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The latest Wikileaks drop is about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and its probable impact on "State Owned Enterprises." (SOE)
The Analysis of Leaked TPPA Paper for Ministers' Guidance on SOEs, by Professor Jane Kelsey, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand, makes specific reference to public broadcasters as SOEs that could be included under the TPP, and subject to a variety of new, yet undefined, restrictions.
That could mean the CBC in Canada, and likely NPR and PBS in the US. In particular, it's possible that the TPP might insist that governments not provide support (such as funding or protections) for these, and other essential public services.
From the report:
It looks like SOEs are not allowed to get government support or non-commercial assistance – such as capital injections, subsidies, grants, cheaper access to finance, government guarantees and access to land, premises or facilities on preferential terms – if that causes "adverse effects" to another TPPA country. That kind of support is often essential for SOEs that provide public functions that are not proftable or are even loss-making.
{snip} ... it suggests that a postal service, public telecommunications provider or state-owned bank that receives financial support from the government to deliver services into poor areas for social reasons could be challenged by a courier firm, satellite operator or internet bank from another country that says the support is adversely affecting it and hence its country's interests.
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Friday July 31 2015, @07:53PM
Bro, this is a game for those who can play it.
It is to get away with what they can get away with.
Imagine. You are rich, *know* a lot about the system, are "connected", and have some understanding of human nature.
Now, you gather your likes, mostly equally adept men, as yourself, and play on the global arena...
Now, your adversary is the morons making up the leftist parties around the world... Mostly idiots who are all about humanity, but don't know enough and do no have a players attitude.
And let us not forget the woman here... In all leftist parties, you must talk about topics that the women like, and talk in ways that the woman likes...
And if you join a party and the local woman don't like you, you are out, no matter how much you "know"...
It is said, know your enemy and know yourself...
The corporationist elite does this.
The rest fumbles in the dark and stumbles across their own lies and misconceptions.
Don't forget, mod this troll...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 31 2015, @11:05PM