Trans-Pacific Partnership Provisions to be Kept Secret for Four Years After Passage?

Wikileaks got a copy of the super-secret TPP. Of the 29 sections, only 5 will relate to trade. The part they released details how it will allow foreign companies to sue governments to win monetary judgments over damage to “expected profits,” using a secret tribunal run by either the World Bank or the UN, that will override all national courts. These judgments will be decided in secret, and will force the losing government to take money from its citizens and give it to the corporation to pay off the judgment.

So a foreign company that thinks a US law damaged its expected profits can sue, and US citizens will have to pay it damages. It would be bad enough if the judgments were honest, but clearly the connected will stack the courts, and then be able to sue over anything, and just be awarded judgments.

Even better, supposedly provisions of the TPP will not only be secret up until the vote, but they will be kept secret for four years after its passing.

The corruption has gone past the point of no return. It is to the point that the collapse will be merciful.