GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling + WikiLeaks Leaks Controversial Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Documents

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This week:

Story #1: Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free
http://ur1.ca/gdn0q
Non-GMO Cheerios More Marketing Boon Than Health Boost?
http://ur1.ca/gdn0t
Monsanto Calls GMO-free Cheerios a Marketing Stunt
http://ur1.ca/gdn0v
Administration Urges Approval of New GMO Crops to Fight Super Weeds
http://ur1.ca/gdn10
Nature's Path Products Bear New "Non-Gmo Verified" Seal
http://ur1.ca/gdn14

Story #2: Internal NSA Catalog Reveals Back Door Exploits to Most Electronic Devices
http://ur1.ca/gdn16
Wikipedia: NSA ANT Catalog
http://ur1.ca/gdn18
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
http://ur1.ca/gdn1d
Does the NSA Spy on Congress? Sounds Like Yes
http://ur1.ca/gdn21
Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Says Futuristic-Sounding "Radar Wave Devices" Can Help NSA Monitor Your Computer Usage
http://ur1.ca/gdn24
30c3: To Protect And Infect, Part 2
http://ur1.ca/gdn29
The Crypto Kids and the Rubik's Party: Signal to Snowden?
http://ur1.ca/gdn2d

Story #3: When Celebrity Meets Brutality: Rodman Not First to Mix With Repressive Regimes
http://ur1.ca/gdn2f
Meryl Streep Calls Out Walt Disney As Sexist, Anti-Semitic
http://ur1.ca/gdn2h



WikiLeaks Leaks Controversial Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Documents

Dennis Trainor, Jr: The TPP is a Trojan horse that seeks to usher in a backroom secret sweetheart deal for the global elite, and President Barack Obama want the deal fast-tracked through Congress. That effort was dealt a serious blow on Wednesday, when WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire Trans-Pacific Partnership Intellectual Property rights chapter. According to the WikiLeaks press release:

"The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013. The chapter published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents."

Remember NATFTA? Remember the concept of Corporate Personhood from the Citizens United case? The TPP combines all of the worst elements of NAFTA and Citizens United, shoots them up with steroids, sprinkles in a speedball and codifies these principles into a trade agreement that is in fact much more than a trade agreement.

To sum up what we do know already, based on previous leaks of the working text about how the TPP would eclipse the concept of corporate personhood, I'll quote David Swanson of Roots Action, who writes that the TPP would make popular the phrase Corporate Nationhood:

"Many of us have heard of corporate personhood. Corporations have been given the Constitutional rights of persons by U.S. courts over the past 40 years, including the right to spend money on elections. By corporate nationhood I mean the bestowing of the rights of nations on corporations (...) Treaties, according to Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, are -- together with the Constitution itself -- the supreme law of the land. So U.S. laws would have to be made to comply with the TPP's rules."

How would U.S. laws be made to comply? Because, As Kevin Zeese and Margret Flowers write:

"In addition to requiring that laws conform to provisions within the TPP, corporations would be allowed to sue governments in the trade tribunal if laws interfere with their profits. Governments could not represent their interests before the tribunal or appeal adverse decisions. This would be a tremendous loss of sovereignty."

And who is on this tribunal? Three judges, appointed by the corporations.