STOP TPP: YOU! ...are the Technical Barrier to Trade [Greed]By Brett Redmayne-Titley You are a, Technical Barrier to Trade [Greed]. You are thus specifically defined within the finalized (Chapter 8) language of the finalized Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty(TPP). Or, you would be if you, the junk-food addled, disaffected and terminally apathetic American, finally cared enough to exercise any personal respect for self-preservation. As shown in the previous four-part series from the San Diego TPP negotiations the twelve nations of TPP had better wake-up. Quick! This past weekend, many countries in Europe saw huge protests in their capital cities against TTIP (Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) the European mirror image of the Obama-inspired treason known worldwide as, TPP. Since TPP was finalized and then very quietly signed in New Zealand on Feb. 4, 2016, these past few months anti-TPP protests in the US are less than minimal. Meaningful media coverage or public protest, much less European-style outrage, is collectively and completely missing! All the while treasonous US congresspersons add their own silence (their complicity) to a plot that allows the finalized copy of TPP to slither quickly thanks to congressionally approved Fast Track Authority- through the halls of Congress to an obviously treasonous presidents desk. After muted approval, then TPP will be law. What should be an explosion of coast-to-coast national outrage directed at all these traitors is, here in the land of the free, just a faded memory blowin in the wind. On Nov. 16, 2015, any mystery about the intentions or wording of all thirty chapters of TPP were finally cast into public view when the completed text was leaked by WikiLeaks which had previously, on separate occasions, leaked the chapters; Intellectual Property; Investments and Transparency. These alone sparked much concern, little of which was served up to an unsuspecting public by the whores of the 4th Estate. Now, the cat has escaped the bag. There can be no remaining doubt of two facts that must be reduced, now, to a call to order before its too late: TPP will steal the sovereignty of America and eleven other nations to be replaced by that of select multi-national corporations. Thus it follows; any elected US politician like the incumbent president who spawned TPP is a traitor to America and to every American. Period. The leaked text of TPP has finally undergone close scrutiny. A chapter-by-chapter, detailed analysis by PublicCitizen.org, the only comprehensive watchdog of TPP, shows a pervasive intention in every chapter; that of negating sovereign national, state and local laws in favor of the diktats of powerful multinational corporations. Under this scrutiny the wording of TPP reveals why it was kept secret from the public and their elected officials for almost five years, while being crafted. The finalized terms are outrageous. The annotated TPP analysis provided by Public Citizen is exceptionally well prepared and the full text is available. Throughout the majority of the thirty TPP chapters several important key phrases loom repeatedly and point to the central problems with its nefarious goals. The reader will surely note that it is these terms that define the evil of TPP. The term, Expectations is one key example. This, of course, refers to profits; the ones all shareholders of any TPP-linked corporation should be able to expect if not for the Technical Barrier to Trade the regulation of a sovereign country that restricts their aforementioned expectations of pure profit. (Chapter Eight is devoted to this). Next is the oft-mentioned specific threat of an investor-state dispute. This is the anticipated and willfully crafted corporation v. sovereignty lawsuit designed to allow the recovery of sovereign money damages in the form of, Compensation for Regulatory Costs. Thus is brought to bear the insidious final mechanism of TPP: the Tribunal. Here, for nations foolish enough to abrogate their legal rights via TPP, three corporate lawyers none selected by the sovereign nation will have the final say. Here, sovereign rights will literally be on trial for the high crime of putting public interest before corporate profits. So, the Tribunal will hence decide the fate of nations and millions of dollars in compensation to the aggrieved. Really! Once TPP is ratified, foreign corporations will be empowered to bypass domestic courts and directly sue the U.S. government or the other eleven nations before a tribunal of selected private lawyers that sits outside of any sovereign legal system. These lawyers would be authorized to order the U.S. government to hand millions of our tax dollars to the corporations for laws that they find to be a barrier to their expectations. The reader is encouraged to review the full text of TPP or the much shorter and excellent analysis by Public Citizen. Examination proves it can now be stated with complete accuracy, by way of reference to the exact wording of each chapter, that the language of TPP would, (amongst many other requirements): Unlike their European brethren who already understand the threat of TTIP, Americans strangely relegate the catastrophic results of TPP to mere conspiracy theory. The documents, i.e., the TPP treaty, is undeniable as are its likely results. According to a financial analysis published in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. market access concessions in TPP will increase the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods and autos and auto parts by more than $55 billion dollars resulting in the loss of more than 330,000 jobs. The further predictable results are already evident in other countries under the influence of similar draconian trade pacts. Despite further ratification of TPP by the signatory nations it is not necessary for all to do so for TPP to become law. There are three scenarios for TPP to enter into force, all of which require only 85% approval. Each nations influence is metered proportionately by current GDP, meaning that just the combination of the USA and Japan gets TPP within needing only four-out-of-ten of the remaining countries for the treaty to be in effect. Back at the origin of TPP, Americans seem resigned to their fate. With the most fraudulent presidential election in US history in full regalia, questions of the remaining candidates about TPP are rare and go unanswered in finality. Distracted, voters fail to realize that TPP is already being favorably considered by many US members of Congress. As reported in the Washington Trade Daily on April 20, 2016, forty-seven House members including the chair and ranking member of the Ways and Means trade subcommittee told the Obama Administration that proper implementation of dairy market access provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership will influence whether they support the agreement. This fait accompli for TPP highlights the incorrect, treasonous concerns of this duly-elected, US legislative body. Missing was any mention of, much less a challenge to, casting away Americas nation interests. Why? The answer should be obvious to anyone paying attention to this modern five-part parable. TPP or TTIP, the root cause the cancer is the same: politicians who have sold their allegiance to corporations, yet are voted back to office every two, four or six years by the same disaffected fools. However, TPP is just one more historic junction where as is usual these days across the globe a lack of will by an apathetic super-majority meets the evil 1% and its latest attempt at their willing enslavement. The modern track record of successes shows that evil is regularly winning. The game seems to be close to finished. Worse, the apathetic American refuses to demand a seat at the table, preferring to merely change the TV channel while finally getting up of the couch for a snack! Three horns we now hear from the East?! God bless. The End Note: This has been Part Five of a multi-part expose on the 2012 San Diego TPP negotiations. Please see Part One; Part Two; Part Three or Part Four for much essential information not included in this chapter. About The Author: Brett Redmayne-Titley began reporting on-scene in an effort to provide better quality reporting from current events of geo-political, environmental and moral importance. A life-long activist, political commentator and world citizen, he has published over one hundred in-depth articles, many of which have been re-published and translated internationally. He can be reached at: live-on-scene [at] gmx.com Sooo some constructive things an individual can do to stop this? I have already called my worthless republican politicians in SC . Trying to explain it to others ; too complicated for most. Mainstream media will do nothing. Cant even get a protest going here in SC for the March against Monsanto.. So perhaps you should vote for someone who actually knows how to make a deal?? NO, Bernie Sanders is against all the trade deals, especially the TPP. 