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Showing posts with label Trans-Pacific Partnership. Show all posts

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Hillary Once Again Against Something That She Was In Favor Of

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Hillary Fans Forget She Wanted to Do This to Illegals Long Before Trump Did

Liberal politicians, and in particular Hillary Clinton, love to go wherever the political winds blow them. They adjust their views on the issues according to what seems popular at the moment.

Gay marriage: She was against it before she was for it…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): She was for it before she was against it…

Now Hillary is on record as being on the side of illegal immigrants when just a few short years ago, she had the complete opposite view of the topic.

As the media, Hillary fans, and even Hillary herself scold Trump for allegedly suggesting that he wants to keep track of illegal aliens who are in this country, everyone on the left seems to conveniently forget that there is such a thing as video. And it doesn’t go away just because you’ve “evolved” on an issue.

Back in 2007, Hillary held a town hall meeting and offered a “solution” to the matter of handling how we can keep up with illegals who are crossing the border. And it sounds a whole lot like the idea that Trump is being attacked for.

On the video she says that,

“Some of those hijackers who flew those planes into the World Trade Center, they came here legally and they overstayed so they were here illegally and we didn’t have a clue.

I want to know who’s in this country. I want to keep track of them. Bring them out of the shadows.
If they ever committed a crime, either in the country they came from or in this country, deport them immediately no questions asked.

If they’ve been here and been lawful, then I think they’ve got to pay fines, they’ve got to pay back taxes, they’ve got to try to learn English … and they have to stay out of trouble, and keep working, and be law-abiding, and maybe in 10 or 15 years they can get legalization.”

Here is the video of that town hall meeting:

Here is another interview that Hillary did years earlier in which she told John Gambling that she was “adamantly against illegal immigrants.”

Sunday, November 8, 2015

obamaCrapTrade Deal Is As Bad As ObamaCrapCare And Iranian Nuclear Deal

You Won't Believe Who's Bashing
Obamatrade

Nov 7, 2015
Source: AAN
by: AAN Staff

The Democrats have officially become the crony

capitalist party. Obama and Hillary's TPP is out,

and those Democrats who still care about working

Americans are pissed.

A Democrat Congressman is blasting

the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal — which impacts 40

percent of the world economy, consists of 12 countries and was made

public on Thursday — saying it includes “exclusions up the wazoo.”

“The text that I’ve read so far includes annexes and exclusions up the

wazoo,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) told Politico. “You think you’ve seen it all?

You have not. Exclusions to rules by each country. Bilateral deals with Japan,

and more than 50 two-way side letters.”

Politico reports aspects of the deal that reveal certain countries were given

exceptions. For example, “how Peru can continue to limit performances by

foreign circuses or that Chile can still ban foreigners as security guards.”

“The exceptions, laid out in multiple annexes and embedded in various

chapters of the 1,000-plus page Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement,

range from these obscure provisions to controversial measures that could

make it harder for U.S. businesses to compete overseas — and not

incidentally, cost congressional votes where there might be no margin for

error for passage,” noted Politico.

This creates an opportunity for Republicans to set themselves apart. There's free trade and

there's whatever this is. The bill is so bad that Hillary has tried to distance herself from it,

and unions are considering endorsing Trump. It's hard to see the Democrats pulling off many

victories if they continue to disregard moderate working class people. The GOP should take note.

Source: AAN

- See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/you-won-t-believe-who-s-bashing-obamatrade#sthash.4ck5Fk2v.dpuf

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

What Does Biden's Withdrawal From Presidential Sweepstakes Mean?

Biden: I'm Not Running

Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015 05:28 PM

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Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would not run for president in 2016, ending months of indecision and removing one of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's biggest potential obstacles to the party's nomination.

Biden, 72, appeared in the White House Rose Garden with his wife Jill and President Barack Obama to say the window for mounting a successful campaign had closed.

Biden's announcement ended a highly public "will he or won't he?" political guessing game about his intentions that had shadowed Clinton's campaign and frozen the support of some Democratic activists and donors.

"While I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent," Biden said. "I intend to speak out clearly and forcefully to influence as much as I can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation."

Biden had been wrestling with doubts about whether he and his family were ready for a grueling campaign while still mourning his son Beau, who died of brain cancer in May. His son had urged him to run.

Making good on his promise to speak out, Biden took a veiled jab at Clinton, chiding Democrats who referred to Republicans as their enemies and saying Democrats would be making a "tragic mistake" if they walked away from Obama's record.

Clinton had listed Republicans among her enemies during last week's presidential debate and had broken with Obama by moving to the left on such issues as the Keystone XL pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

"I don't think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition, they're not our enemies," Biden said.

Speculation about a Biden candidacy had grown as Clinton slumped in polls and questions grew about her honesty and trustworthiness amid the controversy over her use of a private email server while secretary of state.

But what was widely hailed as a command performance by Clinton in the Oct. 13 Democratic debate turned the tide back in her favor and quieted talk that she was vulnerable in her quest for her party's nomination for the November 2016 election.

A Clinton spokesman said she called Biden after he announced his decision. In a statement, she called him "a good man and a great vice president" and said she was confident he would continue to be on the political front lines.

BOOST FOR CLINTON

Biden's decision was a boost for Clinton, whose prime challenger now is U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A self-styled democratic socialist, Sanders has galvanized the party's left wing but has yet to prove he can broaden his appeal.

Monday, October 19, 2015

Shucks, Hilary Caught In Another Lie. Is There Nothing She Will NOT Lie About?

Oops: The White House Just Called Hillary Out, And Now She’s Caught In A Lie

Image Credit: YouTube

This isn't going to look good at all.

Kevin Whitson October 15, 2015 at 11:18am

During Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton spoke out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that the Obama administration has put forward.

”I did say, when I was secretary of state, three years ago, that I hoped it would be the gold standard. It was just finally negotiated last week, and in looking at it, it didn’t meet my standards,” she said on the stage in Las Vegas. “My standards for more new, good jobs for Americans, for raising wages for Americans.”

Those comments were called into question the next day by the same White House Clinton used to serve.

Apparently, they’re patently false. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that no one in the public has seen the agreement because it has not been yet made available for review.

At a White House news briefing, Earnest was asked point-blank by a reporter: “Is it possible that [Clinton]’s actually looked at it? because I thought it hasn’t been made public?”

His response was, “Yeah, I noticed that, too.”

When Earnest was asked if he thought Clinton’s opposition to the trade agreement seemed “phony” in light of her support for it when she was secretary of state, he responded, “I don’t think I have minced any words that we have a disagreement on this issue…”

Earnest directed that further questions about Clinton be directed to her campaign.

Clinton’s opponents don’t need to consult with her campaign to come to their own conclusions. When she announced her opposition to the deal on Oct. 7, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley issued statements mocking her change of heart.

“Wow, that’s a reversal,” O’Malley said.

Business Insider’s Colin Campbell reported that, “When Clinton served in President Barack Obama’s administration, she used to extensively praise the Pacific trade deal. Indeed, CNN once counted up 45 times she pushed the agreement.”

So she was for the trade deal before she was against it.

Can Hillary Clinton be trusted when she changes her mind so often?

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Media Focuses Flag While Bad Stuff Is Happening In Congess

Whenever you see US citizens losing their minds over something as silly as a flag, I've learned to look at what's being passed by Congress at the same time.

Statist flag worshipers were in a frenzy about a piece of colored cloth called the Confederate flag because a man with that flag on his bumper had killed nine people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina last week.

Apple removed any Civil War apps from their app store. Walmart and many other retailers removed the flag from their inventory. And heavily confused Amerikans who don't even know that the Civil War was actually a fascist takeover of the country by racist Abraham Lincoln, took to the streets demanding their overseers use violent force to remove the flag from any location that flies it.

Forgetting for the moment that this has every trapping of being a false flag event down to the bizarre, easy going arrest of the alleged shooter...

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What hardly anyone noticed was that yesterday the Senate voted to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

That's typical. Create a mainstream media controversy in order to distract attention from serious, even traitorous, actions taking place in Congress.

For all you really need to know about the TPP watch this short video:

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The TPP has been the most secretive document passed in US history. It was so secret that if Senators wanted to read the phone book size "free" trade deal they had to enter into a highly secure and guarded room behind the doors below and be watched as they read it and promise to never mention what they read. Is this how a republic is supposed to conduct business?

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The TPP is an international "free" trade agreement being negotiated by 12 countries: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Chile, Peru and Brunei.

But, here's the thing: A true free-trade agreement would be one sentence long and would read something like, "You can trade whatever you want between these countries".

What the TPP is is a massive, fascist corporate takeover of those 12 countries in which corporate power supercedes national power. Corporate officials who feel that they 've lost some profit due to legislation imposed in a certain country will now have the right to sue the country for the lost profit. Of course, when they sue the "country" they are actually suing the taxpayers of that country.

But shouldn't taxpayers sue back? Aren't modern corporations the twisted spawn of judicial decisions (questionable decisions enforced by the power of the state) including corporate personhood and intellectual property rights.

This is the reason corporations have grown so large and powerful to begin with. Those running these titantic mutations are protected from their failures by corporate personhood. And those that have created something, no matter how trivial, can have it "protected" virtually forever by state power.

Thomas Jefferson and other founders were very worried about the ascension of corporate power in the US because of their experience with such "corporations" as the East India Company that was so large and powerful, it ended up running its own army.

"From 1700 onwards and for the next 160 years or so," royalmunsterfusiliers.org tells us, "the Honourable East India Company raised its own armed forces. The three administrative areas of India, the Presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal, each maintained their own army with its own commander-in-chief. "

The initial US constitutional construct emphasized state control of corporations. And states duly bound corporate power with numerous legislative cords. It was only after the end of the Civil War that corporations began to assume the kinds of power that had so worried Jefferson.

Today, corporate power is once again a powerful legislative construction and has little to do with real capitalism - which would likely consist of entities far smaller and more flexible. But having built up this fiction of corporate-capitalism, the powers-that-be are now going to expand its footprint.

The TPP is one of the most heinous documents ever passed in the US perhaps only second to the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA).

Were you aware that the NDAA was recently passed in Congress again? Probably not. The Charleston shooting occurred on the evening of June 17th, while the nation's media covered it like it was 9/11. The NDAA was passed on June 18th.

It looks like they got through two massively anti-freedom bills for one false flag this time. They're getting really good at this!

I suppose practice makes perfect.

Anarcho-Capitalist. Libertarian. Freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks. Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, CEO of TDV Media & Services and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast. Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the world’s freedom, investment and gold conferences including his own, Anarchapulco, as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, CNN and Fox Business.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

If You Love ObamaCrapCare, You Will Really Love ObamaTradeDeal.

Obama's Asian Trade Deal Sells Out American Workers

By Peter Morici | Thursday, 11 Jun 2015 07:38 AM

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Congress should not grant President Barack Obama authority to conclude another free trade agreement in Asia, because it would lower American wages and exacerbate income inequality.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would eliminate tariffs and lower other regulatory barriers to trade and investment among the United States, South Korea, Japan and nine other Pacific Rim nations.

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If successful, China, India and several other nations could seek membership. Hence, the TPP has the potential to redefine the rules for international commerce in the most rapidly growing region of the international economy, but President Obama has given ordinary workers good reason to believe he is not looking out for them.

Free trade deals can permit Americans to earn higher wages by exporting more goods and services that require highly skilled workers and R&D — like pharmaceuticals and software.

Even workers displaced by imports could find better jobs if exports grew as much as imports and instigated faster growth with more emphasis on spending for skills-focused education.

In March 2012, President Obama inaugurated a free trade pact with South Korea and in many ways, it provides a template for what we may expect from a broader TPP.

Imports from South Korea are up 3.6 billion, U.S. exports are down marginally and the U.S. trade deficit with the Asian nation has swelled to 5 billion. That free trade deal alone has killed about 25,000 American jobs — mostly in high paying manufacturing activities — and added to downward pressures on wages and worsened income inequality.

President Clinton negotiated a complex bilateral deal to permit China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, but American companies like GM, GE and Microsoft still must manufacture, form joint-ventures with local companies and undertake product development in the Middle Kingdom, and American intellectual property still gets ripped off.

Campaigning in 2008, candidate Obama promised to fix problems like those but he has been weak about confronting Chinese mercantilism, and the $350 billion bilateral trade deficit costs American workers at least 3 million jobs and greatly suppresses wages.

Over the years, China, South Korea and Japan have violated WTO and International Monetary Fund rules by purposefully undervaluing their currencies to subsidize exports and raise prices for otherwise competitive U.S. products in their markets.

Such currency manipulation would wipe out the benefits American businesses may expect from the TPP — just as it has done for bilateral deals struck with China, Japan and South Korea — by eliminating tariffs and reducing other barriers to trade.

Obama has refused to even formally acknowledge those countries cheat on trade deals already in place by manipulating their currencies or to make strong rules to stop currency manipulation a negotiating goal for the TPP. The president has repeatedly claimed Asian nations won’t sign on to the TPP if it contains a discipline on currency manipulation.

No wonder, look at the advantage currency manipulation affords countries that cheat on the rules already in place.

Applying data from the World Bank, which calculates what national currencies should be worth in U.S. dollars to have comparable purchasing power, the yuan, won and yen currently appear to be at least 50, 25 and 15 percent undervalued, respectively. And those exchange rate practices compel other Asian trading nations to follow similar policies, lest they be shut out of markets by unfairly priced Chinese, Korean and Japanese goods—for example, India’s rupee is only about one-fourth its fair market value.

U.S. multinationals, like GE and IBM, would still profit from the TPP by moving production to Asia to take advantage of labor and other resources made cheaper by manipulated currencies but ordinary working Americans would face more unfairly advantaged foreign competitors, unemployment and even lower wages.

As the president has framed the TPP negotiations, it is simply a bad deal for ordinary Americans.

Peter Morici is an economist and business professor at the University of Maryland and a national columnist. He tweets @pmorici1