Pay attention to the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). It is thought to be chock-full-of more corporate empowerment. There are links in the transcript to read more details about the TPP. "So, the TPP includes the very controversial investor-state system, which empowers individual corporations to directly sue governments—not in our courts, but in extrajudicial tribunals where three corporate attorneys act as "judges," and these guys rotate between being the judge and being the guys suing the government for the corporation. They’re empowered to give unlimited cash damages from us, the taxpayers, to these corporations for any government action—a regulatory issue, environment, health, safety—that undermines the investor’s expected future profits."
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:57:57 +0000
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