The defenders on the TPP: "You don't know that" and "It's just speculation". Bullfuckingshit. [View all]

[cali]

We do know and you have to be brain dead not to know how bad these trade deals are for the vast majority of people in the countries involved.

How do we know when the talks have been shrouded in secrecy? I'm happy, thrilled in fact to inform the apologist, er, types:

1) The TPP enshrines investor rights in almost precisely the same manner as NAFTA and other similar recent "trade" agreements. It enables corporations to challenge national, state, provincial or municipal laws that protect citizens from pollution and other threats to their well being. The text was leaked in 2012.

Here is just one example of this shite:

Eli Lilly files $500M NAFTA suit against Canada over drug patents

Eli Lilly is accusing Canada of violating its obligations to foreign investors under the North American Free Trade Agreement by allowing its courts to invalidate patents for two of its drugs.

The company officially filed a complaint this week with NAFTA seeking $500 million US in compensation.

The Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical giant had already notified the federal government in June of its intention to submit a NAFTA complaint, but filed the formal "notice of arbitration" on Thursday after it failed to settle the dispute through negotiation.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/eli-lilly-files-500m-nafta-suit-against-canada-over-drug-patents-1.1829854

Let me repeat this for the Zombie Apologists: This isn't debatable. ALL fucking U.S. trade agreements since NAFTA include these vile "investor rights". The case above is just one of many.

More info- not that the Zombie Apologists will ever do any real research.


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The US’s principal offer to its Latin American neighbours is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which offers Latin American and Asian nations access to the US market on the basis of three conditions: they must deregulate their financial markets, adopt intellectual property provisions that give preference to US firms, and allow private US firms to directly sue governments of countries that sign up to the TPP for violating any of its conditions.

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http://www.iol.co.za/business/opinion/columnists/us-cannot-take-latin-america-for-granted-1.1530220#.Ujl-in-Bp5V

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

http://www.citizen.org/TPP