Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP): Abolishing Free Speech. And That’s Just The Beginning
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP): Abolishing Free Speech. And That’s Just The Beginning
October 5, 2015
Buried within mainstream news about Kim Kardashian’s sizable ass, Bruce Jenner’s sex change and the strange sex rites of Warren Jeff’s “church” is a blurb about the signing of a highly secretive international agreement that, on the outside, marks the largest-ever trade accord in history and promises to promote free trade among the 12 signatory nations, including Japan and the US. And, buried within this lengthy agreement, is a chapter on intellectual property (IP). Logical, yes, given each nation has a stake in maintaining control over and protection of its citizens’ IP rights. “Citizens” includes multinational corporations. That there is so much secrecy surrounding this agreement is, in itself, cause for alarm, not to mention the total lack of transparency with global citizens. Read the rest
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)?
According to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), “The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new, high-standard trade agreement that levels the playing field for American workers and American businesses, supporting more Made-in-America exports and higher-paying American jobs. By eliminating over 18,000 taxes—in the form of tariffs—that various countries put on Made-in-America products, TPP makes sure our farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and small businesses can compete—and win—in some of the fastest-growing markets in the world. With more than 95 percent of the world’s consumers living outside our borders, TPP will significantly expand the export of Made-in-America goods and services and support American jobs.”
The USTR further states, “The rules of the road are up for grabs in Asia. If we don’t pass this agreement and write those rules, competitors will set weak rules of the road, threatening American jobs and workers while undermining U.S. leadership in Asia.”
Sounds impressive. If you wish to read more from the horse’s mouth, please visit the USTR’s website. You can also download a “fact sheet” on the US’s overall benefits.
Why should the TPP and the chapter on IP concern you?
Like nearly all international agreements, the TPP contains hidden material that enhances deleterious laws to, and further restricts protective laws for, citizens of most if not all countries. The ramifications are too numerous to explore in this short article, but the vast majority of them are indeed harmful to Americans and to all citizens across the globe. The TPP paves the way for abolishment of free speech, severely restricted access to knowledge and learning, accelerated build-up of the police state, among many other actions.
The IP chapter alone is cause for concern. Specific and interpretive wording suggests that it will severely restrict users’ right to privacy, freedom of speech and due process, plus further restrict the ability of ordinary citizens to create and innovate all manner of intellectual property like books, magazines, journals, diaries, art of all forms, mechanical inventions, etc.
The TPP also further protects and enhances the copyrights of multinational corporations like Monsanto, which engages in illegal and predatory behavior against all independent farmers in the US and in many countries where Monsanto pushes and forces its poisonous products.
In the US, the IP provisions alone will now restrict access to generic medicines, because the copyrights (and all IP rights) of those comparable medicines designed and sold by pharmaceutical companies will be extended for decades.
Clearly, the agreement favors the US and its predatory multinational corporations, some of which will be legally free to push guns, GMO products, harmful medicines, etc. on other countries. All this without restrictions.
The TPP’s intellectual property chapter also orders each nation to pass highly restrictive laws that support the TPP’s international laws and meets all requirements of those laws.
If you did not before believe that the Jesuits are actively building a mononation with only one highly restrictive government, then perhaps you will wake up to it now. These international agreements and their attendant laws force all nations not only to comply but also to re-write their own laws that previously were designed, at least in some small measure, to protect their own citizens.
Wording in the TPP calls for strict enforcement of all of these laws, both internationally and within each nation. It also orders penalties for those who violate the copyright(s) of others, including multinational corporations. This means that any whistleblower accessing sensitive or restricted documents or materials and placing them on the Internet in any form is subject to harsh punishment. Those who disseminate via the Internet any disparaging words against a government or multinational corporation may be punished, and their domain(s) seized and taken down.
A person’s internet service provider (ISP) soon will be ordered to provide all means of identity of any whistleblower or other citizen who violates these laws. Before, ISPs were immune to prosecution. Now, with the TPP in place, ISPs will no longer operate under the protection of certain laws.
A ripple effect of the TPP will be loss of jobs in the US, because it will become much cheaper to produce the same goods overseas. This has been happening for 60 years, with US manufacturing jobs going overseas, mostly to China. The TPP will greatly accelerate this trend and further depress the US job market as it has with the passage of NAFTA in 1994.
As suggested above, the TPP is a trojan horse, the contents of which will be revealed over time. We are just beginning to see the advance party, and it is not friendly.
The effects on ordinary citizens?
A double-barrel shot to the head: the TPP’s international subjugation of our right to free speech, for one; and the US’s enacting new and more-restrictive laws that make it difficult, if not impossible, for people to speak out against the US government or any of its agents, and to produce any product that competes with those of multinational corporations.
The TPP also highly restricts ordinary citizens’ access to free knowledge and information on the Internet. No longer will you be able to access certain documents and materials that reveal negative information about a government, corporation, religious organization, or individual. File-sharing, even for personal use, also will be a thing of the past. Powerful people, especially those in the limelight, will soon have the option of having all information about them permanently deleted from the Internet.
Imagine not being able to do personal research about your government, Monsanto and other multinational corporations, members of Congress, etc. You will be in the dark on all matters except those in mainstream media, which is completely controlled by these same high powers.
If history tells us anything, it is this: ordinary citizens almost always allow the powers that be to do evil against them, either through sheer ignorance and stupidity, laziness and apathy, or outright complicity.
What you can do now
I’ve been an outspoken critic of all members of the US Congress, because the the US government is under the strict control of the Jesuits. Therefore, while it is now appears fruitless to fight the Jesuits, there are ways to slow them down: call and write ALL members of Congress and order them not to further support the TPP or any of its measures.
In the past, the voice of the people has successfully stifled the efforts of the Jesuits. Unfortunately, the Jesuits always continue their own fight and, little by little, eventually get their way. Most of the time.
Still, it feels good to slow them down and make these bastards have to work harder, spend more money, devote more time, and expend more energy to reach their goals.
When more and more ordinary citizens take up the fight against TPP and all other international agreements and treaties, and fight the powers behind them, momentum builds, however slowly, we see positive results on several fronts, and the progress of courageous ordinary citizens empowers us all.
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Why has the Obama administration kept the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement text secret from Congress and the American people? A newly leaked TPP chapter reveals at least one huge reason: The TPP text proposes creating tribunals (courts) that could overrule the decisions of our state and federal courts, as well as our local, state and federal laws — and our state and national constitutions.
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