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PUBLIC INTEREST ANALYSIS OF LEAKED TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP) INVESTMENT TEXT

June 15, 2012 By

Closed-door talks are on-going between the U.S. and Australia,
Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam; with
countries like Japan and China potentially joining later. 600 corporate
advisors have access to the text, while the public, Members of Congress,
journalists, and civil society are excluded. And so far what we know
about what's in there is very scary
!


After more than two years of negotiations under conditions of extreme
secrecy, on June 12, 2012, a leaked copy of the investment chapter for
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement was
posted at http://tinyurl.com/tppinvestment. Public Citizen has verified
that the text is authentic. The leaked text provides stark warnings
about the dangers of “trade” negotiations occurring without
press, public or policymaker oversight. It reveals that negotiators
already have agreed to many radical terms granting expansive new rights
and privileges for foreign investors and their private corporate
enforcement through extra-judicial “investor-state” tribunals
.


Although TPP has been branded as a “trade” agreement, the leaked text
shows that TPP would limit how signatory countries may regulate foreign
firms operating within their boundaries, with


requirements to provide them greater rights than domestic firms. The
leaked text reveals a two-track legal system, with foreign firms
empowered to skirt domestic courts and laws to directly sue TPP
governments in foreign tribunals. There they can demand compensation
for domestic financial, health, environmental, land use laws and other
laws they claim undermine their new TPP privileges
.


The leak also reveals that all countries involved in TPP talks –
except Australia – have agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of such
foreign tribunals, which would be empowered to order payment of


unlimited government Treasury funds to foreign investors over TPP
claims. As revealed in Section B of the leaked text, these tribunals
would not meet standards of transparency, consistency or due process
common to TPP countries’ domestic legal systems or provide fair,
independent or balanced venues for resolving disputes between sovereign
nations and private investors. For instance, in a manner that would be
unethical for judges, the tribunals would be staffed by private sector
lawyers that rotate between acting as “judges” and as advocates for the
investors suing the governments
..


Read more: http://www.citizen.org/documents/Leaked-TPP-Investment-Analys...

Very informative Video here: http://bwcentral.org/2012/06/public-interest-analysis-of-leak...

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  • zbacku 2012/06/16 04:39:20
    zbacku
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    Obama's Administration and the Marxists we call Democrats are destroying the greatest Nation ever conceived and we sit on our butts. All Democrats MUST be voted out of office in November. It is essential to preserve our Liberty as a Sovereign Nation.

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  • Annette texasred 2012/06/17 01:21:50
    Annette
    +1
    You are quite right, Tex - WE are letting him get away with it along with not insisting Congress do its job of insuring our rights are upheld and protected. Maybe it will take a Jeffersonian rebellion to make the whole lot of them listen.
  • texasred Annette 2012/06/17 02:58:10
    texasred
    +1
    It just might. I've already written to Boehner and told him to get a spine and stop weaseling.
  • ruthann... texasred 2012/06/17 20:32:29
    ruthannhausman
    +2
    Good for you, Tex! That's precisely what needs to be done. The game of politics has got to end. It is destructive and dangerous. Boehner is basically a good man, maybe he can get something done. But it just seems that every day something else goes on that is egregious and nothing gets done to stop anything. I'm beginning to feel like Poland. We are acquiescing ourselves into disaster.
  • texasred ruthann... 2012/06/17 21:03:45
    texasred
    +1
    Boehner knows that the MSN will vilify the Republicans every chance they get. He's trying to mitigate that. But it doesn't matter.... they'll find something else, so he might as well get it over with.
  • Annette ruthann... 2012/06/18 04:41:18
    Annette
    That is exactly what we are doing!
  • Jim texasred 2012/06/19 04:31:45
    Jim
    +2
    Obamanation is the president who wants to be king.
  • texasred Jim 2012/06/20 01:19:19
    texasred
    +1
    Yeah.... I call him the Dicktator in Chief.
  • jackola... tff~PWC... 2012/06/16 18:39:53
    jackolantyrn356
    +4
    Get it straight NPOW. The President does not care one Whit as to what is legal. Thiis ios a MAD DOG. (so to speak) why have America put up with it. The ;aws are clear. Storm the Bastille and perhaps the French Congress too.
  • Old Salt tff~PWC... 2012/06/16 18:50:40
    Old Salt
    +2
    Disagree! Through executive orders, he can do just about anything he wants! Congress would have 30 days to bring it up for a vote and rescend! How do you think he is bypassing congress by using the rights of the EPA right now? How do you think he is able to openly allow Illegals to stay here? :(
  • Annette tff~PWC... 2012/06/17 01:19:36
    Annette
    Perhaps you should tell him that. He certainly thinks the Small Arms Treaty is his free and clear, and the majority of our governing body doesn't even know about this treaty yet!
  • tff~PWC... Annette 2012/06/17 16:06:00
  • Phyl *In God i Trust* 2012/06/16 17:01:30
    Phyl *In God i Trust*
    +4
    Just what obama wanted But not best for America WE MUST VOTE OBAMA OUT..
  • tff~PWC... Phyl *I... 2012/06/16 17:08:09
    tff~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    The best words I've seen posted all day.
  • Freeranger 2012/06/16 15:26:56
    Freeranger
    +4
    Worried yet, everyone?
  • Lanikai 2012/06/16 14:31:08
    Lanikai
    +4
    NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Golly, no more of ovomits crap. Please God, spare us any more of his kingly decrees redeem our land, Lord, Please.
  • Annette Lanikai 2012/06/17 01:25:41
  • tncdel 2012/06/16 14:02:56
    tncdel
    +5
    Raved and shared.

  • DS in Oak Ridge NC 2012/06/16 12:38:19
    DS in Oak Ridge NC
    +4
    Obama the Eloquent, our Dear Leader, is selling us down 'Old Man River'.
    C'mon, let's all sing that old song right along with him, and then send him packing.
  • mike 2012/06/16 11:03:50
    mike
    +5
    I'm sure the kenyan commie will deny knowing about any of it.

    But what I'm surprised at is that public citizen exposed it, since they've been such staunch supporters of o-bamboozler.
  • Lanikai mike 2012/06/16 14:31:48
    Lanikai
    +3
    he'll say it was a Bush thing.
  • Annette mike 2012/06/17 01:29:41
    Annette
    AMAZING, ISN'T IT
  • Bevos 2012/06/16 11:00:44
    Bevos
    +7
    If that isn't TREASON, I don't know what is. Obama is SELLING us ALL down the river!!! THIS is what he had in mind for us all along. Making us slaves with him the Headmaster!!!
  • Theresa 2012/06/16 08:57:59
    Theresa
    +7
    Calling it a trade agreement so it can not be challenged by Congress? But yet it grants treaty conditions which the taxpayer must fund? Another end run around our Constitutional guarantees!
  • enlightened one 2012/06/16 07:16:33
    enlightened one
    +6
    This sounds too much like the New World Order - One World Government taking over using international business to pave the way. I agree with international trade as a source of income but when foreign heads take over our system of justice and our treasury funds, it has crossed the line. I think it is a page from the Cap and Trade act that would penalize citizens for actions of big business. It sounds like the world governments may indeed be run by big business investors and bankers despite any input from citizens.
  • WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA 2012/06/16 06:35:57
    WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA
    +5
    We need to vote Obama OUT!
  • MQ-American Values Again (AVA) 2012/06/16 06:01:43
    MQ-American Values Again (AVA)
    +7
    Is there any wonder Obama is losing the backing of even many in his own Party .... this president is the devil himself.. Clinton and Biden's mis-speak in the last week was not mis-speak at all ...
    losing backing party president devil clinton bidens mis-speak week mis-speak
  • ruthann... MQ-Amer... 2012/06/18 20:26:21
    ruthannhausman
    +2
    Now there's a portrait of our "president" I wouldn't mind hanging in my living room.
  • Kara ~~~ American Patriot 2012/06/16 04:50:58
    Kara ~~~ American Patriot
    +6
    Obama's deception gets worse. But I have heard that it is darkest before dawn. Hopefully the dawn is near when Obama is voted out this coming election day.
  • Annette Kara ~~... 2012/06/17 01:33:58
    Annette
    Actually the four months after the election will show the darkest hours (if we even have an election).
  • zbacku 2012/06/16 04:39:20
    zbacku
    +11
    Obama's Administration and the Marxists we call Democrats are destroying the greatest Nation ever conceived and we sit on our butts. All Democrats MUST be voted out of office in November. It is essential to preserve our Liberty as a Sovereign Nation.

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