Mexico and Canada Invited to Join the Secret TPP Negotiations

By Joe Wolverton, II
New American

This week President Obama and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk announced that Canada and Mexico have been invited to join the secret negotiations aimed at establishing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

In an announcement published Monday on the USTR website, Kirk wrote:

We are delighted to invite Mexico, our neighbor and second largest export market, to join the TPP negotiations. Mexico’s interest in the TPP reflects its recognition that the TPP presents the most promising pathway to boosting trade across the Asia Pacific and to encouraging regional trade integration. We look forward to continuing consultations with the Congress and domestic stakeholders as we move forward.

That statement was followed by a similar one on Tuesday welcoming Canada to the TPP fold:

Inviting Canada to join the TPP negotiations presents a unique opportunity for the United States to build upon this already dynamic trading relationship. Through TPP, we are bringing the relationship with our largest trading partner into the 21st century. We look forward to continuing consultations with the Congress and domestic stakeholders regarding Canada’s entry into the TPP as we move closer to a broad-based, high-standard trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region.

Notably, in both statements Ambassador Kirk places the approval of “domestic stakeholders” (read: large corporations) on a level with that of the Congress. It is precisely this exalting of big business that has troubled many of the people’s representatives in Congress.

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This is especially posted for all the folks who've been carrying on about illegal immigration and how its killing the economy of the US so they will know what their government has planned for the border with Mexico and what they think of any "protect the border" ideals. If you want to see how your representatives are being rebuffed by these secretive TPP planners, go to the link and read the rest of the article.

The world wide nazification of deemocratic goverments by stealth and subversion goes on apace......
The" winners "of the 2nd world war were declared too soon i think.....The Nazis ended up the top dogs by taking over the business world with stolen war booty.........
IG Farben, Krupp and other companies hardly knew the war was lost, they went on doing business as usuall anyways.....their owners being immune to such incoveniences as trials or repurcussions..

Originally posted by stirling
The world wide nazification of deemocratic goverments by stealth and subversion goes on apace......
The" winners "of the 2nd world war were declared too soon i think.....The Nazis ended up the top dogs by taking over the business world with stolen war booty.........
IG Farben, Krupp and other companies hardly knew the war was lost, they went on doing business as usuall anyways.....their owners being immune to such incoveniences as trials or repurcussions..

Excellent point. It couldn't get much clearer, all the American people got was the bill for repairing everything they'd destroyed while the worst of the corporations kept growing like Topsy, the Russians got the Baltic states (temporarily) and Israel got Palestine. Of course we also got the UN and no one has had a day of peace since then.