“The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive,
multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive
intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international
rules on its enforcement….TPP raises significant concerns about citizens’
freedom of expression, due process, innovation, the future of the Internet’s
global infrastructure, and the right of sovereign nations to develop policies
and laws that best meet their domestic priorities.” [1]
Surely, the “domestic
priorities” of any country should be the welfare of its people. Yet, there are
numerous articles available that state the TPP is a danger to national
sovereignty and is being negotiated in secret. One has to ask the question: If
it is such a good deal, why all the secrecy?
Still they have a way of
making these deals sound nice and palatable, using words like “partnership” and
in the USA ,Canada and Mexico deal “integration” is the word used, as is, “beyond
borders” [2] all designed to baffle
and fool the masses into believing that this is all for their benefit. The nice
sounding language is thought up by their “strategists” and “marketing experts”
of the corporate world some of whom work for multi-national corporate strategy
firms. You can see some of these “experts” and “strategists” on political shows
on TV giggling, sniggering, laughing and talking with the host as they spread
their BS across the land. Government is a great source of tax-payers dollars
and a profitable business for some of these propagandists. Manipulating the
masses is the name of the political game and national sovereignty is easily
dismissed.
“Member countries will sacrifice national sovereignty.
Their laws, regulations and rights will be subordinated to TPP rules….” [3]
Who
is behind these “rules” that will “sacrifice national sovereignty?”
“The Trans-Pacific Partnership is also expected to
grant banks and other transnational corporations the power to challenge any
laws, regulations and even court decisions that they believe violate the FTA
through international tribunals that circumvent domestic judicial systems.
Under these “regulatory takings” cases, countries would be forced to change their
policies and/or pay stiff penalties to the aggrieved corporations.” [4]
One has to ask will
supposedly free peoples allow these multi-national corporate elites to takeover
their countries, and why are the puppet politicians involved in these “secret
negotiations that could endanger national sovereignty? Could this be called political treason? Or is
the subterfuge described as “creating jobs?”
Lost jobs have been in the news lately where
employees at the Royal Bank of Canada
{RBC) are to be replaced by foreign workers and in some cases: “The new people
are in our offices and we are training them to do our jobs. That adds insult to
injury.”
And according to another news
report other banks are doing the same thing.
But it is not only banks that
are bringing in foreign workers. A mining company in B.C is also bringing in
Chinese workers.
The above information is just
some examples of what is happening inside our country today. Still, the Harper
government has formed a “strategic partnership” [5] with the communist government of China. Therefore one wonders does
“strategic partnership” include that country’s workers?
Could the examples shown
above be a template for what is to come when this “secretive” TPP comes into
being. Will ordinary people be herded like cattle into accepting the conditions
of multi-national corporations? Will all the health and safety standard go out
the window? Will pension plans and old age security become a thing of the past?
Will lower wages be the norm as people from all these different and some poorer
countries “compete” for a slice of the corporate pie? Still, the politicians
who make all these deals will be okay. When they leave public office some of
them finish up on corporate boards. They have big pensions courtesy of the
taxpayers, and the taxpayers are left holding the empty bag if their economies
are looted in the name of “free enterprise” and “strategic partnerships.” Still,
let the corporate “marketplace” decide and to hell with national sovereignty
seems to be the plan aided and abetted by puppet politicians.
Stephen J. Gray
April 10, 2013.
Endnotes:
More info at links below:
