TTIP as bogged as TPP

The people are fighting back against the planned world takeover by the evil corporations.

For clarity's sake, the TTIP is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The TPP is the Trans Pacific Partnership. 

Both are a product of US corporate greed. The US gov "negotiators", beholden to said corporations, have steadfastly refused on the part of the TPP to back down on wanting corporations to be able to sue sovereign gov's if they make a decision/policy that hurts their profits. In essence, in both "partnerships", the country's involved in them become nothing more than profit sources. The agreements putting into writing an insurance against lost profits. Even if those decisions by individual gov's are for the benefit of it's citizens (Australia's PBS for example, or Philip Morris suing the Australian gov over our plain packaging laws).

In short, the corporations are trying to take over the western world and make us all corporate slaves. Sounds sort of old fashioned there, but that's exactly what they're doing. So it has been time for an old fashioned citizen revolt...

Which it appears is going quite well on both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic. Wikileaks has played a huge part in uncovering the bullshit in the TPP by publishing parts of the offending bits to all online. The TTIP had the alarms raised by George Monbiot. In his latest post on the TTIP he gives an appraisal of where things are at with it:

He and his ministers have failed to answer the howlingly obvious question: what’s wrong with the courts? If corporations want to sue governments, they already have a right to do so, through the courts, like anyone else. It’s not as if, with their vast budgets, they are disadvantaged in this arena. Why should they be allowed to use a separate legal system, to which the rest of us have no access? What happened to the principle of equality before the law?(22) If our courts are fit to deprive citizens of their liberty, why are they unfit to deprive corporations of anticipated future profits? Let’s not hear another word from the defenders of TTIP until they have answered this question. 

It cannot be ducked for much longer. Unlike previous treaties, this one is being dragged by campaigners into the open, where its justifications shrivel upon exposure to the light. There’s a tough struggle to come, and the outcome is by no means certain, but my sense is that we will win. more