Options Michael Witkowski Draft of the TPP available: https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=263016697179411&set=a.233846536763094.1073741826.231802120300869&type=1&theater Photo Timeline Photos Draft of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement Leaked The Trans Pacific Partnership(TPPP) Agreement (Draft found here: wikileaks.org/tpp/#start) is a free trade agreement between the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunel, Singapore, Chile, and Peru. Wikileaks released a draft of one section of the agreement. Some highlights of the proposed agreement are as follows: Expanding of pharmaceutical patents Strengthened protection of intellectual property Restriction of consumer rights Restriction of privacy & the ability to innovate The agreement would be another step towards a global government and would strengthen the rights of corporations while limited the rights of individuals. Jullian Assange(rt/usa/wikileaks-tpp-ip-dotcom-670/) is quoted: If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons,” Assange said. “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs. Essentially in order to enact the new policies and procedures outlined in the TPP, massive policing of the World Wide Web would be required. The only way to stop a server company in Malaysia from hosting pirated movies would be to block access to that website. The TPP lays the groundwork to make this easier for the world governments to censor information. This has obvious implications for companies like Monsanto. Currently if any farmer who has not paid Monsanto turns up with GMO in their crop, Monsanto sues them and wins. It does not matter if the farmer never planted a single GMO seed. If the natural germination process happens to blow a GMO seed into non-GMO crops, the farmer still get sued. An agreement like this could grant Monsanto global legal recourse. The TPP would also have wide-reaching implications for the pharmaceutical companies. It would further strengthen pharmaceutical patents making alternative research potentially more costly, or altogether impossible. The TPP draft also opens the door for the government to get SOPA provisions in through the proverbial back door. theverge/2013/11/13/5099236/wikileaks-publishes-leaked-draft-of-tpp wikileaks.org/tpp/#start rt/usa/wikileaks-tpp-ip-dotcom-670/ By: Finding Reality
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:13:37 +0000
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