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Wednesday, June 3, 2015
This 3-year old is Better at Pool Than Most Adults
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FIFA World Cup gets red-carded by John Oliver for the death, slavery, and bribery things.
FIFA World Cup gets red-carded by John Oliver for the death, slavery, and bribery things.
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Urge them to vote NO on Fast Track.
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Dear FRIEND,
Ways & Means Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) is pushing to bring Fast Track legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to a vote in the House. Please call your representative now at 888-804-8311 and urge them to vote NO on Fast Track.
Representative Ryan’s Fast Track bill has already passed in the Senate, and if approved by the House, would allow secretive trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to be rushed through Congress, with little or no substantive debate.
The negotiation of the TPP has been shrouded in secrecy and the text of the agreement has never been made public. If the lack of transparency is not enough of a warning sign, a quick review of what we do know about the trade deal raises serious concerns:
- Undue corporate influence: While the public and the press have been kept in the dark, a select group of over 500 corporate “advisers” have been given special access to the text, even drafting provisions on intellectual property and other controversial issues.
- Weak environmental protections: The TPP’s environmental chapter is expected to be weaker than previous agreements and will include commitments that are not enforceable through dispute resolution.
- New rights for corporations: The TPP will provide multinational corporations with the right to sue states over alleged acts of discrimination that reduce their profits. Using similar rights in other FTAs, multinationals have filed over 600 cases against over 100 governments, challenging everything from clean water laws to an increase in the minimum wage. All of these investor-state disputes are heard in private tribunals closed to the public.
- Bad for development: Development groups warn that the intellectual property and pharmaceutical pricing provisions are a step backward for public health, reducing developing nations’ access to life-saving medications. They also raise concern about how the agreement’s provisions on agricultural market access will hurt small farmers in developing nations and threaten food security in rural areas.
Granting a Fast Track rubber-stamp for the TPP would accelerate a global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions that nobody wins — except, of course, for large, transnational corporations.
We need our elected officials looking out for us, not corporate elites. TAKE ACTION NOW: please call your Congressperson at 888-804-8311 and urge them to vote NO on Fast Track.
The good news is that, together, we can win this fight. Thousands of organizations — representing the environmental, family farm, civil rights, consumer, Internet freedom, LGBT, student and other movements — have united with labor in saying NO to Fast Track. We need your voice, too.
This really is the time for action. Fast Track proponents are trying to move quickly. Please call your Representative now.
Many thanks,
Eric Gottwald
Legal and Policy Director
International Labor Rights Forum
Legal and Policy Director
International Labor Rights Forum
PS. For more on ILRF’s perspectives on the TPP, check out my blog “The TPP’s dirty labor laundry.”
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A Bad Deal for Science
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ACTION ALERT
Call and Urge Your Member of Congress to Protect Science-Based Safeguards
Dear Antonio,
Any day now, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that could significantly undermine science-based safeguards we currently take for granted. Everything from global warming emissions reductions, to drug safety protections, to fracking safety measures could be at risk. In the name of free trade, the bill known as "Fast Track" would block science's ability to inform policy making on countless issues that deeply effect our health and safety. Call now and tell Rep. Scott Peters to vote "NO" on the Fast Track bill. How can you be sure your dinner tonight is safe to eat? Or that the medicine you take won't hurt you? What about the children's toys your family will play with this weekend? If the Fast Track bill passes, it will be much harder for you to be sure you're making safe choices for your family. Multinational corporations such as Koch Industries, GlaxoSmithKline, and Dow Chemical will be able to secretly influence trade deals, avoid public or policy-maker review, and even sue countries that have public health and safety protections in place whenever the corporation feels those protections threaten their profits! Your representative is facing intense pressure from corporations and President Obama to push Fast Track through. Rep. Peters needs to hear from you today that the Fast Track bill puts the health and safety of people in your district at risk. While international trade is important, there's no excuse for giving corporations a blank check to pursue profit at the expense of our health, safety, and environment—especially when trade steamrolls the role of science and transparency in our democracy. 
Sincerely,
 Danielle Fox Outreach Coordinator Center for Science and Democracy Union of Concerned Scientists |
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Trans-Pacific Partnership have to be revealed to the American People
Big news: there will be a vote TODAY on the Grayson Amendment, to lift the veil of secrecy over trade giveaways. Here is the amendment, regarding appropriations for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: "None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to negotiate or enter into a trade agreement whose negotiating texts are confidential." Call 202-224-3121, now, and tell your Representative to vote for the Grayson Amendment. What does that mean? It means that trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership have to be revealed to the American People, not shoved down our throats. Even Members of Congress have been jammed up over this. Here is what Sen. Barbara Boxer said about it, a month ago: Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., today blasted the secrecy shrouding the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. "They said, well, it's very transparent. Go down and look at it," said Boxer on the floor of the Senate. "Let me tell you what you have to do to read this agreement. Follow this: you can only take a few of your staffers who happen to have a security clearance - because, God knows why, this is secure, this is classified. It has nothing to do with defense. It has nothing to do with going after ISIS." Boxer, who has served in the House and Senate for 33 years, then described the restrictions under which members of Congress can look at the current TPP text. "The guard says, 'you can't take notes.' I said, 'I can't take notes?'" Boxer recalled. "'Well, you can take notes, but have to give them back to me, and I'll put them in a file.' So I said: 'Wait a minute. I'm going to take notes and then you're going to take my notes away from me and then you're going to have them in a file, and you can read my notes? Not on your life.'" Should we let our economic future be bargained away, in secrecy? "Not on your life." Don't let secret trade deals deprive us of our future. Call 202-224-3121, and tell your Representative to vote for the Grayson Amendment. Normally, our Government classifies information to keep it away from foreigners. But with these trade agreements, the foreigners have the information - it's Congress and the American People who don't. The European Union has taken the entire "Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership," which our government claims is confidential, and posted it at a website. And WikiLeaks, to the embarrassment of our government, has done the same with parts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Q. What other laws can be negotiated in secret? A. None. Our Constitution does not allow for secret laws. Three years ago, more than 100 Members of Congress wrote to the U.S. Trade Representative, and asked him to make the Trans-Pacific Partnership public. He refused. Last month, President Obama said that "any critic" could see the full text of the agreement. So far, no one has. The Trade Representative is treating Congress like a mushroom farm: Keep us in the dark, and spread fertilizer all over us. The truth shall set us free. Call 202-224-3121, and tell your Representative to vote for the Grayson Amendment. Today, there will be a vote on the Grayson Amendment. If you've ever felt like calling Congress, today is the day. Not tomorrow - that will be too late. Today. It doesn't matter whether your Congressman is a Democrat or a Republican. We just need 218 votes, whether they are red or blue. And you can help make it happen. We really need to shed some light on this trade treachery. And as Justice Louis Brandeis said, "Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman." In short, the public has a right to know. Help make that happen. Courage, Rep. Alan Grayson We're not gonna take it. Never did, and never will. We're not gonna take it. Gonna break it. Gonna shake it. Let's forget it, better still. - "We're Not Gonna Take It," The Who (1969). | ||
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Shell CFO Expects Oil Rebound as Shale Fails to Fill Supply Gap
Shell CFO Expects Oil Rebound as Shale Fails to Fill Supply Gap
Simon Henry, CFO, Royal Dutch Shell Plc
Article by Firat Kayakiran and Jonathan Ferro published 3 June 2015 by Bloomberg.com
Royal Dutch Shell Plc sees oil prices increasing because supply from shale drilling in the U.S. won’t be enough to meet increasing global demand.
The industry needs to find an additional 4 million barrels to 5 million barrels a day of supply every year to meet rising demand and replace depleted fields, Shell Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry said in an interview on Tuesday.
“Lower oil prices increase demand and reduce investment, and it already has,” Henry said. Global demand of about 93 million barrels a day is increasing by 1 million every year, he said in London.
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INSIGHT-For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing
INSIGHT-For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing
INSIGHT-For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing
Michael Brune is pleased that activists in kayaks are training for another “Paddle in Seattle” to confront an expected Royal Dutch Shell rig on its way to the Arctic to explore for oil. What makes the head of the Sierra Club just as happy is the effect Shell’s Arctic ambitions are having on his own environmental organization.
Sierra’s funding drive against the resumption in Arctic drilling has taken in three times more money than usual campaigns by the nation’s oldest green group, said Brune, though he wouldn’t reveal specific amounts. And the group’s petition opposing President Barack Obama’s decision in favor of Shell last month has collected more signatures than any appeal in two years.
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