Elizabeth Warren to Congress: Don't renew "fast track" authority
The White House and the U.S. Trade Representative are urging Congress to abdicate some of its power over approval of trade agreements by renewing "fast track" authority. Fast track would allow the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership to leapfrog customary legislative protocol and be put to a rapid "up or down" vote without a public hearing, floor debate, or amendments. Forcing Congress to vote on an agreement this complex without adequate time for open hearings, review, and public scrutiny, sets a dangerous precedent. Congress, we urge you: just say NO to fast track!
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Partisan punditry/ trolling distractions aside...
The issue at hand is what is on the board, and what does the public know about it.
If the US public knows anything about their rights, bought and sold, in the current TPP proposal, it is thanks to one Mr Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, hiding from US authorities, who have already threatened to kill him if they got him, in the Ecuadorian Embassy (a true one, not a Benghazi fake) in London, which the London Police threatened to invade to get him, but were held back in the last minute by a threat from the Organization of Latin American Nations. And there is also a scene with two Swedish blondes, simultaneously pleasing the same rascal Assange.
This is not Thousand Nights and a Night, the movie remake, this is not the propaganda story for purging some US generals, this is real life in the 21st century...
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Where exactly does it leave the US today in the realm of civilized societies?
I would say dictatorial.
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