A lout leader but a 'good' 'Christian' ...

[FrankGSterleJr]

Secret Trans Pacific Partnership is disturbing
Bill Tieleman

"The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society.” ― former U.S. President John F. Kennedy

Would you sign an important deal where the details were secret until after your name was inked on the page?
An agreement that you are told will be great, but could either cost you your job or boost your pay, help or hurt your working conditions and allow you to be sued if you break the rules you haven’t yet seen?
Of course not ― that would be insane.
But that’s exactly what Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government wants to do ― sign a deal we can’t see that affects trade with 11 other countries, including major partners the United States and Japan.
You’ve probably never even heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Canadian International Trade Minister Ed Fast flies to Hawaii July 28 for meetings that could finalize the secret negotiations.
However, big business sure knows the TPP ― and loves it.
“The TPP is the biggest game on the planet in terms of trade negotiations,” say the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters endorsing the unseen deal.
But not so fast, Fast, says Don Davies, MP for Vancouver Kingsway and NDP trade critic.
“We’ve got to wait and see the actual text of the agreement, consider it, consult the public and then decide,” Davies told me Saturday. “The Conservative government approach to trade is to conduct negotiations in utter, total secrecy ― they’ve shut out Parliament.”
In fact, the only real details emerging from TPP talks came when WikiLeaks published a secret draft chapter in January detailing how foreign companies would be able to directly “sue” governments through an Investor State Dispute Settlement process outside Canada’s legal system.
That means multinationals could force taxpayers to compensate them for any health, environmental, land use, financial or other government policies that they claim don’t give them “fair and equal treatment.”
The biggest possible threats to Canada include our dairy and poultry industries, where “supply management” protects domestic farmers with marketing board and high import tariffs; and copyright and privacy protection laws ― with TPP being described as “digital free trade.”
But here’s the real bottom line on TPP ― no details ― no deal: it’s that simple.

(July 21, 2015, 24 Hours)

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But Stephen Harper's a heaven-bound Bible-reading Evangelical 'Christian', right? And that's what really matters, isn't it? Sure, he practices institutionalized Christianity, along with countless other so-called Christians (particularly in the developed world), instead of practicing what Christ himself taught, according to Scripture. But most importantly, Harper and his henchmen are creating some jobs with the above-mentioned secret Trans Pacific Partnership, although the small number is never made readily clear.

[bobevenson]

Secret Trans Pacific Partnership is disturbing
Bill Tieleman

"The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society.” ― former U.S. President John F. Kennedy
I guess JFK wasn't talking about his secret affair with Marilyn Monroe.


Would you sign an important deal where the details were secret until after your name was inked on the page?
An agreement that you are told will be great, but could either cost you your job or boost your pay, help or hurt your working conditions and allow you to be sued if you break the rules you haven’t yet seen?
Of course not ― that would be insane.
But that’s exactly what Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government wants to do ― sign a deal we can’t see that affects trade with 11 other countries, including major partners the United States and Japan.
You’ve probably never even heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Canadian International Trade Minister Ed Fast flies to Hawaii July 28 for meetings that could finalize the secret negotiations.
However, big business sure knows the TPP ― and loves it.
“The TPP is the biggest game on the planet in terms of trade negotiations,” say the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters endorsing the unseen deal.
But not so fast, Fast, says Don Davies, MP for Vancouver Kingsway and NDP trade critic.
“We’ve got to wait and see the actual text of the agreement, consider it, consult the public and then decide,” Davies told me Saturday. “The Conservative government approach to trade is to conduct negotiations in utter, total secrecy ― they’ve shut out Parliament.”
In fact, the only real details emerging from TPP talks came when WikiLeaks published a secret draft chapter in January detailing how foreign companies would be able to directly “sue” governments through an Investor State Dispute Settlement process outside Canada’s legal system.
That means multinationals could force taxpayers to compensate them for any health, environmental, land use, financial or other government policies that they claim don’t give them “fair and equal treatment.”
The biggest possible threats to Canada include our dairy and poultry industries, where “supply management” protects domestic farmers with marketing board and high import tariffs; and copyright and privacy protection laws ― with TPP being described as “digital free trade.”
But here’s the real bottom line on TPP ― no details ― no deal: it’s that simple.
(July 21, 2015, 24 Hours)
It is in every country's best self-interest to eliminate all trade restrictions like tariffs and import quotas regardless of what other countries do.
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But Stephen Harper's a heaven-bound Bible-reading Evangelical 'Christian', right? And that's what really matters, isn't it? Sure, he practices institutionalized Christianity, along with countless other so-called Christians (particularly in the developed world), instead of practicing what Christ himself taught, according to Scripture. But most importantly, Harper and his henchmen are creating some jobs with the above-mentioned secret Trans Pacific Partnership, although the small number is never made readily clear.

Christ's letters to the seven churches (the seven continents of the world) in Revelation Chapters 2 & 3 are actually God's unified message to mankind, revealed by distilling the message to each church and adding them together in the order of presentation: "It is not enough to merely recognize and hate evil: fear not the tribulation of Satan; fight evil wherever you find it, and do not allow it to flourish; contain evil and overcome it with perseverance and commitment to good."