World Affairs
Rule By The Corporations
TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act
TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act
Paul Craig Roberts
The
Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have
nothing to do with free trade. “Free trade” is used as a disguise to
hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to
overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food
safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
The
first thing to understand is that these so-called “partnerships” are
not laws written by Congress. The US Constitution gives Congress the
authority to legislate, but these laws are being written without the
participation of Congress. The laws are being written by corporations
solely in the interest of their power and profit. The office of US Trade
Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law
that serves only their interests. This fraud on the Constitution and
the people is covered up by calling trade laws “treaties.”
Indeed,
Congress is not even permitted to know what is in the laws and is
limited to the ability to accept or refuse what is handed to Congress
for a vote. Normally, Congress accepts, because “so much work has been
done” and “free trade will benefit us all.”
The
presstitutes have diverted attention from the content of the laws to
“fast track.” When Congress votes “fast track,” it means Congress
accepts that corporations can write the trade laws without the
participation of Congress. Even criticisms of the “partnerships” are a
smoke screen. Countries accused of slave labor could be excluded but
won’t be. Super patriots complain that US sovereignty is violated by
“foreign interests,” but US sovereignty is violated by US corporations.
Others claim yet more US jobs will be offshored. In actual fact, the
“partnerships” are unnecessary to advance the loss of American jobs as
there is nothing that inhibits jobs offshoring now.
What
the “partnerships” do is to make private corporations immune to the
laws of sovereign countries on the grounds that laws of countries
adversely impact corporate profits and constitute “restraint of trade.”
For
example, under the Transatlantic Partnership, French laws against GMOs
would be overturned as “restraints on trade” by law suits filed by
Monsanto.
Countries
that require testing of imported food, such as pork for trichnosis, and
fumigation would be subject to lawsuits from corporations, because
these regulations increase the cost of imports.
Countries
that do not provide monopoly protection for brand name pharmaceuticals
and chemical products, and allow generics in their place, can be sued
for damages by corporations.
Obama
himself has no input into the process. Here is what is going on: The
Trade Representative is a corporate stooge. He serves the private
corporations and will go on to a million dollar annual salary. The
corporations have bribed the political leaders in every country to sign
away their sovereignty and the general welfare of their people to
private corporations. Corporations have paid US senators large sums for
transferring Congress’ law-making powers to corporations.http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations-paid-us-senators-fast-track-tpp When
these “partnerships” pass, no country that signed will have any
legislative authority to legislate or enforce any law that any
corporation regards as inimical to its bottom line.
Yes, the great promiser of change is bringing change. He is turning Asia, Europe, and the US over to rule by the corporations.
Only
those who have sold their integrity for money sign these agreements.
Apparently Merkel, a Washington vassal, is one of them. http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150530/1022740004.html
According
to news reports, both of France’s main political parties have sold out
to the corporations, but not Marine Le Pen’s National Front Party. In
the last EU elections, the dissident parties, such as Le Pen and
Farage’s, prevailed over the traditional parties, but the dissidents are
yet to prevail in their own countries.
Marine Le Pen objects to the secrecy of the agreements that establishes corporate rule. As Europe’s only leader, she speaks:
“It
is vital that the French people know about TTIP’s content and its
motivations in order to be able to fight it. Because our fellow
countrymen must have the choice of their future, because they should
impose a model for society that suits them, and not one forced by
multinational companies eager for profits, Brussels technocrats bought
by the lobbies, and politicians from the UMP [party of former president
Nicolas Sarkozy] who are subservient to these technocrats.”
It is vital that the American public also know, but not even Congress is permitted to know.
How
does it work, this “freedom and democracy” that we Americans allegedly
have, when neither the people nor their elected representatives are
permitted to participate in the making of laws that enable private
corporations to negate the law-making functions of governments and place
corporate profit above the general welfare?
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