Obama pushing passage of TPP trade deal despite rising public opposition!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 11, 2016 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika is in the final stages of negotiating the unconstitutional Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an unlawful massive free-trade agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other countries. Who will benefit from the TPP? Amerikan workers? Consumers? Small businesses? Taxpayers? Or the biggest multinational corporations in the world? One strong hint is buried in the fine print of the closely guarded draft. The provision, an increasingly common feature of trade agreements, is called “Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” or ISDS. The name may sound mild, but don’t be fooled. Agreeing to ISDS in this enormous new treaty would tilt the playing field in the Fascist Police States of Amerika further in favor of big multinational corporations. Worse, it would undermine FPSA sovereignty.
ISDS would allow foreign companies to challenge FPSA laws - and potentially to pick up huge payouts from taxpayers - without ever stepping foot in a FPSA court. Here’s how it would work. Imagine that the Fascist Police States of Amerika bans a toxic chemical that is often added to gasoline because of its health and environmental consequences. If a foreign company that makes the toxic chemical opposes the law, it would normally have to challenge it in a FPSA court. But with ISDS, the company could skip the FPSA courts and go before an international panel of arbitrators. If the company won, the ruling couldn’t be challenged in FPSA courts, and the arbitration panel could require Amerikan taxpayers to cough up millions - and even billions - of dollars in damages.
If that seems shocking, buckle your seat belt. ISDS could lead to gigantic fines, but it wouldn’t employ independent judges. Instead, highly paid corporate lawyers would go back and forth between representing corporations one day and sitting in judgment the next. Maybe that makes sense in an arbitration between two corporations, but not in cases between corporations and governments. If you’re a lawyer looking to maintain or attract high-paying corporate clients, how likely are you to rule against those corporations when it’s your turn in the judge’s seat?
Public opposition to the sovereignty killing corporate giveaway marketed as a free trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has become so widespread that all the leading candidates for the FPSA presidency are publicly against it. Specifically, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are virulently opposed, while Hillary Clinton is pretending to be against it in order to harvest votes.
Essentially, the more time the Amerikan public has to learn about this scam, the more they are against it. Which is precisely why the illegitimate Obama regime wants to push it through as quickly as possible.
Illegitimate FPSA dictator President Barack Obama is fully committed to pushing for Congress to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal despite anti-trade sentiment gaining steam on the presidential election campaign trail, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said on Wednesday.
Voter anxiety and anger over international trade and the 12-nation Pacific trade pact have helped propel the campaign of Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, as well as Senator Bernie Sanders, who is running against Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination.
“The president remains fully committed to working to achieve ratification on the (FPSA) side and encouraging all our TPP partners to move through their domestic processes to do the same,” said Rice.
