The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared

Re:The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared by walterbell on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:32PM (#10364113)

Those pre-TPP cases are nothing compared to the future combined scope of TPP (Pacific), TTIP (Europe) and RCEP (China, Korea, India, and other Asian countries).

Never say there is nothing you can do. Tell other people about ISDS. Share the videos [1][2][3][4].

Jon Oliver's video [4] about the Philip Morris tobacco ISDS lawsuit against Australia (for brown paper packaging) caused such an outcry that TPP negotiators were forced to exclude the entire tobacco industry from ISDS. This is the first time such an industry-specific carve-out has appeared in a trade agreement.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZFDpuiFUs

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU

[3] https://youtube.com/watch?v=AABOIcXZZwg

[4] https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8

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Re:The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared by yrro on Saturday October 10, 2015 @05:00AM (#10364939)

Whenever I think about this for more than a passing moment I just become so scared and angry. How the fuck is a company able to take a country to court over a public health measure? Who the fuck voted for the evil bastards who made that possible? How do they fucking live with themselves?

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Re:The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared by Excavator on Saturday October 10, 2015 @07:02AM (#10365141)

The ones who listen to what they "will do", complain about what they do, then promptly forgets during the buildup to the next election.

The ones who follow "the line" and are afraid of getting ostracized by their peers.

The ones who value pocket change now over future prospects.

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Re:The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared by fapjacks on Saturday October 10, 2015 @09:50PM (#10367720)

Easy. Sociopaths. They are insect minds wrapped in human skin. Wolves in sheep's clothing if there ever was such a thing.

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