How sure are some corporations that the TPP will pass? This sure:

[cali]

Foreign investment in Vietnam’s textile and garment sector is increasing rapidly as international firms seek to take advantage of benefits the country will potentially derive when the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement becomes a reality.

Several companies from Chinese Mainland, China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan, Japan, US, South Korea have made large investments in the sector since the beginning of this year, according to the local Finance Times newspaper.

The textile and garment industry in the TPP member countries is expected to benefit the most from the trade deal. Specifically, products made from domestically sourced materials or imported from other TPP member countries will enjoy Zero tariff when being exported to signatory countries.

According to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, up to 60% of the country’s textile and garment exports go to member countries.

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http://www.livetradingnews.com/foreign-textile-firms-invest-in-vietnam-ahead-of-tpp-enactment-58277.htm#.U7lAmUAnPfY

[cali]

1. kick and I'll keep kicking from time to time

[nenagh]

2. K&R

thanks cali

[SamKnause]

3. K&R

The government of the United States is a corrupt traitorous organization.

Corporations can only do what our government allows them to do.

Free Trade Deals do not benefit U.S. workers, or foreign workers.

Free Trade Deals benefit corporations, banks, Wall Street, the 1%, and corrupt politicians.

I don't think this corrupt mess can ever be untangled.

It sickens me to my very core.

I wish they would all choke on their ill gotten gains !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Katashi_itto]

4. K&R

[OnyxCollie]

5. K&R. nt

[stillwaiting]

6. Such a massive betrayal of the American people. Kick. nt

[Mnemosyne]

7. It just never ends... nt

[ballyhoo]

9. It's just beginning in force. One diversion after

the other is thrown up so the MIC can implement their agendae without distraction.

[ballyhoo]

8. I'm glad some here understand

what is barreling toward us. Not just TPP but full-blown assaults aided and abetted by those we imagined were trustworthy. As I have said in recent posts, the degree of fascism now controlling us would make Markus Wolf blush.

[Heather MC]

10. Fuck it, If you can't beat 'em Join 'em, calling my stock broker

[antigop]

11. Hillary Clinton's Business Legacy at State Dept (leading part in drafting TPP)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101667554

[WinkyDink]

25. The State Dept has been the Business Dept for decades. Indeed, it is what our invasions are all

about.

What? You thought we've been fighting for democracy?!

[Doctor_J]

12. well, he did say he would "renegotiate NAFTA"

is this not what you were expecting?

[Enthusiast]

23. Right.

[lark]

13. Sure they are happy. Large corporations always in in today's world.

They run it with the able assistance of their paid lackeys in congress and the judicial (ha, what an oxymoron that is) system.

[ReRe]

14. K&R

We are not free. Our lives are not our own. How does one plan his/her life when our Corporate Government never tells us what the Hell they are doing next? They have been doing crap behind our backs since the '70s and look at the mess we're in. I don't remember voting for those trade agreements that GHWBush started and Clinton finished back in the early '90s. Now they've done it again.

[djean111]

15. Wonder on which Friday - slow news day - this will be rammed through.

I would think Hillary would like to have this a done deal before she is called out on it. If, of course, the DNC intends to have debates.
Hating the TPP is not a "pony", it is a fucking team of Budweiser Clydesdales.

[Puzzledtraveller]

16. Time to protest? k&r btw

[octoberlib]

17. K&R

[antigop]

18. Hillary meets in Hanoi on July 10, 2012.....

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/07/194568.htm

In Hanoi on July 10, the Secretary will meet with senior Vietnamese leaders. She will witness the signing of several agreements covering education exchanges and commercial contracts and meet with representatives of U.S. and Vietnamese business communities.

[antigop]

19. TPP: Terrible Plutocratic Plan

http://davidswanson.org/node/4096

Maybe the first thing I would interrupt a super bowl or a state of the union to tell people about the TPP is that it creates corporate nationhood. This is something I started to focus on after interviewing Lacey Kohlmoos of Public Citizen on my radio show. Public Citizen has a website set up at ExposeTheTPP.org. Another coalition has created FlushTheTPP.org. Another is at CitizensTrade.org. And then there's a cross-border effort to organize against the TPP at TPPxborder.org. You can find pretty much everything I have to say, and much more, at those websites. You can sign up and get involved with ongoing campaigns as things develop at those websites.

Many of us have heard of corporate personhood. Corporations have been given the Constitutional rights of persons by U.S. courts over the past 40 years, including the right to spend money on elections. By corporate nationhood I mean the bestowing of the rights of nations on corporations. The TPP, drafts of which have been leaked to Public Citizen, has 29 chapters, only five of which -- according to Public Citizen's thinking -- deal with trade. The others deal with things like food safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, job off-shoring, and financial regulation. Treaties, according to Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, are -- together with the Constitution itself -- the supreme law of the land. So U.S. laws would have to be made to comply with the TPP's rules.

[antigop]

20. K&R nt

[awoke_in_2003]

21. of course it will pass...

they own the government.

[senseandsensibility]

22. This should be at the top of GD for the foreseeable future

It is really very, very important. In addition, we should be contacting our elected officials.

[Enthusiast]

24. Stop this abomination!

Can we stop it?

Even if 75% of the people oppose the TPP can we stop it?

I wonder.

[cali]

27. I think it's possible to stop it

What I fear is that it will happen in 2015- slipped in between elections.

[Enthusiast]

28. No politician, be they independent, Democrat or Republican, can convince me

that they have the best interest of the nation in mind if they continue to support these trade deals. We now have decades of evidence that trade deals have destroyed domestic manufacturing and driven down our wages.

[Scuba]

26. K&R

[PuraVidaDreamin]

29. Sept 21-22 NYC

Because this will accelerate global climate change too!

[raouldukelives]

30. With every investor in Wall St bankrolling it, it'll be hard to fail. nt

[KoKo]

31. Compliant House and Senate also involved.....

[Doctor_J]

32. And White House

[antigop]

33. kick nt

[cali]

34. kick