Obama’s TPP Trade Deal Hits the Wall [+video]

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images (70)President Obama’s hopes for a globalist pact integrating economies on four continents ran aground in Hawaii on Friday.

Trade negotiators from 12 nations announced Friday they failed to reach a deal on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP.

TPP would be the largest-ever economic regulatory treaty, encompassing more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. Secretary of State John Kerry said the pact will merge the U.S. economy with Mexico and ten others nations, including Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Islamic Sultanate of Brunei.

The latest round of talks in Hawaii had been expected to yield an agreement to conclude the TPP. The president pressed Congress to surrender its ability to amend the pact, saying that would enable him to quickly wrap up the negotiations. The House and Senate agreed, and gave President Obama the enhanced power, known as trade promotion authority, after a series of controversial votes in June.

But the president’s promises proved false.

Negotiations stalled when national governments failed to accede to corporatist demands to open their borders and allow “people, goods, capital and information to flow freely through the zone,” as Japanese Trade Minister Akira Amari described TPP’s goals at a news conference Friday evening.

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said he agreed with Amari on what “we’ve been trying to achieve in these negotiations” and “the larger exercise here of integrating the Asian Pacific region.”

A key sticking point in the negotiations was pharmaceuticals, reported Associated Press.

Striking a deal over how long to protect data used to develop biologic drugs was described as the biggest source of frustration by a source from a non-U.S. negotiating nation.

U.S. drug manufacturers want 12 years, but Australia wants five. A compromise of seven or eight years is seen as a possible compromise.

“The US was on one side of the issue, while practically every other country were on the other side,” the source told Associated Press.

“Neither side was prepared to move and all claimed it as a red-line issue.”

That proposed pact would integrate the U.S. economy with one of the world’s most notorious slave states, Malaysia, where millions of men women and children are routinely sold into forced labor and the sex trade. WND has reported the administration came under fire for issuing a human rights report that critics say whitewashed Malaysia’s record in order to expedite the TPP negotiations.

The failure to reach an agreement assures TPP will be an issue in next year’s presidential contest. Insurgent candidates Donald Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left oppose the deal, pressing establishment candidates to take a stand on a pact that is deeply unpopular with voters across the political spectrum. (Re-posted with permission from the author, “Obama’s TPP Trade Deal Hits the Wall”, originally appeared HERE)

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NYC Police Commissioner: “Weaponized Weed” Triggering Nude, Psychotic Rampages With Superhuman Strength

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Synthetic MarijuanaNYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton warned Tuesday about the rise of what he called “weaponized marijuana” — synthetic pot known as “K2″ or “Spice” on the streets — which makes users psychotic while giving them superhuman strength . . .

“A better term for it might be weaponized marijuana,” Bratton told reporters at a press conference at police headquarters.

“A number of individuals, when under the influence of this drug, are relatively impervious to pain and also have significant enhancement of their physical strength,” he said.

“So our officers encountering these individuals face more significant risk of having to subdue these individuals and potentially receiving injuries.”

Spice users are impervious to traditional takedown methods used by cops, such as tasers and mace, officials said. (Read more from “NYC Police Commissioner: “Weaponized Weed” Triggering Nude, Psychotic Rampages With Superhuman Strength” HERE)

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US Allows Ally Turkey to Bomb Only Group Effectively Fighting ISIS

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Syria1_0Late in July, the Anti-Media reported that Turkey joined the U.S. led coalition conducting airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL). Since then, it has become clear that Turkey’s strategy is part of a larger agreement with the U.S. to conduct a war against “extremism” in the region.

The deal between the U.S. and Turkey has the following contours: Turkey will allow the U.S. to use its military base at Incirlik to conduct airstrikes against the Islamic State. In exchange, the U.S. will allow Turkey to create a buffer zone on Syrian soil free of Islamic State and Kurdish fighters. The stated aim of the “safe zone” is to create a refuge for internally displaced Syrian civilians inside Syria. According to the New York Times,

“The plan would create what officials from both countries are calling an Islamic State-free zone controlled by relatively moderate Syrian insurgents, which the Turks say could also be a ‘safe zone’ for displaced Syrians.”

For Turkey, however, the real aim is to prevent the YPG Kurdish fighters from linking up their three zones of control (Efrin, Kobani, and Cizir pictured below; Tal Abyad is already under YPG control) in northern Syria with each other. These Kurdish fighters also happen to be the sole force that has shown the ability to effectively defeat ISIS in battle. However, the real aim of Turkey was voiced by the leader of the Kurdish opposition party—HDP— in the Turkish parliament, Selahattin Demirtas:

“‘Turkey doesn’t intend to target IS with this safe zone. The Turkish government was seriously disturbed by Kurds trying to create an autonomous state in Syria,’ he said, adding that ‘the safe zone is intended to stop the Kurds, not IS.'”

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See the Caitlyn Jenner-Inspired Billboard That Ignited so Much Controversy It Had to Be Removed

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18544239191_393efe2dee_b-913x512A Toledo, Ohio, talk radio station saw an opportunity to attract some attention on the current popularity of transgender Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner. While the resulting billboard certainly did get locals talking, the conversation was not entirely positive.

Social media users have since shared images of the sign, which has since been covered amid growing controversy.

While the host depicted in the obvious Jenner reference acknowledges the advertisement might have crossed a line, he isn’t shying away from future controversy.

“The billboard’s now down,” Denny Shaffer said, “so I don’t know what next is. We have another billboard going up next week.”

Though protests and petitions cemented the billboard’s fate, Shaffer has his supporters. An online petition to force him out of his job was met by an opposing effort to keep him behind the microphone at WWWM.

Nevertheless, activists like Equality Toledo Executive Director Nick Komives are celebrating the sign’s removal as a victory. (Read more from “See the Caitlyn Jenner-Inspired Billboard That Ignited so Much Controversy It Had to Be Removed” HERE)

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Anti-Gun Activists Claim a ‘Civil Right’ to Abuse the 2nd Amendment

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downloadA group of Chicagoans is suing nearby local governments, claiming Chicago residents have a “civil right” to force the city’s strict gun control laws on other locales.

The Associated Press reported last month:

The Rev. Michael Pfleger … announced the lawsuits against Lincolnwood, Lyons and Riverdale. The activist priest says many of the guns recovered from Chicago crime scenes came from stores in those communities.

Lawyers for the Coalition for Safe Chicago Communities filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court claiming the suburbs’ gun store regulations violate the Illinois Civil Rights Act.

Pfleger contends violence is a civil rights issue, and by failing to monitor the gun sales adequately, the stores are violating families’ rights by preventing them from doing regular activities such as walking to school and playing in parks.

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1 out of 3 Americans Vote Eleanor Roosevelt for the $10 Bill

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eleanor080515If the American people had a vote in picking a woman to put on the redesigned $10 bill, they would choose Eleanor Roosevelt, the nation’s longest-serving first lady who pushed for greater rights for women, blacks and Asians.

Nearly 1 in 3 registered voters chose Roosevelt, who has been called one of the most admired people of the 20th century, over a host of other women who played significant roles in U.S. history, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman was second with 20 percent of voters, followed by Native American guide Sacagawea, pilot Amelia Earhart and suffragette Susan B. Anthony, who each received 11 percent. Just 4 percent chose Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice of the Supreme Court.

“They had a lot to do with building this country, as much as the men did. And still do,” said David Tedder, 62, of Douglasville, Georgia.

The Obama administration announced in June that a woman will appear on the new $10 bill, marking the first time in more than a century that a female face will grace paper currency in the United States. Former first lady Martha Washington and Native American Pocahontas both had a place on bills in the 1800s, while Anthony and Sacagawea briefly adorned the $1 coin. (Read more from “People’s Choice: Eleanor Roosevelt for the $10 Bill” HERE)

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Grannyball Lecter: Woman Ripper, 68, Murdered, Chopped up and Ate Victims

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269921Tamara Samsonova, 68, is suspected of sawing off their heads and limbs and gouging out their lungs.

The pensioner – likened to the fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter – was arrested this week [in Russia] over the murder of her friend Valentina Ulanova, 79.

She was spotted on CCTV footage carrying Ulanova’s body parts in a black plastic bag . . .

In one diary, Samsonova confessed she butchered a lodger in her flat.

She wrote: “I killed my tenant Volodya, cut him to pieces in the bathroom with a knife, put the pieces of his body in plastic bags and threw them away.” (Read more from “Grannyball Lecter: Woman Ripper, 68, Murdered, Chopped up and Ate Victims” HERE)

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BREAKING: FBI Conducting Criminal Probe into Hillary’s Emails

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The FBI investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s unsecured e-mail account is not just a fact-finding venture — it’s a criminal probe, sources told The Post on Wednesday.

The feds are investigating to what extent Clinton relied on her home server and other private devices to send and store classified documents, according to a federal source with knowledge of the inquiry.

“It’s definitely a criminal probe,” said the source. “I’m not sure why they’re not calling it a criminal probe.

“The DOJ [Department of Justice] and FBI can conduct civil investigations in very limited circumstances,” but that’s not what this is, the source stressed. “In this case, a security violation would lead to criminal charges. Maybe DOJ is trying to protect her campaign.”

Clinton’s camp has downplayed the inquiry as civil and fact-finding in nature. Clinton herself has said she is “confident” that she never knowingly sent or received anything that was classified. (Read more about the criminal probe into Hillary’s email HERE)

Investigation Into Child Sex Abuse by Political Elites Uncovers Child Rape Allegation Against Great Britain’s Ex-Prime Minister

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By Martin Robinson. Sir Edward Heath was today accused of raping a 12-year-old runaway as police faced a corruption investigation into whether they let off a brothel madam who threatened to expose him in the 1990s.

The alleged rape victim, now 65, claims he was walking along the A2 in north Kent in 1961 when the former prime minister slowed down and asked if he wanted to stay at his flat in Mayfair.

It was only four years later he recognised Sir Edward as his alleged abuser when he saw a photo of him in the paper sharing a joke with Margaret Thatcher and Tory peer Dame Pat Hornsby Smith.

He claims two months after the alleged attack he went to the authorities who dismissed him as a ‘fantasist’ and a ‘liar’.

It also emerged today Sir Edward is being investigated by Scotland Yard as part of Operation Midland, an inquiry into claims a VIP paedophile ring operated in the 1970s and 1980s. (Read more from “Investigation Into Child Sex Abuse by Political Elites Uncovers Child Rape Allegation Against Great Britain’s Ex-Prime Minister”, HERE)

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Elites Using Positions of Power to Abuse Children “A Staggering Scandal”

By Agency. A fifth police force has received allegations against Sir Edward Heath, the former Prime Minister at the center of historical child sex claims.

It was known that detectives in Wiltshire, London, Kent and Jersey were looking at sex abuse claims linked to the late politician. Now Hampshire Constabulary have confirmed they are also investigating claims.

The latest development comes after The Telegaph revealed that a Filipino brothel keeper is at the centre of the child abuse storm. Myra Ling-Ling Forde is alleged to have had a prosecution dropped after warning she would expose Sir Edward as a pedophile. . .

On Monday, Wiltshire Police appealed for potential victims and witnesses to come forward after Sir Edward became the most high-profile figure embroiled in historical child sex claims.

Operation Midland is part of a wider umbrella of investigations by Scotland Yard, dubbed Operation Fairbank, into allegations of abuse involving senior politicians and high-profile figures. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Senator Catches Obama Red-Handed Violating the Law He JUST Signed

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Freshman Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., found that President Barack Obama is already in direct violation of a law he just signed in late May regarding the Iran nuclear deal.

The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act specifically provides that Congress must receive “all nuclear agreement documents, including any related to agreements ‘entered into or made between Iran and any other parties.’ It expressly includes ‘side agreements.’ This requirement is not strictly limited to agreements to which the U.S. is a signatory,” Sen. Cotton and Rep. Mike Pompeo wrote in a joint op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week.

Cotton and Pompeo recount that they traveled to Vienna a few weeks ago to meet with officials of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). There, they learned “that certain elements of this deal are—and will remain—secret.” They further discovered that those involved with the talks, including the Obama administration, specially allowed the IAEA and Iran to have two side deals.

The first has to do with the IAEA’s inspection of the controversial Parchin military complex. The site is a suspected location of Iran’s long range missile and nuclear development. The second side deal has to do with what the nation must reveal about its nuclear program to date.

The legislators argue that both are vital issues if the deal will have any chance of success. They also make clear that the administration has been inconsistent in its responses regarding the existence of these agreements and whether Congress will have access to review them. (Read more from “Senator Catches Obama Red-Handed Violating the Law He JUST Signed” HERE)

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