The Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest trade deal ever written, which Obama is doing in complete secrecy, must be in a bit of trouble.
Because Obama is now calling critics ‘Conspiracy Theorists’. Politicians usually start lashing out like this when they feel their plans are threatened. But, if you don’t want people thinking in conspiratorial theories, well, you shouldn’t operate in secret.
He also stated that these people ‘lack knowledge’ about the negotiations. Which is correct, of course, because he’s doing it all behind closed doors.
Make no mistake, the TPP is a complete sellout of America as it gives corporations power to sue governments if somethings isn’t going their way. It is the destruction of national sovereignty – putting profits above people and rights.
Most of the information comes from leaked documents, which Wikileaks pull off of corporate computers.
Fascism, the merger of state and corporate powers, is at our door with this agreement.
It’s become fairly clear that the TPP agreement is in trouble these days (for a variety of reasons). And it appears that President Obama is losing his cool concerning the agreement and its critics. In a press conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, President Obama lashed out at TPP critics, calling them “conspiracy theorists” whose criticism “reflects lack of knowledge of what is going on in the negotiations.” Oh really?
If you take an issue like drugs, for example, the United States does extraordinary work in research and development, and providing medical breakthroughs that save a lot of lives around the world. Those companies that make those investments in that research oftentimes want a return, and so there are all kinds of issues around intellectual property and patents, and so forth.
At the same time, I think we would all agree that if there’s a medicine that can save a lot of lives, then we’ve got to find a way to make sure that it’s available to folks who simply can’t afford it as part of our common humanity. And both those values are reflected in the conversations and negotiations that are taking place around TPP. So the assumption somehow that right off the bat that’s not something we’re paying attention to, that reflects lack of knowledge of what is going on in the negotiations.
But my point is you shouldn’t be surprised if there are going to be objections, protests, rumors, conspiracy theories, political aggravation around a trade deal. You’ve been around long enough, Chuck — that’s true in Malaysia; it’s true in Tokyo; it’s true in Seoul; it’s true in the United States of America — and it’s true in the Democratic Party.
It’s become fairly clear that the TPP agreement is in trouble these days (for a variety of reasons). And it appears that President Obama is losing his cool concerning the agreement and its critics. In a press conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, President Obama lashed out at TPP critics, calling them “conspiracy theorists” whose criticism “reflects lack of knowledge of what is going on in the negotiations.” Oh really?
If you take an issue like drugs, for example, the United States does extraordinary work in research and development, and providing medical breakthroughs that save a lot of lives around the world. Those companies that make those investments in that research oftentimes want a return, and so there are all kinds of issues around intellectual property and patents, and so forth.
At the same time, I think we would all agree that if there’s a medicine that can save a lot of lives, then we’ve got to find a way to make sure that it’s available to folks who simply can’t afford it as part of our common humanity. And both those values are reflected in the conversations and negotiations that are taking place around TPP. So the assumption somehow that right off the bat that’s not something we’re paying attention to, that reflects lack of knowledge of what is going on in the negotiations.
But my point is you shouldn’t be surprised if there are going to be objections, protests, rumors, conspiracy theories, political aggravation around a trade deal. You’ve been around long enough, Chuck — that’s true in Malaysia; it’s true in Tokyo; it’s true in Seoul; it’s true in the United States of America — and it’s true in the Democratic Party.
Um. You know why those complaining may “lack knowledge of what is going on in the negotiations”? Perhaps it’s because the USTR – a part of the Obama White House — has insisted that the entire negotiations take place in complete secrecy with no transparency at all. If President Obama doesn’t want conspiracy theories about the agreement, and wishes that its critics were more informed about the negotiations, he can change that today by instructing the USTR to release its negotiating positions and promise to make all future negotiating positions public.
But he won’t do that. Why? Because the USTR has admitted that if the public knew what was going on with the TPP, it wouldn’t support the agreement. And so the negotiations continue in secret. And the President Obama gets frustrated about a lack of knowledge and conspiracy theories? Really?
He is probably selling us down the river !!
I love the “transparent” government that Obama has created. If the trade deal is as good as the “China deal”, America and Americans will suffer for many years after Obama is finally gone.
WATCH OUT bERRY IS BEHIND YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just another job killing trade agreement
Obama must really despise common sense Americans, remember Gruber was given $400,000 dollars to declare Americans were too stupid to understand ObamaCare–same thing with these trade deals
Where is our congress on this ?
It must be secret because I have never heard even a peep of it!
Except, we’re not “conspiracy theorists,” making stuff up to scare people, if there REALLY IS a conspiracy going on. And if its not a conspiracy, why is it all being kept secret? And why is it being done without Congress?
you guys are all blatant lunatics.