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How do you know TPP fines are settled between governments? TPP is still ongoing, and is secret. How can I be more clear?
As for your opinion about free trade, it hardly deserves a response, please consult a dictionary because you are not using the word correctly.
From leaks it suggests it involves companies suing governments for cash settlement.
Also, you are rather naive if you think 'free trade' means free trade, it will be nothing of the sort, it will raise barriers and make many goods and services more expensive.
The legal process no longer concerns itself with the average citizen, why then does the average citizen show concern over the law?
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/...
thanks to the maintainer and the FOSS community in general.
the US police state slaughters more people than is acknowledged, it requires a UK newspaper to get the correct amount.
Cite court cases all you want, they directly contradict what the police get away with everyday, you plainly see on tape them beating and killing people, planting evidence, destroying evidence and private property, and it happens without consequence.
You are a police apologist, defending murderous thugs.
I don't think you fully grok how many more people the US imprisons, a country would have to execute tens of thousands of people per year for decades to match the amount.
Police are thugs, far worse than any gang.
How many more Chicago Blacksites, 'accidental' deaths while in custody, and shooting and killing of unarmed citizens do people need to have happen before the cop apologists stop their hero worship excuse making?
US police kill about three people a day, and shoot and harrass many more and all with hardly any consequences. They even openly operate 'blacksites' where people are detained without rights and tortured, sometimes even killed.
These are not the hallmarks of a free society, it is the symptoms of fascist military rule.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/the-counted-5...
What an endless parade of jingoists to ever defend the exceptional American empire.
Dismissing criticism with a flippant "perfect is the enemy of the good" is lazy and thoughtless.
The government has shown no interest in curtailing the vast surveillance apparatus it has built, nor does it show interest in investigating its own abuses of such power.
When people praise such drivel as the freedom act it only sets us all back on the road to tyranny. So yeah, your perspective is detrimental to improving the dire circumstances we find ourselves.
Slogans are easy, what's hard is recognizing the difference between political theater and meaningful change.
America is tumbling into the abyss of tyranny and people celebrate.
How do people put up with this craziness? You all are talking about the rule of law while your congress is going to pass something many of them can't read, can't read in full, can't read with the help of aids, and can't disclose, and can't disclose even after it becomes law.
That's not law, that's tyranny.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yeahyeah
At the time this was the top comment and completely derailed the conversation. Pretty sure that wasn't a Russian agency, take a guess which one it was.
EDIT: amazing, I provide the community a crystal clear example of astroturfing and get down voted.
Central bank easing has helped those with assets, which is predominantly the older. Obamacare helps also the older, in fact today's youth pay an outsized subsidy to the old even though they are the least able to afford it.
Today's youth are also the most indebted, college was remarkably cheaper for previous generations but now that advantage is gone.
Politics tells the same story, the congress and judicial instituions are packed by white haired babyboomers making policy predominantly in the interest of the old.
Regulations help the large established companies to the determent of the small and new.