{"id":187315,"date":"2013-04-09T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/09\/jeebus-5\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T02:50:00","slug":"jeebus-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/09\/jeebus-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeebus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration has <a href=\"http:\/\/citizen.typepad.com\/eyesontrade\/2013\/04\/obama-administration-takes-aim-at-public-interest-policies-of-tpp-countries-in-new-report.html\">revealed what policies it wants changed under the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do the Obama administration oppose?<\/p>\n<p>They oppose things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requiring that meat packing plants have separate spaces for halal and non halal slaughter.<\/li>\n<li>Restrictions on pork and alcohol importation for religious reasons.<\/li>\n<li>Better capital requirements for banks.<\/li>\n<li>High taxes on cigarettes and alcohol to discourage their use.<\/li>\n<li>Personal data privacy protections.<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory actions to control pharmaceutical costs.<\/li>\n<li>Objecting to a fee (all of $21) to file a copyright complaint.<\/li>\n<li>Public ownership of energy resources.<\/li>\n<li>Patent policies which prohibit evergreening (renewing patents ad infinitum).<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive food labels.<\/li>\n<li>Buy local military procurement. (which the US has)<\/li>\n<li>A publicly owned post office. <\/li>\n<li>Requiring that cheese be made from milk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously, this is a neoliberal (free market mousketeer) wet dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration has revealed what policies it wants changed under the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. What do the Obama administration oppose? They oppose things like: Requiring that meat packing plants have separate spaces for halal and non halal slaughter. Restrictions on pork and alcohol importation for religious reasons. Better capital requirements for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,964,1016,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-foreign-relations","category-international-commerce","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}