Hi
here is his email
Chairman Mal<chairmanmal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 8:37 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Malcolm
Abdulah,
We know who he is. Could you send him the link for subscribing to the new
list please? Or send me his email address and I'll send the link to him.
Miriam
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Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 12:40 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Disposable People: Obama, the TPP, and the
Betrayal of Human Rights
Hi frends
I found one email from some from Austin TX his name is Malcolm
he was member of list but he didn't get new list!
chairmanmal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 5:55 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Disposable People: Obama, the TPP, and the
Betrayal of Human Rights
Miller writes: "Since that time the gaze of the national media has turned
elsewhere and, as negotiations have encountered difficulties, the
administration has sunk to new lows in its zeal to finish the deal on the
TPP."
Protesters demand transparency for the Trans-Pacific Partnership at office
of the U.S. Trade Representative. (photo: Bill Hughes)
Disposable People: Obama, the TPP, and the Betrayal of Human Rights By Jim
Miller, San Diego Free Press
03 September 15
During the lead-up to the vote on the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP)
that the President narrowly won, Obama and his surrogates consistently
suggested that those in labor and other allied groups opposing the deal were
"fighting the last war" and were against "the most progressive trade
agreement the world has ever seen." Indeed, he even went so far as to accuse
critics like Senator Elizabeth Warren of "making stuff up".
As we know, Obama defeated labor and the progressive wing of the Democratic
Party and, in concert with Republicans and just enough New Democrats like
San Diego's own Scott Peters and Susan Davis, he succeeded in forwarding the
multinational corporate agenda.
Since that time the gaze of the national media has turned elsewhere and, as
negotiations have encountered difficulties, the administration has sunk to
new lows in its zeal to finish the deal on the TPP.
Indeed, after scolding critics and pooh-poohing concerns about human rights,
it appears that the proponents of "the most progressive trade deal in
history" aren't so politically correct that they would stand in the way of
slavery in the name of ideological purity if it might sink the TPP.
As Reuters reported in a piece that will surely make Project Censored's list
of the most under-reported stories of 2015:
[An] examination, based on interviews with more than a dozen sources in
Washington and foreign capitals, shows that the government office set up to
independently grade global efforts to fight human trafficking was repeatedly
overruled by senior American diplomats and pressured into inflating
assessments of 14 strategically important countries in this year's
Trafficking in Persons report.
In all, analysts in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
- or J/TIP, as it's known within the U.S. government - disagreed with U.S.
diplomatic bureaus on ratings for 17 countries, the sources said.
The analysts, who are specialists in assessing efforts to combat modern
slavery - such as the illegal trade in humans for forced labor or
prostitution - won only three of those disputes, the worst ratio in the
15-year history of the unit, according to the sources.
As a result, not only Malaysia, Cuba and China, but countries such as India,
Uzbekistan and Mexico, wound up with better grades than the State
Department's human-rights experts wanted to give them, the sources said.
Why does this matter? As The Fiscal Times notes, it has nothing to do with
human rights and everything to do with the politics of the TPP:
Last year, the State Department listed Malaysia among the world's worst
human trafficking nations because of "limited efforts to improve its flawed
victim protection regime." The report described a horrendous life for
Malaysia's foreign workers, threatened by large smuggling debts and
confiscated passports that put them at the mercy of recruiting companies.
Women in particular, recruited for hotel or beauty salon work, are routinely
coerced into the commercial sex trade.
The conviction rate for smugglers has actually fallen in Malaysia since last
year's report, suggesting no improvement on fighting human trafficking. One
house of Malaysia's parliament did pass legislation giving more protections
to slavery victims, but it further criminalizes something that's already
illegal. The problem has always been sustained enforcement. The U.S.
Ambassador to Malaysia, Joseph Yun, criticized the lack of will to defend
trafficking victims as recently as this April. Yet an unnamed administration
official told Reuters that the U.S. had been working closely with Malaysian
leaders to remedy the problem.
The political implications of reclassifying Malaysia suggest another
rationale for the upgrade. During the markup of trade promotion authority
(aka "fast track"), signed into law by the president last month, Sen. Robert
Menendez (D-NJ) passed a provision denying access to fast-track procedures
for any trade partner in Tier 3 on the human trafficking report.
As Zach Carter's reporting in "Obama Shrugs Off Global Slavery to Protect
Trade Deal" in the Huffington Post suggests, this move was about as craven
as you can get:
The Obama administration outraged human rights advocates on Monday by
removing Malaysia from its list of the world's worst human trafficking
offenders - a move that the activists said damages U.S. credibility - simply
to boost the president's trade agenda.
"The Administration has turned its back on the victims of trafficking," Sen.
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a written statement. "They have elevated
politics over the most basic principles of human rights."
Hundreds of Democrats and a handful of Republicans had previously urged the
State Department to maintain Malaysia's ranking as a "Tier 3" human
trafficking violator. For years, the Malaysian government has largely turned
a blind eye to sex slavery involving men, women and children. Forced labor
is rampant in several sectors of the country's economy, particularly the
electronics industry. In April, mass graves holding more than 130 human
trafficking victims were discovered near the country's northern border with
Thailand. That same month, the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia said the
government needed to take human trafficking prosecution more seriously.
Nevertheless, the State Department officially upgraded Malaysia's status to
Tier 2.
By ignoring modern day slavery to advance the TPP, Obama has given the lie
to the rhetoric of TPP advocates with all their bluster about how this trade
deal was somehow about a more progressive world order with regard to labor
and human rights. As the Citizens Trade Campaign noted in their statement on
the matter, "The administration's alleged willingness to turn a blind eye to
trafficking abuses in Malaysia in order to get the TPP done also does not
bode well for the hope of any enforcement of labor and environmental
provisions were the TPP actually enacted. If the administration were
serious about using the TPP to enforce basic rights, they would make such
enforcement a prerequisite to joining."
In many ways, the Obama administration's complicity with global slavery in
the name of furthering the neoliberal economic agenda is not surprising. As
Kevin Bales documents in his seminal work, Disposable People: The New
Slavery in the Global Economy, today's bondage is no longer about race but
rather economics.
More specifically, modernization and rapid economic globalization in concert
with an exploding population has created a situation where labor markets
have been flooded with desperately poor people, 27 million of whom have
ended up in some form of slavery. According to Bales, "Modern slaveholders
are predators keenly aware of weakness; they are rapidly adapting an ancient
practice to the new global economy."
And counter to the propaganda put forth by hegemonists such as Thomas
Friedman, the neoliberal regime that the TPP perpetuates has not made the
world flatter for slaves, it has only made the elites richer and the poor
more disposable. And along the way, it has allowed many multinational
corporations to extract profit from slave labor that is hidden by multiple
layers of middlemen who provide plausible deniability for our faceless
masters.
But slavery is not the problem of the lords of the global village; it is
merely an externality-a cost that somebody else has to pay.
Thus despite all the stories we like to tell ourselves about human dignity,
at present we live in a world where the market is the final measure of all
things and anything that stands in the way of profit is ultimately
disposable.
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Protesters demand transparency for the Trans-Pacific Partnership at office
of the U.S. Trade Representative. (photo: Bill Hughes)
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ople-obama-the-tpp-and-the-betrayal-of-human-rights/
Disposable People: Obama, the TPP, and the Betrayal of Human Rights By Jim
Miller, San Diego Free Press
03 September 15
uring the lead-up to the vote on the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP)
that the President narrowly won, Obama and his surrogates consistently
suggested that those in labor and other allied groups opposing the deal were
"fighting the last war" and were against "the most progressive trade
agreement the world has ever seen." Indeed, he even went so far as to accuse
critics like Senator Elizabeth Warren of "making stuff up".
As we know, Obama defeated labor and the progressive wing of the Democratic
Party and, in concert with Republicans and just enough New Democrats like
San Diego's own Scott Peters and Susan Davis, he succeeded in forwarding the
multinational corporate agenda.
Since that time the gaze of the national media has turned elsewhere and, as
negotiations have encountered difficulties, the administration has sunk to
new lows in its zeal to finish the deal on the TPP.
Indeed, after scolding critics and pooh-poohing concerns about human rights,
it appears that the proponents of "the most progressive trade deal in
history" aren't so politically correct that they would stand in the way of
slavery in the name of ideological purity if it might sink the TPP.
As Reuters reported in a piece that will surely make Project Censored's list
of the most under-reported stories of 2015:
[An] examination, based on interviews with more than a dozen sources in
Washington and foreign capitals, shows that the government office set up to
independently grade global efforts to fight human trafficking was repeatedly
overruled by senior American diplomats and pressured into inflating
assessments of 14 strategically important countries in this year's
Trafficking in Persons report.
In all, analysts in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
- or J/TIP, as it's known within the U.S. government - disagreed with U.S.
diplomatic bureaus on ratings for 17 countries, the sources said.
The analysts, who are specialists in assessing efforts to combat modern
slavery - such as the illegal trade in humans for forced labor or
prostitution - won only three of those disputes, the worst ratio in the
15-year history of the unit, according to the sources.
As a result, not only Malaysia, Cuba and China, but countries such as India,
Uzbekistan and Mexico, wound up with better grades than the State
Department's human-rights experts wanted to give them, the sources said.
Why does this matter? As The Fiscal Times notes, it has nothing to do with
human rights and everything to do with the politics of the TPP:
Last year, the State Department listed Malaysia among the world's worst
human trafficking nations because of "limited efforts to improve its flawed
victim protection regime." The report described a horrendous life for
Malaysia's foreign workers, threatened by large smuggling debts and
confiscated passports that put them at the mercy of recruiting companies.
Women in particular, recruited for hotel or beauty salon work, are routinely
coerced into the commercial sex trade.
The conviction rate for smugglers has actually fallen in Malaysia since last
year's report, suggesting no improvement on fighting human trafficking. One
house of Malaysia's parliament did pass legislation giving more protections
to slavery victims, but it further criminalizes something that's already
illegal. The problem has always been sustained enforcement. The U.S.
Ambassador to Malaysia, Joseph Yun, criticized the lack of will to defend
trafficking victims as recently as this April. Yet an unnamed administration
official told Reuters that the U.S. had been working closely with Malaysian
leaders to remedy the problem.
The political implications of reclassifying Malaysia suggest another
rationale for the upgrade. During the markup of trade promotion authority
(aka "fast track"), signed into law by the president last month, Sen. Robert
Menendez (D-NJ) passed a provision denying access to fast-track procedures
for any trade partner in Tier 3 on the human trafficking report.
As Zach Carter's reporting in "Obama Shrugs Off Global Slavery to Protect
Trade Deal" in the Huffington Post suggests, this move was about as craven
as you can get:
The Obama administration outraged human rights advocates on Monday by
removing Malaysia from its list of the world's worst human trafficking
offenders - a move that the activists said damages U.S. credibility - simply
to boost the president's trade agenda.
"The Administration has turned its back on the victims of trafficking," Sen.
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a written statement. "They have elevated
politics over the most basic principles of human rights."
Hundreds of Democrats and a handful of Republicans had previously urged the
State Department to maintain Malaysia's ranking as a "Tier 3" human
trafficking violator. For years, the Malaysian government has largely turned
a blind eye to sex slavery involving men, women and children. Forced labor
is rampant in several sectors of the country's economy, particularly the
electronics industry. In April, mass graves holding more than 130 human
trafficking victims were discovered near the country's northern border with
Thailand. That same month, the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia said the
government needed to take human trafficking prosecution more seriously.
Nevertheless, the State Department officially upgraded Malaysia's status to
Tier 2.
By ignoring modern day slavery to advance the TPP, Obama has given the lie
to the rhetoric of TPP advocates with all their bluster about how this trade
deal was somehow about a more progressive world order with regard to labor
and human rights. As the Citizens Trade Campaign noted in their statement on
the matter, "The administration's alleged willingness to turn a blind eye to
trafficking abuses in Malaysia in order to get the TPP done also does not
bode well for the hope of any enforcement of labor and environmental
provisions were the TPP actually enacted. If the administration were serious
about using the TPP to enforce basic rights, they would make such
enforcement a prerequisite to joining."
In many ways, the Obama administration's complicity with global slavery in
the name of furthering the neoliberal economic agenda is not surprising. As
Kevin Bales documents in his seminal work, Disposable People: The New
Slavery in the Global Economy, today's bondage is no longer about race but
rather economics.
More specifically, modernization and rapid economic globalization in concert
with an exploding population has created a situation where labor markets
have been flooded with desperately poor people, 27 million of whom have
ended up in some form of slavery. According to Bales, "Modern slaveholders
are predators keenly aware of weakness; they are rapidly adapting an ancient
practice to the new global economy."
And counter to the propaganda put forth by hegemonists such as Thomas
Friedman, the neoliberal regime that the TPP perpetuates has not made the
world flatter for slaves, it has only made the elites richer and the poor
more disposable. And along the way, it has allowed many multinational
corporations to extract profit from slave labor that is hidden by multiple
layers of middlemen who provide plausible deniability for our faceless
masters.
But slavery is not the problem of the lords of the global village; it is
merely an externality-a cost that somebody else has to pay.
Thus despite all the stories we like to tell ourselves about human dignity,
at present we live in a world where the market is the final measure of all
things and anything that stands in the way of profit is ultimately
disposable.
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