Friday, November 14, 2014

New Treaty Ends US Sovereignty


Obama’s Secret Treaty Would Be The Most Important Step Toward a One World Economic System
Posted on November 13, 2014 Written by Michael Snyder, http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com Michael T. Sny­der is an attor­ney, a blog­ger, a Chris­t­ian, a writer, a speaker and an activist.
Barack Obama is secretly nego­ti­at­ing the largest inter­na­tional trade agree­ment in his­tory, and the main­stream media in the United States is almost com­pletely ignor­ing it.  If this treaty is adopted, it will be the most impor­tant step toward a one world eco­nomic sys­tem that we have ever seen.  The name of this treaty is “the Trans-Pacific Part­ner­ship”, and the text of the treaty is so closely guarded that not even mem­bers of Con­gress know what is in it.
Right now, there are 12 coun­tries that are part of the nego­ti­a­tions: the United States, Canada, Aus­tralia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mex­ico, New Zealand, Peru, Sin­ga­pore and Viet­nam.  These nations have a com­bined pop­u­la­tion of 792 mil­lion peo­ple and account for an astound­ing 40 per­cent of the global econ­omy.  And it is hoped that the EU, China and India will even­tu­ally join as well.  This is poten­tially the most dan­ger­ous eco­nomic treaty of our life­times, and yet there is very lit­tle polit­i­cal debate about it in this country.
Even though Con­gress is not being allowed to see what is in the treaty, Barack Obama wants Con­gress to give him fast track nego­ti­at­ing author­ity.  What that means is that Con­gress would essen­tially trust Obama to nego­ti­ate a good treaty for us.  Con­gress could vote the treaty up or down, but would not be able to amend or fil­i­buster it.
Of course now the Repub­li­cans con­trol both houses of Con­gress.  If they are fool­ish enough to blindly give Barack Obama so much power, they should all imme­di­ately resign.
And it is crit­i­cal that peo­ple under­stand that this is not just an eco­nomic treaty.  It is basi­cally a gigan­tic end run around Con­gress.  Thanks to leaks, we have learned that so many of the things that Obama has deeply wanted for years are in this treaty.  If adopted, this treaty will fun­da­men­tally change our laws regard­ing Inter­net free­dom, health­care, copy­right and patent pro­tec­tion, food safety, envi­ron­men­tal stan­dards, civil lib­er­ties and so much more.  This treaty includes many of the rules that alarmed Inter­net activists so much when SOPA was being debated, it would essen­tially ban all “Buy Amer­i­can” laws, it would give Wall Street banks much more free­dom to trade risky deriv­a­tives and it would force even more domes­tic man­u­fac­tur­ing offshore.
In other words, it is the treaty from hell.
In addi­tion to impos­ing Obama’s vision for the world on 40 per­cent of the global pop­u­la­tion, it is also being described as a “Christ­mas wish-list for major cor­po­ra­tions”.  Of the 29 chap­ters in the treaty, only five of them actu­ally deal with eco­nomic issues.  The rest of the treaty deals with a whole host of other issues of great impor­tance to the global elite.
The fol­low­ing list of issues addressed by this treaty is from a Malaysian news source…
• domes­tic court deci­sions and inter­na­tional legal stan­dards (e.g., over­rid­ing domes­tic laws on both trade and non­trade mat­ters, for­eign investors’ right to sue gov­ern­ments in inter­na­tional tri­bunals that would over­rule the national sovereignty)
• envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions (e.g., nuclear energy, pol­lu­tion, sustainability)
• finan­cial dereg­u­la­tion (e.g., more power and priv­i­leges to the bankers and financiers)
• food safety (e.g., low­er­ing food self-sufficiency, pro­hi­bi­tion of manda­tory label­ing of genet­i­cally mod­i­fied prod­ucts, or bovine spongi­form encephalopa­thy (BSE) or mad cow disease)
• Gov­ern­ment pro­cure­ment (e.g., no more buy locally produced/grown)
• Inter­net free­dom (e.g., mon­i­tor­ing and polic­ing user activity)
• labour (e.g., wel­fare reg­u­la­tion, work­place safety, relo­cat­ing domes­tic jobs abroad)
• patent pro­tec­tion, copy­rights (e.g., decrease access to afford­able medicine)
• pub­lic access to essen­tial ser­vices may be restricted due to invest­ment rules (e.g., water, elec­tric­ity, and gas)
Why can’t we get this type of report­ing in the United States?
And if this treaty is ulti­mately approved by Con­gress, we will essen­tially be stuck with it forever.
This treaty is writ­ten in such a way that the United States will be per­ma­nently bound by all of the pro­vi­sions and will never be able to alter them unless all of the other coun­tries agree.
Are you start­ing to under­stand why this treaty is so dangerous?
This treaty is the key to Obama’s “legacy”.  He wants to impose his will upon 40 per­cent of the global pop­u­la­tion in a way that will never be able to be overturned.
Of course Obama is tout­ing this treaty as the path to eco­nomic recov­ery.  He promises that it will greatly increase global trade, decrease tar­iffs and cre­ate more jobs for Amer­i­can workers.
But instead, it would be a major step toward destroy­ing what is left of the U.S. economy.
Over the past sev­eral decades, every time a major trade agree­ment has been signed we have seen even more good jobs leave the United States.
And it doesn’t take a genius to fig­ure out why this is hap­pen­ing.  If cor­po­ra­tions can move jobs to the other side of the planet to nations where it is legal to pay slave labor wages, they will make larger profits.
Just think about it.  If you were run­ning a cor­po­ra­tion and you had the choice of pay­ing work­ers ten dol­lars an hour or one dol­lar an hour, which would you choose?
Plus there are so many other costs, taxes and paper­work has­sles when you deal with Amer­i­can work­ers.  For exam­ple, big cor­po­ra­tions will not have to pro­vide Oba­macare for their for­eign work­ers.  That alone will rep­re­sent a huge savings.
Any basic course in eco­nom­ics will teach you that labor flows from mar­kets where labor costs are high to mar­kets where labor costs are lower.  And at this point it costs less to make almost every­thing over­seas.  As a result, we have already lost mil­lions upon mil­lions of good jobs, and count­less small and mid-size U.S. com­pa­nies have been forced to shut down because they can­not com­pete with for­eign manufacturers.
Later this month, con­sumers will flock to retail stores for “Black Fri­day” deals.  But if you look care­fully at those prod­ucts, you will find that almost all of them are made over­seas.  We buy far, far more from the rest of the world than they buy from us, and that is a recipe for national eco­nomic sui­cide.
We con­sume far more wealth that we pro­duce, and any­one with half a brain can see that is not sus­tain­able in the long run.  The only way that we have been able to main­tain our high stan­dard of liv­ing is by going into insane amounts of debt.  We are cur­rently liv­ing in the largest debt bub­ble in the his­tory of the planet, and at some point the party is going to end.
Please share this arti­cle with as many peo­ple as you can.  We need to inform peo­ple about what Obama is try­ing to do.
If Obama is suc­cess­ful in ram­ming this secret treaty through, it is going to do incal­cu­la­ble dam­age to what is left of the once great U.S. economy.
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