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Occupiers In London Meet Violent Police Response During Mass Eviction

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<h2>Occupiers In London Meet Violent Police Response During Mass Eviction</h2>
<span>Occupiers In London Meet Violent Police Response During Mass Eviction</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.guardiannews.com/" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a></span></div>
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<p>High court enforcement officers used sledgehammers and battering rams in a bid to evict more than 100 people from a north London housing estate awaiting redevelopment.</p>
<p>The confrontation began shortly before 8am on Wednesday and comes six months after the former Ministry of Defence housing estate, Sweets Way in Whetstone, was occupied by housing activists protesting against the eviction of families, many of whom were previously homeless.</p>
<p>Police dog teams, ambulances and fire engines were on standby as several people who have been occupying the homes since March climbed on to the roofs and refused to come down.</p>
<p>Those evicted described how enforcement officers smashed down their doors without warning and gave them 10 minutes to leave. They said there were violent confrontations with some people being carried out, including one man in his seventies. One person reportedly suffered a cut face after a window was smashed in during the evictions.</p>
<p>“We were scared,” said Carolina, 33, who is six months pregnant and said she now had nowhere to sleep. “They pushed in the doors and about eight of the officers came into each house. It is just unfair. Winter is coming and the number of homeless is growing.”</p>
<p>The squatters’ belongings – including Hula Hoops, curtains, washing-up bowls and bicycles – were piled up in the roads as enforcement officers brought a cherry-picker into the area to try to remove protesters from the roofs.</p>
<p>Wednesday’s action against squatters and housing protesters is the final act of a long-running dispute over the estate, which came to national attention when comedian Russell Brand joined a sleepover there.</p>
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<p>The case of the final tenant, Mostafa Aliverdipour, who is severely disabled and refusing to leave because he believes the replacement home he is being offered is not appropriate, is expected to be heard in court on Wednesday afternoon.</p>
<p>Another couple, Jay and Bibi, who are in their early 20s and had squatted in the properties for a couple of months, told the Guardian they were homeless again as they left the estate with a duvet and a few bags of belongings.</p>
<p>“We are going to get a train into central London and try and sleep under a building,” Jay said. “Some people have places to stay, but we are homeless. We are going to sleep rough. It is just part of this corrupt system. When I was working, if I had been paid double, worked twice as many hours and saved everything, I would only have been able to afford a £100,000 house and what can you buy for that?”</p>
<p>He added he had been able to furnish the house with carpets and furniture as if it was his own.</p>
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<p>There were skirmishes between protesters and police, while enforcement officers and squatters played cat-and-mouse as they tried to intercept bags of food and drink being thrown up to squatters on the roofs.</p>
<p>Annington Homes, the property company controlled by Guy Hands’ Terra Firma investment operation, is planning to replace the 142-home estate with 288 new dwellings. It said 20% of the new homes – at least 59 – will be classed as affordable.</p>
<p>“Annington very much supports the argument for more homes, both in London and elsewhere although there is a need for development to achieve this,” a spokesman said. “It is regrettable when homes need to be demolished, but Annington’s decision to develop will see an increase in the number of homes by 100%.</p>
<p>“Today’s action relates to the mass eviction of over 50 properties currently illegally occupied by squatters. Two high court writs of possession have been issued for high court enforcement officers working in conjunction with police to clear the illegal occupation of the estate.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/23/sweets-way-occupiers-report-violent-clashes-during-mass-eviction-london" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>Housing activists who were protesting the eviction of families took to the roofs Wednesday as enforcement officers used battering rams in an operation to remove them from housing estate.</p>
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<p>A new report shows the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown 50-fold in one year, with more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals pledging to dump carbon stocks – news that complemented Clinton's promise to oppose the tar sands pipeline.</p>
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<p>Skyrocketing abstention from voting, social demobilization and an impending wave of harsh austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s "pragmatic" win at the polls.</p>
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<p>Financial fees are sucking cities and states dry – but they can change the terms if they band together and bargain collectively over interest rates and other financial deals peddled to them by Wall Street.</p>
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<p>Margaret Flowers is speaking up loudly, saying it's high time we got activists in the halls of the mighty and powerful – time to move from occupying the streets to occupying Congress.</p>
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<p>Sanders’s rise in this election season is inconceivable without Occupy Wall Street having elevated the conversation around inequality.</p>
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<p>Those displaced after a “just transition” away from fossil fuels should be able to count on decent new green jobs and retraining.</p>
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<p>Last week's DSEi arms fair in London happened as Europe's refugee crisis reaches new proportions and countries respond to a disaster created in large part by the continent's thriving war machine.</p>
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<p>Companies' undue economic influence comprised the legitimacy of the country’s elections, the Brazilian supreme court ruled.</p>
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<p>From movements in Bolivia and Uruguay to voter rebellions in Nigeria, Holland, Italy, France and Ireland, citizens worldwide are demanding the return of their water to public hands.</p>
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<p>Robert Califf has deeper ties to the pharmaceutical industry than any F.D.A. commissioner in recent memory.</p>
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Climate Movement Momentum: Carbon Divestments Top $2.6 Trillion As Hillary Rejects Keystone XL

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<h2>Climate Movement Momentum: Carbon Divestments Top $2.6 Trillion As Hillary Rejects Keystone XL</h2>
<span>Climate Movement Momentum: Carbon Divestments Top $2.6 Trillion As Hillary Rejects Keystone XL</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/" rel="nofollow">Reuters</a></span></div>
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<p>Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday joined more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals who have promised to divest from fossil fuels, as <a href="http://www.arabellaadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Measuring-the-Growth-of-the-Divestment-Movement.pdf" rel="nofollow">new research showed</a> they hold total assets of $2.6 trillion.</p>
<p>The report by investment experts reveals the movement to take money out of fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas has grown 50-fold in one year. At the same time, more capital is flowing into renewable energy and other solutions to climate change problems, it said.</p>
<p>"Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants," said DiCaprio, announcing his promise to divest on behalf of himself and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which supports conservation projects around the world. "We must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels, the main driver of this global problem," the celebrity environmentalist added in a statement.</p>
<p>Local governments and investors from 43 countries have committed to stop supporting fossil fuels, including municipalities, pension funds, medical associations and churches, the coalition backing the movement said. The report, launched in New York by investment consultancy Arabella Advisors, did not specify how much of the $2.6 trillion in overall assets represented by those that have pledged to divest was invested in fossil fuels.</p>
<p>Thomas Van Dyck, managing director of SRI Wealth Management Group, said the research showed a growing number of investors wanted to reduce their carbon risk and switch their money into clean-growth industries. "That underscores what I see every day as a financial advisor – that the demand for fossil-free investment products is increasing," he said in a statement.</p>
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<p><strong>Catching Fire</strong></p>
<p>In the past year, activists have targeted the shareholders and creditors of fossil fuel companies and their corporate and social partners, while ramping up pressure on universities and religious institutions to stop investing in those firms.</p>
<p>The tactics are getting results – particularly in the United States, Britain and some Scandinavian countries, campaigners say.</p>
<p>"If these numbers tell us anything, it's that the divestment movement is catching fire," said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, an online climate action group. She said the expansion of the movement should send a clear message to world leaders ahead of U.N. talks in Paris, where they are due to agree on a new global deal to tackle climate change in December.</p>
<p>"It's time for them to follow suit, and divest our governments from fossil fuel companies too," Boeve added.</p>
<p>Divestment strategies differ across organizations, the coalition noted. Some are withdrawing their money from all fossil fuel companies, while others are beginning with firms involved in coal or tar sands.</p>
<p>A papal pronouncement issued by Pope Francis in June demanding swift action to save the planet from environmental ruin has influenced religious institutions, experts say.</p>
<p>"The pace of fossil fuel divestment within faith communities worldwide, combined with the growing commitment to investing in clean energy, particularly for the world's poor, show that the world's spiritual and moral leaders grasp the urgency of the climate crisis and are ready to act," said Rev. Fletcher Harper, executive director of GreenFaith, a U.S.-based interfaith coalition for the environment.</p>
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<p><strong>MEANWHILE, Rebecca Leber <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122898/president-hillary-clinton-could-put-obamas-climate-record-shame" rel="nofollow">reports in The New Republic</a> that Hillary Clinton's announcement Tuesday that she no longer supports the Keystone XL pipeline comes as a huge win for the climate movement:</strong></p>
<p>On Tuesday afternoon, with the nation’s attention turned to Pope Francis making landfall in Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton gave an Iowa town hall the answer environmentalists have long waited to hear from her on the Keystone XL pipeline. “I oppose it,” she said.</p>
<p>For years, the former secretary of state has insisted she could not come forward with her personal opinion on the project, using an assortment of excuses to explain that she would not comment while the State Department’s review of the project – which has stretched on endlessly, and conveniently for Clinton, since 2009 – was still in progress.</p>
<p>That's recently changed, as the pressure for her to come forward has only grown with Senator Bernie Sanders’ rise in the polls. Last week, she warned, "I'm putting the White House on notice” on Keystone; on Tuesday, she handed Keystone activists a clear win, yet still made clear that she sees the project as one giant nuisance.</p>
<p>"I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone Pipeline as what I believe it is, a distraction from important work we have to do on climate change,” Clinton said. “And unfortunately from my perspective, one that interferes with our ability to move forward with all other issues."</p>
<p>Ignore Clinton’s grudging comments. This is a huge political victory for environmentalists. It reflects how significantly the politics around Keystone have shifted in a few years – after all, Clinton herself said she was "inclined" to approve it in 2010. Now, the expectation is Obama too will reject it. It also means the leading Democratic candidate has adopted not one, but two of green activists' key issues. Last month, Clinton said she opposes drilling in the U.S. Arctic, in a significant break from the Obama administration. "It's not worth the risk of drilling," she tweeted.</p>
<p>Her reasons for championing the policies that are near and dear to environmentalists probably have more to do with fending off Sanders’ unexpected success early in the campaign cycle. Sanders has long opposed Keystone, and as the White House decision has lingered, Clinton was increasingly painted into a corner. She could dodge endless questions about her position on Keystone, or she could finally silence critics who say Sanders is a better climate ally than Clinton.</p>
<p>But now, in a dramatic shift in perception, Clinton herself has become an ally applying pressure to the administration. Today grassroots groups praised Clinton for shaking her sometimes-aloof reputation on climate change. “Hillary is now standing with us to ask President Obama to reject the pipeline once and for all," said one anti-Keystone activist, Bold Nebraska Director Jane Kleeb, adding, "We are proud Sec. Clinton stood up for clean water today."</p>
<p>The question now: How much further will she go? Was the Keystone announcement politics or principle? The early primary season offers progressive activists the best chance they'll have to push Clinton to stake out aggressive climate policies, and they know it. What they hope to see next is a bold stand against federal policies that promote fossil fuel development. “I think logically the train of thought would lead anyone to say, we have to leave carbon in the ground,” Bill McKibben, a climate activist and journalist who's led the Keystone opposition, told me in an email after Clinton finally spoke out.</p>
<p>If Clinton continues to break with Obama on the areas where he remains weakest on the environment, she could outpace his accomplishments in office if elected president. The key is whether she continues to focus on policies that discourage the production of fossil fuels, like mining and drilling on public lands. The federal government leases 67 million acres to the fossil fuel industry, and Obama has approved leases for a quarter of them. “And the president of the U.S. actually has control over a lot of ground, without even having to ask anyone in Congress.” Clinton has clearly decided to go after the climate vote, but she will have to do more to fully earn it.</p>
<p><a href="http://planetark.org/wen/73674" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Reuters</a></p>
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<p>A new report shows the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown 50-fold in one year, with more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals pledging to dump carbon stocks – news that complemented Clinton's promise to oppose the tar sands pipeline.</p>
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<p>Skyrocketing abstention from voting, social demobilization and an impending wave of harsh austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s "pragmatic" win at the polls.</p>
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<p>Financial fees are sucking cities and states dry – but they can change the terms if they band together and bargain collectively over interest rates and other financial deals peddled to them by Wall Street.</p>
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<p>Margaret Flowers is speaking up loudly, saying it's high time we got activists in the halls of the mighty and powerful – time to move from occupying the streets to occupying Congress.</p>
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<p>Sanders’s rise in this election season is inconceivable without Occupy Wall Street having elevated the conversation around inequality.</p>
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<p>Those displaced after a “just transition” away from fossil fuels should be able to count on decent new green jobs and retraining.</p>
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<p>Last week's DSEi arms fair in London happened as Europe's refugee crisis reaches new proportions and countries respond to a disaster created in large part by the continent's thriving war machine.</p>
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A Pyrrhic Victory In Greece: Why Tsipras's Re-Election Means "Austerity With a Human Face"

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<h2>A Pyrrhic Victory In Greece: Why Tsipras's Re-Election Means "Austerity With a Human Face"</h2>
<span>A Pyrrhic Victory In Greece: Why Tsipras's Re-Election Means "Austerity With a Human Face"</span>
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<p>There is nothing to celebrate, really. Maybe the European leftists who arrived in Athens to support Alexis Tsipras are justified to celebrate, since they have a vision of Syriza that is external and more often than not romanticized. As far as Greeks are concerned, no one can doubt that there are honest and well-meaning left-wing people who have voted for Syriza or are even (still) members of Syriza. But after the developments of the last few months the last thing they want to do is celebrate.</p>
<p>How can they celebrate, when tomorrow the new Syriza-led government has to enforce and oversee the implementation of a harsh attack on nature and the popular classes, having given up its capacity to legislate without the tutelage of Brussels and Berlin, and being under constant financial blackmail by the creditors?</p>
<p><strong>Left-wing Pragmatism and Social Demobilization</strong></p>
<p>Tsipras' new "selling point" is his fight against corruption and the oligarchy, since his newly-adopted "pragmatism" dictates that he cannot anymore fight against austerity and neoliberal restructuring. Thus, the horizon of left-wing politics in Greece has become an "austerity with a human face," a "less corrupt" and "more just" enforcement of neoliberal barbarity.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, in the coming months we are going to witness Tsipras' "political maturity" and "pragmatism" extending to ever new areas: Pragmatism dictates that you cannot fight against those who own all the wealth and the mass media in Greece, that you cannot shut down the disastrous gold mine in Skouries, that you have to privatize the water companies after all, that you cannot permit worker occupations like VIOME to challenge private property, that you have to deal with protest and dissent deploying the forces of public order.</p>
<p>In short, left-wing pragmatism is going to achieve everything that right-wing arrogance could not, that is, to subdue a population that has been fighting against neoliberal barbarity for five years.</p>
<p>All the while, the social movements have been tricked into standing by and waiting for Syriza to fulfil the role it assigned for itself: that of the mediator between social resistances and political power. The government is gaining political time, while movement demobilization means that struggles are defeated one by one: The self-managed workers of ERT banished by the new management, the anti-mining movement in Halkidiki seeing the destruction of its land... Who is next? Maybe self-managed VIOME, struggling to legitimize its activity in adverse conditions? Maybe Thessaloniki's water movement, which fiercely fought and stopped privatisation, only to see it back on the table according to the terms of the new memorandum?</p>
<p>The failure of Syriza’s splinter “Popular Unity” to mobilize left-wing voters comes as no surprise: despite the anti-memorandum rhetoric, the new party repeated some of the more objectionable practices of Syriza: It was constituted in a top-down process, solely on party cadres, built around flamboyant and self-centred personalities, projecting a hegemonism towards movements and other political forces, seeking followers rather than allies, projecting its state-centric program of national capitalist reconstruction outside the euro as the holy grail of transformatory politics. It failed to mobilize ex-Syriza voters, most of whom preferred to stay at home rather than go out to vote for Popular Unity; it also failed to convince the disenchanted movement-friendly party base of Syriza, which to this moment remains politically homeless. It thus allowed Tsipras to emerge as the absolute winner of the electoral game.</p>
<p><strong>Electoral Abstention and the “Lesser Evil”</strong></p>
<p>Someone could argue that Syriza retaining its electoral percentage on Sunday's elections is a sign that the bulk of the population consents to the party's "pragmatism." Two points should be stressed here:</p>
<p>Firstly, it is a perfectly respectable stance to vote for Syriza as the lesser neoliberal evil. Voting by definition involves complex calculations, political blackmail and a host of ethical dilemmas that the Greeks have faced three times in less than eight months. Those who abstain for political reasons cannot claim moral superiority over those who use their vote instrumentally in this fluid and complex political situation. But let's not assume either that all the people who cast an instrumental vote for Syriza in order to prevent the reinstatement of the hated New Democracy are going to stand by with their arms crossed when the government begins its raid against people and nature in the next few months.</p>
<p>Secondly, and most importantly, while the political system is designed to maintain appearances and guarantee the continuity of power, no one can deny that the most significant aspect of Sunday's elections was the abstention skyrocketing to 45% from 36% in January and from 29% in 2009. It is easy to calculate that in a country of 10 million registered voters this translates to over 4 million people who do not vote, or about 1 and a half million people who have lost their faith in the political system since the start of the crisis. This last figure represents about as many people as those who vote for either of the two major political parties.</p>
<p>We shouldn’t hasten to claim all these people for the forces of social emancipation and self-determination, as some anarchists would have it. Certainly a critical mass of people refrains from voting because it has a conception of politics as an embodied collective process, not as a ritual stuffing of the ballot box -even of one does not necessarily preclude the other. Nevertheless, a wide range of motives and circumstances can lead to this disenchantment, which can include apathy, helplessness, individualism and resignation.</p>
<p>The political system could not care less about this huge mass of disenchanted citizens – as long as they stay at home and they do not vote for protest parties that could cause disruption, it is all the same to them. Indeed, the ones that should be really concerned about this part of the population should be the social movements and the ideological movements that feel closer to the grassroots, namely the libertarian movement and the extra-parliamentary left. How can we break through the wall of apathy and individualism, connect with the desires and aspirations of the disenchanted population, cultivate collective spirit, social organisation and creativity, desire for change and emancipation?</p>
<p><strong>The Inadequacy of Political Practices</strong></p>
<p>Unfortunately large chunks of the libertarian and leftist movements are more concerned about preserving their own identity than connecting with the disenchanted classes. We circulate our indecipherable manifests, largely for internal consumption; we cling to our ideological purity and our maximalist rhetoric; we shout out our angry slogans and cradle our flags; we boast when we have a handful of protesters more in our marches or when our parties get a few thousand votes more in the elections. All the while, millions of people out there are hungry for social change, but are probably resigned into an individualistic existence, and we have no means of getting through to them.</p>
<p>While many would interpret the 45% of abstention as a healthy rejection of the pointless simulacrum that is representative democracy, it can as well be interpreted as a failure, or rather as a chain of failures: The failure of a social order to incorporate large chunks of the population in the mainstream of social life; the failure of a political system to offer effective avenues of changing said social order; the failure of the social movements and the left to create a new imaginary of transformation of this political system.</p>
<p><strong>An Opportunity to Reflect</strong></p>
<p>The politics of “there is no alternative” promoted by our left-wing government are sure to heighten resignation and apathy; nevertheless a society under extreme pressure for so many years is definitely bound to explode sooner or later. The social movements in Greece have produced admirable responses towards self-emancipation in the last few years, but they have failed to articulate these responses into a coherent voice, a proposal for overcoming the present political and economic order. They have idealised partiality and fragmentation, they have not addressed the issue of political organisation, and have thus been tricked into submission by the hegemonic project of Syriza.</p>
<p>The pyrrhic victory of the left in last Sunday’s elections should initiate a process of critical reflection, both in Greece and throughout Europe. We have ahead of us difficult moments of resistance, and the social movements, however small and insignificant, constitute at present the only remaining antagonistic force against capitalist barbarity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.autonomias.net/2015/09/nothing.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Autonomias</a></p>
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A Spoilt Deal: How a Dispute Over Dairy Helped Sidetrack the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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<h2>A Spoilt Deal: How a Dispute Over Dairy Helped Sidetrack the Trans-Pacific Partnership</h2>
<span>A Spoilt Deal: How a Dispute Over Dairy Helped Sidetrack the Trans-Pacific Partnership</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/bn-ji187_tradej_j_20150710120436.jpg?itok=wo0EtguB" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/bn-ji187_tradej_j_20150710120436.jpg?itok=wo0EtguB" /></a>
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<p>The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been on many people’s minds lately, especially Canadian voters who are preparing to go to the polls on Oct. 19. The massive trade pact includes 12 countries at different stages of economic development, covering some 40% of the world’s economy. It is being negotiated in secret, without consultation from lawmakers in the nations signing on, let alone the citizens of those nations.</p>
<p>Stephen Harper’s Conservatives were hoping to push the deal through before the October election, but they now know this won’t happen. As reported by multiple sources, the last round of talks in Hawaii ended in failure over what many commentators called "minor issues." The setback was good news for global opponents of the trade pact, who know that upcoming elections – not only in Canada but also in Japan and especially in the United States – could derail the TPP, perhaps permanently, depending <a href="http://t.thestar.com/#/article/news/canada/2015/08/03/an-election-with-a-free-trade-deal-harper-govt-involved-in-late-stage-tpp-talks.html" rel="nofollow">who gets elected in each of these countries</a>.</p>
<p>As Reuters reported in the aftermath of the Hawaii talks, key points holding up the negotiations included a dispute between the U.S. and Japan over auto parts production, and the fact that negotiators couldn't reach agreement about the length of new drug patents. The deal-breaker, however, seems to have been dairy products: specifically, a <a href="http://reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Q52FL20150801" rel="nofollow">fight between two countries</a> with relatively small populations, Canada and New Zealand.</p>
<p><strong>The Supply Management Setback</strong></p>
<p>The dispute between Canada and New Zealand hinges mainly on Canada's supply management system. This system features high tariffs on imports and no subsidies for farmers, unlike in the U.S., where government subsidies keep the price of milk products artificially low. Instead, the supply management system does almost the opposite, by keeping prices higher.</p>
<p>More concretely, the system puts quotas on how much milk – as well as cheese, poultry and eggs – can be produced and sold by farmers. This means consumers pay a higher purchase price to help ensure the domestic industry remains viable for producers.</p>
<p>Whether one agrees with its supply management system or not, Canada's lack of subsidies for dairy producers would suddenly become very problematic once the TPP goes into effect, according to John Morriss, associate publisher and editorial director of Farm Business Communications. In an <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/supply-management-is-about-more-than-the-powerful-dairy-lobby/article25340889/" rel="nofollow">op-ed in The Globe and Mail</a>, Morriss makes the valid point that New Zealand, which has been the most vocal country pushing to open up foreign markets to dairy producers, can graze cows year round while Canadian dairy farmers, due to the long northern winter, enjoy much less productivity.</p>
<p><strong>Scrutinizing the Record</strong></p>
<p>Many in favor of the TPP claim that those who are opposed to it can’t possibly know the outcome of the more controversial parts of the deal that have been leaked. There is, however, some precedent set by earlier trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, where observers feel confident about their projections.</p>
<p>For one, TPP opponents worry that disputes between signatories will be handled by tribunals headed by corporate lawyers rather than in national courts of law. Similar issues have come up in Canada under NAFTA, like the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/18/eli-lilly-nafta-lawsuit-canada_n_5596580.html" rel="nofollow">case of Eli Lilly</a>, an American drug manufacturer that was “accused... of trying to turn the North American Free Trade Agreement’s arbitration panel into a ‘supranational court of appeal.’” The drug company lost two patent cases in Canada. But rather than accept the courts’ authority, it is attempting to make the Canadian government, and by association all Canadians, pay $500 million in what it deems to be “lost profits,” by taking its case to an arbitration panel.</p>
<p>Another instance of a company trying to use NAFTA’s arbitration panel to supersede the right of government to regulate industry is Lone Pine Resources, a Calgary-based oil and gas company. The <a href="http://canadians.org/action/petition/index.php" rel="nofollow">company has threatened</a> to sue Canada for $250 million in lost profits for a moratorium the Quebec government put on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the province. An added hypocrisy: the Canadian company <a href="http://canadians.org/blog/nafta-challenge-against-fracking-moratorium-fast-tracked" rel="nofollow">is incorporated</a> in Delaware for tax purposes.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html" rel="nofollow">an editorial in the Washington Post</a> where she clarified that the Investor-State Dispute Settlement courts would be even more powerful under the TPP than they have been under NAFTA’s arbitration panels. “Replacing the U.S. legal system with a complex and unnecessary alternative – on the assumption that nothing could possibly go wrong – seems like a really bad idea,” wrote Warren.</p>
<p>While Canada's Conservative party firmly supports the trade deal, it is not alone. The New Democratic Party, traditionally a leftist party in Canada, has taken a neoliberal turn since Thomas Mulcair became its leader. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/politics/story/1.3178689" rel="nofollow">Mulcair says</a> he is “enthusiastically in favor” of the trade deal, but with the promise that his party will defend the supply management system. Meanwhile, the Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau has been oddly silent on the TPP, perhaps calculating that its out and out support could hurt the party’s chances with rural voters.</p>
<p>The one party that has strongly opposed the trade deal is the Green Party, which is not yet a formidable political force in the country although its leader, Elizabeth May, is popular and more charismatic than the three white men she is facing in the campaign. Throughout, the Green Party and others have asked a basic question: if the TPP is so good, why is it being negotiated in secret? Shouldn’t indigenous people and ethnic minorities, not to mention the population at large, be part of any negotiation? In the case of Canada, many argue that sovereign First Nations as well as people with claims under dispute should have a seat at the table when an international trade deal of this scope is being negotiated.</p>
<p>While the Conservative government claims the TPP will be good for ordinary Canadians, opening up heretofore closed markets in Asia to the country’s exports, many are aware that what's really at stake is a boost for the country's extractive industries – like tar sands oil – which are fundamental to the Canadian economy. Many countries already produce manufactured goods at lower prices than Canada's. When it comes to dairy, it's a loser as well. So what TPP advocates appear really to be saying is: this deal is finally about oil.</p>
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<p>A new report shows the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown 50-fold in one year, with more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals pledging to dump carbon stocks – news that complemented Clinton's promise to oppose the tar sands pipeline.</p>
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<p>Financial fees are sucking cities and states dry – but they can change the terms if they band together and bargain collectively over interest rates and other financial deals peddled to them by Wall Street.</p>
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<p>Margaret Flowers is speaking up loudly, saying it's high time we got activists in the halls of the mighty and powerful – time to move from occupying the streets to occupying Congress.</p>
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Muslim Man Sends This Message To Christians: “My people will cut off your balls, Christians . . . I’ll kill you, I’ll ki...

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<p>A Muslim man in England went on the street saying:</p>
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<p>Now England is still allowing him to live in the country because they couldn’t find a passport with which to send him back to Iran where he came from. According to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11888575/Iranian-man-who-threatened-to-behead-passers-by-not-deported-because-officials-couldnt-get-him-passport.html" target="_blank">the report:</a></p>
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<p>An Iranian man who threatened to behead members of the public was set free by authorities because they could not complete the paper work required to deport him.</p>
<p>Officials lost track of Noureden Mallaky-Soodmand, 41, who should have been sent back to Iran following arrests for carrying knives on the streets of London.<br />
But because Iranian embassy officials could not issue travel documents, he was never deported and was simply re-housed 250 miles away in Stockton-on-Tees, a court has heard.</p>
<p>On April 2 this year he ran amok with a curved knife – specifically designed for decapitating victims.</p>
<p>He shouted: “I am Isis and my people will cut off your b—s, Christians.”</p>
<p>One of his targets, Stephen Daumler, 22, has been suffering flashbacks and panic attacks since the incident, which left him in fear for his life.<br />
Stephen and his girlfriend’s 15-year-old brother ran for their lives from Soodmand, who was captured by armed police before he managed to carry out his threats.</p>
<p>Stephen, who works for his family’s salvage business in Stockton, said: “I still wake up panicking and have dreams about being beheaded. I’ve had some really dark thoughts about what happened to Lee Rigby.</p>
<p>“I really thought I was going to die the same way as he did and I’m certain by the look in his eyes that he was prepared to kill that night.<br />
“He was in the middle of the road but he came over and blocked my path and drew a huge curved knife and started yelling “I am a muslim, I am ISIS” he was within arm’s’ reach.</p>
<p>“He had the knife raised and was waiting for someone else to come along. Thankfully the police arrived within about 15 minutes and took him down. It is pure luck that myself or someone else wasn’t killed.</p>
<p>“The police told me later that the knife he was carrying was designed with the purpose of beheading people.”</p>
<p>Teesside Crown Court heard how Stephen walked past him in the street and he shouted: “I’m a Muslim and I’m going to chop your f—ing head off.”</p>
<p>Even after police arrived, the 41-year-old continued to rant, telling officers: “I’m a Muslim and I’ll chop you f—ing head, mother f—ers.</p>
<p>“I’m Isis and my people will cut off your balls, Christians . . . I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you all . . . I’m going to chop your head off, and f— you up.”</p>
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The Muslim Refugees That Are Invading Europe Are Now Persecuting Christians. The Refugees In Europe Are Forcing Christia...

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<p>The Muslim refugees that are invading Europe are now persecuting Christians. They are forcing Christians to convert to Islam and when they refuse, they are throwing them out of the refugee camps. I did a whole video on this with lots of commentary:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/immigration/the-refugee-crisis-and-middle-east-christians.html" target="_blank">According to Fr. George W. Rutler:</a></p>
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<p>This past year, 120,000 Christians were driven from the Nineveh Plain in Iraq with no possessions. During more than four years of civil war, the ancient Christian community in Syria is being destroyed. Christians are not a significant part of the immigrant tide flooding Europe from the UN camps in Syria, Jordan and Turkey because Islamic terrorists have driven them out of those camps for refusing to convert. An Hungarian bishop rightly insisted, and was criticized for it, that to most of the migrants, Christians are second-class citizens. Europe and our own administration in Washington are virtually ignoring their plight, refusing to acknowledge that their Christian faith is the essential fact in the calculus of their suffering. When Coptic Christians were slain in Egypt, our government avoided calling them anything other than “Egyptian citizens.” As Father Kiely has said, “Political correctness is not only a new form of totalitarianism, it is dangerous to national security.”</p>
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<p>Europe and America are not accepting Christians. They are accepting Muslims into their lands under the guise of “compassion.” Lets have real compassion and save our Christian brethren from persecution.</p>
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By Theodore Shoebat The Muslim refugees that are invading Europe are now persecuting Christians. They are forcing Christians to convert ...