On the surface, TPP is billed as a harmless lil’ ole “trade agreement.” In truth, trade is an afterthought. At most, in the updated version, 5 of 29 chapters are dedicated to trade considerations. TPP should be titled the “Trans-Pacific Corporate Takeover Partnership.” Its provisions give unbridled powers to corporations to take over the lives of citizens of America and other countries to a degree unimagined even by the 113th Congress of crazies. In a recent edition of The Progressive Populist, Jim Hightower, the male Molly Ivins; (a huge compliment) wrote of just a few of the offending chapters that would have a lasting impact on pact members. Food safety and regulations could be overridden as “illegal trade barriers.” Fracking gases could be exported with no DOE review. US corporations would get sweetheart deals in moving their factories to low-wage TPP nations. Others, such as the Public Knowledge Website, are concerned about the embarrassing lack of transparency, the dearth of input from public advocacy groups, not to mention, the public, themselves and TPP’s ability to kick people off the Internet, oft-times for breaking rules they weren’t even aware of.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 23:43:46 +0000
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