TPP isn't secret, you just have to be one of these corporate persons...

[whereisjustice]

The committees with the most access to what’s going on in the negotiations are 16 “Industry Trade Advisory Committees,” whose members include AT&T, General Electric, Apple, Dow Chemical, Nike, Walmart and the American Petroleum Institute.

And the Intellectual Property Rights committee includes the Recording Industry Association of America, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Apple, Johnson and Johnson and Yahoo, rather than groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which shares the industry’s expertise in intellectual property policy but has an agenda less aligned with business.

There does exist a Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee and a Labor Advisory Committee, but their members are far outnumbered by those from industry. A Washington Post analysis from February 2014 noted, “Of the 566 committee members [in the 28 committees], 306 come from private industry and an additional 174 hail from trade associations. All told they represent 85% of the voices on the trade committees.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/12/cant-read-tpp-heres-huge-corporations-can/

h/t Tsiyu

[daleanime]

1. K&R.....

[jalan48]

2. I remember Dick Cheney and his secret energy task force in 2001.

It seems like the big corporations have come to the conclusion it's their right to make decisions in secret then present the results to the public as a 'fait accompli'. Is this what the Framers of our Constitution had in mind?

[ananda]

3. Rather creepy.

American Horror Story II