TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca)

Dangerous_Minds writes: New Zealand officials are hoping that the TPP signing ceremony is to take place in February in Auckland, New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, it is expected that all 12 countries are going to sign the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Those 12 countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S., and Vietnam. Note: signing doesn't necessarily make the agreement law, but it is one critical step closer to ratification.

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Another victory for corporate corruption

[Anonymous Coward]

These American imposed laws that extend the power of corporations are making a total mockery of democracy in the countries that haven't yet become US style corporate dictatorships.

Re:Another victory for corporate corruption

[FlyHelicopters]

These American imposed laws that extend the power of corporations are making a total mockery of democracy in the countries that haven't yet become US style corporate dictatorships.

And people wonder why I want an armed population...

I don't trust government. It can do good, I don't think we could live without any government (that would be equally silly), but I don't trust them either.

Re:Another victory for corporate corruption

[Anonymous Coward]

The armed population thing is a joke.

If you put your armed american population on one side and your US military forced on the other side, which one wins?

If second amendment's spirit was followed, the real life USA would resemble grand theft auto much more closely.

Sedition

[Anonymous Coward]

Any American government official who signs the TPP is guilty of sedition as far as I'm concerned. The TPP violates the sovereignty of the US, and has bypassed the will of the people through a quite literal conspiracy.

I loathe conspiracy theories, and don't subscribe to any of them. This single issue though is in fact a conspiracy to defraud the American people among others, and is a violation of our democracy. It's a conspiracy because it is an agreement that will affect all of us, but has intentionally been kept under wraps. Because the negotiators are acutely aware that if the TPP had been public knowledge for the last several years, there'd be at best another Battle in Seattle type of debacle, and that the people governed by the treaty wouldn't stand for it.

No thanks

[ChunderDownunder]

World Bank suggests Australia's economy would grow by less than 1%.

And of course, they're signing it in Mordor.

[cunina]

"In the darkness bind them," indeed.

This will be a disaster

[humptheElephant]

Just look at what's happening under NAFTA. A Canadian Company (Trans Canada) is suing the US for 15 billion because we stopped the Keystone pipeline (http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/7/transcanada_sues_the_us_for_15b). This means that a private corporation from a TPP country can sue the US or another trade partner and have it tried by a panel corporate representatives. The amount can be not only the cost of a project, but also the expected profits. For example, with the Keystone lawsuit, the cost of the pipeline is 3 billion and the expected profits 12 billion. So the US taxpayers are on the hook for the 15 billion if TransCanada wins.

Re:Feel free to use my letter

[rock_climbing_guy]

Dear MrKaos,

Thank you for taking the time to write to my office. I always appreciate engaged subjects taking a role in the democratic process.

Please rest assured that this agreement has been properly scrutinized by those who have the proper need to know. Rest assured that TPP is in the best interests of the people who matter.

We do understand that we have concerns, but we really don't care. Why? Because FUCK YOU, that's why!

Now shut up and go back to sleep.

Sincerely,

The Man