This is a photo of Chieko Shiina, a mother and once-upon-- time organic farmer from Fukushima whose life is now absorbed in contaminated fields; and mothers and children being exposed to conditions that cause cancer every day. Her life has been altered by decisions we made about using nuclear power in Japan. Behind closed doors, the Trans Pacific Partnership nations are now imagining Trade Agreements that may not be in the best interests of our shared future and may likely create more cancerous conditions. Chieko is on tour now in California. I am updating this on, July 11, 2012
OUTSTANDING STORY ON CHieko Shiina
Written in the San Diego Free Press
July 10, 2012
TPPA: A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
BY Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
I spent about 15 hours July 9 writing out some of my personal feelings about my week being exposed to TPP, or TPPA, The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreements; its meetings at the Hilton Bayfront, July 2-July 10; the events we had in San Diego as part of the Better World Conference; and the protest.
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=14249
MY MORNING BLOG OF JULY 11, 2011
Research to understand TPP and Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1962156
BILL INTRODUCED TO OPEN UP TPP BY SENATOR WYDEN
S. 3225: Congressional Oversight Over Trade Negotiations Act
112th Congress, 2011–2012
A bill to require the United States Trade Representative to provide documents relating to trade negotiations to Members of Congress and their staff upon request, and for other purposes.
May 23, 2012
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s3225
BETTER WORLD - OCCUPY EVENTS SAN DIEGO
WEEK DURING TPP HERE
http://www.facebook.com/events/429240487116873/
PUBLIC CITIZEN DOES EXTENSIVE RESEARCH FOLLOWING TPP
http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3129
POWERFUL LETTER OF JUNE 27 FROM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CALLING FOR TRANSPARENCY
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Miller-Delauro-TPP-Letter.pdf
SENATOR WYDEN YOUTUBE WITH RON KIRK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IIsK5zPQYw
SENATOR WYDEN WANTS TO BLOW IT OPEN
http://www.webpronews.com/sen-wyden-wants-to-blow-tpp-wide-open-2012-05
UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE SITE
http://www.ustr.gov/
US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE SITE
http://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2012/07/02/us-commerce-department...
PAJ PATEL WEIGHS IN ON TPP IN JAPAN
Farmers in Japan do not like it.
http://rajpatel.org/2012/05/13/treaty-like-its-1999/
This early morning I find myself seeking more information about the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreements.
The 13th Round of these international Trade Agreements concluded at 7 pm last night at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel in San Diego. They were gong on since July 2, 2012.
I want to get to the bottom of this.
I want to understand what this is really about.
The Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food on Facebook aims to open discussion between GMO Lovers and Organic Lovers.
I am expanding the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food on Facebook to include Lovers of TPPA who love Free Trade and Lovers of Fair Tradel
It is clear that those who favor TPPA, as far as I can see, favor
are GMO Lovers.
Fair Trade Lovers I imagine would favor indigenous Seeds.
OUTSTANDING STORY ON CHieko Shiina
Written in the San Diego Free Press
July 10, 2012
TPPA: A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
BY Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
I spent about 15 hours July 9 writing out some of my personal feelings about my week being exposed to TPP, or TPPA, The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreements; its meetings at the Hilton Bayfront, July 2-July 10; the events we had in San Diego as part of the Better World Conference; and the protest.
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=14249
MY MORNING BLOG OF JULY 11, 2011
Research to understand TPP and Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1962156
BILL INTRODUCED TO OPEN UP TPP BY SENATOR WYDEN
S. 3225: Congressional Oversight Over Trade Negotiations Act
112th Congress, 2011–2012
A bill to require the United States Trade Representative to provide documents relating to trade negotiations to Members of Congress and their staff upon request, and for other purposes.
May 23, 2012
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s3225
BETTER WORLD - OCCUPY EVENTS SAN DIEGO
WEEK DURING TPP HERE
http://www.facebook.com/events/429240487116873/
PUBLIC CITIZEN DOES EXTENSIVE RESEARCH FOLLOWING TPP
http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3129
POWERFUL LETTER OF JUNE 27 FROM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CALLING FOR TRANSPARENCY
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Miller-Delauro-TPP-Letter.pdf
SENATOR WYDEN YOUTUBE WITH RON KIRK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IIsK5zPQYw
SENATOR WYDEN WANTS TO BLOW IT OPEN
http://www.webpronews.com/sen-wyden-wants-to-blow-tpp-wide-open-2012-05
UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE SITE
http://www.ustr.gov/
US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE SITE
http://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2012/07/02/us-commerce-department...
PAJ PATEL WEIGHS IN ON TPP IN JAPAN
Farmers in Japan do not like it.
http://rajpatel.org/2012/05/13/treaty-like-its-1999/
This early morning I find myself seeking more information about the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreements.
The 13th Round of these international Trade Agreements concluded at 7 pm last night at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel in San Diego. They were gong on since July 2, 2012.
I want to get to the bottom of this.
I want to understand what this is really about.
The Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food on Facebook aims to open discussion between GMO Lovers and Organic Lovers.
I am expanding the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food on Facebook to include Lovers of TPPA who love Free Trade and Lovers of Fair Tradel
It is clear that those who favor TPPA, as far as I can see, favor
are GMO Lovers.
Fair Trade Lovers I imagine would favor indigenous Seeds.
HERE ARE A FEW LINKS OF INTEREST
PRO THE TPP
KLECKNER: Expanding the trans-Pacific partnership
Enlarging international commerce is cost-free way to boost U.S. economy
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/17/expanding-the-trans-pacific-p...
Outstanding article gives the Pro TPP point of view...
May 17, 2012, written after 12th Round of Talks in
This talks about boosting the US Economy via Free Trade,
but I ask, at what cost to the Local Economy?
[I am a new kid on the block...about all this...
but a I attended my first TPP intro in San Diego the week
of July 4, 2012. It wasn't such a good idea to schedule the TPP
during our week of July 4, I sense...this is my take...
I write about this here...
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1961590
‘Significant Progress’ In Pacific Trade Talks, U.S. Says
By Brian Wingfield - Jul 10, 2012 12:27 PM PT
The article says:
Copyright protection is no longer about ensuring that authors are justly compensated for their work, according Jeffrey Schott, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. The process is also being used to recoup investment on patented goods including pharmaceuticals, he said.
The articles says:
“We are troubled that important policy decisions are being made without full input from Congress,” 132 lawmakers led by Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and George Miller of California, said in a June 27 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Senators including Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, have voiced similar concerns.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican from the San Diego area, sought to attend the discussions, a rare request from a lawmaker. USTR granted him access only to the public portions of the event, not the negotiations, and he didn’t attend, Jeffrey Solsby, a committee spokesman, said in an e-mail.
Congressional Complaints
The Obama administration “should be courting Congress,” including Issa, according to Susan Ariel Aaronson, a professor of trade policy at George Washington University in Washington.
While it’s important to inform members of Congress, disclosing too much information “would make negotiation of any sort quite difficult,” Ed Gresser, a policy adviser at USTR during President Bill Clinton’s administration, said in an interview.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-10/-significant-progress-in-pacific-tra...
Copyright exceptions...
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/blog/2012/july/ustr-introduces-new-...
US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE SITE
They were involved in the San Diego Discussion. I met one of their reps at Sweet Things...she was having yogurt...
http://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2012/07/02/us-commerce-department...
intent: to protect patents on pharmaceuticals...
for copyright infringement???
AGAINST THE TPP
Jane Kelsey: Secrecy in investment talks mocks democracy69
By Jane Kelsey
5:30 AM Wednesday Jun 20, 2012
Trade Minister Tim Groser. Photo / APN
The animated commentary and debate last week over the leaked investment chapter from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations shows how relevant and important it is - and why the nine parties are so desperate to keep it secret.
There was an equally vibrant buzz in the US after Public Citizen leaked the text. Huffington Post's story logged 28,000 comments within a day, treble the previous highest response.
The reassurances that trip off the tongues of Trade Minister Tim Groser and Prime Minister John Key seem much less convincing when they can be checked against the text.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10814123
Comment from Kelsey Piece:
An academic purporting to criticise a treaty should portray its proposals honestly, eg:
http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tppinvestment.pdf
DEMOCRATS CALL FOR TRANSPARENCY IN TPP NEGOTIATIONS
“We are troubled that important policy decisions are being made without full input from Congress,” lawmakers led by Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and George Miller of California said in a letter today to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-27/house-democrats-say-pacific-region-t...
FROM JOHN HIVELY
Senator Ron Wyden, who is supposed to represent the people of Oregon, but who represents the 1 percent of people who use Wall Street to steal money from the 99 percent, is not happy with the latest income redistribution scam put forth by the Obama administration. That scheme seeks to redistribute more and more income from working people to the ultra wealthy.
The senator is the chairman of the senate subcommittee on trade. He is leading the charge against the scam, which is something of a miracle, but more of a coincidence, since he normally aids and abets such plots against the American people.
The Trans Pacific Trade Agreement (TPP) is being negotiated in secrecy, except for the 600 corporate lobbyists with access to the negotiators and a few members of congress. The negotiations involve twelve nations and it’s going to be bigger than Nafta. That’s a ton of income the Obama administration is planning to redistribute from working Americans to Wall Street.
Leaked documents show the pharmaceutical corporations want higher prices. Can you guess whose pockets they intend to pick when the TPP is enacted into law? Yours, or some other working stiffs somewhere. And then Big Pharma will take their higher prices, swell their profits, jack up their dividends and pump up their share prices. That’s how the extra money working stiffs will pay to stay healthy and alive will wind up in the pockets of the affluent. Think about it for just a moment.
The Obama administration is negotiating to jack up the price working people will pay to stay alive. That’s how the free trade income redistribution scam works. Your money or your life. Sounds like highway robbery to me.
http://johnhively.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/has-senator-ron-wyden-of-wall-stre...
FROM PUBLIC CITIZEN,
AGAINST THE TPP
This is the group that leaked the text. It received 28,000 page views on Huffington Post.
http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3129
Huffington Post Leaked Story on TPP
THESE ARE RAW NOTES LISTENING TO AN INTERVIEW
ON COUNTRY OF ORIGIN FOOD LABEL DISCUSSION WITH LORI WALLACH
US TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
DEALS WITH TPP
Justifiable Consumer Complaints.
Consumers want to know for Safety Purposes.
Consumers want to know if it is food from Chile.
Important for Tracking.
The Polling is stunning.
We love and wanted have labeling of country of origin,
but WTO wanted us to conform to their laws.
Systematically, US consumers want to know about Country of Origin
on Foods... 80%, Lori Says.
US Consumers vote 80%
Canada filed complaint that we in the US were Labeling on grounds is wasn't good for their Trade. WTO panel said that the US Law violated the US obligation to conform... WTO has to do with Trade. Canada complained, and so did Mexico. Countries shall ensure conformity with laws...
imported meat
when we rewrote...
obligation to conform...
trade attorneys...tribunal..
trade your law...
face trade sanctions...
gut our labels...or
WTO ruling...
We need to fix the underlying trade rules, she says.
Trade Agreements invading domestic laws...
Domestic Regulatory limits.
limits Buy America...
permanent
Unaccountable Tribunal...
Country of Origin Labeling...decision by US objected by Canada on grounds of hurting their trade. Trade trumps Labeling in this case.
http://www.Tradewatch.org
"""""""WTO can undermine our domestic laws...."""""""
KOJON NAMDIS SHOW ON NPR
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/audio-player?nid=20632
Started,
5:32 am
July 11, 2012
Finished
7:05 am
July 11, 2012