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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 52771 06-14-2012 03:34 AM

Leaked Documents Reveal Obama Regime Intends to Give Radical New Powers to Multinational Corporations

June 13th, 2012

Via: Huffington Post:

A critical document from President Barack Obama’s free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.

The leaked document has been posted on the website of Public Citizen, a long-time critic of the administration’s trade objectives. The new leak follows substantial controversy surrounding the secrecy of the talks, in which some members of Congress have complained they are not being given the same access to trade documents that corporate officials receive.

“The outrageous stuff in this leaked text may well be why U.S. trade officials have been so extremely secretive about these past two years of [trade] negotiations,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch in a written statement.

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The newly leaked document is one of the most controversial of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. It addresses a broad sweep of regulations governing international investment and reveals the Obama administration’s advocacy for policies that environmental activists, financial reform advocates and labor unions have long rejected for eroding key protections currently in domestic laws.

Under the agreement currently being advocated by the Obama administration, American corporations would continue to be subject to domestic laws and regulations on the environment, banking and other issues. But foreign corporations operating within the U.S. would be permitted to appeal key American legal or regulatory rulings to an international tribunal. That international tribunal would be granted the power to overrule American law and impose trade sanctions on the United States for failing to abide by its rulings.

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 102123 06-14-2012 03:40 AM

If corporations are people, their logic could extend to foreign people using international tribunals to enforce laws here. Sharia law, for instance.

That being said, I'll believe that corporations are people, when Texas executes one. (Stolen from another LOP poster).

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101787 06-14-2012 03:43 AM

was just reading about this
talk about f*cked up
but, he pretty much gave BP a pass on the gulf disaster
so am not surprised

doomed

~~SoSayWeAll~~ · **~~SoSayWeAll~~** Banned User ID: 16731 06-14-2012 03:49 AM **Posts: 7,267**

LoP Guest Wrote:

If corporations are people, their logic could extend to foreign people using international tribunals to enforce laws here. Sharia law, for instance.

That being said, I'll believe that corporations are people, when Texas executes one. (Stolen from another LOP poster).

Mmm what a concept!

I like it!

And I can think of more than a few VERY deserving recipients of that fate...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 102199 06-14-2012 03:56 AM

obama is a thousand times worse than bush and yet there are goons that have their head so deep up his ass they can't see.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 61359 06-14-2012 03:58 AM

I wipe my ass with obama toilet paper everyday.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101238 06-14-2012 04:02 AM

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**Currahee**

Walmart for President 2016

rolleyes

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 52771 06-14-2012 04:29 AM

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89915 06-14-2012 04:51 AM

Liberals don't care and Romney would and will do the exact same thing.

We no longer have a Goverenment. Stop paying taxes and stop participating in their system. Anon

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a forthcoming U.S. trade agreement that looks to solidify a seamless regional economy in the Pacific-rim, would give multinational corporations the power to challenge and even avoid compliance with laws in member countries — including the U.S. — provided a super-national corporate tribunal agrees with their claim.

That’s according to documents leaked this week by the Citizens Trade Campaign, an activist group responsible for leaking TPP proposals on intellectual property last year. The latest leak details a TPP draft chapter on “investments,” which proposes an independent dispute arbitration process that would be empowered to supersede domestic laws or regulatory actions in member states if they are seen as conflicting with the TPP’s framework.

Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said Wednesday that it “has verified that the text is authentic,” and described the proposals as being fraught with “dangers.”

“It reveals that negotiators already have agreed to many radical terms granting expansive new rights and privileges for foreign investors and their private corporate enforcement through extra-judicial ‘investor-state’ tribunals,” they explained.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/13/u-...um=twitter

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89915 06-14-2012 04:57 AM

We are slaves.

doomed

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 60130 06-14-2012 07:09 PM

**Everyone**

Currahee Wrote:

Walmart for President 2016

This would destroy their anonymity.
Why would an actual power want to be a figurehead?