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October 29, 2012
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Deepening the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade Partnership
by Dana Gabriel
BE YOUR OWN LEADER
October 28, 2012
Overshadowed by the upcoming American election are reports that the U.S. and European Union (EU) are working towards launching official negotiations on a deal that would further deepen their transatlantic trade partnership.
According to a recent Reuters article, “Europe and the United States are set to launch trade talks early next year to deepen the world’s largest trading relationship.” It goes on to say that, “An expert group co-chaired by EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will in December issue a report recommending pursuing talks.” An EU official explained that, “The report will recommend the negotiation of a comprehensive agreement between the United States and the European Union.” Last week, the European Parliament also approved a resolution calling for talks on a possible trade deal with the U.S. to begin in 2013. The U.S. and EU have already made incremental strides with regards to economic integration. With renewed political support, momentum for a transatlantic trade accord is building.
In 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel established the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) to help eliminate trade barriers and harmonize standards. The move was seen as a step towards creating a single transatlantic market. Throughout the years, the TEC has advanced deep U.S.-EU integration. It has helped align policies in areas of investment, accounting, import safety, supply chain security, automobile standards, renewable energy, as well as others. The TEC continues to guide and stimulate transatlantic economic convergence.
At the U.S.-EU Summit in November 2011, leaders from both sides directed the TEC to create a High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth. This was viewed as another step forward to an eventual free trade deal. The Working Group was tasked with identifying, “policies and measures to increase U.S.-EU trade and investment to support mutually beneficial job creation, economic growth, and international competitiveness.” It was entrusted with examining options in areas of, “Conventional barriers to trade in goods, such as tariffs and tariff-rate quotas; Reduction, elimination, or prevention of barriers to trade in goods, services, and investment; Opportunities for enhancing the compatibility of regulations and standards; Reduction, elimination, or prevention of unnecessary ‘behind the border’ non-tariff barriers to trade in all categories; Enhanced cooperation for the development of rules and principles on global issues of common concern and also for the achievement of shared economic goals relating to third countries.” A U.S.-EU trade agreement could serve as a model for the rest of the world, setting common standards on regulations, tariffs and investment rules.
In June, the U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth issued an interim report which endorsed beginning talks on a comprehensive trade deal. It outlined categories that a potential agreement should include such as tariffs, non-tariff barriers, regulatory issues, services, investment, procurement, intellectual property rights and rules. A Joint U.S.-EU Statement urged, “the Group to complete its work as quickly as possible, including consultations with public and private stakeholders, in accordance with the respective processes of both sides, with the goal of reaching a recommendation to Leaders later this year on a decision as to the negotiations.” At a press conference following the G20 Summit in Mexico, President Barack Obama also acknowledged that, “the United States and the European Union agreed to take the next step in our work towards the possible launching of negotiations on an agreement to strengthen our already very deep trade and investment partnership.” An official announcement is expected sometime after the U.S. election and if trade talks begin early next year, a deal could be signed before the end of 2014.
The U.S.-EU partnership remains the foundation for an international economic order. Regardless of whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins the upcoming election, it appears as if U.S.-EU trade negotiations will become a priority. More globalization is not the solution to our financial woes. Such an agreement would serve to further erode U.S. sovereignty and economic freedom. If you factor in that the EU already has a trade deal with Mexico and is close to signing one with Canada, combined with a future agreement with the U.S., you then have the basis for a NAFTA-EU free trade zone. This would be an important step in advancing the goal of creating a Transatlantic Union.
Related articles by Dana Gabriel
Growing Opposition to the Canada-EU Trade Agreement
Advancing the Transatlantic Agenda
From NAFTA to CETA: Canada-EU Deep Economic Integration
Spreading NAFTA’s Love Across the Atlantic
Dana Gabriel is an activist and independent researcher. He writes about trade, globalization, sovereignty, security, as well as other issues. Contact: beyourownleader@hotmail.com Visit his blog at Be Your Own Leader
Aleppo Now Flooded with Turkish Products – Mr Aleppo [video]
108morris108
October 28, 2012
Cultural and industrial sites destroyed
Ceasefire not holding
Kurds fighting FSA
No militias supporting the governmenmt
but neighbourhoods are allowed small arms and to make checkpoints
Airforce now bombing supply routes
FSA controlling villages outside Aleppo
Morris Afterthought: This reminds me of Libya – Turkey provided weapons to the rebels and it just recently held a trade fair in Tripoli for Turkish goods.
Corporate Psychosis: Are You Exhibiting Symptoms?
by Bernie Suarez, Contributor
Activist Post
October 16, 2012
The term ‘psychosis’ is used to describe a mental disorder in people; generally defined by Stedman’s Medical Dictionary as – ‘a mental disorder causing gross distortion or disorganization of a person’s mental capacity, affective response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to others to the degree of interfering with his capacity to cope with the ordinary demands of everyday life.‘
So if a person’s mental health is subjected to this ‘psychosis’ criteria why not corporations? Here is an argument that (esp. large mega-size) ‘Corporations’ have been getting by with operating under a very ‘psychotic’ state which deserves more consideration. Corporations exhibit their brand of psychosis; ‘corporate psychosis’ which is a danger to humanity our freedoms and liberties.
Many large corporations operate under rules that induce behaviors that are reflective of human psychosis. Since in the opinion of the Supreme Court, corporations are humans and are entitled to 1st Amendment rights, it is therefore reasonable to apply the rules of psychology to corporations as we would to individuals. Why not?
Corporations are made up of people whose mental status is measured by these definitions, so how then do people acting together in a ‘business’ agreement escape the reality of these definitions? It’s time to remove the smokescreen of (government and) large corporations exempting themselves from individual responsibilities, morals and mental health profile, while at the same time claiming ‘human’ status only when it’s convenient (i.e. political campaign contribution limitations, etc). This attempt to sidestep responsibility and mental health is in itself a manifestation of a ‘corporate psychosis’ which addresses the mental status of the (corporate) person.
Taking a Closer Look
Corporate psychosis may be exhibited when large corporations make policies that are contrary to natural laws or things like the constitutional principles that guide American values and protect individual freedom. The values and freedoms being provided and protected belong to the people, and people make up corporations. Are corporations (like people) able to cope with the demands of everyday life in a reasonable manner without acting in ways that are counter-communicative or productive of unhealthy affective response? Does the way a corporation responds to the reality in front of them indicate a reality disconnect?
Endorsing the idea that by getting enough people together in a business agreement, both makes you a human entity and conveniently allows you to circumvent behavioral and cognitive standards, is a (corporate) state of mind that is very fictional and dangerously disconnected from reality.
We should then ask ourselves; if the ‘corporate’ individual persons agree on a delusion, is the delusion no longer a delusion because they have a business agreement that binds them together for a common cause?
If enough (corporate) people agree that abusing the poor is not wrong, or acting as mercenaries is not unethical, does that exonerate the perpetrators? Reflecting back on the definition of ‘psychosis’ one important criteria is the ability to recognize reality; many mega-corporations fail to recognize the reality that surrounds them and instead act selfishly often upholding rules that are entirely unethical, unconstitutional, unfair to the individual, without sound human logic and without good reason.
Without creating a long list of examples, suffice to say it is clear that we have all become psychotic to some degree if we believe that corporations are not only people, but that at the same time private corporations can operate above the law and subvert the very basic fundamentals of respect for human life, human dignity and the observance of respect for nature.
Are you a victim of corporate psychosis? It is all around us today and the time is now to tear down the psychological safety wall we have allowed the mega-corporations to build in our minds.
Corporations are run by people and none of the parties involved in corporate-implemented psychosis are exempt from individual responsibility. The time for accountability is now; and one way to begin this cleansing is by addressing and exposing all forms of criminal and psychotic behavior whether at the individual, corporate or government level.
Since the Supreme Court has declared that corporations are people, then we need to take these patients into the psych ward for a full evaluation before they can be discharged back into the public.
Bernie Suarez is an activist, critical thinker, radio host, musician, M.D, Veteran, lover of freedom and the Constitution, and creator of the Truth and Art TV project. He also has a background in psychology and highly recommends that everyone watch a documentary titled The Century of the Self. Bernie has concluded that the way to defeat the New World Order is to truly be the change that you want to see. Manifesting the solution and putting truth into action is the very thing that will defeat the globalists.
The Next War: Destination “Lebanon”
by Rev. Richard Skaff
Global Research
October 21, 2012
The New York times reported that a powerful bomb devastated a Christian neighborhood of Lebanon’s capital on Friday October 19, 2012, killing an intelligence official long viewed as an enemy by neighboring Syria and unnerving as Syria’s sectarian-fueled civil war threatened to engulf the region.
The blast which sheared off the face of buildings, killed at least eight people, wounded 80 and transformed a quiet tree-lined street in to a scene reminiscent of Lebanon’s long civil war. Within hours of the attack the Lebanese authorities said the dead included the intelligence chief of the country’s internal security service, Brig. Gen. Wissam Al-Hassan 47, spurring accusations that the Syrian government had assassinated him for recently uncovering what the authorities said was a Syrian plot to provoke unrest in Lebanon. They wanted to get him, and they got him, “said Paul Salem a regional analyst with the Carnegie Middle East Center.” [1]
The Associated Press reported that the Friday blast was a reminder of Lebanon’s grim history, when the 1975-1990 Civil War made the country notorious for kidnappings, car bombs, and political assassinations. The associated Press went on to say that even the war’s end, Lebanon has been a proxy battleground for the regional conflicts, and the seaside capital has been a prey to sudden and often unexplained violence shattering periods of calm. As usual State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland condemned the bombing. She said the U.S. had no information about the perpetrators. Meanwhile, Syrian information minister Omran Al-Zouebi denounced the bombing, calling it a “terrorist and cowardly” attack. At the same time, Syria’s top ally in Lebanon the Shiite Hezbollah movement also condemned the attack expressing its “state of great shock over this terrible crime.” [2]
Analysis
As in every crime scene we need to first assess who the instigators might be, and who would benefit from these acts of violence. Should we just gather the usual suspects and bury the truth? Or should we expand our horizon and explore other possible suspects.
Ironically and for decades, most of the sudden acts of violence in Lebanon have been committed by unknown hands and have gone unclaimed, leaving room for speculation and accusations, which is a convenient way to lay the blame on a specific person, group, party, sect, or country, resulting in the creation of a mistrustful and paranoid atmosphere that reinforces divisiveness.
It is no secret that Lebanon’s relationship with Syria has been toxic for many years despite the proximity between the two countries and the political declarations by their politicians who pronounce them as two closely-knitted nations.
Syria has been engulfed for the past year in an alleged civil unrest aiming at regime change just like in Egypt, Iraq, Libya and other neighboring Arab Countries under the guise of a revolutionary Arab spring financed by Western and Saudi money. These sham revolutions have been instigated, fueled, and staged by western powers and their proxies in the Middle East like the Israelis and the Saudis.
The Western intelligence agencies in Syria as in Libya, Egypt, and Iraq have unleashed once again their mercenaries known otherwise as the Mujahedeen or Al Quaeda fighters who were once trained and financed by the Central Intelligence Agency, Mossad, and other Western Intelligence apparatus to fight Soviet Troops during the Soviet-Afghani war in the 1980s. These mercenaries have been moved from one hot spot to another to fuel and destabilize countries that are not fully aligned with US policies. The destabilization process usually begins with instigation, bribes to local politicians and peasants to create a fertile breeding ground for recruiting criminals who become well-paid resistance fighters. Subsequently, the undesirable regimes will buckle and their leaders are dethroned and assassinated. Meanwhile the US media is grooming and preparing the American public to accept and support another low intensity conflict in a far region of the earth. By the time they are done the public is fearful and fully behind their president to take down another evildoer that threatens American interest and sovereignty. Remember that you have to give a dog a bad name before you kill him. The media is always ready for this entertaining task that terrifies the proles and improves their ratings. You must also realize that people love pseudo-wars that are easily won, because they vicariously act out their instinctual aggression through these military exercises called wars by our politicians and the media.
Mr. Obama doesn’t need another mini-war or a terror attack to win this coming election despite the multimillion dollar theatrics of a pseudo-democracy. His inept opponent was picked by the elite to ensure an easy win, because Mr. Obama has continued his predecessor’s policies and completely fulfilled what is expected of him despite the caustic rhetoric that get the proles excited. Therefore, and after the election is over, Syria, the poor country with no significant resources that borders Israel, an old Soviet client, and a current Russian ally will be fully embroiled in deeper violence that will eventually obliterate its secular regime that was once supported by the U.S., which will result in a total disintegration of that country into small, fanatic, allegedly independent, and homogeneous principalities bickering with each other and under the indirect control of the Israeli Zionist regime. The Western plan for the Middle East coincides with Yinon’s vision to redraw the region and the new re-mapping has to go through Syria.
Lebanon and Iran will follow. Iran would be the toughest to divide because of its homogenous Shiite population, but the nuclear weapon card will be played to its fullest.
Lebanon’s alleged past “Civil War” was a financed prototype for balkanizing countries, and a prospective model for the entire region and the world. Unfortunately, Lebanon that was once called the Switzerland of the Mediterranean will never have peace and will continue to have bloodshed until “Hezbollah” “God’s party” is totally disarmed and destroyed in order to ensure the security of Israel and the re-division of that country. The Israeli intelligence has been extremely active in Lebanon for years in a continuous effort to destabilize it, or to create incidents of provocation that will justify an invasion of the country or an assassination of powerful Lebanese political figures.
Meanwhile, the great Colonial Western Powers will deem these financed and pre-planned conflicts in the Middle East as zealous, barbaric and uncivilized, which will give them high moral ground and the green light to justify and maintain their blood sucking strategy to impoverish these nations and send them back into the middle ages. Ironically, these western nations that claim sophistication and magnificence acquire their superpower through their innate and natural parasitic mechanism that allows them to forcibly or manipulatively attach themselves to any host country and suck the blood (oil, resources, gold, etc) out of it, then, slowly leave it to die. At the same time, these resource vampires arrogantly promulgate their new aristocracies on the graves of other nations, and proclaim grandeur and superiority by attributing it to their Christian love, morality, and democratic ideology.
Finally, Lebanon will continue to bleed as the whole Middle East will continue to hemorrhage until every drop of oil and resource are totally depleted, and then and only then, the Near East where the dawn of Western Civilization began will be left alone to quietly perish.
Notes
The Prorogation Of Parliament [video]
Press For Truth
October 26, 2012
The prorogation of parliament has been used to manipulate the Canadian people through our political system under the direction of the unelected Governor General for federal matters and the Lieutenant Governor for provincial matters.
On Monday October 15th Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty announced that he was resigning as both leader of the liberal party and as the Premier of Ontario. With the permission of the Lieutenant Governor McGuinty’s last act as leader was to prorogue the provincial parliament.
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Times So Tough Some Families Schedule ‘No Food Days’
What would it be like to schedule a ‘no food’ day for your family due to skyrocketing food prices?
By Shepard Ambellas
theintelhub.com
October 13, 2012
As men play with god-like powers such as weather modification, parts of the world suffer from drought and famine.
Coincidence or Not?
In some parts of the US and the world crop yields are at all time lows not seen since the 1970′s.
In fact, parts of the country have also sustained record drought levels in 2012.
SouthCoastToday.com reports;
CHICAGO — Drought damage to corn and soybean fields in the United States, the world’s top grower and exporter, is eroding supplies of the nation’s two largest crops to below year-earlier consumption levels for the first time since 1974.
The government is expected to say today that the U.S. corn harvest and inventories on Sept. 1 will be a combined 11.604 billion bushels, less than the 12.33 billion consumed and exported last year, according to a Bloomberg survey of 31 analysts.
Soybean supplies will be 2.932 billion bushels, below the 3.157 billion used in 2011.
Supplies failed to top usage from the previous year only twice since 1960 for corn and five times for soybeans, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show.
Record heat in June and July sparked the worst drought since 1956, sending corn and soybeans prices to record highs.
Morgan Stanley predicted corn may rally 35 percent in a year, while Barclays Plc sees soybeans gaining 16 percent.
Higher costs for dairies, grain processors and livestock producers helped send global food prices in September to the highest since March, United Nations data show.
Our Planet is Being Terraformed
Although technology has allowed men to posses god-like powers, most are not mature or sane enough to use them.
Bilderberg member and globalist adviser Henry Kissinger, in his now infamous National Security Study Memorandum 200 white paper, detailed how food shortages, drought, and famine would affect the population globally in years to come.
Now declassified this study has since unfolded literally right before our eyes.
Was Kissinger a visionary, or was he significant in forming a blueprint for a sinister global depopulation agenda?
Are more food shortages to come?
Kurt Nimmo wrote;
In an article posted on the Hindustan Times website, N. Chandra Mohan cites Mark Thirwell, Director of the International Economy Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, Australia.
“This is not the first time in modern economic history that the Malthusian spectre of global food shortages has stalked the world economy,” writes Thirwell.
“Surges in food prices in the 1970s and then again in the mid-1990s both prompted warnings that agricultural capacity was failing to keep pace with a growing world population. Each time the prices jumped, it proved to be temporary as supply responded.”
Mr. Mohan believes, this time around, there will be no supply ready to respond. He links this dire situation to “policy neglect of agriculture” and “climate and environmental degradation.”
Thirwell essentially concurs with Kissinger’s memo.
Now, here in 2012, things have spiraled down to a whole new level as some families are holding out on eating 1 day a week due to economic and or food related hardships.
An Independent article excerpt reads;
World grain prices have risen so high that families in poorer countries are being forced to schedule “food-free days” each week, according to one of the leading experts on global agriculture.
The extreme rationing is an “an unprecedented manifestation of food stress,” according to Lester Brown, president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, and the most respected environmental observer of food and agricultural trends.
While regional food shortages are far from uncommon, the sheer number of people in the developing world who can no longer afford to eat every day has appalled humanitarian workers.
“We have not seen this before, where a family systematically schedules days where they do not eat, when they know they can’t buy enough every day so they decide at the beginning of the week, this week we won’t eat on Wednesday or we won’t eat on Saturday,” Mr Brown said yesterday.
Shepard Ambellas is the founder & director of theintelhub.com (a popular alternative news website), researcher, investigative journalist, radio talk show host, and filmmaker. Follow Shepard on Twitter/NotForSale2NWO and on Youtube.com/user/NotForSale2NWO. Also, be sure to check out my upcoming documentary, SHADEtheMotionPicture.com (An Ambellas & Bermas Film).


