The People versus The Corporations

as an agw anti co2 guy you may wish to read some more...


http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2015/10/07/how-the-tpp-threatens-jobs-the-environment/

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In addition to offshoring jobs and driving down wages, the TPP would also provide corporations with new tools for attacking environmental and consumer protections, while simultaneously increasing the export of climate-disrupting fossil fuels.

  • We know that the TPP’s investor-state dispute resolution (ISDS) provisions enable transnational corporations to challenge environmental laws, regulations and court decisions in international tribunals that circumvent the U.S. judicial system and any other country’s domestic judicial system. Under the World Trade Organization (WTO), portions of the Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act have already been rolled back under similar “trade” provisions that grant this type of power to foreign governments. The TPP would go beyond the WTO by giving individual corporations the power to initiate challenges.Right now, a number of smaller Free Trade Agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties already grant these powers to transnational corporations — and they are being used to attack clean air rules in Peru, mining laws in El Salvador, a provincial fracking moratorium in Canada and a court decision against the oil giant Chevron in Ecuador, among many other examples. Expanding this system throughout the Pacific Rim would only increase the commonplace of these challenges.
  • We know that under the TPP exports of fracked natural gas would automatically be deemed in the public interest, bypassing certain environmental and economic reviews, if going to any of eleven TPP countries throughout the Pacific Rim — including Japan, the world’s largest importer of natural gas. The TPP is likely to increase energy costs for U.S. consumers and manufacturers, while simultaneously exposing Americans to the localized environmental consequences of fracking and the world to increased global warming pollution.
  • We know that the TPP’s procurement provisions also roll back the policy space needed for “Green Economy” programs useful for jumpstarting a sustainable economy.






Ricter said:
I read a very interesting article on the TPP some time back, which laid out an excellent geopolitical argument for it. I haven't given it much thought one way or the other since. Now I have stated before that I believe that if capital can freely cross borders seeking advantage then labor should be free to do so as well.
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achilles28 said:
Wtf would you know?
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This is an anonymous site, most people sad to say are bullshitters on here with all types of agendas, hidden or not.. Your very fortunate this is anonymous and not face to face because the way you post and make insinuations in your posts about people you would be dead or seriously injured..people use to be able to discuss and debate politics in a respectful manner, that all went out the door with the Internet..your a sad fuck, keep your anger in Canada, good luck with The Donald.
 
RRY16 said:
people use to be able to discuss and debate politics in a respectful manner, that all went out the door with the Internet..your a sad fuck, keep your anger in Canada, good luck with The Donald.
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Nicely done hypocrite.

Weren't you heading out to the beach a few hours ago?
 
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