1.
Crista Huff: Update - The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Agreement
2.
Stephani Scruggs: Boehner
Spent July 4th Promising Amnesty to Foreign Government Officials
3.
Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Greece - €86 Billion Euro Later
4.
Dr. Gerard Lameiro: Ten Reasons the
Iran Deal is bad for America
5.
Joseph Klein: Obama's Iran Nuke Deal Lies
Update
- The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Agreement
By
Crista
Huff
The State Department will report
its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report this week. The report is expected to reveal an
upgrade on Malaysia’s current Tier 3 status, which represents an abysmal
ranking in the area of slavery and human trafficking. Opponents to this move
are citing the Obama administration’s desire to make Malaysia’s inclusion in
the TPP more palatable to U.S. voters. Since last year’s downgrade to Tier 3
status, research has revealed additional evidence of Malaysian slavery in the
area of electronics manufacturing, and discoveries
of mass graves in migrant trafficking camps. [more...]
Boehner Spent July 4th Promising
Amnesty to Foreign Government Officials
While
we were celebrating Independence Day here in America, John Boehner spent the 4th
of July in a foreign country
promising Amnesty to a foreign
Chamber of Commerce and foreign government
officials. In an article published late on July 4,
2015, Arthur Beesly of the Irish Times
reported: "The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner,
has told a Dublin audience of his determination to overcome Republican
resistance to immigration reform." The Irish Times went on to
quote Irish governmental Chief Enda Kenny as telling Boehner "I
think you understand, just get it done." [more...]
Greece
- €86 Billion Euro Later
After
17 hours of negotiation, Greece accepted a bailout plan to the tune of €86
billion euro. The settlement set forth by Greece's three creditors, "the
troika," is harsh, but it needs to be. European Commission, IMF, and ECB
officials are wary of Greece's commitment to repaying debt, and structured a
deal which left very little room for Greece to wiggle out. If Greece avoids its
required payments, or deviates from the settlement, near-automatic spending
cuts will be activated. Greek parliament votes on the settlement this week -
the three creditor institutions will then formalize and institute the plans.
Here are the key points to the settlement package: Greece must simplify its tax
code and expand its VAT. To mitigate the negative effects of widely increasing
taxes, €35 billion euro from the EU will become available for economic
stimulus. [more...]
Ten Reasons the Iran Deal is bad for America
Six
global powers and Iran have made an agreement dealing with Iran's nuclear
future and sanctions. Without question, the deal places America, Israel,
the Middle East, and the entire world at grave risk. There is no need for
America to go out on a limb and take this enormous risk. This is simply a
bad deal for America, quite possibly the most dangerous agreement America has
made in its 239 years of history. Let's list just 10 reasons why the Iran
deal is bad for America now... [Go here for a complete analysis...]
Obama's
Iran Nuke Deal Lies
By
Joseph
Klein
As
is so often the case, President Obama is misleading the American people. The
fact is there will be no 24/7 "anywhere, anytime" inspections allowed
of undeclared suspicious sites. The fine print of the final
JCPOA agreement provides Iran with the means to delay any
inspections of undeclared suspected sites requested by the IAEA. Iran is
empowered to raise objections to inspections of suspected sites, which would
then have to be assessed by a commission that includes Iran itself as a member.
Iran will thus have opportunities to exploit the mechanisms for international
verification inspections, allowing it to rotate its covert nuclear arms
activities from secret site to secret site during a protracted dispute
resolution process... [more...]
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