Obama resorts to government by sucker punch
http://jimhightower.com/node/8577
Once again, the American people are being victimized by a hush-hush blanket of official secrecy, rhetorical dodges, and outright lies. This time it's not about wholesale spying on us by our own government, but a wholesale assault on our jobs, environment, health, and even our people's sovereignty by a cabal of global corporations and the Obama administration.
Their weapon is a scheme hidden inside a scam called TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The scam is that the TPP is nothing but another free trade deal - albeit a whopper of a deal that ties our economy to Brunei, Vietnam, and 9 other nations around the Pacific Rim. But of the 29 chapters in this deal, only five are about tariffs.
The real deal is in the 24 other chapters that create a supranational scheme of exclusive, unelected, secretive tribunals that corporations from any TPP nation can use to challenge and overturn our local, state, and national laws. All a corporate power has to do to win in these closed tribunal proceedings is to show that one of our laws or regulations might reduce its future profits.
This is big stuff, amounting to the enthronement of a global corporate oligarchy over us. Yet, it's been negotiated among the trade officials of the 12 countries in strict secrecy. Even members of Congress have been shut out - but some 600 corporate executives have been allowed inside to shape the "partnership."
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