- An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment “expectations” and hurt their business, according to a classified document.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership — a cornerstone of Mr. Obama’s remaining economic agenda — would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings — federal, state or local — before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.
So corporations can sue governments for costing them money. Fantastic. See also
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will pre-determine the global socio-economic contours of the planet and will dramatically increase the likelihood of global corporate oligarchy. There will be no opportunity for genuine progressive social or ecological direction. We have our individual freedoms but we are losing the commons. We have free choice within the contours of an increasingly authoritarian forced choice.
And you're still confident in the technological salvation/ ascension of the species? Is there going to be a point where the womb of humanity will be too poisonous/damaged to give birth to the next phase of intelligent life? Or will the phoenix come rising out of the ashes of society as we know it?
The 21st century is the physical manifestation of the ancient concepts of apocalypse/transcendence. I'm an optimist (I think with good reason), but not a determinist. It is in the ruptures, in the dramatic/traumatic discontinuities when life really breaks into something new. That is the only way life breaks into something new. True at the individual and the collective level. Punctuated equilibrium OR: oh shit we have to change. I still think the end of the human universe is the symbiotic synthesis of transhumanity. I don't think that entity will have trouble stabilising planetary socio-economy/ecology.And you're still confident in the technological salvation/ ascension of the species?
Is there going to be a point where the womb of humanity will be too poisonous/damaged to give birth to the next phase of intelligent life?
Or will the phoenix come rising out of the ashes of society as we know it?
Even though I do not share much of your optimism, I do enjoy imagining the forms that transhumanity could take. It is of course futile speculation, but a good brain exercise. Thanks for stopping by this thread, always like to hear your take on things.transhumanity
I think our future possibility space is much higher than people tend to assume... :DEven though I do not share much of your optimism, I do enjoy imagining the forms that transhumanity could take. It is of course futile speculation, but a good brain exercise.
At this point, I can only take Independents seriously, such as Senator Sanders in theadvancedapes's post. The vast majority of politicians who have aligned themselves within our two party system are not friends of the common man.