<story><title>UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-tpp-and-fast-track-threaten-human-rights</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimrandomh</author><text>&amp;gt; They allow investors to sue nations over legislative and administrative rules alleging that they harm their profits.&lt;p&gt;This is much bigger than copyright. This is removing substantive power from existing governments and transferring it to a new structure. The fast-tracking should be seen, not just as evading scrutiny by the public, but also as evading scrutiny by Congress and by other legislatures whose power is being stolen from them. When you write your representative, you might warn them that this puts them on track to end up like the Queen of England: powerless figureheads.</text></comment>
<story><title>UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-tpp-and-fast-track-threaten-human-rights</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>One of the things I most like about the EFF is that they increase the transparency of back room deals that help special interests to the detriment of the general public.&lt;p&gt;A little off topic, but in the last day I have found two public data sites that increase transparency in government finances at the local, state, and federal level: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statedatalab.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statedatalab.org&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.truthinaccounting.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.truthinaccounting.org&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>