politics for the 99%

Published on counterpunch, by Jeremy Malcolm, Oct 13, 2015.

… Since we now have the agreed text, we’ll be including some paragraph references that you can cross-reference for yourself – but be aware that some of them contain placeholders like ‘x’ that may change in the cleaned-up text.

Also, our analysis here is limited to the copyright and Internet-related provisions of the chapter, but analyses of the impacts of other parts of the chapter have been published by Wikileaks and others.

Binding rules for rights holders, soft guidelines for users: … //

… Extension of copyright terms: … //
… Ban on circumventing Digital Rights Management (DRM): … //
… Criminal enforcement and civil damages: … //
… Criminal enforcement and civil damages: … //
… Top-down control of the Internet: … //
… ISP Liability: … //
… Good points? If only … : … //

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Links:

US: Georgia deputies filmed tasing handcuffed inmate hours before his death, on Russia Today RT, Oct 13, 2015;
(see also: US: ​Death of college student in Georgia jail ruled homicide, June 5, 2015);

UK now has third highest number of super-rich in the world, on Left Foot Forward, Oct 13, 2015: Credit Suisse’s (Global Wealth Report 2015) paints a stark picture of global inequality;

France: on n’est pas des veaux, dans Mediapart.fr, par GABRIELLE TEISSIER K, le 10 oct 2015;

Roy Bahat: to support innovation, subsidize creators, on Basic Income Earth Network BIEN, by Tyler Prochazka, Oct 10, 2015;

CANADA: the real security issue (is) food security, on The Record, Editorial, Oct 9, 2015;

PORTUGAL: New book from authors André Barata and Renato Miguel do Carmo released, on Basic Income Earth Network BIEN, by Andre Coelho, Oct 9, 2015;

US: Replace Welfare With a Negative Income Tax, on economics 21.org, by Michael Shindler, Oct 8, 2015;

CANADA: Food Access and Housing Security in Peterborough – Putting These Issues on the Election Agenda, on my Kawartha, Oct 8, 2015;

SECRET CIA REPORT: Pinochet personally ordered Washington Car-Bombing, on The National Security Archive, by Peter Kornbluh, Oct 8, 2015:

• PRESIDENT REAGAN INFORMED THAT PINOCHET’s ROLE WAS “a blatant example of a chief of state’s direct involvement in an act of state terrorism”;
• and: National Security Archive Seeks Declassification of CIA Assessment in the Letelier-Moffitt Assassinations;

How the TPP Threatens Jobs & the Environment, on Citizens Trade Campaign, Oct 7, 2015;

Refugees / Flüchtlinge:

• How to stop anti-Muslim hatred? report, challenge and educate, on Left Fot Forward, by Jonathan Russell, Oct 13, 2015: we need to build awareness of what a hate crime is to ensure victims speak out;
• UK/local government: the refugees being sent to Coventry are welcome, on The Guardian, by Lizzie Presser, Oct 13, 2015: as councils prepare to take in thousands of Syrian refugees, a city with a proud history of offering sanctuary leads the way;
• US: Syrian Refugees in Jersey City Are Among Few to Start New Life in U.S., on NYT, by Lizz Robins, Oct 13, 2015;
• Germany: Merkel’s conservative alliance plan refugee transit zones on border, on The Guardian, by Kate Connolly n Berlin, Oct 13, 2015: SPD coalition partner voices strong opposition to idea of holding areas where refugees would be kept until origin and right to seek asylum is established;
• Refugees in Pakistan hit by aid cuts as Europe crisis drains funds, on Reuters, by Asad Hashim, Oct 13, 2015: aid programmes for some of the 2.5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are being slashed amid the worst funding shortfall for a generation, as the European and Syrian migrant crisis uses up cash and dominates headlines, United Nations officials said …;
• Maischberger vom 6.10.2015: wie verändern Flüchtlinge unser Land? 70.33 min;
• Die Prophezeiung von Muammar Gaddafi an Europäer: Ihr seid Idioten, 2.46 min;
• ZDF Heute Show vom 11. Sept 2015, 33.38 min.