OPINOINS BASED ON FACTS (OBOF)
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May
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Agenda
1.
MISC.
& THOUGHTS
FROM FLOYD.
2. Thanks to my Son for the
following statement from
John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
4. STOP TPP
The
Trans-Pacific Partnership is like
NAFTA ON STERIODS.
5. I’m Not Making This Up: Corporations Use Trade Deals To
Attack U.S. Law
MISC.
& THOUGHTS
FROM FLOYD
Well, what can I say? Probably nothing would be about as good as I
could do. However, I'll just mention
that I am having trouble getting over the fall I had on the 18th or May.
I is truly gratifying to see that
there are still over 200 of you out there still tuning in to see if I have
brought you anything new. I will keep
trying. I think it does me as much or
more good than you to get this info together and sent your way.
~
One of my Great Grandsons is now
5years old. He reminds me of a poem that
was told me when I was a kid.
"Folks are mean as they can be, always saying don't to me. Don't do this and don't do that, don't annoy
or tease the cat. Don't throw stones,
don't climb trees, don't play in the street.
Ah gee, seems like when I want to play don't is all that they can say.
~
Thanks
to my Son for the following statement from John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"For in the final analysis, our most
basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the
same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal."
~~~
I would guess that you are tired of
hearing so much about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). I know I have been giving you a number of
articles on this subject. It is a every
important matter and in addition to the three articles for you that follows, I
could have printed at least six more, all of which had excellent points to
consider.
For whatever it is worth, I think
that maybe a new trade agreement is needed, BUT not this one. You will not that in one of these articles,
it is reported that of the 29 chapter that make up this TPP only 2 chapters
refer to trade. The problem is what is
in those other 27 chapters.
In addition, there now are
protests in Europe, and I think will be here too, about the Trans Atlantic
Investment and Trade Partnership (TAITP), which is being negotiated in secrecy
just like TPP and appears to be along the same lines as TPP. It is said that TPP controls one half of the
World's commerce and financial systems and the TAITP will control the other
half. Thus, the NEW WORLD ORDER. SCARES ME.
~
What would the TPP do?
Eleven countries are now involved—Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States—and there is an open invitation for more to join. Think of the TPP as a NAFTA on steroids, which could encompass half of the world.
Eleven countries are now involved—Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States—and there is an open invitation for more to join. Think of the TPP as a NAFTA on steroids, which could encompass half of the world.
Foreign firms could extract unlimited amounts of taxpayer money as
compensation when investors claim that U.S.
This is the largest, most potentially damaging agree ment since the 1995 establishment of the WTO (World Trade Organization). And you may never have heard about it before. That’s because the negotiations, which have been underway for three years, are being conducted in extreme secrecy. The public, Congress, and the press are locked out, but the 600 official corporate advisors have access to the negotiating texts.
This is the largest, most potentially damaging agree ment since the 1995 establishment of the WTO (World Trade Organization). And you may never have heard about it before. That’s because the negotiations, which have been underway for three years, are being conducted in extreme secrecy. The public, Congress, and the press are locked out, but the 600 official corporate advisors have access to the negotiating texts.
The TPP is the latest strategy by the same gang who got us into the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and pushed for the expansion of the WTO:
American job-offshorers like GE and Caterpillar; banksters like Citi;
pharmaceutical price-gouging giants like Pfizer; oil, gas, and mining
multinationals like Chevron and Exxon; and agribusiness monopolists like
Cargill and Monsanto.
They’ve misbranded the TPP as a model 21st-Century “trade” deal to try to
sell it with the usual false promises of it expanding exports. But only two of the
TPP’s 29 chapters are about “trade.”
Most of the TPP’s proposed provisions instead comprise a corporate power
grab. The TPP would include extreme
protections for foreign investors, which would help corporations offshore
American jobs to low-wage countries.
Then they relocate, including special privileges and rights that domestic
firms and investors do not enjoy. Foreign firms—or foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms—could extract unlimited amounts of
taxpayer money as compensation when investors claim that U.S.
STOP TPP
The
Trans-Pacific Partnership is like
NAFTA ON STERIODS
Global Trade Watch
May 20, 2015
We are waking up. The fog is lifting. We are sweeping away the
lies and secrecy.
The corporate and political leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are meeting
in cities across America such as Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, and Leesburg to
turn the Pacific Ocean and its peoples into a giant privatized corporate
lake characterized by non-union workers, Wal-Mart supply chain
feeders, poisoned, landless agricultural laborers, a dying biodiversity, and
rising, drowning sea levels. We
cannot and will not let this happen.
These meetings are
officially referred to as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Talks. The
nations involved are the United States ,
Australia , New Zealand , Singapore ,
Malaysia , Vietnam , Brunei ,
Chile , and Peru Japan , Mexico
and Canada
The General Assemblies
of Multiple Occupations across America hereby invite our communities, our regional neighbors,
and our co-inhabitants of Earth, in general, to join us in both protesting the
TPP and also in creating a new world.
We will march in the
streets, with pots and pans, and banners and signs to inform our fellow
citizens on what is wrong with the TPP Pact and what are the people’s
alternatives.
~~~
I’m Not Making This Up: Corporations Use Trade Deals To Attack U.S.
Law
| Author: Dave Johnson
Published:
May 17, 2015
President Obama says progressives who warn that trade
laws let corporations overrule U.S. U.S.
“They’re making this stuff up.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, legal scholars and others have been sounding
the alarm about the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions that have leaked to the public from the secret
TPP negotiations. They are warning that the ISDS provisions, as the New York
Times put it, “would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States
government for actions that undermine their investment ‘expectations’ and hurt
their business, according to a classified document.”
President Obama says Warren and these others are being
“dishonest.” In his speech at Nike the other day the president
said, “Critics warn that parts of this deal would undermine American regulation
– food safety, worker safety, even financial regulations. They’re making this
stuff up. This is just not true. No trade agreement is going to force us to
change our laws. This agreement would
make sure our companies aren’t discriminated against in other countries.”
Country of Origin Labeling
But there are already disputes in trade tribunals that
could result in U.S.
Country-of-origin (COOL) laws requiring that meat and
pork (and fish and chicken) be labeled with their country of origin have been challenged by meat and pork corporations in Mexico and Canada U.S.
These companies took their complaint to the World Trade
Organization, and WTO ruled against the United States
Canada and Mexico can put retaliatory tariffs on U.S.
imports, including pork and beef, if the U.S.
This is similar to the ban on putting “dolphin-safe” on
the label of canned tuna because giant Mexican corporations causes U.S.
The World Trade Organization ruled this week that the United
States is not being fair to Mexican seafood companies by denying “dolphin safe”
labels on their tuna, meaning that American citizens won’t know whether they
are buying tuna that is caught in a way that we deem would protect dolphins.
Let that sink in. A foreign trade court has
prohibited the United States
Let that sink in.
Zach Carter of the Huffington Post is reporting in “Canada Just Threw A Grenade Into Elizabeth Warren’s Trade
Fight With Obama“:
Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver gave a speech in New York
arguing that the Volcker Rule — a key tenet of the 2010 banking law — violates
the North American Free Trade Agreement. The move underscores Warren
[. . .] As far back as 2011, a lobbying group representing
Canadian banks claimed that the Volcker Rule runs afoul of NAFTA in arguments
presented to U.S.
Rules And Laws We Can’t Have
So we can’t tell consumers where their meat comes from
because it might hurt the profits of companies that export meat that consumers
would not want to buy. We can’t label
tuna cans as “dolphin safe” because it hurts the profits of foreign
corporations if U.S.
I’m not making
this up.
~~~
If the good Lord is willing and the creek
don't rise, I'll try to talk with you again next week or later this week. I just do the best I can.
God Bless You All
&
God Bless the United States of America
Floyd
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