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US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency
An anonymous reader writes "The US Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations that has left no doubt the US is the biggest barrier to official release of the ACTA text. Unlike most other ACTA countries that have called for transparency without condition, the US has set conditions that effectively seek to trade its willingness to release the text for gains on the substance of the text."
I think that we have seen more than enough evidence that the Federal US Government is beholden only to those who have bought its politicians.
But what's to be done about it, other than sitting back and watching the nation gradually sink into oblivion?
Could our administration possibly act in a more corrupt manner on this issue? It seems unlikely. At least this removes all question of whose interests the Obama administration has at heart. I only good I can hope to see from this is that the DNC will lose significant goodwill with people who get their news online, harming their electability in November as people choose to stay home, or cast their vote with a 3rd party. Personally, I refuse to give my vote to a political party that could promote this kind of legislation. I don't care how "bad" their opponents are; the DNC can go to hell.
"I like systems, their application excepted", George Sand (French)
...that the new Administration is still running the country for the benefit of corporations, the way a country ought to be run.
Gotta help those billionaires become trillionaires - the rich don't get richer fast enough without government help.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
that's amusing, writing the guy who with Congress passed two major pieces of legislation the majority of the public didn't even want, to benefit the mega-corporations who sponge off this country.
face it, the government "by the people for the people" line is total bullshit
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(those two pieces being bailouts, and healthcare without robust public option so spiral feedback loop of care costs and insurance can continue)
FUCK YEAH!
Coming again to save the motherfucking day, yeah!
AMERICUH! Fuck yeah!
Suppression of information which would negatively influence world opinion of us is the only way, yeah!
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