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By Eric Zeuse

President Obama has many times made clear to congressional Democrats that the most important thing in the “legacy” that he hopes to leave behind from his Presidency is his big-three ‘trade’ deals: TPP with Asia, TTIP with Europe, and TISA for international services including banking and insurance. 

It is, indeed, the most ambitious international economic agenda that has ever been pushed by any U.S. President. (It’s not about “trade”; it’s about transferring democratic national sovereignty to dictatorial corporate international sovereignty.) And the leading Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Harry Reid, has called it “insane,” because Bill Clinton’s much smaller but otherwise similar NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) sent so many jobs abroad, and so hollowed-out the American economy, that it significantly caused the soaring economic inequality during the Bush-Obama years.

The first thing that Reid did to kill those ‘trade’ deals — while he…

Science and Technology:

¶ Solar Impulse is waiting for a weather window to fly from Japan to Hawaii, making it the longest and most dangerous journey ever on sun powered solo airplane. The seventh leg of the plane’s trip around the world, from Nanjing to Honolulu, was cut short because of weather, so the plane landed in Japan. [TechFrag]

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¶ A report by The Brattle Group for the Advanced Energy Economy Institute says high penetration of renewable generation is not only technically feasible but are already being managed without compromising reliability of electric power service. This supports higher usage of renewable energy. [Windpower Engineering]

World:

¶ The countries that are the biggest polluters have offered different solutions, each using its own timeframe and accounting method, for the UN climate plan. Early analyses by climate researchers show the combined impact falls short of the…

[Note: The Republican Leadership is threatening to try to run through Fast Track-TPP again, as soon as this coming Tuesday
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/trans-pacific-partnership-fast-track-defeat-now-what ].

From Sen. Boxer speech in the US Senate against Fast Track:
“So they say, well, it’s very transparent. Go down and look at it. Well, let me tell you, what you have to do to read this agreement. Follow this. You can only take a few of your staffers who happen to have a security clearance because god knows why this is secure. This is classified.

It’s nothing to do with defense. It has nothing to do with going after ISIS. It has nothing to do with any of that, but it is classified. So I go down with my staff that I could get to go with me, and as soon as I get there, the guard says to me, hand over your electronics.

Okay…