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posted by martyb on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the fine-toothed-comb-time dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday November 06 2015, @03:38AM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Friday November 06 2015, @03:38AM (#259264)

    This is not a trade treaty, but a corporate supremacy treaty that will give corporations even more power over us. Whether there is "balance" or not is irrelevant. The most important question is this: Will it result in the further violation of our fundamental liberties and constitution? The answer is "yes", so it must be rejected in its entirety. The parts about copyright will give corporations even longer monopolies (monopolies over ideas which they should not have in the first place) and enable further government censorship, which is always bad. Patents violate private property rights and stifle competition. Pretty much every part of it is designed to give corporations massive amounts of unjust power over the rest of us.

    We must never accept something that violates our fundamental liberties and principles just because it has a few petty economical 'benefits'; freedom is what matters.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @09:50PM (#259684)

    "We must never accept something that violates our fundamental liberties and principles"

    Sorry to tell you, america has been doing that for her entire history as a country. The constitution and rule of law and the free market is myth for the masses.

    Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ [youtube.com]

    Why you can't have capitalist democracy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724 [youtube.com]

    Crisis of democracy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI [youtube.com]

    Bailouts and subsidies

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deo4W3NIYEI [youtube.com]

    The real news

    http://www.therealnews.com [therealnews.com]

    Manufacturing consent:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM [youtube.com]

    https://vimeo.com/39566117 [vimeo.com]

    You really need to bone up on your history...

    http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list [williamblum.org]

    "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
    "War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

    "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

    General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

    http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/ [amazon.com]