{"id":9893,"date":"2015-07-10T06:51:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9893"},"modified":"2015-07-10T06:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:51:53","slug":"president-obama-accepts-slavery-in-order-to-win-tpp-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9893","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/07\/president-obama-accepts-slavery-in-order-to-win-tpp-trade-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">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\u2019s official list of countries that allow slavery. Malaysia, which recently found over a hundred graves of discarded slaves, has been on the U.S. State Department\u2019s \u201cTier 3\u201d list of slave nations, along with North Korea, Zimbabwe, Syria, and Iran, but, unlike those other countries, Obama wants Malaysia to be included in his Trans Pacific Partnership; so, he has decided to remove Malaysia from that official list.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This was first reported by Reuters on July 8th, under the headline\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cExclusive: U.S. Upgrades Malaysia in Annual Human Trafficking Report.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idCAKCN0PJ00F20150709?sp=true\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cExclusive: U.S. Upgrades Malaysia in Annual Human Trafficking Report.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Reuters announced: \u201cThe United States is upgrading Malaysia\u00a0from the lowest tier on\u00a0its list of worst human trafficking centers,\u00a0U.S. sources said on\u00a0Wednesday, a move that could smooth the way for an\u00a0ambitious U.S.-led free-trade deal with the Southeast Asian\u00a0nation and\u00a011 other countries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Zach Carter at Huffington Post headlined, later on July 8th,\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cObama To Upgrade Malaysia On Human Rights Despite Mass Graves,\u201d&amp;nbsp;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/07\/08\/obama-malaysia-trade_n_7758592.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cObama To Upgrade Malaysia On Human Rights Despite Mass Graves,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he reported that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) issued a statement saying: \u201cIf true, this manipulation of Malaysia\u2019s ranking in the State Department\u2019s 2015\u00a0TIP report would be a perversion of the trafficking list and undermine both the\u00a0integrity of this important report as well as the very difficult task of\u00a0confronting states about human trafficking.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">However, Senator Menendez, himself, has, behind the scenes, pushed for Obama\u2019s TPP and other mammoth \u2018trade\u2019 deals, including TTIP and TISA, even despite these deals allowing participating countries to look the other way and not prosecute when international corporations hire killers to assassinate labor union organizers in a given U.S. trade \u2018partner\u2019 country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s official list of countries that allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1445,584,731,804,805,6171,2738,7161,827,865],"class_list":["post-9893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-malaysia","tag-obama","tag-slavery","tag-tpp","tag-trade","tag-trade-agreement","tag-transpacific-partnership","tag-ttip-tisa","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9895,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/revisions\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}