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Panich52

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Fri Mar 27, 2015, 11:25 AM Mar 2015

Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From The Public

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Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From The Public

A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public ... Now we know why the corporations want TPP, a huge “trade” agreement being negotiated in secret between the United States and 11 other countries, kept secret from the public until it’s too late to stop it ... if corporations feel they have been denied “expected” profits by a government regulation, lets them circumvent a country’s courts and go to an international corporate tribunal with their grievance. But if labor organizers are murdered, workers and their families have nowhere to go.

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Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From The Public (Original Post) Panich52 Mar 2015 OP
Actually, the issue of suing countries over blocked profits has been known for some time now. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 #1

dixiegrrrrl

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1. Actually, the issue of suing countries over blocked profits has been known for some time now.
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 11:32 AM
Mar 2015

and triggered a lot of anti feelings.

Essentially corporations want to have unified global power and use sovereign countries as vassal states.
It is feudalism writ large.
The European Union was an experiment along the same lines, since member states lost sovereignty in many respects.

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