Workers Picket Obama Over Secret Trade Negotiations ("largest free trade agreement in the world")

[HiPointDem]

2. shit, another pile of crappy chickens come home to roost.

this also ties into education deform and other service 'industries'.

Trans-Pacific Partnership is NAFTA on steroids

I looked into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (article, Sept. 5) and see a real monster. Launched by the previous administration with the help of 600 mega-companies, planning for this NAFTA-on-steroids pact has been surrounded by secrecy from both the public and Congress.

Even Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the chairman of the congressional committee with oversight of these deals, has been denied access to the proposals. Why? Well, only two of TPP's 26 chapters have to do with actual trade. Most are devoted to new corporate privileges and rigid constraints on governments' regulations and consumer protections in the areas of drug monopolies, shipping jobs overseas, natural resources, financial "services," land use, food and product safety, energy and tax policies, Internet freedom, and invasions of domestic policy.

Corporations and investors will rise to equal status with sovereign countries, and disputes will be settled in closed-door foreign tribunals. A leveling of policies will ensue so that we're just like Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Peru and other members.

http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/trans-pacific-partnership-is-nafta-on-steroids_2012-09-12.html