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from the secret-negotiations-are-always-good-for-the-people dept.
Apparently, Greenpeace got their hands on a version of the TTIP documents and plans to release them to the public at today, Monday 2nd of May, 11:00am (UTC+2) from Netherlands, while at the same time giving a press conference at the re:publica. While Greenpeace is apparently mainly concerned about the loss of the precautionary principle (in Europe, if a product is thought to pose a risk to the population or environment, it is prohibited until proven safe, as opposed to the US where it is permitted until proven harmful. According to Greenpeace (sorry, only in German), this is a reason that in US, 170 genetically manipulated plants are in the agricultural market, while in Europe it is only one.
While these mainly environmental concerns deserve some consideration, the more fundamental issue is that such a far-reaching contract, invalidating many of hard fought-for consumers rights in one coup and affecting half a billion people alone in Europe, is negotiated secretly. This is entirely unworthy of any democratic government system.
The documents are available for download.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 02 2016, @01:48PM
What is your recommendation?
Voting for Trump? Converting to Communism? At least in that regard, we can't expect to vote and receive a different outcome. We'd be much wiser to adopt such a methology as we couldn't be fooled in that case. We'd already know what to expect view such slogans as Votes you can recount on making hope great again or what have you as propaganda.
It doesn't seem that people really do much of anything if they have a good TV signal, though, and there is enough variety to allow them time to aimlessly channel surf just enough to not know if there is truly nothing on, or if they just missed it due to lingering too long on the other channels.
Of course, that's just a broad generalization. It seems that the youth rebels more than their elders, and the elders are more interested in observing tradition provided that they have a few comforts in life to go with it. Give me convenience or give me death!