*Wanted* Dead or Alive: $100,000 for Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/02/wanted-dead-or-alive-100000-full-text-trans-pacific-partnership

There is now a bounty on the head of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the "monster" international treaty negotiated behind closed doors by government officials and corporate executives but kept secret from the global public.

The media outlet Wikileaks on Tuesday announced a campaign to raise a $100,000 cash reward for the complete text of the agreement in order to end the mystery surrounding the actual contents of the deal that involves the U.S. and eleven Pacific Rim nations.

"The transparency clock has run out on the TPP," said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "No more secrecy. No more excuses. Let’s open the TPP once and for all."

Despite unprecedented efforts by negotiating governments to keep it under wraps, WikiLeaks has been able to obtain and publish three leaked chapters of this super-secret global deal over the last two years. However, there are believed to be 26 other chapters of the deal to which only appointed negotiators, trade officials, and chosen representatives from big corporations have been given access.

"Today, WikiLeaks is taking steps to bring about the public’s rightful access to the missing chapters of this monster trade pact," the group said in a statement. "The TPP is the largest agreement of its kind in history: a multi-trillion dollar international treaty being negotiated in secret by the US, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia and 7 other countries. The treaty aims to create a new international legal regime that will allow transnational corporations to bypass domestic courts, evade environmental protections, police the internet on behalf of the content industry, limit the availability of affordable generic medicines, and drastically curtail each country’s legislative sovereignty."

[Donald Ian Rankin]

1. I have bad news and good news.

The bad news is that the full text of the TPP doesn't exist yet.

The good news is that when it does, it will be made public.

So evil rapist scum Assange won't have to wait too long.

[joshcryer]

2. Feels like a fundraising ploy.

Before the inevitable passage of TPA (fast track).

[eridani]

4. If I offer to give you $100K, I'm raising money?

Not how things are done on my planet.

[joshcryer]

5. "announced a campaign to raise a $100,000 cash reward"

I don't think they have that much cash on hand yet, so they are trying to raise it to get the TPP released, which should happen within 2 months of TPA's passage (which, incidentally, should pass this week after all those Tea Party congresspeople got their votes greased over the extended Memorial Day week).

The good thing is that we might get TPP's text released before the first Democratic Primary debates, which should put Clinton in quite a bind (I believe she will come out in support of it).

[lovemydog]

3. 'I'm a cowboy. On a steel horse I ride.

Cuz I'm wanted. Dead or Alive.'

I just felt like posting that.