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Leaked Treaty: Worse Than SOPA and ACTA
Treaty Threatens Global Government … Run by Giant Corporations
We noted last year:
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).
We also noted that even Congressmen are furious that the bill was being kept secret from the American public.
And that the TPP is an anti-American power grab by big corporations.
Wikileaks has now leaked the intellectual property chapter of the secret treaty … and it’s as bad as we feared.
Public Citizen explains how the TPP would limit people’s access to affordable medicine.
And International Business Times explains:
The TPP’s chapter on IP deals with a host of issues, but its potential impacts on basic Internet freedom and usage are perhaps the ones that would directly impact the most people in the short term. One of the biggest concerns about the agreement raised by the Internet freedom advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation centers around the concept of “temporary copies.” Here’s the text of the relevant section of the TPP’s intellectual property chapter leaked Wednesday:
“Each Party shall provide that authors, performers, and producers of phonograms have the right to authorize or prohibit all reproductions of their works, performances, and phonograms, in any manner or form, permanent or temporary (including temporary storage in electronic form).”
The EFF wrote in a July analysis of the language – which has not been amended in the intervening months — that the provision “reveals a profound disconnect with the reality of the modern computer,” which relies on temporary copies to perform routine operations, during which it must create temporary copies of programs and files in order to carry out basic functions. This is particularly so while a computer is connected to the Internet, when it will use temporary copies to buffer videos, store cache files to ensure websites load quickly and more.
“Since it’s technically necessary to download a temporary version of everything we see on our devices, does that mean—under the US proposed language—that anyone who ever views content on their device could potentially be found liable of infringement?” the EFF wrote. “For other countries signing on to the TPP, the answer would be most likely yes.”
And see this.
TPP would literally act to destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and the other nations which sign the bill.
Postscript: Will the powers-that-be renew their labeling of Wikileaks as criminals for leaking an anti-American bill which would gut our nation’s sovereignty?
Bonus:
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Fuck Israel and the Tribe
"We" haven't been killing anyone. Our criminal gubberment has been doing all the murdering.
The families of these murder victims don't hate "us." They hate our criminal murdering gubbermint.
Un-brainwash yourself, Trampy, from the all the repetitious propaganda we've all been bombarded with for decades. Your opposition to these @$$#01e$ absolves you from their guilt.
I see that some people are now coming around to "what needs to be done". I just want to let the boomers know that when the fire sparks I will *not* lift a finger as the crowd upturns and burns their SUVs and other ill gotten material possessions.
Geezer to young malcontent. Don't show up in my yard with a torch. You won't make it off the curb. Your mob won't make it to the end of the street. A lot of us old boomers worked for what we have.
You only have so many bullets and so much food. You better have an escape plan also if the mob is smart enough and has enough resources to starve you out.
You ain't surviving a seige by yourself.
You ain't surviving a seige by yourself.
@Dewey, Amen to that! You're the kind of person I've been hoping would open up my PGP key posted under Bio and send me an email. Not because I'm hoping to find a companion to escape the mob with, but rather to engage in dialogue beyond this very public forum. No need to tell me your handle(s) here, either. Better if you don't!
Even in the movies, the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Seagall type action heroes have help from others. In 1984, Winston Smith had his unnamed assumedly female companion, as I recall. Dorothy of Wizard of Oz had a diverse crew. And ditto for Alice in Wonderland.
But take a step back, if we can't handle the End Days alone, why not try to find others who are aware of what's happening? Sure, there are powerful forces pushing us to the brink, but other forces are resisting them. That's why every time it seems that we're on the brink, the crisis evaporates. This game of chicken will go on as long as it can, and then it will end. But nobody can know when all these big bubbles will burst.
“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?”
Rabbi Hillel
don't play into their hands. It's only some select geezers who have pulled this off. working together will go a lot farther
I am confident that it will be signed and hailed as a step forward.
This is exactly the reason why secret evil schemes are supposed to remain SECRET!
What Would RMS Do?
GW, thanks for bringing this treaty up again and giving it the attention it deserves. I have been posting links to this org for weeks here on ZH.
They are fighting this treaty tooth and nail and formed a coalition of industry leaders and labor leaders to lobby Vichy DC to oppose ratification.
I spoke with Michael Stumo about three weeks ago and he indicated POTUS was going to sign by the end of the year, but the votes in congress were not there for ratification.
We'll see if he's right...
DaddyO
This article doesn't do a very good job of explaining its point.