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GoneFishin

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5. I'll take a shot at it. It's not about trade (pretty much a given). It is substantially about
Wed May 27, 2015, 09:17 PM
May 2015

corporations obtaining veto power over food safety, environmental, and banking regulations. Once that is understood it becomes obvious that the "trade" aspect is a ruse to get the signatory countries to confer some of their regulatory powers over to large cooperations. And as a practical matter they will gain the most by getting the U.S. on board because our consumer market is large and our safety and environmental laws have not yet been completely destroyed. But they need at least one other signatory country to sign on in order to perpetuate the ruse that TPP is about trade. ANY other signatory country.

But the U.S. is the real target. The others are window dressing.

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