Free trade agreements, like ttip, want independent arbitration courts that bypass judiciaries and make decisions on their own authority. It gives companies too much power, say critics, placing power on democratically elected governments. There has been an increase in litigation. El salvador has to pay one company 300 million in damages. The company is not permitted to mine for gold there. Romania has the same problem. These are images taken from central romania. It looks like a moonscape. This is the reresult of haharmfl copperinining practitices that contamaminated the r region and buburied an entire villa. He witnessed the destruction of his home and he fears more damage. Some of the biggest deposits are thought to be under the ground here and the Mining Companies are itching toto start extracti. This whole area will become a massive crater, right up to the mountains there. The Canadian Mining Company has been wanting to start extraction here since the 1990s. Ngos and locals are oppo
Free trade agreements, like ttip, want independent arbitration courts that bypass judiciaries and make decisions on their own authority. It gives companies too much power, say critics, placing power on democratically elected governments. There has been an increase in litigation. El salvador has to pay one company 300 million in damages. The company is not permitted to mine for gold there. Romania has the same problem. These are images taken from central romania. It looks like a moonscape. This is the reresult of haharmfl copperinining practitices that contamaminated the r region and buburied an entire villa. He witnessed the destruction of his home and he fears more damage. Some of the biggest deposits are thought to be under the ground here and the Mining Companies are itching toto start extracti. This whole area will become a massive crater, right up to the mountains there. The canadiaMining Company has been wanting to start extraction here since the 1990s. Ngos and locals are oppose
My good friend died exactly that way. Her last words when the ambulance arrived. To this day, it wasnt going to go to the hospital or i dont want to die. So the bi so, the bill that went through were trying to the Legislature Last year and youve talked here about the respect or like the movement that would take a decade or two. Thats what specifically can people do to try to gett something thats not the past several times through finally . Thats what has to happen in california. Thats what had to happen. I dont know about montana and how long that took. We have to simply keep pushing. And jamie in maryland introduced the first time someone else, then the second time it went down. I have a feeling, i may be totally wrong. Thats like marriage i had the feeling that california could be the turning point that you may have a great many states following through more quickly now then california has passed its law. But you write letters and emails to your own legislator and that is all you can
[speaking in native tongue] translator and we want to turn this into a highvalue added alliance that is ready for the future. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, congress is on a weeklong columbus day break. Legislative business resumes tuesday. She was Hillary Clintons deputy chief of staff at the state department and is now working on this comes president ial campaign. After the meeting the benghazi committees top democrat spoke with reporters. Congressman mccarthy making clear what this is all about. We then of course have the handpicked member of the republican staff. To affirm what mr. Mccarthy had already stated we then have congressman hannah to reaffirm all of it. But even if we wanted to put words to the side, the question becomes, we have been asked to not listen to the words of mccarthy, not listen to words of discussed , and not listen to the words of hannah the look at the actions of the committee. We have a situation where is cle
The communications and technology subcommittee. Representative shimkus, thanks for joining us. Guest its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Host and also joining us, david mccabe of the hill, thank you for joining us. Pleasure to be here. Host theres an effort in congress about who controls the internet, internet dominance, and you have a piece of legislation that deals specifically with this. Could you set up our audience and let them know what the issue is and what your bill addresses . Guest well, its called the dill the bill was originally called the dot. Com act, and it was about icanns transition of the eye january that functions, who is the keeper of the addresses, how the internet operates. And there is kind of an international struggle, and the u. N. And some people saying, you know, the United States should not be the keeper of the final vestiges of a contract, and we should have a multistakeholder approach. The Tech Community has gathered support for that, and we go