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Dave has more than 20 years of technology industry experience. His earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic. He was a pioneer in design and development of productivity and educational applications of personal computers. More recently he helped co-found a company developing desktop systems to validate carbon trading in the US
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Thursday, June 18, 2015
They Are Trying To Sneak Fast Track Past Us Again It looks like they are trying again, scheduling another vote without giving the pubic time to see what is going on. If this passes, they are pre-approving the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and future trade deals before We the People even know what is in them.
Thursday, June 18, 2015They Are Trying To Sneak Fast Track Past Us Again It looks like they are trying again, scheduling another vote without giving the pubic time to see what is going on. If this passes, they are pre-approving the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and future trade deals before We the People even know what is in them.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Sea Change: Citizens Beat Wall Street And Multinationals In Congress We have turned a corner. We stopped fast track (for now). Now that people are catching on, Wall Street and the CEOs will have to find another way around democracy to fast-track agreements that let them ship factories and jobs out of the country, weakening our economy and democracy.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015Sea Change: Citizens Beat Wall Street And Multinationals In Congress We have turned a corner. We stopped fast track (for now). Now that people are catching on, Wall Street and the CEOs will have to find another way around democracy to fast-track agreements that let them ship factories and jobs out of the country, weakening our economy and democracy.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
A Look At The "Trade" Votes That Will Happen Today In the House After the TAA vote comes the fast-track TPA vote. If the fast-track process is approved, Congress will not be able to amend the TPP, whatever ends up being in it. Congress would be allowing itself only limited debate and would have to give it an up-or-down vote within a very limited timeframe, with no filibusters.
Friday, June 12, 2015A Look At The "Trade" Votes That Will Happen Today In the House After the TAA vote comes the fast-track TPA vote. If the fast-track process is approved, Congress will not be able to amend the TPP, whatever ends up being in it. Congress would be allowing itself only limited debate and would have to give it an up-or-down vote within a very limited timeframe, with no filibusters.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Last Chance For Clinton On Fast Track Clinton is making a political calculation, trying to stay on the fence between the donor/corporate/elite class and the "base" of working people and progressives trying to do something about the terrible inequality that is killing the middle class and our democracy. But this is an either/or line. You can't be on both sides of this dividing line.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015Last Chance For Clinton On Fast Track Clinton is making a political calculation, trying to stay on the fence between the donor/corporate/elite class and the "base" of working people and progressives trying to do something about the terrible inequality that is killing the middle class and our democracy. But this is an either/or line. You can't be on both sides of this dividing line.
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Will TPP Kill The Post Office? Negotiated in secret by corporate representatives, it is probable that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is loaded with things the big corporations have snuck in. We already know from leaks that TPP contains provisions allowing companies to sue our government in "corporate courts" if they feel a law or regulation is cutting into their profits. What else is in there?
Saturday, June 6, 2015Will TPP Kill The Post Office? Negotiated in secret by corporate representatives, it is probable that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is loaded with things the big corporations have snuck in. We already know from leaks that TPP contains provisions allowing companies to sue our government in "corporate courts" if they feel a law or regulation is cutting into their profits. What else is in there?
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Monday, June 1, 2015
All Hands On Deck: House Fast Track Vote Expected This Week The problem here is that these deals are put together using a rigged negotiating process. Our trade negotiators tend to come out of giant, multinational corporations -- particularly from Wall Street -- and tend to return to them. The 600 "advisers" on the TPP are dominated by corporate representatives.
Monday, June 1, 2015All Hands On Deck: House Fast Track Vote Expected This Week The problem here is that these deals are put together using a rigged negotiating process. Our trade negotiators tend to come out of giant, multinational corporations -- particularly from Wall Street -- and tend to return to them. The 600 "advisers" on the TPP are dominated by corporate representatives.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Let The Public Read The Completed Parts Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership There is an easy way to settle disputes about what is in the TPP and what its consequences might be: let We the People see the text of the agreement and we can decide for ourselves. The president says that we can't see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership because it is still being negotiated. He says other countries will not "make their best offers" if the people in their countries can see what they are offering.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015Let The Public Read The Completed Parts Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership There is an easy way to settle disputes about what is in the TPP and what its consequences might be: let We the People see the text of the agreement and we can decide for ourselves. The president says that we can't see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership because it is still being negotiated. He says other countries will not "make their best offers" if the people in their countries can see what they are offering.
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
I'm Not Making This Up: Corporations Use Trade Deals To Attack U.S. Law Sen. Elizabeth Warren, legal scholars and others have been sounding the alarm about the secret TPP negotiations. They are warning that the ISDS provisions, as the New York Times put it, "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."
Saturday, May 16, 2015I'm Not Making This Up: Corporations Use Trade Deals To Attack U.S. Law Sen. Elizabeth Warren, legal scholars and others have been sounding the alarm about the secret TPP negotiations. They are warning that the ISDS provisions, as the New York Times put it, "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."
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Fast Track Train Off Rails -- For Now Democrats in the U.S. Senate were able to successfully block the trade promotion authority "fast track" bill using a filibuster today. This is a very big setback for the pro-Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) forces, but is not a final defeat. The final vote was 52-45, with 60 votes needed to break the filibuster and move the bill forward to debate and an up-or-down vote.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015Fast Track Train Off Rails -- For Now Democrats in the U.S. Senate were able to successfully block the trade promotion authority "fast track" bill using a filibuster today. This is a very big setback for the pro-Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) forces, but is not a final defeat. The final vote was 52-45, with 60 votes needed to break the filibuster and move the bill forward to debate and an up-or-down vote.
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Fast Track Bill Vote In Senate: Winter Is Coming How do you get a trade bill that sends jobs out of the country so that companies here can break unions, force wages down and trim benefits in order for a few already-wealthy executives and investors (Wall Street) to pocket the difference? The answer is to rig the rules of the game in advance. Fast track is that strategy.
Monday, May 4, 2015Fast Track Bill Vote In Senate: Winter Is Coming How do you get a trade bill that sends jobs out of the country so that companies here can break unions, force wages down and trim benefits in order for a few already-wealthy executives and investors (Wall Street) to pocket the difference? The answer is to rig the rules of the game in advance. Fast track is that strategy.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Writing The New Rules For The 21st Century -- In Secret? With the fast track process We the People of the United States of America don't get to know what's in TPP until some time after Congress pre-approves it, and even our Congress won't get to seriously debate or amend it after we do get to see it. So too bad if we don't like it. Suck. On. That.
Thursday, April 30, 2015Writing The New Rules For The 21st Century -- In Secret? With the fast track process We the People of the United States of America don't get to know what's in TPP until some time after Congress pre-approves it, and even our Congress won't get to seriously debate or amend it after we do get to see it. So too bad if we don't like it. Suck. On. That.
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Saturday, April 25, 2015
Obama Says Critics Of Trade Deal Sound Like Palin Touting Death Panels The President's alignment with Republicans, Wall Street, and corporate lobbying organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, and against progressives, labor, and almost all Democrats to push TPP is frustrating Democrats across the board.
Saturday, April 25, 2015Obama Says Critics Of Trade Deal Sound Like Palin Touting Death Panels The President's alignment with Republicans, Wall Street, and corporate lobbying organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, and against progressives, labor, and almost all Democrats to push TPP is frustrating Democrats across the board.
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Friday, April 24, 2015
A "Path To Yes" On Trade, But Paul Ryan Blocks It Trade can work for all stakeholders and can be a tool to lift general prosperity, democracy, environmental protection and the general welfare on all sides of trade borders. But to do that would require beginning with a process that has those stakeholders at the table, with those issues as the objectives of the negotiations.
Friday, April 24, 2015A "Path To Yes" On Trade, But Paul Ryan Blocks It Trade can work for all stakeholders and can be a tool to lift general prosperity, democracy, environmental protection and the general welfare on all sides of trade borders. But to do that would require beginning with a process that has those stakeholders at the table, with those issues as the objectives of the negotiations.
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Monday, April 20, 2015
A Look At The Fast Track Bill Shows It's The Wrong Thing To Do We don't yet know what is in TPP because it is still secret and will remain so until shortly before the fast track process requires Congress to vote. The President says to trust him, it will be great and "progressive" and create lots of jobs and expand the economy. Great. But the history on our trade deals has been very bad -- especially those passed using fast track.
Monday, April 20, 2015A Look At The Fast Track Bill Shows It's The Wrong Thing To Do We don't yet know what is in TPP because it is still secret and will remain so until shortly before the fast track process requires Congress to vote. The President says to trust him, it will be great and "progressive" and create lots of jobs and expand the economy. Great. But the history on our trade deals has been very bad -- especially those passed using fast track.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015
Why CAF Is Opposing And Marching Against Fast-Track Trade Legislation Fast Track is part of a process that rigs our democracy and the global economy, resulting in trade deals that are written to benefit billionaires and giant multinational corporations at the expense of 99 percent of us. The flawed trade deals coming out of this rigged process have resulted in enormous and continuing trade deficits that drain our economy of jobs, devastate our communities and increase inequality.
Sunday, April 19, 2015Why CAF Is Opposing And Marching Against Fast-Track Trade Legislation Fast Track is part of a process that rigs our democracy and the global economy, resulting in trade deals that are written to benefit billionaires and giant multinational corporations at the expense of 99 percent of us. The flawed trade deals coming out of this rigged process have resulted in enormous and continuing trade deficits that drain our economy of jobs, devastate our communities and increase inequality.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The Fast Track Fight Begins In The Senate As the fast track fight enters the Congress, polls show that politicians will take a great risk by voting for fast track or TPP legislation. For example, one recent poll shows one senator's vote for fast track could bring a primary opponent.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015The Fast Track Fight Begins In The Senate As the fast track fight enters the Congress, polls show that politicians will take a great risk by voting for fast track or TPP legislation. For example, one recent poll shows one senator's vote for fast track could bring a primary opponent.
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Friday, April 3, 2015
Populism 2015: Citizens Insist On Trade Deals That Work For All Of Us cross the country a strong populist movement has gained momentum to stop more trade deals from making things worse. This is just one part of the populist movement that has grown since Occupy Wall Street in response to terrible inequality. Citizens and organizations are mobilizing in opposition to the way our country's rules have been rigged to the benefit of the 1 percent and against the interests of 99 percent of us.
Friday, April 3, 2015Populism 2015: Citizens Insist On Trade Deals That Work For All Of Us cross the country a strong populist movement has gained momentum to stop more trade deals from making things worse. This is just one part of the populist movement that has grown since Occupy Wall Street in response to terrible inequality. Citizens and organizations are mobilizing in opposition to the way our country's rules have been rigged to the benefit of the 1 percent and against the interests of 99 percent of us.
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Friday, March 27, 2015
Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From The Public TPP is the largest trade agreement in history, involving more than 40 percent of the world's GDP. One way President Obama and the Chamber of Commerce sell TPP is by saying it will change everything and will rewrite the rules for doing business for the 21st century. But the changes give corporations vast new powers to overrule democratic governments.
Friday, March 27, 2015Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From The Public TPP is the largest trade agreement in history, involving more than 40 percent of the world's GDP. One way President Obama and the Chamber of Commerce sell TPP is by saying it will change everything and will rewrite the rules for doing business for the 21st century. But the changes give corporations vast new powers to overrule democratic governments.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Koch Network Takes On Export-Import Bank The Koch brothers do not believe that government should do anything at all, other than provide a military and protect private -- their -- property. They do not even believe our own government should help our own country's companies. They believe there is no "national" interest, only the interests of individual businesses -- and ultra-billionaires like themselves.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015Koch Network Takes On Export-Import Bank The Koch brothers do not believe that government should do anything at all, other than provide a military and protect private -- their -- property. They do not even believe our own government should help our own country's companies. They believe there is no "national" interest, only the interests of individual businesses -- and ultra-billionaires like themselves.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
TPP Is Only Secret From You -- But Trust Us, It's Good For You Under the Constitution, Congress is supposed to set the terms, oversee the negotiations, carefully consider the results, allow the public time to analyze and weigh in. But now a secret trade agreement -- initiated and negotiated in a corporate-dominated process with other stakeholders excluded -- is kept from Congress. Times have changed. The Constitution and Congress are pests, gnats to be swatted aside.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015TPP Is Only Secret From You -- But Trust Us, It's Good For You Under the Constitution, Congress is supposed to set the terms, oversee the negotiations, carefully consider the results, allow the public time to analyze and weigh in. But now a secret trade agreement -- initiated and negotiated in a corporate-dominated process with other stakeholders excluded -- is kept from Congress. Times have changed. The Constitution and Congress are pests, gnats to be swatted aside.
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