There's a great throwaway line in 1992's Sneakers: Dan Aykroyd, playing a conspiracy-addled hacker/con-man, feverishly tells Sydney Poitier (ex-CIA spook) about a 1958 meeting between Eisenhower and aliens where he said, "look, give us your technology, and we'll give you all the cow lips you want."
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These bargains - which started as a series of bilateral and then multilateral agreements like #NAFTA, and culminated in the #WTO agreement of 1999 - were the most important step in the reordering of the world's economy around rent-extraction, cheap labor exploitation, and a brittle supply chain that is increasingly endangered by the polycrisis of climate and its handmaidens, like zoonotic plagues, water wars, and mass refugee migration.
The classified documents case will make use of a recording which indicates that #Trump had a highly sensitive document which he knew was NOT declassified.
The chain of evidence looks strong and while there is much news media spinning, a court of law is more rigorous environment where focus on fact is primary
#Biden identifies as an old style #Democrat who represents the interest of the #WorkingClass. Post #NAFTA, many Ohioans felt abandoned by the Democratic Party and became more receptive to the #GOP. Reversing Ohio voters perception of the Democratic Party as solely interested in the issues of the coastal elites, will be challenging.