On Tue, 19 May 2015 08:37:19 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:03:53 PM UTC-4, F. George McDuffee wrote:
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.
Companies and organizations have used electrical networking in some form before the internet (like telegraphs) since the 1850s which was long before Mr. Cooke.
International cooperation and development has occurred between organizations for cartel or monopolistic reasons even before then.
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Indeed they have, but is only now with the Internet/WWW that
the same capability is available to almost all individuals
at minimal/no cost.
With the development of web based translators such as Bing
http://www.bing.com/translator/ and Google
https://translate.google.com/ the last barriers [other than
inertia] to a free flow/exchange of information have been
eliminated.
I don't know how to start this, but the citizen action
groups, including the unions and political parties, in every
country where a particular transnational is active such as
GMC, ADM and Monsanto, should be directly exchanging
information about their corporate practices, newly
introduced products, press releases threatening to move
unless their taxes are cut, actual plant closures*, etc. and
tactics used to contain these types of activities. If
anyone has suggestions, I can host this "information
exchange" on my web site
http://www.http://mcduffee-associates.us/, at least to
start.
* one example
http://tinyurl.com/mkpjab3
http://tinyurl.com/mr9xxlv
FWIW: It is this type of corporate action that is producing
the surge of economic refugees currently flooding across our
southern border. This should also put other governments on
notice about providing "economic development" funding for
Intel, which obviously has excess capacity.
--
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"