Quietly, subtly, almost imperceptibly, the rules governing global trade and financial markets are changing. It is not happening by accident, but by wilful design. Despite the enormous impact it will have on all our lives, the public is not being consulted on any aspects of the process. Most people are not even aware it is happening.
The main driver of this change are the bilateral and multilateral trade and investment treaties being negotiated in complete secrecy and behind closed doors between corporate lobbyists, free trade activists and our own elected “representatives” (a term I use in the loosest possible sense, especially given the context). The ultimate goal of these treaties is to reconfigure the legal apparatus and superstructures that govern national, regional and global trade and business – for the primary, if not exclusive, benefit of the world’s largest multinational corporations.
Corporations have long been powerful economic and political entities, but in recent decades some have grown to dwarf even middling-sized national economies. According to a ranking published by Global Trends, 58 percent of the world’s biggest 150 economic entities in 2012 were corporations. They include oil, natural gas, and mining majors, banks and insurance firms, telecommunications giants, supermarket behemoths, car manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies.
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/03/28/don-quijones-global-corporatocracy-eu-us-trade-pact-resistance-ttip/
And at the rate things are going, that pen stroke will come from either Obama ad-Dajjal or Hillary (Tricky Dick) Rodham (a.k.a. Clinton to some of you). Either way, this will be the biggest sellout since Benedict Arnold plotted to turn over the fort at West Point to the British.
Why do you continue to elect people who lust after power and money and who don't give a shit about what happens to you?
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