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Treaty Negotiated In Secret – Hidden Even from Congressmen Who Oversee Treaties – Threatens to Destroy National Sovereignty
The normally-reserved Yves Smith asks whether Obama should be impeached over it.
Democratic Senator Wyden – the head of the committee which is supposed to oversee it – is so furious about the lack of access that he has introduced legislation to force disclosure.
Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is so upset by it that he has leaked a document on his website to show what’s going on.
What is everyone so furious about?
An international treaty being negotiated in secret which would not only crack down on Internet privacy much more than SOPA or ACTA, but would actually destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and all other signatories.
It is called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Wyden is the chairman of the trade committee in the Senate … the committee which is supposed to have jurisdiction over the TPP. Wyden is also on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and so he and his staff have high security clearances and are normally able to look at classified documents.
And yet Wyden and his staff have been denied access to the TPP’s text.
This is similar to other recent incidences showing that we’ve gone from a nation of laws to a nation of powerful men making laws in secret.
For example, in the summer 2007, Congressman Peter DeFazio – who is on the Homeland Security Committee (and so has proper security access to be briefed on so-called “Continuity of Government” issues) – inquired about continuity of government plans, and was refused access. Indeed, DeFazio told Congress that the entire Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. Congress has been denied access to the plans by the White House (video; or here is the transcript). The Homeland Security Committee has full clearance to view all information about COG plans. DeFazio concluded: “Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are right”.
As University of California Berkeley Professor Emeritus Peter Dale Scott warned:
If members of the Homeland Security Committee cannot enforce their right to read secret plans of the Executive Branch, then the systems of checks and balances established by the U.S. Constitution would seem to be failing.
To put it another way, if the White House is successful in frustrating DeFazio, then Continuity of Government planning has arguably already superseded the Constitution as a higher authority.
Watch this interview from today explaining why TPP is so dangerous to America … and the rest of the world:
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Please tell us again your fairy tale about how the inhabitants of Easter Island were somehow infected by your mythical "US Citizenism" not only long before they had ANY contact with the outside world, but literally centuries before the USA was even founded as a nation! I really like that one.
Speaking of immigration, TOTUS is granting All illegals under 30 (without criminal records) clemency. TODAY.
Skating right past congress to pander to the Hispanic vote.
That is so sick. And no-one says a word. Orders from his corporate owners, "we need the excess bodies to keep wages down", "Okay".
If the Spooks and SF boys weren't so indoctrinated they could be counted on for a coup to remove the rotten system.
Promlem is patriots are sh*t outta luck.
Vote by buying physical Silver.
no one questions the creating of multinational mega banks (FED is one)and the result of their actions on the world economy, much like tariffs it's a word never to be spoken..multinational mega corps go hand in hand they also aided the economic rape of nations..puppet leaders elected by voters who think our guy is out for us..living while your eyes are wide shut has never worked.
Susan Lindaur.
The whole spin on things since 9/11, with even Iran, now, being accused of being part of the "plot".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68LUHa_-OlA&feature=related
IF anyone bothers to watch this, then they might notice my comment as "gerryhiles1" ... my real name, minus the 1.
IF you have not questioned 9/11 by now - the central pretext for all wars since - then you might as well totally surrender to everything going wrong in every context.
Consider this blatant set of lies, if you still believe that 9/11 justifies endless war, the ruin of ALL economies and pending WW3:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bbc_wtc7_videos.html?q=bbc_wtc7_videos.html
Of course I do not expect many to bother looking at either link, but I am posting them anyway.
Repost of link to Susan Lindaur.
My previous link accidentally comes in rather late, the full event is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68LUHa_-OlA&feature=related
yes.. so true...
if people haven't "got it" about 9-11 by now.. they aren't worth the energy to awaken, Im afraid.
a day doesnt go by, that my soul doesn't ache just a bit over their now open, overet abaility to murder in plain site.
we also had ruby ridge, waco, etc.
there is no freedom to save.. we havent had any in decades.. just illusions and suggestions...
Barack Obama Inauguration Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ryj-PxfVUQ
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the gift to be simple. whatever
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please provide a direct link to the show so I don't have to try watching through this system and the screen is blank or it doesn't load.
A direct link for video on Zh would be appreciated, because I always have trouble with video here
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/14/breaking_08_pledge_leaked_trade_doc
NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert: Nick Lowe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhawkQQQmY
Getting sick and tired of reading about stuff like this. More BS type stuff, all the representatives have to do, is pull funding. They are in charge of the purse strings. It is no different than being an employee in a company, you screw off, you get hit where it hurts, your paycheck.
And yet unfortunately, this election involves a choice between tweedle dee and tweedle dum, either way, the people lose.
The reps are going to have to stop treating the presidency like a dictatorship and start pushing back or tell him to stick it where the sun don't shine. Again, you stop funding certain things, and magically the problem goes away.
This has little to do with funding. Treaties are the provenance of the executive and the Senate is required to approve them. Consequently, 51 people can approve this. However, it is the President that creates the opportunity and approve it first. The president is a tool of the Elites. If you haven't figured this out yet, then you deserve your slavery.
All of the laws and treaties are going to have to be thrown out because these people are traitors to the American people.
Similar leak here http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1206/S00186/national-says-yes-to-invest...
by the looks of the comment in this forum, for an outsider looking in, one gets the feeling the US is ripe for a military takeover of populist nature. Tahrir square comes to NY in 2012+? Rubicon get crossed by some military brass hat who does not agree to massive defense cuts?
If the civil mood is apathy and despair, thats what is next in store when the home economy really comes apart at the seams! WHich it probably will post 2012.
US citizenism provides the solution:
-make it a world law as US citizenism is law for all human beings
-as it is invasive, make an exemption for US citizens of A.
-US of A will strong arm the rest of the world
-law is made common and must apply to US of A
US citizenism at work.
US citizenism provides the solution:
-make it a world law as US citizenism is law for all human beings
-as it is invasive, make an exemption for US citizens of A.
-US of A will strong arm the rest of the world
-law is made common and must apply to US of A
US citizenism at work.
You are a freaking lunatic.
Your myopic views coupled with severe bigotry skews your ability to see things for the way they are and it's easy for simple minded cretins like yourself to be manipulated by the media (think propaganda), and your generalizations cement that notion. You equate people to their governments, specifically Americans, this is sheer ignorance. You desire to place blame for the way the world is, unfortunately the boogiemen behind what the world is facing is hidden under layers of propaganda, deceit and falsehoods. Slight of hand mechanations behind Kabuki theatre is consumed in masse by people such as yourself. I read awhile back (and it may possibly be true) that the Merikan military is the enforcement arm of those who are actually in control with the EU as the legislative and executive branches. But in all honesty, who really knows? I see most ZH'ers trying like me to sift fact from fiction within the framework of logic the power corrupts paradigm and the trappings that come to those who wield such power.
and it's easy for simple minded cretins like yourself to be manipulated by the media (think propaganda),
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You mean the free reports lavishly the points I made?
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You equate people to their governments, specifically Americans, this is sheer ignorance.
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It should be otherwise in US citizenism? US citizens elect their government, empower their representative elite who governs through the consent of the governed (US citizen creed)
Let me guess: US citizens equate people with their government when the government is a dictature, with a dictator forcing his will on the people but you should not equate US citizen government with the people because the people elect the elite and empower them through their consent.
US citizen responsibility.
"because the people elect the elite and empower them through their consent." Really? then you really are a bigoted ignoramus. We elect? We don't elect anything. Even the lesser of the two evils is a false paradigm.
Seriously, I've done 11 trips to your fucked up country and have been all over from Zhuhai to Tianjin and many points in between as well as rural villages like Tongli. So let's talk about your country and its wonderful citizenry. You know like those 18 insensitive scumbags who let lie in pain and agony 2 year old Yue Yue.?
You know what? you can kiss my lily white American ass.
AnAnonymous said:
Waooo! Looks more like AnAnonymousistic fetishism at work.
Made me laugh.
It is disgusting and obscene to see AnusAnonymous so shamelessly exposing and stroking his turgid Chinese Citizenism in public like that!
Long Rope and Knots!
United Nations Agenda 21, section IV, Means of Implementation, Chapter 33 Financial Resources and Mechanisms, sections 33.11 through 33.14
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_33.shtml
Just saying.
Thanks George for the heads up.
Impeach Barry Soetoro.
Yeah, like any president or 'important' political figure is EVER going to be held to account.
in a sea of hyperbole, this is a liferaft of sane reportage by GW...
there's very, very little time left folks....yu can feel the walls closing in on yu, even if yu can't see them...
fight. or flight. both are rational choices at this point. they will not remain choices much longer.
Outlaw Josey Wales was not a cowboy western...it was a docudrama of the merged time frames of Merikan history into a massive repetitive looping horror flick where goy resistance is krushed by kosher klowns with gatling guns. Get up off yur nees now or prepare to die Merikan brothers. Life always imitates the screen these days.
"Life always imitates the screen these days" Indeed it does, and far more so today than ever before. I see this upcoming nightmare as being in the final stages of preparation. Once complete, change will come with lightning speed. I have no idea how this will play out in the states, but my guess is that it will hit us on multiple fronts with one priority being the disarming of an ever wakening populace. I suppose having us shoot each other through the ignition of a race war would serve that purpose quite well. Martial law sweeps up what's left...
""What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad."
Ahhh,... cannibals. You don't need foot salts to be one, just one of the ruling elite when they start to turn on one another. The American Summer. Think round, act square. Be there, or be square. www.nar2012.com
Can't believe Americans still talk abour Republicans and Democrats especially on a site like this.
Its a one party state!
WTFU
"corporate power tools"? come on, this cant be real. if it is, those fools better familiarize themselves with Mussolini's demise.
They've already copied his rise to power.
Our sovereignty is and has been gone for a long time. This is just another disgusting move by the globalists. Mitt Romney would be doing exactly the same thing BTW. Fucking criminals, the whole of Washington. TPP will happen, international treaties are a great way to screw us without the formality of telling us. Clinton was a master as he signed away our ability to legislate or regulate the financial services industry (among NAFTA and others) effectively placing them above the law - we have and are seeing the result of those efforts. Clinton, Summers, Emanual were the primary three perpetrators. Clinton is still involved in these things, feed him and his old lady to the Arkansas alligators.
But everyone was more interested in Bill's blowjob. That's the way it works.
Can't go much further left journalistically than Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! - check her out - be sure and see her Soros funding!
Nice try, but Issa is a conservative and a Republican.
Zero Hedge readers are too smart for the old divide-and-conquer left-versus-right thing.
That's why in Europe the crackheads of the 1920s and 1930s on both sides were funded by wealthy bankers.
Damn,
You beat me to it!
I'm constantly amazed that with everything that is going on, there are still those who believe in the Demopublican/Republicrat left vs right red herring arguments... Wake up! Reread the post and get a grip on what is happening to this country and others around the world for cryin out loud.
It's easy to refute that: You must be a leftist. Socialist. Statist. Muslim lover. 911 untruther.
How about you hate us for our Liberty?
That's the next big one. Bring that nonsense home, citizen against citizen.
"Liberty" is gonna be unstoppable. It'll be bigger than the loving grace of the historical Catholic Church. We must free ourselves of the Yoke of Socialism!
Pure marketing genius.
Sad that good ideas can be so profoundly corrupted.
yeah, was surprised that Issa actually brought this to light!!! he is a 1%-er himself..
super creepy behind the scenes power grab... gave me the chills.
i was very impressed with lori wallach.
the 1% has their own 1%
of course they're going to fight amongst themselves. some are in the boat, the others were just useful luggage, to be dumped when needed.
"night of the long knives"
amy goodman is a left gatekeeper though.. ask her about 9/11...
Amy was contacted when Susan Lindaur was in jail based off trumped up Patriot Act absurdities and Amy Goodman's only comment was that Susan's attorneys would be pleased if she did a story on it... and she didn't touch it with a 10' pole and obviously couldn't care less about it.
http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/589_-_Mad,_Bad_or_Dangerously_Frank_%28Su...
If I recall, Susan covered this in the second half of the interview.
I found this an interesting article today for MANY reasons:
Via DRUDGE
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/18785637/beltway-ufo-said-to-be-military-dr...
(background:http://defense.aol.com/2012/06/14/x-47b-carrier-drone-passes-air-worthin...
For me it's not the "UFO over-sheeple-reaction" as much as it is how the story acclimatises the sheeple to drones as UFOs...ATTN: EVERYTHING is NORMAL
AND the burgeoning fleets of aircraft carriers supplying a world-wide projection of attack drones to do what ...? Enforce and protect the development of Individual Democratic Constitutional Republics...or Perhaps enforce the Globalist's Wet Dream of Admiralty Law/Law of the Sea by force.?...
No....say it's not true....Say IT"S A CONSPIRACY THEORY!...
Wait forget it...it's terrorism related....hence 'National Security'
In the Soviet Union they hauled their nuclear UFOs over the Red Square with fanfare at daytime.
While casting aside rusted and rotting radioactive waste all along the artic circle.
The way forward for Americans is to vote with your feet, those that can must immediately move/work/live overseas.
Millions of Americans have already done it, it is easy enough.
The country is broken, so move on.
A Jewish friends once told me that the Jews were given several chances to get out of Germany. Looking back in history it was pretty obvious what was going to happen. Same for Americans, you are a couple of laws away from being one big prison.
Sell up and start over.