Re: In today's news...
You may have heard of it before, but one of the first drafts of the TPP(Trans Pacific Partnership) treaty has been leaked to Wikileaks. The same treaty is also being used for Europe under a different name(TTIP)
95 pages, 30,000 words.
In short, what it does:
"The draft text for the TPP Intellectual Property Rights Chapter spells out provisions for implementing a transnational “enforcement regime”."
Which would essentially mean national laws on copyrights will be null and void for any who sign the treaty, and copyrights will be handled by a 'world police' with legal authority everywhere.
Yes, this applies to the internet too.
The 'enforcement regime' does not need to show its evidence to anyone except itself.
Other things I have not personally checked, but have been told about from the treaty:
*Allows corporations to sue national governments for 'damaging their profits' if the national government imposes safety standards, consumer rights('restricts the market'), or does something like banning GMO or oil drilling in their country.
*Overrules laws on medicines and medicine use, essentially forcing US standards on medicine to be used everywhere, with the same strict IP laws working to remove competition
*NSA and other spying on citizens will be allowed, and even encouraged, with sanctions for speaking out against it.
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Edit: Also got this one linked:
"A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success. Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it. "
Basically it says: wake up people, it's not just some conspiracy theory, it's real. Media isn't reporting on it because they're owned by the people they would otherwise expose
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