IRmep Legal Challenge to AIPAC Trade Deal
Submitted by Liberty_Belle on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 08:49....cites Heavy Loss of American Jobs and Trade Secrets
A legal filing to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) calls for suspension of the US-Israel Free Trade Area.
The IRmep's legal challenge, representing concerned industries and associations from 37 states committed to stamping out Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) violations quantifies how ongoing trade secrets theft from US military, pharmaceutical, chemical and agricultural industries directly translate into American jobs losses. Input-output table exhibits derived from US Census Bureau data reveal that American jobs losses caused by the trade pact widened from 50,000 in 1999 to 126,000 in 2008. A comparative analysis against more beneficial bilateral trade agreements shows that canceling the US-Israel FTA would produce an immediate net economic benefit to the United States while fortifying rules based global trade and intellectual property rights.
read full article here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IRmep-Legal-Challenge-to-bw-15...
Also take a look at the articles in this IRmep archive: IRMEP is Institute for Research~Middle Eastern Policy
http://www.irmep.org/ila/default.asp
wow.
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Calls for suspension of the US-Israel Free Trade Area
Dare we hope this comes to something? Wow...37 states and industries! I am heartened at least to see more awareness that our "entanglements" with Israel are not as beneficial as most believe ...this trade imbalance and cost to US is just another knife in the back! This is madness..on so many levels besides foreign policy ...most recently as we know... AIPAC lobbyists that insure even spies and treasonous acts are bought and paid for in lieu of full judicial trials!!
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"I truly wish that real life would no longer surpass the worst excesses of my nightmarish imaginings... Arthur Silber **
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
This got lost in the swine flu hysteria
Thought I would give this important article another go since it apparently got lost in the swine flu overload!
Please read the whole story and also the additional link IR mep archives below!
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"I truly wish that real life would no longer surpass the worst excesses of my nightmarish imaginings... Arthur Silber **
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Wonder how many
other important articles and news got lost in the swine flu hysteria?
Of course, isn't that the goal of major news stories like the swine flu...to provide cover in order for the really important news to get lost in the hysteria of 24/7 reporting?