This blog has discussed the dire, dirty and secret TTIP trade negotiations previously. The central problem with them is what the negotiators call investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). The treaty would allow corporations to sue governments before an arbitration panel composed of corporate lawyers, at which other people have no representation and which is not subject …

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If you support the Zionist claims to ancient Sumeria, Judea etc, which the Hebrews conquered 2,500 years ago, smiting the Jebusite owners of Jerusalem and the surrounding land in the process, it has to be logical that the Welsh, displaced a mere 1500 years ago, are the rightful owners of the London area. Their ancestors …

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The US government has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation more than half a billion dollars to settle claims that it mismanaged reservation funds for more than 60 years. The $554m out-of-court settlement is the largest ever awarded to a Native American tribe following legal action against the government. The lawsuit alleged that from 1946 …

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The UK has a small number of nuclear submarines, called Trident. There were two nuclear bases. Faced with a need for economy the English one was closed down, and the one in Scotland (less practical) was maintained as a sop to the Scots, although the nationalists are against nuclear weapons and didn’t want Trident there …

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On October 1st the Washington Post published a leader bemoaning the fact that the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty negotiations had stalled. The Post put this down to “the same old issue, Japanese resistance to US farm exports, that has plagued the two nations’ dealings for decades” This is a misrepresentation of the facts. Between 1995 and …

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