{"id":50225,"date":"2014-11-24T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=50225"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:17","slug":"mainstream-media-blackout-of-the-trans-pacific-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/11\/mainstream-media-blackout-of-the-trans-pacific-trade-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Blackout of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two items outlined in the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement are allowing for cultivation of GMOs in all countries and preventing mandatory GMO labeling. Why is the mainstream media not reporting on the agreement?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Why won\u2019t Fox, NBC, CNN, or ABC cover the TTP? These media empires (even Facebook has boosted news feeds of the top 100 media outlets<\/a>, owned by only six mega-corporations<\/a> to control public opinion) have decided that the public should be kept in the dark about \u2018NAFTA on steroids\u2019 so that biotech corporations can completely take over \u2018free-trade\u2019 with Pacific Rim nations.<\/p>\n

You likely haven\u2019t heard of the TTP or Trans Pacific Trade Agreement for this reason, but it hasn\u2019t slowed the rising opposition to its sinister \u2018fast-track\u2019 plans among our elected officials, which would bypass many of the legal requirements for a normal trade agreement, and allowing the implementation of TPP with minimal debate. More than 550 groups, representing millions of people, have urged President Obama to vote against the TTP, but so far, those requests have fallen on deaf ears<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The US government touts the TTP as<\/a> \u201c. . .an ambitious, 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century trade agreement\u201d with Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. \u201cWhen complete, TPP will unlock opportunities for American workers, families, businesses, farmers, and ranchers by providing increased access to some of the fastest growing markets in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems quite promising when phrased in this deceptive manner; however, the TTP won\u2019t grow markets. It will destroy them, and completely eradicate your ability to know what is in your food, giving biotech the upper hand on a food supply they have already deeply contaminated, and manipulatively control.<\/p>\n

The propaganda continues with headlines like \u201cThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Just Got Sexier,\u201d but how sexy will it be when Monsanto\u2019s dirty little secret gets out about just how stultifying the TTP will be to the average American or a farming community in Malaysia or Japan.<\/p>\n

The Wetlands Preserve Collective has said:<\/p>\n

\u201c. . .the TTP was negotiated behind closed doors by government bureaucrats and more than 600 corporate lobbyists. It threatens everything you care about: democracy, jobs, the environment, and the Internet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

They call it \u201cMonsanto\u2019s stealth attack on our food, family farms, and environment.\u201d Not even members of the Congress are allowed to see the full text of the TTP<\/a>. How\u2019s that for a democracy? What we do know is this:<\/p>\n

The TTP will solely benefit Big Ag and Big Pharma by allowing the cultivation of genetically modified organisms in all countries outlined in the agreement, and will also act to prevent mandatory GMO labeling in order to integrate GMOs into the world food supply while removing the ability to trace GMO crops and hold corporations accountable for the health and environmental damage that GMOs cause.<\/p>\n

There would be no regulation of GMO seed, and the primary reason for the existence of GMOs \u2013 to sell more Monsanto chemicals \u2013 would be boosted by the secrecy of the articles of the TTP. Corporations would fully control all laws governing biotechnology and the standards they are held up against in regards to risk management, marketing and development of GMOs.<\/p>\n

For example, if Monsanto does not like New Zealand\u2019s regulations surrounding GMOs, they could simply override them via the TTP agreement. They could also over-ride state labeling laws, or community bans with the Federal legal agreement.<\/p>\n

A similar phenomenon already happened under NAFTA \u2013 The pharmaceutical corporation, Eli Lilly, filed suit against the Canadian government to invalidate Canada\u2019s standards for granting drug patents. Imagine the TTP doing the same with all countries who try to ban GMOs or require longer field trials before they are released to market.<\/p>\n

These corporations are secretly trying to create \u2018supernational\u2019 courts<\/a> that defy all local ordinances, state labeling laws, or international treaties that limit genetically modified organism cultivation.<\/p>\n

You can help stop the TTP by telling everyone you know about it. Who needs FOX news or CNN when we have each other?<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 nationofchange.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why won\u2019t Fox, NBC, CNN, or ABC cover the TTP? These media empires (even Facebook has boosted news feeds of the top 100 media outlets, owned by only six mega-corporations to control public opinion) have decided that the public should be kept in the dark about \u2018NAFTA on steroids\u2019 so that biotech corporations can completely take over \u2018free-trade\u2019 with Pacific Rim nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}