"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws

[pam4water]

Last edited Sun Nov 17, 2013, 01:31 AM - Edit history (1)

The video is 12 minutes but it jam packed with info on the Transpacific "Trade" agreement. Which is being negotiated in secret with only corporate interest at the table. Congressman are only able to read sections and not able to take notes while reading. The TTP will affect us all. It should not be negotiated in secrete and rushed through.


Transcript here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/4/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes

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LORI WALLACH: Well, one of the most important things to understand is it’s not really mainly about trade. I guess the way to think about it is as a corporate Trojan horse. The agreement has 29 chapters, and only five of them have to do with trade. The other 24 chapters either handcuff our domestic governments, limiting food safety, environmental standards, financial regulation, energy and climate policy, or establishing new powers for corporations.

For instance, there are the same investor privileges that promote job offshoring to lower-wage countries. There is a ban on Buy Local procurement, so that corporations have a right to do sourcing, basically taking our tax dollars, and instead of investing them in our local economy, sending them offshore. There are new rights to, for instance, have freedom to enter other countries and take natural resources, a right for mining, a right for oil, gas, without approval.
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[zeemike]

1. K&R for exposure...n/t

[pam4water]

2. Thanks :) n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

3. This abomination must not stand

The TPP should be met with a campaign of massive civil disobedience, however long it takes.

If the TPP proves anything, it is that not only corporations not people but they are jealous because we are.

[ReRe]

4. K&R

Kick this and keep it going folks! I watched it several times yesterday on the reruns of DemocracyNow on satellite, and learned something new every time I watched it. The TPP must be stopped, that's all there is to it.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. The DC "Democrats" all want the TPP, so SCREW YOU peons...

[proverbialwisdom]

5. Related.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/15/the-people-can-defeat-the-trans-pacific-partnership/

[blkmusclmachine]

6. change you can beLIEve in

[jtuck004]

8. Needs more sunlight - thank you. n/t

[cprise]

14. I'll bet they put on their best sunny side

...when finally trotting this thing out, as with NAFTA.

[cprise]

9. K&R

[Armstead]

10. Kick

A little less talk in the media on 2016 and more about this would be helpful

[cantbeserious]

11. The Oligarchs And Corporations Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us

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[BelgianMadCow]

12. you're repeating yourself

and I'm liking it

[cantbeserious]

13. If A Lie Oft Repeated Becomes A Truth, Then Maybe A Truth Oft Repeated Changes Reality

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