14 March 2014

The Obama administration wants a former SOPA lobbyist to negotiate the TPP. We can't let that happen. & WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW WILL HURT YOU & Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter 14MAR14&13NOV13

PRES Obama's tpp treaty is another example of third way democrats kow-towing to their wealthy patrons and the corporate interest who control them through campaign contributions and guarantees of executive board positions in the corporations and bank-financial cabal and wall street companies who benefited from their terms in office. We would see this as typical corruption if it occurred in a Third World country, but research in the details of the tpp show the treaty will only accelerate our descent to Third World status. Consider Obama's nominee to lead the American tpp negotiating team, the former sopa lobbyist robert holleyman. The 99% have lost enough economically from nafta, we can not let it happen again with tpp. Click the link to sign the petition to the senate opposing robert holleyman having any role in the tpp negotiations and see more in this post about the threat tpp poses to the American economy and civil liberties. Just a brief outline of the info you will find below:
Have you heard? The TPP is a massive, controversial “free trade” agreement currently being pushed by big corporations and negotiated behind closed doors by officials from the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. In one fell swoop, this secretive deal could:

Although it is called a “free trade” agreement, the TPP is not mainly about trade. Of TPP’s 29 draft chapters, only five deal with traditional trade issues. One chapter would provide incentives to offshore jobs to low-wage countries. Many would impose limits on government policies that we rely on in our daily lives for safe food, a clean environment, and more. Our domestic federal, state and local policies would be required to comply with TPP rules.

FROM Demand Progress:
The Obama administration wants a former SOPA lobbyist to negotiate the TPP. We can't let that happen.The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive international treaty that lets the world's most powerful corporations make a power grab for our resources at the cost of our civil liberties. And now President Obama has nominated Robert Holleyman, a former lobbyist for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to help lead the TPP negotiations for the U.S.

Help us tell the US Senate not to let the salesman for an awful bill become the architect of a monstrous treaty.

The TPP will have ruinous consequences for free speech on the Internet by expanding already ridiculous copyright protections and laying the groundwork for internet censorship. If confirmed by the Senate, Holleyman would be working to ensure that these anti-free speech provisions are enshrined in the TPP for good.

Click here and urge the Senate to block this disastrous nomination.

We've done a good job slowing down the progress of the TPP, but we can't let up. By blocking Holleyman, we'll not only keep this dangerous lobbyist away from this trade agreement, we'll also send a message to the architects of the TPP that they are in for a fight.

Let's send that message and continue that fight.

Sign on and tell your Senator: No to Holleyman.

Thank you.

- Demand Progress

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