10 Shocking Realities of the TPP (tags)
Now we see why the US Trade Representative and President Obama wanted to keep the TPP secret for four years after it was ratified. It if had not been for a very aggressive fight against fast track trade authority in which hundreds of thousands of people participated, we would not see the text.
TTIP - Why the World Should Beware, 61 pp (tags)
Radical free trade policies did not begin with the birth of NAFTA, nor with the founding of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 – both had been in place in over 90 developing and transitional economies for over a decade through structural adjustment programes imposed by the World Bank and the IMF. (Walden Bello)
Governments give themselves a ‘free trade’ offer they can’t refuse (tags)
The secret agreement Obama doesn’t want you to know about will have secret tribunals as well.
The US-Arroyo Rotten Comelec Machine Strikes Back:, Padaca Protests Ouster. (tags)
Two Liberal party stalwarts, Grace Padaca of Isabela and Jun Mendoza of Bulacan were unseated by the COMELEC and the electoral tribunals. In their places, Pagdaganan and the warlord Dy was again posed to return to power via electoral maneuvers. The AJLPP will not be surprised if Governor Ed Panlilio will be unseated in the COMELEC recount and his place the gambling lord Lilia Pineda will be installed as the governor of Pampanga. That is how the warlord empire strikes back!
Michael Bay's new movie makes apologies for militarism and values the violation of military hierarchy.
Glimpse of Secret Gitmo Panels (tags)
Snip: "They relied instead on secret evidence that was classified," Denbeaux says. "And the government's procedure was, anything in that secret evidence was presumed to be valuable and valid. And then the detainee was given the opportunity to rebut the secret evidence. But he was never told what the secret evidence was."
Fewer polar bear cubs survive in Alaska (tags)
Fewer polar bear cubs survive in Alaska
US to screen all who enter, leave country (tags)
Navy officer tapped to head LA schools (tags)
Navy officer with no experience tapped to head LA schools
VITAL INTEL: Is a Coup in the Works? Will Bush be Arrested? (tags)
Half the US Military plus three Supreme Court Justices are ready to approve the arrest of Bushfraud. As Occupunk Bushfraud moves the US close to martial law with secret tribunals it can now be reported that Bush is using the idea of the Military Tribunals as a vehicle to end run the US Constitution and obstruct justice aka the 9-11 Attack on America.
Bush to pretend to obey Supreme Court decision and treat POWs fairly (tags)
U.S. will give detainees Geneva rights [well Bush will pretend to give them Geneva rights]
Military trials for detainees rejected (tags)
On the same day the Supreme Court struck down military tribunals for detainees being held in Cuba, Republicans in Congress began working to give the president the power to use them.
Moussaoui Case Shows Why Guantanamo Tribunals are a Bad Idea (tags)
With no judge to keep the administration honest, the prisoners held at Guantanamo, many of them completely innocent, will be railroaded, perhaps to their deaths.
BREAKING: Graphic texts of Guantanamo detainees' stories released in court papers (tags)
BREAKING: Graphic texts of Guantanamo detainees' stories released in court papers - Warning: unimaginable tales of horror In a development the Bush administration had hoped to avoid, the stories of about 60 detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have spilled out in court papers.
Guantanamo Bay Death Camp? (tags)
The following comes from the Australian "The Mail" Newspaper (online edition)
President Bush's Fascist Tribunals (The New American) (tags)
President Bush's Fascist Tribunals Week of November 25, 2001 - 8 minutes, 13 seconds by William Norman Grigg President George W. Bush, by outward appearances, seems to be a decent and humane man. But if we measure his performance against the only standard that matters - the United States Constitution - it becomes clear that President Bush is rapidly amassing dictatorial powers that Bill Clinton could only have dreamed of.