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[–] neutralstrike 3 points 2 points (+5|-3) ago 

Thanks Voat for not letting me up vote this because of your stupid comment rule.

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[–] robertrobot 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Suck on it baby I just got to 20 comment points

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[–] tyeis 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Feeling very helpless at this point.

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[–] Dissident_Aggressor 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Buy gold, baby!

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[–] robertrobot 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

I will read this. There is also https://www.readthetpp.com/

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[–] ineedbettername 0 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago 

The Investment Chapter highlights the intent of the TPP negotiating parties, led by the United States, to increase the power of global corporations by creating a supra-national court, or tribunal, where foreign firms can "sue" states and obtain taxpayer compensation for "expected future profits". These investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals are designed to overrule the national court systems. ISDS tribunals introduce a mechanism by which multinational corporations can force governments to pay compensation if the tribunal states that a country's laws or policies affect the company's claimed future profits. In return, states hope that multinationals will invest more. Similar mechanisms have already been used. For example, US tobacco company Phillip Morris used one such tribunal to sue Australia (June 2011 – ongoing) for mandating plain packaging of tobacco products on public health grounds; and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment. The threat of future lawsuits chilled environmental and other legislation in Canada after it was sued by pesticide companies in 2008/9. ISDS tribunals are often held in secret, have no appeal mechanism, do not subordinate themselves to human rights laws or the public interest, and have few means by which other affected parties can make representations.

tl;dr: FUCKING READ IT.

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[–] nitrixion 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

In return, states hope that multinationals will invest more.

LOL. Sure they will.

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[–] Calvin 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

The scariest part is the idea of taking another countries tax payer money for imagined future profits. Who needs affordable medicine when you can bankrupt a countries people for imagined future profits, since they did not pay $20 a pill for something that costs $0.000001 to produce.

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[–] draco_nite 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

A. Manufacture bullshit B. predict 9000% profit C. sue government

Anyone want to kickstart this?

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[–] wanderingtortoise 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I think that's what bothers me...people keep forgetting that suing a government translates to suing its people. Tax payer money going directly towards company imagined profits...that's sickening