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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">oftewel onze politici leren t nooit.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Raymond van Vugt - Piratenpartij Eindhoven/Ledenraad/Kroegcommissie.</pre>
On 13-9-2012 21:41, Joop Kiefte wrote:<br>
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Date: 2012/9/13<br>
Subject: 4 days to stop a corporate Death Star<br>
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<b>We have four days to stop a top-secret global
corporate power grab</b> that attacks everything
from a free Internet to environmental protections.
This agreement is being negotiated right now by
bureaucrats backed by corporate lobbyists. <b>Click
below to crash their secret meeting with our
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<b>Details are leaking of a top-secret, global corporate power
grab of breathtaking scope</b> -- attacking everything from
a free Internet to health and environmental regulations, and <b>we
have just 4 days to stop it.</b> <br>
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Big business has a new plan to fatten their pockets: a giant
global pact, with an international tribunal to enforce it,
that is kept top secret for years (even from our lawmakers!)
and then brought down like a Death Star on our democracies. <b>Big
Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Walmart and almost 600 other
corporate lobbyists are all in on the draft</b> -- including
limits on smoking laws, affordable medicines and free speech
on the Net.<br>
<br>
<b>The latest round of negotiations ends in just 4 days</b> --
but outcries in each of our countries could shake the
confidence of negotiators and scuttle the talks forever. Let's
get to a million against the global corporate takeover. <b>Sign
below and forward widely. Avaaz will project our petition
counter on the walls of the conference</b> so negotiators
can see the opposition to their plan exploding in real time:<br>
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The deal, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is
written to <b>protect investors from government regulation,
even if that regulation is passed in the public interest</b>.
Leaked versions suggest the TPP would undermine protections
for air and water safety and reintroduce measures from the US
Internet freedom attack as well as steamrolling efforts to
produce generic affordable medicines. Worse still, lawmakers
who fail to conform to the TPP’s rules <b>face sanctions in
an international tribunal -- a place where corporations can
sue us for deals previous governments signed in secret!</b>
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Negotiators say this is just a trade agreement, written to
facilitate investment and profit for all. But the leaked draft
imposes so many limits on citizen protections, it's clear this
"trade" agreement is <b>skewed to put corporate profit above
people's needs -- that's not surprising</b> since it's been
drafted in secret with almost 600 corporate lobbyists.<br>
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But there is hope: Australia is bucking against the
international tribunal system, and New Zealand is objecting to
the takeover of its medicine-pricing protections that keep
drugs affordable. <b>Massive public opposition, casting doubt
over each country's ability to sell TPP at home, could
derail the talks for good</b>. Sign the petition now, and
forward widely -- the delegates and lobbyists are watching the
wave of opposition grow in real time:<br>
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US candidate for Senate, Elizabeth Warren in a recent speech
said: “Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they
have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance.
They live, they love, and they die. And that matters, because
we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for
people." Let’s reach one million to stop the corporate
takeover of our governments.
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Iain, Pedro, Laura, Ari, Emma, Lisa, Luca, Ricken and the
whole Avaaz team
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MORE INFORMATION
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The Nation: "NAFTA on Steroids"<br>
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href="http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids"
target="_blank">http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids</a>
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The Guardian: "The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but
free"<br>
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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/pacific-free-trade-deal"
target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/pacific-free-trade-deal</a><br>
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Huffington Post: "Leak Cracks Open Trans-Pacific Partnership
Scandal"<br>
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Reuters: "Lawmakers press for open Trans-Pacific trade talks"<br>
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href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-usa-congress-trade-idUSBRE85Q1MK20120627"
target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-usa-congress-trade-idUSBRE85Q1MK20120627</a><br>
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TechDirt: "Hollywood Gets To Party With TPP Negotiators;
Public Interest Groups Get Thrown Out Of Hotel"<br>
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Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Background and analysis of
the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement"<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp</a>
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