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Obama to Push Passage of TPP Trade Deal Despite Rising Public Opposition
Obama to Push Passage of TPP Trade Deal Despite Rising Public Opposition The United States is in the final stages of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive free-trade agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other countries. Who will benefit from the TPP? American workers? Consumers? Small businesses? Taxpayers? Or the biggest multinational […]
More Corporate Cronyism and Shadiness Revealed in Newly Released Obamatrade Report
More Corporate Cronyism and Shadiness Revealed in Newly Released Obamatrade Report The good news is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently admitted that the TPP, aka Obamatrade, has very little chance of passing Congress before next year’s Presidential election. The bad news is the main reason for this is because the RINOs in charge don’t think […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election
Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election Government officials say haggling by lawyers from 12 countries delaying release of trade agreement Play Media Trade deal details 2:54 Canadians won’t be able to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal before they vote. Government officials told CBC News on Wednesday that the exact wording […]
Veiled TPP Deal Holds Hidden Privacy Risks
Veiled TPP Deal Holds Hidden Privacy Risks It would restrict governments from creating safeguards for your sensitive data. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that covers nearly 40 per cent of world GDP, wrapped up years of negotiation earlier this month. The TPP immediately emerged as an election issue, with the Conservatives trumpeting […]
All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared Friday’s release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement. And it dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most […]
TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information
TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information T / CC BY-ND 2.0 What WikiLeaks claims to be the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership appears to give countries greater power to stop sensitive information from going public. The Guardian reports: One chapter appears to give the signatory countries […]
This is How the Trade Pact Escalates the Currency War
This is How the Trade Pact Escalates the Currency War When negotiators from 12 nations and hundreds of lobbyists from around the world, after years of horse-trading, agreed on a “trade deal” on Monday – a deal that remains secret except for the sections that have been leaked – President Obama gushed that it “reflects […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy We have just witnessed one of the most significant steps toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen. Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been completed, and if approved it will create the largest trading bloc […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Rule By The Corporations
Rule By The Corporations TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. “Free trade” is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, […]
Resilience is The New Black
Resilience is The New Black This is another essay from our friend Dr. Nelson Lebo III in New Zealand. Nelson is a certified expert in everything to do with resilience, especially how to build a home and a community designed to withstand disasters, be they natural or man-made, an earthquake or Baltimore. Aware that he […]
