Is BS. People forget the timing of it. It was an attack on Bernie. $hillary tried to blame Russian for the attack on Bernie.

on both sides of the isle need to burnish into our heads, is the MSM is not right or left. Not conservative or liberal. Nor Capitalist or Socialist.
It is through and through Billionaire Class mechinations. For their benefit, and their benefit only.
They have us right where they want us, divided.

Bi9llions of dollas in allegedly over high wages are at stake, and irreversibly opening the nations borders to hundreds of millions of "temporary movement of natural persons" (under tyhe GATS) Evenj if forced to pay a legal US wage, the massive boost to profits represents buillions of dollars in profits to the global corporations. Also we would never vote for thsese changes because they will pull the rug out from under the US's present "middle class".. One can see that this huge change is almost6 inevitable at this point, due to the signature of Bill Clinton and the WTO giveaway of the right to do business in foreign countries, if a firm can bid the lowest one on provision of services of any kind. India explained much of this in a publication they released not too long ago.

Also this video is very much worth viewing if one wants to understand how democracy has been stolen and why. Its to prevent the "majoritarian" peoples wishes from being implemented. Its against democracy. Otherwise "we the people" would just vote to fix things and they could do it and have it done. All of the neoliberal changes have all been to prevent this. And hide it.

They feel that Democrats are resisting the competition they want. Why shoudn't the skilled laborers who are willing to provide now expensive services for a fraction (say one tenth) as much be protected so they can and do do it. Why should the high wages and decent jobs decent pay for decent work be protected,k when it represents a protectionism that makes the cost of labor so much more expensive?

The powers that be invested in countries and businesses, so countries feel obligated due to the WTO rules to protect their foreign investors investments above all else.

This is putti9ng people in a bad position. Increasingly disposable workers are under pressure to agree to wage cuts and losses in crucial areas..

Cash strapped young people are moving into tents and camper vans..

People are not having children. (The low birth rates are being put forward as justifying all this. The investments of international investors now must be protected.)

Why cant they just bring their workers here from wherever they came from and pay them the same as the thinking goes. Workers will work almost for free if the act of working here leads to citizenship. They will even pay for jobs. The neoliberals have set up a supranational legal authority the WTO, which elevates the new global financial order. Even if its legitimacy is very questionable.

The Democrats and Republicans lied.

GATS prevents the creation of new social safety nets (even if that was allowed under the WTO) and trades away the jobs which were until 1995 likely to be managed by powerful labor unions, or public services unions, The top priority is not discriminati9ng against corporations, nomatter where they come from.

These laws against discrimination which protect workers, are poof now discrimination!

Affirmative action, is now discrimination if it keeps foreign workers and firms out. Labor rights are now rolled back to where they were before the Great Depression. Good bye six day weeks. Regulation must be curtailled and harmonized to no more than the world's lowest common denominator.

in areas that have been commercial, like health insurance. Public services, which otherwise would cushion the pain of the brutal downward competition on wages, must end. The concept of a public good lowers profits and forces corporations to lower prices, It distorts trade and enables the poor to aspire to the benefits of being rich, Unless it6 is free to everybody everywhere in a country, if they buy insurance anywhere, if they buy healthcare anywhere there cannot be any public healthcare, it is ended.

Under the neoliberal WTO rules it may even be illegal to demand foreign firms pay arbitrary "minimum" wages, because the jobs are the repayment of a debt that represents a deal we already got rich off of. If you didnt have the money tobget rich, you didnt, Life isnt fair .

Millions of retirees have been reaping the benefits of insanely high drug prices and huge windfalls from COVID vaccine costs.. The profits of death.

Of course this means the end of the perhaps unrealistic expectations (as Hillary Clinton put it) of the poor worker, Their wages may stay low or more likely go even lower if jobs become scarce or too competitive. Thats what's wanted. The fake labor shortage is now enabling a huge economic restructuring where we the people are totally out6 of th loop. We snooze, we lose. We were deceived.

Their failure to demand the truth and their failure to engage with the crisis and changes.. they failed to adequately educate themselves to take the jobs of the 21st century at wages that could compete effectively with the least developed nations firms. Many poor people who couldnt get vaccines died. The people who did this were led to believe they could get away with all this by recent global history.. Genocide went unchallenged again and again..They could so they did, they so they grabbed all the power. "Greed is good" said the US and Uk leadership.

Wealth in some kinds of environment is the line between life and death.. its likely another of a long series of cyclic famines due to the ENSO climate oscillation will likely kill many from starvation. Read "Late Victorian Holocausts" by Mike Davis.. Its really a must read..

[Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnFIqsYFbi8]

What we're seeing is an assertion by the self-declared owners of the world's property.

We The Corporations.. The Golden Rule,

We the tenants need to pay them their entitlement. Water doesn't grow on trees. Every glass must be paid for.

Of course if climate is more unpredictable, we owe them more for everything. Food Water. Our WTO gives us the right to fully exploit our investment. Where is OUR money ? Pay up or move out humans..

Your water will be extracted by distillation. Your body is 80% precious water.

The neoliberal revolution against the vote and self-determination gives us the rights to everything. (just about) ,

[Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p10D4o_aLV8]

Pay up, now, its been five whole minutes.

The Geneva School, an unelected, arbitrary system of global governance, cancels out the New Deal by intent.

The analogy is Ulysees having himself tied to the mast so he cannot do what people want.

See the video by Ellen Gould that I post links to so frequently.. which discusses the WTOs use of this analogy.

So I guess its all locked in forever unless people end their apathy.
[Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHIfSfb-RvM]

So they worship an illusory "free market". Look at the Midle Eastern "kafala" labor sponsorship system, which has often been compared with slavery works. GATS Mode Four is supposed to become the default in the world of work in the near future. Its the payoff to the least developed countries millionaire class for participating in and legitimizing a cop to take over the world. A new colonialism. A new empire of money. Thats what is happening.

They are "Building An Economy That Works For The Very Rich" and nobody else ?

Even the very rich in the poorest and most exploited nations (the countries most exploited by them, who were made rich by the colonial powers) A system to keep themselves and their families rich in perpetuity..

The Doha Round which trades away the decent paying jobs, is advertised as "the payback for the global Trade agenda"..

What else did people expect? Its not that the powers that be agreed with things like a living wage, or public education, labor unions, and work life balance etc. They never did. The only reason the UK has the NHS is because after World War II so many people had been maimed and the UK's rich felt they were being forced into it. Now they are taking it back (via a Brexit trick) Because now with the WTO GATS they feel that they can get away with it. Instead of free healthcare they will have a system that behaves much like the system that existed in 1998 there, but without the subsidies. So that will mean commercial insurance for those who have jobs and can pay for it.

Everything will have to be means tested or eliminated. We will have top go back to healthcare as it was in specific date in 1998.

Thats what we agreed to to keep the investments coming in. To give the foreign investors certainty. Not stability, certainty. Certainty anything involving voters just couldn't give them.

[Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6qg1ERmGE]

I I propose a global day of atonement for the victims of arbitrary worship of money in ENSO driven famines throughout history. Many many millions have died needlessly including many in the richest countries in the world at the time. They had been treated especially brutally. The BBritish free market system had in essence decided the poor were not worthy of life.

[Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF-je_JYhPc]

Irish poor very lives depended on the potato which had been imported from the Americas and fed millions of Europe and Asia's poor. We are using the WTO to try to do it again by stealing genetic diversity and seeds.. Intellectual property is a creation of a global theft. An illegitimate global theft by the very rich. The COVID vaccine situation should be a wake up call. COVID should educate us all.

Don't you know that all the things people supported that Bernie was claimed to be bringing (if he won) had already been taken off the table by Bill Clinton's signature on the URAA on December 8, 1994. We've been conned, incredibly shamelessly. The DNC is a huge scam that pretending to be part of a political propcess of by and for the people.; Its all about a global enclosure of the commons.

People like Pramilla Jayapal are deliberately ignoring the real cuse of whats happened because the Democratic Party7 is equally, perhaps more complicit in a huge theft by political ACTORS in the US. Its a crime aganst humanity because its a failed phony experiment on human subjects, without informed consent which is a crime against humanity. Its killed at least a million innocent people. misrepresenting that things are very different than they are. She should tell the truth.

They have traded our right to vote on services away in exchange for the riches of "IP" totally a man made creation, a theft, a legal fiction. Laws to steal away the public domain. .. Thats why drug prices are so high, Americans traded away the jobs (which we allegedly dont want or dont have workers or children to do, we have not gotten the educations we need. So foreign temp firms have been given an entitlement to do them if they bid the lowest. If tax money is involved.

The so called "green New Deal" is also a lie and a scam. A cover up of the selling off of natural gas which is going to decimate our remaining urban affordable housing. Slum clearance, remember that? Its such a huge dishonesty its really unforgivable. Bernie and AOC perpetuated a huge con. When the gas is sold it will be impossible to preserve the buildings now rendered too expensive to heat. The Democratic Party is being SET UP to take what now is an underverd blame. How much is the affordble housing entitlement worth people? Maybe an average of a half million dollars per family.

We're being ruled by some very slick operators. A CULT of con artists. Deal with it.

Face it.

A con thats now looking like its enabled the theft of all our country's needs -the jobs especially.

Of course, nobody gave people an entitlement to anything like the jobhs of this country. But people werent told that they would have to compete with the well; heeled youth of the lowest wage countries of the world for them.

What did the WTO do? Its a trade agreement, one that trades jobs for markets. iT PRIVATIZES ALL OF WHAT WERE ONE PUBLIC SERVICES UNDER ALMOST ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS ALLOWED. iT gives foreign firms "equal" RIGHTs TO do all jobs that receive subsidies. Our anti disrimination policies are llegal, they are discrimination, now.
The little known GATS is why.. It applies to all "measures" of all kinds if they "effect trade in services". But trade agreements are for business.. They arent intended to solve any other problems besides (alleged) lack of profitability..
It "disciplines" all GOVERNMENT SPENDING, IF ITS INVOLVED. Environmental services are a subject of a future planned trade agreement. Global warming will create massive food uncertainty, and profits. And America is open for business, only.

Anything we do cant attempt to funnel more jobs to the poor. But it must conform to existing WTO agreement which bars the kinds of experiments that it seems to me most people think this so called "green new deal" proposes.

Pointedly, it sounds to me as if it was designed to be prohibited. Because its protectionist if it tries to preferentiually help unemployed American workers with a better kind of job, since it intends to spend tax money. The WTO rules are clearly prohibitive We set up that precedent ourselves. What about commercial colleges..

Our politicians are notk, they could not possibly be this stupid. Thedy cant be unaware that they are no longr "the" government. Everything changed Jan 1, 1995.

Almost all of the fixes that make sense are prohibited...Here is why..

What gave them the rights to set up this huge scam?

This huge disinfo campaign top distract the nation and hide it ALL under endless lies. . A global theft is going on. The biggest con ever, eventually it will be.

Everything of worth is being stolen from the world and its people. This begun September 15-20 1996. The nation's jobs are bargaining chips in the global trade agenda. The young peoples future jobs are not bargaining chips. Their lies all; illustrate the nature of the theft. read some history. I cant tell you how many time this has been done. Its always the same. All the signs, all the red flags are there. Here is an article about the 2017 WTO decision..

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-wto-just-ruled-agains_b_9307884

[Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF-je_JYhPc]

There is no denying that the global economic restructuring thats being forced on countries by the US and EU and WTO is intended to vastly destroy wages and break the middle class's economic foundation. Under neoliberalism most actors do not exist, They hate what they call "majoritarianism" So I can see how they would hate a leader who wouldn't kowtow to their goals.

No, they aren't the good people they would have us think. Look at how they grabbed all the power they have. The everyday peope no longer v"matter" and we're being escorted out of the big picture, because we stand in the way of a big power grab by them.

They are gangsters in every sense of the word.

The "fall of the former Soviet Union" was a triumph of gangsters in the former CIS states

Privatization was implemented as an incredible theft of all of the public resources in the former USSR. Probably millions of old people were literally killed for their apartments in the desirable cities like St Petersberg and Moscow. . They made a mistake, signing viatical agreements trading a small support payment and the right to stay in their former apartments "for the rest of their lives", in exchange for the apartments, which are worth a LOT of money. This is something called a viatical settlement. The problem is that they would sign these deals, and then not long afterward they would be bumped off, as the slang goes. they would be killed or die in some accident one way or another. it was often said or implied that the so called "New Russians" killed them. In large numbers. And got away with it. Kind of like terminally ill American old people when their hospice payments end.

The gangsters (who were known by the sarcastic derogatory term "New Russians") were legendary and I got the strong impression from (esp-especially the European) rich people that I met at the time.. that the wealthy in the rest of the world envied them tremendously for stealing everything and getting away with it all.. .

Much of what we think we know about the "Origins of the Third World" is wrong. We whitewash many many unpleasant facts.. If you are interested in the important issue of climate and food.. Mike Davis's book "late Victorian Holocaust" used a strong term but it wasnt exaggeration.. We prtend we represented ourselves as bringing positive things to the occupied countries. That was not true. The countries did far better for their own people than the colonial occupiers like the British did.. Also the huge droughts were caused by the ENSO climate oscillation.. better known as El Nino.

Millions died. The so called free market system is very bad in this set of climate conditions. Its happened again and again. Its a crime against humanity top perpetuate this system history has taught us this. The UK is very very guilty of making these famines worse than they might have been. Killing literally tens of millions of poor people. They still hide it. Read Mike Davis's book.; its very important to understand these, the great atrocities of political extremism. .

I recently started a ketogenic diet - Ive lost >20 lbs in around 6 weeks, and its done wonders for my sleep. Basically its a no carb high protein diet, so you cant eat breads or grains. You can eat meat vegetables,cheese, dairy, fat etc.

Try it, you may do well on it.. I also take l-tryptophan before bed& pop melatonin if I wake up before I want to wake up. Helps me go back to sleep.

This is n interesting publication.. Our country i8s being taken away and is now owned by transnational corporations. Its obviously illegitimate so they try to claim legitimacy through "multilateralizing" it. Since they KNOW nobody would ever vote for it.

Title: "Between Centralization and Fragmentation: The Club Model of Multilateral Cooperation and Problems of Democratic Legitimacy."

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/between-centralization-and-frag...

Abstract
Multilateral cooperation has been remarkably extensive, indeed unprecedented, in the latter half of the 20th century. After World War II, a compromise was struck in rich countries that John Ruggie has termed embedded liberalism. Increasing economic openness was made politically feasible in a democratic era through the development of the welfare state, and through a set of international regimes for finance and trade that accommodated the welfare state. Until the end of the 1970s, what Fred Hirsch called “the missing legitimacy for a predominantly capitalist system in conditions of universal political participation” was provided by Keynesian policies that were tolerant of inflation. International regimes in this period “served the second-best objective of the liberal community, of maintaining an open international economy at whatever inflation rate [had] to be accepted to attain this.” Inflation eventually rose to the point where it was a source not of legitimacy but of political disaffection, and since the 1980s governments of the advanced capitalist economies have emphasized price stability. Legitimacy at the domestic level has apparently been maintained in these countries, judging from the lack of large-scale protests and the maintenance in power of governments – whether nominally of the Left or the Right -- dedicated to preservation of a market system. Such legitimacy may have different sources in different countries: economic growth, as the United States, the preservation of a social safety net even in the presence of great unemployment, as in continental Europe, or simply the maintenance of still-prosperous and orderly, if stagnant, political economy, as in Japan. At any event, the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, and the serious constraints on the expansion of the welfare state resulting from global competition, have largely removed the major potential contenders from the field. [
] Until recently, the international regimes for trade and money that made this system work were largely invisible to publics. We will characterize them as following a “club model” of institutions. While the club model is an ideal type, and gradual change has occurred since the Uruguay Round, the simplification is useful. As these institutions have become more important, and their membership more diverse, they have become more controversial, as the Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization (WTO) of November 1999, and the Washington protests of April 2000 against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, indicate. The classic political issue of legitimacy, within the context of democratic norms, has been insistently raised. The club model has come under challenge. [

] In this paper, we consider descriptive and normative aspects of legitimacy, as it relates to international institutions, particularly to the WTO. First we will describe the club model and how, in a stylized sense, it has operated for the past half-century on issues such as international trade. After briefly introducing a distinction between adversary and unitary democracy, we will then consider the ways in which international organizations such as the WTO experience a “democratic deficit.” We consider issues of transparency and participation, but we emphasize the insufficient politicization of these organizations – their lack of effective politicians linking organizations to constituencies. We then turn to a more detailed normative analysis of democratic legitimacy. The legitimacy of institutions is affected both on the “input” side – in particular, through procedures for accountability – and on the “output” side, in terms of effectiveness. In the last few pages of the paper we offer some incomplete suggestions about steps that the WTO, and similar international organizations, might take to enhance their legitimacy, in a world infused by democratic norms. Other chapters in this volume discuss the WTO in greater detail

Citation
Nye, Jr., Joseph S., and Robert O. Keohane. "Between Centralization and Fragmentation: The Club Model of Multilateral Cooperation and Problems of Democratic Legitimacy." KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP01-004, February 2001.