Wikileaks: TISA section of (Trans-Pacific Partnership) released

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Read it here:http://www.readthetpp.com

This treaty puts in place a near global hegemony of corporate interests. Welcome to the corporatocracy.

Here it is:https://wikileaks.org/tisa/

Dan Carlin talks about its implications:http://www.dancarlin.com/common-sense-home-landing-page/

The TPP is not just one of the biggest “trade” deals in U.S. history, but also one of the most secretive. After more than five years of negotiations under the Obama administration and despite a plan for the deal to be signed by early 2014, the press and public are still being denied access to the draft TPP text that, if enacted, would impact our daily lives.

Of the TPP's 29 draft chapters, only 5 deal with traditional trade issues. Most would set rules on non-trade matters that affect our daily lives: food safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, job off-shoring, financial regulation, and more.

Our domestic policies

would be required to

comply with the TPP rules.

-The same corporations behind SOPA have pushed to insert its most pernicious provisions into TPP.

-Violations could be as simple as the creation of a YouTube video with clips from other videos, even if for personal or educational purposes.

-Mandatory fines would be imposed for individuals' non-commercial copies of copyrighted material. So, downloading some music could be treated the same as large-scale, for-profit copyright violations.

-Under this TPP proposal, Internet Service Providers could be required to "police" user activity (i.e. police YOU), take down internet content, and cut people off from internet access for common user-generated content.

-The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Empower Corporations to Attack U.S. Policies in Foreign Tribunals and Demand Taxpayer Compensation for Our Environmental, Health and Other Laws

-​The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Promote

Off-Shoring of American Jobs

-The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Threaten Workers' Rights - Affecting Good American Jobs

-The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Undermine Food Safety

-The TPP would require us to import meat and poultry that do not meet U.S. food safety standards.

-The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Ban "Buy American" and

"Buy Local" Procurement Preferences

-The TPP would provide large pharmaceutical firms with new rights and powers to increase medicine prices and limit consumers' access to cheaper generic drugs. This would include extensions of monopoly drug patents that would allow drug companies to raise prices for more medicines and even allow monopoly rights over surgical procedures.

-The TPP would also empower foreign corporations to directly challenge domestic toxics, zoning, cigarette and alcohol and other public health and environmental policies to demand taxpayer compensation for any such policies that undermine their expected future profits.

-TPP would empower foreign pharmaceutical corporations to directly attack our domestic patent and drug-pricing laws in foreign tribunals.

-The TPP would provide big banks with a backdoor means of rolling back efforts to re-regulate Wall Street in the wake of the global economic crisis.

-The TPP would prohibit taxes on Wall Street speculation.

-The TPP would empower financial firms to directly attack these government policies in foreign tribunals, and demand taxpayer compensation for policies they claim undermine their expected future profits.

-The TPP could sharply increase U.S. exports of natural gas - creating incentives for more fracking.

-The Trans-Pacific Partnership would Undermine Public Services - Affecting Utilities, Transportation, Education and More
 
lets get political here!!! Obama's Pivot to asia anyone???

One of the many foreign policy challenges that U.S. President Barack Obama now faces is the need to show nations in Asia that his much-heralded “pivot” to focus greater U.S. attention on them is a real policy and not just rhetoric.

Obama suffered a setback in efforts to build stronger ties with Asian nations after he was forced to cancel an important trip to the region in October to focus on ending the partial government shutdown and averting default on the national debt.

The U.S. president’s absence from critical multi-national meetings and state visits to Malaysia and the Philippines raised predictable questions about the strength of America’s commitment to the region.

Obama realizes the trip was important. “I should have been there,” he said at a news conference after announcing he had to stay in Washington to deal with Congress. “It’s almost like me … not showing up to my own party. I think it creates a sense of concern on the part of other leaders."

There’s no question that the president’s objective of pivoting U.S. policy and resources toward Asia suffered when Obama missed the chance to engage directly with Asian leaders on key elements of his political, diplomatic, economic and security agenda. Instead, China’s top two leaders grabbed the limelight at the regional meetings.

The trip cancellation also inadvertently perpetuated longstanding self-doubts within the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) about the group’s internal cohesion and its importance to the U.S., China and other major powers.

Besides missing the annual ASEAN Leader’s Summit with its external dialogue partners and the associated East Asia Summit (EAS), Obama was also absent from the annual leaders’ summit at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Indonesia.

At the APEC meeting, Obama had planned to promote his signature trade initiative – the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. At the ASEAN summit and East Asia Summit, the president had intended to underscore America’s commitment to deeper engagement with Asia.

Obama’s absence from the ASEAN meeting came at particularly challenging time for the organization. The fanfare surrounding the impending launch of ASEAN Economic Integration 2015 has not answered doubts both inside and outside the region about how successful the integration will be.

Integration will be difficult because rather than trading extensively with each other, many ASEAN countries export the same commodities – such as palm oil, rubber, and timber – and compete to attract foreign investment from developed nations such as Japan, the U.S. and members of the European Union.

Most of the ASEAN governments welcome growing American engagement with their countries as a timely balance to a rising China. They also place high importance on their fast-growing trade and economic ties with China.

But ASEAN members are nervous about Beijing’s growing influence, its rapidly increasing military power and its use of bullying tactics to advance maritime territorial claims to other countries’ rightful 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zones in the South China Sea.

Obama’s cancelled state visit to the Philippines was a missed opportunity to show American opposition to China’s occupation of Scarborough Shoal, a rich fishery less than 100 miles from the Philippines’ shores. The president could have underscored American support for Manila’s position by stressing the importance of the long-standing U.S.-Philippines alliance and the necessity of a rules-based international order to preserve regional peace and stability.

Beijing is eager to promote economic integration with the ASEAN countries, but strictly by dealing individually with one nation at a time. The Chinese government resists substantive engagement with ASEAN as a group on a long-proposed Code of Conduct for the South China Sea.

To most ASEAN governments the risk is not that they will be forced to choose between the U.S. and China. Instead, the ASEAN nations fear that U.S. reengagement with their region will be insufficiently substantive, or that America will give higher priority to its relations with China at their expense.

In President Obama’s absence, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin became the headliners at the APEC meeting. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang took center stage at ASEAN meeting in Brunei, where he was not challenged to defend Beijing’s aggressive tactics in asserting its highly disputed maritime territorial claims. Instead, Li had an open forum to tout a South China Sea of "peace and friendship” – Chinese style.

Chinese President Xi also underscored his nation’s rising influence by extending his trip to visit Australia, a key U.S. Pacific ally. In a country already anxious about over-dependence on now flagging mineral exports to China, newly elected Prime Minister Tony Abbott declared that “China’s growing strength is a benefit to the world, not a challenge.”

China has effectively split ASEAN into two groups – the countries with South China Sea claims that are engaged in disputes with China over the boundaries of territorial waters, and the landlocked countries that share land borders with China and in some cases are fast becoming Chinese client states.

Still, ASEAN’s staying power over several decades of major geopolitical change is a remarkable achievement. The organization plays an important role as a means for engaging with major powers over terms of trade and market access.

The United States remains highly valued by ASEAN members as a balance to China. A cohesive ASEAN benefits U.S. regional interests. The question is whether either ASEAN or the United States and its Asia-Pacific allies can meet the needs and expectations of each other.
 
13438964:DeebieSkeebies said:
i seriously get sick to my stomach thinking about how much these super corporations are fucking over the world.
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Obama was against NAFTA and vowed to abolish. Yet, It didn't happen. Now the tpp with no public knowledge of the bill... lets fucking fast track that shit! Obama is just a corporate puppet backed by the banksters and big corporations just like every candidate in the 2016 elections.

 
Senate vote moves Obama's trade agenda to brink of enactment
http://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-asks-senators-cast-pro-trade-vote-once-070938264--finance.html

Welcome to the corporatocracy! REMEMBER KIDS, We have to pass it to see what's in it.

"It is going to cost Americans their jobs, especially jobs that support thousands of blue collar workers. Use tax money from the people still working to prop those people up (but they still won't have jobs) and ultimately increase income inequality. This is good for lining the pockets of importers. And for all of this Administration's crying about global warming, they also admit that carbon output will increase as the undeveloped nations increase dirty power plants to accept the new growth in manufacturing. Also censorship of the internet! They're all just protecting the direction of the wind coming corporate money.”
 
This is a time bomb. This bill will be the direct CAUSE of massive civil unrest. Just wait and see.

People need to know about this.
 
13449016:CONAIR_BUSCEMI said:
This is a time bomb. This bill will be the direct CAUSE of massive civil unrest. Just wait and see.

People need to know about this.
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Dude this shit isn't even fucking happening, Trump said on an interview today that once he gets in office the TPP won't fucking happen because he doesn't negotiate trade deals with China.
 
Gay marriage, the Dylann Roof shooting, flags, these things are all distractions!

THIS IS THE ONLY THING WORTH FIGHTING FOR BECAUSE IT CONTROLS OUR FREEDOM.

A lot of people don't seem to know what the TPP is so I'm going to begin summarizing the different chapters here beginning with the IP Chapter:

If that gets passed into law, the following things will be patentable:

-Plants and animals

-Mental processes

-Surgery

-Any and all medication (goodbye generics)

-Genetic, biological, and cultural resources

Most of this is left extremely vague so unless it's defined in a revision, essentially everything is patentable

Main Points:

-Copyrights will be extended at least 70 years

-Posting and downloading copyrighted content online will become a federal crime regardless of whether or not it's for commercial purposes and can result in a permanent ban from the internet

-The quality of testing and requirements for patents on drugs will be lowered

-Corporations will be able to sue and change the laws of any government for any commercial purpose

-Pharmaceutical companies that treat illnesses (such as cancer or AIDS) will be able to sue for projected loss in profit for treating those illnesses

-Corporations will be able to sue for infringement without actually owning any registered property

-Internet Service Providers will be legally required to give all of your information, including your current location, to the governments and major corporations involved

-Corporations can withhold information about their products (ingredients, chemicals, drug facts) for commercial purposes
 
I don't really find the TPP surprising. We've been all about these bullshit trade agreements for years.

And shocking that someone that was a front runner in the dem or rep party might not automatically be an awesome person that cares about the people and will save the world?

Say it aint so. IT wouldn't matter, people would still vote for him again. People will still vote for people like him, bush, etc. And even if some of the other people get in, it's all the same.

There are very few legitimate candidates that end up with any media coverage in major elections.

That's all my shitty opinions though.

People will ride the dick of the guy from their party and hate the guy from the other party. It's like a fucking football game. Your side is inherently good, and the other side is pure evil.

Same as it ever was'd
 
13449023:hishighnesss said:
Dude this shit isn't even fucking happening, Trump said on an interview today that once he gets in office the TPP won't fucking happen because he doesn't negotiate trade deals with China.
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Only reason why I would ever slightly maybe a little bit want trump to be president
 
honestly I do not think the TPP will make it anywhere, the government has plenty of shit going on that is more important to pass than a fucking trade agreement, i hope... this has received Bi-Partisan opposition, but most of it is coming from the left. democrats are stonewalling the shit out of this right now, while right wingers don't see the urgency in passing or not passing this shit.
 
13493679:theabortionator said:
I don't really find the TPP surprising. We've been all about these bullshit trade agreements for years.

And shocking that someone that was a front runner in the dem or rep party might not automatically be an awesome person that cares about the people and will save the world?

Say it aint so. IT wouldn't matter, people would still vote for him again. People will still vote for people like him, bush, etc. And even if some of the other people get in, it's all the same.

There are very few legitimate candidates that end up with any media coverage in major elections.

That's all my shitty opinions though.

People will ride the dick of the guy from their party and hate the guy from the other party. It's like a fucking football game. Your side is inherently good, and the other side is pure evil.

Same as it ever was'd
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"I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'”
 
13493816:Turd.Ferguson said:
honestly I do not think the TPP will make it anywhere, the government has plenty of shit going on that is more important to pass than a fucking trade agreement, i hope... this has received Bi-Partisan opposition, but most of it is coming from the left. democrats are stonewalling the shit out of this right now, while right wingers don't see the urgency in passing or not passing this shit.
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Obama wants to fast track it
 
I don't have many issues with this agreement. It's just slowing the inevitable decline of the U.S. economy, and trying to make us more relavent (at a cost) in the Asian market which is growing without bowing down to the Chinese economic powerhouse which is imo is a shithole to do business with in the first place (but it's cheap and I want to afford an IPhone 6 on my Walmart salary). What you should really do your research on is what a shithole China is to live in and realize what is in store for us because we will have to compete with said Shithole. I find it ironic because we did it to ourselves and now we complain about it.

Also copying and pasting someone else's interpretation of a political document instead of doing your own research and forming your own opinion makes you a dbag
 
13493816:Turd.Ferguson said:
honestly I do not think the TPP will make it anywhere, the government has plenty of shit going on that is more important to pass than a fucking trade agreement
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lmao oh how wrong you are...
 
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