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America's Biggest Secret: Wikileaks Is Raising A $100,000 Reward For Leaks Of The TPP
If there is one piece of legislation (and in a "democracy", there is no reason why any one law should be fast-tracked through Congress under the shroud of secrecy) that should be passed in complete openness and in full view of the general public, especially by the world's "most transparent organization", it is Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multi-trillion dollar treaty with 29 classified chapters, which - when not if passed - will have an impact on the vast majority of workers in the US, on their wages and living conditions.
And yet, when it comes to the TPP, not only is the text of the legislation under lock and key, but the law's drafters, primarily US corporations, have made it so profoundly secret, that "many of the provisions will not only be secret before the vote in the House, but will also be kept secret for four years after the bill is signed. That means we won’t know what’s in it even after it’s passed."
Curiously, according to Wikileaks, the TPP contains 29 chapters but only 5 pertain to trade. As Red State reports, "Wikileaks will be publishing the entire bill and they have already released the chapter on Investment. It’s very interesting. It is written in a such a way as to give multinational companies a huge advantage on trade. If a public hospital is built close to a private one, the private hospital has the right to sue the country for expected losses." The chapter on investment can be found here.
It gets worse:
The agreement also regulates the internet and requires internet companies to gather certain data which they will be required to share with certain private companies. Many of the provisions will not only be secret before the vote in the House, but will also be kept secret for four years after the bill is signed. That means we won’t know what’s in it even after it’s passed.
Wikileaks has more information:
The Investment Chapter highlights the intent of the TPP negotiating parties, led by the United States, to increase the power of global corporations by creating a supra-national court, or tribunal, where foreign firms can “sue” states and obtain taxpayer compensation for “expected future profits”. These investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals are designed to overrule the national court systems. ISDS tribunals introduce a mechanism by which multinational corporations can force governments to pay compensation if the tribunal states that a country’s laws or policies affect the company’s claimed future profits. In return, states hope that multinationals will invest more. Similar mechanisms have already been used. For example, US tobacco company Phillip Morris used one such tribunal to sue Australia (June 2011 – ongoing) for mandating plain packaging of tobacco products on public health grounds; and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment. The threat of future lawsuits chilled environmental and other legislation in Canada after it was sued by pesticide companies in 2008/9. ISDS tribunals are often held in secret, have no appeal mechanism, do not subordinate themselves to human rights laws or the public interest, and have few means by which other affected parties can make representations.
For those interested, here is a Julian Assange interview in which he shares his take on the TPP's highly classified contents:
But what is by far the worst, and is both farcical and tragic at the same time, is that in a parallel effort, the same Wikileaks which is a semi-illegal organization in the US and whose founder will be immediately arrested should he leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, has leaked 3 of the 29 chapters. It is now raising a reward of $100,000 for the missing chapters of the TPP legislation. To wit:
America’s most wanted secret. The TPP is a multi-trillion dollar international treaty that is being negotiated in secret by the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico and others. This massive agreement has 29 chapters, of which 26 are still secret. It covers 40% of global GDP and is the largest agreement of its kind in history. The treaty aims to create a new international legal regime that will allow transnational corporations to bypass domestic courts, evade environmental protections, police the internet on behalf of the content industry, limit the availability of affordable generic medicines, and drastically curtail each country’s legislative sovereignty. US Senator Elizabeth Warren has said “[They] can’t make this deal public because if the American people saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it.” Over the last two years WikiLeaks has published three chapters of this super-secret global deal, despite unprecedented efforts by negotiating governments to keep it under wraps. The remaining 26 chapters of the deal are closely held by negotiators and the big corporations that have been given privileged access. The TPP is also noteworthy as the icebreaker agreement for the proposed ‘T-treaty triad’ of TPP-TISA-TTIP which would see TPP style rules placed on 53 nations, 1.6 billion people and 2/3rds of the global economy.
Said otherwise, a non-profit, international organization whose legal status has been openly challenged by various western governments, is seeking to bribe whistleblowers in Congress who have access to the full TPP, just so the public can see what the US president is rushing to slam through Congress without anyone have any idea of its contents. In other words, Wikileaks is scrambling to do what in any normal representative democracy should be taken for granted.
Of course, if the country in question is a democracy in all but name, and in reality is a oligarchic corporatocracy-cum-banana republic, then all bets are off.
Finally, while we showed it previously, here are the members of the US Business Coalition for TPP, who "splurged" for donations to various Senators (source) in the first few several months of 2015 to assure that despite some cosmetic straight to C-SPAN glithces in the Senate, the TPP never met with any serious challenges by America's elected representatives.
These are the corporations that stand to benefit the most from the utmost secrecy of the TPP.
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wtf is tpp?
Probably something that will make Unions weep for decades.
has amerika had its thousanth cut yet?
Oh! Oh!
I got one!
Send me $50,000 now and I'll tell ye the rest..
Ahh! The smell of nascent World Government tyranny in the morning.
A promising entrepreneur should build a bountyleaks website based on that idea.
Shoot, I'll pay $200,000,000 to see the law that requires this Trans Pacific Partnership treaty to be kept secret, which I can say because there is no such law.
If this passes, most consequential legislation will be secret within a few years. Precedent is a whore. As if it matters anyway...
And just how are they going to pay the leaker?? Gold? Silver? Brand new Benjamins? Bank transfer?? Ooops. Hey, whats that $100,000 wire transfer from Wikileaks doing in your account? Did you tell them?? You didn't tell them did you?!?!?!?!
Obamacare was the precedent.
It was vehemently opposed by the American public.
Oops.....see what happened there?
Make the TPP/TAP available for download, then pass it anyway over the objections of the American people just to show them how inconsequential they really are.
What, you're still voting?
This is corporate collective bargaining gone global. Klepto capitalists are forming a union themselves to make sure the sheep stay in their pens. Govt crony apparatus contracted to keep the labor flock obedient in the name of free trade.
“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”
- George Orwell, 1984
Oh, it won't just be Unions. It will be everyone dependent on a pay check....maybe even you, if you pay taxes. If not you, your kids, for sure, and their kids, too.
An even BIGGER sucking sound of jobs leaving US
Two Ply Paper.
Two Ply Paper.
Vermont ant other countries have requested copies as well.
http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2016/Docs/RESOLUTN/JRH00...
wtf is tpp?
It's a we have to pass it so we can find out what's in it piece of legislation.
i.e. another assfucking.
The new East India Company.
Four chan, you're kidding, right?
" The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. “Free trade” is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages."
PCR-- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42017.htm
In words of Beavis & Butthead, TPp is for your bunghole. More true then we will ever know....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqaKi9NTzS4
If a bill hasn't been available to a representatives' constituents for comment and feedback, their constituents have been denied representation -and hence any vote cast by their representative is null and void.
$100k for a leak? shit ill piss on it for free.
America - the best democracy that money can buy!
Yep, too bad we couldn't keep our republic like our founding fathers warned.
Not gonna lie, the future looks so dark it terrifies me. I'm talking true terror, not a polite interest in scary things. Maybe I'm a coward, or maybe just a realist. Either way, there is a tsunami of bad headed our way.
Sadly agree, this is going to make Hitler look like a choir boy having a bad day in comparison............queue the Star Wars Imperial March.
As always, thank the morons who want government.
Mind you, want, there isn't a need. It's all emotional and in their heads - sort of like an ant.
The great TJ put it this way;
When the people rule their government you have freedom; When the governement rules the people you have tyranny.
My dad told me stories of how the Jews just got on board the trains bound for the death camps.
History may well draw a comparison so the real question is:
HOW Y'ALL ENJOYING THE RIDE? If you think the ride is bad, the ending is a killer.
Hitler's enemies were/are our enemies.
Using Jews as slave labor during war = Holocaust.
Killing Americans during war = Terrorism.
America and allies killing millions of Germans and Middle Easterns and any foreign leader who doesn't puppet our interests = freedom, democracy, peace, equality, love for thine neighbor, etc.
Don't fall for the propaganda.
You are more likely a realist. Sorry.
To me it is the insulation and opacity of all supra-national organizations that drives me nuts. The fact that nowadays you can toss in money-before-everything else conglomerates it does become pretty terrifying.
There literally might be nowhere on the globe (civilized) that you can go to escape this. Tom Hanks and Wilson seem better and better.
The only consolation I take is that with this ever increasing complexity, it becomes easier for it to fail.
It really is pretty scary that there is ostensibly a "trade" treaty being worked on in Manhattan Project like secrecy. I could see hammer out the details behind closed doors, THEN present it to the public.
But this is lunacy.
pods
No place else to go is absolutely the problem and the problem for them
I read an article about a Russian Family in Siberia that were so isolated, that they didn't even know WWII happened. I'm about ready to go to a place like that until things start getting better. Anybody got any ideas?
PS. If we do make it through all this, things will be better after. That is historical fact. And cycles happen much more quickly now so the good should come pretty quick after the bad.
I read an article about a Russian Family in Siberia that were so isolated, that they didn't even know WWII happened. I'm about ready to go to a place like that until things start getting better. Anybody got any ideas?
PS. If we do make it through all this, things will be better after. That is historical fact. And cycles happen much more quickly now so the good should come pretty quick after the bad.
"That means we won’t know what’s in it even after it’s passed"
Eat your heart out, Nancy Pelosi. You fucking bitch.
like a stool sample, you have to pass it to see whats in it
The black market gets stronger every day.
Not enough people give a fuck about this.
Also worth noting there is a similar deal in the pipeline with Europe called TTIP.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six-reasons...
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Bribe someone in Vietnam.
They still hold a grudge.
at some point they will only be able to get citizens & undocumented to vote by giving them food at the pols, vote and get a free meal..there is no longer a fed gov it is now gone full blown dictatorship by NWO international or more correct supranational elite who care less for the ave american..TPP and aca open borders and FREE TRADE. & repressive regulation of small business .only a congress not worried about the life of the citizens would have done any of it. if you are an american look in the mirror the chump in the room is you.
save yourself get a job in DC with the .gov- it will take them a while to off shore that.
What do think they are trying to do? $100,000 isn't going to bribe one of the FEW in the USSA who actually have posession to the entire document, so they are trying to find someone in a "less expensive" country (with less controlled access).
Yes, and it just might work, because it has worked before.
This reminds me of what Larry Flint (owner of Hustler Magazine) did in 1998 to Congress. He was sick of all the hipocracy coming out of Congress as they were trying to impeach Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich got caught having an affair with an underling & had to resign as Speaker of the House. Bob Livingston was his chosen successor, but the very day he was to be sworn in, he had to pull his nomination because Larry Flint dropped the bag on him about his multiple affairs. So, who got the job? Our good buddy Dennis Hastert, better know as the Wrestling Coach who loved young boys. For those who do not remember:
"Livingston's downfall was the handiwork of Flynt, who took out an ad in the Washington Post two months ago offering up to $1 million to any woman who could prove an affair with a high government official. Several respondents reportedly named Livingston, and suddenly Hustler--whose best-known editorial feature until now was a cover photo of a woman being fed into a meat grinder--was setting the agenda in the capital."
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1998/12/21/livingston.html
If it weren't for whistle blowers we as citizens of these countries would be totally in the dark as to what elected representatives are doing to us until the boot hold us down on the ground and if we scream, "I can't breath" they laugh.
As societies we need rules and governance. I am not an anarchist. But this is gone too far.
I am not against replacing government with a more transparent, honest one.
Laws are used to restrain people, nothing more, nothing less.
If there was no law against murder would you go out and kill the first person you see?
Anarchy is not a perjorative, simply means without rulers, not without rules. Eventually you won't mind being called one. :)
I do see your point, as I was there a while back, but as long as there is government and dishonest people, you will never get a transparent, honest government.
pods
Would be interesting to see what would happen if every .gov official had every second of every day recorded and live streamed on the internet. Every text, email, whisper, note, etc. they saw would be public information.
I could see a future where that is the price any person wanting a public leadership position must pay for the power. Any attempt at unlawful behavior being met with an expedited death penalty.
I can see that as a next step in our cultural evolution towards complete self-governance. If the current psychopathic sub-human 'elite' don't end up enslaving / killing everyone that is.
If only there were a valid test that would detect career sociopaths and if the politicians were obligated to periodically take it and publish the results...... kind of like a doping test for athletes.
Maybe then we would have a gov't that is more transparent and honest. Until then even, in total anarchy, sociopaths will always try to come out on top and do what they do best......damage.
Running for any office would be a good test
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Bilderberg's annual meeting next week (in austria)
start there
The land of the free is ruled a Deep State which is unknown to 99% of its citizens. So we have to bribe people to know what it is our right to know.
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power
http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings
JFK
The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.” It goes on to spell out that this includes “officials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments, and independent agencies); the US House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the US Federal Court System (including, but not limited to, the Supreme Court).”
The stunning implication of this passage is that NSA spying targets not only ordinary American citizens, but also Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and the White House itself. One could hardly ask for a more naked exposure of a police state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html
Bill Moyers was/is part of the cover ups. He is scum.
geez, at one time it was reasonable to say 'buy American', now 'boycott American' may seem better. That's quite a long list of companies to avoid, although Goldman's never been on my list of favorites.
Certainly China and Russia already have their copies of the TPP. Ask them for a freebie.
Somehow I don't think 100,000 is enough to incentivize an insider to risk their career over.
I agree, but it's a big pay out for a hacker.
This type of deal will get your entire family killed.
Think Keyser Söze. Even the dog will get it.
pods
how about their life. these are big boy games and they are playing for complete control while timing critical mass.
Id be surprised if anyone rolled on something this big
With a multi-generational, multi-trillion dollar deal at stake, these people will not hesitate to use assassination, regime change, and terrorism or whatever else is necessary for them to seal the deal.
The U.S. is the most corrupt country on the face of the earth.
Sad days for Amerika.
I lived in China for awhile. It's way more corrupt than here.
But then, China has much stiffer penalties if you get caught.
It's way more corrupt than here. Until you see what is in store for you.
You know in trouble when you have to size yourself up against China to look better.
One rung above fascism in the scale of repugnant ideologies that have plagued humanity is corporatism. Any doubts about whether we have reached that dystopic state is surpassed by the proof of what we are witnessing here.
I've always said that there is only one reason for secrecy in government: To get away with crimes.
Why anyone in the USSA would work and contribute to the tax base is the real shocker.
TPP is my fucking disability. Where's my check?
Perhaps most worrisome of all is that twelve of the chapters are written only in Hebrew.
I think Obama leaked the chapters that will be most palatable to the left because they are mostly opposed to this so-called free trade agreement. That is where he needs the votes in the House.
The media could easily get their hands on this, but they want to keep it secret because they want it to pass.
Where are all the USSofA Consumer WATCH-GROUPS? Can't all be compromised, surely!
I can really smell the stench of a rotten carcass from all the way over here.
This is so fucked up and wrong I don't know where to begin.
Example, the globalists have spent years promoting the green global warming agenda and now they're happy throwing it all away skirting the environmental laws? WTF? Never mind the secret laws being made in secret by unelected corporatists, Goldman Sack being pblic enemy #1 on the lsit.
"...globalists have spent years promoting the green global warming agenda and now they're happy throwing it all away..."
They're not throwing it away, just saying it doesn't apply to THEM- rules are for you, not them.
look peeps, it is really simple ( at least in my mind :-))
After WW2, US demanded that European nations gave up there colonies, basically to get access to these colonies' markets and to contribute to the advancement of global free trade.
Later GATT came, after that WTO. It was all great, because as the world's dominant player, US probably benefited more from liberalizing trade than other nations.
China joined WTO in 2002.
Now China has become the largest economy in the world when calcuclated in purchasing power parity terms. And the growth projections for China and US differ a bit. So US is set to lose its dominant status and thus now the rules of the game have to be changed, of course.
Therefore, they advocate TPP and TTIP, in the process abrogating the WTO (?), largely in order to stay number one and to contain China.
Shoot !
Corporations want to go anywhere without regard to local laws. They want unlimited immigration so that they can import cheap labor. They want unrestricted access to resources. They want to be exempted from all taxes (investor-state resolution: any laws that reduce future profits - such as a tax increase).
The global political elite want states without borders replaced by regional bureaucracies, a dominant West and a military footprint in every state.
Constraining China as an economic, political and military power would be beneficial to both. Same for Russia. The TPP is major step in achieving all of these things.
Ah yes, the corporate whores in CONgress must pass legislation in secret now. Which the cocksucker in chief will then sign into "law" to be obeyed by the serfs who put them there. False representation is NO representation at all.
It bears repeating again CONgress is nothing but corporate whores to be purchased by the highest briber.
My quess, a large chunk of TPP encompasses climate change regulations
Spoof, Muslim world reacts to Obama's latest speech
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UXodRLLkth4
lol, the raghead version of Fox News. You'd think they voted.
This flea bitten mutt refuses to lie down or be brought to heel.
Sociopath's like O'ballsUp and Hildebeast instead of retreating gracefully having been exposed as lying corrupted SCUM still plough on regardless, seemingly oblivious to public opinion.
Despite being given a hands off , softly, kid gloves free ride by Uprick Murdoch & the rest of the SHIT that is MSM their sleazy cheese puff filo carries on regardless.
The only explanation i can think of is that these public servants (haha) have been canny enough to not underestimate the stupidity of the Amurikan public.
WTF?!
To quote the late Lillie Tomlin:
Can anyone even guess at how the political class explains this? How can the government of the people, by the people, and for the people make laws and not disclose them to "the people"?
I'm no loy-yah, but my understanding is that the legal system presumes that every citizen is aware of the law, and ignorance of the law is not a defense.
What the hell do people think is going to happen when they are accused or violating some provision of the TPP?
Beyond weird.
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I’ve got the feeling that this is BS and they’re just pissed at a bunch of people who call them out on their bogus articles.
I ALWAYS quote other urls and sites to back up my arguments, using ZH profusely amongst others, when I comment on BI, if that’s what they’re upset about. I think it’s just a ploy to cut people they’re tired of hearing from all the time. Who new referencing and citing articles to substantiate your position would annoy a bunch of journalists.
Maybe because they're not?
I'm a prolific reader and commentator, and especially enjoy calling out ßµ££$?φ. I've ruffled the BI feathers a lot, I'm sure, with vociferous and very politically incorrect commentary. I was the guy who called out BI last year, on Fullerton, when they shut down the commentary, and my commentary, made it into another online magazine, and onto the Drudge Report. Henry must not have been pleased.
This is continuing, and now it's just der rigour that many articles—Take the one about the Muslim girl and the court action with Abercrombie, had comments, and then they all disappeared, after I referenced the poll about Muslims and terror and the percent of them who back it around the world.
It is what it is…
Or no commenting on the article about the Asian kid who's supposedly a super-genius, not getting into the ivy league schools. I was going to call BS on that one.
I'm worried about these magazines, simply being able to shut you down, when they have a comment section. I've been kicked to the bleachers, given the 'Big Red X' and had my comments take down, without warning, in what I am firmly of the mindset that you don't wound the king, or at least their click-bait headliners, in sharply worded, intelligent criticism. Yet, oddly enough others do and get away with it, although much less eloquently. People cussing each other out is often left up.
I don’t know what the political agenda is with BI, but I’ve ?ï$$?? them off.
Surely, this is the beginning of the fascism we've all dreaded, as the Ministry of Truth stalks the land.
I am currently awaiting a response back, (I tried techsupport.) but I’m thinking they’re going to ignore me in that weaselly way that organizations do.
Perhaps BI is cleaning house, for the advertisers and revenue generating click-bait stories stuff?
Sadly, once word of this gets out, it’ll be another black eye for BI, undoubtedly.
Without sounding too paranoid, I think you are indeed at least onto something, this cheerleading of the groupthink presented in the articles, and that one does not dare to criticize them.
I liked nothing more than reading some garbage article on BI, then heading over here, to see the real story, then heading back over to BI to out them.
‘In the future, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. Orwell.’
Long live ZeroHedge!
SweetDoug
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V-V???
100k http://www.charitynavigator.org/__asset__/studies/2013_CEO_Compensation_... heck local Boy/Girl Scout leaders extort this. Charity my backside. Taking advantage of unwashed...Uninformed
"Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline"
Nothing here look away TPP Look away Soros "Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline" "Sweet Caroline"
They should offer a million to get it out ahead of time. Sure there are a few billionaires that will do it.
Nullification
It took only $2.5 million dollars to bribe university presidents (Woodrow Wilson) and bribe newspaper editors.
Financial backers of the Aldrich Ammendment, which later became Federal Reserve Act, are the source of Bribe Money. These were German Jew's in Wall Street (Kuhn Loeb) in concert with their cousins in England (Bank of England). This small amount of money was amazingly effective as it duped the sheeple. Same goes today for the lobbyist money that bribes Con-gress and dupes sheeple via ministry of propaganda (mass media). it is not much money relative to the negative effect the bribe has on society.
So, we almost always find usury money out of private banks and their tied corporations trying to usurp civil society.
In the case of TPP it is a power grab for "corporations" to then have backdoor control of sovereign peoples. Who controls these "international" corporations, corporations which are also shilling for illuminist "international" money?
The synchronicity of $100K to undo TPP vs Aldrich gambit is sweet.
The totally criminal fascist (merger of monopoly corporations with government) of the bankster Washington Empire of Debt, Fraud and Chaos is running from prosecution for criminal corruption that has captured and overthrown our democracy and destroyed the American Main Street Free Enterprise System of capitalism economy that had laws against corporate monopoly and criminal corruption. “Crony capitalism” is not “capitalism” but “corporatism” by conspiring criminal fascist.
The secret TPP “trade agreements” is the fascist criminals escape from prosecution whereas their laws and sovereignty become more powerful than the laws and sovereignty of United States. What other behavior would you expect from psychopathic criminals? The criminal corruption is so great in the United States that there is no one to stop the barbarians. It is no wonder that the rest of the world hate and despise innocent Americans for the criminal corruption.
The reality of the $100,000 reward for the missing secret chapters of the TPP must make Americans feel like stupid, foolish, and helpless chumps. War is inevitable; China and Russia recognize the dangerous criminal fascist for what they are.
"These investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals are designed to overrule the national court systems."
Multinational fascism.
Barry's legacy is shipping moar jobs overseas then any other potus before him.
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As for those ‘donations’ to the “TPP Members”, just how the hell can a government bureaucrat, or this TPP Member, be given hundreds of thousands of dollars?
This is a bribe/slush fund.
Has to be.
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Wikileaks has managed to secure an encrypted version of the document and are in the process of decoding it; so far the abstract reads:
"Fuck 'em all. Fuck 'em hard. Just fuck 'em!"
you could buy a lot of kerosene soaked torches for $100K...
spend wisely next time, please...
quite a few Guillotines too
I can not get too excited about TPP. Sure, while the corpse is still kicking, people are gonna want to dance, but in the end, who wants to sign on with the dying hegemon except the other losers?
Didn't the US Robber barons come up this this idea of League of Nations, UN, World Government, to allow them to take over the world, get the taxes, make all the sales, Rake in all the Interest Rates (Rent Seeking), and make up all the rules.
Seems like this all came up after the US Scare of the Money Trust taking over.
Then the Anglo-American-European Banks having won a US President in Woodrow Wilson, they created the US Federal Reserve, Private Corporation, with them as the Stock Holders.
TPP & TTIP
Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
World Governance over your Economy, Manufacturing & Services, Wealth Extraction while you wait with Hopium, Wealth Leakage while you give up your State & US Constitution and your Sovereignty.
How did the other Free Trades work for the US Economy?
Korea, CAFTA-DR, NAFTA... Job Loses, Lower Labor Rate, Lower Economic Money Velocity. Higher Household Debt seems to be part of the Money Trust Plan. Debt Slaves through Rent Seeking.
But you are also losing your US Property and US Debt Securities to Foreigners, Wealthy Foreigners to be sure.
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Seasonally Adjusted, Constant (1982-84) dollar adjusted to CPI-U- Median usual weekly earnings, Employed full time, Wage and salary workers, All Industries, All Occupations, Both Sexes, All Races, 16 years and over,All educational levels, Wage and salary workers, Employed full time
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http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/intinv/iip_glance.htm (wow huge trend, $31 Trillion in Foreign Property in USA vs $24 Trillion)
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Federal Debt Held by Foreign & International Investors as Percent of Gross Domestic Product, 2014:Q4: 34.75940 Percent of GDP,
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/HBFIGDQ188S
Current Account Balance: Total Trade of Goods for the United States©, 2013: -703,911,000,000 US Dollars,
Sum Over Component Sub-periods (2013 was last data),
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BPBLTD01USA637S
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But the Corporate Leaders of TPP & TTIP will be unregulated and Unelected. Technocrats maybe. But probably just a group of Professional in a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO).
Link is Related:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-bigge...
It has a lot to do with shipping and ... money ... I know I know last century they shipped all our jobs overseas and now they are going to ship all of our money there too.
These donors in the Bar chart they each give according to their ability.
Communism.
Well okay. No it's Fascism. Communism has a Party Elite Class that benefit. But the marriage of government with corporations and conglomerates is like Keretsu or Zaibatsu or Fascism.
Bankers are great historians of empires if nothing else.
Rome needed it's slaves. Communist Russia & China needed their Slaves. Monarchies needed Serfs.
And Bankers Need Wars, Economic Blockades, Economic Sanctions, Intelligence Networks, Computer Analysis and Stock Trading, and lots of "Poor People".
I would have to be an important person to start a Meme about Banking Empires beginning in Europe in 18th Century, taking over from the Vatican Empires, and spreading to the Americas & Americas in 19th Century.
But I know English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish probably were corporate empires of a sort in 16th Century.
Still I think TPP & TTIP solidify a Banking Empire.
PREDICTION: There will be a cost factor to US corporations having fingerprints on the TPP.