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If you don't know about the Benghazi attacks on 9/11/2012, you do not know
the bare minimum to qualify as a voter in the United States. This was an attack by our
highest official(s) in office against our own... Our Ambassador Christopher Stevens, and the
brave men who defied stand down orders by the same high officials in the White House who
knew this was an organized terror attack against Americans in the Embassy at the Benghazi, Libya
Location, as Hillary watched the events unfold in Real Time, she saw these murders happen, and
is seen here with bitter lies of denial for the crimes she committed with The Cohort in Chief.
The Highest Acts of Treason in the History of The United States have still yet to be settled.
The Justice Sought is Justice fought by these Globalist Radical Criminals seeking to Control the World, kill Americans and Citizens of the World, as One Man tries to save This Country to Stop The Madness. It isn't about Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, although the Democrats are outrageously The Party that supports these atrocities, and current ones taking place. If we don't keep the Current Commander in Chief, Donald Trump, in the Highest Office of President of These United States of America,(we are the last hope for the world, there is no place left to go to escape the tyranny, the injustices, and the raping and pillaging of All Americans' Life, Liberty, Health, Living and any joys to pursue) We will be Done, with nothing left to lose. We must Unite and fight for Humanity around the World, extricate tyrannical, Communists from existence, as they've proven they only lay low in large defeat, but will always be waiting to rise. We need a hard line to destroy them. We will not go without a fight.
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Leaked TTIP memo shows EU targeting U.S. government contracts | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Leaked TTIP memo shows EU targeting U.S. government contracts | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
http://www.iatp.org/blog/201404/something%E2%80%99s-missing-from-our-food-and-it%E2%80%99s-not-salt
Leaked TTIP memo shows EU targeting U.S. government contracts
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The EU is being asked to give up a lot in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), especially its relatively higher standards on food and chemical safety. It’s also asking for a lot in return, including the massive opening of U.S. public procurement to bids by EU firms. A new leaked memo from the European Commission shows just how much they want to open up those markets. It’s a bad tradeoff for both sides.
The March 29 European Commission non-paper addressed to its Trade Policy Committee titled “TTIP–Messages on public procurement” begins with the assertion that, “Public procurement is a key component of the TTIP negotiations and an area where almost all Member States have offensive interest, and in consequence the EU has been requesting a substantial market opening in this area.” The short paper provides arguments against the idea that U.S. procurement markets are already fairly open and accessible to European companies. The memo also takes aim at local decision making on procurement and preferences for small businesses.
Procurement contracts cover a broad range of public spending on all kinds of goods and services, from massive roads, transit, renewable energy and construction projects to much smaller Farm to School programs or university cleaning service contracts. Since it is taxpayer-funded spending, these programs often have conditions designed to benefit local economic activity. In the case of Farm to School programs, for example, preferences are given for healthy, locally grown foods, benefitting both farmers and students. Most often that kind of preference will be one of several criteria (including cost) used to judge the best value of a given bid for the community, but this public spending is often directed to improving the public good. Small business and minority set asides (which allocate a certain percentage of procurement contracts to those groups) can help to address past injustices and level the playing field so that those firms can effectively compete with much larger corporations.
From the start of the TTIP talks, the EU has insisted on the opening of public procurement contracts for all goods, all services and all levels of government. Its initial position papers indicated that it would target 24 U.S. cities (New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Jose, Jacksonville, Austin, San Francisco, Columbus, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Memphis, Seattle, Denver, Baltimore, Washington, Louisville, Milwaukee, Portland and Oklahoma City), as well as the remaining 13 states not already covered under the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA, a plurilateral agreement at the World Trade Organization), for procurement commitments. Subsequent leaked texts indicated its interest in commitments from counties, as well as public institutions like hospitals or universities. The new non-paper reiterates its ambition for commitments reaching municipal levels, noting that, “No U.S. city or county is currently committed in the GPA. But some cities procure more than States. For instance, New York [City] procures more than 17Bn USD every year and it is not yet covered.”
It also takes aim at measures that condition procurement spending, including the Berry Amendment (which requires local content for Defense spending on clothing, food and other supplies), Buy America provisions and small and medium enterprise (SME) set asides, saying that “According to the most recent U.S. GPA statistical report, the value of SME set asides is worth 38 Bn USD for GPA covered contracts at the Federal level and 92 Bn USD for all Federal procurement.’’
It is not at all clear who would decide if New York City, for example, were to be bound by procurement commitments in TTIP. Could Mayor Bill de Blasio sign on? Or perhaps the City Council? Would there be any kind of public consultations with local small businesses or unions over that decision? These are not rhetorical questions: the next round of TTIP negotiations will happen the week of April 25 in New York City, where presumably that issue will be very much on the table.
The Commission also targets federal local content requirements, complaining that “European companies are often obligated to change their supply chain partially or fully in order to comply with buy-local provisions and to establish a local business/manufacturing/assembly plant in the U.S. in order to fulfill U.S. requirements.”
EU firms can already bid on many U.S, state and local procurement contracts, whether as foreign firms or through locally established subsidiaries. In fact, the non-paper notes that between $102-188 billion in U.S. procurement markets are already open to EU firms. What is being challenged in TTIP are preferences for local content or ownership by small businesses. Analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternativesof similar provisions in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA, the EU-Canada trade agreement) argues that these provisions would go well beyond preventing discrimination against EU firms to instead ensure unconditional access, especially for municipal governments and provincial entities that had been kept out of previous trade deals. They note that the procurement commitments in CETA, “are extensive, and will substantially restrict the vast majority of provincial and municipal government bodies from using public spending as a catalyst for achieving other societal goals, from creating good jobs to supporting local farmers, to addressing the climate crisis.”
Because of its critical role in promoting local development, procurement is an issue that has largely been left out of global trade negotiations. It is one of four “Singapore Issues” (along with investment, competition policy and trade facilitation) that developing countries have flatly refused to negotiate at the World Trade Organization (although some commitments were made on trade facilitation in recent years). Instead, some 45 countries (including the U.S. and the 28 EU member countries) negotiated and joined the plurilateral GPA. In that accord, the U.S. lists specific sectors that are excluded from commitments (such as Farm to School Programs), as well as continuing preferences for small and minority-owned businesses.
So far, USTR seems cool to the EU procurement proposals. But while the details of U.S. negotiating objectives on procurement in TTIP have not been published (or leaked), this push to eliminate local content requirements is entirely consistent with U.S. trade policy with other countries. The new 2015 National Trade Estimates Report on Foreign Trade Barriers complains about local content requirements in procurement rules in Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and Vietnam, and in several cases details the pressure it has exerted on those trading partners to drop those preferences.
So, like so many trade issues, it’s not a question of the U.S versus the EU, per se, but rather the corporate interests driving the trade agenda on both sides. On the U.S side, that includes pressure to “harmonize” EU food safety standards to allow for sales of GMOs, beef produced with hormones and chlorine-rinsed chicken. On the EU side, it seems to be pushing aside U.S. procurement programs that favor small businesses and local producers. Either way, it’s a bad deal to trade off local standards in Europe for local economies in the U.S.—one that should be soundly rejected.
http://www.iatp.org/blog/201404/something%E2%80%99s-missing-from-our-food-and-it%E2%80%99s-not-salt
We’ve all made recipes and forgot that one key ingredient, only to forgive ourselves because, after all, food is more than just its physical ingredients: Too salty or not, we made that soup and we’ll be damned if we’re not proud of ourselves.
So what about the food we buy? Other than the items listed on the nutrition facts, food companies know we want to feel good: “The Breakfast of Champions” or something that’s “Mmm Mmm Good.” These famous slogans say nothing of ingredients, and everything about emotional appeal. Of course, advertising doesn’t include the whole story: The U.S. food system, controlled by a handful of corporations, is missing some key ingredients. We know there’s plenty of salt, sugar and fat, replacing the ingredients we might use at home, the freshness or family recipes we might cherish, and greater nutrition and variety provided by whole and home-cooked foods. In the same way, fair wages and prices for workers and farmers in the food system have been replaced with huge volumes of cheap food (and accompanying waste), low prices and inadequate wages.
From the soil and water that feeds our crops, to the waiters and waitresses that serve us our lunch, to the seeming myriad choices we have at the grocery store about what we eat, justice and health for ourselves, our farmers, workers and the environment is in drastically short supply.
With this in mind, IATP is excited to announce Justice and Health: Missing Ingredients in the U.S. Food System, an interactive tour of the U.S. food system. Check it out and join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook: What #missingingredients are most important to you? Environmental justice? Farmworker’s rights? Access to healthy food? Democratic decision-making? They’re all important, and they all need major work if, like our homemade soup, we want a food system we can be proud of.
Head over to www.iatp.org/missing-ingredients for more.
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Gotz speech in Dresden Feb 9, 2015
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Germany is experiencing the same Left Lunacy take over we are. No wonder Merckl is just a friendly face appearing to respect The USA. She respects Obama. The same climate of the world exists now as it did during the Communists Brazen path of destruction and Hitler committing atrocities in Germany. German voices are censored, except for a rare speech like this one, subtitled, and only viewed by a several few. Rethink the plane crash by the co-pilot for Germanywings that went down in the French alps. All terrorists are mentally ill... Think about a certain leader of a once "free" world. His agenda is the same as IRAN's using all enemy forces he can - Death to America
Death to the Western way of life. Communism under an iron fist, with more than half our population exterminated by multiple means. It's no joke, and the wars will not be between countries, as in every Western Cultured Country is under attack, it will be those with information-comprehension and common sense who will rise up and fight against the subversive, brutal corrupt despicable power drunk money hungry gluttons in power. THE PEOPLE WILL PREVAIL, NO DOUBT. Get together with all on the Right, the Conservatives like this guy brave enough to speak out. It will be a WAR like never before, a multinational war against its own people. FREEDOM REIGNS, and those who try to control, censor, and restrain will end up as vapor swirling down the drain. IT IS like GRAVITY.
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