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> In both cases, what you get is not an international trade agrement. You may as well vote "no" or not even try to negotiate a deal.

Right, which is the exact point of this whole tiresome conversation about negotiations.

People who don't want TPP (or TTIP) to become law have figured out that it's easier to attack the process than to attack the substance[1], and the outcome would be the same.

[1] Not because the substance is unassailable, but because talking about it requires informing the listener, whereas invoking fears of secret cabals does not.



The content of both includes and provides for secret extra-national cabals... So that might be where some of the fears come from.




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