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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: 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.
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