the mass of all species in the community. It can include microorganisms, plants or animals. The mass can be expressed as the average mass per unit area, or as the total mass in the community. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology) _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
