97% of Europeans oppose "investor-state" tribunals/TTIP ;

[Faryn Balyncd]

The "Investor-State Dispute Settlement" tribunals, exempt-from-judicial-appeal mechanism which is at the heart of the TTIP and TTP Corporate Coup negotiations, is proving highly unpopular among rank and file Europeans:

New levels of TTIP rejection revealed by Commission’s public consultation


The extent of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership’s (TTIP) unpopularity across Europe was exposed today as the European Commission published the results of its largest public consultation in history. The results of the consultation, launched last year, were scheduled to be published in late 2014, but were delayed following an unprecedented number of largely negative responses.

The results of the consultation, which focused on ‘investment protection’ under the controversial trade deal, showed that of the 149, 399 responses, 97% of participants have voiced either a general rejection of TTIP or opposition to ISDS in TTIP. . . . .

Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now (formerly World Development Movement) said: “‘Investment protection’ is an innocuous sounding euphemism for corporations being able to bully governments behind closed doors for billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money, so it’s little wonder that so many people across Europe are opposed to it. This public consultation has demonstrated once more the extent of TTIP’s unpopularity with European citizens."



http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/2015/jan/13/new-levels-ttip-rejection-revealed-commission%E2%80%99s-public-consultation

Is it any wonder that the details of the TTIP and TTP are being kept under wraps, to the American public, and even to U. S. Senators?

[Vincardog]

1. IMO the TPP is TREASON:the crime of betraying one's country,

especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government:

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. That such a system could even be seriously proposed in a "democracy" strains credulity.