Robert Reich: with exploiting corporations playing one country against another, peoples and states ought to unite against them.

His reasoning is applicable when states, if united, use their power against corporate dominion. (Sometimes the EU does put real limits on corporations.) United, they can be stronger, in principle.

However, what is usually lacking when states ought to confront business is not strength, but political will and firmness. That does not require a large country, and it does not benefit from union with other states whose governments don't have political will and firmness.

Exiting the EU can in principle be a good thing, if it gets a country out of a free exploitation agreement that the EU imposes, or an unjust EU directive such as the Copyright Directive that requires countries to ban DRM-breaking programs. Exiting the EU might be absolutely necessary if it is the way to escape a disaster such as the euro's deficit limit. However, it could also be a path to an even more abject surrender to corporations, as Reich suggests.

The US copyright industry is not satisfied with imitating dictators; now it wants to imitate gangsters.

You could tell the report was going to spout nonsense simply from the terminology used to refer to the act of sharing copies.

"Intellectual property" is propaganda; worse, it spreads confusion because it misrepresents various unrelated laws by treating them as a single thing. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.

"Theft" is a falsehood: copying, even when unauthorized, is not theft under any legal system I know of. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft

There is a serious proposal to install a ladder on Mt Everest to avoid a bottleneck in the climb.

This demonstrates that Mt Everest has become an amusement park rather than a real adventure. How silly to put so much effort and money into such a thing.

Swedish thugs' oppression of blacks is surprisingly similar to that of US thugs.

Thugs in Houston blocked street presentations of a rap video by threatening to arrest the fans.