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Leaked details of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, published today by WikiLeaks, reveal that the futures of publicly owned enterprises such as Australia Post, the ABC, SBS and state power utilities may be on the negotiating table in secret talks under way in Hawaii this week.
WikiLeaks has published previously unknown details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations relating to the treatment of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) publicly owned corporations that do not operate along strictly commercial lines and deliver benefits to the community as a whole.
The confidential leaked text, titled "SOE Issues for Ministerial Guidance", reveals for the first time that TPP negotiators have been considering proposed rules, pushed strongly by the United States, that would impose additional disciplines on the commercial activities of SOEs and that these would go beyond existing obligations under World Trade Organisation rules and other free trade agreements.
The text states that most TPP countries have supported such an approach, which would include new obligations to ensure state-owned enterprises act on the basis of commercial considerations, comply with the non-discriminatory provisions of the TPP, and are accorded no special regulatory treatment by governments while being subject to increased scrutiny from commercial competitors.
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2015/07/30/tpp-negotiations-threaten-forcibly-commercialise-state-owned-bodies
arcane1
(38,613 posts)That seems like a rather potent statement.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)dipshits.
djean111
(14,255 posts)connected in any with with these trade agreements.
erronis
(15,303 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)Bernie, not supporting DINOs, not supporting anyone who belongs to the New Democrat Coalition (national and Congressional versions), not consider an Obama endorsement a plus.
Is it better to be an aware sheep or a blissful, unaware, flag-waving sheep? Ay, there's the rub.
But - the Fast Track and Trade agreements will determine my voting from now on. Even though, as you say truthfully, this country is being run by $$$$$$s.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)officials sought to take credit for the SOE provisions, telling another newspaper that the TPP in part designed to make it harder for the kind of state-owned enterprises that dominate China's external investment profile. One rule is that governments can't give SOEs benefits that allow them to undercut the market, a source reportedly close to the negotiations said."
More fearmongering.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)and the Koch Bros. before they sue taxpayers' pants off, and be done with it.
Thanks Obama.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)play houses, the White House can't start producing the same/similar product and impose a special tax on the Australian company that prices its product out of the market. That's the way I read this latest line of fear mongering, but we'll wait and see.
msongs
(67,420 posts)appears to be the only possibility unless some civic minded entity can come up with a copy of all this and post it on the internet. otherwise, corporate mission accomplished
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Fortunately, we'll all get to see it before Congress even starts considering it. My bet is, about 95% of the people complaining, still won't read it.
I agree that the same could be said about me. But, I just don't believe Obama and the TPP are part of some grand scheme to enslave us all.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)So he must be our friend after all? Hmmm....
MisterP
(23,730 posts)they admitted this within a few months
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)I would, Once again the facts that do come out about the TPP show how bad this "Deal" is, It cannot be allowed to go through, For oh so many reasons!
George II
(67,782 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,660 posts)Most of the area has public natural gas too.
K&R!
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)should not be dictated by corporations.
I don't give a shit what color lip stick they put on this pig. TPP is a piece of shit designed to freeze the public out of any input into the legislative process.
Just fucking NO.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Every call you make to your Reps, Sens and WH is worth 4,000 constituents voices, so call.
Whitehouse Comments: 202-456-1111
United States Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)both in the private sector and politicians who have friends in high places...
want this fast-tracked and passed as soon as possible. Because as we all know once passed, there may be some even large demonstrations, a lot of long threads on DU, Daily Kos, HP, and even a few Libertarian Bagger sites.
But after a couple/few years, after numerous news cycles, some much more "sexy". Some new war, mass shootings, Kim and Kenye get divorced....and with the corporate news doing its best never to mention the deal-that-shall-never-be-named, ignoring the scattered and dwindling tpp specific protests....Life will go on, and, like the new unimpeded fracking opening up everywhere thanks to this deal, it will all happen mostly out of sight, underground, slowly stripping rights, health, and wages from the average worker in all the countries that signed on. And that will eventually become the new normal. Its worked time and time again. No reason for them to think it won't work again.
We have to stop this.