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ND-Dem

(4,571 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:49 PM Mar 2015

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To those who don't want to hear from TPP until it's all decided..... [View all]

Last edited Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:29 AM - Edit history (1)

Did you know the public isn't allowed to know anything about it until FOUR YEARS AFTER IT'S ALL DECIDED AND IS ALREADY IN EFFECT?

Brilliant political thinking. Maybe you should just forget about calling yourselves citizens and call yourselves babies who need big daddy (or mommy) to take care of all the thinking for you. Just trust big daddy or mommy. They'd never do anything to harm you, baby. They loooove you.

The chapter in the draft of the trade deal, dated Jan. 20, 2015, and obtained by The New York Times in collaboration with the group WikiLeaks, is certain to kindle opposition from both the political left and the right. The sensitivity of the issue is reflected in the fact that the cover mandates that the chapter not be declassified until four years after the Trans-Pacific Partnership comes into force or trade negotiations end, should the agreement fail

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/business/trans-pacific-partnership-seen-as-door-for-foreign-suits-against-us.html?smid=tw-share

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To those who don't want to hear from TPP until it's all decided..... [View all] ND-Dem Mar 2015 OP

Yeah. That's what Jefferson & Madison had in mind, with this "democracy" thing, isn't it? Faryn Balyncd Mar 2015 #1

You have a citation on we can't know anything about it for 4years? Hoyt Mar 2015 #2

I linked to the NY Times. What other kind of "citation" would you like, there's no research paper ND-Dem Mar 2015 #4

You aren't digging very hard. The "classification" is for the negotiation documents, not FINAL Hoyt Mar 2015 #6

no one claimed it was the final chapter but you. and the classified negotiations are obviously ND-Dem Mar 2015 #7

You are the one that asserted we wouldn't know anything about TPP until 4 years after enacted, or Hoyt Mar 2015 #8

Actually, that would be the NYT (in collaboration with wikileaks, who had to get the document ND-Dem Mar 2015 #10

That's obviously with regards to the negotiating paperwork. joshcryer Mar 2015 #11

Like I said, you aren't digging - just cherry picking what suits you. Hoyt Mar 2015 #12

american companies didn't screw up; they offshored and outsourced. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #13

If they weren't doing something horribly wrong, they'd never have had to go to such lengths to keep blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #3

Yes it is! burrowowl Mar 2015 #5

You mean that Fascism is the merger of corporation and state. zeemike Mar 2015 #9

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