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polly7

(20,582 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 10:39 PM Jun 2015

What Drives Governments to Keep TISA, TPP and TTIP Secret?

By Joe Emersberger
Source: teleSUR English
June 12, 2015

On this web page, the Canadian government asks if we are “Looking for a brief recap of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating rounds? “

This is a representative sample of what it offers to explain two years worth negotiations since Canada joined other governments in writing the TPP:

“Among the topics discussed in Washington were legal and institutional issues, textiles, rules of origin, state-owned enterprises, environment, goods market access, technical barriers to trade, and e-commerce.”

Feel better informed?

They might as well have said “we talked about a lot of stuff” and left it at that.

Here is something way more informative to read: a list of the 605 (overwhelmingly corporate) official “advisers” in the USA who have seen, and helped write, the TPP.


Full article: https://zcomm.org/zcommentary/what-drives-governments-to-keep-tisa-tpp-and-ttip-secret/
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What Drives Governments to Keep TISA, TPP and TTIP Secret? (Original Post) polly7 Jun 2015 OP
Simple DustyJoe Jun 2015 #1
Bribes? dflprincess Jun 2015 #2
corporations write these things their way and their stooges pass them by voting nt msongs Jun 2015 #3
Yes, all of the above. nt. polly7 Jun 2015 #4
One word DJ13 Jun 2015 #5
easy money has a very strong appeal ...nt quadrature Jun 2015 #6
K&R. Mr_Jefferson_24 Jun 2015 #7

DustyJoe

(849 posts)
1. Simple
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 10:46 PM
Jun 2015

MONEY to the worlds corporations.

which the pols passing these bills will get their cut after they leave office
via lucrative job opportunities, high paying speech making and just open graft.

Money is the root, the vehicle, the driving force behind these mega 'agreements' among the elite.

of course this is all IMO

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