On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 7:06:49 PM UTC-7, slow eddy wrote:

This is always a hot topic for debate, but the trouble with it is that
most people don't know that we already have such agreements --
probably over a hundred of them -- and we have since 1966. So has
Japan.

The press has done a terrible job of pointing this out to people.
There even is an organization under the WTO, formed in 1965, which
arbitrates and administers the legal proceedings in these suits: the
ICSID, which is the International Center for Settlement of Investment
Disputes.

Rather than get into a discussion about it now, take a look at this
very succinct explanation by an expert in the field, published in the
Washington Post. It will give you a very quick insight and perspective
into what's going on. Whether you like it or not is up to you:

http://tinyurl.com/mjgc3rb

--
slow eddy


How soon before slow eddy claims NAFTA was really good for the American middle class and produced the jobs Bill Clinton said it would?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls