Breaking '08 Pledge, Leaked Doc Shows Obama Wants to Help Corporations Avoid Regulations

DemocracyNow.org -A draft agreement leaked Wednesday shows the Obama administration is pushing a secretive trade agreement that could vastly expand corporate power and directly contradict a 2008 campaign promise by President Obama. A U.S. proposal for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact between the United States and eight Pacific nations would allow foreign corporations operating in the U.S. to appeal key regulations to an international tribunal. The body would have the power to override U.S. law and issue penalties for failure to comply with its ruling. We speak to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a fair trade group that posted the leaked documents on its website. "This is not just a bad trade agreement," Wallach says. "This is a 1% power tool that could rip up our basic needs and rights."

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These US elections are basically a choice between being raped by a donkey or by a donkey in magical underwear.

[demammoet]

Wow I never really dug the whole new world order conspiracy thing.

But this, this is it....

Welcome to totalitarian fascism, or short: neo-liberalism.

[Hisako Tsukamoto]

In Japan everyone knows about this and now JPN are going to join the talk. I wonder why American people are not knowing about it. Most of Japanese people are against it.

[mikecorbeil]

Search for the CorbettReport. com page using "Corbett Report Radio 213" for search string if you want two EFF. org links for EFF's main page about the TPP and for EFF's infographic page. The Corbett page also provides a link for Public Citizen's Citizen. org main page about the TPP and I only looked over all of the links, but it's clearly an important resource as well as EFF's.

[mikecorbeil]

corbettreport videos:

"EFF vs. TPP: Battle for the Internet", 12 Oct 2012 (45 min)

watch?v=fhNfgXztZc8

Quote: "Maira Sutton of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joins us tonight to break down the Intellectual Property law ramifications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement".

Also re. Internet,

"The TPP Cometh: Tyranny by Trade Deal", 11 Sep 2012 (6 min)

watch?v=ZQEgV4i8PvY

The BFP link provides the Full Report video for free viewing, and only at BFP.

[cmichaelpaulus]

TPP should be in the title!

[pocketsofpeace]

88 Likes there should be at Least 88 Shares....4851 Views Right Now...Share this Video it is ... Sickening what they are Doing

[demammoet]

OKay so this is a weird post youtube wont let me use shift+enter, That is not what I mean at all, I refer to actual liberalism not the liberalism applied to capital I consider Adam Smith Neo-Liberal although he didn't know it yet simply because he worked with assumptions of human behavior he was proven wrong on, merchants do not choose their own countries good for the greater good of nation etc. etc.