garyb wrote:well, i think his drones are...
Delivery, maybe, once, but edible vaccines would never pass any food-ethical committee in Europe.
In this context, it's questionable at the moment if the TTIP and especially ISDS contracts will succeed, as resistance is fast growing, also in political mainstream circuits, let alone the people.
I'm following it with passion, it's not that long time ago that people didn't bother about 'Brussels'.
With ISDS suddenly it comes close to everyone personal.
The chlorine chicken is proverbial in the meanwhile, in whole Europe.
Not to speak of the financial claims private firms can apply to governments, like Canada two times experienced, and had to capitulate.
In Holland we just finished a long struggle between those who wanted to exploit the discovered shale gas fields and those who didn't.
The last group won.
ISDS would overrule that national outcome, but it comes at a time that populist parties, left or right, push the mainstream parties towards the common voters, especially because the subject has no racial or ultra-nationalist associations, yet appeals to a widely spread need for old national security.
It's actually a struggle between three opponents.
- Global capital, the multinationals, against the lower and in the meanwhile also the lower middle class. In Holland you can't live anymore from a 40 hour job if you're below 23 at least.
- National gouvernments against global capital, again. Who's the boss.
Interesting times, as you have a globalising economical capital-labour conflict, interfering with a political conflict of nations against an abstract opponent without any legal entity.
It would mean, the strongest economy dictates.
So, in the end, it's me or Obama
