Trans Pacific Partnership: Deliver Us from Evil

The most powerfully corrupted nation in the World is about to sign a trade deal that is a death sentence for America and the people of the world.  May God have mercy on us and deliver us from evil.

The United States Government was overthrown by financial terrorists December 12, 2000 and the last nail in the New World Order coffin is the TPP.  The TPP is a nightmarish amalgam of every horrific nightmare you may have ever had.  According to Public Citizen, this is the TPP:

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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices

Have you heard? The TPP is a massive, controversial "free trade" agreement currently being pushed by big corporations and negotiated behind closed doors by officials from the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam….

The TPP would even elevate individual foreign firms to equal status with sovereign nations, empowering them to privately enforce new rights and privileges, provided by the pact, by dragging governments to foreign tribunals to challenge public interest policies that they claim frustrate their expectations. The tribunals would be authorized to order taxpayer compensation to the foreign corporations for the "expected future profits" they surmise would be inhibited by the challenged policies.

Wow, that’s unbelievable.  If you want to see what happens when “individual foreign firms” have equal status with sovereign nations just look at Argentina.  Argentina defaulted on their bonds in 2001 and many creditors settled for $.70 on the dollar.  But Wall Street hedge funds refused to accept anything less than full returns on their casino-style investments and have forced Argentina into default.  From International Business News:

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After creditors around the world bought bonds on which the country had defaulted in 2001, about 93 percent of the creditors swapped their bonds for new ones worth about 70 percent less in 2005 and again in 2010. That helped Argentina slash its government debt at a loss to the creditors. But the American hedge funds did not agree to trade in their bonds for a loss.

The group of investors is led by billionaire investor Paul Singer’s NML Capital Ltd., a subsidiary of Elliot Capital Management. Singer is a lawyer by training and has successfully sued the governments of Peru and the Republic of Congo to deliver payments on their bonds….

At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Argentina must pay off the American hedge funds, even though President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said the country couldn’t afford to pay them and keep up with regular interest payments to other lenders. In July, Argentina defaulted for the second time in 13 years.

Yep, there you have it, the most corrupt court in the world, the court that was a major participant in the overthrow of the U.S. Government ordered Argentina to pay off hedge funds or be in contempt of court for paying other creditors.  Back to Public Citizen:

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We only know about the TPP's threats thanks to leaks – the public is not allowed to see the draft TPP text. Even members of Congress, after being denied the text for years, are now only provided limited access.

Meanwhile, more than 500 official corporate "trade advisors" have special access. The TPP has been under negotiation for six years, and the Obama administration wants to sign the deal this year. Opposition to the TPP is growing at home and in many of the other countries involved.

Whaaat?  Members of congress aren’t even allowed to see the terms of the trade agreement?  Senator Bernie Sanders isn’t too happy about that.  From Common Dreams:

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'Incomprehensible' Secrecy: Sanders Demands Release of Trade Agreement Text

"Please also explain why you think it is appropriate that the representatives of the largest financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, media conglomerates and other major corporate interests not only have access to some of these documents, but are also playing a major role in developing many of the key provisions in it," Sanders added. "Meanwhile, the people who will suffer the consequences of this treaty have been shut out of this process."

Gee, I wonder who those “representatives of the largest financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, media conglomerates and other major corporate interests” are.  I don’t know if there’s any connection, but that judge ordering Argentina to default unless they paid off the jackals reminded me of the November 4^th election in America. 

It’s almost as if the November election was a precursor to the TPP.  For instance Maui passed an initiative to require labeling of genetically modified foods and Monsanto has been suing Maui since.  When they lose, they just judge shop around for a new judge.  From Ballot Pedia:

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A Maui County Genetically Modified Organism Moratorium Initiative ballot question was on the November 4, 2014 election ballot for voters in Maui County, Hawaii, where it was approved. A temporary injunction against the enforcement of this initiative, however, was issued by Federal Judge Barry Kurren of the Hawaii District. The injunction was designed to allow time for arguments for and against the initiative to be heard in court and was set to end on December 5, 2014.

The county agreed to wait until March 31, 2015, to start enforcing the initiative. Proponents, however, are suing the county to try to force it to enforce the initiative despite the lawsuit against it.

The measure was designed to prohibit any growth, testing or cultivation of genetically modified or engineered crops and put a stop to any genetic modification and engineering operations in the county until an environmental and public health study is conducted and finds the proposed cultivation practices to be safe and harmless. This measure was the first ever initiative attempt in Maui County, where the initiative power was granted through its charter in 1983.

See what I mean?  The TPP gives private companies rights equal to a sovereign nation.

The TPP would even elevate individual foreign firms to equal status with sovereign nations, empowering them to privately enforce new rights and privileges, provided by the pact, by dragging governments to foreign tribunals to challenge public interest policies that they claim frustrate their expectations. The tribunals would be authorized to order taxpayer compensation to the foreign corporations for the "expected future profits" they surmise would be inhibited by the challenged policies.

I bet places like Maui would think twice about enacting a law requiring Monsanto to label GMO foods.  And, if you think the gas prices going down aren’t due to market manipulation to destroy the economies of Russia and China, well just wait and see.  From Glen Ford at Black AgendaReport:

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“If the war against Iraq was dumb, the oil price war is the Mother of Dementia.”

Yeah, dementia brought on by chemical poisoning.

Twelve years ago, the people who rule the United States wagered the fate of its decaying empire on a lightning military strike into the Middle East, beginning with the rapid conquest of Iraq.

From there, the Americans planned to project imperial power deep into energy-rich central Asia, allowing Washington to isolate and strangle China, which was then only a few years away from becoming the world’s largest economy. America’s pivotal ally in the region was Saudi Arabia, the most reactionary regime on the face of the earth and a client state of the U.S. since the end of World War Two.

Instead of containing China, the Americans “accelerated the processes of their own ruin,” as I predicted on the very day they invaded Iraq. George Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, called it a “dumb war.”  But, in fact, the Iraq War was a calculated act of desperate men, based on the inescapable facts of imperial decline and the logic of class survival….

…U.S. imperialism looked into the near future, and saw its own death. It chose not to die, but to preemptively re-set the global chessboard, knowing full well that failure in Iraq would hasten the pace of imperial decline. George Bush rolled the dice – and lost. But, that’s what any ruling class would do when staring death in the face.

Forestalling the Inevitable

Barack Obama, who answers to the same masters as Bush, entered office confronting the same scenario as his predecessor – only from an even weaker position….

And so, Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, rolls the dice of war.

His partner, once again, is Saudi Arabia, without which the breathtaking plunge in oil prices could not have occurred. This time around, Washington aims to cripple Russia, before moving against China, by destabilizing the whole world’s energy sector – including U.S. energy production.

But, that’s like setting your apartment on fire to get rid of an unwanted roommate. There is no way to calibrate and control such an assault on energy pricing, no possible means of avoiding a cascade of unintended consequences to the world economy. If the war against Iraq was dumb, the oil price war is the Mother of Dementia, and cannot help but further unravel all manner of capitalist structures – including deadly derivatives – throughout the planet.

But, doomed systems and declining classes will do anything to forestall the inevitable.

Yes, they are rolling the dice to destroy the economies of the world in order to bring Russia down to its knees and bow before the imperial masters.  But the imperial masters are emperors with no clothes.  From World Socialist Website:

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China challenges US economic war against Russia

Directly challenging the NATO powers’ policy of cutting off credit to Russia to undermine the ruble and bankrupt the Russian economy, China is pledging to extend financial aid to Moscow.

On Saturday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed the need for mutual aid between China and Russia in remarks on the ruble crisis, which has seen a drastic 45 percent fall in its value against the dollar this year. “Russia has the capability and the wisdom to overcome the existing hardship in the economic situation,” Wang said. “If the Russian side needs it, we will provide necessary assistance within our capacity.”

Ha ha, what are friends for?  All the while the US was busy overthrowing the government in Ukraine for the benefit of Monsanto, creating terrorists groups to overthrow the government in Syria, financially aiding Israel to bomb Gaza, overthrowing the governments of Libya, Egypt, and on and on, Putin has been building relationships across the world.

Putin and the Pope have been warning the world that the illegitimate government in the United States would start WWIII.  If the Trans Pacific Partnership passes, and it will with a congress that is a Wall Street creation, we can only pray.  God have mercy on our souls and deliver us from evil.

By Patricia Baeten