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Well I wonder no more about the infrastructure planned for the world control of all assets - including people. It is all about the TTP - Trans Pacific Partnership

The corporate cabal behind a new trade agreement including Cargill, Pfizer, Nike and WalMart, has done an exceptional job of maintaining an almost total lack of transparency as they literally design the future we will all inhabit.

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This is going to be interesting when the dam breaks and news starts getting to people that fund all of this... Us the Tax payers of the World.

Time to Revolution is Here!

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More on the TPP:

The Pending Addition of Mexico and Canada to the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) Negotiations Sparks Renewed Calls for Transparency


The TPP is under negotiation between the United States, Vietnam, Brunei
Darussalam, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Peru and Chile, but is
also intended as a “docking agreement” that other Pacific Rim countries would
join over time. This “add-on” feature to the TPP have led some to suggest it
could become the last U.S. trade agreement

On June 18th, the United States formally invited Mexico to join the TPP, and the
following day extended a similar invitation to Canada. As such, the TPP is now
poised to become the largest free trade agreement in U.S. history — dwarfing the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in geographic and economic
size. Other countries, including Japan, have expressed interest in joining the
TPP.

http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-con ... rsMemo.pdf

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What gets me the most about this is the lack of public comment.

Supposedly, the "public" will get to comment AFTER the agreement is reached.

Hmmmmmm

Don't like this one little bit. :nono

The other thing that bothers me:

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But because there was a previous leak of the chapter of the draft negotiating text that dealt with intellectual property claims, people who have followed these issues closely have some idea of what USTR has been doing on our dime. What we can say with confidence is this: In an agreement that USTR hopes will eventually cover 40 percent of the world's population, the negotiating position of USTR has reneged on previous commitments the U.S. government has made to promote the ability of governments to pursue public health goals in "trade agreements" rather than undermining the ability of governments to pursue public health goals.

And regardless of anything else, that fact alone should be a national scandal. When, at long last, you nail acknowledgement of a fundamental human right to the wall, it should stay nailed there. We shouldn't have to fight USTR on access to essential medicines every time they negotiate a new "trade deal." USTR should cry uncle on this for all time, no matter how much money brand-name drug companies spend on lobbying and political campaigns.

In August 2012, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders noted that the 19th International AIDS Conference "illuminated the profound contradiction" between the U.S. government's goal of "an AIDS-free generation" and "some of the U.S. government's trade policies." MSF noted the need to make antiretroviral therapy available to "more than 7 million people still in need of urgent treatment." To achieve this, MSF said, "antiretroviral drugs need to be available at affordable prices." But, MSF said, USTR is "promoting restrictive trade policies that would make it much harder for patients, governments and treatment providers like MSF to access price-lowering generic drugs."

Leaked drafts of the TPP agreement, MSF said, "outline U.S. aggressive intellectual property demands that that could severely restrict access to affordable, life-saving medicines for millions of people... [T]he U.S. is asking countries to create new, enhanced and longer patent and data monopoly protections for multinational pharmaceutical companies so they can keep competitors out of the market and charge higher prices for longer."

Affordable generic medicines have played a crucial role in expanding access to treatment, MSF noted. But:

demand for newer HIV treatments is growing fast... Access to these ARV drugs will largely be contingent on the same price-busting generic competition responsible for the first wave of AIDS treatment scale up. The TPP's provisions, aimed at creating stronger and longer monopolies and making it more difficult to use legal tools to promote access to generics, could cut off access to these lifesaving medicines for millions.

Do you think that "public comment" and "congressional review" of an agreement that "could cut off access to these lifesaving medicines for millions" should wait until after the agreement is signed, when, in practical terms, the prospects for changing the agreement would be near zero? Do you think it's intrinsically offensive that USTR (public employees whose salaries you pay through your taxes, and who are using as their negotiating leverage access to U.S. markets, including your consumer dollars) would press other countries to agree to such policies, regardless of whether the other countries resist or cave? Do you think that USTR should cry uncle on the issue of access to essential medicines for all time?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement_b_1871710.html

Darn straight this is a national scandal and should be front page news all across the world.

But it isn't now is it?

If Sky had not posted, I would never have known about this. How 'bout you?

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Agreed Blue although I did get a sniff of it weeks ago in my local media but it totally slipped my mind :headbang

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