#TPP v. #Democracy Last week, legislation to fast track a vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership was introduced in #Congress. President Obama, who, along with advisers from several hundred corporations, has built the TPP in secret, away from the prying eyes of Congress or the public, desperately wants this fast track authority. The grant of that authority is, according to prevailing wisdom and the pro-neoliberal agenda #Forbes magazine contributor Dan Ikenson , something widely considered necessary to complete and ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement between the United States and 11 other #Pacific-bordering nations, as well as other prospective trade agreements. Why is Fast track so important? Because President Obama, and the corporate advisers he so willingly serves, knows full well that if there were a public debate on the TPP, not only would it never pass, but people would take to the streets in a 1999 Battle in Seattle #WTO protests kind of way. The TPP is a Trojan horse that seeks to usher in a backroom secret sweetheart deal for the global elite. Fast track avoids public debate- and would ask for an up or down yes vote from members of congress who have not yet read the agreement. You have all heard the demand, belted out in unison by those who yearn to be heard, to Show me what Democracy looks like! If there is any negative image of what Democracy looks like, any way to define a thing by its opposite, it is the Trans Pacific Partnership. Links to Stop The TPP: flushthetpp.org/ citizen.org/tpp/ citizenstrade.org/ Tags, #TPP, #Fasttrack, #Obama, #Obamafasttrack, #Fasttrackauthority, #TransPacificPartnership, #Wikileaks, #Democracy, #StoptheTPP, #FlushtheTPP, #PopularResistance, #DennisTrainorJr, #AcronymTV, youtube/watch?v=8qTkgVp4lEk
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:06:02 +0000
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