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| Anchorage peace icon Ruth Sheridan at Occupy Anchorage – Oct. 29, 2011 |
Seeing Ruth Sheridan so effusively happy was great frosting on the cake. The rat was pretty friggin’ cool too, but should have been right out in front, for passers-by to see. The way the wind kicked up a couple of times, though, made it logical to have it in the midst of trees to which lines were tied.
Occupy Anchorage is real. I was depressed after attending the last one I went to. I left this one singing from Nabucco.
Here’s my video:
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Hey, ET. Recommended.
On your post about the polar bear scientist asked to take lie detector test, I left some comments about the impact of NAFTA chapter 11 which has been used to get around environmental and human rights regulations. Maybe NAFTA chapter 11 is key to what the 99% ers are protesting.
The key question in the NAFTA context is this: if a NAFTA government measure is undertaken for a clear public welfare purpose (such as health and safety, environment, public morals or order, etc.), and is non-discriminatory, but has the effect of harming a NAFTA foreign investor, under what circumstances can that measure be held to be an indirect expropriation, for which the government must pay compensation? The concern is obvious: most people would agree that taxpayers should not be paying investors to alter behaviour that is contrary to the public interest. A secondary concern is that regulators who are held liable for their impacts on investors will not regulate to the extent that they should (the regulatory chill argument).
http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/sustainable-economy/trade-environment/wto-brief-jul99.html
http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~takata/some_articles/Bill_Moyers,_Wm_Greider_on_NAFTA_Chapter_11.html
http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2003/investment_jpac.pdf
http://www.ban.org/library/asias_toxic.html
Chapter 11 of NAFTA was designed to protect the interests of foreign investors,(2) with the continuing goal of liberalizing international investment. This chapter establishes a mechanism for the settlement of investment disputes that attempts to achieve equal treatment of investors in accordance with the principles of international reciprocity and due process before an impartial tribunal.
Chapter 11 has undermined efforts to enact new laws and regulations in the public interest, in particular those that would protect the environment and human health.
Chapter 11 has required governments to pay compensation to polluters to stop polluting, even if the continuation of their activities would adversely affect public health and welfare.
Article 1110: Expropriation and Compensation
Article 1102: National Treatment
Article 1103: Most-Favored-Nation Treatment
From Hilo to Anchorage; that’s mighty impressive!
Aloha, ET…! Great job…!
I should mention that you can edit your YouTube clip and get rid of most of the shakiness… Go to your channel, hit edit, and then click the stabilize function, it really tightens up the video…! ;-)
AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Edward Teller:
Bless your heart Brother Ed…it’s great to know that Alaska is experiencing the joy that comes from “Occupy”…we have changed the language when a noun becomes an action word…first the language then the world. Keep on keepin’ on Citizen ET…when do we hear an overture to the move,ment from the Alaskan tundra? Your music must be bustin out all over these Days.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, ALL THEY HAVE IS THE MONEY HONEY!!
— busting out? Not so much, but I’ve been chained to my studio computer all day today, grinding out my next piece for orchestra, The Wild Coast. It’s been commissioned by the Anchorage Youth Symphony, and is inspired by these two kids – Erin and Hig.