Re-enserfment of Western Peoples, by Paul Craig Roberts
"...In other words, a US corporate agent deals with corporate agents in the countries that will comprise the “partnership,” and this handful of well-bribed people draw up an agreement that supplants law with the interests of corporations. No one negotiating the partnership represents the peoples’ or public’s interests. The governments of the partnership countries get to vote the deal up or down, and they will be well paid to vote for the agreement..."
Also, from Jim Stone, November 10, 2015:
WAY OVER Half of Americans not working!
Every once in a while, the MSM screws up
and accidentally provides a way to figure out reality. They dropped a
golden nugget this morning – an easy way to calculate exactly how many
jobs there are in America. And the answer is 148,801,103. How did they
screw up like that? by posting this:
$944,143,000,000: Social Security Administration Spending Hit Record in FY2015; $6,345 For Every American With a Job.”So
to find out how many jobs there are, just divide the amount spent by
how much every American with a job (on average) paid in! Well, this
means that, (not counting illegals) that with a population over 318
million, WAY OVER HALF of Americans are not working. Some of these are
kids, some are the elderly and retired, but it is obvious that among
those who would want to work, that is clearly not enough jobs!148,801,103 with jobs, 170,098,896 without jobs! I just LOVE IT when they screw up and leave a way to calculate reality!
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http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/11/09/re-enserfment-of-western-peoples.html
The re-enserfment of Western peoples is
taking place on several levels. One about which I have been writing for
more than a decade comes from the offshoring of jobs. Americans, for
example, have a shrinking participation in the production of the goods
and services that are marketed to them.
On another level we are experiencing the
financialization of the Western economy about which Michael Hudson is
the leading expert (Killing The Host). Financialization is the
process of removing any public presence in the economy and converting
the economic surplus into interest payments to the financial sector.
These two developments deprive people of
economic prospects. A third development deprives them of political
rights. The Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Partnerships eliminate
political sovereignty and turn governance over to global corporations.
These so called “trade partnerships” have
nothing to do with trade. These agreements negotiated in secrecy grant
immunity to corporations from the laws of the countries in which they
do business. This is achieved by declaring any interference by existing
and prospective laws and regulations on corporate profits as restraints
on trade for which corporations can sue and fine “sovereign”
governments. For example, the ban in France and other counries on GMO
products would be negated by the Trans-Atlantic Partnership. Democracy
is simply replaced by corporate rule.
I have been meaning to write about this at length. However, others, such as Chris Hedges, are doing a good job of explaining the power grab that eliminates representative government.
The corporations are buying power cheaply. They bought the entire US House of Representatives
for just under $200 million. This is what the corporations paid
Congress to go along with “Fast Track,” which permits the corporations’
agent, the US Trade Representative, to negotiate in secret without
congressional input or oversight.
In other words, a US corporate agent
deals with corporate agents in the countries that will comprise the
“partnership,” and this handful of well-bribed people draw up an
agreement that supplants law with the interests of corporations. No one
negotiating the partnership represents the peoples’ or public’s
interests. The governments of the partnership countries get to vote the
deal up or down, and they will be well paid to vote for the agreement.
Once these partnerships are in effect,
government itself is privatized. There is no longer any point in
legislatures, presidents, prime ministers, judges. Corporate tribunals
decide law and court rulings.
It is likely that these “partnerships”
will have unintended consequences. For example, Russia and China are
not part of the arrangements, and neither are Iran, Brazil, India, and
South Africa, although seperately the Indian government appears to have
been purchased by American agribusiness and is in the process of
destroying its self-sufficient food production system. These countries
will be the repositories for national sovereignty and public control
while freedom and democracy are extinguished in the West and among the
West’s Asian vassals.
Violent revolution throughout the West
and the complete elimination of the One Percent is another possible
outcome. Once, for example, the French people discover that they have
lost all control over their diet to Monsanto and American agribusiness,
the members of the French government that delivered France into dietary
bondage to toxic foods are likely to be killed in the streets.
Events of this sort are possible
throughout the West as peoples discover that they have lost all control
over every aspect of their lives and that their only choice is
revolution or death