Posted on 10/10/2015 3:33:10 PM PDT by Javeth
The TPP, like many treaties before it, embraces the Investor-State Dispute Settlement process (ISDS), which allows corporate actors to sue sovereign nations to seek compensation for rules or regulations that impede the corporation’s ability to maximize profits. Unlike national courts that commonly allow corporations to sue to recoup actual investments, ISDS insists that corporations be compensated for expected profits, sometimes profits they anticipate decades into the future.
The ISDS process is one-sided and undemocratic. Corporate claims against sovereign states are heard in special courts overseen by a handful of judges, most of whom are corporate lawyers. Once the ISDS panel issues a decision, it cannot be appealed.
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The basis of Obama's "super-amnesty" plans is a specific portion of the TPP clauses called ISDS, or the investor-state dispute settlement system, which is what the US negotiators fought the hardest for. The original interpretation of the ISDS (pre-TPP) was common-sense enough-- investors would have to be compensated for expropriated property. But the newer version of the ISDS clauses is outrageously broad and goes far beyond what's in NAFTA or the other treaties, allowing plaintiffs to override national sovereignty and a nation's basic laws-- including its core border controls-- if the plaintiff claims that the nation's laws are eating into its "operations" broadly defined.
Here's the basic core of the matter. We can all recall crony-capitalists, open-borders enthusiasts and GOPe bootlickers like George Soros, Sheldon Adelson, Bill Gates, factory farms recruiting illegals, Mark Zuckerberg, Carly Fiorina (yes, Carly is one of the globalists) and the Chamber of Commerce, whining that their "operations" are being harmed by US laws securing the border and stemming the flow of H1b workers. Under those ISDS portions of the TPP, they would be able to successfully sue to shut down US border control and H1b laws, creating an effectively open-border system.
Remember that Obama tried to gut the US border and Constitution with the 2013 immigration bill (with the treasonous help of several traitorous RINOs like MCCain, Rubio, Graham, Ayotte, Hatch, Collins, Kirk, Flake, Corker and Hoeven), but failed when the House rejected his bid. Then Obama made a brazenly tyrannical move by trying to force open the borders through executive order, but again he was frustrated this time by the courts. Obama desperately wants this for his pathetic "legacy" and the failure of his open-borders agenda represents his biggest disappointment of his entire Presidency so far. (Regrettably even Ted Cruz has tried to help Obama out by pushing for big increases in the H1b visa figures-- a shame because we used to support him but now he's permanently lost our votes with this betrayal.)
So now comes the TPP, Obama's third and most atrocious attempt to force his open-borders globalist agenda on the United States, destroying the country and shredding the Constitution.The ISDS courts created by the TPP would be decided by arbitrators with an outrageous amount of power, enough to strike down basic US federal and state laws on border control and national sovereignty, if they are claimed to interfere with the corrupt operations of Adelson, Zuckerberg or the Chamber of Commerce. And the people would have no power to appeal the decisions made by the ISDS arbitrators against US laws.
And it gets even worse, since the ISDS is also structured to be most favorable (both for bringing the lawsuits and staffing the arbitrators) to the crony capitalists already in bed with the Obama Administration. Many retail outlets for example tried to push against both the open carry and concealed carry laws on the books in several states, making the dumb claims that gun ownership was scaring customers away. The states, of course, told these outlets to go suck it up-- our gun rights are protected by the Constitution itself, and thus a bit of inconvenience for the retailers, restaurants and other complaining outlets is no excuse to infringe upon the people's right to bear arms. But the TPP ISDS system would finally give these gun-grabbers the excuse they've been salivating over to override the state laws and the Constitution itself to ban gun ownership-- with the power the ISDS courts have and their mandate to strike down statutes inconveniencing the businesses of crony capitalists, not even the Constitution or US sovereignty would protect our basic rights anymore. The same goes for Obama's green-tech buddies in Solyndra and other failed companies, which would have the power to sue any state governments for (ex.) cutting their green-tech subsidies or demanding they compete on equal terms with local firms.
This explains why Obama has been teaming up with the Chamber of Commerce, Zuckerberg, Gates, Adelson, Big Ag and other big business crony capitalists as butt buddies in his TPP push: all of them for their own abhorrent reasons are desperate to have open borders and virtually unlimited slave labor from Mexico, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and China through the hiring of illegals and the treasonous anti-American H1b visa. They know they'll never be able to accomplish this legislatively due to the resistance of the more conservative Republicans in the GOP-held House of Representatives. And since the 2018 mid-term elections will likely return an even larger majority of conservative GOP governors and conservative state legislatures, the next Congressional districts and thus the House will be even more conservative in a few years. So they see their hope in gutting US border laws and the Constitution in the form of undemocratic systems, in this case the TPP. They don't care that they'd be destroying the basic identity of the United States, turning us into a miserable, 3rd-world ghettoized disaster zone which would inevitably break up into a bunch of squabbling feudal fiefdoms. It's all about their short-term, PC, neoliberal globalist gratification. True scum these traitors are.
Any Republican official who even hints at supporting the TPP is the very worst form of RINO traitor and must be challenged vigorously in the primaries and general elections. If anything they should hope to lose in the primary, because the TPP represents the kind of betrayal and national backstabbing that starts revolutions among the betrayed people.
And now repubs like Cruz and others get to strap their get and tell us how they oppose it. They get to vote against it too. They can do all that because they already fast tracked it.
Slick.
And corporations can sue governments for any policy that impedes maximized profit. Essentially corporations now officially set government policy.
And republicans control both houses of congress?
It seems obvious that ANY “deal” Obama supports will support his plans for “Death to America”.
It’s a simple test: If Obama likes it — IT is bad!
This has got to be killed or we wind up like Europe. We need a third political party and it’s first objective should be to destroy the Republicans.
Incidentally in case any one’s been wondering about why all those millions of Somalis, Eritreans, Malians, Senegalese, Sudanese and other dirt-poor subsistence farmers have been picked up and getting dumped in American states (such as Minnesota, Maine, Georgia, Wyoming even North Dakota), now you know, as our legal expert explained yesterday. The Somalis and others are cheap, exploitable slave labor being used by the globalist multinationals (who control the Chamber of Commerce) to staff their farms and factories in place of Americans, with their ultra cheap labor instead being “paid for” by welfare and increasing tax dollars from the stressed communities.
The crushing strains on the affected and hard-hit communities are bad enough already, but the multinationals want more, including the gutting of the immigration controls that cap the number of the Somalis and Sudanese being brought into the farms. The ISDS in the TPP is the knife in the back of US border controls that these traitorous scum have long been desperately hoping and pushing for.
I just ran across this. Can anyone confirm?
https://m.facebook.com/zeeda.andrews/posts/906450502725031?__mref=message_bu
This is what we call in chess and military tactics a double-flanking maneuver.
Cruz and Ryan lied about the H 1 visas in the TPP treason treaty the two are desperate to get for there Billionsire Donors !
I can’t confirm but it sure made me want to barf.
If Trump is President, he now has “fast track”- a streamlined mechanism to get his trade negotiations- and re-negotiations past Congress.
You don’t want Trump to have fast track?
Recall when Ryan pulled this evil scam
Ryan is evil
I want no one to have this unconstitutional power.
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I see. Well, fast track has been around for years, no Court has ruled on it , so whether or not fast track is unconstitutional, is conjecture.
In any event, fast track is currently law, and I am glad trump has that authority should he become president.
As for Ted Cruz relative to TPP, Cruz was never going to vote yes for TPP. And, he won’t vote yes now. Cruz simply wanted the fast track authority for his presidency.
Cruz knowingly gave a America Hating Far Left Soros Puppet Unlimited power !
The fast Track rules make Passing TPP a slam dunk !
Cruz wrote a WSJ column about the wonders of fast track and TPP.
Cruz Read this TPP monster and
knew the H 1 Visas Sections and Amnesty of this Treason Treaty !
Cruz is supposed to be a brilliant Harvard Lawyer ?
He knew.
Cruz has Billionaire Donors that want Demand Cheap Foreign labor .
Cruz Sold You and all of US OUT for them.
TPP is a Globalist wet dream and wipes out our Constitution.
.That's the reality !
Its sad and disgusting .
I shop at a larger town in our area and have noticed seeing them more and more. It has already been overtaken by illegals....
and now this. Lo and behold, I looked up ‘mosques’ in the town and sho nuff. There’s one in a business suite there. The closest ‘established’ mosque is 30 miles away.
So Cruz is a CFR globalist after all...He supports the Constitution big time all the while knowing this trade agreement supersedes the Constitution if Congress votes to accept it...
I am so glad this comes out before the first primary...I hope it gets some feet and takes off at a run...
I wonder if Jade Helm was laying the groundwork for this abomination.
That’s why I’m voting for Trump.
If I can.
At the rate things are going we may not have an election.
Arab Spring coming to America?
Arab Spring coming to America?
I’ll see if Neil Diamond has
any extra lyrics...
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