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The Trans-Pacific Partnership
This is something that has been negotiated behind closed doors since about 2010, but I didn't even know about it until last November. It worries me on a number of levels; for one thing, it continues the obsession with patenting things that shouldn't be patented, but that's not all of it.
Links:
A Guardian article from November 13, 2013
A Huffington Post link from December 9, 2013
Comments
On the bright side, at least every other country involved in the talks aside from the US is opposed to most, if not all, of the provisions. And it manages to be the one thing that got the US Congress to agree on something. It's primarily Obama, his administration, and large corporations that actually wants the deal in its current form, so we're hopefully still safe unless they manage to successfully bully everyone else into submission.
But it is depressing as it shows how much the world, especially the US, has been consumed by corporate power that they might be able to get away with something so undemocratic.