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WIP: Work in Progress

Although it seems to be being discussed in the EU, we're losing democracy here in the US too.  Something has profoundly changed.

Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda

Yanis Varoufakis: The Future of Capitalism | The New School

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News
  • Arbitrary bills successfully making the poor's healthcare subsidies subsidize the rich. Apr 10, 2021
  • Cashless system will enable more aggressive recovery of large debts, like student loan debt. Medical debts, money still owed after foreclosures on housing. Apr 10, 2021
  • Prosperity Undermined, by Public Citizen. Apr 07, 2021
  • Video: What is Robo-Debt? Mar 28, 2021
  • Two videos about the fraudulent beginnings of the offshore finance world in the decline of the former British Empire, in the private City of London. Mar 28, 2021
  • Why are several English-speaking countries trying to set up impossible situations to deliberately shame their poor people? Mar 15, 2021
  • WTO signalling it does not want to allow countries to use COVID-19 as an excuse to get out of their trade commitments.(which includes the offshore trading of potentially tens of millions of good jobs, to companies outside the US, a sensitive subject now) Mar 14, 2021
  • WAS THE RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 epidemic really planned in two weeks, or was it planned in advance? Mar 11, 2021
  • Therapeutic Potential of Resveratrol in COVID-19-Associated Hemostatic Disorders Mar 05, 2021
  • Australia's Cashless debit card. is it courtesy of US mega-corporations too? The cashless push seems scary, with potential to create totalitarianistic prisons for the soul where poor people are considered potentially guilty of crime simply for being poor. Is this the future under neoliberalism? Mar 04, 2021
More news…
This folder's contents:
  • What is "Services Liberalization", and what does it mean for our way of life?
  • What is 'genelining'?
  • The abundance effect: Unethical behavior in the presence of wealth
  • My speculative predictions for how Biden or Trump would react to an economic crash
  • COVID-19 and Defenses in the Law of State Responsibility
  • Discussion of the ongoing war on the poor and middle class.
  • Why can't our national healthcare system have tiers ('metal levels') and work?
  • Is this site credible?
  • Fake "Public Option" scheme trotted out every four years to hide the GATS lock-in for another four years.
  • Discussion of Tax Havens and US's role as world's third largest tax haven
  • Excellent piece on FTA concepts, despite its age.
  • Discussion of 3 ISDS cases. Services under attack.
  • democratic deficit

Note: Everything on this site is speculative and I am not an attorney,
I am an amateur futurist, and this site is an attempt to pose what-if scenarios so we could improve the resilience of our society, in the face of autocratic so called 'futureproofing' deals that serve to do an end run around democracy in all sorts of areas, stealing future policy space for corporations. Questions should be being asked about the legitimacy - given their democratic deficit, of these trade and investment agreements, because they have become an undemocratic, higher-level supranational government of by and for the global oligarchy, not "We the people".

More on GATS, TRIPS, TISA, and what services can remain public.

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