{"id":8156,"date":"2015-05-15T06:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2015-05-15T06:32:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:32:16","slug":"how-americas-news-media-killed-americas-democracy-tpp-ttip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8156","title":{"rendered":"How America\u2019s \u2018News\u2019 Media Killed America\u2019s Democracy: TPP &#038; TTIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/how-americas-news-media-killed-americas-democracy-tpp-ttip.html\" target=\"_blank\">How America\u2019s \u2018News\u2019 Media Killed America\u2019s Democracy: TPP &amp; TTIP<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As I\u00a0<a title=\"reported on Wednesday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/democrats-cave-in-on-tpp-and-ttip-good-bye-democracy.html\"><span class=\"s2\">reported on Wednesday<\/span><\/a>, a deal was worked out in the U.S. Senate on the early afternoon of May 13th to \u201cFast-Track\u201d through to approval U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s proposed trade deals, TPP with Asia, and TTIP with Europe. (It should have been reported on the nightly TV news programs, but most of them ignored it then, and reported the news only the next day when the Senators made it official.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">TPP and TTIP have been represented in America\u2019s press as \u2018trade\u2019 deals, but instead they\u2019re actually about sovereignty. They\u2019re about America and the other participating countries handing their democratic sovereignty \u2014 on regulation of the environment, consumer protection, worker protection, and finance \u2014 over to panels, all of whose members will be selected by the large international corporations that for years have been working with U.S. President Obama\u2019s Trade Representative to draft these \u201ctrade\u201d treaties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If some corporation \u201cC\u201d under these \u2018trade deals\u2019 then brings a case to one of those panels and says that country \u201cX\u201d has any regulations regarding the environment, consumer protection, worker protection, or finance, that are stricter than the ones that are set forth in TPP and TTIP, then country X will be assessed to pay a fine to corporation C, for \u201cunfair trade practices\u201d against that corporation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words: these corporate panels will constitute a new international government, with the power to fine countries for exceeding the regulations that are set forth in these international \u2018trade\u2019 treaties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How America\u2019s \u2018News\u2019 Media Killed America\u2019s Democracy: TPP &amp; TTIP As I\u00a0reported on Wednesday, a deal was worked out in the U.S. Senate on the early afternoon of May 13th to \u201cFast-Track\u201d through to approval U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s proposed trade deals, TPP with Asia, and TTIP with Europe. 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