The Secret Global Court – Why Corporate Criminals and Corrupt Politicians Desperately Want the TPP

desultoryheroics.com ^ | 9/15/16 | Michael Krieger

[cotton1706]

Obama needs to ensure he gets well compensated after leaving office for a job well done protecting, defending and further enriching the global oligarch class. This is precisely why he’s so adamant about passing the TPP during the upcoming lame duck session of Congress, when he knows “representatives” who no longer face reelection can be coerced or bribed into voting for this monumental public betrayal.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ins’t really a free trade deal, it’s a way for global oligarchs to consolidate, grow and protect their enormous wealth. The investor-state dispute settlement system (ISDS) is perhaps the most nefarious and objectionable aspect of the deal, with this shadowy court system being used to accomplish the following for the super rich and powerful:

1) Eliminate sovereign risk from their investments.

2) Earn money by scouring the world for potential ISDS “opportunities” and then speculating on them.

3) Escape prosecution from criminality on a global basis.

The whole thing is absolutely disgusting and epitomizes all that is wrong and unethical about the world today. As such, stopping the TPP from passage is probably the most important near-term challenge ahead for all of us who want to make the world a better place (or at least prevent it from getting much, much worse).

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

1) Eliminate sovereign risk from their investments.

2) Earn money by scouring the world for potential ISDS “opportunities” and then speculating on them.

3) Escape prosecution from criminality on a global basis.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Creepy.

Adding this to the Digging Deep archive:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2636478/posts?page=2210

[spirited irish]

bookmark

[Pearls Before Swine]

True, but on the other hand, some form of international business court would have prevented Ecuador from trying to steal 10 to 20 billion dollars from Chevron on the basis of false testimony in a kangaroo court.

The confiscation was only stopped when a US Court, asked to review and either enforce it or tell Chevron (who had left Ecuador) that it was OK to ignore it, decided it was a setup job.

[Lurkinanloomin]

If they pass TPP during the lame duck session, every one of the weasels who vote for it must be removed from office ASAP.

They are traitors to the citizens and American sovereignty.

[Wolfie]

It’s already here under.NAFTA. An American company sued (and won) a Mexican town when the locals objected to having their water supply polluted.

[Liz]

Hillary's onboard TPP b/c Obama considers TPP central to his presidential legacy and to his foreign policy and economic legacies.

No 'conservative' in their right mind would ever vote for TPP----which has horrendous consequences for American workers. (the duplicitous Cruz voted for TPA---to fast track TPP for Obama.)

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TPP is best understood against the backdrop of the "get-rich-quick" mantra;
of Obama's post-presidential get-rich-quick foundation plans ala the Clintons.

NOW ISN'T THIS INTERESTING? few, if any, of the RCEP and
TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int'l insider business deals.

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama's trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama's two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of). Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations.

All of Obama's thinly-veiled actions....

(1) promoting TPA and TPP,

(2) his immigration suck-ups

(3) his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN....

.....are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future get-rich-quick plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two get-rich-quick Foundations (two foundations that we know of).

All these entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in-wait for his share: foreign donations, lucrative insider trade deals from untapped resources, energy deals, telecom deals, arms sales, consultancies, million dollar honorarium...and so on and so forth.

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WIKI REFERENCE: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012.

[circlecity]

TPP will be the final nail in the coffin of the American middle class.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Now this thread has some meat on the bones. Great work as always!

[Whenifhow]

PING!!!

Article and comments, esp #8

NOW ISN’T THIS INTERESTING? few, if any, of the RCEP and
TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int’l insider business deals.

THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama’s trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama’s two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of). Obama’s priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations.

Thanks, cotton1706, Liz

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int’l insider business deals.”

You NAILED it !