Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Coup

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http://truth-out.org/news/item/12934-why-so-secretive?-the-trans-pacific-partnership-as-global-coup



A summit with leaders of the member states of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) in November, 2010.


Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Coup
Sunday, 25 November 2012 09:29
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com | News Analysis

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiations in history.

Luckily for the populations and societies that will be affected by the agreement, there are public research organizations and alternative media outlets campaigning against it – and they’ve even released several leaks of draft agreement chapters. From these leaks, which are not covered by mainstream corporate-controlled news outlets, we are able to get a better understanding of what the Trans-Pacific Partnership actually encompasses.

For example, public interest groups have been warning that the TPP could result in millions of lost jobs. As a letter from Congress to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk stated, the TPP “will create binding policies on future Congresses in numerous areas,” including “those related to labor, patent and copyright, land use, food, agriculture and product standards, natural resources, the environment, professional licensing, state-owned enterprises and government procurement policies, as well as financial, healthcare, energy, telecommunications and other service sector regulations.”

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The leaked documents revealed that the Obama administration “intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations,” as Obama and Kirk have emerged as strong advocates “for policies that environmental activists, financial reform advocates and labor unions have long rejected for eroding key protections currently in domestic laws.”

[xchrom]

1. du rec. nt

[peacebird]

2. When NAFTA was enacted I foolishly assumed those protesting against it were loonies....

Clinton was smarter than I and had our best interests at heart was my belief. I was wrong.

I trust President Obama too, but this new deal worries me. Are we being sold down the river again?

[CRH]

3. Mussolini would be proud, ...

From the Council on Foreign Relations, the Tri-Lateral Commission, and Bildeberg Group to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, corporatism marches on; Mussolini would be proud. Fascism lives!

Personal, local, state, and national rights sublimated without vote, to transnational corporations. Environment, commons, business, all, control will be ceded to corporate board rooms. Your comments will be received, by invitation only, your rights to due process have been reduced to the dust of historical memory.

It is why many feel little confidence in government action, whether national or global, will ever intrude upon the corporation. Climate and environmental policies will be dictated, not negotiated. The sham of regional and national politics will continue to present a duplicitous veil of democratic legitimacy, as the decisions of our environment and future climate, will be balanced with profit, in corporate board rooms.

It has been that way for decades, and never more intrusive than today. Progress? Not from my perspective.