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

[JohnyCanuck]

12. The planned TPP is more evidence the corporations call the shots in our society....

and our political representatives, by and large, seem to know and accept that their role is to enlarge and protect the supposed rights, well being and profits of corporate "persons" (i.e. mega-corporations), even if it is to the detriment of mere flesh and blood, human persons.

TPP negotiations: What is our government hiding behind closed doors?
By
Mark Taliano | September 3, 2013

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is yet another corporate empowering deal that is being negotiated behind firmly closed doors, in various countries throughout the world.

Not only is public input not welcome, but even the pretence of public participation has been lifted. Despite the lack of transparency, some documents have been leaked, and the "omissions" revealed speak loudly to the conspiratorial nature of the "partnership."

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Equally significant is that 600 industry lobbyists and "advisors," as well as unelected trade representatives, are at the table, while representatives from the public at large and businesses other than huge monopolies, are conspicuously absent.

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The list of corporate polities that benefit from these exclusive negotiating partnerships (to the detriment of the public) is long, but among the most important of the negative impacts is the toll exacted on democracy, and on the ability of the government to protect its people. Since corporate empowerment deals give corporations rights that supercede existing laws and regulations, train safety, plane safety, food safety, water safety, the environment-- the safety of the population as a whole -- is further imperilled. Furthermore, the power imbalance that is created, with the metaphorical 1% garnering disproportionate income and power over the 99%, means that the corporate governance model resembles a plutocracy more than it resembles a democracy.

http://rabble.ca/news/2013/09/tpp-negotiations-what-our-government-hiding-behind-closed-doors