Politics,
like bullying, is a way of forcing conformity on others.
Surrender:
After making it abundantly clear that these giganormous sovereignty
renouncing trade deals are but window-dressing for the ISDS
mechanism, the Walloons
have reached a consensus in support of the CETA
trade deal between the EU and Canada. Supposedly
the Walloons are happy with a side deal to the Ceta agreement that
would ask the European Court of Justice to clarify the ISDS. The
addendum still needs the approval of Canada and other EU states. The
concessions given to
Wallonia may prompt
other countries to
take
another
look at the deal, then
each of those demands will have to be met and approved before
presenting the agreement to Canada. The mix of
pressures,blackmail and bribes involved in the Wallonian deal were
not made public.
The
Story Of Us:
Only 25% of Americans think the country is moving in the right
direction, but 52%
approve of the job Obama is doing.
Aggies:
A Texas A&M
coed got arrested after running into a cop car while taking a topless
selfie to send her boyfriend.
Gone
But Not Forgotten:
Newly released FBI
investigative
notes indicate that
most of Clinton’s
33,000 missing emails still exist and could be recovered, if an
agent with a grand jury subpoena in hand showed up and asked for
them. Or
just ask the NSA for their copies.
Primitive
Laws: China is
banning mortgage fraudsters from the banking industry for life; we
can't even make them give back their bonuses.
Bye
Wire Act:
Google is severely cutting its Google Fiber high speed internet
projects in Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Oklahoma
City, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Jose, and Tampa, and laying
off an unspecified number of employees in that endeavor. In
Nashville, where geology forced Google to seek above ground wiring,
Comcast
is suing to stop the implementation of a 'one-touch' rule that
would helped Google's project. Analysts suspect Google will abandon
the fiber-networks in favor of a wireless system.
Tail,
Dog: The EPA
hastily postponed a scheduled public meeting on the safety, if any,
of glyphosate (Roundup) following “intense lobbying” by Monsanto
and friends.
A
Parting Shot:
2 comments:
Since the 'happy medium' is Ordered Chaos we have to wonder if a 'workable mix' [between freedom and stasis] is achievable?
The answer is yes but the proviso is 'sometimes'.
If you look at our current 'playing field' we'd be stymied to determine which 'force' was gaining the upper hand from moment to moment.
How unfortunate 'uncertainty' isn't what it's cracked up to be?
Worse, stoicism is little help either...
Happy Friday all!
The more the press stacked the deck against The Donald, the more time I've spent searching out critical articles about Hillary. It's as though I've had to personally subsidize reasonable journalism for my own piece of mind. I confidently crossed Donald of the list long ago. But everyone has skeletons and it's only reasonable that we have a fair accounting of those that live in the leading candidates' closets.
The next few years are going to be a struggle, but for what it's worth I was able to vote to legalize weed yesterday. I personally don't partake, but I'm not ruling out running that option after a critical level of gold bedazzles the white house, or the corruption hearings start to elicit deja vu.
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