{"id":15130,"date":"2013-11-13T20:39:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T01:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15130"},"modified":"2013-11-13T20:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T01:48:16","slug":"pivotal-trans-pacific-partnership-section-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/13\/pivotal-trans-pacific-partnership-section-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal Trans-Pacific Partnership Section Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truthout<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Truthout article\" href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/news\/item\/20006-breaking-pivotal-corporate-dominated-trans-parcific-partnership-section-revealed\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pivotal Trans-Pacific Partnership Section Revealed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The TPP has been shrouded in secrecy from the beginning because the Obama administration knows that the more people know about it, the more they will oppose the agreement. The release of the full Intellectual Property chapter today by Wikileaks confirms what had been suspected, the Obama administration has been an advocate for transnational corporate interests in the negotiations even though they run counter to the needs and desires of the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article gets its information from a <em>WikiLeaks<\/em> announcement and publishing of leaked documents in the article <a title=\"WikiLeaks article\" href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tpp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am surprised that some fairly active political people have not even heard of the TPP yet.\u00a0 It is something that will do very little to enhance free trade, but it will do a good job of locking in power and wealth disparities that are the cause of so many of our economic problems.<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing my best to correct this lack of knowledge problem with previous posts <a title=\"Previous Post\" href=\"http:\/\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/04\/bill-moyers-the-corporate-plot-that-obama-and-corporate-lobbyists-dont-want-you-to-know-about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bill Moyers: The Corporate Plot That Obama and Corporate Lobbyists Don\u2019t Want You to Know About<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"Previous Post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/27\/video-the-anti-tpp-take-over-of-the-us-trade-representative-building\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Video: The Anti-TPP Take Over Of The US Trade Representative Building<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truthout has the article Pivotal Trans-Pacific Partnership Section Revealed. The TPP has been shrouded in secrecy from the beginning because the Obama administration knows that the more people know about it, the more they will oppose the agreement. The release of the full Intellectual Property chapter today by Wikileaks confirms what had been suspected, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15135,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions\/15135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}