If you read nothing else, read this cover page from the TTP Investment Chapter.
20 January 2015 This Document Contains TPP CONFIDENTIAL Information MODIFIED HANDLING AUTHORIZED* 12-1 INVESTMENT Derived from: Classification Guidance dated March 4, 2010 Reason: 1.4(b) Declassify on: Four years from entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement enters into force, four years from the close of the negotiations. * This document must be protected from unauthorized disclosure, but may be mailed or transmitted over unclassified e-mail or fax, discussed over unsecured phone lines, and stored on unclassified computer systems. It must be stored in a locked or secured building, room, or container
And, here is the link to the full document:
https://wikileaks.org/...
I write this because I see too little interest in the TTP and these next two weeks are critical if there is any hope to stop it - doubtful.
This thing has been sold as a 'trade agreement' that 'protects American companies' when in fact it is mostly neither.
First off let me say that 'protecting American companies' is a cruel joke perpetrated on the President and the Democorps. Corporate interests have ZERO State loyalties. They went global long ago and persue their interests and exploitations wherever they may find them.
The TTP is about 15% trade agreement (I think its only 5 chapters that really deal with trade issues) and 85% corporate power grab.
We, Mercans, are the biggest suckers in the world and allow these companies to run roughshod over us in EVERY aspect of our existence.
The TTP is an ALEC play on a worldwide scale. An attempt by lobbyists to rig the system, as they do here, in large swaths of the rest of the world.
A simple example is the Pharma play. Big Pharma hasn't been able to exploit other countries the way they have here. This is a way to extend our BS drug patent laws to other countries. Many countries have ignored US drug patents and rightfully so. Developing nations can't pay rediculous prices for generic life extending compounds.
These calloused bastards n interest in OUR input.
Please take the opportunity to participate in any way possible over these next two weeks. I'd like to think that, even as this clown car goes down, there might be refuge elsewhere on the planet.