Why Corporate Criminals & Corrupt Politicians Want TPP
Sept 2, 2016 3:54:46 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Sept 2, 2016 3:54:46 GMT -5
The Secret Global Court: Why Corporate Criminals & Corrupt Politicians Desperately Want TPP
by Tyler Durden, Sep 2, 2016 3:30 AM, Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Obama needs to ensure he gets well compensated after leaving office for a job well done protecting, defending and further enriching the global oligarch class. This is precisely why he’s so adamant about passing the TPP during the upcoming lame duck session of Congress, when he knows “representatives” who no longer face reelection can be coerced or bribed into voting for this monumental public betrayal.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ins’t really a free trade deal, it’s a way for global oligarchs to consolidate, grow and protect their enormous wealth. The investor-state dispute settlement system (ISDS) is perhaps the most nefarious and objectionable aspect of the deal, with this shadowy court system being used to accomplish the following for the super rich and powerful:
1) Eliminate sovereign risk from their investments.
2) Earn money by scouring the world for potential ISDS “opportunities” and then speculating on them.
3) Escape prosecution from criminality on a global basis.
The whole thing is absolutely disgusting and epitomizes all that is wrong and unethical about the world today. As such, stopping the TPP from passage is probably the most important near-term challenge ahead for all of us who want to make the world a better place (or at least prevent it from getting much, much worse).
Before getting into today’s article, I want to commend Chris Hamby and BuzzFeed for publishing this extremely timely and important work. We can only hope that it will inform millions of Americans sufficiently to create the needed pushback to prevent the TPP from ever becoming law.
So without further ado, let’s get on with it. What follows are excerpts from Part 1 of a four part investigative series. My snippets don’t do this work the justice it deserves; as such, I strongly encourage you to read the entire piece and share it with everyone you know.
www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-01/secret-global-court-why-corporate-criminals-corrupt-politicians-desperately-want-tpp
by Tyler Durden, Sep 2, 2016 3:30 AM, Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Obama needs to ensure he gets well compensated after leaving office for a job well done protecting, defending and further enriching the global oligarch class. This is precisely why he’s so adamant about passing the TPP during the upcoming lame duck session of Congress, when he knows “representatives” who no longer face reelection can be coerced or bribed into voting for this monumental public betrayal.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ins’t really a free trade deal, it’s a way for global oligarchs to consolidate, grow and protect their enormous wealth. The investor-state dispute settlement system (ISDS) is perhaps the most nefarious and objectionable aspect of the deal, with this shadowy court system being used to accomplish the following for the super rich and powerful:
1) Eliminate sovereign risk from their investments.
2) Earn money by scouring the world for potential ISDS “opportunities” and then speculating on them.
3) Escape prosecution from criminality on a global basis.
The whole thing is absolutely disgusting and epitomizes all that is wrong and unethical about the world today. As such, stopping the TPP from passage is probably the most important near-term challenge ahead for all of us who want to make the world a better place (or at least prevent it from getting much, much worse).
Before getting into today’s article, I want to commend Chris Hamby and BuzzFeed for publishing this extremely timely and important work. We can only hope that it will inform millions of Americans sufficiently to create the needed pushback to prevent the TPP from ever becoming law.
So without further ado, let’s get on with it. What follows are excerpts from Part 1 of a four part investigative series. My snippets don’t do this work the justice it deserves; as such, I strongly encourage you to read the entire piece and share it with everyone you know.
www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-01/secret-global-court-why-corporate-criminals-corrupt-politicians-desperately-want-tpp