What Little Transparency The US Trade Rep Used To Have Is Going Away
from the that's-not-transparency dept
When Michael Froman was first nominated as the US Trade Rep, we hoped he would commit to being more transparent than his predecessors. While that seemed unlikely given his history as a political crony revolving in and out of government and business, the issue was raised directly during his Senate approval process. Unfortunately, like his predecessors, Froman appears to confuse transparency with listening. The two are not the same. Transparency is about sharing what you’re doing. Listening is about hearing what others have to say. You can listen while being totally opaque — and it appears that this is the USTR’s strategy.
IP Watch notes that the USTR released its list of weekly press events… in which every one of them is closed to the press.
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Comments on “What Little Transparency The US Trade Rep Used To Have Is Going Away”
Froman is transparent
We can all see how black his heart really is.
Re: Froman is transparent
Are this a reference to the black ink used on the text “closed”?
It’s closed door deals like this, that causes nations like Canada to get sued by corporations. Simply because Canada wanted to consider the environmental impacts of fracking for oil. Such as contaminated drinking water.
When a corporation sues the government of a nation, it’s the tax payers money they’re collecting.
It’s utterly ridiculous and why the drafting of these “free trade” policies, needs to be open to the public who’s ultimately going to get sued by these policies.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131004/07500724750/canada-hit-with-another-massive-investor-state-dispute-settlement-demand.shtml
I wonder which DOS Virus fits best with the USTR. Are they the Virus.DOS.Fromaning?
https://www.youtube.com/user/danooct1?feature=watch
Personally the Virus.DOS.Walker is funny although NSFW.
Seems the US trade representative doesn’t want the public to know how bad corporations and businesses are screwing them.
No press means no one there to give them problems to the public.
Another government office with new definitions for the English language.
I have absolutely zero confidence in any part of the US Government at this point , they choose a direction of money over honor keeping business outta government should be the main point in every topic at this point.
What people renamed the ink black transparency and nobody told me?
Um… How is it a press event if it is closed to the press?
One of these stands out in particular:
“U.S. negotiators arrive in Japan for bilateral and intersessional TPP meetings on intellectual property rights.
Japan
Closed Press”