... many key economic decisions affecting our lives are being taken and implemented in complete secrecy behind hermetically closed doors. In the negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement between 12 nations including the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore and New Zealand, an army of over 600 corporate advisers have been allowed access to the accompanying text while the public and even members of Congress have largely been kept in the dark.
Indeed, the only way for the uninitiated to learn about some – but far from all – of the potential repercussions of today’s trade agreements is through leaked documents. The current negotiations for a US-EU trade deal (TTIP) are so clandestine that the few Members of the European Parliament that are granted access can only view the plans in their original documentation, in a secure location, with the threat of espionage charges hanging over them if they are caught making copies or sharing the details with the public.
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/03/01/crunch-time-for-the-global-corporatocracy/
Democracy cannot thrive when its purse strings are controlled in secret by corporations and oligarchs.
The real question here is "who is going to enforce this shit?" Since the obvious answer is "government", the US is about to become a fascist state, lock-stock-and-barrel, and the illusion of democracy will soon die.
How did this happen? Can you spell t-r-e-a-s-o-n? It really doesn't take all that much money to get people to betray their country and their neighbors these days. And besides, the oligarchs can just print all the money it takes.
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