American Freedom Watch Radio - Crista Huff - Activist Guide to Oppose TPA & TPP

American Freedom Watch Radio with Karen Schoen and John Estabrooks

Crista Huff - The Activist Guide to Oppose TPA & TPP

• TPP provision for an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) allows foreign nations & companies to sue U.S. states and municipalities in global courts.
• ISDS provisions within the TPP also give global courts authority to override federal, state, and local laws.
• TPP has no provision to address currency manipulation.
• TPP forces the U.S. to import food & products with dramatically lower, unsafe, and unhealthy quality standards.
• The TPP forces the U.S. to do business with 8 of the world’s top 12 human rights violators.
• The TPP prohibits the use of country-of-origin labeling on food & products, bans the promotion of local or American products, and bans RFP preferences to local businesses.
• The TPP forces all participating countries to accept GMO products, and bans the labeling of such products.
• Fast Track trade authority strips Congress of the “regular order” of voting.
• Fast Track trade authority removes Congress as a protector of states’ rights.
• Fast Track trade authority strips Congress of its obligation to regulate foreign commerce.
• ISDS allows a foreign owner of U.S. property (land, businesses, stocks, bonds) to sue U.S. state and local governments in a global court, before a panel of private arbitrators. This ability to bypass the Federal government, to sue state governments, appears to be an attempt to protect Federal coffers. 
• Global court has authority to override US laws, and to award large sums of money to foreign interests, including for the nebulous claim that their “profit expectations” were not met. 
• One individual loss in global court could easily bankrupt a state or local government.