[Occupymendocino] Fr. Agnes: New NAFTA on Steriods --from Max Dashu "The TPP is accelerating the most dangerous free market policies of previous U.S. administrations."]

[agnes at mcn.org]

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Subject: Re: New NAFTA on Steriods  --from Max Dashu  "The TPP is
accelerating the most dangerous free market policies of previous U.S.
administrations."
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Fri, June 7, 2013 1:52 pm
To:      "Janie Rezner" <jrezner at mcn.org>
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Hi,
This is an extremely anti-democratic bill. I urge you and those on your
email list to call your Congress members and urge them to vote against
Fast-Tack. Fast track expired and Obama wants to renew it so that the bill
would not be debated by Congress, but would go directly to the President
to sign. There would be no amendments, nor debate by congress. This is a
violation of Constitutional law, the people would have no say. Obama is
wanting dictatorial powers. Urge your Congresspersons to vote no on Fast
Track for  TPP.

Agnes




> This comes from Max Dashu--on a list-serve that we share:
>
> "Recently i had mentioned about Hilary pushing NAFTA back when; turns out
> that Obama has had her working on a new one, even worse, as Sec'y of
> State, called TPP or Pacific Pivot. It will repress Internet freedom
> (stringent copyright enforcement for Big Media), AIDS prevention (controls
> set in place by Big Pharma), and workers' rights, for starters.
>
>
> ", bestowing unprecedented powers and privileges upon Trans-National
> Corporations (TNCs) while dismantling regulations and laws without any
> democratic oversight or input... the TPP was intended to deal with "behind
> the border" issues, typically decided by domestic policy, and "which go
> beyond the normal scope of trade agreements" including issues of labor,
> environmental and intellectual property standards."
> http://truth-out.org/news/item/12857-the-trans-pacific-partnership-this-is-what-corporate-governance-looks-like
> "
>
>
> In other words, the treaty overrules the (protective) laws of signatory
> countries and the rights of their citizens.
>
>
> See also:
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/trans-pacific-partnership-obamas-secret-trade-agreement-will-push-the-deindustrialization-of-america-into-overdrive/5337667
>
>
> "Did you know that this agreement will impose very strict Internet
> copyright rules, ban all "Buy American" laws, give Wall Street banks much
> more freedom to trade risky derivatives and force even more domestic
> manufacturing offshore? Opponents of this treaty refer to it as "the NAFTA
> of the Pacific", and if it is enacted it will push the deindustrialization
> of America into overdrive. The agreement, under negotiation since 2008,
> would set new rules for everything from food safety and financial markets
> to medicine prices and Internet freedom. One thing that we have discovered
> is that this new treaty would reportedly ban all "Buy American laws". It
> is being reported that most of the provisions of SOPA (rigid internet
> control rules) have been quietly inserted into this treaty. If this treaty
> is enacted, those provisions will become law and the American people will
> not be able to do anything about it. And yet another leak revealed that
> the deal would include even more expansive incentives to relocate domestic
> manufacturing offshore than were included in Nafta - a deal that drained
> millions of manufacturing jobs from the American economy...
>
>
>  it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including
> the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place."
>
>
> Max Dashu
> Woman Shaman dvd  http://www.suppressedhistories.net/womanshamandvd.html
> Trailer:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Be9SFJ_vuY
>
>
>
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