So, TPP Fast Track has passed. RIP American Middle Class

[hifiguy]

36. Not only that, buy local laws will be gone,

product safety standards will be gone, more or less ANY regulation at any level can be made to disappear by the TPP tribunals if the corps want to challenge them. And you know they will challenge every one. And the first challengers will be the fossil fuel megagiants, to stop any meaningful response to climate change. World domination absent war is the end game, and we are now seeing the beginning of the end. Profits over everything, even the future of the human race.

Capitalism will fall. It has already sown the seeds of its own inevitable destruction. The only remaining question is whether it will make the earth largely uninhabitable before it topples over and smashes itself to bits.

We could have been a pretty good species. We produced Confucius, Gautama Buddha, Shakespeare, Sophocles and Aristotle, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Newton, Einstein, and Hawking, Gandhi, King and Mandela, so clearly there was something to build on. But we let the systems we built be overcome by rapacious avarice and imbecile superstition.

"Suicide by greed and superstition" will be the epitaph of the human race.