{"id":3787,"date":"2018-10-08T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2018-10-08T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:28:08","slug":"the-new-nafta-is-a-steaming-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3787","title":{"rendered":"The New NAFTA Is a Steaming Load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It forces a restrictive intellectual property rights regime on all signers, making copyright law significantly more oppressive in Canada and Mexico,<\/li>\n<li>It expands patent protection so that US-owned drug companies can gouge the ill and desperate for a longer time,<\/li>\n<li>It contains exemptions for the oil industry, to protect it from attempts by Mexico to re-nationalize it, and<\/li>\n<li>It enshrines the concept of corporate personhood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2018\/10\/new-north-american-trade-deal-has-bad-news-canadian-copyright\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebalance.com\/donald-trump-nafta-4111368\">here<\/a> for details. Carp on these, and the Democrats have a good pretext for deep-sixing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some examples: It forces a restrictive intellectual property rights regime on all signers, making copyright law significantly more oppressive in Canada and Mexico, It expands patent protection so that US-owned drug companies can gouge the ill and desperate for a longer time, It contains exemptions for the oil industry, to protect it from attempts by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}