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Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

WASHINGTON -- A critical document from President Barack Obama's free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.

The leaked document has been posted on the website of Public Citizen, a long-time critic of the administration's trade objectives. The new leak follows substantial controversy surrounding the secrecy of the talks, in which some members of Congress have complained they are not being given the same access to trade documents that corporate officials receive.

"The outrageous stuff in this leaked text may well be why U.S. trade officials have been so extremely secretive about these past two years of [trade] negotiations," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch in a written statement.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been so incensed by the lack of access as to introduce legislation requiring further disclosure. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has gone so far as to leak a separate document from the talks on his website. Other Senators are considering writing a letter to Ron Kirk, the top trade negotiator under Obama, demanding more disclosure.

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Under the agreement currently being advocated by the Obama administration, American corporations would continue to be subject to domestic laws and regulations on the environment, banking and other issues. But foreign corporations operating within the U.S. would be permitted to appeal key American legal or regulatory rulings to an international tribunal. That international tribunal would be granted the power to overrule American law and impose trade sanctions on the United States for failing to abide by its rulings.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

Ewww...."broken campaign promises"....

Killer man......fuck`n grim!.......

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It's people like you who are driving jobs overseas... You hypocrite.

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Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

WASHINGTON -- A critical document from President Barack Obama's free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.

The leaked document has been posted on the website of Public Citizen, a long-time critic of the administration's trade objectives. The new leak follows substantial controversy surrounding the secrecy of the talks, in which some members of Congress have complained they are not being given the same access to trade documents that corporate officials receive.

"The outrageous stuff in this leaked text may well be why U.S. trade officials have been so extremely secretive about these past two years of [trade] negotiations," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch in a written statement.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been so incensed by the lack of access as to introduce legislation requiring further disclosure. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has gone so far as to leak a separate document from the talks on his website. Other Senators are considering writing a letter to Ron Kirk, the top trade negotiator under Obama, demanding more disclosure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html

I believe BB King said it best

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

 
This reminds me about all the posts you made.......denouncing cheney`s secret meetings with energy companies.......

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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ORIGINAL: Owner59


This reminds me about all the posts you made.......denouncing cheney`s secret meetings with energy companies.......

Hmm a Vice President making deals with energy companies based in the US during a decent economy vs bestowing radical new political powers, and turning over legislation to international courts as opposed to American courts upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises...

Nah there's nothing to worry about in Owners fantasy world. Obama is still the bestest President evah, there's nothing wrong with the economy, and there were no American tanks in Iraq,

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

WASHINGTON -- A critical document from President Barack Obama's free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.

The leaked document has been posted on the website of Public Citizen, a long-time critic of the administration's trade objectives. The new leak follows substantial controversy surrounding the secrecy of the talks, in which some members of Congress have complained they are not being given the same access to trade documents that corporate officials receive.

"The outrageous stuff in this leaked text may well be why U.S. trade officials have been so extremely secretive about these past two years of [trade] negotiations," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch in a written statement.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been so incensed by the lack of access as to introduce legislation requiring further disclosure. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has gone so far as to leak a separate document from the talks on his website. Other Senators are considering writing a letter to Ron Kirk, the top trade negotiator under Obama, demanding more disclosure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html

I believe BB King said it best

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
I thought you said that huffpo wasn't credible media a few days ago.

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
I thought you said that huffpo wasn't credible media a few days ago.

It's not, but if I would have posted a Fox news or Heritage Foundation website, we know what would have happened, right?

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
I thought you said that huffpo wasn't credible media a few days ago.

It's not, but if I would have posted a Fox news or Heritage Foundation website, we know what would have happened, right?

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
You totally missed my point. If you claim that something isn't reputable media one day, you look a bit silly when you cite that same source the next day trying to make a point.
If you're inconsistent like that, you automatically lose credibility.

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
You totally missed my point. If you claim that something isn't reputable media one day, you look a bit silly when you cite that same source the next day trying to make a point.
If you're inconsistent like that, you automatically lose credibility.

Care to reconcile that with your own bashing of Fox News, and comments that you saw such and such being reported there, Hill?

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ORIGINAL: joether

I'm curious if this, 'Public Citizen' can show evidence beyond their word, that this document does indeed come from the White House. Since any college freshman studying political science could have come up with this 52 page document in a semester or two. That's the first question that should be answered; is the credibility of information factual and true?

The second question is, who here among us, as read the actual document? Since its 52 pages, that should give some of you any idea of WHO has already read it...

Third, can we discuss said information in said, 52 page PDF document, as learned and studied adults on the merit of the content or not? Not where it comes from, or whom its by, but on what the document seeks to do/change? I hold my doubts, as most poster will never read the document in the first place.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

It isn't a sarcasm font you need, Hill, but a hypocrite smiley might help.

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
You totally missed my point. If you claim that something isn't reputable media one day, you look a bit silly when you cite that same source the next day trying to make a point.
If you're inconsistent like that, you automatically lose credibility.