Evangel

UNITED NATIONS – The Obama administration’s release Thursday of the more than 2,000 pages of the text of the T***s-Pacific Partnership agreement, known more commonly as Obamatrade, has prompted a rash of criticism from both the political left and the right.



Critics charge the pact undermines U.S. sovereignty by establishing a secret, unaccountable T***sPacific Partnership Commission with sweeping regulatory powers over 40 percent of the world’s economy while sending jobs abroad.

“This trade agreement would allow foreign corporations to challenge our health, safety and environmental protections in a foreign tribunal outside our legal system, and it would weaken those bedrock safeguards in the United States,” said Jake Schmidt, international program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “While there are some positive conservation measures, the agreement’s substantial shortcomings should lead Congress to reject it.”

Chapter 28 of the TPP agreement, titled “Dispute Settlement,” specifies that trade disputes will be adjudicated by a three-person panel in accordance with international law, including any World Trade Organization obligations that have been written into the various sections of the TPP agreement.


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/obamatrade-condemned-by-both-left-right/#6b3gRhUpTz83lgbf.99

CowboyMilt

It's about time our cowardly congress stands up to this F**E dictator & Fight for the rights of WE THE PEOPLE...The F**E has to GO!

robmull Loc: florida

I believe our Congress, Cowboy, is doing EXACTLY what our Founding Founders, and the "hand of divinity" expected when our America was being formed. No matter who's the "commander," our direction will only change a little to the "left," or a little bit to the "right," no matter how many "executive orders" are projectile vomited to corrupt the system!!!

erniebanks14

Congress saying they will fight for us is one thing but them actually doing it is another thing. So far they have not shown any signs of helping us and they will probably cave to this bill too. But as I understand it he is not even trying to get approval so what happens then? The people in Congress will complain a little and Obama will institute it anyway.

zillaorange

sorry Cowboy, when he leaves the White House, he's headed straight to the u.n. ! maybe he'll leave when Americans wake up & throw the N.W.O. organization out of the U.S. ship em all off to Syria !!!

DamnYANKEE

YES HE DOES . To Prison . Then the GALLOWS for FRAUD and TREASON :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

I trust that all you guys do understand that the TPP agreement was/is a GOP plan and when Obama supported it, he became a t*****r to the Democrat party and most of the v**ers who put him in office..

He had nothing to do with designing the TPP.

Evangel

How Senator Sessions Exposed the T***h about TPP

Breitbart has written two articles on Sessions’ revelations. In “Critical Alert: Jeff Sessions Warns America Against Potentially Disastrous Obama Trade Deal,” they report:

“’Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret,’ Sessions’ team writes in a document that lays out the top five concerns with the Obama trade deal. ‘It must improve the quality of life, the earnings, and the per-capita wealth of everyday working Americans. The sustained long-term loss of middle class jobs and incomes should compel all lawmakers to apply added scrutiny to a ‘fast-track’ procedure wherein Congress would yield its legislative powers and allow the White House to implement one of largest global financial agreements in our history—comprising at least 12 nations and nearly 40 percent of the world’s GDP.’ . . .

“The Sessions document then goes point-by-point for five full pages through the TPA trade deal, laying out why it wouldn’t help Americans—rather, it would likely hurt American workers—and why the deal doesn’t in fact provide Congress with more power over trade despite talking points from the Obama trade deal’s proponents . . .”

The second article in Breitbart, “Only Two Republicans Admit They Have Actually Read Secret Obama Trade Deal – Both Unsupportive” reports on a survey they did of Senate Republicans where they asked three questions: (1) Have you read the TPP, specifically the ‘living agreement’ in the trade deal that allows the deal to be changed and countries added without congressional review? (2) Does the Senator agree with Sen. Sessions’ call to make the TPP available to the public? And, (3) Will the Senator v**e for fast track Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) if the TPP hasn’t been stripped of the ‘living agreement’ section that would allow countries to amend the deal without Congressional approval, and to even add countries (like China, if they wanted to) to the deal without Congressional approval?

Breitbart reports that one additional Senator, James Lankford (R-OK) was scheduled to read the TPP on Friday, May 16. Interestingly, the Oklahoma legislature recently passed a resolution urging their federal representatives to v**e against fast track trade authority.

While the US Trade Representative has threatened members of Congress with criminal prosecution for telling others what is in the TPP, they have made no threat to Senator Sessions. No doubt if they did so, fast track and the TPP would be dead because the years of work by the Obama administration to move this forward in secret would be over, and as the first trade representative in the Obama administration, Ambassador Ron Kirk, told the media “if the American people knew what was in this agreement it would never become law.”

The T***h About Trade is Needed Right Now

We are in the critical phase of debate about the T***s-Pacific Partnership and other r****d corporate trade agreements. While Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) has promised to publish all bills before they are v**ed on, he has not even read the TPP and definitely has not required it be made public. While the fast track bill can be read, the TPP is different; elected officials have limited access to it and they are not allowed to discuss what they read. So, the Congress is tying its hands on the TPP and other deals, without knowing what is in them and thereby shirking their constitutional responsibility under the Commerce Clause which directs Congress “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.”

Now, it becomes even more important because President Obama has repeatedly chided members of Congress for being inaccurate about what is in the TPP, even comparing Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to Sarah Palin talking about death panels. He makes the claim that Congress does not know what it is talking about while keeping the agreement secret and difficult for elected officials and their staff to read. On top of that Obama and his administration consistently put out false and misleading statements about the agreement. One wonders, and I hope the media begins to ask him, whether President Obama has read the agreement? As Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) said in response: “We know exactly what we’re talking about. My concern is that he does not understand what’s in it.”

Obama criticized Warren for claiming that the TPP would undermine federal regulation of banks. If the language of the TPP were released we could see if he is accurate. But, after their argument on this issue, Canadian Finance Minister, Joe Oliver, bolstered Warren’s position by claiming that banking regulation that requires banks to invest with only their own money violates NAFTA.

The president has claimed that his deals are the most progressive trade agreements ever and fix the problems of NAFTA “by making labor and environmental provisions actually enforceable.” Yet, a leak of the environmental chapter actually shows the opposite – there is no environmental enforcement and the protections are weaker than agreements during the George W. Bush era.

The president also makes the claim that “no trade agreement is going to force us to change our laws.” This is an outrageous claim because all previous trade agreements have required the US to harmonize its laws with the agreement. How can they not? The TPP, according to leaks, changes laws around patents and trademarks. How can the TPP say one thing about intellectual property and US law say another? They must be harmonized. Elected officials who have read the text can explain differences between US law and the TPP – what laws will have to change? For example will popular laws favoring buying American products survive the TPP? The Finance Committee refused to approve an amendment that would protect Buy America.

Certainly President Obama knows that his Organizing For America is being completely misleading when in an email: “argued that the term ‘fast track’ for TPA was a misnomer because TPA would have to go through Congress like any other bill.” OFA and Obama know the debate is not whether fast track has to go through Congress in the normal fashion but whether trade agreements will be fast tracked. Why would the president and OFA be so obviously misleading? Are they desperate?

Ralph Nader has suggested that President Obama debate Senator Warren on the TPP. This would be one way to get to the t***h, hear both sides debate in public so we can all decide for ourselves whether this is an agreement that should be fast tracked through Congress outside of the traditional congressional process. But a president that has worked for his entire tenure in office to keep the TPP and other r****d agreements out of the public dialogue will certainly not take up this suggestion.

Congress Is In Position to Expose the TPP

Now, at this key moment in the debate, members of Congress who have taken the time to view the TPP are in a position to get out the t***h.

The debate in the Senate with its open amendment process is an opportunity to tell the t***h about all the issues in the TPP so there can finally be a public debate about trade agreements that will impact every aspect of our lives.

In the House, Republicans should be sharing the comments of Senator Sessions for a solid Republican critique of fast track for the TPP and other agreements. Democrats should be highlighting key senate amendments to their caucus to highlight shortcomings. And those who have read the TPP should share what they learned in order to strengthen opposition to fast track in the face of what will be a massive Obama effort to change their minds.

Those who oppose the TPP have the tools needed to win this debate, stop fast track and stop the TPP and other r****d agreements. If we succeed, we will have the opportunity to rethink global trade in light of two decades of experience with a failed model. It will be an opportunity to develop trade so that it protects the planet and raises the standard of living for people around the world. To achieve that opportunity, the first task is to expose the t***h of what is before us.

Kevin Zeese is co-director of Popular Resistance.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Evangel,

I think this is an old article. At least a lot sounds as if I read it before.

The TPA was passed months ago and I was told that fast with passage of the fast tracking bill, that the TPP was effectively a done deal given the ability to move fast through congress.

It has bothered me no end that while it seems everyone, both parties, appose the TPP, the damn thing will not go away.

As I was clicking my way to OPP, I saw my e-mail has a headline that the TPP has been released and now can be read. I am going to follow up and see what kind of summation has been printed...

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

A link that may be useful....





http://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/t***s-pacific-partnership/tpp-full-text

Sicilianthing

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It's already passed by the Clown in Congress unconstitutionally... so who and how is it going to be reversed, erased ?

WTF ?

Sicilianthing

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It's already passed by the Clown in Congress unconstitutionally... so who and how is it going to be reversed, erased ?

WTF ?

Evangel

One rule, however, does require the Obama administration to give Congress at least 90 days notice from when negotiations are completed to when it signs the pact and submits implementing legislation to Congress for a v**e. That means the TPP can’t be considered by Congress until the first months of 2016 at the earliest — the heart of p**********l e******n season.

Already candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley have spoken out against the TPP on the Democratic side. Just as significantly, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Rand Paul have done so on the Republican side. This, coupled with the fact that it’s also a congressional e******n year, may change the political calculus on the pact.

Fast track just squeaked through the House of Representatives by a 218–208 v**e. With e******n year accountability politics, and potentially with access to actual TPP texts this time around, the broad, cross-sector coalition opposed to the pact has a better than expected shot of stopping it. The key will be making the TPP as politically toxic as possible over the weeks and months to come.

Sicilianthing

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I'll believe this when I see it...

Otherwise prepare for WAR !

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Then who designed it? Simply saying it a "GOP plan" without providing supporting information has no validity.

I will admit I had not even heard of it till the president started pushing it.