“Once in a while, a major leak oozes out of the government-corporate nexus. First responders and damage-control experts quickly arrive on the scene and throw a blanket over the shocking revelation. Media fall silent. Nothing happened. It was a momentary delusion. Everything is fine. To the degree that the public becomes aware of the truth, the public registers utter disbelief and denial. Why? Because believing this one thing would torpedo their faith in the whole structure of the synthetic invention called Reality.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Jon Rappoport – The truth emerges out of the shadows of secrecy…
Let’s start here. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade treaty, coming down the homestretch toward ratification, involving 12 nations which account for a staggering 40% of the world’s GDP. The TPP encompasses 775 million consumers.
Waiting in the wings is something much larger. It is the intention, up the road, to fold India and China into the treaty.
China is the most populous nation in the world. 1.35 billion people. India is the second most populous. 1.2 billion people. India is projected to overtake and pass China by 2025.
During his seven years in office, the most publicly recognizable PR man in the world, Barack Obama, has sweated and hammered on two policies. Just two. He is now in a panic over forcing one of those: the TPP. The other one was Obamacare. That’s it. Everything else was a Sunday picnic in the park.
Obamacare, the US national health insurance plan, when you strip it down to basics, was about one thing: bowing to drug companies. Continue reading
The Republicans are pushing trade agreements, but they are secret. Congressman Paul Ryan says “We the People” do not get to know the secret details until Congress votes them through. On the trade packages in Asia and Europe, Ryan said, “It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to.” Is this his Republican version of the Nancy Pelosi “We have to vote for it to see what’s in it”? You know it’s a bad deal for everyday Americans when this sort of trade deal is opposed by Democrats, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Congressmen Duncan Hunter. Hunter even wrote Ryan a letter asking him not to vote on the deal until all Americans know what’s in the agreements. In other words, NO SECREAT TRADE DEALS. Every Congressional office Republican and Democrat should be called to tell them to vote “no” on secret deals. If it was such a good deal and Republicans were so proud of what they were doing, why would it be a secret? This is why I say Democrats and Republicans just take turns ripping us off.
Paul Craig Roberts – The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. “Free trade” is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
Ellen Brown – A republican form of government is one in which power resides in elected officials representing the citizens, and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law. In The Federalist Papers, James Madison defined a republic as “a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people . . . .”