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Text of the TPP

samedi 7 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Obama has published the text of the TPP, and it would give foreign companies the power to demand relaxation of food inspection, even to demand approval of GMOs and demand that they not be labeled.

It's literally a treaty to allow Treacherous Plutocratic Poison.

It provides handouts to fossil fuel companies. For instance, they could sue states and cities that ban fracking.

It criminalizes whistleblowers that reveal a company's criminal "trade secrets", such as for instance that cigarette companies knew that their products caused cancer and that Exxon knew its products caused global heating.

This in addition to prohibiting breaking digital handcuffs

It's too bad that article adopts enemy propaganda terms such as "protection", "Digital Rights Management", and weak terms such as "digital locks".

Sanders points out that companies could demand "compensation" for increases in the minimum wage.

Here are many other bad things that have just been discovered in the text.

This should be no surprise. The TPP was designed to be a corporate supremacy treaty, mislabeled as a "trade agreement", and that's what was designed.