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

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-not-too-late dept.

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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  1. Another victory for corporate corruption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Another victory for corporate corruption by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. Sedition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. No thanks by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 5, Insightful

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