Clinton brought us the North
Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which opened our borders for
outsourcing, as Ross Perot warned, with the passing of NAFTA, you’ll hear a big
sucking sound from the production and jobs leaving America and heading abroad. Bush
brought us Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which regulates all
products sold, right down to the mega grams in your vitamin pills. And
Obama’s bringing us the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which regulates
EVERYTHING you see, hear and touch.
As I said in my book and a number of
articles, Treaties trump the U.S. Constitution. All treaties contain
agreements that bind and obligate countries to, or not to, perform certain
acts. Notice the words “free trade” and “partnership”, when it should
read “controlled trade” and “opposition”. You’ll always be right on
target if you accept everything they say through their news media pendants to
mean the exact opposite.
We are living in a George Orwell’s,
1984, nightmare. This current president and his administration has transformed into a totalitarian
government in total control, while demanding complete subjugation of the
people. In 1984, there’s an Orwellian Newspeak, where the Ministry of Love
(Miniluv) oversees torture and brainwashing, the Ministry of Plenty
(Miniplenty) oversees shortage and famine, the Ministry of Peace (Minipax)
oversees war and atrocity, and the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue) oversees
propaganda and historical revisionism.
The Ministry of Defense is really the Ministry of Attack, WAR, perpetual war, is PEACE, FREEDOM IS
SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, and THOUGHTCRIME is death. The
telescreens in every public area, have hidden microphones and cameras. These
devices, alongside informers, permit the Thought Police to spy upon everyone
and so identify anyone who might endanger the government’s régime; children,
most of all, are indoctrinated to spy and inform on suspected
thought-criminals – especially their parents.
Who wants to
live and a world like this? Yet, aren’t we there today ?
Seattle Wi-Fi
spy network, http://www.prisonplanet.com/seattle-wi-fi-spy-network-has-not-been-deactivated.html, NSA watching everything you do, http://www.prisonplanet.com/nsa-snooping-takes-down-u-s-computer-networking-business.html, American’s personal data shared with
CIA, IRS, NSA, ECHELON and others in security probe, http://www.prisonplanet.com/americans-personal-data-shared-with-cia-irs-others-in-security-probe.html
Every president since J.F. Kennedy
was controlled by the same powers-that-be that control everything we think
(magazines, books, TV and radio), everything we say (we’re already into restricted
speech and we’re quickly moving into any independent thinking of the corporate
news media is committing a “thoughtcrime”), everything we wear (it’s the
corporate powers-that-be that present the latest styles and dress that wield
such peer-pressure that when our kids aren’t wearing the latest trend, they’re
ostracized and bullied suicide by their peers) and very soon everything we
do—thanks to Obama’s TPP and Obama-don’t-care Act—will be closely monitored and
tightly regulated, IF WE DON’T KICK ALL THE BUMS OUT AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK
from these gangster, bankster, criminal thugs.
Obama’s Secret Treaty Which Will Merge America More Deeply Into The
Emerging One World Economic System
By Michael
Snyder, on November 13th, 2013
Did you know that the Obama
administration is negotiating a super secret "trade agreement" that
is so sensitive that he isn't even allowing members of Congress to see
it? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the "NAFTA of the
Pacific" and "NAFTA on steroids", but the truth is that it is so
much more than just a trade agreement. This treaty has 29 chapters, but
only 5 of them have to do with trade. Most Americans don't realize this, but this treaty will
fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, health care, the trading of
derivatives, copyright issues, food safety, environmental standards, civil
liberties and so much more.
It will also merge the United States
far more deeply into the emerging one world economic system. Initially,
twelve nations will be a party to this treaty including the United States,
Mexico, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru,
Singapore and Vietnam.
Together, those nations represent
approximately 40 percent of
global GDP. It is hoped that additional nations such as the Philippines,
Thailand and Colombia will join the treaty later on.
There are some very good reasons why
Obama does not want the American people to know anything about what is in this
treaty. This
agreement will impose very strict Internet copyright rules on the American
people, it will ban all "Buy American" laws, it will give Wall Street
banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives
and it will force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.
It contains a whole host of things
that Obama would be unable to get through Congress on his own. But he is hoping
to spring this on Congress at the last minute and get them
to agree to this "free trade agreement" before they realize all of
the things that are contained in it.
The secrecy surrounding these treaty
negotiations have really been unprecedented. The following is an excerpt
from a recent article by Kurt Nimmo...
“Since the
beginning of the TPP negotiations, the process of drafting and negotiating the
treaty’s chapters has been shrouded in an unprecedented level of secrecy,”
Wikileaks notes in a statement
on the release of the
TPP draft. “Access to drafts of the TPP chapters is shielded from the general
public. Members of the US Congress are only able to view selected portions of
treaty-related documents in highly restrictive conditions and under strict
supervision. It has been previously revealed that only three individuals in
each TPP nation have access to the full text of the agreement, while 600 ’trade
advisers’ – lobbyists guarding the interests of large US corporations such as
Chevron, Halliburton, Monsanto and Walmart – are granted privileged access to
crucial sections of the treaty text.”
And Obama reportedly is seeking "trade
promotion authority" which would
give him the ability to this treaty before Congress even votes on it...
Normally
free -trade agreements must be authorized by a majority of the House and
Senate, usually in lengthy proceedings.
However,
the White House is seeking what is known as “trade promotion authority” which
would fast track approval of the TPP by requiring Congress to vote on the
likely lengthy trade agreement within 90 days and without any amendments. The authority also
allows Obama to sign the agreement before Congress even has a chance to vote on
it, with lawmakers getting only a quick post-facto vote. This is so
insidious that it is hard to find the words to describe it.
In essence, Obama is trying to make
a giant end run around Congress on dozens of different issues that are
addressed by this treaty.
Fortunately, there are at least some
members of Congress that are waking up to this. Earlier this week, a small group of Republicans and a small group of
Democrats both sent Obama a letter condemning this "free trade"
agreement...
Separate
groups of House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday condemned the Obama
administration's proposed sweeping free trade agreement with 11 Pacific
nations, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Strongly worded letters to President
Barack Obama Tuesday were signed by hardline tea partiers, true-blue
progressives, and moderate, corporate-friendly lawmakers in both parties,
indicating political trouble for a trade deal the administration had hoped to
seal by year end.
This is one of the most important
political issues facing our nation here at the end of 2013, and yet you hear
next to nothing about this treaty on the mainstream news. If this treaty is approved
the United States will be permanently bound by the provisions of this treaty
and will never be able to change them unless all of the
other countries agree.
Countries
would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the
TPP’s rules—in effect, a corporate coup d’état. The proposed pact would limit
even how governments can spend their tax dollars. Buy America and other Buy
Local procurement preferences that invest in the US economy would be banned,
and “sweat-free,” human rights or environmental conditions on government
contracts could be challenged. If the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde
rules could be altered only if all
countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public
opinion. And unlike much domestic
legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date.
Are you starting to understand just
how dangerous this treaty is? Let me give you just one example of how this
treaty could directly affect you.
Do you remember SOPA? There
was a huge public backlash when the very strict Internet copyright provisions
of SOPA were revealed to the public, and the American people loudly expressed
their displeasure to members of Congress.
But now the provisions of SOPA are
back. Most of them have reportedly been very quietly inserted into this
treaty. If this treaty is enacted, those provisions will become law and
the American people will not be able to do a thing about it.
And according to an article in the New York Times, there are all sorts of other disturbing things that have been
slipped into this treaty. And yet
another leak revealed that the deal would include even more expansive
incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore than were included in
Nafta — a deal that drained millions of jobs from the American economy.
The
agreement would also be a boon for Wall Street and its campaign to water down
regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Among other things,
it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including the
toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place.
Are you starting to grasp why the
Obama administration is so determined to keep this treaty such a secret? In addition,
this "free trade" agreement will push the ongoing deindustrialization
of America into overdrive. Every year, we buy hundreds of billions of
dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us. Tens
of thousands of American businesses have been lost as a result, and millions of
good jobs have been shipped overseas.
If you are not familiar with our
"trade deficit", you really should be. It is one of the issues
at the very heart of our economic problems. Posted below is a short 3 minute video
that briefly discusses the trade deficit and why it is so important...
Slowly merging our economy with the
rest of the planet has been absolutely disastrous for America. Just
consider the following statistics...
-Overall, the United States has run
a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion
dollars with the rest of the world since
1975.
-Back in the year 2000, there were more than 17 million Americans working in manufacturing. Now there are less than 12 million.
-There are less Americans working in
manufacturing today than there was in
1950 even though the population of the
country has more than doubled since then.
-Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
-When NAFTA was pushed through
Congress in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. By 2010, we had
a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.
-Back in 1985, our trade deficit
with China was approximately 6 million
dollars (million with a little
"m") for the entire
year. In 2012, our trade deficit with China was 315 billion
dollars. That was the largest trade
deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the
world.
-According to the Economic Policy
Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.
-According to Professor Alan Blinder
of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two
decades if current trends continue.
Once upon a time, our great
manufacturing cities were the envy of the entire planet. In fact, at one
time Detroit actually had the highest per capita income in the United States.
But now Detroit is a rotting,
decaying, festering hellhole that is completely bankrupt. And there are
dozens of other formerly great manufacturing cities that are heading down the
exact same path.
These "free trade"
agreements are neither "free" nor "fair" when you really
examine them, and they are absolutely eviscerating the middle class.
Please urge your representatives in
Congress to block the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If this treaty does get,
it is going to make a lot of our problems a whole lot worse.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Ready
for Christmas Delivery? Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. New American November 14, 2013
As the end of 2013 approaches, so
does President Obama’s deadline for approving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The TPP is a direct and deadly
attack on sovereignty and representative government masquerading as a Pacific
Rim trade pact.
Currently, there are 12 countries
negotiating in secret to create this regional trade agreement that some have
called NAFTA
on steroids. The number of participants could
rise to a baker’s dozen should China be welcomed on board by the United
States (President Obama has signaled that he would recognize the Chinese communist government’s
partnership in the bloc).
President Obama’s fascination with
intertwining the economic welfare of the United States with China is perhaps
one reason a recent commentator called the TPP “another disaster from a proven
liar.”
Writing in an op-ed for the Washington Times, Judson Phillips lists several of the principal criticisms
of the TPP:
Barack Obama is asking for fast
track authority for the Trans Pacific Partnership. Consider that to be another
version of “you have to pass this to see what is in it.” With fast track
authority, there will be no hearings on this treaty. It will be negotiated then
sent to the Senate for a simple up or down vote. The Senate will not be able to
provide advice and consent because they cannot offer amendments under fast
track.
Less than one fifth of the Trans Pacific
Partnership deals with trade. The remainder of the treaty governs a myriad of
things, including regulating the price of medicines. A few months ago, a mix of
conservative and liberal groups stopped the “Stop Online Piracy Act” or SOPA.
Most of the provisions of SOPA are included in the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Under the proposals of the TPP,
American sovereignty would be eroded. American courts would be inferior to
foreign trade courts and disputes between American citizens and foreign
corporations would not be litigated in American courts but in these trade
tribunals. The TPP is guilty of each of those charges, and the evidence is
overwhelming.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect
of all the roster of frightening things about the TPP is the secrecy
surrounding the details of the agreement.
A few federal lawmakers have tried
in vain to bring into the light the frightening compromises being made by our
trade representatives at the TPP negotiations.
Zach Carter of the online Huffington
Post reported that Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global
Competitiveness, was stonewalled by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
(USTR) when he attempted to see any of the draft documents related to the
governance of the TPP.
In response to this rebuff, Wyden
proposed a measure in the Senate that would force transparency on the process,
and that was enough to convince the USTR to grant the senator a peek at the documents,
though his staff was not permitted to peruse them.
Wyden spokeswoman Jennifer Hoelzer
told the Huffington Post that such accommodations were “better than nothing”
but not ideal in light of the well-known fact that on Capitol Hill the real
work of drafting and evaluating legislation is performed by the
representatives’ staff members who are often experts in particular areas of
domestic and foreign policy.
“I would point out how insulting it
is for them to argue that members of Congress are to personally go over to USTR
to view the trade documents,” Hoelzer said. “An advisor at Halliburton or the
MPAA is given a password that allows him or her to go on the USTR website and
view the TPP agreement anytime he or she wants.”
It is instructive that a duly
elected senator of the United States has to beg and plead and threaten
legislation in order to see the TPP trade agreement negotiations, but corporate
interests are given a password by the USTR that grants them full, unrestricted
access to those same documents.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
issued a statement criticizing the Obama administration for the lack of
oversight into an agreement with devastating potential:
After more than a decade of broken
promises from NAFTA, CAFTA, and normalized trade relations with China, we can
now add a credibility deficit to the trade deficits we’ve seen. The leaked
documents surfacing today only underscore the secrecy surrounding TPP
negotiations and confirm worst suspicions about the direction trade negotiations
are heading. It’s telling that it is easier for the CEO of a major corporation
to access information about the negotiations than the American people’s elected
representatives.
The negotiations must involve more
transparency and bring more voices to the table.
Apart from the secrecy, a few drafts
of key provisions of the TPP have been leaked to the Internet. One thing all
the leaks reveal is that large corporations would be allowed to assume powers
that constitutionally belong to Congress and to the states.
Notably, in both statements
announcing the hemispheric enlargement of the trade bloc, former U.S. Trade
Representative Kirk places the approval of “domestic stakeholders” (read: large
corporations) on a level with that of Congress. It is precisely this exalting
of big business, as well as the as-yet-impenetrable wall of secrecy surrounding
the drafting of the TPP treaty, that has troubled many of the people’s
representatives in Congress.
Although the treaty negotiations are
being kept under a thick veil of secrecy, a draft document leaked to the
Internet discloses that as part of its membership in the TPP, the United States
would agree to exempt foreign corporations from our laws and regulations,
placing the resolution of any disputes as to the applicability of those matters
to foreign business in the hands of an international arbitration tribunal
overseen by the secretary-general of the United Nations.
The leaked information also confirms
the fears of many who from the beginning have opposed the entry of the United
States into this trade agreement. The alarms sounded by several groups on the
Left and the Right warning of the wholesale damage that the TPP could cause to
commerce, copyrights, and the Constitution now seem vindicated.
An organization actively protecting
the sovereignty of the United States is Americans for Limited Government (ALG).
In June 2012, ALG released a statement drawing attention to critical provisions
of the leaked TPP agreement, as well as ably pointing out some of the most noxious
aspects of the proposed agreement:
These new trade agreements will
place domestic U.S. firms that do not do business overseas at a competitive
disadvantage. Based on these leaked documents, foreign firms under this trade
pact could conceivably appeal federal regulatory and court rulings against them
to an international tribunal with the apparent authority to overrule our
sovereignty. If foreign companies want to do business in America, they should
have to follow the same rules as everyone else. No special favors.
It is telling that the only apparent
way these Pacific nations will enter a free trade agreement with the U.S. is if
they are exempt from our onerous environmental and financial regulations that
make it cost-ineffective to do business here. Instead of making these foreign
firms exempt from these burdensome rules, they should just repeal the
regulations and make it cheaper to do business here.
This poses an even wider problem,
though. Obama is negotiating a trade pact that would constitute a judicial
authority higher than even the U.S. Supreme Court that could overrule federal
court rulings applying U.S. law to foreign companies. That is
unconstitutional….
This tribunal needs to be removed
from this agreement, and no foreign company doing business on our soil should
have a competitive advantage, created by some dumb agreement, over American
companies. What is Obama thinking? He is placing international organizations
above the interests of our own country.
Just days after the proposed
provisions of the TPP appeared online, The New American interviewed
ALG President Bill Wilson. Wilson was asked what he believes Americans have to
fear should the United States enter the TPP and why he thinks the negotiations
have been conducted in secret.
“These trade pacts, starting with
NAFTA and before [GATT], strike at the heart of national sovereignty, ours and
that of the other member nations,” Wilson warned. “At their core they diminish
the prerogatives and powers of a specific country and surrender them to international
bodies or corporations.”
Other observers agree. In fact, an
organization calling itself “Just Foreign Policy” has created a crowd-sourced
bounty on the TPP agreement. On the group’s website, individuals interested in
exposing the secret TPP agreement and the pro-corporate corruption included in
it can donate money to increase the potential reward for the pact’s revelation.
The project explains:
At this very moment, the
Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) — a trade agreement that could affect
the health and welfare of billions of people worldwide — is being negotiated
behind closed doors. While 600 corporate lobbyists have access to the text, the
press, the public, and even members of the US Congress are being kept in the
dark.
But we don’t have to stand meekly by
as corporate cronies decide our futures. Concerned citizens from around the
world are pooling together their resources as a reward to WikiLeaks if it makes
the negotiating text of the TPP public. Our pledge, as individuals, is to
donate this money to WikiLeaks should it leak the document we seek.
As WikiLeaks likes to say,
information wants to be free. The negotiating text for the TPP wants to be free.
Someone just needs to release it.
Unfortunately, the balance seems to
be tipping in favor of finishing the TPP in time for Christmas. In a November 5
editorial, the New York Times came out in favor
of the secret surrender of sovereignty, describing the agreement as “a trade
agreement … that could help all of our economies and strengthen relations
between the United States and several important Asian allies.”
Leading opponent of the TPP, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), senses a couple of sinister explanations
for the Old Gray Lady’s support of the secret attempt at economic integration
of a dozen economies. EFF’s Maira Sutton writes:
That raises two distressing
possibilities: either in an act of extraordinary subservience, the Times
has endorsed an agreement that neither the public nor its editors have the
ability to read. Or, in an act of extraordinary cowardice, it has obtained a
copy of the secret text and hasn’t fulfilled its duty to the public interest to
publish it.
Regardless, President Obama is
determined to get approval from Congress to fast-track the TPP negotiations.
Not surprisingly, senators from both major parties are ready to make it a Merry
Christmas for the president. The Hill reports:
Senate Finance Committee leaders
called on Wednesday for Congress to pass fast-track legislation aimed at
smoothing the passage of any future trade deals.
Panel Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
and ranking member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said during a trade hearing that
they are working on crafting trade promotion authority (TPA) legislation
and are expecting the Obama administration to work with them toward gaining its
approval in Congress.
Baucus said it is time to “pass TPA
and do it soon.”
There is still time for Americans to
contact their senators and encourage them to refuse to ratify any agreement
that is worked out in secret, grants corporations lawmaking power that the
Constitution gives exclusively to Congress, and ties the future financial
well-being of the United States to countries ruled by communists, dictators,
and with economies that will adversely affect nearly every aspect of American
manufacturing and agriculture.
Related posts:
- Trans Pacific Partnership: Corporate Escape From Accountability
- Deepening the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade Partnership
- Obama Pushing Trans-Atlantic Union with EU
- Mexico and Canada Invited to Join the Secret TPP Negotiations
- Canada Formally Joins TPP; Goal of Secret Pact Is Integration
We noted
last year: An international treaty being negotiated in secret which would not
only crack down on
Internet privacy much more than SOPA or ACTA, but
would actually destroy the sovereignty
of the U.S. and all other signatories. It is called the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP). We also noted that even Congressmen are
furious that the bill was being kept secret
from the American public. And that the TPP is an anti-American
power grab by big corporations.
Wikileaks has now leaked the
intellectual property chapter of the secret treaty … and it’s as bad as we
feared.
And International Business Times explains: The TPP’s chapter on IP deals with a host of issues, but its potential impacts on basic Internet freedom and usage are perhaps the ones that would directly impact the most people in the short term. One of the biggest concerns about the agreement raised by the Internet freedom advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation centers around the concept of “temporary copies.” Here’s the text of the relevant section of the TPP’s intellectual property chapter leaked Wednesday:
“Each Party shall provide that
authors, performers, and producers of phonograms have the right to authorize or
prohibit all reproductions of their works, performances, and phonograms, in any
manner or form, permanent or temporary (including
temporary storage in electronic form).”
The EFF wrote in a July analysis of
the language – which has not been amended
in the intervening months — that the provision “reveals a profound disconnect with the reality of the
modern computer,” which relies on temporary copies to perform routine
operations, during which it must create temporary copies of programs and files
in order to carry out basic functions. This is particularly so while a
computer is connected to the Internet, when it will use temporary copies to
buffer videos, store cache files to ensure websites load quickly and more“. Since
it’s technically necessary to download a temporary version of everything we see
on our devices, does that mean—under the US proposed language—that anyone who ever views content on their device
could potentially be found liable of infringement?” the EFF wrote. “For
other countries signing on to the TPP, the answer would be most likely yes.”
And see this. TPP would literally
act to destroy the
sovereignty of the U.S. and the other nations
which sign the bill.
Postscript: Will the
powers-that-be renew
their labeling of Wikileaks as criminals
for leaking an
anti-American bill which would gut our nation’s sovereignty?
Related posts:
- ACTA is worse than SOPA, here’s what you need to know
- Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA
- EU signs ACTA, global internet censorship treaty
- Alex Jones: Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA
- ACTA treaty aims to deputize ISPs on copyrights
Secret Globalist Treaty Threatens Internet Freedom
Obama poised to
fast-track secret agreement
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com November 13, 2013
Wikileaks has
released a 95 page, 30,000 word document spelling out details on the Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP). The secret globalist agreement will have a
significant effect on a wide range of issues including internet freedom,
medicine, patents, and civil liberties. The cabal will meet in Salt Lake, Utah,
between November 19 and 24.
The draft text
for the TPP Intellectual Property Rights Chapter spells out provisions for implementing a transnational
“enforcement regime” designed to supplant national laws and sovereignty with a
globalist construct. The TPP is by far the largest and most oppressive economic
treaty devised thus far. It will have an impact on a staggering 40 percent of
worldwide GDP. The TPP is the forerunner to the equally secret US-EU
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Both treaties combined
will cover 60 percent of world GDP and exclude China.
Enforcement will be accomplished by “supranational
litigation tribunals to which sovereign national courts are expected to defer.”
According to the document, the globalist courts can conduct hearings with
secret evidence.
In addition,
aspects of the treaty resemble SOPA and ACTA treaties with draconian
surveillance mechanisms. In early 2013, thousands of websites “went black” to
show solidarity in opposition to SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act,
legislation that seriously threatened the functionality of the internet. “SOPA was an attempt to put the
power of information back in the hands of an elite few who are rapidly losing
the ability to control what the masses are reading, hearing and seeing,”
Mac Slavo
wrote in January, 2012.
“Since the
beginning of the TPP negotiations, the process of drafting and negotiating the
treaty’s chapters has been shrouded in an unprecedented level of secrecy,”
Wikileaks notes in a statement
on the release of the TPP draft. “Access to drafts
of the TPP chapters is shielded from the general public. Members of the US
Congress are only able to view selected portions of treaty-related documents in
highly restrictive conditions and under strict supervision. It has been
previously revealed that only three individuals in each TPP nation have access
to the full text of the agreement, while 600 ’trade advisers’ – lobbyists
guarding the interests of large US corporations such as Chevron, Halliburton,
Monsanto and Walmart – are granted privileged access to crucial sections of the
treaty text.”
Obama is poised
to fast-track the secret agreement. “The US administration is aggressively
pushing the TPP through the US legislative process on the sly,” said Wikileaks
editor Julian Assange.
“If instituted,
the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression,
as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you
read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or
consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its
crosshairs,” Assange added.
This article
was posted: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 11:20 am
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