Why So Secretive? The Trans Pacific Partnership As Global Corporate Coup- Part 2

[cali]

Luckily for the populations and societies that will be affected by the agreement, there are public research organizations and alternative media outlets campaigning against it – and they’ve even released several leaks of draft agreement chapters. From these leaks, which are not covered by mainstream corporate-controlled news outlets, we are able to get a better understanding of what the Trans-Pacific Partnership actually encompasses.

For example, public interest groups have been warning that the TPP could result in millions of lost jobs. As a letter from Congress to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk stated, the TPP “will create binding policies on future Congresses in numerous areas,” including “those related to labor, patent and copyright, land use, food, agriculture and product standards, natural resources, the environment, professional licensing, state-owned enterprises and government procurement policies, as well as financial, healthcare, energy, telecommunications and other service sector regulations.”

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Dubbed by many as “NAFTA on steroids” and a “corporate coup,” only two of the TPP’s 26 chapters actually have anything to do with trade. Most of it grants far-reaching new rights and privileges to corporations, specifically related to intellectual property rights (copyright and patent laws), as well as constraints on government regulations.

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Pharmaceutical corporations are major proponents of these rights and are likely to be among the major beneficiaries of the intellectual property chapter of the TPP. The pharmaceutical industry ensured that strong patent rules were included in the 1995 World Trade Organization agreement, but ultimately felt that those rules did not go far enough.

Dean Baker, writing in the Guardian, explained that stronger patent rules establish “a government-granted monopoly, often as long as 14 years, that prohibits generic competitors from entering a market based on another company’s test results that show a drug to be safe and effective.” Baker noted that such laws are actually “the opposite of free trade” since they “involve increased government intervention in the market” and “restrict competition and lead to higher prices for consumers.”

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http://www.nationofchange.org/why-so-secretive-trans-pacific-partnership-global-corporate-coup-1353687546

[cantbeserious]

1. Secretive - We Know Why - Money Will Be Made By Corporations On The Backs Of Innocent Citizens

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[cali]

2. The purpose of corporations is to make money- no matter what.

That's as immutable a law as gravity.

[cantbeserious]

3. Yes - All The More Reason For Banning Their Participation In Trade Talks

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[cali]

5. hahahaha.

and maybe pigs are flying outside my window.

[cantbeserious]

7. Why The Derision - Are You In Favor Of Corporate Controlled And Driven Trade Talks

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[cali]

10. I'm not deriding you, but what a dumb question

considering I am the person here who keeps this issue alive. I post more- far more about this than anyone else.

I was commenting on the likelihood of keeping corporations out of these talks when these talks are primarily for and by corporations.

[cantbeserious]

14. Yes - You Do - Hence My Comment Of Support - No Need To Be Combative

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[cali]

16. oh for pity's sake. no. I made a joke- not at your expence but

at the corporate leaders- and you took it wrong and got combative. that simple. I'm sorry you took it wrong. "when pigs fly" is simply an expression meaning, not going to happen.

yikes.

[forestpath]

4. knr

[Laelth]

6. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[WinkyDink]

8. I simply must ask: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH OBAMA?! IS HE THAT AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE?

YES, I AM SERIOUS.

[Katashi_itto]

11. I think it's more a matter of, He read the writing on the wall

would rather be a part of the 1%

[WinkyDink]

20. Maybe it is just that simple. Very sad.

[KoKo]

21. He's a young guy with two daughters...he wants to protect their future ....

He has his whole life ahead of him with his family.

The rest of us...well....we have to do what we have to do. We didn't get elected.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. There's considerable opposition to TTP in Japan

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[cali]

12. that's heartening.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. The sign in the last picture reads

"There are 100 disadvantages (damaging aspects) and zero advantages to TPP. The US is aiming for Japan's financial assets". Ouch.

[bemildred]

13. Nobody will buy it if it's not secret, that is why it is secret.

You want to talk about conspiracies, that is a conspiracy.

[cali]

17. well, I'd rather not, but you're right.

[bemildred]

18. Yeah, I know what you mean. nt

[cali]

19. kick.

[woo me with science]

22. Thank you for staying on this, cali.

It needs to be in people's faces.