Thursday, July 12, 2012

'Important Progress' at Pacific Trade Talks

US: 'Important Progress' at Pacific Trade Talks


What you dont know will hurt you - http://www.tpp2012/  " Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

TPP: Corporate Power Tool of the 1%

Have you heard? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement is a stealthy policy being pressed by corporate America, a dream of the 1 percent, that in one blow could:
  • offshore millions of American jobs,
  • free the banksters from oversight,
  • ban Buy America policies needed to create green jobs and rebuild our economy,
  • decrease access to medicine,
  • flood the U.S. with unsafe food and products,
  • and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards.

Closed-door talks are on-going between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam; with countries like Japan and China potentially joining later. 600 corporate advisors have access to the text, while the public, Members of Congress, journalists, and civil society are excluded. And so far what we know about what's in there is very scary!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Canadian Prime Minister S.Harper wants in on this as well as all the others he's pushing, namely CETA and dozens of other agreements, and the USA is only allowing us an "observer" status, because they don't like our Bovine Growth Hormone ban in dairy, or our intellectual property laws? We are being blackmailed, and Harper is going to give in eventually, when he thinks he can get away with it...