{"id":7590,"date":"2015-04-26T07:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T12:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2015-04-26T07:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T12:27:18","slug":"whats-obama-up-to-with-his-tpp-ttip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7590","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Obama Up to, with His TPP &#038; TTIP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/04\/whats-obama-up-to-with-his-tpp-ttip.html\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s Obama Up to, with His TPP &amp; TTIP?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The motivation behind U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s trans-Pacific trade-deal TPP, and his trans-Atlantic trade-deal TTIP \u2014 the motivation behind both of these enormous international trade-deals \u2014 is the same, and\u00a0<a title=\"Democratic U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown are correct\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/25\/elizabeth-warren-tells-ob_n_7142850.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">Democratic U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown are correct<\/span><\/a>: it is not at all progressive. It is instead to transfer political power away from the public in a democracy, and for that power to go instead to the international aristocracy (i.e., to go as far away from\u00a0<i>any<\/i>\u00a0national democracy as is even possible to go). This is to be done by switching the most fundamental thing of all: the global power-base itself. Instead of that power-base being democratic votes of the national publics, who elect their political representatives who determine the laws and regulations, that national democratic political system becomes instead the exact opposite: the global aristocratic stockholder votes of the international aristocracy who elect the corporate directors of international companies, who will, in their turn, then be selecting the members to the international-trade-panels which, in TPP and TTIP, will, in their turn, be determining the rules and enforcements regarding especially workers\u2019 rights, product-safety, and the environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The international aristocracy\u2019s weakening of these national rules will enable lowering wages of the public, who are the people who don\u2019t control international corporations but who control only their own personal labor, which goes down in value to the lowest hourly wage in the entire international trading-area. This new system will also enable minimizing regulation of the safety of foods and other products and thus maximizing the ability of international corporations to avoid any expenses that companies would otherwise need to devote to raising the safety of their products. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s Obama Up to, with His TPP &amp; TTIP? The motivation behind U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s trans-Pacific trade-deal TPP, and his trans-Atlantic trade-deal TTIP \u2014 the motivation behind both of these enormous international trade-deals \u2014 is the same, and\u00a0Democratic U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown are correct: it is not at all progressive. 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