The Trans Pacific Partnership isn’t just a trade agreement. It slays safety regulations and labor protections, curtails communication freedoms, and re-writes domestic laws of the participating countries. It’s been called a mass assault on democracy and the biggest, most sinister corporate power grab yet.
The reason you haven’t heard of it is two-fold. All the negotiations, since 2008, have been going on behind thick closed doors and the major media outlets have apparently found it too hard to get a whiff and a sniff. Or, they’re in on it.
Why the secrecy? At least one Congressman, Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who did manage to get a peek at a draft, as long as he promised not to reveal its contents, said it must be kept secret or the people would never stand for it.
But representatives of 600 major corporations, who are in on the negotiations, love it. That’s because, according to Kevin Reese, co-director of popularresistance.org, it gives major corporations unprecedented power.
Now, according to our U.S. Constitution, Congress has the authority to regulate trade, so why worry? Because, there’s a way to get around that and Obama is trying to use it.
Just this month (Sept.), the President pressured Congress to grant him extra-constitutional authority, known as “Fast Track,” to complete the TPP without congressional scrutiny.
“Fast Track” would have Congress voting up or down on the massive document without any power to discuss or amend any of it. This is an arcane procedure devised by Richard Nixon, according to Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach, “but that was when trade negotiations covered only real trade stuff.”
http://disinfo.com/2013/10/tpp-sinister-corporate-power-grab-yet/#sthash.0pj1KdGW.iSTxBNXZ.dpuf
The Trans-Pacific Partnership "Legislative Frankenstein from Hell" (Video)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, like all legislative Frankensteins, has been hidden from a concerned public. Like Franky’s creator, the creators of TPP, the 1% and their handmaidens in Congress, must keep their Franky hidden from the townspeople. The lack of knowledge of we the townspeople precludes us from taking appropriate action to protect ourselves.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, like all legislative Frankensteins, has been hidden from a concerned public. Like Franky’s creator, the creators of TPP, the 1% and their handmaidens in Congress, must keep their Franky hidden from the townspeople. The lack of knowledge of we the townspeople precludes us from taking appropriate action to protect ourselves.
In the following segment the TPP expert has gone to great lengths to get us some inside information. She was forced to go to other countries to talk to their representatives to get information, bizarro world eh? Her reporting is excellent.
The stakes could not be higher. This is the final transfer of economic power from the people to multi-national, non-accountable powers that have brought us to this day. This is the legislation that puts American workers into direct competition with 14 cent an hour Chinese labor and takes away our children’s ability to fight against that downward trend.
Read more at:-
600 Corporate lobbyists are involved in drawing up the wording of the TPP trade deal, including those of Halliburton and Monsanto.
There are zero representatives of the people.
Secret TPP Treaty “This Agreement Hands The Sovereignty of Our Country Over to Corporate Interests”
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/07/secret-tpp-treaty-this-agreement-hands.html
Update 10/26
A similar deal to further the Corporate Takeover is currently being negotiated with the European Union - it's called Tafta.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-eu-transatlantic-free-trade-agreement-tafta-big-business-corporate-power-grab/5352885
Updates 11/18
TPP Exposed: WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Trade Text to Rewrite Copyright Laws, Limit Internet Freedom
http://bit.ly/19AzMW3
New rules being smuggled into trade agreements undermine democracy
This has a particular emphasis on subjugating National Sovereignty in the interests of spreading GMO crops
http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15145-new-rules-being-smuggled-into-trade-agreements-undermine-democracy
Update 10/26
A similar deal to further the Corporate Takeover is currently being negotiated with the European Union - it's called Tafta.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-eu-transatlantic-free-trade-agreement-tafta-big-business-corporate-power-grab/5352885
Updates 11/18
TPP Exposed: WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Trade Text to Rewrite Copyright Laws, Limit Internet Freedom
http://bit.ly/19AzMW3
New rules being smuggled into trade agreements undermine democracy
This has a particular emphasis on subjugating National Sovereignty in the interests of spreading GMO crops
http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15145-new-rules-being-smuggled-into-trade-agreements-undermine-democracy
0 comments:
Post a Comment