Uplift is a “community of people taking coordinated action for progressive change in Ireland”
Sarah Flood at Uplift writes:
This week the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is being negotiated in Brussels between EU and USA – and our corporate cheerleaders will be there! Wait… sorry, our politicians. Who have already stated their specific support for secret arbitration courts that will allow multinational companies to sue our state (meaning us) for loss of possible profits. Way to go…
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“stated their specific support for secret arbitration courts that will allow multinational companies to sue our state (meaning us) for loss of possible profits. – sounds pretty much par for the course – in fairness.
Except now things that could result in said “potential loss of profits” could include things like plain tobacco packaging or a ban on fracking. You may or may not agree with the issues but allowing corporations to overrule legislation is a fairly frightening precedent.
Well, maybe not “overrule” technically. That being said, if it passes I’m setting up a company for the express purpose of hunting the most dangerous game somewhere in Offaly.
…that’ll be hurling in Coolderry
Not they way they’re playing lately
MajorDowner …more like. No seriously, it is mental to hand over the right to sue a nation, it’s *waves hands in the air like a housewife in Tom & Jerry cartoon* mad scary sh*t !
It is to me complete cartoon world bat sh*t crazy. Simples.
@ Major Thrill – I meant “par for the course” in terms of selling out the electorate and democracy.
They’re outsourcing democracy to a public-private partnership.
I know. It’ll save money on the pensions.
Who needs to sue us, don’t we just hand over billions upon request?
Durrr – More money for the lawyers, if they sue. (see Creamsian Economics)
Sur they’ll still find a way t’ride us
Keep watching reality TV idiots, as your politicians undermine your democratic mandate and sell you all up the river. Get out and vote and if still the corruption happens, take to arms and stage a full scale revolution.
Our pitchforks and torches are at the ready, we are waiting for the new leader to reveal himself to us before we march to avenge our plight. Are you the annointed one? Where do we rendezvous? Will we have code words?
Oh, joy.
I am so excited!
Handy short this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAp6cD5i8O0
Chlorinated chicken – my favourite!
So, we’ll be sued if we don’t eat enough GMO chicken marinaded in Parazone, yes?
I know, they started the vid with wildy worse case scenario stuff… hah! But hey, ‘corporations’ have the same rights as citizens in the US, but if they were human, they’d be diagnosed as psychotic Fabulous world we live in, with the lunatics taking over the asylum :)
There was this blog, I read, by some young American guy. He ate a lot of chicken breast as part of his healthy diet.
He moved to Europe and found that his chicken wasn’t keeping in the fridge as long as the American stuff, he bought back home, which seemed to last, in the fridge, for ages, without going gamey.
At first, he was a bit put out. Later, he wondered, just what it was exactly, that America was doing to its chickens.
I’d well believe it !
No, consumers can boycott any product of course, but If a government were to introduce regulations restricting the company’s ‘right’ to freely trade them, they can be sued, in a closed court in the World Bank buildings in Washington, with no avenue of appeal and judges appointed by the International Chamber of Commerce.
This applies to foreign companies, our own companies would have to go through the existing courts if it is national legislation.
Yeah, but the problem isn’t just that, it’s in the power around labelling and whether we as consumers get to know how our food is made and with what. This legislation would allow food with all sorts of US tolerated crap in it.
They’ve synthetic cheese in the states that they are allowed call ‘cheese’, and it doesn’t have to say, ‘not made from dairy’ or anything else. It’s like a flavoured chewing gum, without the chew. That’s not food, but that’s what corporations want to sell us as food. And fupp that.
The problem with the boycott is that we won’t know what to boycott, so that won’t work. It won’t be an option and is a hard enough option the way things are currently.
That sh*t must stop, plain and simple.
I find the uplift petitions seriously lack detail, isn’t part of it to inform people about it rather then just collect emails, the bank mortage one didn’t even link to the Central banks proposed plan.