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NAFTA 2.0 Must Strengthen Intellectual Property Rights
by Stephen Moore
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Wednesday Short Cuts
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RINO-McCain endorses budget bill in win for GOP tax-reform effort (The Washington Post)
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Dow tops 23,000 for first time as stock market rally gains speed (USA Today)
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Military spokesman: ISIS “On the verge of devastating defeat” in Iraq and Syria (CNS News)
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Judge blocks Trump’s travel ban for third time (The Washington Times)
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George Soros transfers $18 billion to his “Open Society” Foundation, creating an instant giant (The Wall Street Journal)
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Delta passenger: The airline wouldn’t let me sing the national anthem for a fallen soldier on our flight (Hot Air)
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Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos vanishes after Las Vegas massacre, only to show up to tell his story on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC News)
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Washington Post “fact-checker” mostly agrees with Steve Scalise on Chicago gun violence — gives him flunking grade anyway (Washington Examiner)
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Jaguars apologize to military for kneeling for national anthem in London (The Daily Wire)
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After five cheerleaders take a knee during national anthem, college takes them off the football field (Conservative News Today)
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Policy: Untaxing the rich is a misguided Republican obsession (National Review)
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Policy: A modern leave policy both employers, employees could love (The Hill ~The Patriot Post
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Chaffetz – No Case Can Be Made 
For McConnell Remaining Majority Leader
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{rickwells.us} ~ Jason Chaffetz describes Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as being “a very nice man” as he struggles to come up with arguments in favor of him remaining in his position as Senate Majority Leader... as Republican leaders get together in the White House to try to map out a way forward. He says, “Look, when the team isn’t performing well and putting wins up on the board, a lot of people on that team want to see a change in the coach. And Donald Trump, all he wants are bills to sign.”  Chaffetz points out, “When it was left to just the President we got Neal Gorsuch. So he was able to perform, but I think people are looking at Congress and they just fundamentally don’t understand, why we don’t have repeal and replace for liar-nObamacare and where is the tax reform bill?”...  https://rickwells.us/chaffetz-mcconnell-remaining-leader/
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Over 100 National Leaders Send Message
to McConnell: Confirm Trump Nominees ‘Now’
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by Ken Klukowski
{theacru.org} ~ More than 100 national leaders urged Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday to use every means at their disposal to confirm more than 200 presidential nominations currently pending in the U.S. Senate... both for the executive branch and for the federal courts. Conservative leaders are telling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his colleagues that it is absolutely intolerable that hundreds of President Donald Trump’s nominees for his administration and to the federal judiciary are languishing in the Senate. They are calling for immediate action... http://www.theacru.org/over-100-national-leaders-send-message-to-mcconnell-confirm-trump-nominees-now/
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Russian Infiltration Scandal Breaks…
liar-Hillary, Holder Approved…FBI, DOJ Buried
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by KIM SMITH
{conservativetribune.com} ~ It turns out there may be some truth to the Russia collusion story, but it happened on former President Barack liar-nObama’s watch... and it has former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints all over it. According to a report Tuesday in The Hill, a controversial liar-nObama administration decision in 2010 to approve a deal that gave a Russian company control of 20 percent of the United States’ uranium supply came through, despite an FBI investigation at the time that showed “substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States.” A confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry made secret recordings and amassed emails going back as early as 2009 that showed Moscow bribed an American uranium trucking firm with kickbacks, violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to The Hill...  https://conservativetribune.com/russian-scandal-hillary-holder/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=2017-10-17
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Key senators reach deal 
on liar-nObamacare insurer subsidies
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by Robert King and Kimberly Leonard
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairman of a key committee that has been working on a bipartisan deal to stabilize liar-nObamacare... said Tuesday that he has arrived at an agreement with Sen. Patty Murray, the committee's top Democrat. The deal would fund liar-nObamacare's insurer funds, known as cost-sharing reduction payments, for two years, and includes what Alexander refers to as "meaningful flexibility" for states. Trump abruptly cut off the subsidies last week, and the bipartisan deal would reinstate them for the end of this year. It would allow insurers to sell "copper plans," to people who are older than 30, which tend to have higher deductibles and offer fewer benefits than more expensive options, but could be one way to attract individuals into the market who have fewer medical needs. States also would receive grants for outreach, paid for by user fees, to help people enroll in the plans...This is not a deal at all. Its the same issues, giving our tax dollars away.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/key-senators-reach-a-deal-on-obamacare-insurer-subsidies/article/2637770?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/17/17&utm_medium=email
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RINO-McCain Speech Angrily Attacks Trump 
For Upsetting Globalist New World Order
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{rickwells.us} ~ Establishment RINO John McCain went on one of his many rants against President Trump, this time opting to do it from inside our own borders... at an event where he was awarded a meaningless award, the Liberty Medal, by the partner in crime of Hussein liar-nObama, Joe loose lips-Biden in Philadelphia. At the :45 second mark in the video, McCain makes some pro-globalism comments attacking President Trump that confirm, for anyone who may still have harbored a doubt, his alliance with the Soros-liar-nObama-liar-Clinton Democrats determined to destroy and take over this nation. RINO-McCain said, “To fear the world we’ve organized and led for three quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems.”...  https://rickwells.us/mccain-trump-upsetting-globalist-order/
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NAFTA 2.0 Must Strengthen Intellectual Property Rights
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by Stephen Moore
{townhall.com} ~ It now appears that Donald Trump's intention regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement is to mend it, not end it. That's good news, because the trade deal has been a stunning economic success for Canada, Mexico and the United States. Freer trade has meant steady increases in the volume of trade, greater competitiveness and lower prices.

But as Trump's negotiators craft a NAFTA 2.0 deal, some things need to be fixed to assure America's continued commanding heights in technology and innovation. Intellectual property rights -- patents, copyrights and so on -- need to be better safeguarded.
 
There have been abuses. In an unprecedented move, Canadian regulators recently ordered an American pharmaceutical company to lower the price of the company's breakthrough treatment for a rare blood disorder.

Canada is inventing new rules to avoid paying American pharmaceutical and technology companies for their innovations and inventions. This is also happening in Europe, where bureaucrats are trying to expropriate funds from American technology leaders, including Google, through bogus charges of monopoly activities.

The Trump administration should vigorously repel these economic attacks against American companies. This is a very big deal for the American economy. Intellectual property is increasingly the lifeblood of our economy. IP-intensive industries support 28 million American jobs -- or about 1 in 5 workers. About $6 trillion of our GDP now is in IP-related industries, including almost all of Silicon Valley.
 
Many of NAFTA's IP provisions do not prevent infringement of patent rights and, in some cases, outright theft as in the case of China. This costs American consumers and businesses an estimated $200 billion annually.

Consider our drug companies. American pharmaceuticals recorded $47 billion in exports in 2015. Yet despite this and the fact that the vast majority of drug breakthroughs come from America, the U.S. currently has a $700 million trade deficit with Canada and only a tiny trade surplus with Mexico in biopharmaceuticals.

Our trade partners do not want their citizens to pay for the costs of the research and development required to invent these breakthrough medicines in the first place. It typically requires $500 million to $1 billion to develop a new drug or vaccine, and American consumers shouldn't bear the entire burden of those costs.It drives up drug and health insurance costs in America, and it jeopardizes world health by delaying the development of future cures for cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Parkinson's and other terrible diseases.

Even worse, Mexico is producing "knockoff" drugs that are copycats of American pharmaceuticals. This is stealing, too, and negotiators should get tough on these practices south of our border.

The same abuses are happening with American trademarks and copyrighted materials. NAFTA doesn't sufficiently protect movies, music and games from theft and distribution online.

NAFTA should impose civil and criminal penalties for illicit access to cable and satellite signals and other preventable infringements in which American firms are not compensated for use of the product.

The future of free and fair trade depends on rigorous enforcement of America's multitrillion-dollar IP industries. This is about jobs -- millions of them -- and the rule of law. It is also about encouraging the very innovation that promotes prosperity and better health in America -- which we then export across the globe to the betterment of mankind. It will also help boost public and business support for trade as a driver of growth in the years to come.
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