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In reply to the discussion: And Another Thing !!! - The Next Time I Hear That We Are Not To Criticize Or Work Against Democrats. [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and you or your friends and family are dumpster diving for food, get back to me, will ya?
When this abomination is fully implemented, "buy local" laws will be illegal. Product safety standards will be gone, labor laws, pollution standards, more or less ANY regulation at any level can be made to disappear by the TPP tribunals if the corps want to challenge them. And you know they will challenge every one on the grounds of damage to future profits, which is a genuine cause of action under these arguments, including NAFTA. Reduce the corporate overlords projected future profits by nasty old regulation or laws and the TAXPAYERS have to REIMBURSE the CORPORATIONS for their PROJECTED losses. And the first challengers will be the fossil fuel megagiants, to stop any meaningful response to climate change.
Naomi Klein details in her book the end of a solar energy company in Canada, her home country, due to WTO provisions. Ontario's "Buy Ontario Made" program was ruled an impermissible violation of the "free trade" agreements to which Canada was a party. Bye-bye jobs, bye-bye solar power manufacturer. World domination absent war is the end game, and we are now seeing the beginning of the end. War destroys property, and the only thing more dear to the corporatist heart than property is money. Trade deals, which should be called enablers of unlimited capital movement rather than anything having to do with actual trade, leave the property there to be looted after the people are run off and reduced to peonage. Profits over everything, even the future of the human race.