On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:57:04 -0700, "Howard Beal"
wrote:

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- More than 1,000 people filed a lawsuit against the Japanese
government Friday seeking to halt its involvement in the 12-country talks
for a Pacific Rim free trade agreement as "unconstitutional."

The plaintiffs said, however, the TPP would change a number of rules and
regulations concerning people's lives "for the sake of the freedom and
profits of global corporations."

One lawyer in a 157-member legal team working for the plaintiffs said the
TPP is "a risky pact that would fundamentally overturn domestic systems."

As for an investor-state dispute settlement clause which the TPP member
nations are negotiating to introduce to give a multinational company the
right to sue a state for compensation, the plaintiffs expressed opposition
saying it would jeopardize Japan's judicial independence.


http://mainichi.jp/english/english/n...dm075000c.html

Seems people around the world are wising up to corporate goverence in the
form
of trade agreements.

Best Regards
Tom.

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Indeed!

One of the critical needs in the current situation is a
central clearing house for citizen action groups to exchange
information on the continual efforts of the supranational
corporations to usurp national sovereignty, and the [success
of] stratagy/tactics which have been used to combat such
efforts to identify the corporations/individuals and their
weak points.

Long before the age of the internet, the critical need for
communication and cooperation among citizen actions groups
[and the education of their membership, particularly in
history to avoid repeating the same mistakes] was identified
and stressed by John William Cooke.


--
Unka' George

"Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves"

-Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millenium"