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Faryn Balyncd

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7. The "investor-state dispute" tribunals, exempt from judicial appeal, amount to a corporate coup.

Reply to AZ Progressive (Reply #6)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 06:05 PM

Jan 2015

It seems almost unbelievable that an agreement which contains such a provision, as well as radical expansion of patents and copyrights, which would have profound negative impact on generic drug availability and price, and on the survival of the internet, would be pushed as a "trade deal" which should have no input or amendment from elected representatives.

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