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The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will be harder to […]
‘Free trade’ isn’t what Trans-Pacific Partnership would deliver … Think the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a free trade agreement? Think again. In principle, almost everyone’s in favor of free trade. It promotes international harmony, raises wages, helps economies grow. It’s an article of historical faith that the enactment of harsh protective U.S. tariffs in 1930 contributed […]
On the opening day of each new Congress, every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives takes an oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” For many members, no doubt, this solemn […]
Business ceases to become business when it becomes engaged in political decision making regardless of whether the decisions concern foreign or domestic policy. It becomes a fifth column that seeks absolute control. A person would have to be completely brain dead not to see that this is what has happened to the United States. It’s […]
The TPP has drawn the ire of Democrats including Elizabeth Warren who object it will destroy jobs, limit online freedom, increase outsourcing and derail climate agreements. Ironically, it has made allies of his GOP rivals. A protester holds a placard during a rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Tokyo. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP The Trans […]
The next round of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations begins this Monday, January 26, and runs through the following week at the Sheraton New York Time Square Hotel in downtown Manhattan. As with many previous TPP meetings, the public will be shut out of talks as negotiators convene behind closed doors to decide binding rules […]
The TPP has drawn the ire of Democrats including Elizabeth Warren who object it will destroy jobs, limit online freedom, increase outsourcing and derail climate agreements. Ironically, it has made allies of his (her?) GOP rivals. A protester holds a placard during a rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Tokyo. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP The […]
FA Note: Little is heard today of what might be called “Sustainable Medicine”. It exists, but not specifically within Agenda 21. The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created by the UN, covering all foods. The U.S. FDA’s policy is that Codex supersedes U.S. laws. Furthermore, the U.S. passage of CAFTA requires the U.S. to conform to […]
Empires have been built throughout history and most eventually fell when the empire got too large or too tyrannical. There has always been, and probably always will be, a tension between consolidating power at the top or decentralizing power to the people. Our Founding Fathers gave us a highly decentralized Republic with most power vested […]
Senators are now working around the clock to re-introduce a bill that would put trade agreements on the fast track to passage in the US after those deals are finalized. Deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have been negotiated in almost complete secrecy, except for private industry […]
The Associated Whistleblowing Press released portions of draft text proposed by the United States for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) this week, revealing some alarming provisions that indicate how tech companies have been involved in influencing a secret international deal. The language of the leaked treaty shows provisions that could impact privacy online, and […]
FA Summary: Agenda 21 seeks the abolition of borders and the economic equalization of people across the world. After twenty years of implementation the plan is working! Sen. Jeff Sessions, R‑AL In a speech delivered on the Senate floor Friday as the Senate was debating a 1,603-page government funding bill that will permit President Obama […]
It’s no secret that the US Trade Representative (USTR) has approached the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations with a disappointing lack of transparency. For years now, leaks have been an inadequate substitute to reasonable public policy, and non-corporate groups have resorted to reading between the lines of press statements even as the stated timeline of the […]
Jim Beers is a retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Excerpts from a recent news article from McClatchy Newspapers: Rise in trade spurs U.S. to protect turtles 1. “The U.S. government is proposing a new level of protection for certain freshwater turtles, concerned that a massive increase in […]
In what kind of twisted world would Oath Keepers – Oath Keepers to the Constitution of the United States, be considered domestic terrorists? That’s the question that was asked last week in an interview with Stewart Rhodes, Founder and President of Oath Keepers. After listening to the interview, I thought I should check to see […]
If you missed our live teach-in yesterday on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and its restrictive, anti-user provisions, you can still check out the video of our discussion. It’s embedded below. We invited experts from digital rights groups from several TPP countries—all members of the Fair Deal Coalition—and we discussed the various ways this massive, […]
International Legal and Regulatory System is the Medusa Since Obama is going to make his big announcement tonight concerning his 10 Point Plan for Immigration reform, I thought I’d better find out precisely what the plan entails. I only needed to read one article on Fox News to know exactly what this is about because […]
FA Note: GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. What could be more routine than saving seeds from one season to the next? After all, that is how we grow crops on our farms and in our […]
Michael T. Snyder is an attorney, a blogger, a Christian, a writer, a speaker and an activist. Barack Obama is secretly negotiating the largest international trade agreement in history, and the mainstream media in the United States is almost completely ignoring it. If this treaty is adopted, it will be the most important step toward […]
The seventh round of U.S./EU (TTIP) negotiations [began] September 29 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. If you have heard about the two huge free trade agreements — theTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — being negotiated by the Obama administration, you probably think they have something to do with an attempt to […]
WikiLeaks on Thursday published an updated version of the negotiating texts of a controversial and highly secretive trade agreement between the United States and 11 other member nations. Critics warn that the international agreement, dubbed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), proposes sweeping changes to intellectual property norms that would stifle freedom of expression online and impose […]
Yesterday’s (Oct. 16, 2014) leak of a May 2014 draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement revealed the addition of new text criminalizing the misuse of trade secrets through “computer systems”, as mentioned in our previous post about the leak. This is a significant revelation, because we also know that trade secrets are planned for […]
Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the world’s largest economic trade agreement that will, if it comes into force, encompass more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The IP Chapter covers topics from pharmaceuticals, patent registrations and […]
Polls reveal that Americans oppose tolling. It has taken awhile to get there, but the anti-tolling movement is getting traction now. Reason’s Robert Poole recognizes the threat grassroots anti-toll movement organizations like Terri Hall’s TURF poses to the taxpayer-subsidized tolling industry that was spawned overseas decades ago, primarily in socialist Europe. Terri Hall, a Texas […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
