Wikileaks leaks the TPP text

[onawah]

I couldn't find out if this has been posted, but it's important. The overview is here:
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0ODQyNjgyLGVtYWlsaWQ9MTAwMzA=

TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter - 5 October 2015
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Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP encompasses 12 nations representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Despite a final agreement, the text is still being withheld from the public, notably until after the Canadian election on October 19.

The document is dated four days ago, October 5th, or last Monday, the same day it was announced in Atlanta, Georgia that the 12 member states to the treaty had reached an accord after five and a half years of negotiations.

The IP Chapter of the TPP has perhaps been the most controversial chapter due to its wide-ranging effects on internet services, medicines, publishers, civil liberties and biological patents. “If TPP is ratified, people in the Pacific-Rim countries would have to live by the rules in this leaked text,” said Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen’s Global Access to Medicines Program Director. “The new monopoly rights for big pharmaceutical firms would compromise access to medicines in TPP countries. The TPP would cost lives.”

Read the full press release.

View the leaked "TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter, Consolidated Text" (PDF, HTML).


Experts Analysis

Expert Analysis: "Ambiguity Leads to Fallacy: Biologics Exclusivity in the Trans-Pacific Partnership" (PDF, HTML).

Expert Analysis: "Pharmaceutical Provisions in the TPP" (PDF, HTML).

Expert Analysis: "TPP Transition Periods on Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rules" (PDF, HTML).

Expert Analysis: "International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants 1991 (UPOV91)" (PDF, HTML).

Expert Analysis: "Propiedad intelectual en el Tratado Transpacífico" (PDF, HTML)

Expert Analysis: "Public Citizen - WikiLeaks Publication of Complete, Final TPP Intellectual Property" (PDF, HTML)

The full pdf is here:
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.pdf?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0ODQyNjgyLGVtYWlsaWQ9MTAwMzA=

You can take action here: https://www.fightthetpp.org/?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0ODQyNjgyLGVtYWlsaWQ9MTAwMzA=

[chancy]

Hello Everyone:
In Canada the harper government has ratified about 12 trade agreements and they have meant nothing to our economy. Free trade was just that....Trade freely from the USA and pay for trading from Canada.

They say that the best way to take over a country is to give them free trade. I believe it completely!

TPP is surely a bad deal for anyone in Canada since harper has used this as a campaign platform to give the auto industry billions and the beef industry etc. billions. Guess he wants to win so he's never going to tell the truth about what he gave away or "sold the farm out" from under Canadians again.

chancy

[Calz]

If that was truly the full TPP text then this is as important as it gets these days.

Read em and weep world ... of course no one will ...

Congress critters only had access to one page at a time in a secluded room before voting.

Sadly we amerikans seem lost ... I expect one in a million would take the time to read (who is going to take time to read so much "legaleeze" while there are football games, baseball playoffs and dancing with the stars)???

Not that it matters any more ... 98% of those contacting their "representatives" on the first bankster bailout said "hell no" ... so much for the process.


Politicians worldwide dramatically endorse the NWO ... they have been paid quite well and no doubt have their spot saved in the bunkers.


So what can be done???


Has to happen beyond the 3d reality that has been presented to we the people ...


Doesn't look good on the ground ....

[Calz]

This from the ghost of a mod gone by ...

Seriously people ... TPP is really one of the last red lines for us ... is not that clear???

If even this community ignores this then my hopes have really reached rock bottom.

How can the masses understand when here we have such apathy???


http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/8/hippo_bump.jpg

[onawah]

You can take action here: https://www.fightthetpp.org/?t=dXNlc...lsaWQ9MTAwMzA=
Pass it along to friends, post it on Facebook, sign other petitions that say "NO".
I agree, Calz, it's worse than pointless moaning and groaning about feeling helpless, if people won't even take the time for these kinds of basic actions.
And people complain about Facebook, but it's a great tool for this kind of activism. I spend hours every week doing just that, and I'm convinced it is helping.
We have to exercise the power we still have if we expect to regain the power we've lost.

[chancy]

Hello Everyone:
Here's the direct link to the youtube video that was on the website onawah gave in his post. We are in trouble with this trade deal that covers alot more than trade.
chancy

"TPP: The Dirtiest Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of"
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnC1mqyAXmw

[onawah]

250,000 marched in Berlin to protest the TPP
http://revolution-news.com/250000-say-no-to-transatlantic-trade-agreements-in-berlin/
http://xcdn.revolution-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/berlin.jpg?iv=60

Berlin – Organizers estimate 250,000 attended the massive protest against the proposed trade agreements with North America, including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US, and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.

More than 30 organizations – including trade unions, civil rights groups, Germany’s opposition Green and Left parties, opponents of globalization, cultural, religious and environmental organizations all supported the protest.

Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, told the Guardian that the protest showed that the EU did not have a public mandate for the agreement: “Everything that we know about this secretive trade deal shows that it is very little about trade and very much about enshrining a massive corporate power-grab.”

Some of the many points of outrage for the proposed global trade agreements are allowing multinational corporations to sue nations over their existing laws and regulations before special tribunals, potentially eroding existing standards and that all negotiations and text of the trade deals have been kept secret from the public.

“Never before have we seen so many people take to the streets for this issue,” the German trade union confederation DGB, which helped organize the protest, said on Saturday.

[Carmody]

Trade agreements of this nature are designed to hand all legal and control aspects of countries and entire regions, into the hands of capitalists, or, since they are working with governments, against the will of the people, outside of the knowledge of the people, we'll call it by it's proper name:

fascism.

The plan to do so, by this exact means, has been around in printed form, as a known agenda, for nearly 100 years.

Not well circulated, mind you, but known to exist.

[TargeT]

TTP in a searchable format here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/05/we-made-president-obamas-big-tpp-trade-deal-searchable/

TPP: Unlocking Your Phone Could Land You In Jail Under Treaty Rules, Critics Claim (http://www.ibtimes.com/tpp-unlocking-your-phone-could-land-you-jail-under-treaty-rules-critics-claim-2171644)

Official Release of TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/11/official-release-of-tpp-text-confirms-massive-loss-to-canadian-public-domain/)

Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/release-full-tpp-text-after-five-years-secrecy-confirms-threats-users-rights)

TPP has provision banning requirements to transfer of or access to source code of software (http://www.keionline.org/node/2363)


I wonder if anyone will pay attention now?