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This is an introduction to a beginners guide to the kind of "regulatory cooperation" that the European Commission and corporation-serving negotiators of the US have in mind to subvert national control over environmental, health and safety regulations. To be sure, national control usually mean local elites control to a considerable extent. Yet nation-based regulations usually have far more ordinary citizen input than what we will have under these multi-national trade agreements. We have seen the future with NAFTA.