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magical thyme

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7. "The TPP at least provides a formal legal framework,"

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 09:54 PM

Jul 2015

three Corporate lawyers, with potential conflicts of interest, empowered to decide cases, impose unlimited fines and seize public property. With no appeals possible.

Some fucking legal framework. The legal framework of a corporate dictatorship.

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Exclusive: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece (7-13-15) [View all] mother earth Jul 2015 OP

Time to revise the game-theory book. n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #1

Really? That's your comment? How sad for you. Personally, I think what mother earth Jul 2015 #2

What it shows is that the EU Group is really Germany because Germany has most of the money. PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #3

Did you actually read the article? Your comments tell me, no. He lays out what transpired & has mother earth Jul 2015 #4

I also think you need to revisit the "legal framework" provided by TPP, it is incredibly expensive mother earth Jul 2015 #5

'shit sandwich' indeed. n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2015 #6

"The TPP at least provides a formal legal framework," magical thyme Jul 2015 #7