TPP: Bad Guys Pushing THIS WEEK to Promote Global Tyranny Run By Corporations!
- Bad Guys Pushing THIS WEEK to Promote Global Tyranny Run By Corporations!
by WashingtonsBlog
Here’s How to STOP Them
The powers-that-be are pushing this week to fast track a horrible treaty which would destroy America. The treaty is called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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The U.S. Trade Representative – the federal agency responsible for negotiating trade treaties – has said that the details of the TPP are classified due to “national security”. Parts of the TPP won’t be declassified for four years … even if it’s passed:
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The TPP Investment Chapter … is classified and supposed to be kept secret for four years after the entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement is reached, for four years from the close of the negotiations.
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(See this, this and this.)
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Why’s the deal being kept secret? Because it would be impossible to pass if the public knew what was really in it:
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Ron Kirk, until recently Mr. Obama’s top trade official, was remarkably candid about why he opposed making the text public: doing so, he suggested to Reuters, would raise such opposition that it could make the deal impossible to sign.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren notes:
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Supporters of the deal say to me, “They have to be secret, because if the American people knew what was actually in them, they would be opposed.”
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But it’s not only being hidden from the American people … it’s being hidden even from most U.S.Congress members. A Congressman who has seen the text of the treaty says:
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There is no national security purpose in keeping this text secret … this agreement hands the sovereignty of our country over to corporate interests.
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It would also allow foreign corporations to challenge U.S. laws. It will literally override American law. As the New York Times headlines in Trans-Pacific Partnership Seen as Door for Foreign Suits Against U.S.:
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