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The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015 and can be accessed by chapter. The text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to signature.
All 30 Chapters and all Annexes are available for download as a single .zip file.
Note: Subsequent to this story being submitted, Ars Technica published an article Obama praises Trans-Pacific Partnership accord as full text is released which notes:
The President Barack Obama administration and other countries released the entire 2,000-page Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Thursday—a proposed 12-nation pact dealing with everything from intellectual property to human rights. It took five years of secret negotiations to finalize but only a moment for Obama to praise the pact publicly.
[...] The nations in the accord include the US, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei. They represent about 40 percent of the global economy.
The article goes on to list some of the benefits (tariffs lowered or removed) and controversies (exports US copyright law regarding how long a copyright lasts to be life of author plus 70 years after death.)
So, now that the full text is out and available for review, what say you Soylentils? Does it provide a good balance for all parties involved? What are the upsides and downsides? Who are the winners and losers?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:05PM
from what i have seen, this is in response to China's rise as a super power: 'they' (the 1% and the Corporations (ie: execs who want to be a part of the 1%, or who are ruled by the 1%)) don't like that China could SCREW them all: lots of people, little in the way of environmental standards or caring for 'human rights' or 'people need to be able to afford to eat/live/not die a retched fecking life'.
Corporations have too much power as it is: too many part-time jobs, too few full time/good pay jobs. and it is just going to get worse under the TPP.
When the Canadian Federal elections were held, i figured 'it won't impact me, so why not vote not liberal' (feck you if you think i would vote Harper, y'all)'. Then the liberals got a majority, and i thought, 'whelp, it won't really affect me, so, feck it'.
Now the TPP comes, and i think "WE'RE SURROUNDED BY NAZI'S", and who will stand up for ME?!?!
Well, feck it: I will stand up for me and say NO to TPP, NO to 1% greed, and NO to corporations needing too make MORE THAN a few hundred million/billion in profits (cut your hours/feck people as non-objects)...
I am going to start writing MP's. If Trudeau won't do what is right, he will go the way of Harper.
ICH BIN ENIN MENSCHLICHES LEBEN!!! (HEIL SNOWDEN!!!)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:56PM
And you'll continue to say "NO" while they fuck you in more ways than you'd ever imagined possible.
The only way for anything to change is for roughly 7 billion people to say no. Don't hold your breath.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 06 2015, @01:31AM
Heh. Exactly right.
They'll bitch about it on Facebook and Twitter, but they won't do a goddamn thing else about it.
Zuckerburg will laugh all the way to the bank as almost the entire fucking population of the world trades their rights, standards of living, and dignity for a little vanity.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday November 06 2015, @12:39PM
>The only way for anything to change is for roughly 7 billion people to say no
this is the one-liner explaining the push for the NWO.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @12:50AM
This is actually in 'response' to USA's declining power as the corporations have leeched it dry and are moving abroad to suck the life out of the rest of the world. Lazay Faire capitalism at it's apex. China is smarter than that; the TPP is already screwing us all and they are already powerful enough to not need the USA & it's last desperate grabs for it's receding power. The TPP follows the script of PNAC, though they are blind to the impending failure of the USA and the TPP will only succeed in pulling the rest of us down as the USA slides into poverty, chaos, and fascism. The bigger they are, they harder they fall; there is no economy bigger than the USA. Their fall will be a real doozy and they will do their best to insure the whole world pays for it. Interesting times, indeed.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @02:09AM
Silicon Valley is over. At this point it still innovative in some parts of software. But most of the really crazy things that SV used to do has long ago moved to china. You can look no further than Alibaba and see that. They give two figs about intellectual property. They are busy hardware bending as fast as they can to knock off 2k of something oddball. Then move onto the next oddball thing. Meanwhile SV is busy look at itself trying to figure out how to 'make unicorns'. Instead of building things people want. They are busy aping hollywood in trying to protect its walled gardens it is quickly building. China is the center of innovation on this planet. Their quality is for shit but then so was japan at one point...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:20PM
Now the TPP comes, and i think "WE'RE SURROUNDED BY NAZI'S", and who will stand up for ME?!?!
Well, if you were surrounded by real "Nazis" they would be standing up for you. That's the truth. Germany's National Socialists fought against the International Bankers, Banning secret societies / clubs, and unjust "reparations". And in just a few short years your surroundings would have gone from a destitute slum to a world power capable of nearly winning the fight against global bankers and communism. This is why "Nazis" can never be allowed to rise again: They are the ones that value the common man rather than the "1%". Anyone can see this if they just ignored the ridiculous anti-Nazi propaganda, and took another look at WWII. [youtube.com]
Of course most will simply believe bullshit like: "Nazis were evil, they wanted to exterminate Jews", while ignoring they just wanted to exile the subversive element which was dominating the news, radio and film media, owners of international banks which bankrupted the people, declared economic War on Germany before any aggression was taken by Germany, boycotted Germany to destroy its economy in violation of international treaties, were the leaders of the Bolshevik (communist) Revolution, and who attempted treasonous revolts against Germany itself. Unfortunately, when the allies destroyed the supply lines near the end of the war the ongoring Typhus epidemic went wild and people in concentration work camps starved -- just like the rest of Germany.
Typhus was so bad that delousing was mandatory when crossing into some areas of Germany. Everyone had to be shorn and deloused in concentration camps to prevent deaths from typhus. The delousing agent Zyklon-B
was used to gas clothing, not people. This you can see in the blue residue the agent left on the walls of the small delousing chambers, but NOT even in trace amounts on the walls of "gas chambers" in Auschwitz or other "death camps" (as claimed by the owners of western media).
But hey, it's not your fault all you know is propaganda spewed by companies controlled and owned by international bankers and communists. Everyone knows the winners of the war rewrite the history of events in their favor. Oh, but except when it comes to National Socialist Germany and WWII? Yeah right, don't be a fool. Hey, you know what? During and after the Bolshevik Revolution 12 to 20 million Christians were executed. Now that's a Double or Triple "Holocaust"! But, you don't see tear jerking movies about in Hollywood.... huh, I wonder why? Just read the names in the credits of all the films and find the incredibly significant statistical commonality.
Wise up. Hitler had Blacks and Jews willingly fighting on his side. National and Ethnic pride was not to be exclusive to Germans, under National Socialism all peoples should embrace their family, culture, and heritage -- not erase their culture via massive foreign immigration as you see today. Interestingly, replacement of a culture via immigration is also officially classified as Genocide by the UN and NATO, but you won't hear anyone in the Mainstream Media citing this and saying that making ethnic Europeans the minority in Europe is literally a genocide. "Nazi" was a slur invented by the west. National Socialism is vilified so fiercely because it's the only system proven to win against the "1%" you wish to fight against. Look into who owns the establishment. Protip: The Rothschild family is Jewish. I don't hate Jews, and neither did Hitler. But what National Socialists did hate was the vile teachings of the Talmud. If you read the Talmud you will also realize what Hitler did: The Jewish religion incites its followers to lie to, subvert, hate and eradicate the "goyim" (non Jewish people), who are to be treated as cattle.
Indeed, you're being farmed. You're afraid of "Nazis", because they would be your ally. This is PSYOP 101.