Not Satire: Politician Keeps Campaign Promise

Kit Daniels – In an unprecedented move for a politician, President Trump pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership after running a campaign to kill the globalist “trade deal.”

Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the TPP on Monday, stating “it’s a great thing for the American worker, what we just did.”

While the order is a formality – the Senate has not yet ratified the TPP – it effectively kills the treaty’s chances for approval.

Public outrage over the TPP began brewing after both Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasted the treaty as harmful to both American workers and labor abroad.

In fact, former President Obama quietly removed an anti-slavery provision from the TPP which would have otherwise prevented countries that engage in slavery, such as Malaysia, from taking part in major trade deals with the U.S.

Obama’s pro-slavery stance actually makes sense because the TPP wasn’t really a trade deal at all but rather an enabling act to allow transnational corporations to dump American workers and erode U.S. economic independence.

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Financial Extinction Level Event Coming [w/ Video]

KriegerGreg Hunter – Former Wall Street analyst Michael Krieger says the key to predicting this market is to watch interest rates. Krieger explains, “Do I think that there is going to be a huge U.S. currency devaluation next month?  No I don’t, but on the flip side, there is going to be some sort of financial calamity.

What I am looking at personally is interest rates.  I’m 38 years old.  My entire life, basically, we’ve been in a downtrend on sovereign yields.  So, it’s basically been this 40 year bond bull market.  It’s a secular bull market my entire life.

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When that reverses and interest rates start to rise, and it’s probably not going to be because the Fed is raising rates, when rates naturally stop going down, and they start going up, that’s going to be a financial extinction level event. That’s going to be the most important event in all of our lives because it’s going to be the end of a 40 year bond bull.

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Private Armies, Daesh, The CIA and the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement

governmentKatherine Frisk – Daesh/ISL is a private army, with private funding and with no oversight from any government. Daesh has been making a profit through oil stolen from Syria and transported to Turkey where it has been bought by Erodogan’s son. Who he is selling it to is still under debate.

On Monday 16th of November, President Putin presented the G20 with satellite and banking details of those countries and individuals who have been both supporting Daesh and buying illegal oil through Turkey. His disclosures at this meeting were not covered in any Main Stream Media Outlet.

Speculation has run rife as to who exactly is involved. In The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking Zero Hedge suggests the following.

But what we have been wondering for months and what we hope some enterprising journalist will soon answer, is just who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties.

In other words, who are the middlemen. What we do know is who they may be: they are the same names that were quite prominent in the market in September when Glencore had its first, and certainly not last, near death experience:the Glencores, the Vitols, the Trafiguras, the Nobels, the Mercurias of the world. Continue reading

The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History

Chris Hedges – The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared.

“The TPPtrade, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], is the most brazen corporate power grab in American history,” Ralph Nader told me when I reached him by phone in Washington, D.C. “It allows corporations to bypass our three branches of government to impose enforceable sanctions by secret tribunals. These tribunals can declare our labor, consumer and environmental protections [to be] unlawful, non-tariff barriers subject to fines for noncompliance. The TPP establishes a transnational, autocratic system of enforceable governance in defiance of our domestic laws.”

The TPP is part of a triad of trade agreements that includes the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). TiSA, by calling for the privatization of all public services, is a mortal threat to the viability of the U.S. Postal Service, public education and other government-run enterprises and utilities; together these operations make up 80 percent of the U.S. economy. The TTIP and TiSA are still in the negotiation phase. They will follow on the heels of the TPP and are likely to go before Congress in 2017.

These three agreements solidify the creeping corporate coup d’état along with the final evisceration of national sovereignty. Citizens will be forced to give up control of their destiny and will be stripped of the ability to protect themselves from corporate predators, safeguard the ecosystem and find redress and justice in our now anemic and often dysfunctional democratic institutions. The agreements—filled with jargon, convoluted technical, trade and financial terms, legalese, fine print and obtuse phrasing—can be summed up in two words: corporate enslavement. Continue reading

TPP, Weather Warfare And Naval Buildup In The South China Sea

freeKatherine Frisk – In the 1990s a very old childhood friend came to visit. He was expounding on the wonders of free trade zones. A plan that was being engineered at the time for Mozambique which had been decimated by a civil war. A free trade zone in Maputo, apparently, was part of a program to rebuild and restructure the country and bring it back to life. Or, to put it another way, it had been successfully destroyed and now it was time for the engineers of that destruction to rebuild it in their own image. For more information on this program and how it has worked over the last 70 years see: A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

I listened intently about how these free trade zones would function and how they would be tax exempt.

I also listened to the wondrous virtues of this system, that would create jobs for the people of Mozambique and help to uplift the country.

The workers would not be tax exempt.

This sounded like a free ride for some and a rip off for others. The companies and corporations involved and the shipping industry, would get all the benefits of operating in that country but would not be giving anything back in return for the privilege of functioning in that country. The majority of the free trade zones would all be situated in third world countries where they had cheap labour and people were desperate for work. My reply was:

“So let me get this straight. First world companies trading in third world countries in free trade zones do not pay tax. Third world companies trading in first world countries where there are no free trade zones have to pay tax? When they make New York, South Hampton, Sydney and every other first world port a free trade zone, then we can talk.” Continue reading