On Sunday, June 14th, Hillary Clinton came out publicly for the first time in support of President Obama’s trade-deals — TPP with Asia, TTIP with Europe, and on TISA with all nations to lower the standards on banking and insurance and to privatize government services.
What’s at issue in Congress right now — and thus what she was responding to — is whether or not to grant U.S. President Barack Obama the “Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority,” which will produce expedited passage for his trade-deals; the trade-deals themselves are not even before Congress yet, and have not even been made public, though the first one up for consideration will be TPP with Asia; but that deal, like the others, will virtually certainly go down to defeat unless the President first wins “Fast Track,” which is the issue now.
The reason “Fast Track” is the issue now before Congress, is that it’s actually the only feasible way for Obama to be able to win congressional passage of TPP or of any of his big-three trade-deals. It’s crucial because it reduces the Constitutionally required two-thirds of Senators voting for a given trade-deal, down to merely 50% of Senators (plus VP Joe Biden) needed to vote for it, in order for the deal to become U.S. law — and there is no way possible for this Senate to vote two-thirds for either TPP with Asia, TTIP with Europe, or TISA for “Services.” But 50% can safely be assured (especially with the gargantuan political-campaign donations that are pouring into Congress to back it).
Clinton said that it’s so important for Obama to win Fast Track authority, that, “I am willing to try now to see whether you can push to get rid of the objectionable parts, to drive a harder bargain on some of the other parts,” so that Congress will grant the President Fast Track Trade promotion Authority. (Her underlying assumption, which she knows to be false, is that to “drive a harder bargain” is “a harder bargain” against foreign nations, not against the publics in both the U.S. and all nations. International corporations will benefit enormously. But Obama is not negotiating against them; he’s negotiating against the public, for the international corporations.)
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/hillary-clinton-backs-fast-track-on-obamas-trade-deals.html
Unless Hillary is a moron (which I personally doubt), she is well aware that any statement about TPP, TTIP, and TISA which claims anything other than "they will destroy the United States of America" is a lie.
One thus has to conclude that she (like Obama ad-Dajjal) is a puppet of the oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporations, and their collaborators in the one percent ... the very loathsome persons she has been faithfully representing throughout her political career.
By the way, Mr. Eric Zuesse (author of the above essay) is one of the few people who truly understands what is happening to us and who is willing to discuss it truthfully. I urge you to seek out and read his works. A good place to start would be here:
http://rinf.com/alt-news/featured/the-two-contending-visions-of-world-government/
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