tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post1123819039700733173..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: NAFTA re-do spurns manufacturing, benefits finance, media, agricultureagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-19604900065633995232017-07-24T15:21:27.916-04:002017-07-24T15:21:27.916-04:00If we're talking sectors to sideline besides F...If we're talking sectors to sideline besides FIRE and agriculture I nominate "intellectual property in general" -- remove any IP laws/participation in intellectual property treaties in general in place as well as prohibiting commercial exports of it.<br /><br />It'd destroy hollywood, silicon valley app centers and as a result of this severely set back elite and globalist propaganda tools.<br /><br />Imagine it, Facebook and google lose 95% of their audience/market along with Hollywood's no longer having either the third world market or protection from people doing fanworks of ah, dubious quality to compete with their garbage remakes.Tomas Naunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-61053768863985467212017-07-22T15:55:24.986-04:002017-07-22T15:55:24.986-04:00"He's a conservative, with all the negati..."He's a conservative, with all the negative baggage it implies and not a populist. You want to see high time preference/short term thinking? Look at US cons/"<br /><br />That is true of the working-class conservatives, but its not true of Trump. He's more long-term thinker, future-orientation, abstract-oriented. If he wasn't, he would never be a good strategist. Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-36769861307918438882017-07-19T20:55:56.936-04:002017-07-19T20:55:56.936-04:00What's unambiguous good news, though, is McCai...What's unambiguous good news, though, is McCain getting sidelined by brain cancer. Imagine how many toxic loads Lindsey Graham's butt boy has taken to the face, and even inside his face.<br /><br />Maybe if he'd done something good for humanity, America, or just Arizona, we could feel sympathy. Sorry: burn in Hell, you jihadist-enabling fairy.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-81663012590286837822017-07-19T20:50:31.183-04:002017-07-19T20:50:31.183-04:00We'll have to wait and see. On its own, it sou...We'll have to wait and see. On its own, it sounds good, but it could also be another case of whack-a-mole.<br /><br />Ralph Peters, the neo-con idiot who got butchered on Tucker, said "the Kurds" should run Syria after ISIS is done and/or Assad were removed from power.<br /><br />Elijah Magnier's reporting from around the region suggests that the Pentagon and CIA are starting to put all their eggs in the remaining Kurdish basket. Saudi Arabia has also started to bankroll Kurdish groups.<br /><br />The Pentagon-Zionist-Jihadist alliance will resort to anyone being the so-called buffer zone between Iran and Israel/Saudi.<br /><br />For the moment, things are going well with the jihadist groups getting cleaned out. But it could be a lull before another major push for regime change, only this next time by the Kurds in the post-ISIS landscape.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-9878963825118217942017-07-19T19:57:39.640-04:002017-07-19T19:57:39.640-04:00So what do you make of the news that Trump's e...So what do you make of the news that Trump's ending the arming of Syrian rebels? Anything significant like Trump finally starting to punch back against the Cold War cultists or just the Pentagon deciding to cut their losses and slither into a new mess?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5189153863404205812017-07-19T13:37:25.528-04:002017-07-19T13:37:25.528-04:00A general rule of "Is this good?" is how...A general rule of "Is this good?" is how the enemy responds. "The enemy" is issue-specific -- we may not care how a neo-con responds to Gorsuch being nominated to the Supreme Court, because they are not the enemy in the arena of judicial over-reach. If Bill Kristol likes Gorsuch, who cares?<br /><br />But in the arena of military over-reach, neo-cons are the 100% enemy. Any action or even speech that they applaud is ipso facto suspect.<br /><br />The ACLU may not be the enemy in the arena of surveillance over-reach. But they are the enemy when it comes to religious freedom. Whatever they praise or are OK with, on that issue, is bad for Christians.<br /><br />Free trade ideologues, Chamber of Commerce responding favorably to an action or speech about trade and industry -- bad.<br /><br />Wall Street rally in response to plans on tax reform -- bad.<br /><br />Long-time Republican partisans got suckered into believing the GOP elite power groups would "bend the knee" to Trump, so that any positive response from them on some issue where they had formerly been the enemy, meant that they had changed their views to match the President's, and that the policy reflected the Trump agenda to which they had reconciled themselves.<br /><br />I thought that too, until it got torpedoed in April, and has not let up since.<br /><br />Since then, it is back to insurgent mode if we want anything to get accomplished. And it is back to viewing any positive reactions from the enemy as proof that the outcome is bad for the Trump agenda.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84736521410446470752017-07-19T13:19:36.208-04:002017-07-19T13:19:36.208-04:00Trump is a populist -- re-industrialization is the...Trump is a populist -- re-industrialization is the most consistent view he's held over decades, along with single-payer healthcare. He's not conservative, said so during the campaign, and asked GOP voters, "So what?"<br /><br />The evangelicals have not been bad to Trump -- it's the corporate globalists who are blocking his populist agenda, and the Pentagon and Deep State brass who are forcing him into regime change against Syria, sending thousands more troops back to Afghanistan, etc.<br /><br />The executive order on religious institutions was empty enough that the ACLU said, "Oh, nevermind, we won't be suing after all -- there's nothing here." Johnson Amendment remains in effect.<br /><br />I think they're just happy that there are going to be more conservatives in high-ranking court positions, starting with Gorsuch. But that would've happened under any GOP President, so they'll be thankful to Trump only as a Republican, rather than for anything distinctly Trump-ian that he's doing (unless he goes after the Johnson Amendment).agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-32268981348427463302017-07-19T11:51:50.021-04:002017-07-19T11:51:50.021-04:00Yeah. Trump's getting a "win" with t...Yeah. Trump's getting a "win" with the group he should be driving out of the GOP. Let the teavangelical cucks join the rest of the moralizing busybodies in the dems.<br /><br />He could have gotten a border wall and serious reductions in legal immigration if he'd traded 1) enshrining legality of abortion in federal law 2) government to pay for abortions with a new tax on churches. Tomas Naunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-88540466238829013862017-07-19T11:43:14.044-04:002017-07-19T11:43:14.044-04:00It's not related to NAFTA but it says a lot th...It's not related to NAFTA but it says a lot that the only recent "win" Trump has been inching towards recently is the Charlie Gard bullshit which is very much a cause celebre of the GOPe (DEATH PANELS AND COMMUNISM THIS WHAT IS AWAITING US WITH UHC) and religious right (EVERY LIFE IS PRECIOUS EVEN WHEN THE CHILD IS ALREADY VIRTUALLY DEAD).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-18060456035421698092017-07-19T11:26:26.874-04:002017-07-19T11:26:26.874-04:00I believe you said a while back that elite solidar...I believe you said a while back that elite solidarity (as opposed to competition) will only return when there is another financial crash to put the upper/upper-middle classes in the same boat as the rest of us. Of course, we also need the crime rate to go up to create a more outgoing/interactive attitude and help us overcome the chronocentrism of the culture wars BS.Barrettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-68206754890117369622017-07-19T10:58:15.200-04:002017-07-19T10:58:15.200-04:00Trump went along because he believes in economic g...Trump went along because he believes in economic growth, "hard work" and america and they convinced him it'd help in all things.<br /><br />He's a conservative, with all the negative baggage it implies and not a populist. You want to see high time preference/short term thinking? Look at US cons/Tomas Naunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-65759168166049147722017-07-18T18:32:30.732-04:002017-07-18T18:32:30.732-04:00You can see some DoD/Spying priorities in there to...You can see some DoD/Spying priorities in there too:<br /><br /><i>Ensure non-discriminatory treatment of digital products transmitted electronically and guarantee that these products will not face government-sanctioned discrimination based on the nationality or territory in which the product is produced.<br /><br />- Establish rules to ensure that NAFTA countries do not impose measures that restrict cross-border data flows and do not require the use or installation of local computing facilities.<br /><br />- Establish rules to prevent governments from mandating the disclosure of computer source code.</i><br /><br />No "government-sanctioned discrimination based on the nationality or territory in which the [computer software or hardware] is produced" and no restriction on cross-border data flows and no requiring use of local computing facilities is partly a sop to Google and Facebook and their chums, but is also using "trade" rules to prevent governments refusing to buy and use NSA-backdoored US-supplied gear and/or limiting the export of all their data and all their citizens' data to the US for spying. Even the "no mandating disclosure of computer source code" stuff is partly about keeping NSA backdoors hidden.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-27686589821169379012017-07-18T08:32:43.441-04:002017-07-18T08:32:43.441-04:00China and Russia appear to be shoring up their all...China and Russia appear to be shoring up their alliance. No doubt, they realize how screwed in the head the traditional West has become. And they must be astonished how we proudly wear our current decadence, as we claim it's evidence of our superior "modern" ways. Now granted, they also know that prole natives detest what's going on; the East must be wondering at what point the rage finally boils over and something is finally done to rein the elites in. Of course, the civil war proved that a Boom type generation could stubbornly resist moderation while younger generations and non-elites got ground up by the friction. There's no reason that can't happen again, and depress and pain America until such time that this elder generation finally is silenced by mortality.Ferylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01336057631877941839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-19184630608661676132017-07-18T08:22:57.634-04:002017-07-18T08:22:57.634-04:00So, are we still stuck in 1985? The GOP looks the ...So, are we still stuck in 1985? The GOP looks the other way about the lower class being fleeced as long as they pander to abortion single issueists and to people who think that gun manufacturers are such lovely people for flooding America with chintzy handguns that often end up in the hands of criminals.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Dems have moved on from the 80's and embraced every airheaded manifestation of decadent cultural liberalism, which appeals primarily to elites while alienating vast swaths of America.<br /><br />Result? We're weak, corrupt, and decadent. And the GOP's record fundraising is turning into a bait and switch. Trump got them where they are, they initially affected at least a little bit of interest in changing their tune to match Trump's, but eventually the treasonous and/or perverted lobbies prevailed (as they always have since the mid 70's). Our "leaders" remain willfully opposed to what normal native people actually want.<br /><br />Inertia and taking the money/status boosts that come from elite toadying are still making real progress tough to reach.Ferylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01336057631877941839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-79909744475742213132017-07-18T05:13:39.691-04:002017-07-18T05:13:39.691-04:00Related article on agriculture being a top TPP sup...Related article on agriculture being a top TPP supporter, being pissed at Trump for killing TPP, and now wanting him to get them the market access and low tariffs they would've gotten under TPP:<br /><br />http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/18/us-beef-industry-dreams-of-a-new-trade-deal-with-japan.html<br /><br />"For the beef industry, the stakes are particularly high. Japan's tariff on U.S. beef was slated to drop from 38.5 to 9 percent over the next 16 years under TPP. Now producers are pushing the administration to deliver terms that are at least as favorable.<br /><br />" 'That's the greatest market access ever negotiated — so far,' said Kent Bacus, director of international trade at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, a trade group. 'We're hopeful that the new administration will be able to strike a bilateral deal very soon and either improve upon that or at least get us the 9 percent that TPP would have offered.' "<br /><br />So for the moment agribusiness is trying to hijack the NAFTA re-negotiations in order to get more beef into Mexico and at a low tariff, to make up for their lost premium access to Japan.<br /><br />There's only so much Mexico is willing to concede overall, so making beef and agriculture at the top is going to sideline the effort to get re-industrialization into the deal.<br /><br />Even more appalling that those meatpacking plants are all staffed by illegals from south of the border.<br /><br />We must cut agriculture down to size in order to re-industrialize and become prosperous again.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com