The Secret Global Court – Why Corporate Criminals and Corrupt Politicians Desperately Want the TPP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3470622/posts
1) Eliminate sovereign risk from their investments.
2) Earn money by scouring the world for potential ISDS “opportunities” and then speculating on them.
3) Escape prosecution from criminality on a global basis.
The whole thing is absolutely disgusting and epitomizes all that is wrong and unethical about the world today. As such, stopping the TPP from passage is probably the most important near-term challenge ahead for all of us who want to make the world a better place (or at least prevent it from getting much, much worse).
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One ISIS attack every 84 hours in Europe...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/europe/isis-attacks-escalating-europe/index.html
Germany’s Migrant Rape Crisis Spirals out of Control
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458239/posts
Pew Research (2007):
26% of younger Muslims in America believe suicide bombings are justified.
On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, ...
Orlando shooting: 49 killed, shooter pledged ISIS allegiance - CNN ...
www.cnn.com/2016/06/12/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting
[And there are many, many more.]
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Contrast that with this ...
12 murders, 29 physical assaults on muslims in 2015.
TOTAL.
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The way we talk about Islamophobia every 9/11 anniversary is maddeningly oversimplified
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/9/12856912/islamophobia-september-11-oversimplified
‘A May 2016 report by Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative counted approximately 174 reported incidents of anti-Muslim violence and vandalism during 2015. These included 12 murders, 29 physical assaults, 50 threats against persons or institutions, 54 acts of vandalism or destruction of property, eight acts of arson, and nine shootings or bombings.’