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From Techdirt:
In order to get the trade deal sewn up by the end of this year, and before resistance spreads further, the negotiators have decided to hold 'inter-sessional' meetings for the remaining unresolved areas.
The last time this approach was used on this scale was for ACTA, which was ultimately rejected, largely because the European public took to the streets to express its outrage at the contempt being shown towards it by the negotiators. Interestingly, in Colombia people are already taking to the streets to protest against the effects of free trade agreements with the US, Europe and Canada, at least in part. Do the governments participating in the now-secret TPP negotiations really want to risk the same happening in their own countries?
From Scoop:
Past inter-sessionals have been shrouded in secrecy to ensure we cant find out whats happening and we dont have access to those negotiators who see value in talking with us.
The last three years of the TPPA have been widely condemned for their lack of transparency. The process is now going further underground.
Finishing in December may mean the Obama administration has to give this chapter away, Professor Kelsey speculated. Yet the SOE chapter has been a centrepiece of their sales pitch to Congress on the TPPA. Without it, Congress may refuse to give the President fast track authority and retain their power to pick apart any final deal.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)predecessor.
But the Obama administration certainly has proven me wrong.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)When it comes to trade, what's the difference?
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)Including our President and other sundry elected officials..
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Against the people.
But that probably goes without saying.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)Worst administration ever.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)But, sadly, not surprising. The Corporations and Wall Street run both parties at the top.
The democrats are moving left on social issues, all good but maybe we all wind up equal and smoking pot in the poorhouse.
It remains irritating and maddening to me that liberal talk has virtually ignored all this other than Thom Hartmann and Mike Papantonio (and I imagine Mike Malloy), but it looks like they are lone voices in the wind as we're further sold out.
druidity33
(6,445 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)The Ed Snowden caper, or how I stopped worrying and came to love our total surveillance state, part two, is now off the headlines.
Ditto the Trans Pacific Plan. Can't find any American media talking about it. And what ever happened to that nice young man from Illinois, the young African American senator, who said if elected, he would offer the American people the most transparent administration to date?
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)The media was beating a dead horse with the Snowden story. If you care about the issue, by all means keep fighting. But it was overkill.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)Corporations world, corporations world.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)The Republicans never would dare to go so far when they ruled.
Democrats appear to be a better at being an opposition party rather than a leadership party.
No one can hold this Democrats in control or accountable.
I believe there are only 2 or 3 legislators who represent and protect us.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)Are you serious?? Who do you think started all these Neocon trade agreements? Why Saint Ronnie Raygun.
In fact even if TPP never passes, we still have some really awful WTO trade treaties that neocons wrote up and US presidents signed off on that are so similar to the TPP it would make your blood boil.
Why do you think Clinton signed the Glass-Steagel Act repeal? Because it was a condition of one of the WTO trade agreements the idiot Raygun allowed.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)but it took Bill Clinton to sign NAFTA into law.
The TPP is much worse than the other trade agreements, even Elizabeth Warren says Americans should be very alarmed about it. Why do you suppose the administration wants such secrecy about TPP?
BTW What have the Democrats done to walk back NAFTA, or any of these other terrible agreements?
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)the details of this agreement will piss people off--which we are already. I cringe to wonder what surprises are in store for us now.
If they are doing nothing wrong, they should have nothing to hide. Touché!
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)The corporate coup is in our faces.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)and up our asses too.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)but I'm disgusted with Washington at this point, R's and D's both.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)I wish we could scrub it all and start over.