Sunday, 16 November 2014

How TPP would impact you

How the TPP would impact you and everything else

Although it is called a "free trade" agreement, the TPP is not really mainly about trade.

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpactsYou.html


TPP : a direct threat to democracy

Monster trade deals like the TPP represent a direct threat to democracy 

It would be a disaster were the TPP to pass and go into effect, for multiple reasons: it deregulates financial speculation; it eviscerates the ability of nations to enforce environmental regulations; it locks in a deeply unequal trade and intellectual property-rights regime, granting a handful of the world’s largest corporations monopoly protection; and it encourages the privatization of public services and public property.


Worst of all, it, it globalizes the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS, which allows corporations and investors to “sue governments directly before tribunals of three private sector lawyers operating under World Bank and UN rules to demand taxpayer compensation for any domestic law that investors believe will diminish their ‘expected future profits.’”




TPP: The Dirtiest Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of




TPP - healthcare costs

See step-by-step how TPP would inflate your healthcare costs, reduce access to medicines

http://www.citizen.org/tpp-ip-wikileaks

Why health professionals need to know what's in our free trade agreements TPP


Critics challenge US plans for the TPP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership could block access to much-needed medicine for the world's poorest people, opponents say.