The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Corporate Governance Looks Like

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11. These liars know what they are doing is creating permanent corporate overlords

for all countries signing onto the TPP.

Ron Kirk, Obama’s U.S. Trade Representative, and corporate lobbyist in Austin, Texas, for the investment bank Merrill Lynch (before it was taken over by Bank of America in 2008) main priority since becoming USTR has been the Trans-Pacific Partnership, worked on in secret for nearly four years with several other countries and 600 corporations.

"Kirk explained that “there’s a practical reason” for all the secrecy in the negotiations over the TPP: “for our ability both to preserve negotiating strength and to encourage our partners to be willing to put issues on the table they may not otherwise, that we have to preserve some measure of discretion and confidentiality.”

Indeed, this is “practical.” After all, as he explained, if the talks were not done in secret, the public would be aware of what was being discussed, and if the public knew what was being planned, they would oppose it.

So secrecy is necessary in order to make the agreement as undemocratic and unaccountable as possible, to ensure that corporations get what they want while the public remains in the dark. Deceptive and saturated with disdain for democracy, certainly, but “practical” nevertheless."

All this secrecy is needed to shove this load of crap down the throats of the 99%

It makes you wonder exactly which issues they are putting on the table that they wouldn't put on the table if everyone knew.