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by chiaro 10y ago
Zizek has a good piece on this, linked at the bottom, which reflects in part my thoughts on the matter. When considering all of the "me's", the eternally misunderstood "me" the "me" that everyone else sees
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by chiaro 10y ago
Feeding alt-right conspiracy theories 1. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/794450623404113920 2. https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-echoes-tweet-anti-...
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by chiaro 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot The plans aren't his.
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by chiaro 10y ago
Actually the opposite. Social and political institutions of the slave owning South had developed an entrenched extractive hierarchy not unlike the aristocracies of Eastern Europe at the time. The legacy of these oppressive institutions has
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by chiaro 10y ago
Beyond the point that one might hold a pseudonymous internet forum and the leader of the free world to slightly different standards, you're erasing an awful lot of context around what comments about skin colour mean in each case.
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by chiaro 10y ago
For subscribing to an ideology so strongly against faux outrage, y'all sure do peddle a lot of it.
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by chiaro 10y ago
95% of the bulk of the document is endless tariff elimination tables. I hope you'll forgive me that I glossed over them. If you're concerned about the ISDS mechanism the relevant parts are in Chapter 9, with some exceptions listed
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by chiaro 10y ago
I mean explicitly, you only have a valid claim under most implementations of ISDS if you have been treated differently than a domestic company. And its their right to have their case heard if that's the case, no?
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by chiaro 10y ago
I'm familiar with the Ethyl Corp case, which is an interesting case to dive into. Canada banned a fuel additive that was only used by one company (foreign) called Ethyl Corp on the basis of health reasons. Ethyl Corp sued, saying the a
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by chiaro 10y ago
Last I checked most Americans with an opinion on the TPP actually supported it.
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by chiaro 10y ago
I'd like you to substantiate this claim. The ISDS mechanism in the TPP would allow nothing of the sort.
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by chiaro 10y ago
A lot of people are quoting from the EFF, which I caution with regards to the TPP. They had a shambles of an AMA last year on the TPP where they failed to argue their points very substantively at all: https://www.reddit.com/
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by chiaro 10y ago
>When my nation decides to reduce smoking in the population by significantly increasing the taxes on cigarettes, companies in other countries that want to sell cigarettes here can go get stuffed. Cool. You and the TPP are in agreement th
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by chiaro 10y ago
The US and the basket of Western interests it represents is in a tug of war with China over how well their businesses can compete within SE Asia/Japan. This is why you'll see the phrase "regulatory harmonization" thrown
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by chiaro 10y ago
Not war, per se, but rather the stability the point makes more generally. It's easy to look at Mexico and see a country impoverished and rife with corruption, but the pressures put on it by NAFTA have seen it make some impressive moves
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by chiaro 10y ago
This is the tariff elimination schedule for the US in the TPP. It's 386 pages long. If each of the industries effected by it were able to voice their concerns publicly/politically rather than simply furthering their interests in c
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by chiaro 10y ago
Every country's leader will tell foreign investors that there is no chance that their business will be regulated differently than their nephew's competing in the same space. Investors can trust them a lot more if the country'
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by chiaro 10y ago
>Of course they do, because they increase the cost of doing business there. This misunderstands what incentives are at play for politicians with low accountability in developing countries. The cost of corruption is borne by these investo
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by chiaro 10y ago
Such insurances simply spread the risk of losses due to this kind of corruption among multiple entities. They don't provide incentives to the country to reduce the risk itself, which is the key differentiator.
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by chiaro 10y ago
The US constitution was another document planned in secrecy and passed by the public. This isn't denigrative of democracy at all, despite the flowery rhetoric. It just leads to better outcomes, as Putnam's paper outlines. It'
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by chiaro 10y ago
There used to be decent chapter summaries on trade.gov, but it looks like they've been nuked like everything else in the transition. The Australian government has decent chapter summaries too though, I'd encourage reading those:
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by chiaro 10y ago
FWIW, the ISDS cases referred to in that video have all been lost, with costs. > sovereignty Buzzword. A nation is always free to enter and leave contracts for mutual benefit. > In addition, I don't understand those that think bo
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by chiaro 10y ago
Trade deals are developed in secret for the same reason that all legislation is (before being presented for a democratic vote). The negotiation process is hamstrung by too many interests, with domestic lobbies preventing anything from being
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by chiaro 10y ago
The WTO would function as the court of appeal for decisions made under the TPP's ISDS provisions. It would also be the body permitting sanctions (i.e. a return to pre-TPP tariff levels on trade with the offending country) in the event
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by chiaro 10y ago
Agreed. The problems with selling trade agreements is that the benefits (while real) are diffuse while the drawbacks are felt more severely by a small part of the population. It's entirely rational for US manufacturers to be against tr
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by chiaro 10y ago
0. What if the nation discriminates against that company, freezing funds or denying access to courts? This shit is important for increasing investor confidence in countries with nascent court systems and political systems used to corruption
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by chiaro 10y ago
Here you go: 1. Geopolitical influence. The Western world, lead by the USA, wants to dictate terms of trade in the Pacific before China can. This means laying the groundwork for the environments that western businesses and investors are com
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by chiaro 10y ago
The EFF was actually invited to negotiate the treaty too, but they refused, opting to instead throw stones from the dark.
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by chiaro 10y ago
I was actually against the TPP back when all the rumours were spinning around before the text was released. When the full text actually came out, in an old-fashioned sense of obligation I read the whole thing. Then I did it again. Very few
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by chiaro 10y ago
I knew briefly a woman who had ran away from everything she knew at 17, to avoid a marriage. The stories of what counted as "normal" was horrific, especially with regards to daughters. Between the corporal punishment, starvation-a

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