A Stone's Throw From Freedom.

        "A Stone's Throw From Freedom", another interesting piece from "It's the end of the world and I feel fine" at subMediaTV.

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Corporate Fascism Or True Democracy?

       The financial Mafia and multi-national corporations, work relentlessly to ever increase their power over the various states, attempting to standardise legislation so that it works in their favour, allowing them to run roughshod over anything that may hinder their ever more brutal plunder for profit. No country will be able to pass legislation that may hinder the corporate world's projected profits. If they do so, they can face costly legal battles in special courts that favour the corporate world. Health and safety measures could be challenged, environmental protection can be deemed to jeopardise their future profits, and the people can go to hell in a hand cart.

      For far too long the financial Mafia and the corporate fascists have fattened their bank accounts by sucking the blood from the people, spreading misery and deprivation in their wake. They have hi-jacked the world's resources and used its people as mere commodities.The time has surely come when we put a stop to this system that survives by the plundering of the many by the few. This is a man made system of corporate greed, it can be destroyed and replaced by a system of justice, sustainability and co-operation, a system that sees to the needs of all our people. However, this can only be done by the people, when the people have that desire for justice for all. Have we reached that time?  

A sample of what is in store for us, from SumOfUs:

Huge news: The final TPP text has just been released to the public. And just as we thought, it's full of give-aways for big business.
     To go into effect, the deal must be ratified by legislatures in countries that include Canada, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. If we can convince even one of those countries not to ratify, the deal could be dead -- but we're really running out of time. 

      SumOfUs is one of the only organizations in the world with enough global reach to launch and support grassroots campaigns everywhere where widespread opposition to the TPP exists. We need your help to make opposition to this deal as strong as we possibly can. Will you chip in £1 to help stop the TPP?
Yes, I'll donate £1 to help stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

     It's absolutely astonishing that a deal this huge would be negotiated entirely in secret. 792 million people live in countries that are party to this deal, yet this is the first any of us have officially been able to see the full text. And in keeping with the secrecy of the deal, the text was released at midnight in New Zealand when they thought most of the world wouldn't notice. 

     We don't think you should need a law degree to make sense of the deal that will affect every single one of us. So we need to make sure the public knows that this deal will drive up drug costs, weaken workers' rights, and put corporations on the same level as sovereign nations, able to sue in special TPP courts to overturn protections for consumers and the environment.
Will you donate £1 to help stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
       If you chip in today, here’s just some of what we’ll be able to do together:
Create easy-to-understand, sharable explanations of what's wrong with the TPP to share on social media. Work across party lines to get conservatives and progressives who oppose the deal working together. For instance, in the U.S., top candidates in both parties have come out against the TPP, putting enormous pressure on Congress to say no.
      Target MPs who are up for re-election in Australia and New Zealand and Canada's new government.
       The TPP has never been so close to becoming a reality, but we can still stop it if we all pitch in. Will you donate £1 today?
Yes, I'll chip in £1 to help stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Thanks for all that you do,

Jon and the rest of the SumOfUs team

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The Illusion Of Democracy Is Washed Away.

       TPP, secretive, negotiations in the back rooms of the marble halls of power, do you think it will be for your benefit? Corporatism finally puts the last nails in the coffin of the illusion of democracy, the world is their oyster, if we let them get away with it. No longer will they sit in the background pulling the political strings, they will now take centre stage and openly shape ever aspect of our lives for the greater good of corporate profit. This is domination of the world by corporate boardrooms, where we will have no redress, except the overthrow of the entire system.

What does the TPP (TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP DEAL) mean for you..
Why you should care about the #TPP (TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP DEAL) and what do it mean for your #sovereignty...TPP Wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_PartnershipWHAT IS THE TPP: How the TPP will impact youhttp://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpactsYou.htmlTPP pros and cons:http://useconomy.about.com/od/Trade-Agreements/fl/What-Is-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership.htmTPP explained reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3nl4sz/eli5_the_transpacific_partnership_deal/Find and contact your congressman:http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/TRUMP SLAMS OBAMATRADE, STANDS UP FOR AMERICAN JOBShttp://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/19/exclusive-trump-slams-obamatrade-stands-up-for-american-jobs/Australians says no to TPP:http://aftinet.org.au/cms/fair-deal-or-no-deal-rally-sydney-tpp-2911New Zealanders says no to TPP:https://www.rt.com/news/312543-new-zealand-tpp-protests/Canadians says no to TPP:http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/windsor/unifor-autoworkers-want-tory-candidates-to-state-views-on-trans-pacific-partnership-1.3240789
Posted by Joshua Jordan on Monday, 28 September 2015

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Secret Deals, Secret Courts, To Protect Profits!!!

      Secret deals between governments and multi-national corporations, can't be good for the general public, or they wouldn't be secret.

     If it is signed, future laws designed to protect consumers, our health, and our environment could be overturned in secret courts by corporations that claim the laws harm their profits---

This from the SumOfUs:

      It's a corporate lobbyist's wildest dream -- a huge global trade deal that would let corporations like Monsanto sue our governments if they passed laws to protect the environment or keep life-saving medicine affordable.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has to be stopped.

       This month, tens of thousands of American SumOfUs members and friends have called Congress to demand it rejects a bill to give President Obama "fast track" authority to sign the TPP -- and support is starting to fall away. But it's not enough.

      In the US, corporate lobbyists are pushing hard for Congress to approve. Elsewhere, governments are facing no scrutiny as they get ready to sign away our democratic rights to make laws that protect the public interest. Unless we do more, we may lose this fight.

       That's why our community is stepping up. This week, we're getting ready to launch a major effort to stop the TPP in its tracks -- and with your support, we're not going to stop fighting until we've won.

If enough of us can chip in just $1, we can launch the first steps of our campaign and start working together to stop the TPP and save our democracy.

We can't talk about all our plans yet, but we're already looking to:

• Target key countries that can stop the TPP -- like Australia and Canada -- and make sure that citizens hear about the TPP before it's too late
• Call out consumer companies who have access to the negotiations and are helping write the deal -- rights our elected representatives don't even have -- and demand they come clean on what they know
• Organize constituents to contact their representatives -- to make sure the TPP is something that governments have to answer for
• Work with lawyers to submit Freedom of Information requests for governments to come clean on the deal
• Offer rewards for officials who are willing to do the right thing and let the public know what's in the TPP
• Take out advertisements in key national media highlighting the threats the TPP poses to our democracies

       The corporations behind the TPP know the public won't like what's in the deal. That's why the full contents are still secret -- only high-level government negotiators and the 600 corporate lobbyists have access. 

But we know enough to know that the TPP has to be stopped -- and enough to know how we can stop it with your help.

Can you chip in $1 to fund our campaign to stop the TPP and protect our democracies?

       The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is called a trade deal, but it is really a corporate wish-list aimed at attacking everything from environmental protections to affordable medicines to internet freedoms. Worst, it gives corporations impunity from governments or citizens that want to reign in their power. 

        In fact, it is probably the most important international treaty you’ve never heard of. The TPP is being negotiated between the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and other Pacific countries -- making it nearly global in scope.

There's lots wrong with the TPP, but the unaccountable systems it would set up to allow corporations to sue governments are one of the most frightening. If it is signed, future laws designed to protect consumers, our health, and our environment could be overturned in secret courts by corporations that claim the laws harm their profits -- and there is nothing we or our elected governments could do to stop them.

      We need to do a lot more to make sure we stop this treaty -- and we need your help to do that.

If you can, please chip in $1 today to take a stand for democracy and against the TPP, and fund the fight to stop this corporate power grab.

Thanks for all you do,

Paul and the team at SumOfUs.org

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