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Canada and the European Union Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement In late 2016, a new type of court was adopted to resolve investor-state disputes: the Investment Court System (ICS), the same court system previously adopted by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). But CETA is up and running while TTIP, the proposed agreement between the US and EU, is stalled and not yet implemented. The key takeaway for now, though, is that the ICS is likely to soon become the universal model for all trade treaties. It is therefore important to examine the nature and background of the…
The Global Covenant of Mayors on Climate and Energy, created by the European Commission in 2008, was thrown into uncertainty last June when U.S. President Donald Trump took a cold shoulder on “global warming” and announced he would pull the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.Coincidentally or not, Trump made the announcement in early June 2017, just as the 65th Bilderberg Conference was taking place in Chantilly, Virginia, not far from Washington. The Washington Postdelivered a scathing critique of President Trump's stance on Paris over the weekend, at the end of the elite's secretive Bilderberg meeting. Well-funded thanks…
What exactly was the '90s? This is an important question that GR Wilson answers on many levels in “Outsourced World,” the first volume of his adventure novel.The subtitle of this first volume is WanderlustIt eloquently portrays the depression Wilson felt during that decade as an engineer entering middle age, exiled from an ossified Britain. Wilson entered the 1990s as an optimistic man who had every reason to expect that he would be held in the same high regard as generations of treasured British expatriates before him, and he left it as a wiser man, heartbroken but with seeds of analysis…
It's amazing how often ordinary people who have been the victims of shocking injustice turn to poetry to express themselves. Chances are, there's a poet next to you. I want to publish these stories whenever I find them, because they say more than I can say about our fight for truth and justice. So here's the first of the British column poets: Social Welfare Anne Murray In modern times, Compliance is rife in our health and social care services. And if you tell them that the system is not right, Be prepared for a fight, for you will fight. They…
Men are generally lazy. It has been said that humans can reason like cats can swim. We can reason, but we tend to avoid it if we can. So am I. Only the stimulation of an event, an unpleasant event, frees my thinking from its hidden constraints. A few weeks ago I was racing down the motorway towards Edinburgh. My aim was to find a new venue for a talk by Gilad Atzmon, which had been cancelled. This was before he died. Assaulted On the streets of Edinburgh. But even then we already knew what kind of opposition was gathering…
The prison treatment of a Nottinghamshire child abuse whistleblower has once again resembled something out of a Solzhenitsyn novel – or even worse.This morning I received the most harrowing letter I have ever read in my life. It came from Melanie Shaw's cell. UK Column News persists in its report that Melanie Shaw is a political prisoner convicted of undisclosed crimes in a secret hearing. The clarity of her handwriting and analysis throughout this letter reaffirms to me that she is a clear-minded individual who is open to sarcastic criticism. Psykshka The Thatcher government crushed her spirit and tried to…
Monday, Newcastle: I was going to speak Gilad Atzmon About his amazing new book In timeA few hours before the show, the venue, The Clooney, cancelled our booking. We went to inform the crowd of the change of venue and to ask the proprietors of The Clooney, a music venue Gilad had frequented for many years, why they felt they had to bar us. Their response was harsh. Harsh and bizarre. Bizarre was the problem. We were treated subhuman. Literally worse than a Whippet allowed into a venue we were barred from. When we asked “Why?” the manager and owner…
Late at night on April 14, several buses carrying civilians left the terrorist-besieged Kafaria and Foua regions of northern Syria as part of the so-called “Four Towns Deal.” What should have been a 45-minute journey took more than seven hours as the terrorist groups forced the buses to stop in villages they controlled along the way, with armed men taunting and threatening them at each stop.They were already traumatized by the time they reached the Nusra-controlled compound in Rashidin, their final stop before entering Aleppo. But their trauma was only just beginning as they were held captive on the bus…
This is the third in a series of articles exploring the Global Citizen Movement. How is the system built?Part I of this series can be found here and Part II here. In finance, an entry point is the price at which an investor purchases an investment. In computer programming, an entry point is the point where control is transferred from the operating system to a computer program; it is where the processor enters a program or code fragment and begins execution. How Global Citizens Receive Their Numbers In a previous post, we discussed the Global Citizen movement, which tricks millennials…
The benefits associated with the 1960s post-11 education system do not transfer to the current educational and social environment. The golden age of grammar schools is gone. What was once an institution for working-class social mobility has now degenerated into a “fee-pay” system.With the advent of private tutors and “tutoring to the test” (grammar school), educational institutions for the academically gifted Secondary ModernAs more and more “less intelligent” students enter grammar schools “at the last minute” after being thoroughly crammed by private tutors, new problems will begin to affect grammar schools: the need for mixed-ability classes and more rigorous ability…