we have to talk about the trans-pacific partnership and the negotiations that
are happening which are
hugely troubling if you've not been following the trans-pacific partnership
this is in agreement
which on paper claims to want to
enhance trade and investments promote innovation
help economic growth among 12 trans-pacific country specifically the
US Canada Japan
Mexico New Zealand Australia burn a
Chile Malaysia Peru Singapore and Vietnam now the history of this
is that back in November love 2013 wiki leaks put out
the secret draft text have the intellectual property rights
chapter love the TPP and it was very very troubling the long and short of it
Lewis is that if we step back
and analyze what does the TPP
truly seem to be pushing in doing it's doing
two things which we can identify number one it is
helping corporations and lobbyists and big
industry by strengthening
the ways in which they can protect patents
extend patents make more money off happened
it is totally pro-business when it comes to intellectual property
however now WikiLeaks has also put out more data
including and a large chapter about the environment which is another
Golar stated aim above the TPP
and not similarly I guess in a way to the very specific declarations made
about intellectual property rights it makes very weak
declarations when it comes to environmental protections which also
have the same impact
which is that giving big corporations more leeway
and more ability to make money regardless if the impact on the
environment but go step by step
intellectual property with intellectual property
the TPP aims to allow for
longer default patent times for for example
Big Pharma on medications it also allows the
a prosecution love suppose it violations of intellectual property rights that
also will favor big corporations
on the environmental side Louis listen to this
as WikiLeaks rights the environment chapter
does it include enforcement mechanisms actually serving the defensive the
environment it is baby and weak
and as an example love this week in weeks writes that the word appropriate
is found in 43
places the word may is found in 43
places it uses terms like make
every effort to arrive at satisfactory resolutions or
by technological means available
and agreed to buy all love the party's I could go on and on Lewis
but the key point sir this the language
is meaningless because all it really says is that by the rules agreed upon by
the parties
there will be and effort made completely subjective
to enhance completely subjective
what is considered completely subjective
you see what i'm saying Lewis they are all completely
meaningless words that will do little in practice
to defend I guess for lack of a better term
the environment right a as as we expected
and in night in an ideal situation I think a trade agreement means that
both countries benefit greatly from
trade a white it seems like this is just
solely to help big business it's a corporate defense treaty really and
you're right it is it isn't really a trade agreement
and it's also if we if we forget about the fact that this stuff in it is
troubling for just a second
the entire negotiation is happening essentially
in secret it is being quote fast-tracked by some parties who were interested in
seeing that happen
without even letting members of congress look at the details here in many cases
and the really bad thing about this Louis is that from the point of view of
engaging
citizens to explore what is going on
it's a very complicated story you really need to spend time figuring out what
this is and what is in it
and when you think about the simplicity of the bridge scandal with chris
Christie which is just everybody can understand exactly what it is
it takes some effort some minimal amount of effort to figure this out
and that's not appealing to people in many cases and it's certainly not
appealing to corporate media
no of course not I mean I I can understand that
this is one of the few things which I I think
its incredibly obvious why no one is reporting on this because it would be
the most drawn-out dole
I and I just but I don't know
annoying report you could possibly here on on your 6 o'clock news
no question that we will continue to cover and we will continue telling you
what is going on there