Thread: International Treaty Negotiated In Secret – Threatens to Destroy National Sovereignty

NAFTA on Steroids:

While the Occupy movement has forced a public discussion of extreme corporate influence on every aspect of our lives, behind closed doors corporate America is implementing a stealth strategy to formalize its rule in a truly horrifying manner. The mechanism is the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Negotiations have been conducted in extreme secrecy, so you are in good company if you ha...ve never heard of it. But the thirteenth round of negotiations between the United States and eight Pacific Rim nations will be held in San Diego in early July.

The TPP has been cleverly misbranded as a trade agreement (yawn) by its corporate boosters. As a result, since George W. Bush initiated negotiations in 2008, it has cruised along under the radar. The Obama administration initially paused the talks, ostensibly to develop a new approach compatible with candidate Obama’s pledges to replace the old NAFTA-based trade model. But by late 2009, talks restarted just where Bush had left off.

Since then, US negotiators have proposed new rights for Big Pharma and pushed into the text aspects of the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would limit Internet freedom, despite the derailing of SOPA in Congress earlier this year thanks to public activism. In June a text of the TPP investment chapter was leaked, revealing that US negotiators are even pushing to expand NAFTA’s notorious corporate tribunals, which have been used to attack domestic public interest laws. NAFTA on Steroids | The Nation#
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Most of the negotiating materials are kept secret from the public, but not from the official corporate advisors who are pushing hard for a "NAFTA of the Pacific.” While the majority of Americans are barred from knowing what's taking place in negotiations, approximately 600 corporate representatives have been named "cleared advisors," giving them regular access. This secrecy prevents a meaningful public debate about the consequences of the TPP agreement. Economics for the Earth Blog
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Why you should care about the TPP: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Red Alert: SOPA Is Back But Returns As IPAA


Published on Jul 13, 2012 by matlarson10

Link to full RT Video: SOPA reborn by Congress as IPAA - YouTube

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