Scholar John Houge has his eye on it-
DATELINE: 30 June 2015
Will TPP Pass?
THE PREDICTION:
Corporate fascism is a multi-national creature. Its meddling in domestic American affairs is relatively minor compared with the secret power moves planned in 2015 on the international front. I imagine very few of the people reading this are even aware of the global coup d’état in the works bent on disempowering all sovereign governments.
They want it kept secret from the human race behind a wall of your glad handing world leaders—especially President Obama—who intend to put two global trade agreements on a fast track to become international law with next to no one cognizant of what’s in these treaties. The first covers the Atlantic Rim of nations. It’s the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). It unites the economies of the United States with the European Union. The second grabs countries around the Pacific Rim. It’s called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), otherwise known satirically by another sleight of acronym coined by political commentator and author Thom Hartmann, as the Southern Hemisphere Free Trade Agreement, or SHAFTA.
Yes, you read it right Mr. and Mrs. Citizens of the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. This acronym isn’t a Hogueism. SHAFTA [TPP] is going give you all the shaft, right up your national sovereignty.
I predict that SHAFTA [TPP] and TAFTA are merely covers, seemingly benign storefronts for corporations cinching their control as a law above national and international law. If these agreements pass, your governments will truly no longer be for, by or of the people. The world’s nations will be ruled by super-mafia cartels. From 2015 onwards, observe how a trade deal that most US Congressmen and women won’t read beyond its title will let the finely tuned print endow multinational corporations with legal powers under the guise of protecting “free trade.” They will begin subverting sovereign laws either protecting the environment from pollution or those in future that might be enacted locally and internationally to curtail greenhouse gas emissions trying to put to an end a looming global climate catastrophe. Your sovereign land and labor rights will be taken away all around the world. Your right to buy and sell products and employ their manufacture locally can be sued and suppressed by free trade courts who say your local businesses deny, let’s say, a sweatshop in China or Indonesia from selling you cheaper costing, cheaper quality goods.
…Barack Obama has worked towards giving us a good, fast-tracking SHAFTA. It, like TAFTA and TPP, will be signed into law faster than you can scream “Patriot Act.”
Predictions 2015-2016, Chapter Two:
The “Under-Government” Coup
Subsection: The Human Race will get the SHAFTA
(Prophecies documented and date tagged first week of November 2014
ASSESSMENT
Remember, it was just a little while ago, in the last stream of Hogueprophecy articles posted on 15 June (click on Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement), that I cautiously reported the hope that my Oracle would get it all wrong. I hoped that Obama’s fast track powers wouldn’t be railroaded through the Senate and ratified by the House of Representatives faster than you could scream “Patriot Act!” On Friday 12 June, the anti-TPP legislators in the House of Representatives gathered enough support to take TPP to a good TP-ing like it was your High School’s principal’s house on Halloween. They voted it down.
I cautioned all to hold your apocalyptic horsemen, saying, “Democracy won a battle but the war against the TPP, with its very secret agenda that even legislators aren’t allowed to read, goes on. There are already moves being made in Congress to find other deal sweeteners to pull more swing Democrat votes to pass TPP. There’s still nearly seven months left in this year before Congress becomes pretty useless when the Presidential Election campaign season pretty much wastes the year 2016 for getting anything done.
“I hope to celebrate TPP’s true demise by New Years. Up until then, the following caveat prediction remains active and you all ought to keep up your watch-dogging of your legislators in Washington…:
“‘I prophesy an end of governments as the pinnacle of the pyramid of power in the world starting in 2015. With the signing of SHAFTA and the EU-US trade agreements, your governments will have surrendered their independence. The only good I can derive from this tragedy is that it might get your attention after it happens and you might take your sovereign government and freedoms back by whatever means available.’”
Well now, look how quick TPP fortunes changed! As quick as screaming “Patriot Act!!” if you think how slow legislation lurches on Capitol Hill. Just a dozen days after 12 June, the political intrigue-makers sweetened the deal here and bartered there, dividing and mollifying the opposition, the House passed TPP back to the Senate for a vote on a TPP-lobbyist tinkered new edition of TPP. You can go and read elsewhere all the hoops jumped and hoopla. What’s important to my Oracle is that you notice how what was considered by the same pundits very difficult to overrule on 12 June and would take many months of infighting was passed 12 days later by the Senate with 60 Yea votes and 38 “Nay” votes with two Senators abstaining.
Obama will now get his fast-track bill sent to his desk in the Oval Office and he will sign it into law. He’ll have the power to negotiate this secretive free trade agreement only requiring a straight up or down vote from the US Senate and only after a token time for debate is given—just 80 seconds per Senator. (Yes, f-a-a-a-s-t!) Faster than crap though a goosed corporate lobbyist.
Remember NAFTA? President Clinton got the same fast track deal and made Ross Perot a prophet as jobs got down the drain to Mexico:
We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It’s pretty simple: If you’re paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor,…have no health care—that’s the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don’t care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.
…when [Mexico's] jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it’s leveled again. But in the meantime, you’ve wrecked the country with these kinds of deals.
Ross Perot (Second US Presidential Debate, 1992)
At least today when you find your jobs outsourced in the next great flush you can clean yourself off with a drum “roll” of TPP and much worse. If Japan and New Zealand ratify it, the following list of corporate seizures of power and free speech threatened are much worse than NAFTA, so reports The News Hub:
“There are many parts to the bill beyond the free trade sections. For instance, the bill strengthens intellectual property laws so copyrights can be enforced while they are still pending. Also, corporations gain the power to challenge any law that would damage their future profits. Access to prescription drugs would be limited as generic drugs would be removed from US pharmacies. Finally, no expiration date is set on TPP, which means that once it’s here, it’s here to stay.
“Countries included in TPP are the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Peru, Chile, Malaysia, and Brunei. Other countries, including China and South Korea, have shown interest in joining the agreement.
“Demonstrations against TPP/TPA have taken place in the United States and New Zealand, among others, but public awareness of the bills were low until recently due to the secrecy of TPP’s creation and a lack of exposure in mainstream media.”
“Many senators, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Rand Paul, have spoken out in opposition of TPP. All three of them voted “nay” during Wednesday’s Senate vote.”
Contact your US Senators folks, save your country’s sovereignty. Tell them to vote no on ratifying TPP or you’ll vote no in the next election to your Senator keeping his or her job.
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