Sally wrote:
> http://www.alternet.org/world/156059
>From the article:
Indeed, signatory countries would be obliged to conform all their
domestic laws and regulations to TPP's rules, effecting a quiet
corporate coup d' tat. And, regardless of election outcomes or
changes in public opinion, these extreme rules could not be
altered without the consent of all signatory countries. Failure to
conform to these rules would subject countries to indefinite trade
sanctions.
A recent leak of one of TPP's most controversial chapters reveals
that the pact would elevate individual corporations and investors
to equal status with sovereign nations to privately enforce this
treaty. U.S. negotiators are among the greatest champions of this
"investor state" enforcement system. It would give any foreign
firm incorporated in any TPP country new rights to skirt
U.S. courts and laws, directly sue the U.S. government before
foreign tribunals and demand compensation for financial, health,
environmental, land use and other laws they claim undermine their
TPP privileges.
This is another run at the same gold ring as the Multilateral
Agreement on Investment. That monstrosity ran aground after full text
of a draft was leaked to the net.
The ultimate aim is to make corporate entities -- a few thousand of
them -- the only citizens of the world, establish governments in the
role of their personal servants and protectors and reduce people not
enfeoffed to a corporate master to the status of biomass. [1]
Our topic of "future work" typically addresses "jobs". Under the
proposed regimen (as, to a considerable degree under the present one)
only employment with a major corporation offers the benefits of
vassalage. And those benefits are severely limited as the corporate
lord no longer commits to the responsibilities toward a vassal that
feudal lords swore to sustain.
- Mike
[1] Biomass, in ecology, is the mass of living biological organisms in
a given area or ecosystem at a given time. Biomass can refer to
species biomass, which is the mass of one or more species, or to
community biomass, which is the mass of all species in the
community. It can include microorganisms, plants or animals.
The mass can be expressed as the average mass per unit area, or as
the total mass in the community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)
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