And more ...
The TPP -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements (Corporate Pacts), which are being conducted by corporate lawyers and lobbyists, far from the light of day -- on our behalf.
But some of these top-secret contract-law deals have been leaking.
And these leaks have been conveniently consolidated and collated for you at the site: Expose the TPP:
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The governments won’t release the text to the public. But 600 mostly corporate U.S. “trade advisors” have full access. America’s worst job-offshoring corporations, global banks, agribusiness, and pharmaceutical giants want this deal to be another corporate power tool like NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). Consumer, labor, environmental, and other public interest advocates want transparency in the process and a “Fair Deal or No Deal.” A few texts have leaked. It is not looking good. U.S. negotiators are pushing proposals that not only replicate the worst of NAFTA, but have championed outrageous new corporate-favored terms.
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TPP & Corporate Power -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- TPP & the Environment -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- TPP & Health -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- TPP & Buy American -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- TPP & Public Services -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- TPP & Women, LGBT Communities -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- Off-Shoring U.S. Jobs -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- Financial Regulations -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- Workers' Rights -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- Public Services -- exposeTheTPP.org
-- Democracy -- exposeTheTPP.org
Enjoy! It's your Future.
I also consolidated and collated some other TPP sources yesterday, such as:
Public Citizen -- citizen.org TPP: Job Loss, Lower Wages and ...
and
WikiLeaks -- wikileaks.org TPP: Environment Chapter
That bookmarkable-effort can be found here, in case you missed it, in your flurry of Friday activities.
If we don't find a way to the stop the these 21st century "NAFTA on Steroids" corporate empowerment "guarantees" ...
were going to wake up one day, and wished we had.
There IS a reason(s) -- WHY they're keeping the TPP so secret. Funny, that ...
Complete lack of transparency.