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Green Party Releases International Joint Statement Criticizing the TPP

Posted by Unknown on from the save-the-whales dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "The New Zealand, Australian, and Canadian Green Parties have released a joint statement on the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Among the concerns are the secretive nature of the talks and 'could hinder access to safe, affordable medicines, weaken local content rules for media, stifle high-tech innovation, and even restrict the ability of future governments to legislate for the good of public health and the environment.' ZeroPaid also notes that the statement is starting to appear in New Zealand and Australian media."

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  1. here's the problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    These parties are only against it because they are not the parties in power so they're not getting their kickback from the media and other industries. If you make the mistake of thinking that things will be any different by electing these people and expecting them to act differently than the last batch of nincompoops that got elected then you're crazy.

    Ah, crazy. That's when you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. You keep electing people to government and they keep behaving the same as the last batch. Maybe it's time to find another way to form a government, direct democracy rather than representative democracy, hire them as you would a corporate CEO, or just draw lots from the people who haven't been convicted of any major felonies yet. I'd favour the last myself since they could only serve for one term and they couldn't be able to escape the effects of their actions while in government. Too many get elected over and over and manage to escape the requirements of the legislations they enact. For example, Congress, the Senate and the executive office are not bound to Obamacare. They have their own system outside what is provided by the act to everyone else in the country.

    Along the lines of hiring leaders for the country as you would a CEO, look up Rome's five good emperors some time. Five guys, absolute power but no family to pass it on to. They looked about and found the best guy to succeed them. The last guy screwed it up and had a family and a son to leave the empire to. It was all downhill from there.