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Chief CETA Negotiator Says Treaty "Virtually Complete" (freezenet.ca)
Dangerous_Minds writes: Steve Verheul, chief negotiator of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), is saying that the agreement is "virtually complete." He also says that translated versions are to be completed by May and that the agreement is likely to be implemented in 2017. CETA contains provisions that would compel countries to implement Internet censorship through site blocking, anti-circumvention laws as seen in the US, and compel border security to seize digital storage devices (i.e. cell phones) at the border for the purpose of looking for copyright infringement.
Well if it's anything like the electronics they steal at airports...
They take it.
And in a year or two when their kids have worn them out or broken them...
You get it back.
Rarely in one piece.
But don't worry! They've long since replaced it with the newest model. It was recently christmas after all!
These fascists need the Benito treatment.
Umm, before we advocate the summary execution and public hanging of those involved, I might like to get a wee bit more information about what we're discussing. Stuff that, you know, the summary might have actually included such as:
It's also worth noting that the story has only one link, to a blog which is politically opposed to the treaty. A cursory Google search would point you to a much wider range of viewpoints on the agreement. Some are pro-treaty, some against, but they all provide much better context than the linked article. I don't particularly care one way or another, but any story with only one viewpoint expressed is usually a sign of either a lazy editor or an agenda.
I hate to keep dredging up the "Slashdot flame bait post because it has no actual 'editors'" trope, but damn. I imagine that if I submitted a story that said "Apple CEO advocates eating puppies" and linked to a blog somewhere that suggested it, the story would be published immediately and without actual review or "editing." Which is, you know, what an "editor" is supposed to do.
"95% of all Slashdot
LOL gotta love "history lessons" written by political whack-a-doodles. But just FYI Hitler was about as much a "socialist" as Stalin was a "communist", both were totalitarians. In fact Hitler went so far as to outright execute the socialists in his party the second he had enough power to get away with it.
So next time instead of getting your history from National Retard and Faux News how about actually reading a real book? If you want a good place to start on what actually became of anyone with socialist leanings in the NSDAP I'd suggest you start with any of the books written about Ernst RÃhm, one of the first ones grabbed during the Night Of The Long Knives. Protip: He was demanding they actually uphold the bullshit they fed the people about a "socialist revolution" and got himself a bullet in the chest for it, same as how Trotsky and anybody else who dared tell "dear leader" Stalin that actually following the writings of Lenin and Marx was kinda required if you were gonna be a communist. You see that is the thing about totalitarian regimes, they'll spew any bullshit they think will get them in power, but once they are there? All that bullshit goes right out the window and it all becomes about keeping that power with an iron fist.
Or are you gonna sit here and argue that the DPK is "democratic"? After all it has democratic in the name so according to the National Review logic it MUST be true...right?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.