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Rejecting TPP a Matter of Human Rights
Rejecting TPP a Matter of Human Rights Trade deal would put Canada in consort with nation plagued by trafficking, aggressive corps Forget about the dairy farms and supply management. The real reasons Canada should withdraw from its unseemly flirtation with the Pacific Rim trade deal are that it would formalize a trade relationship with a […]
Federal election 2015: Choosing the best negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Federal election 2015: Choosing the best negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership As politicians score point with loaded sound bites, does it matter if they avoid details? “You can’t have a debate on such a key issue as the modernization of social programs in 47 days,” Conservative Leader Kim Campbell said during her unsuccessful 1993 election campaign. […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks peak as Canada eyes election timing
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks peak as Canada eyes election timing ‘It’s hard to put out a press release during an election, let alone a 21st century trade agreement’ Pity Ed Fast’s campaign manager in Abbotsford, B.C. While most MPs running for re-election are focused on campaigning, Stephen Harper’s trade minister is in Maui, Hawaii, this […]
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg Trade deal could slam Canadians with rising consumer, health care and education costs The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade agreement that encompasses nearly 40 per cent of world GDP, heads to Hawaii later this month for ministerial-level negotiations. According to media reports, this may […]
TPP Deal Puts BC’s Privacy Laws in the Crosshairs
TPP Deal Puts BC’s Privacy Laws in the Crosshairs If negotiators get their way, data could more freely flow across borders. British Columbia’s privacy laws are in the crosshairs of the nearly completed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. If you’re wondering what the heck data privacy protections have to do with trade, you’re not alone. Public […]
Sacred Cows? Nah, Secretive Trade Deals Are Mostly Bull
Sacred Cows? Nah, Secretive Trade Deals Are Mostly Bull Global pacts like the TPP threaten made-in-Canada system, argue dairy farmers. [Editor’s note: The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, now in advanced stages of negotiation, is ruffling the feathers of Canadian dairy farmers, who worry the agreement will impact the industry’s long-standing “supply management” system that protects farmers […]
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal So that U.S. President Barack Obama can end a roadblock and win the agreement of other nations for his proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, he has decided to remove one of the nations, Malaysia, from the U.S. State Department’s official list of countries that allow […]
Revolution’s Matchstick
Revolution’s Matchstick Fighting The Trans-Pacific Partnership Rolling down the corporate-political assembly line is a trade deal so treasonous to the peoples of the world that it should serve as revolution’s matchstick. The treaty is secret, but one fact is well known: the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is being negotiated by transnational corporations without a single US […]
THE GREAT TPP DEATHTRAP FOR INDIA, CHINA & 10 OTHER MEMBER-NATIONS
The Great TPP Deathtrap for India, China & 10 Other Member-Nations The Terms of Destruction. The Clues are all there in Obamatrade and Obamacare. The truth emerges out of the shadows of secrecy… Let’s start here. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade treaty, coming down the homestretch toward ratification, involving 12 nations which account for […]
Collapse, Part 4: Loss of Faith in Public Institutions
Collapse, Part 4: Loss of Faith in Public Institutions Public institutions are now devoted to serving their own vested interests or the interests of private financial Elites. Though we may think of collapse in terms of ATMs not working and rampaging mobs, collapse actually starts with the intangible loss of faith in public institutions:elected officials, law enforcement, […]
Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’
Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’ (Satire): President Obama announced at a White House press conference today that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade treaty details must remain secret because the now 14-year-old US War on Terror requires secrecy from terrorist enemies, secrecy is the founding principle of American freedom, and […]
US criminal economics: TPP secret treaty = ‘constitutional republic,’ debt = ‘money’, 500 million+ dead from poverty = ‘necessary.’ Had enough to demand arrests?
US criminal economics: TPP secret treaty = ‘constitutional republic,’ debt = ‘money’, 500 million+ dead from poverty = ‘necessary.’ Had enough to demand arrests? hat tip: Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog “Psychopaths are unable to form emotional attachments or feel real empathy with others, although they often have disarming or even charming personalities. Psychopaths are very manipulative […]
“Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards”: The Alice in Wonderland World of Fast-tracked Secret Trade Agreements
“Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards”: The Alice in Wonderland World of Fast-tracked Secret Trade Agreements `Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. `No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’ `Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first!’ `Hold your tongue!’ said the […]
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse Congress members are often pressured in how to vote by the moneyed interests that buy their television ads, which in turn persuade the media to “cover” them nicely and dumb people to vote for them. But more often they are pressured in how to vote by the […]
TPP: Unconstitutional tribunal for .01% oligarchs to dictate what is ‘fair trade’
TPP: Unconstitutional tribunal for .01% oligarchs to dictate what is ‘fair trade’ “The corporations have bribed the political leaders in every country to sign away their sovereignty and the general welfare of their people to private corporations. Corporations have paid US senators large sums for transferring Congress’ law-making powers to corporations.” – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, […]
