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A funny story about the Media

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http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000596.html

“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still, and pursue the same object. The last appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all.” -Thomas Jefferson

Multilateral Agreement on Investment

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Here’s an interesting treaty that was secretly being negotiated under the Clinton Administration. The agreement would give international investors the ability to “roll back” any state legislation deemed counterproductive to investors and give investors the right to sue host countries in closed arbitration without any rights to affected communities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateral_Agreement_on_Investment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_%28trade%29

“It seems agreed on all hands now that the bank is a certain & gratuitous augmentation of the capitals subscribed in a proportion of not less than 40 or 50 percent. And if the deferred debt should be immediately provided for in favor of the purchasers of it in the deferred shape, & since the unanimous vote that no change shd. be made in the funding system, my imagination will not attempt to set bounds to the daring depravity of the times. The stockjobbers will become the praetorian band of the government—at once its tool & its tyrant; bribed by its largesses, & overawing it by clamours and combinations…” -James Madison