OT: TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) – A Primer

[paramount]

Scary stuff IMO….

(very good video….)

The 2005 Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP or P4) is a trade agreement[7] among Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. Its purported aims are to further liberalise the economies of the Asia-Pacific region.[8]

Since 2010, negotiations have been taking place[9] for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposal for a significantly expanded version of TPSEP. The TPP is a proposed trade agreement under negotiation by (as of August 2013) Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.[10]
The TPP is ostensibly intended to be a “high-standard” agreement aimed at emerging trade issues in the 21st century.[11]

These ongoing negotiations have drawn criticism and protest from the public, advocacy groups, and elected officials, in part due to the secrecy of the negotiations, the expansive scope of the agreement, and numerous controversial clauses.

[CA renter]

Thank you for posting this, paramount. I’ve been trying to draw people’s attention to it in other threads.

Funny how nobody is paying attention to this…and the MSM is silent on the issue (the biggest red flag of all). It’s a big deal.

[CA renter]

Paramount,

Thought I’d share with you some more info about the TPP and who’s trying to fight the most dangerous aspects of it:

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/%28tag%29/1579

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What are your corporate masters doing to fight it and other trade agreements that are damaging to U.S. workers?

[paramount]

My corporate masters? I totally support the right of private sector workers to organize.

And doesn’t the president work for the AFL-CIO anyway? Maybe that’s changed since they had a falling out over union medical benefits.

From Slate:

The TPP is already being negotiated behind closed doors, but the situation could get worse. Late on Thursday afternoon, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014. The bill would grant the White House fast-track authority, sometimes known as the “trade promotion authority,” to ratify trade deals.

If the bill passes, it would allow agreements like TPP to be ratified by a straight up-and-down vote, with no amendments allowed from the floor, and lawmakers would have to forgo procedural stalling tactics like the filibuster. That’s a great deal of oversight power for Congress to abdicate over a deal that not many people have even read.

[paramount]

The TPP reminds me of the patriot act or obamacare in many ways and is best stated by pelosi:

Pass The Bill So You Can Find Out What’s In It

[CA renter]

The president does not work for the AFL-CIO. Like other progressive organizations, they have been critical of him. Obama is not a working man’s president; not by a long shot.

You’re also confused about where the division lies. It’s not between one type of worker and another, but between labor and capital. You are being used.

[CA renter]

People need to understand what’s being done behind closed doors.

Please watch…

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